Republican Nominates Harding for President in Chicago
The National Convention in Chicago chose Warren G. Harding as the Republican nominee for president. The selection followed a long debate over ideal candidates and favored a strong, business-minded leader from Ohio, with Calvin Coolidge chosen as vice president. The piece also includes a brief dessert and meat dish recipe notes.
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Chicago
Warren G. Harding
Hardingstock
America
Harding
Ohio
Gov. Coolidge
Massachusetts
United States Senate
Safe Shopping Adage Cites Truth in Trade
Richard Lee of New York argues that America should be known as a safe place to shop and urges truthful product descriptions. He says truthful advertising builds trust, meets foreign conditions, and boosts long term customer satisfaction and quality in workmanship.
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America
Richard Lee
New York
When the Circus Parade Entered the City
A vivid scene of a downtown circus arrival with crowds of all ages filling streets. A pale blue dress girl with cherries on her back watches the parade, her joy fading as she recalls domestic duties and a longing to join the show. Copyright 1920.
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Edith E. Moriarty
Matee
Household Hints Favorite Recipes Indian Trifle and Cobbler
Readable fragments describe a recipe for Indian Trifle with cornstarch cornmeal milk sugar citron and cinnamon cooked slowly then molded or served with custard. The second fragment outlines a Cobbler with apples sugar cinnamon and water baked in a deep plate.
Summer Salads from Italian Spanish and Japan Styles
Italian salad combines cooked spaghetti cabbage pimento onion and Italian cheese with celery salt and mayonnaise served on lettuce with walnut meat. Spanish salad uses head lettuce onions and a light oil dressing after 10 minutes. Japan salad layers lettuce cherries and walnut meats with cherry juice in the dressing and tea served with luncheon.
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Japan
Governor Edwards Emerges as Prohibition Era Presidential Candidate
The article profiles Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey, a bank president and governor since 1919, who champions personal liberty and anti prohibition. It notes his rise from Jersey City roots, education, public service, and business leadership shaping a potential Democratic bid for president.
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Supreme Court
Chicago
Edward I. Edwards
New Jersey
Edwards
Atlantic Ocean
Jersey City
University of the City of New York
First National Bank of
First National Bank
State Senate
After Dinner Stories from Humorous Village Vignettes
A humorous miscellany about thrift stinginess cleanliness and age jokes. A shopkeeper frets over a small order including cat meat while a maid reports cat versus bird mischief. A Yorkshire maid questions daily face washing and a professor jokes about ages of children.
Holdup Man Got $10 and Ford Sedan
A fragment from The Spur Of The Moment notes a holdup man obtaining ten dollars and a Ford sedan. The piece then shifts to a quip about a reduction in living costs and a suggestion attributed to wholesale fish dealers.
Sharpsburg Notes Highlight Local Life and Sports
Sharpsburg farmers plow amid the weediest corn and discuss farm burdens while Mrs Funk and Mrs Dille are remembered in obituaries. Local gatherings, Measles cases, and Small town visits fill the week. Hawaii Olympic swimmers head to trials, and Ralph De Palma faces misfortune in racing. My Meyers hits a four bagger as Brooklyn eyes long-range homer boosts.
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Ralph de Palma
Indianapolis
Hoosier State
Ralph
de Palma
Joe Dawson
My Meyers
The
Robins
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Braves
Umpires Form Rochester Association Amid Baseball Growth
In Rochester New York local umpires organize a formal association to improve officiating in baseball and to train young aspirants in arbitration skills. The move signals professionalizing officiating alongside sport development locally.
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Rochester
N. Y
Former Torch Girl Weds at Weston
In Weston West Virginia on June 12 Miss Pauline Brewster married Lieut Robert H. Pritchard at the Methodist Episcopal church. Both are teachers in the Weston high school. The bride is the daughter of Henry Brewster supervisor at Hope Gas Company. The groom served with the American Army in France and holds a first lieutenant’s commission. They left for a honeymoon in eastern cities for about a week. Mrs Pritchard was born in Torch and known in southern Athens.
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Weston
W. Va
Methodist Episcopal Church
Pauline Brewster
Robert H. Pritchard
Henry Brewster
Hope Gas Company
France
Weston High School graduate wed in Ohio ceremony
The bride, a Weston High School and West Virginia University at Morgantown alumna, taught Spanish and French at Weston High School for two years. Attending were Mrs. Alice B. Dye of Columbus, Mrs. Byrd Kemp of Steubenville, and John McLaughlin of Coolville.
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Weston High School
West Virginia University
Morgantown
Alice B. Dye
Columbus
Byrd Kemp
Steubenville
John McLaughlin
Coolville
Ohio
Blood Build Up After Grip and Winter Colds
After a grip or flu and hard winter colds the blood runs thin and anemia may follow. Iron tonics like Iron tic and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery are recommended to restore red and white cells, increase vim and vigor, and restore color to pale cheeks.
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Lee
Smith
M. D
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
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