Cohens Adopt Three Poor Lads and Build a Happy Home
Levi and Jacob join Joel in the Cohen family, turning a modest New York house into a loving home. Mr Cohen, a hardworking merchant, welcomes the boys with joy as Mrs Cohen celebrates their arrival. The neighborhood notes the trio’s hunger relief and the enduring hope the family inspires.
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Oel
Levi
Jacob
Cohens
Mr. Cohen
Mama
Joel
Cohen
Connon
Papa Cohen
Ge Jacob
Cofens
Home-Making and Spring Wardrobe Ideas
A 1920 feature blends home making tips by Wanda Barton with fashion notes by Annette Bradshaw. Practical guidance covers hourly help, cleaning plans, keeping appliances ready, and dust-control tricks, followed by a discussion of spring cape fashion, tweed coats, kasha frocks, and Parisian-inspired embroidery trends.
Home ankle exercise advice from Lucrezia Bori era column
A beauty column urges readers to pursue slim ankles with a simple home exercise. It describes a toe raise routine to be done barefoot or in stockings, three sessions daily, and suggests measuring ankles after a month to track progress.
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Enm
Worn Out Wife Finds Hope Beyond Fifty Six
A reader laments aging marriage and advises women over fifty to seek personal growth rather than rely on partners. The column urges wives to cultivate interests, update their appearance, and resist jealousy as they navigate love and aging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pal
Women's Civic Club
Dimwright
Premier Syndicate, Inc
Advice to Girls from Annie Laurie on teen romance
A teenage girl asks how to win back a be misun derstand ing boyfriend who is older and upset because she spoke to his brother. The reply urges open talk, respect for freedom, and that if the man values the relationship he will understand. A second teen asks about handling persistent calls from an older suitor and is advised to refuse politely and set clear boundaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie
Soli
Annie Laurie
Betty
Pretty
Rubbers and health in slushy streets public note
Senator Roy S Copeland laments city women avoid rubbers, warns wet feet risk illness, and urges practical, shapely designs. He compares rubber use to weather gear, advising wear only in wet conditions and indoors only when protection is needed.
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Royal S. Copeland
United States
New York
New York City
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
DULL
Swice VT
Jesus
Women Carry Live Pigs on Heads in Pacific Islands
Three-Minute Journeys describes a unusual practice where Pacific island women balance live pigs on their heads to market. The method uses straw cushions, with pigs tied to mats, and larger animals sometimes carried by two women on a pole while walking barefoot to market.
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Near East
Pacific
Formosa
Islands
Odd and Interesting Facts From a Historic Column
Wireless has been laid to every flat in a colony for ex service men in Fulham. Photographs used a solid steel ball as a lens. light travels around it rather than through. An Englishman aged 82 is appointed rat catcher at Bulkington in Warwickshire.
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Fulham
Bulkington
Warwickshire
Coun
Tomorrow's Horoscope For Mercury and Moon Alignments
Active business and professional conditions favor mercantile deals, new contracts, and correspondence. Those with a birthday should push commercial and literary matters, including agreements with publishers and advertising agents. a child born today may excel in business and publicity.
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Mercury
Luna
Quicksands of Love unfolds new phase in a wife serial
In a bustling suite Mary Harrison shields plans from her aunt while her clever ward Katherine and the narrator maneuver to keep Dicky’s visit secret. Mary’s wary, dramatic nature clashes with family schemes as Junior joins the plot, heightening tensions and promising further revelations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adele Garrison
Edith Fairfax
Dicky
Mary Harrison
Harriet
Mary
Fluffy Tail Squirrel Chooses Tree Home Again
Fluffy Tail Squirrel complains about living in trees but tries an underground home. After a playful visit with Chatty Chipmunk, a dream of Sly Fox ends with Fluffy happily back in his tree house and content with his tail. Copyright 1926 Newspaper Feature Service Inc.
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Luffy Tail Squirrel
Chatty Chipmunk
Fluffy
Squirrel
Fluffy Tail Squirrel
Jen
Fluffy Squirrel
Sly Fox
Chipmunk
Coryright
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Words of Wise Men and Classic Maxims
A collection of quotations from Livy Cicero Syrus Quintilian Lyly Ovid Seneca and Shakespeare on guilt honesty happiness friendship and virtue. The sayings contrast self interest with communal living and warn that fame and calumny cannot be escaped.
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Wanda Barton
Aperight
Annette Bradshaw
Kasha
Lucrezia Bori
DR. Copeland
Temple Manning
Genevieve Kemble
Detroit
Harriet Braithwaite
Edwin
Madge
East
Katherine
Junior
Lola
Blanche Silver
Livy
Delahtter
Cicero
Teetenaen
Syrus
Quintilian
Ovid
Seneca
Celerity
Shakespeare
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