Vintons Protest Against Mail Order Exhibit at State Fair
The Vinton Commercial Club adopts resolutions protesting the Iowa State Fair Association lease of space to a national mail order house. It argues such firms drain funds from Iowa communities, pay low wages, and offer little state benefit, urging the fair to avoid advertising mail order companies in future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Club
Vinton
Iowa State Fair Association
Towa
Iowa
Iawa
Jaw Orto
O'Hara
Ilinois
Vinton Commercial Club
A. C. Houlihan
B. Allen
Sofar
Pay Your Suns Subscription and Hardware Ad Notice
Urges cemetery road paying fund subscribers to settle dues now with refund guarantee if work not completed. Hammocks offered in blue white striped and other colors priced around 2.40 to 2.66. Porch curtain setups and rolls feature, from Henshaw & Martin The People's Store. Sunshine Dad with Dewolf Hopper at the Opera House tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cemetery Road
Henshaw & Martin
People’s Stora
Spelling Made Simple Three Months of Real Work
A 1910 department of education essay by Charles W. Wheelock argues spelling can be learned by most people with steady effort. He endorses a Syracuse State Fair spelling bee and outlines methods to master tricky letter groups.
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Saya
Albany
State Department of Education
Charles WV. Wheelock
Department
Syracuse
Mr. Wheelock
Sherlock Holmes
Sole Heir to 42707 Estate Bequest to SPCA
New York. The estate of Mrs Edith Rogers Gellatly who died July 17 1918 at 84 West Pitty seventh street shows stock income of 42707 for care of horses and dogs but only one animal at Wilte Plains a horse appraised at 700. Upon death of her bets the principal of the land and unused income should be used by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to find homes for animals and prevent cruelty. Gellatly daughter of Columbus Rogers held a total net estate of 580704 plus a trust fund of 702201 and arrangements delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edith Rogera Gellatly
West Pitty-seventh Street
John Gellatly
Wilte Plains
Gellatly
Society For the Prevention of
Columbus Rogers
Probate Records Reveal Inheritance to Relatives
An up to date sun shades style headline notes a will where she left substantial sums to her husband and sister Ella A Rogera. The document lists 166 271 dollars to the husband and 90 926 dollars to the sister, detailing a concise distribution of estate assets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella A. Rogera
Helmed Up By Bear Near Loon Lake
David Barber, a traveling salesman from Malone to Saranac Lake, was held up by a cub bear blocking the road near Loon Lake. He initially approached the animal and realized it was a bear, then backed away and sped off as the bear fled into the bushes.
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Cub
Auto
Ogdensburg
David Barber
Loon Lake
Malone
Saranac Lake
Barber
Mother Bear
MONEY MACHINE FAILS A CONFIDENCE CASE IN ILLINOIS
Isaac Deutsch and Myer Katz of West Frankfort Illinois face trial on a charge of operating a confidence game brought by Anton Sordych of Depue Tennessee who says they sold him a machine claimed to turn twenty dollar bits into twenty thousand dollars and would yield five thousand dollars from each cut. He paid for the device and guarded it with a shotgun for three days after the men left. The machine allegedly produced duplicate certificates but failed to work without more bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Isaac Deutsch
Myer Katz
West Frankfort
Anton Sordych
Depue
Deutsch
Katy
Sordych
Hostesses Robbed as She Fixes Hair in Mount Vernon Area
Police seek a young woman about twenty, described as very pretty and expensively dressed, who uses a new robbery method to steal jewels bags and items of value. The description is circulated across Mount Vernon New Rochelle White Plains and Yonkers with Mrs Edgar B Davis of 184 Eleventh Avenue Mount Vernon providing the method.
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Mount Vernon
N. Y
New Rochelle
White Plaina
Yonkers
Apne
Edgar B. Davis
Hleventh Avenue
Davis
Girl Uses Friend of Bre d to Rob Mrs Davis in Bridgeport
A girl posing as a cousin friend to Bred Goodell asks to wait at Mrs Davis home in Bridgeport. She declines lunch, asks to dress in a bedroom, then flees after jewels worth 250 dollars disappear from the bedroom. The impostor claimed she was awaiting a relative set to call for her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bred
Goodell
Mrs. Davis
Bridgeport
Motorman's Fire-Fight Ends With Burning Trousers
In Harrison New Jersey a trolley motorman John Lynch tried to fix a stalled car on Blardgon Avenue and Fourth Street. A control box disorder caused a flame when a monkey wrench was inserted. Lynch shouted for help as flames caught his trousers and a barrel helped him escape to another pair.
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Harrison
N. J
Blardgon‘avenue
Fourth Street
John Lynch
Lynch
In This Matter of Health Learn to Choose Good Foods
A compact health note urges readers to support winners through tight eating and avoid indigestible foods. It advocates selecting foods rich in elements that build sturdy bodies and keen brains, emphasizing sound nutrition for overall health.
Grape Nuts Promoted as Balanced Food Source
An early advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as a weenetaly balanced food with barley and grain nutrients. It highlights digestibility and mineral phosphates, claiming it rebuilds body and brain, promotes economy, flavor, and winning class performance.
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White Poplin
Oxford and Slipper Sale
Dr. Schell
Cash
Cut Price Shoe Store
New Buck Colonial
Mary Jane
Atlantic News Telegraph
News and Telegraph
News Publishing Company
United Press Association
Atlantic
Congress
HAS. F. Chase
E.P. Chase
FR. KE. Chase
E. P. Chase
Sualness
Dewolf Hopper
C. P. Meredith
Deering Twine
Meredith
Nothe
Bear
P. Meredith
Wirthmor
Gillette’s
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