The Motor Tramp Arrives and the Hobo Family Rise
A circa era piece observes the shift from train riding hoboes to auto gypsies as highways and cheap cars expand the open road. It details hitch hikers and car owners, the two modern hobo classes, and the social strains of transient families seeking work and charity along American routes.
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Florida
Providence
Hobo
Yesteryear
Hobeland
Pacific Coast
California
Real Assistance Keeps Coed at Sorority Dance
A Indianapolis News account describes a sorority event at the Claypool hotel where a coed dancing the Charleston feared her hair would come loose. A considerate partner steadied her by catching the falling “store hair” and tucking it into his coat pocket, allowing the dance to continue.
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Claypool
Charleston
Indianapolis News
Cuticura Talcum Ad Promotes Trio Requisites
Advertisement urges purchase of Cuticura Talcum as part of the Cuticura Trio Soap Ointment and Talcum each 25 cents. Emphasizes its use for face skin baby and dusting powder, claiming it renders other perfumes unnecessary and can be relied upon.
Powerful Locomotive Breakthrough Freight Engine Hauls 125 Cars
A new locomotive design promises to haul 125 freight cars across the Rocky mountains at 50 miles per hour. It features three cylinders with six pairs of drive wheels, measures 102 feet in length, and weighs 782000 pounds. Costing 105000 dollars, it stands 16 feet high and seven feet wide, carries 15000 gallons of water, and consumes six to seven tons of coal per hour.
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Rocky Mountains
Good health hinges on sound digestion
Safeguard digestion and health with Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills. Advertisement notes 372 Pearl Street, New York, urging use for digestive wellbeing.
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Wright
Pearl St
N. Y
Adv
Amundsen Began as Polar Explorer in 1896
Roald Amundsen, noted as the only person to reach both poles, started his polar career in 1896 97 by serving as mate on the Belgica Antarctic expedition.
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Roald Amundsen
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Cracer
Amundsen
Mitchell
Hall & Ruckel
New York City
Spurlock-Neal CO
Nashville
Tenn
Parker
Hiscox Chem. Wks
Patehogue
N.Y
Hiscox Chemical Works
Castelene, Inc
Minnesota St
San Francisco
W.N. U
S. O. Co
N. J
ED Bugs
Standard Oil CO
New Jersey
Mae
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