Premier Hughes of Australia Stirs at Peace Conference
The article notes William Morris Hughes, premier of Australia, opposed President Wilson on the fate of former German colonies. It describes Hughes as frail, deaf, and a sharp, unruly speaker whose wit terrifies listeners. It covers his Welsh birth, emigration to Australia, early work as a schoolmaster and shopkeeper, and rise through trade unionism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
William Morris Hughes
Australia
Hughes
University
North Wales
Sydney
Representative Good of Iowa Named Chairman Candidate
The 1918 Republican shift reorganizes the House for the Sixty sixth congress with James William Good of Iowa tentatively chosen as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Good, a Cedar Rapids native born September 24, 1866, represents the Fifth Iowa district and has served since the Sixty first Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
House
Republican Committee On Committees
Appropriations
James William Good
Iowa
Good
Benton
Cedar
Grundy
Jones, Linn
Marshall
Tama
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Coe College
University of Michigan
Appropriations Committee
Washington
Daylight Saving Law Ahead Despite Congressional Setback
March 29 marks the start of daylight saving despite the Sixty-fifth Congress failing to pass the agricultural appropriation with a repealing rider. The law moves clocks forward at 2 AM on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October, with the National War Garden Commission praising the measure as boosting food production and public health. Secretary P S Ridsdale, back from Europe, calls the change a major constructive act benefiting about 100 million people for 210 days and creating over two million eight hour days.
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National War Garden Commission
P. S. Ridsdale
Europe
Commission
Race For The Pole May Feature Plane Or Submarine
The piece imagines a new pole race between Rear Admiral Peary in an airplane and Vilhjalmur Stefansson in a submarine. Peary endorses the airship, Stefansson favors the sub, and Stefansson notes the Air has limited Arctic use while the submarine could push into frozen regions. his next expedition may ride undersea if practical value exists.
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North Pole
Robert E. Peary
Vilhjalmur Stefans
Peary
Stefansson
Chicago
Arctic
Windy City
Thaliava
Freezone promises painless corn removal with tiny bottle
An advertisement touts Freezone as a cheap painless remedy for corns and calluses. It claims drops dissolve the corn root with no pain and that the treatment works on hard and soft corns as well as toe gaps.
Messenger Boy Blue winter color debut
The new winter shade Messenger Boy Blue is introduced and described as color that will not run.
Sage and Sulphur Compound for Darker Hair
Old grandmother’s recipe for darkening gray hair popular again. Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound offers a ready made, odorless solution sold in drug stores. Apply with comb to strands. gray vanishes after a few uses and hair gains lustre and fullness.
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Wyeth
Freezing Ice Cream Timed for Quick Freeze
In old guidance the note claims warming the environment accelerates freezing by melting ice faster. It suggests that faster melting of the ice speeds chilling of ice cream or sherbet, implying a quicker overall freeze by placing the mixture in a warmer area.
Cuticura Advertises Pimples Remedies For Skin Care
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment to remove pimples and blackheads, instructing to smear and wash with Cuticura Soap in five minutes. It urges daily use for clear skin and to include Cuticura Talcum for daily toilet purposes.
Not Knowing Reply Ends With a No
The dialogue shows a bid for a direct answer about rejection. He asks if a rival was rejected. she responds no with a single denial.
St Jacobs Liniment Pitches Quick Back Pain Relief
Advertising copy promotes St Jacobs Liniment as a fast, harmless remedy for backache sciatica lumbago and rheumatic pain. It claims kidneys have no nerves so pain comes from other sources and urges a trial bottle from a druggist with immediate soothing effect.
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St. Jacobs
Ady
His Gum Days
A woman asked Earl if his baby brother had cut his teeth since she last saw him. Earl replied he is still going through his gum days.
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Earl
Foot in the Grave Echoes Old Proverb on Mortality
A compact reflection notes that near death shifts urgency and action, suggesting that once fate tightens its grip a person moves quickly toward final thresholds. The line uses a stark, moral edge to emphasize preparedness and resolve.
Four Essentials for Boy's Success Health Honesty Education Work
A speaker argues four essentials for boy and man success health honesty education and work. He notes healthy people can work, honesty is crucial for lasting achievement, education opens high positions, and hard work underpins all progress. He adds courage and modesty as admired traits and urges humility.
War and the Woman Problem After the War
The article argues that postwar war debts and taxes will worsen living conditions in Europe, prompting emigration to the United States. It highlights a surplus of marriageable women, the spread of spinsterhood, and the need for women to work under harsh conditions to pay taxes and support veterans, raising questions about America’s ability to admit new female immigrants.
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Europe
United States
America
If the Farmer Quits the Machinery of Human Endeavor Will Cease
A call for a broad chamber of agriculture and renewed farm support to sustain national reconstruction. The speaker argues farming is the world’s most vital job and that without agriculture, all other work collapses. The wartime harvest effort must mobilize to supply 60 percent of future global food.
Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Restores Health for Oregon Woman
Mrs Alters of R R 4 Oregon says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her organic trouble that left her unable to walk. She farms six hundred chickens yearly and now can work again. She praises the product and urges others with similar issues to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham's Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinksham
D. M. A.trers
Oregon
Lydia E. Pinkham
Edicine Co
Lynn, Mass
Themes for the Novelist in London Times Ads
Columns note whimsical and serious ad snippets from the London Times. Items include an irate colonel in a West End tube, a Bank of England note gift easing anxiety, a missing goat notice, and an officer with a champagne mishap seeking contact at Savoy Hotel.
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London Times
West End
Dickens
Bank of England
H. L
Phillips Oppenheim
Cafe Royal
Savoy Hotel
Night school student answers in broken cosmopolitan joke
A Los Angeles Times report notes a bright night school boy Sing Lee falters in a test on glacial moraines. He delivers a fractured comic reply claiming moraines are in many places including the United States the ocean and France, with a cartoon mispronunciation about the Kaiser.
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Los Angeles Times
Sing Lee
Long
United States
Ocean
France
Nike
Kaiser
The Great Art Omits in Daily News
A quotation commenting that the great art is to omit and imagining an Iliad of a daily paper. The speaker muses on the value of omission as a skill in journalism and knowledge.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Wings Turned Horns Through Months in Change
A brief note announces a seasonal lurch as a pair of wings in January evolves into horns by July, illustrating a playful transformation across months.
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Marine Eye Remedy CO
Ohicago
H. J. Davenport
Cornell University
P. G. Holden
Lydia E. S
Orne
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