Progress of Events in Our Lands and Abroad
A roundup from Western Union highlights ship christenings in Los Angeles harbors with orange juice, shipboard piano mishaps, a major murder in North Platte, Winnipeg transit fare hikes, Montana timber losses, and Platte Valley milling fire. It covers naval seaplane hopes, labor congresses, Arizona court custody, Denmark US wireless plans, and wartime funding moves amid global shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Beth
California
Chicago
Robert L. Massey
Omaha
Union Pacific
North Platte
Electric Railway
Winnipeg
Public Utilities Commission
Montana
Platte Valley Milling Company
Gothenburg
Lexington
Nebr
Arizona and New Mexico Events and Developments
Southwest notes list Arizona State Fair dates and events at Phoenix and Tucson, plus New Mexico and Arizona local news. Items include federal land use shifts, grazing leases in La Majada grant, highway projects near Chama to Tierra Amarilla, teacher salaries in Arizona, and ongoing oil drilling in Holbrook and Santa Rita.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Middleton
Prescott
Ariz
J. J. Shuler
Raton
New Mexico
Santa Fé
Toeka
Kan
Arizona
National Parks Service
Department of the Interior
District Office
Forestry Service
la Majada
J. B. Okie
Wyoming
Thomas E. Campbell
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Ruch
Sitgreaves National Forest
Prochaska
Night Hawk
Don Luis
Cochise County
Lowell
New Mexico Highway Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Rio Arriba
Chama
Tierra Amarilla
Superintendent of Public Instruction
C. O. Case
Santa Fe Cafton
New Mexico Highway Commission
Santa Fé City Limits
National Forest
N. H. Thorpe
Grant County Copper Company
Santa Rita
B. T. Link
Lift off Corns With Your Fingers
Advertising copy claims Freezone removes corns and calluses from feet with drops, instantly stopping pain and allowing painless lifting of the bothersome growths from the skin. The ad pitches a tiny bottle available at drug stores for quick relief.
The Coming Crisis Congress speech on taxes and expenditure
A congressman warned against government extravagance and rising taxes. He argued that officials tell the public to pay more while coffers grow empty, urging restraint and accountability in fiscal policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Farm Congress
Kansas City
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure and Reward
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy for catarrh claiming it acts through the blood to cleanse mucous surfaces. It offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and notes druggists sell it for 76 cents with testimonials free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Nature
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Spohn
Broken crockery sent by parcels post to fictitious address
Mrs Flat says there is no place to discard broken crockery. Mr Flatdweller proposes sending the pieces by parcels post to a fictitious address in the first zone. The exchange shows a quirky, humorous debate over disposal.
Danderine Hair Tonic Ad Claims Hair Restore Benefits
An old advertisement promotes Danderine as a scalp tonic that cools cleanses and softens the scalp. It alleges the product penetrates to hair roots revives each strand and stops hair loss while reducing dandruff and thinning. It promises visible hair vitality after several applications and notes a bottle costs a few cents.
Wesleyan College, Oldest Women’s College in U S
Wesleyan College at Macon Georgia founded in 1836 is older than Elmyra College chartered in 1852 and is described as the oldest women’s college in the United States. Also note Red Cross Bag Blue for baby clothes 5 cents per package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesleyan College
Macon
Elmyra College
United States
His Way Miss Stake at Church Sociable
A humorous exchange centers on Mrs Snippy asking if her husband will attend a church sociable. Mrs Snippy replies he is not sociable anywhere, implying his absence or reluctance to mingle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Farrell
Garland Prairie
Ariz
Williams, Arizona
Miss Stake
Snippy
Okin Producing and Refining Company
Fort Worth
Texas
Producing & Refining CO
Moore Bldg
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Genuine Tablets For Colds
An advertisement asserts Bayer is the genuine aspirin brand with "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" in Bayer packages. It notes proper directions for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism and claims nineteen years of physician use. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bayer
Sir Joshua Reynolds A Great English Painter of His Era
The article outlines Reynolds habits and methods including a spade shaped palette with a handle, brushes 19 inches long, and standing while painting. His octagonal studio measured 20 by 16 feet with a square window. He died in February 1792 from liver disease and was buried at St Paul’s Cathedral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joshua Reynolds
St. Paul’s Cathedral
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Dean
Bright
Colorado
J. Hill
Peete
Routt Ave
Pueblo
Colo
Doan
Anny Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Rere Wyte
Cuil
Jones
Armer Jones
Eatonic
Dept. B
Boston
Commercial
Champa
Denver, Colo
Lief
Indianapolis News
Clean - Clear
Eye Core Book Marine Co
Story OF
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Southwestern Shipbuilding Company
Los Angeles Harbor
San Diego
Philippine Island
Washington
Denmark
Copenhagen
Ministry For Public Works
United Sates
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
C. E. Richards
Salt Lake City
National Education Association
Mexico
Bureau of Education
Federal District of
War Department
War Baker
House Committee On Military Affairs
Adelina Patti
Craig-y-Noscastie
Penycne
South Wales
Petrograd
Helsingfors
Vicker’s
Montreal
Quebec
Vancouver Island
Japan
Norman A. Yarrow
Victoria
Hungary
Francis Joseph Otto
Charles
Budapest
Rhine
Hohenollern
Canadian National Railways Ocean Limited
St. Pierre
Peter Bercovich
Lloyds
Nieve Courant
Netherlands
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Edsel
Detroit
James Couzens
United States Government
Chemawa
Ore
I. 8
Loos
Ketchikan
Kodiak
Alaska
Oregon
John D. Rockefeller
Ministers’ and Missionary Board
Northern Baptist Convention
Riev
E. T. Tomlinson
Joe Burman
Joe Lynch
Philadelphia
Roy Moore
Cincinnati
National Baseball Commission
Lot
Herbert C. Hoover
Stanford University
Europe
United States Treasury
Congress
Pacific
San Francisco
Tokio
George B. Ward
Commercial Cable Company
New York
White Star
Lapland
Rotterdam
Pocahontas
Southwest News
Arizona State Fair
Holbrook, Ariz
Wind River Company
Hop Wind River
Holbrook Oil Company
Coconino
Addmana Oil and Land Company
Black Cafson Syndicate
State Fair Commission
el Paso
Yuma, Ariz
Indiana
Yuma
Tom Osborn
Yuma School
State Highway Commission of
C. A. Strong
His
Texas Oil Refinery
Antitartar Chemical CO
Denver
National Sales and Exchange Agency
Durham
N. C
Parryer
Spohn Medical Co
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