Silence is Golden and Other Dating Quips
A collection of light quips about engagements and conversations. Includes lines about silence on the twenty dollar gold piece and an exchange about promises before marriage. Also notes a hostess remark on Miss Biggle and a jab about people with too much idle time.
Not Your Heart It’s Your Kidneys Health Claim
An old ad promotes Gold Medal Oil to treat kidney disease. It warns heart misperceptions and lists pain and nervous symptoms as signals. The copy urges readers to buy a box, claim health improvement, and avoid danger by using the product.
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Conten
Remarkable Test of Love and Religion Ideas
A humorous tale shows a couple arguing over happiness as a wife powders her nose in public while the husband pretends disinterest. A Roosevelt anecdote then contrasts a philosopher’s view of religion with a doughboy’s wartime definition, highlighting faith under stress.
No Altruism in Odd Dialogue Fragments
A fragmented dialogue presents risky phrases about abuse in cars and insurance, with a tonal quip about a hotel dinner and a table d hote. The lines imply commentary on carelessness and social habits amid casual remarks.
Not So Bad At That Sugar in Meat Specials
A reader notes an advertisement mislabeling domino sugar under meat specials. The columnist questions the mix up and treats it as a light, humorous error in a local listing.
The Decision On Her Pyrography Skills
In a witty quip a character notes she excels in mince pies rather than apple pies, while questioning her skill in pyrography. The remark blends humor about culinary talent with implied critique of craft abilities.
Straight coat and narrow skirt models in spring fashion
The article reviews straight coats worn over waistcoats with narrow plain skirts and varied trim. It notes fit matters, warns ultra narrow skirts may be impractical, and highlights two example designs with tucks, braid, bone buttons, and different panel lines for a tailored look.
Advance Showing of Summer Voile Frocks With Silk Accents
An advance look at sheer voile and silk summer dresses features plain voile and figured weaves, with high prices for fancy fabrics. Designers show tunics, jackets, and ve sts in voile, with silk underskirts and sat in or silk bodices, decorative tucks, and a checkerboard ribbon girdle accented by silk balls.
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Mwiny
Navy Still Leads In Spring Street Dress Trends
Navy remains the top color among spring street dress tones with browns in linen looks and beige to tan shades. Shadow gray, especially a blue gray named mouse, is also popular in tailored ensembles.
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Navy
Riots Roil Korea as Mob Attacks Town Hall and Posts Office
Reports from Samga indicate about 100000 Koreans gathered, cutting telegraph wires and attacking the post office and police stations amid fierce clashes with police and troops. Reinforcements dispatched as unrest spreads, while Japanese official M Hashmidzu defends troops and rebukes rumors of foreign involvement.
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Town Hall
Seoul
Samga
Korea
Samed
H. Hashmidzu
Department of Foreign Affairs
Ransford S. Miller
Miller
M. Hashmidzu
Belgium
Leviathan Sails With Record Full Crew for Transports
The steamship Leviathan arrived from Brest on April 2 carrying 12 059 troops and 77 officers with 1 044 sick or wounded plus a few casuals and nurses. Including crew the vessel carried 14 426 people, the largest on a single ship surpassing 13 568 last August.
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New York
Leviathan
Brest
Dnvasion
Camp Kearney
48Th Field Artillery
Camp Funston
Foch Ready to Advance Forces Along the Rhine
London reports reliable information that Marshal Foch has authority to order a general advance of the allied armies along the Rhine if German delegates refuse to sign the peace treaty. The German foreign office confirms a stance aligned with Wilson's fourteen points.
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London
Evening News
Foch
Rhine
Department of the
German Foreign Office
Wilson
Revolt Against Russian Soviet Reported in Petrograd
London reports a revolution against the Soviet government in Petrograd with an official Russian wireless dispatch saying a serious strike of railway workers has begun.
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London
Petrograd
Colorado Mayor Sustained in Springs Recall Election
Colorado Springs voters reaffirmed Mayor Charles B. Thomas after a recall demand and returned two commissioners who support his policies. The outcome follows Tuesday’s municipal election with the mayor and both commissioners securing a majority.
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Colorado
Colorado Springs
Charles B. Thomas
Rest Camp at Winchester Closes After 700000 Passengers
Winchester in England closes its American rest camp after 700000 troops pass through since entry into the war. The departing troops leave for entraining to Liverpool with an entitiute send off.
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Winchester
England
United States
Liverpool
Anarchists Control Banke Vienna Bank Heads Reduced to Figures
Following a Moscow style move the bank presidents in Budapest are reduced to figureheads while Soviet clerks administer the business, reflecting a sweeping political control over financial institutions in the region.
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Banke
Vienna
Moscow
Budapest
Great Day for Sinn Feiners Clash in Cork Streets
Violent street fight erupts in Cork on Sunday morning as police and Sinn Fein supporters clash using revolvers. One policeman is wounded, several Sinn Fein supporters flee. authorities report the mob dispersed and no further injuries confirmed.
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Sinn Feinere
Cork
Ireland
Sage Tea Sage and Sulphur Compound Restores Hair Color
The old home remedy for darkening gray hair is now sold as Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound at drug stores. A dowtown druggist says it darkens hair naturally and evenly, leaving it glossy after one or two applications.
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Wyeth
Keep Their Money at Home and Never Invest It
The London Mall warns that vast sums remain uninvested in the country. A Yorkshire fisherman stores five thousand dollars in notes in a cheap cottage, while another buys a home with fifteen hundred dollars in gold. A neighbor hoards five thousand dollars or more, claiming safety by keeping it close. A Yorkshire woman carried two thousand half-sovereigns in a handbag, keeping it with her at night and even on trains, rarely investing or entrusting it away.
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London
Yorkshire
Why Druggists Recommend Swamp-Root
For years druggists note Dr Kilmer Swamp-Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. It is a physician's prescription strengthening medicine. It helps kidneys liver and bladder perform nature intended. Sold by all druggists on merit and popular with many friends. Send ten cents for a sample bottle from Dr Kilmer & Co. Binghamton NY.
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Kilmer
Dr. Mer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Ady
Jimmie Explains Pronouns In Simple Family Exchange
A boy named Jimmie boasts about grammar progress while learning pronouns. His father asks for examples that stand for other words and Jimmie cites dialect forms such as dern darn blame non doggone as illustrations.
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Jimmie
James
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims Cure
An 19th century advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine treats nasal catarrh by building up the system and cleansing the blood. It warns acute catarrh can become chronic and claims internal action through the blood on mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered free by J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
A Shooting Fish in the East Indies
A shooting fish with a hollow cylindrical beak ejects a single droplet of water at a fly on shallow plants, knocking the insect into the stream. This brief note describes the fish’s surprising shooting mechanism observed in its habitat.
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East Indies
Cuticura Ad Promises Skin Improvement
An advertisement states that applying Cuticura Ointment at rising and retiring, then washing with Cuticura Soap, can improve poor complexions dandruff itching and red rough hands.
Harried Couple Clashes Over Shopping Bills
The dialogue shows a tense quarrel between a husband and wife over mounting shopping expenses. The husband insists the wife must pay, while the wife dismisses his stance and hints at enduring the situation regardless. The exchange captures domestic financial strain and bargaining dynamics.
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