Charles Henry Curtis Dead, Noted Boston Shoe Manufacturer
Charles Henry Curtis died yesterday at his Melrose home at age 80. Retired shoe manufacturer who ran Bedford Street, Boston operations for years, he was son of Charles Rever e Curtis and a great-grandson of Paul Revere. He spent years in Roxbury and kept a summer home in North Edgecomb, Maine.
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Charles Henry Curtis
Charles Revere Curtis
Paul Revere
Melrose
Bedford Street
Boston
Roxbury
North Edgecomb
Meée
Sargol weight gain pitch targets thin readers
An advertisement claims Sargol tablets boost fat absorption to cure thinness. It urges taking a tablet with meals to “fill out cheeks” and add pounds, promising refunds if gain is not realized, and notes caution that substantial weight gain is expected.
Pollyanna Lessons Joy After Injury and Community Cheers
Pollyanna, the cheerful girl, lives with Aunt Polly Harrington after a car accident leaves her unable to walk. The town rallies around her glad game, supporting her and each other as Pollyanna learns to find sunshine. The aunt reveals Mrs Payson’s plan to stay with her husband and children and keep the ring, inspiring hope and unity in the town.
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Pollyanna
Polly
Tom Payson
Miss Polly Harrington
Miss Harrington
Mrs. Payson
Mr. Pendleton
Aunt Polly
Nancy
the Post
Jimmy Been
Pollyanna Walks Again Hope Spurs Beldingsville Doctor Visit
Dr. Chilton arrives at Pendleton’s to examine Pollyanna Harrington, insisting the case may mean life or death and a chance she will walk again. Jimmy Bean overhears a town watching the hopeful development as Aunt Polly’s cheer continues amid hardship.
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Pollyanna
Mrs. Snow
John Pendleton
Jimmy Bean
Jimmy
Mr. Pendleton
Dr. Mead
Beldingsville
Thomas Chilton
Pendleton
Chilton
Pollyanna’ Whittier
Dr. Warren
Pollyanna Sequel Plea Letters Stir Boston Post Readers
Readers urge publication of Pollyanna Grows Up as a sequel to Pollyanna in the Boston Post. Contributors from Boston and suburbs praise the glad book and ask the newspaper to print the sequel, citing uplifting reads and family habits of following the column.
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the Post
Pollyanna
Post
Alice Rhodes
Josephine M. Freeman
Lillian G. Donovan
Anna
L. Curtis
Fruit and Produce Exchange
Readers urge Pollyanna sequel in the Post
Letters from readers urge publication of Pollyanna sequel in the Post. Robert E. Grandfield from Boston supports the idea noting widespread reading while Gertrude Holmes of Roxbury asks a club of 12 girls for the sequel.
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Post
Gertrude Holmes
Roxbury
Pollyanna Grows Up Readers Seek Daily Post Serial
Readers write to urge publishing Pollyanna Grows Up in the Boston Post. Letters praise the Pollyanna tale for uplifting readers, request continuation as a book, and even show home made clipped-book editions. Enthusiastic supporters include J Edward Jordan Beverly Mass Mrs E R Ross Springfield Mass Virginia Miller Brookline Mass and many others across towns and factories. A caller from the Berkshires asks for daily Post delivery to share with a adopted girl family.
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Pollyanna
J. Edward Jordan
Lothrop Street
Beverly
E. R. Ross
Benton Place
Springfield
Mass
Post
Sir
Boston Post
Virginia Miller
Beacon Street
Brookline
The
Berkshires
Boston
Cambridge
Letters From Readers Ask Health Advice From Dr Baker
Readers request remedies for weak strength hair loss poor blood and kidney symptoms. Dr Baker recommends three grain hypo nuclane tablets for strength and eadol benevolence and plain yellow minyol for scalp health. He notes responses are general guidance and to send initials and return envelope for personal replies.
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Lewis Baker
College
College-Ellwood Sts
Dayton
Miners Strike After Idleness Hurts West Wheeling
Six hundred workers at West Wheeling mines walk out when management refuses to discharge 50 miners said to have worked in non union mines during the eastern Ohio strike. The men had only recently returned after idleness lasting over a year.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Lorain Coal and Dock Company
Johnson Coal Company
West Wheeling
Ohio
Johnson
East Ohio
Wife of ex mayor seeks employment in Chicago
Friends of former Chicago mayor Fred A. Busse appealed to Mayor Thompson for aid to his widow Mrs Busse in finding work. They asked for a modest position in City Hall to help her support herself.
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Chicago
Friends of Forme
Fred A. Busse
Thompson
Get-It corn cure promises fast relief from corns
An advertisement touts GETS-IT as the first corn cure that removes corns in two seconds with two drops, claiming wide availability in drug stores across the land.
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Edwards
Edwards Shopping Check
E. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Boston
Riker- Jaynes
Two Submarines Disabled Off Coast
Two submarines in the Atlantic fleet war game were disabled and towed to Newport Rhode Island for repair. The E-2 broke its crank shaft and the K-1 had engine trouble. The exact operating location of the flotilla was not announced.
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Washington
Newport
R. I
Navy Department
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Chas
Henry Curtis
Vollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
L.C. Page & Co., Inc
W. W. Pratt
Framingham, Mass
Revere
A. S. Baker
Vira F. Morrell
Emma Horne
Emma E. Betts
Bertha L. Roberts
Mrs
L. E. Brown
Annie Atkins
Florence L. Quigg
Agnes C. Wilson
Addie R. Lewis
Nellie V. Powers
Libby Wheaton
Beulah Fletcher
Minnie Ogden
Sadie Dicks
K. Linekin
Frances M. Babcock
Bertha Mullen
Clara M. LaBon
Daisy Nowlin
Sophie V. Hubbard
Evelyn Spooner
Amanda Wheeler
Ella Merrill
Addie Shields
Medfield
H. L. Cummings
Montrose Avenue
Wakefield
Robert E. Grandfield
Fenway
Waltham Lassies
Waltham Watch Factory
Daisy M. Norton
M. I. Cox
George A. Billings
Indiana Avenue, Somerville
Taunton
Catherine M. Brady
Jessie JL. Richards
Mary A. Tynar
Marion I. Wilmarth
Susan E. Conaty
Martha Ai Dean
Irene E. MacKendrick
Harriet Alice Fierce
Mabelle G. Winecombe
Esther G. Johnson
Elizabeth Breslin
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Colorado
Union Pacific
Salt Lake City
Colorado Springs
San Diego
Estes Park
Rocky Mountain National Park
Yellowstone National Park
Los Angeles
Willard Massey
Union Pacific Railroad
Washington Street
M. Debrabant
L Eastern
Salt Lake
Broadway
New York
Old Faithful Inn
Ands Angeles
California
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Bright
All America Shoe Shops
Summer St
Tremont St
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Edwards Credit Co
Winter St
Washington St
Winter Street
Edwards Home Service
Oxford
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