Aerial Derby Across Nation Plans Big Prizes
The Aero Club of America outlines the transcontinental aeroplane competition for the Pulitzer cup with a $20,000 first prize and total awards between $100,000 and $150,000. Rules set 350 mile max east of Kansas City between controls, 12 hours resting time, and penalties for motor changes. Start slated Sept 2 1916 from Sheepshead Bay Belmont Park or Garden City with entries due by Aug 1 1916.
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New York
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Aero Club of America
War Department
Pacific Coast
Aero Club
International Aeronautical Federation
Madison Avenue
New York City
Sheepshead Bay
Belmont Park
Garder City
Charting: Lakes Charted Since 1841 Amid Great Lakes Peril
Detroit in midsummer reports years of lake surveying to keep Great Lakes safe. The Lake Survey has spent over 5 million dollars since 1841, preserving maps from 1818 and developing a piano wire sounding method to reveal shoals and submarine elevations. The effort aided harbor improvements and expanded commerce, with resurveys needed as vessels grew heavier and waterways more crowded.
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Detroit
The
Lake Survey
Five Lakes
Great Lakes
Lakes
Lake Erie
United States
Major Keller
United States Engineer Corps
Saulte Ste. Marie
Lake Superior
Lower Lakes
W. G. Williams
Buffalo Harbor
Congress
Freckles and Liver Tone: Old Time Remedies Promoted
A vintage ad touts Othine double strength for freckles and condemns calomel mercury causing sickness. It promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable tonic to restore liver function, cleanse bowels, and improve health for the whole family with a money back guarantee.
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Dodson
Nonfatal Disappointment at Men-Only Services
A clergyman laments poor turnout for his special men only services and shares a wry exchange with the verger. The verger suggests the pastor’s own example may not be convincing, noting he attends every session yet observes little impact on attendance.
Care for Your Hair and Safe Friendship Essay
Care for your hair with Cu ticura Ointment for dandruff itching and scalp irritation. Free sample by mail with Book from Cutiura Boston. Also playful exchange about Mulligan O'Toole and O'Brien showing strong friendship and fear of quarrel.
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Cutiura
Dept. L
Boston
Arkansas Man Testifies For Tang-Vita Cure
Mr J T Dunn of Charleston Arkansas reports his wife once bedridden with tuberculosis improved after four Tang-Vita bottles. She gained eleven pounds and feels better now on the fifth bottle. Lang-Vita advertised for consumption and asthma. Lung-Vita offered as thirty day treatment. Price 1 75 Nashville Medicine Company Dept A Nashville Tennessee Ady.
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Arkansas
J. T. Dunn
Charleston
Ark
Nashville Medicine Company
Dept. A
Nashville
Tenn
When I Grow Up The Boy’s Grim Ambition
A boy living in a flat declares his dream that everyone be sorry when he dies. His father comments that this is a troubling ambition and offers stark advice to avoid becoming a janitor. The exchange reflects dark humor on life choices and existential aim.
A Hint to Wise Women Ad for Femenina and Remedies
A vintage ad urges women to use Femenina to end troubles with a price of 50c and 1.00. It notes two can play at almost any game but one may quit, and promotes Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh for poisoned wounds. The copy hints intellect relates little to happiness.
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Hanford
Opossum Attends Church Sparks Downtown Feat
A live opossum was found beneath steps at Travis Park Methodist church in downtown, San Antonio. Bellboys delivered the animal to a hotel, where chefs and waiters feasted on it with yellow yams and taters, in a curious downtown episode.
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Oppossum
Travis Park Methodist Church
San Antonio
Tex
Dispatch
Chicago Examiner
Reticence and Discretion in a Senatorial Exchange
The exchange features Senator Sorghum expressing cautious doubt about revealing full answers. He notes his deep knowledge can make him hesitant to speak freely, while an interviewer probes for candid responses.
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Senator Sorghum
La Creole Hair Dressing Ad Promises Natural Darkening
An advertisement urges using La Creole Hair Dressing as the original hair darkener that lacks dye and costs $1.00. It contrasts imitation products with the genuine article and promotes Hanford's Balsam as a home remedy, while a moral quip about pity and help closes the note.
Renovine Promises Quick Heart Aid Ad
An old advertisement urges use of Renovine at first symptoms as a heart and nerve tonic to cure before the heart organ is damaged with a price of 50c and 1.00. It also notes Hanford's Balsam for soreness and airs a moral line about miserliness and lost interest after financial loss.
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National Guard
Kansas City
O’toole
Mulligan
Net Contents
Finid Drechs
Leena Harned
Chilaren
Pansosa
Castoria
Gilman Marston
New Hampshire
Julius Caesar
Las
Nolce
Christian Register
SPOHN
Spohn’s
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
Ady
Thacher
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