Escaped lions cause panic near New York vaudeville venue
Fragmentary notes report six lions breaking loose at a Biighty New York vaudeville theater on Third Avenue, triggering a panic as animals were recaptured and the streets cleared. Other items mention a $10,000 Red Cross aid request to assist Turkish capitals, a knitting firm supplying socks to France, railroad workers resisting a full crew appeal, a 7 percent rise in Missouri winter wheat acreage to 2,306,000, and a call for a river and harbor bill totaling 394.2 million.
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Biighty
Third Avenue
New York
Bridgeport Savings Bank unveils worksite deposit boxes plan
Bridgeport Savings Bank under Samuel M. Hawley introduces a system placing locked deposit boxes in factory and storefront paymaster offices. Workers deposit envelopes daily without visiting the bank, with passbooks updated by the bank and withdrawals only at the bank. The scheme aims to speed savings and attract more deposits, drawing attention from New York and national bankers.
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Bridgeport
United States
Samuel M. Hawley
Bridgeport Savings Bank
Bridge- Br Savings Bank
New York
Farming vs Latin as a mental exercise for youth
A Grange speaker argues four years farming can equal Latin study for mental development. He urges farming as an inquiry driven school, not mere routine labor, noting Latin broadens English and literature, but farming with experimentation yields practical value. The piece then shifts to an advertisement for Foley's Honey and Tar Compound from Hindle's Drug Stores.
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Croup
Foley
Hindle
Gift ideas and growing up jokes from a Christmas reminiscence
A quip about a boy who once valued a painted tin watch now planning to give his son a gold filled watch guaranteed not to need regulating for a month. A wry note suggests stockings knit for Belgians could serve as abdominal bands if toes were cut off.
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Golden Hill Street
Sanitary
Meadowbrook Creamery
Swift
Florida
Maine
Ass'ted Chocolates
California
Cape Cod
Stenbertian
Ee Bripf
American Red Cross
State Department
Constantino
Monogram
Maxfield
Sherry Winebott
Turkey
Ft Knitting
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen of
Pennsylvania
Law
Pennsylvania Veries
Missouri State Board of Agriculture
Wilsom
SEFUL
Hawley. Hardware CO
UNION
Xpress
Bridgeport Bank
Main Street
Bank Street
Rogers
Ee Ee
Ome
Rogers Clothes
Aine
Hip Boots
Goodyear
Beacon Falls
Converse
Boston
Wall ST. Flumb
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