Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
A Lackawanna New York woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after postpartum misery. The testimonial cites improved nerves appetite energy and ability to work. The ad touts the remedy for female ailments and invites confidential letters to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lackawanna, N. Y
A. F. Krsamer
Electric Avenue
Lackawanny
N. Y
Lydia
New Haven appoints F S Davis to represent New England lines
F S Davis named General Western Freight and Passenger Agent for the New Haven Railroad to coordinate with Central New England Railway and New England Steamship Company. Davis brings long experience from the tariff and traffic bureaus of several New England carriers and prior roles on the Fitchburg, Boston and Maine, and Boston transit systems.
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New Haven Railroad Company
F S Davis
General Western
Central New England Railway Company
New England Steamship Company
Oliver Building
Pittsburgh
New Haven
New England
Davis
New York, New Haven
Hartford
Boston and Maine
Maine (Central
New England Steamship) Company
Feshburg Ailroad
Warren Ridge
Boston
Warren Bridge
Sahenting
Pitchburg
Chamber of Commerce
Fitthburg
Troy
No Y
Fitchburg
World War A Year Ago September 18 1914 Seige and Shifts
Combatants on the Aisne settled into siege as rain fell along the front The allied wings in France made slight gains while the center saw the German line hold If Germany was repulsed at Craonne the Austrian German forces linked to defend Przemsyr 51.
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France
Craonne
Gaheia
Przems 51
World War I frontline updates Sep 21 1914
German bombardment hits Rheims and Przemysl area sees Russian and Austro German movements. Allies claim gains near Somme and Peronne as Verdun forts face renewed German pressure. Russian forces take Dubiecko on the San river isolating Przemysl. President Wilson denies initiative in peace plans. Constituentalist party declares for war. Italy maintains large troop strength.
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Rheims
Aisne
Przemys
Jaroslaw
San
Italy
Constitutinalist Party
Whilson
Somwssons
Peronne
Verdun
Dubiecko
San River
Przemysl
Stvan
Galicia
Ashes of Ice Blaze Destroys Ice Houses in Boston
A Boston blaze consumes twelve hundred tons of ice and five ice houses, according to a Boston Transcript report. Fire crews fought the flames, with authorities noting extensive damage and disruption to local ice supply.
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Boston Transcript
Homemaking Remains Dominant Path for Women
Federal Education Board statistics show 24,000,000 women over ten in the United States engage in homemaking from a total of 1,000,000 females in that age group. The piece argues for prioritizing scientific cooking in vocational schools as women often end up as homemakers and poor cooking can cause waste and health issues.
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United States Board of Education Statisticians
United States
Federal Educational Board
Europe
Security mixup sparks three hour Pittsburgh misadventure
C E Stern of Wellsville and his wife endured three hours of anxiety in downtown Pittsburgh after getting separated from a hotel and restaurant search. Secret Service Operator D W Price joined the search as the Sterns attempted to reunite. The couple ended up back at the Diamond Street restaurant where the missing money led to the unintended chase.
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Pittsburgh
C. E. Stern
Wellsville
Secret Service
D. W. Price
Diamond Street
Mr. Stern
Withdraw Old Ships as War Losses Prompt Change
The London Times naval correspondent argues obsolete battleships now used for coast patrol should be retired. He cites unrecoverable loss of trained sailors and vulnerability to mines, proposing fast merchant vessels with light armament for patrol and search duties and speed over firepower when faced with stronger foes.
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London Times
Woman Discovers and Defuses Bomb on Philadelphia Step
Mrs Pauline Siegel found a bomb with a night fuse on neighbor Salvatore Corso’s step at 1621 South Franklin Street. She threw it into the street breaking it. a fragment exploded. Two men left a package, lit a match, and fled. The device contained six sticks of dynamite and gunpowder. wires broke and scattered contents. Corso says no known enemies.
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Pauline Siegel
Salvatore Corso
Franklin Street
Philadelphia
Siegel
Versatile Emperor and the Valentinian Coin Find
A learned numismatist Sir Arthur Evans Valentinian announced the discovery of coins of Valentinian 8. He styled himself Emperor of the West and led daring campaigns praised by his commanders. He also pursued soothsaying magic and taxation science with equal fervor.
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Arthur Evans
Valentinian
Meiji Legacy and Taisho Tastes At Imperial Palace
A Tokyo paper details home life at the palace noting the Taisho emperor favors Western food in breakfast and lunch while dinner remains Japanese. He enjoys salmon trout from Lake Chuzenji and, on health grounds, avoids sake but accepts occasional sherry. He wears a general’s uniform in private, then a crested kimono after evening ablutions.
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Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Yoshihito
Chuzenji
Nikko
Shell Blast Deaths Reported by The London Lancet
The London Lancet cites cases of soldiers killed by shells without external wounds. A man near a large shell burst showed fully burst lungs at necropsy, despite no grazed metal or injury. Sencert argues mechanical causes suffice, discounting gases or shock as necessary explanations.
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London Lancet
M. Sencert
Societe de Chirurgie
M Sencert
Revival Sermon Sparks Lament Over Forgiveness Slip
In Ebenezer chapel a revival erupts as Brother Bogus laments a lapse and proclaims sinlessness since conversion, while Parson Hagster questions the claim. Colonel White allegedly caused distraction by imagined gunfire, revealing a tangled scene of creed and memory.
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Kanzas City Star
Soldiers' Cinema Instruction Before War Outbreak
The Germans trained new recruits in garrison towns using motion pictures to teach guard duty tents bayonet drills and sentinel tasks. Films also depicted bridge building rail destruction earthworks street barricades mines and pontoon laying. In 1913 the army advertised grand maneuvers via free films shown nationwide.
Grave Digging Hazard Ruled Not Extra for Claim
The Industrial Insurance Department rejects John Borgford’s claim after his left hand was blown by a dynamite cap while digging a grave in Seattle. The commission notes grave digging is generally peaceful and blasting cannot create an exception.
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Industrial Insurance Department
John Borgford
Seattle
Olympia
Wash
Portland Oregonian
New York City Adopts Flag and Seal for Anniversary
The New York City board of aldermen approved a flag with three perpendicular bars blue white and orange recalling the Dutch flag used when New York was New Netherlands. A new blue city seal will appear on the white bar. The emblem will be raised at City Hall on June 12 for the board’s 250th anniversary.
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New York City
Board of Aldermen
City of
New York
Board of Alvtyrmeo
Arizona stories and the truth behind western fiction
Dane Coolidge praises his new novel Bat Wing Bowles and advises young men to seek a real frontier with a horse and overalls. He argues that Arizona is wilder in imagination than in fact, noting that many stories exaggerate gunplay yet convey a sense of ongoing activity in the great Southwest.
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Dane Coolidge
Bowles
Arizona
Alfred Henry Lewis
Wolfville
Texas
Stewart Edward White
Mesa
Great Southwest
Beyond Doubt A Patriot
A grim scene aboard a trolley shows an Italian man asking about casualties among Americans and Mexicans. The drummer provides numbers four Americans killed and two hundred Mexicans, prompting the man to smile with evident pride as he reads about US battleships.
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Italy
Italan
United States
Newark News
Germany Adopts Ragtime As Americans Sell Music Abroad
A United States consuls report notes Germany embraces American music especially ragtime and sells copied songs cheaply through a Berlin firm. The firm copies popular instrumental pieces and translates US songs, widely distributing them across Germany, while Italy clings to folk and slows ragtime adoption.
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Germany
Italy
Reguime
United States
Berlin
Strasburg
America
Where Mr Gloom Draws the Line
Prominent Snuffiles pessimist J Fuller Gloom laments his inherited mean disposition and admits relatives in the legislature. He refuses to claim kinship to General Villa despite neighbors urging disclosure.
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Mr. Gloom
J. Fuller Gloom
Snuffiles
General Villa
Kansas City Star
Montessori Joke Sparks Lively Dinner Debate in New York
F. Irving Fletcher recounts an after-dinner quip at Sherry's about an old-fashioned mother trying to spank a child. The child, armed with Montessori ideas, flips to face her mother and asks for air before the slipper lands.
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F. Irving Fletcher
Sherry's
New York
Christmas Feeling and the Christmas Pudding Excuse
A light exchange reveals an uneasy mood at Christmas as a character admits a dim oppression, joking that she blames it on the burdens of life while the other harshly assigns it to pudding, exposing a satirical outlook on holiday spirits.
Berlin claims swift advances on Eastern Front and Allied counterduels
Berlin says German forces crossed the Petrograd Warsaw Railway advancing between Russian defenders near Dybingke and Vilna while French troops held in Champagne. Petrograd reports Russian retreat northeast of Vilna toward Pirisk as battles continue with mass prisoners and guns taken on various fronts. In London a conscription plot scandal shocks the cabinet amid a planned cabinet meeting.
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Berlin
Petrograd
Warsaw
Widsy
Widge
Dbyingke
Vilna
Champagne
Adriatic
Pirisk
London
Great Britain
Tower of London
England
Sofia
Bulgaria
Constantinople
Dardanelles
King Philip Hand Engine Wins Third Prize at Kingston Fair
At the Kingston Fair Firemen muster on Friday the King Philip hand engine placed third, spraying 156 feet 112 inches for a $50 prize. Hydraulion hand engine earned fourth prize with a 150 foot squirt and $25. The King Philip Fife and Drum Band joined the parade, and on the return trip Hydraulions were hosted in East Greenwich by the Volunteer Company which won first prize.
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Kingston
Hydraulion
East Greenwich
Mount Hope Council Hosts Grand Lodge Officers Visit
Mount Hope Council No 1187 Royal Arcanum welcomed grand lodge officers for an official visitation last Thursday evening in the Hasbrouck Block lodge room. Present were Grand Regent D. D. C. Dubois, District Deputy T. B. Tanner, and W. W. Damon of the Grand Council. Addresses were given and a meal followed the business session.
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Mount Hope
Royal Arcanum
Grand Lodge
Hasbrouck Block
D. D C. Dubois
T. B. Tanner
W. W. Damon
Grand Council of the Order
Healis Taken to Providence for Grand Jury Testimony
George W Healis, among the men charged in Dr Mohr’s murder, was removed from Bristol County Jail this morning and escorted to Providence by Sheriff Philop Cady to testify before the Grand Jury considering the case.
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George W Healis
Dr Mohr
Bristol County
Providence
Philop Cady
Pacheco announces birth of daughter
In this town on September 20 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Manuel Pacheco, marking a family milestone.
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Pacheco
Manuel Pacheco
Marriages in Town Shelved for Sept Dates
In this town two couples tied the knot Sept 18 and Sept 20 with Rev A P Rebello officiating. Joao Miranda Sabino wed Adelaide De Jesus Freitas, both of this town. Victorino D Aquiar married Beatriz Adelaide Silva, both of this town. A third couple Courtlandt Luck and Florence Lomse Gauchi Lomse married Sept 14 at Haven Street M E Church East Providence with Rev J Homer Slutz officiating.
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J Homer Slutz
Courtlandt Luck
Florence Lomse Gauch
East Providence
Obituary Notices Mrs Mary Ann Essex and Frances Lavey
Mrs. Mary Ann Essex widow of Stephen Essex died aged 89 at home. Funeral Sept 22 at 2 pm from her daughter Mrs Orrin L Bosworth 652 Hope Street. Relatives invited. Frances Lavey infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas B Lavey Jr died at 5 months.
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Essex
Mary Ann Essex
Stephen Essex
Orrin L. Bosworth
Hope Street
Lavey
Frances
Thomas B. Lavey
Upcoming Town Events Schedule Highlights
On Sept. 24 a Friday Barn dance at O'Wolf Inn kicks off. Oct. 15 features a concert and moving pictures at Pastime theatre by Bristol Train of Artillery Company C. Dreadnaught Hook Ladder and Hose hosts fairs on Oct. 16 23 30 and Nov. 6 13 20 at the G A R Hall.
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O’wolf Inn
Bristol Train of Artillery
G. A. R. Hall
Dr Kings New Discovery Promised Cold Relief
An advertisement urges readers to treat colds early with Dr Kings New Discovery. It warns neglect can lead to bronchial and lung ailments and promises faithful body defense with this remedy available in 50c bottles.
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George
Emperor
Emperor of
Japan
Mexico
MT. Hope Council
Colonial Line
Buffington's Pharmacy
Bristol
Auidaye
Sind
Om Senin
Wintehrop’g
Aston
R L
G.W. Simmons
Constitution Street
G. M. Wilbur
Huey
William W. Franklin
Wood St
A. W. Orgelman
State Street
Weaver & Matheson
E. K. Reynolds
High Street
Hydraulian Hall
Church St. Col. Pearseave
Isaac B. Munro
Liscomb & Coggeshall
Charles H. Liscomb
Walter H. Coggeshall
Burton St
Constitution St
L. Wood
Kingsthorpe
Metacom
Northup Brothers
Sodini & Giusti
Wood Street
Dorchester Mutual
Nx Co
E. L. Watson & CO
Industrial Trust Co
R. L
Thomas Christodal
Thames and Oliver Streets
Chiropodist
T. Clarke Brown, Jr
Constitution St. Tel
R. Bristol
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