Rescuing the lullaby collectors of Chicago
Chicago dispatch notes a new Christmas fad collecting mother songs and lullabies from many cultures, led by an Evanston woman whose work may preserve forgotten melodies. A Chicago school reform move critiques modern teaching for failing spelling and arithmetic, prompting possible tests in fifty schools. Dr. McGee urges inland waterways expansion to cut transport costs, valuing river development as essential to national progress.
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Chicago
Bronx
Michigan
Wisconsin
Missouri
Evanston
W. J. McGee
United State Internal Waterway Commission
Geographical Society of Chicago
United States
Hudson's Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Heroic father saves his son from river ice
Otto Wyoming December 10 Special to The Leader Roy Sprague risked his life diving into the Grey Bull river after 3 year old Lawrence Sprague slipped on the ice. He battled ice blocks and driftwood to free the boy and bring him to shore. Both father and son remained in a precarious condition for hours.
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Otto
Wyo
Laurence Sprague
Grey Bull River
Roy Sprague
Fright of a Herder Foils Tavern Robbery in Kemmerer
At the Quealey Frontier tavern in Kemmerer Wyoming a masked bandit burst in and ordered the night clerk Daniel Low to open the safe. An aged sheepherder sleeping nearby sprang up and yelled, scattering the thief. The bandit fired twice at the herder then fled after realizing the ruckus. Low returned to work and the incident was quelled without a theft.
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Kemmerer
Wyo
Quealey Frontier
Daniel Low
Low
How Diphtheria Is Contracted
A health note explains that a severe cold can leave a child vulnerable to diphtheria and that Cham berlain's Cough Remedy may reduce this risk. The Palace Pharmacy 1 Drug Co sells the remedy. An Indian claimholder in Oklahoma answers to John Hot Alr, while opponents have not drawn him to speak.
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Chamberlain
Palace Pharmacy 1 Drug Co
Oklahoma
John Hot Alr
Public Speaker Interrupted by Cough Remedy Ad
An old advertisement notes public speakers are interrupted by coughs and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for coughs colds and pneumonia. It claims the genuine product contains opiates and appears in a yellow package sold by A E Roe.
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Foley
A. E. Roe
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Claim
How's This We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure F J Cheney Co Toledo We the undersigned have known F J Cheney for 15 years and find him honorable in all business This message promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally and claims sales by druggists Testimonials free Price 75 cents per bottle Hall's Family Pills for constipation also advertised
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F.J. Cheney
Walding, Kintan & Marvin
O Hall
All Drugeiate
Hall
Colorado & Southern Circle Tours to New Orleans Havana and More
G. P. A. T. B. Pisher announces delightful circle tours via New Orleans Florida Havana and Mexico offered by Colorado and Southern. Travel plans originate in Denver with details for the travel program.
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Colorado & Southern
New Orleans
Florida
Havana
Mexico
T. B. Pisher
Denver
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Metropolitan School
Pius X
Pariakes
Rome
Merry del Val
Bec
THE
Antler Cafe
W. 15Th Street
Smaley & CO
West Seventeenth St
Schutler
Florsheim
Stag
J. P. Smith
Harr Schaffner & Marx
John
Harrington
Bandit
Outsider
Boston Meat
Merrill & Williams
W. 17Th ST
Leon Glenn
Eddy Street
Cheyenne Cement Stone and Brick CO
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