The Liquor Trade Tale From Banff and Vancouver
A Canadian bootlegger explains cross border liquor export schemes from Banff to Vancouver. He describes exporting 2000 cases via schooner to Australia, using lumber cars and planes to move liquor, with police unable to intercept due to legality of export and high seas piracy claims. He claims earnings over $100,000 in two years.
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Banff
Canadian Rockies
Fields
Vancouver
Seattle
Dad
Milwaukee Road
Australia
Washington
Oregon
California
United States
No clear article title from fragmented source
Fragmentary OCR text shows a dialogue line about walking, no identifiable event, names, dates, or places. Unable to extract a coherent news item or factual summary from the provided fragment.
Goodson Family Trip to Marlin This Week
H. N. Goodson traveled to Marlin this week to accompany his mother and grandmother on a short visit.
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H. N. Goodson
Marlin
Lost necklace and rewards in local notice
Missed chain with cross found at Methodist tabernacle. A. L. Brown offers reward. leave at this office. Multiple classified notices offer tire sales, hosiery agents, land for sale, and household items with contact details and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Tabernacle
IL. B. Brown
Man Born to a Hard Life and Constant Woes
A humorous critique describes a man born of woman as a flawed creature who never consents to life, neglects tasks, mismanages money, and argues political loyalties. The piece paints him as loud, impulsive, and bound to conflict with his wife, fate, and the undertaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palm Beach
Missionary Fund Study Debunks 75-Cent Delivery Myth
The speaker, a banker and conservative businessman, asserts that none of the donated dollar is wasted on administration and that every cent reaches the missionary field. He proclaims a dollar prayerfully invested yields more impact than any other use of funds. The claim rests on his close observation of missionary work.
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Julian
Leena
Ten Thousand Times More Good Than Shame in World
A publisher touts the writings of a noted American scoffer as the shame of the world arguing that ten thousand times more good than shame exists on earth. The piece urges Americans to resist habitual cynicism and to see the mass of humanity as sound and moral, warning against dwelling on vice.
What is a Good Turn Hike
A Scout guide extols Good Turn Hikes as patrol adventures to aid people in need. By helping at crossings with children and bundles, assisting frail locals, repairing fences, and being ready for emergencies, the outing tests and builds service spirit and skill.
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Buffalo Scout Trail
War talk on industry and unknown soldiers in press
The excerpts praise Krupp freight car output, compare it to Big Bertha, and note the nation’s religious conviction as surplus war material. They also mention British fiction writers reporting the Washington conference and advocate ending unknown soldiers.
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New York Evening Sun
England
Washington
Detroit
Bennett attends Stephenville funeral for William Harvey
Mr W F Bennett arrived from Stephenville Wednesday afternoon to attend the funeral of William Harvey. A free veil with each hat purchase offered at the shop. Miss Kate Turner notes. Miss Lucile Wooly of Gustine, a John Tarleton College student at Stephenville, spent Thanksgiving with Mrs Armstrong Cox.
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W. F. Bennett
Stephenville
William Harvey
Kate Turner
Lucile Wooly of
Gustine
John Tarleton College
Armstrong Cox
Miss Iva Huddleston Visits for Thanksgiving
Miss Iva Huddleston from Stephenville is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Hill Huddleston for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Iva Huddleston
Stephenville
Mrs
Hill Huddleston
Thanksgiving Visit From Ritzhaupt Family in Guthrie
Mrs George Ritzhaupt and her brothers Victor and Ned Holman of Guthrie Oklahoma visit their grandparents Mr and Mrs J A Holman to share Thanksgiving dinner with the family in the city.
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George Ritzhaupt
Victor and
Ned Holman
Guthrie, Okla
J. A. Holman
Little Grammar School Beats Little High School 18 to 0
The grammar school football team defeated the high school team 18 to 0 on Tuesday afternoon. A return game is set for next week.
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Little” Grammar School
Little” High School
Dangerous Symptoms Advice For Subscribers
A contemporary warns delinquent readers with a mock medical list of alarming symptoms and a jab to pay up so a solid obituary notice may follow. The Western Christian Advocate notes the curbside quip as a satirical prompt to settle debts.
Miss Williams Returns Home After Visit
Miss Eulatte Williams comes back Sunday to her Hamilton home following a visit with her sister Mrs. Tom T. Main and Mrs. Gerald Bryson.
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Eulatte Williams
Hamilton
Tom T. Main
Gerald Bryson
Spoiled His Illustration By Temperance Lecturer
A temperance lecture provoked a joke as a donkey would choose water over beer, to illustrate a point about stubbornness. The exchange, captured by a Rock Island Rotary attendee, shows humor interrupting a serious message.
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Rock Island Rotary
Doctor and patient exchange over appendicitis scar
A doctor tells a patient he must operate for appendicitis and asks about scarring. The patient worries the scar will show, and the doctor reassures it will be hidden unless she wears tight clothing.
Millions for Defense and the Pinckney Bribe Claim
The 1797 Embassy to France led by Charles C. Pinckney faced French insistence on a bribe before talks. Pinckney declared the United States held "millions for defense but not one cent for tribute" as a defense stance against France and British trade privileges.
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Charles C. Pinckney
United States
France
England
Talleyrand
Pinckney
Mrs. Carroll Returns to Comanche from Dallas
Mrs. M. W. Carroll, after visiting her children in Dallas, has returned to Comanche and is now staying at the home of her daughter Mrs. Will Martin.
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Comanche
M. W. Carroll
Dallas
Will Martin
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