Government booklet proposes economical meat use at home
Secretary of Agriculture David I Houston and Assistant Secretary Beverly T Galloway promote a thirty page booklet Economical Use of Meat in the Home. It includes more than fifty practical recipes aimed at reducing meat costs and boosting value per pound.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Food Research Laboratory
David I. Houston
Beverly T. Galloway
Houston
Food Research Laboratories
Department
Dc. F. Langworthy
Caroline L. Hunt
Miss Hunt
Sad End to Old Romance Ends in Annulment Across Continents
In San Francisco Mrs. Breckenridge seeks annulment of marriage to Jack Breckenridge after ten years of insanity that began in Paris. The couple eloped a decade ago with social notice, and the husband is kept under care in Paris while the wife brings their son to San Francisco for the proceedings.
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San Francisco
Jack Breckenridge
Adelaide Murphy
Breckenridge
Sallie” Murphy
Paris
Europe
Pensioned after 23 years for Civil War service
Frank Ferris, seventy-nine, served in the Third Missouri Infantry. His 1890 pension claim was denied for lack of discharge papers until Missouri records uncovered mustering in and discharge dates. He will receive $30 monthly and $3,000 back pay for 23 years, as Washington approves. Ferris is a carpenter and poor.
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Atchison
Irian
Frank Ferris
Third Regiment
Missouri Infantry
Adjutant General of
Missouri
Ferris
Washington
Parrot Assists Texas Schoolroll Call In Rural District
In Brenham area Independence school Miss Dorothy Booker uses a trained parrot named Professor Tom to call roll and verify attendance. The bird, taught from a perch, now identifies pupils by name with nasal calls, rewarding correct responses with soda crackers.
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Brenham
Tex
Dorothy Booker
Booker
Eall
Tom
Independence
Willie Jones
Jones
Brakeman Clings to Runaway Car In Medford Night
J F Fowler brakeman clung to the roof of a runaway Southern Pacific freight car at seventy five miles an hour through Medford yards swinging a lantern to warn of its approach. The car covered twenty miles Ashland to Gold Hill without incident. an Ashland operator warned others and a nearby freight train was diverted. The first twelve miles were traveled in seven minutes.
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Medford
Ore
Southern Pacific
J. F. Fowler
Ashland
Gold Hill
Betty's Virginia Christmas and Other Stories in Lippincott
A literature issue listing multiple works including a complete novelette Betty's Virginia Christmas by Molly Elliott Seawell, Trappers of Men part I by Samuel Scoville Jr, and various short stories poems and essays such as A Summer Santa Claue A Reward of Uprighteousness Pauline The Witch Moon and Currency Reform Under President Wilson.
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M. L. Kirk
Betty
Molly Eliott Seawell
Samuel Scoville Jr
Ellis O. Jones
Owen Oliver
J- W. Muller
Pauline
Clamence Buddington Kelland
Charlotte Wilson
Edwin L. Sabin
William J. Lampton
Ethel Hallett Porter
Susie M. Best
Ethel Chapman Haring
Broadway Ideal
John van Vorat
Eleanor Duncan Wood
Helen Coale Crew
Printers
W. T. Larned
Caroline Giltinan
President Wilson
Edward Sherwood Mead
Faith Baldwin
Twentieth Century Travel
Automobile Department
Churchillj Williams
Hall's Catarrh Cure product ad claims internal blood action
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. treatment requires internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is described as a regular prescription that acts on blood and mucous surfaces. The advertisement claims testimonials are available and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo as proprietors and urges readers to buy through druggists.
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F.J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
Hall
Etiquette Advice for Engaged Girls and Their Families
The piece urges engaged couples to balance time between each other and their social circle. It stresses respect for parents and relatives, consideration for friends, and inviting families to share in the life ahead. It also recommends tact in arranging visits and counsel from older relatives.
Indiana schools hear tale of the white plague story
Thousands of Indiana students receive a story titled The Most Powerful Bug in the World explaining the tubercle bacillus and its transmission. The piece urges fresh air and sunshine, notes Red Cross Christmas Seals aid, and outlines school contests culminating in bronze, then gold and silver medals. Tuberculosis Sunday is planned for December 7 with church and doctor discussions.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Indiana Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
United States
Red Cross Seale
Dichotomy Defined in Medical Fees Mentioned in Ads
A London medical term borrowed by U S press, dichotomy, denotes splitting a surgeon or specialist fee with the referring practitioner. The note appears in Republican ads, highlighting illicit practice concerns.
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United States
London
Are Women Understood A Paris Le Matin Symposium
Paris Le Matin gathers opinions in a periodical symposium on Are Women Understood. Excerpts present varied views from women and men, contrasting ideas of equality, admiration, flattery, truthfulness, and safety in interaction between genders.
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le Matin
Paris
Hite
Eve
Coffee Doped to Foil Cabin Thefts on the Range
Denver man George W. Smith and a companion became lost in deer country and drank coffee laced with strychnine planned to deter thieves. They suffered cramps and illness until a rancher revealed the poison. The emetic oil and warm lard saved Smith's life. The thief deterrent body warned stealing from shelter cabins is a serious crime.
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Denver
Cole
Marrow
George W. Smith
Smith
Gunnison
Jail restores memory as inmate recalls past life
In Everett Washington Robert Carlson a logger who had forgotten his name regained memory upon seeing prison walls. He claimed to have been there before and identified as John Doe Christensen. Jail records confirmed the statements. Colonel Roosevelt autograph letters advertised at four dollars each.
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Erverett
Wash
Robert Carlson
Peri Freee Artieton
John Doe Christensen
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Galloway
American Press Association
Lippincott’s Magazine
Sloan
Miss Matilda Cotton
Myrtle Ave
Brooklyn
Air Perigo
Des Moines
Iowa
Sloan's
Earl S. Sloan, Inc
Boston
Mass
T. H. McGeorge, Jr. Co
Covington, Ind
Merrell
Soule
Merrell-Soule Company
SYR
Cjusr
New York
Shelter Cabin
Colorado
Preon
Everett, Wash
Jalil
T. R
Roosevelt
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