How to Build and Fly a Box Kite and Party Lanterns
Instructions describe building a box kite with sticks and bands, covering cells with cloth or paper, and assembling diagonal braces. Additional Halloween ideas include two pumpkin lantern forms, a fortune telling mirror trick, a witch tableaux with paper costumes, and party table favors with goblin and witch figures.
New British Gas Helmet for Troops in Trench Warfare
A new British gas helmet is issued to troops for protection against deadly German gas fumes in trenches. The equipment aims to reduce casualties from chemical warfare as part of ongoing wartime measures.
Women on Glasgow trams and wartime labor notes
The report cites women tram conductors in Glasgow wearing green straw hats and black watch tartan skirts. It notes 35 percent of women in several states work outside the home. It mentions a Chicago juvenile court grand jury probe seen as targeting Miss Mary Sartelme. Welsh boatmen lack so workers replaced by women and Vickers factory in England pays women workers four to five dollars weekly for six shifts.
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New York
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Chicago
Mary Sartelme
Wales
Vickers
England
Our Friend the Doctor
A reverent portrait of physicians as the greatest and most beneficent of learned professions. The piece contrasts health’s ease with illness and celebrates the doctor’s skill, courage, and perseverance in fighting disease.
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Caesar
House of Life
Uncle Josh’s sly bet on the women’s exchange tale
In a club chat Senator Claude Kitchin recalls Uncle Josh entering a city women’s exchange. After thinking aloud about whether he was among only women there Josh resolves softly I guess I’ll jes keep Hanner. Philadelphia Telegraph notes the humorous misinterpretation in a light anecdote.
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North Carolina
Josh
Hanner
Philadelphia Telegraph
Touches of Eczema Soap and Ointment Ad Offers Free Samples
The Soap to cleanse and purify and the Ointment to soothe and heal are promoted as superior skin care emollients. They promise clear skin and healthy hair, with white bands noted. Request a free sample by mail with a book, address postcard, Cuticura Dept XY Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
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Financial fears over European gold flood worries elites
A fragment suggests big financiers fear a flood of gold from Europe entering the country and worry that ordinary people may access it. The tone hints at concerns about capital controls and social disruption.
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Europe
Woman declines operation and finds health with Lydia E Pinkham's remedy
Louisville reader Mrs. J. M. Resch credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from a supposed tumorous condition and chronic pain. She reports restored sleep, ability to work, and regular walks after avoiding surgery. The ad urges other ill women to seek the remedy and write for confidential guidance.
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Louisville
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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