City Officials and Church Listings in Atlas County
Directory entry lists mayoral and aldermanic names, county officers including tax collectors, surveyors, and registrars, along with county school board members, roads, notaries, and police. also notes Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Church of God pastors and Sunday schedules.
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M.C. Wyley
Presbyterian Church
B. W. Baker
J. A Carson
Church OF God
Ella Fry
Ela Fry
Wanted. Hosiery sales reps in Norristown Pa
Employment ad seeking men or women to take orders for guaranteed hosiery for men women and children. Darning eliminated. Full time 400 a week and spare time earnings at one dollar an hour. Experience required. International Stocking Mills Norristown Pa.
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International Stocking Mills
Norristown
Watkins Co seeks agents for city trade and retail
The J. R. Watkins Co requests men and women to handle sale and distribution of original Watkins products in Memphis Tennessee. Over 150 guaranteed items including remedies extracts spices toilet requisites household specialties and auto accessories. Free sample and full details offered by Dept 77 Memphis.
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Watkins
J. R. Watkins Co
Memphis
Teun
Phonograph Owners Urged to Preserve Records
Phonograph owners are advised to protect records and improve tone using the hand-made Phon-O-Grash. The product is marketed as better, cheaper, and backed by satisfaction or money refund. Send 25 cents in silver or stamps to Martin's Aye-One Service, Box 115, Harney Station, Omaha Nebraska. Agents and dealers are invited to request samples.
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Martin
Harney Station
Omaha
Nebraska
War heroes rule deputies in French chamber
Paris reports that 850 of 605 members of the chamber of deputies served as officers in the French army. Most are young and few were active in politics before 1914. Observers foresee future French politics dominated by war records, with figures like General de Castelnau and Lieut. Col. Jean Fabry shaping policy.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
General de Castelnau
Jean Fabry
Joffre
Washington
Castelnau
Marquis de Dion
Baron Maurice de Rothschild
Due d'Audiffrey Pasquier
Come to College for Cheap Education and Degrees
The college advertises affordable education offering degree courses and a wide range of subjects. It lists regular literary studies plus engineering fields, mine engineering, typewriting, bookkeeping, stenography and office management, sewing and cooking, and preparation for a teacher's position under President M. D. Dubose.
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M. D
Dubose
Chief Justice Fish Seeks Reelection Despite Busy Duties
Georgia voters are asked to support Chief Justice Fish in the Democratic Primary on Sep 13 as he seeks another term. He notes his duties prevent active campaigning, pledges faithful service and efficient work, and asks for endorsements for a crowning honor of a life in service.
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Georgia
Supreme Court of Georgia
University
Pig stampede interrupts church service in Baltimore
In East Baltimore, twenty pigs broke from a unloading herd owned by Ludwig Selmyer and charged into Sacred Heart Catholic Church during Father Kessler's service. A worker from Selinger tackled the boar by the hind leg at the altar rail but the animal slipped away behind the altar as the congregation helped pursue it.
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Baltimore
Ludwig Selmyer
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Father Kessler
Bid for Northeastern Circuit Judge Promises Reform
A longtime Clarkesville lawyer seeks the Northeastern Circuit judgeship, arguing current docket delay harms litigants. He pledges a businesslike, full time approach, timely trials, vacation hearings for motions, and daily jury use, appealing to new women voters and urging broad support.
Idol Shattered in Wax Figure Prank
Bobbie, intrigued by department store wax figures, touched a wax lady in a pink satin breakfast jacket on the second floor with his mother nearby. He exclaimed she was wax and real fear followed. The mother reassured him the figure was not living.
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Bobbie
Shyness of Sandy in a Forfarshire Courtship
Four young plowmen court in a rural Forfarshire district with silent restraint. After two hours one man breaks the ice by noting a feather on the girl, who replies with a quip about a goose all night, evoking a Scottish wit from The Scotsman.
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Sandy
Forfarshire
Jenny
Doctors Save Life of Man Sentenced to Die
Rutger Warder, convicted of first degree murder for slaying Henry Werner at Hion New York, was taken from Sing Sing death house and operated on for acute appendicitis. Prison physicians said the operation was a success and Warder likely will recover before his scheduled execution.
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Rutger Warder
Henry Werner
Hion
N. Y
Sing Sing
Ossining
Warder
Man jailed in negligee as barrel fate looms in Raleigh
Claude Bush, sentenced to five years for highway robbery, remains barely clothed in a negligee after sending his trousers home. Jailer Tom Conway says Bush will wear only the cheapest Jumpers until he is moved to Raleigh, mocking his appearance and calling him a Twentieth century Adam.
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Kinston
N. C
Claude Bush
Elizabeth City
Tom Conway
Bush
Raleigh
Conway
Greenwich Village
Adam
Armor for X‑ray Room at Montefiore Hospital
New York reports the Montefiore Hospital completed a lead armored X ray room costing nearly 1000 dollars. The ceiling and the floor of the medical director’s office above are lined with lead to shield him from intense radiation risks. The room houses an extremely deep penetrating X ray machine for cancer treatment and similar diseases.
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New York Hospital
New York
Montefiore Hospital
A Little Different in Manupolis News
In Manupolis News a high school senior John argues with his father over modern dating costs. The father recalls old days when a dinner and a few taffy pieces sufficed, while John notes today his date also feeds him before a well funded dinner.
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John
Manupolis
Kelso Mail marks 125 years with Scott link
The Kelso Mail in Scotland celebrates a125 years and recalls Sir Walter Scott's influence. James Ballantyne, Kelso Grammar School schoolmate, founded Ballantyne Press and aided the paper with Scott. Scott’s early works and the Minstrel of the Scottish Border were printed at the Kelso Mail office.
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Walter Scott
Kelso
Scotland
The
Mail
James Ballantyne
Ballantyne Press
Edinburgh
Scott
Wus
Ballantyne
Kelso Grammar School
Kelso Mall
The Mercury Went Down Little Girl Urgency
A fragment from Punch shows a girl rushing to a doctor with news that her father has swallowed something and the mother’s temperature has dropped. The doctor reassures that her father’s condition is “splendid” though the line suggests a tonal miscue. The exchange reflects the era’s satirical humor about medical scenes.
Indian Chief Tse-ne-gat Dies After Uprising Legacy
Tse-ne-gat a Piute leader known as the Bolshevik Hedskin died leaving a history of uprisings. In 1915 he was blamed for a Mexican sheep herder’s death and, resisting arrest, rallied nearly every lawless Indian within 500 miles of Bluff Utah to defend a mountain stronghold. Government costs to curb him reached about $25,000 yearly. He was among the reservation’s wealthiest Indians.
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Bluff
Utah
Saint Swear Sparks on a Used Bus Ride
In a Brooklyn Eagle anecdote, a couple stalls miles from nowhere as John blasts oaths at a second hand bus. His wife begs him to stop, noting in 25 years of marriage he never swore, yet now his language would shame a pirate.
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Steen
John
Brooklyn Eagle
Radio to other planets may host life says Smithsonian official
C G Abbot assistant secretary of the Smithsonian in the annual report argues Venus could harbor life and wireless contact with other worlds may be possible at high cost. He casts doubt on Earthlike beings on the Moon and Sun, notes Mars as the probable abode with a 60 degree below zero average and a Sahara like dryness.
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Venus
C. G. Abbot
The
Smithsonian Institution
Institution
Mary
Mr. Abbot
Earth
Moon
Solar System
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Mercury
Uranus
Sahara Desert
His Idea of Wealth and Harriman Feature
George Kennan interviews East Side tenement boys about H. H. Harriman. A twelve year old recalls Harriman as a railroad president worth a couple of thousand dollars and living alone in a distant house, seen as the peak of wealth and luxury by the boy.
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H. H. Harriman
Railroad
New York
George Kennan
Mr. Harriman
Harriman
Why Farming Should Pay
The National City Bank of New York argues after census 1920 there are more factory workers than farmers for the first time in U.S. history. Fifty years ago rural workers outnumbered city laborers more than two to one. This shift expands the farmer market and boosts demand for manufactured goods, suggesting farming will generally prosper once hard times pass.
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National City Bank
New York
Rival Politicians Clash at Women Voters Meeting
Two rival candidates addressed a gathering of women voters. One sought first place while the other gained it, provoking visible anger in the first speaker. At his turn to respond he delivered a pointed, text driven rebuttal and urged speakers to always have a text or pretext. He claimed his opponent used a pretext, then declared he would use a text instead.
Wagon tale rumor from Indiana saloon scene
An Indiana Southern scene describes a slick drug clerk speaking to a woman labeled a country lassie. He asks if anyone is waiting, she replies yes a man in a wagon waits for her. The vignette paints a seedy frontier encounter in terse dialogue.
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Indiana
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Gada
Treas
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Moore J. M. Brooksher
A.W. Cain
W. B. Townsend
Christian
Tinier
J.M. Davis
C. Porter
Ly Peck Miopongt Tate
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B. Baker
John Evans
Gg, Evans
W. J. Free
D. O. Johnson
W.H. Jones
W. J. Hightower
A. B. Keith
County Board OF Education
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J. M. Ridley
W.T. Dowdy
C.D. Pierce
D. W. Caldwell
Carl Shultz
John Hf. Moore
W. L. Ash
B.C. Meaders
T. F. Christian
Auraria
W. A. Sutcheson
J. P. Jane Creek
Luther Justus
Legislative Chamber
North Georgia Agricultural College
Chief Justice Fish
Clarkesville
Delaware
Rhode Island
North Carolina
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