Not Interested Profiteer Courts Odd Book Sale Scene
A quirky courtroom exchange reveals a profiteer inspecting books and shelves while a judge questions a man convicted of selling a gold brick in New York City. The man claims honesty is his regular trade and jokes about his supposed job during his commute.
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New York City
Banned Lines From Courtship Across An Elusive Note
A fragmented clipping features dialogic quips about engagements and nicknames, including lines about calling a fiancée cutie and hon. The text also references knighthood, dames and manners, with remarks on gowns and a fashion scene featuring models and a French-speaking modiste.
Free rides motor trips spark local talk
Blackstone and Jenks discuss Sunday motor trips with his wife. Webster questions car ownership while Blackstone notes Jenks has been in touch with real estate agents recently.
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Blackstone
Jenks
Webster
Real
Es Tate
Might as Well Sporting Exchange Cited in Odd Dialogue
A clipped exchange features a speaker praising a noted sportsman while revealing membership in an animal protection society and a confession of using blafik cartridges to satisfy sport spirit.
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the Society For the Protection of Animals
Noisy Household Banter and Laughing Fragments
A jumble of playful exchanges shows a husband and wife negotiating dress finishing touches and a sewing machine purchase. Quick quips touch on finances, independence, and modern partnership with humor and snippets of other characters debating money and feminism.
Tremendous Force of Habit
Restaurateur seeks a new counter man after yesterday's absence of the manager, an ex barber who would scrape whipped cream off pies, highlighting the odd habit and staffing need.
Banting and Banter in a Marriage
A fragment notes Carrie’s weight loss since marriage and questions dieting. It quotes her reply that her husband belittles her, implying emotional strain behind the physical change. The item reflects social commentary on marriage and body image.
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Carrie
Woman Hater's Quarrel Escalates in Heated Exchange
A tense exchange unfolds as one speaker challenges the other with accusatory remarks. The other party blasts back, insisting they now hate women even more. The confrontation highlights underlying animosity and shifted attitudes.
Hog nosed snake feigns death in defense
The American hog-nosed snake, a small species under four feet, is famed for feigning death when threatened. Harmless to humans, it can imitate a venomous cobra by raising its head, expanding neck folds, and writhing before rolling over to play dead.
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W. 8. Berridge
Exaltation of Mr Longsbury’s Daughters
A fragmentary scene features praise for Mr Longsbury’s two daughters called goddesses of Wisdom. The speaker laments they are admired and worshiped but never married, expressing a mix of envy and resignation.
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Pittsburgh Fog Prevention Experiment Dispels River Fog
Scientists lubricated the Monongahela River from Rice's Landing to 1.5 miles upstream using a government boat and barge with sprinkling gear. As a cold air mass met warmer water, a thin layer of oil and organic acid sprayed over the river rapidly dispersed the fog. The method blocked air water union, achieving fog dispersal.
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Pittsburgh
Monongahela River
Rice
Weather Bureau
Nvelyn
Conflict in Authorities Noted in Law Student Exchange
A law student faces a yes or no question and reveals a conflict in authorities as peers whisper. The professor counters there is a local conflict in the immediate vicinity, but not elsewhere, highlighting confusion over correct guidance.
Double Use For Tractor As Light Road Roller
Popular Mechanics Magazine describes a small gas tractor converted into a light road roller. Each wheel is sealed with a golf course wheel filled with cement to create a smooth outer face, forming a 20 inch tread. The cement increases the tractor weight to 5,000 pounds.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Women Movie Operators Breaks Through In New York
Among about twenty five hundred applicants for moving picture operator licenses in New York only three are women. One is an experienced steady worker of five or six years. The other two are newcomers who work only when they feel like it or when they need a new hat or thing.
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New York
Tax return collection schedule for 1928 in multiple towns
The schedule lists dates and time windows for evive tax returns in numerous communities including Marel Slant Creek Frog town Yahoola Cane Creek Auraria Dahlonega Mill Creek Wahoo and others with varied hours from early morning to early afternoon. Local officers or agents will be present at each site to assist taxpayers.
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Slant Creek
Frumbs
Frogtown
Tell
Porter Springs
Yahoola
Cane Creek
Atoll
Davis
Hightower
Mark Kendalls
Spectator Epigram Reflects on a Racehorse Name
A fragment describes a Kentucky race scene with a judge of horseflesh and a line about a horse named Spectator. The dialogue notes diners and a city visitor comparing racing names and a spectator observing others pass.
Black-Draught Liver Medicine Credited For Relief
A Biloxi woman describes long battle with nervous indigestion and constipation. After taking Thedford's Black-Draught she says her liver pain eased, digestion improved, and she gained color, with ongoing use by family members for indigestion and headaches.
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Thedford
Chamberlain Medicine Co Trial Offer Des Moines
Send name and address with 6 cents to Chamberlain Medicine Co Des Moines Iowa for a trial package of Chamberlain's Cough remedy, stomach and liver tablets and Salve all priced at 5 cents. Includes coughs colds croup bronchial flu whooping coughs stom ach troubles indigestion biliousness constipation burns wounds and skin affections.
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Chamberlain Medicine Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlain
Rings mark Brazilian professions with gemstone signs
In Brazil professional men wear large rings with specific stones to denote their field. Lawyers show a ruby, doctors an emerald, engineers a sapphire, priests amethyst, military engineers topaz, and bachelors of letters opal. Married men wear plain gold bands, students display a five-stone ring whose stones spell saber meaning to know.
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Brazil
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