Seance Oddities and a Brassy Medium From Brooklyn
A crowded seance scene features a stout black clad medium from Brooklyn guiding a cabinet trance with a duck cheesecloth prop and a ghostly guitar picker. A first timer, a youth from KR D No 8, asks his late father if he is an angel and what length of wings he measures from tip to tip.
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Brooklyn
Provinces
KR. D. No. 8
Hatson
Paw
Pecs
Piw
San
No Smoking Sign Sparks Follow-up at Broadway Backstage
A backstage fireman confronts an Ernst side cloak and sult salesman sneaking into the theater wings. The man argues he must read the sign, then quips that the message reads no smoking but not dose it.
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New York
East
Ladies First Always In a Southwest tale of a mover’s Arizona camp
A rugged Southwestern narrator recalls a tale overheard near the Grand Canyon. The mover travels with two mules a dralrie schooner a wife four children and six hound dogs. The wife laments hardship while the foreman challenges the husband’s neglect. The man boasts of making the wife fetch wood and water.
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Grand Canyon
Southwest
Arizona
Telephones in the United States and world comparisons
A survey notes New York state has 14 times as many telephones as Italy, Jackson leads Mississippi cities in telephones, and Boston has more telephones than Berlin London and Rome. It cites average home telephone cost under 2 cents daily, adds 1924 Bell wire mileage in Pennsylvania, Chicago wire usage equaling earth circumference, and a Red Cross Ball Blue advertisement boosting linen care.
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America
New York
Italy
Mississippi
Jackson
Meridian
Boston
Berlin
London
Rome
United States
Bell System
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Confetti Counting At London Bus Office
The London General Omnibus Company opens a Chiswick ticket office where women count tickets using a metal finger to sort and tally confetti-like paper clippings from punched tickets. The stacks reveal how many penny rides were sold, described as a curious and intricate job.
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London General Omnibus Company, Ltd
Chiswick
New York World
Cuticura Ad Claims Versatile Hand Care Use
An old advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment for sore hands describing soaking in hot suds, drying, and rubbing in Ointment, then removing excess with tissue. It notes Cuticura products cover many toilet needs with Soap Ointment and Talcum.
Diary excerpt from Ripley diary about a bet on nationality
The excerpt notes cartoonist Rob ert Leroy Ripley recounting a morning call from Mrs Whittiger about a lost bet. A bet on the nationality of a dark young man is described with a Romania/Rome pun and a humorous misunderstanding.
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Robert Leroy Ripley
Bport
Important to All Women Readers of This Paper
Thousands of women suffer kidney or bladder trouble without realizing it. When kidneys are unhealthy, other organs suffer too and may cause back pain headaches and loss of ambition. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is claimed to restore kidney health and overcome such conditions. Send ten cents for a sample bottle by parcel post from Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY. Buy at drug stores.
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Kilmer
Plan Diamond Board in South Africa aims to curb diamond sales
Plan proposes a board to control the diamond industry in South Africa. It would set minimum prices and purchase sparklers to stabilize the market and regulate output.
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South Africa
Woman Credits Vegetable Compound for Restoring Health
Mrs. T. A. Saunders of Knoxville Tennessee recounts a three year battle with weakness back pain and mental distress during menopause. After taking eight bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports dramatic improvement and a return to daily tasks with substantial weight gain and no doctor visits in two years.
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Mrs. Saunders
Lydia E. Pinkham
Knoxville
Tenn
T. A. Saunders
E. Depot Street
Knoxville, Tenn
Funeral for Goldfish Marie Draws Ten Car Escort
More than twenty people attended the funeral of Marie a pet gold fish owned by Mrs Frank Tarsatana in Philadelphia. A funeral cortege of ten automobiles escorted Marie to her final resting place the body embalmed and placed in an ebony coffin wrapped in gold and silver cloth. Mrs Tarsatana hung golden crepe on her door in mourning.
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Marie
Frank Tarsatana
Philadelphia
Banker Feeds Pigeons at Office Window in Denver
Every morning at 8 30 the banker John M Richardson feeds pigeons on his office window sill in Denver. Each winter the birds return with clocklike regularity and perch patiently beneath his care.
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John M. Richardson
Denver
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Middle West
Grant Park Stadium
War Department
Fort Sheridan
E. Helmick
B. A. Poore
Pensacola Bay
Augustus Butler Ftowland
Naval Air Service
President Coolidge
Treasury
Rowland
Elsie Bishop
New London
Conn
New England
Buddha
Tibet
Peking
King Alfonso
Prince of
Asturias
Alfonso of
Spain
Prince of Asturias
Regimento del Rey
King’s Own
Red Cross
Buffalo
N.Y
American Red Cross
New York Telephone Company
By Irvin S.cobb
Bosbbioboboio An
Plan Diamond Board
Spohn
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
Atlanta
Sfreens
Fletcher
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