Armistice Day Reflections On Peace And Justice
President Roosevelt recalls Armistice Day and Arlington's Unknown Soldier, urging a global rise to a just peace. He condemns modern warfare while affirming civic duty, universal liberty, and the Nation's commitment to peaceful progress and moral leadership.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Atlantic
Arlington Cemetery
Washington
Arlington
Warren G. Harding
The Madman in the Iowa Farmhouse Bean Incident
Hattie McLaughlin of Clare Iowa and her mother faced a violent intruder on a winter day in 1917. A masked stranger, claiming to be a lineman, poisoned a pot of beans and attacked with a knife, but Hattie fought back with a wooden club, saving both herself and her mother before the assailant was restrained and sent to authorities. The beans later tested positive for poison.
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YELLO
Hattie ‘Rohr
Chicago
Hattie
Clare
Dodge City
Iowa
Hattie McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Mother
Dad
Western Newspaper Union
Maternity Death Rate Could Be Cut in Half
Dr. Phillip R. Williams of Philadelphia told the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology that proper medical care could save about 6,000 mothers yearly and halve deaths if physicians used all knowledge and expectant mothers sought early attention. He noted about half of babies die in childbirth.
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Capitol
Washington
Lincoln
Republic
Phillip R. Williams
Philadelphia
Williams
Knit Three-Piecer Suit Pattern 6312 for Girls
The pattern describes a three piece suit for girls sized 6 8 and 10 years. It features stockinette stitch main fabric and a pleated-looking skirt. It includes illustrations and stitch instructions and lists materials needed. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle in New York for pattern 6312 with name address and pattern number.
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Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th St
New York
N. Y
Foibles Tax Quote Attributed To Benjamin Franklin
A quip notes society pays heavy tolls for idleness pride and folly. Franklin states taxes on vices multiply: idleness twice, pride three times, folly fourfold, reflecting on human folly and cost.
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Benjamin Franklin
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Tonic for Women
Advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic aiding women of all ages for nearly 70 years. It presents a general health claim and implies long-standing effectiveness without citing specific studies or dates.
Death men may live fools, but fools they cannot die
A terse aphorism attributed to Young notes that fools persist through life while a fool’s end remains inevitable, reflecting on human folly and mortality in a compact moral reflection.
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America
Elmo Scott Watson
Adventurers’ Club
Gidukanly
Carlyle
Bentley
Aime
Doan
Dean
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