A Few Grins In Danger And He Knew His Daughter
A Monitor quote shows a colored witness resisting a lawyer’s questions, fearing truth. In another note, Speaker Gillett reflects postwar shifts as a father considers his daughter Janie’s decisive modern choice in love. The pieces illustrate changing customs and personal agency.
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Gillett
William
Janie
the Argonaut
Foley Cathartic Tab Advertisement Reloises Digestive Help
Indigestion and constipation blamed for many ailments. Proper digestion relieves biliousness gas bloating headaches and sour stomach. Foley Cathartic Tab claims to cleanse bowels sweeten the stomach and invigorate the liver advertised by Potts the Druggist.
Plain hobo given pie in cafe scene
A Philadelphia Bulletin exchange shows a plain hobo being offered pie after a host questions his political alignment. The dialogue contrasts his self description with the informal accusation and light meal gesture.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Foley Honey and Tar Compound Eases Croup and Coughs
Thousands of mothers say Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound is the best remedy for croup coughs and colds. It cuts mucus clears phlegm opens air passages and eases hoarseness. The gasping fight for breath gives way to quiet breathing and sleep.
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Foley
Onward And Upward: butcher and baker raise prices
Washington Star reports a price cycle where the butcher raises prices to buy bread and the baker then raises prices to buy meat, illustrating inflationary pressure in everyday goods.
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Washington Star
Rubber stamp jokes fade as mailed but not delivered replaces
In a quip, Fanning asks about the old Dictated but not read stamp. Dasher replies: she discarded it for a printed Mailed, but not delivered stamp, per Life.
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Fanning
Dasher
Talk Is Cheap Says Europe Not Clay Centers
A Buffalo Times quip notes Mrs. Duff plans to go to Europe this fall, joking that talking about Europe costs no more than visiting Clay Centers, and that is where they are headed.
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Tom
Foley Kidney Pills End Back Pain Says Mrs Ellis
Mrs. O J Ellis of 505 8th Ave Sioux Falls claims Foley Kidney Pills invigorate and heal inactive weak kidneys and bladder. She says severe back pains and fatigue disappeared after use and she now feels well, as advertised by Potts the Druggist.
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O. J. Ellis
Sioux Falls
S. D
Potts
Adv
Modern curriculum claims for girls school prompt debate
The Birmingham Age Herald questions a new school for young women arguing it features dancing motoring aviation and stump speaking in its curriculum. The piece invites readers to judge whether this is a strictly modern education for women.
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Birmingham Age Herald
Cut This Out It Is Worth Money Promotion Card
Advertisement noting a cut out slip to mail to Foley & Co. in Chicago for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets sent in return for name and address.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Ill
Foley
Potts
Taking Advantage of Opportunities
A lighthearted Detroit Free Press quip notes a cheerful exchange about seizing easy gains as a wife praises her husband’s golf game and the notion of “getting things” while the opportunity lasts.
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Detroit Free Press
Constipation remedy touted by local drug ad
An advertisement extols Chamberlain's Tablets as a mild bowel regenerator. It links constipation to health disorders and urges regular diet and exercise plus the medicine, noting the tablets are easy to take and cost a quarter at City Drug Co.
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Dillon
Kupfer Drug Co
Chamberlain
City Drug Co. _ Advim
Passage from a storm aboard a pilot boat shows peril and resolve
Jarrold and Amos endure a brutal sea danger as the pilot boat heaves and nearly capsizes. Cummings remains focused on his reading, insisting the crew has duties and salaries to fulfill to keep the vessel afloat.
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Jarrold
Amos
Mickey
Cummings
Judge Makes Erroneous Prediction
The item quotes a judge making a mistaken forecast about a lawyer then shifts to an advertisement for Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. It promotes a simple preparation claimed to remove intestinal mucus and inflammation with a money back guarantee, attributed to Potts the Druggist and other druggists.
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Mayr
Senators Drive Me Mad in White House Ballad
A playful York Herald quip notes vexation over ratification debate at the White House. The poem blames discussion and reservations while singling out senators as provoking frustration.
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New York Herald
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Ad
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. From a small start its sale and use spread nationwide and abroad proving its merit. City Drug Co. urges readers to try the medicine now.
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Chamberlain’s
United States
City Drug Co
Have you written a book joining our dwindling club
A brief London Answers quip reprinted in dialogue form about a writer declined by a small exclusive circle and the sense of dwindling literary circles. The exchange hints at pride in writing and the scarcity of access to a chosen group.
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George
London
An Agreeable Surprise Cough Remedy Praised by Customer
Mrs. James Brown of Clark Mills New York recounts coughing fits for years and years ago until she tried Chamberlains Cough Remedy and found prompt relief. The City Drug Co advertisement notes many others have also been surprised and pleased by its quick action.
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James Brown
Clark Mills
N. Y
City Drug Co
She Could Fight Flatbush in Croquet Banter
A Yonkers States man jokes about fighting in Flatbush while replying to a question about a fighting game He says he has played croquet with his wife, signaling playful bravado in a Brooklyn exchange.
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Flatbush
Bensonhurst
Yonkers Statesman
Indigestion Tablets Restore Health and Happiness
Indigestion biliousness and constipation sufferers find relief with Chamberlain's Tablets. The City Ding Co. urges a trial, promising satisfaction and improved well being to readers troubled by these conditions.
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City Ding Co
Unclear Yale Record Dialogue Excerpt
The fragment presents a dialogue between two speakers with a line about trust and knowing someone, labeled as from the Yale Record. The text lacks contextual details or events to form a complete news item or report.
Easier Now Than Later Warns About Lingering Coughs
An advice column notes that breaking up a cold or treating a cough early is easier than delaying. It warns that persistent winter coughs can lead to throat and lung disease and cites a customer letter from L. W. Day of Detroit praising Foley's Honey and Tar as quick relief for bronchitis.
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L. W. Day
Campbell Av
Detroit
Mich
Foley
Flattery as a scheme for easy money making
A Washington Star quote from Uncle Eben condemns flattery as a trap for quick gains. He warns that flattery serves as a scheme to obtain money without real effort, contrasting it with honest work.
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Eben
Washington Star
Booth Tarkington Confusion With Flapper In Autograph Line
Booth Tarkington, mistaken for Robert W. Chambers by a fashionable flapper, signs her morocco bound book with a pencil after she asks for his autograph. She questions his identity, then corrects herself, and asks for a rubber eraser with a dismissive shrug.
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Robert W. Chambers
Booth Tarkington
Mgr. Tarkington
Message For The Middle Aged Foley Kidney Pills Ad
An old advertisement promotes Foley Kidney Pills as quick relief for kidney or bladder troubles not chronic. It claims to stop bladder irregularities strengthen kidneys and tone the liver and cites backache lameness rheumatic pains and stiff joints as alleviated with relief available through Potts the Druggist.
Society editor quips about guests and sober waiters
A light exchange between Sporting and Society editors notes that in dry times it will be harder to distinguish guests from waiters at the many swell affairs. The jest hinges on waiters being sober while guests mingle, reflecting social comedy of the era.
Townley and a socialist clique target North Dakota press
Frank J. Packard outlines how A. C. Townley and a National Nonpartisan League insider circle built a state press monopoly. He describes a printing act, Bureau control, and a scheme funding and directing 50 weeklies to push a Soviet model, driving many papers out of business while claiming to defend farmer interests.
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Great Falls
Mont
A. C. Townley
North Dakota
Montana Press Association
Frank J. Packard
Packard
Printing Commission of
Newspaper Act
William Langer
Townley
Nonpartisan League
Ley
Courier News
Fargo
Grand Forks American
League Services Bureau
League
Wells Brinton
J. Rufus Wallingford
Service Bureau
Bureau
Morton County Farmers’ Press
Independent Press of
Fur Auction Sees Large Rabbit Skins from Australia and New Zealand
International fur auction at St Louis reports Australia sold about half a million rabbit skins and New Zealand around 50 000 skins. Total sales reached 335000 dollars. Largest lots went to hatters and felt manufacturers.
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Australia
New Zealand
St. Louis
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