Mysterious Taxpayer Sends Five Dollar Conscience Gifts
A District of Columbia tax collector notes monthly five dollar payments labeled by a signer as H. D. V. aimed at the conscience fund. Three installments totaling fifteen dollars arrived from Atlantic City and Washington with no address or motive given. A generic thanks is issued each time.
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Ashington
Iteims
Muny
Atlantic City
Washington
Prince
Phank
Mépore
W.S. Allen
Aecretary of State
Dea
Iowa
State Department
Has Funniest Job in District Government Is Insurance
District of Columbia officials joke about the hardest and most irksome jobs as Charles Nesbit, superintendent of Insurance, recites a tale of a license dispute with a red bow tied pretender to a company. An inspector finds a certificate after a woman explains she forgot it, revealing four weeks of advance certificates.
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District of Columbia
Charles F. Neabit
Nesbit
Ife
F the
Bureau
Tor
South Muscatine Lumber Company
Muscatine
Iowa Supreme Court
District Court
Bataraay
State Board of Parole
Capital National Forest Aimed Along Potomac Plan
Washington area conservation idea promotes a national park touching the Potomac and nearby rivers from Mount Vernon to beyond Great Falls. Advocates include William M. Dauett and a committee from the American Institute of Architects. Proposals envision experimental farms and foreign species testing within forest boundaries under Agriculture Department cooperation.
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Potomac River
Washington
Great Falls
Little Talis
National Conservation Congress
St. Paul
Minn
William M.dauett
Baltimore
District of Columbia
Potomac
Patuxent
Anacostia
Annapolis
Mount Vernon
American Institute of Architects
Conservation of Natural Resources
Glenn Brown
Wiliam M. Elicott
James Knox Taylor
Cass Gilbert
Department of Degriculture
Capital National Forest
Old Columns Reproduced by National Museum
The National Museum erects a model of ancient two-column portals with wooden lintels, resembling the feathered serpent deities of Mesoamerica. Dr. W H Holmes led the project explaining Quetzalcoatl and Kutkulkun symbolism, bird and snake motifs, and the protective temple guardian role.
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National Museum
Central America
W. H. Holmes
Yucutan
Doctor Holmes
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzal
Middle America
Kutkulkun
Crowded Home at Marshall Town for Civil War Vets
The Iowa Soldiers Home at Marshall Town reports a record 1169 members with 926 men and 262 women present, hospital crowded with 210 patients, and many veterans on cots in hallways. Ageing members and former discharges returning push capacity, while calls for more space and a new psychopathic hospital rise from state officials.
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Des Moines
Iowa Soldiers’ Home
Incrersa
Usl
Old People's
Milo Smith
Owas
State House
Psycopathic Hospital
Albert M. Barrett
State Psycopathic Hospital
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
Annn Arbor
State Board of Control
Iowa
Paycopathic
Nervous Wreck Bets Clansman After Tense Claim
A chaotic exchange unfolds as a clan accuses a nervous individual of inflating a bet. The speaker asserts over the past forty eight hours his tally added three hundred dollars to his brant toll and extracted four hundred dollars no less than a thousand times.
Fragrant Skin and Hair Care Ad with Free Sample
Vintage advertisement touts red rough pimply skin relief and scalp care with creamy imolients for skin scalp hair and hands. Free sample by mail with Book, Address postcard, Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere. Also a proverb about time and effort.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Rufus Choate and the crying blacksmith tale
A famed American lawyer Rufus Choate once argued for a blacksmith whose iron shop was seized by a creditor. So moving was his depiction of the injustice that the blacksmith near him burst into tears, lamenting the harsh treatment he had suffered.
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Rufus Choate
Advocate
Tom
Easily Explained Harsh Criticism and Missed Hit
A collection of jumbled lines questions why Alice remains a miss citing she failed to make a hit and asks about the mean temperature of a place in a sharp, fragmentary exchange.
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Alice
Bodily Housekeeping by Dr Pinrogd
The article urges drinking plenty of pure water with meals and notes that X ray based research and observers like Belantista Cannon Grutuner Pavlov Fowler Hawk support hydration for good bodily health. It recommends a little snurse before meals for kidney issues and back pain, plus occasional Anuric tablets to dissolve uric acid.
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Belantista
Cannon
Grutuner
Pavlov
Fowler
Hawk
Athia
Testimonial Boosts Dr Pierce Remedies In Indiana Ad
Indiana readers hear a patient account from Mrs Pamila Tomkinson of Fort Wayne praising Pierce’s Anare and other preparations. She credits relief from kidney trouble rheumatism and bladder issues after using the medicine and urges others to try it. The ad touts Dr Pierce’s reputation and products including Pleasant Pellets for the liver and Golden Medical Discovery for blood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Ind
Pamila Tomkinson
Cottage Ave
Jersey Dilemma Retold Amid Laughing Courtroom Folk
A raspy tale describes a near escape from an enraged bull. The speaker says he grabbed the bull by the fall and feared letting go. A listener incorrectly notes horns and dilemma, while another quips the animal was a Jersey.
His Own Patent Churn in a Rural Rumpus
Mr Gap Johnson of Rumpus Judge rejects a suave agent's churn proposal. He explains they have no use for a churn, pouring excess milk into a holler stump. When it sours they fling in bullfrogs which churn it to sourness before escape.
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Gap Johnson
Tillie
Seldom From the Boy
A brief remark notes that when a boy begins to study for the ministry the idea often originates with his mother.
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Ras
Marshalltown
Cota
Harry Shropshire
Board of Control
Dac
State Military Department
Iowa Infantry
Women's Reformatory
Rockwell City
Wilson-Hughes
Shell Rock News
Campbell
George Guilarno
State Accountant’s
General Assembly
House
Fremont DB. Shottens
Traer
Lewis J. Neff
Walnut
Lee W. Elwood
Elma
M. B. Pitt
Logan
A. W. Slaught
Ottumwa
Roy W. Murray
Storm Lake
O. C. Lee
Sac City
H. Guy Roberts
Mount Ayr
A. W. McFarlane
Waterloo
James F. Johnston
Chariton
Employment Bureau
Niatzel
State Free Employment Bureau
Executive Council
War Department
B. C. Tiff
Dairy and Food
W. B. Barney
Tiff
W. Yi. Harrison
Cuticura Soda
Glntmant
Bright
Dean
Illinois
W. A. Boyd
W. Kirkham
Litchfield
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
N.Y
Joo Dners
Castoria
SPOHN
Spohn Medical Co
Goshen
Lund
Pinrogd
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