Ambitious American Seeks European Hotel Business Amid Travel Turmoil
A Miamian reader reports on Europe’s hotel scene after World War I, noting high building costs and labor wages yet potential profit from hotel ventures. The Portier’s power and scarce rooms shape chaotic European travel, with Budapest’s Ritz full and travelers sleeping in bathrooms before finding lodging. Peru plans multi million dollar urban sanitation upgrades in Lima and other towns.
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Vienna
Europe
Germany
Austria
Munich
Particwar
Hotel Portier
Adlon
Berlin
Wahnsee
Budapest
Ritz
Miriam Teichner
Chicago News
Home Erected by Stephen Long Burns Down
Stephen A. Long a Margate City carpenter camped with his family to save for a bungalow and had just completed the new home. After a celebratory theater outing the family returned to a blackened ruin caused by a spark from a fireplace. the uninsurable house was destroyed.
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Stephen A. Long
Margate City
N. J
Long
One Lone Trout Halts Lanarkshire Coal Mine
About 600 workers were sent home when a one pound six ounce trout choked the boilers at a Lanarkshire colliery. The cage could not be lifted to the pithead as the boilers failed. The issue was traced to the fish and operations resumed the next day.
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London
Lanarkshire
King Lion Declares Bold Voice In Fairy Tale
In a zoo tale King Lion boasts he speaks boldly and fears no voice. He contrasts shy creatures with his own loud roar, recalls wild jungle days, and imagines party invitations where he would be the feast. He pledges to roar to prove his voice.
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King Lion
Hans
Dion
Hard for Willie Teacher Willie on tough history lessons
Willie explains why history feels hard noting successive ages from stone to bronze to iron and now a metaphorical hard bolled ace, reflecting confusion over modern challenges. The dialogue highlights difficulty in grasping historical progress and current schooling context.
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Willie
The Object of It Club Meet Monday
Mrs. Crawford questions the club’s purpose while Mrs. Crabshaw explains she attends Monday meetings because that day is the only time she has no place to go.
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Mrs. Crawford
Mrs. Crabshaw
Kidney cure ad targets women readers nationwide
An advertisement urges women to consider kidney and bladder health warning that unnoticed issues can affect other organs. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is promoted as a remedy with sample bottles offered for ten cents by mail from Binghamton New York and available in stores. A brief quip about a debtor’s remark follows.
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Kilmer
Reason Enough Travelers Silence Mail to Washington
Two travelers debate wartime dispatches with one noting no more mail to Washington and the other revealing the grim truth that the unnamed sender is dead.
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Washington
California Fig Syrup Ad Declares Quick Bowels Help
A vintage advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a trusted laxative for children. It stresses a teaspoonful opens bowels within hours and warns to buy genuine California Fig Syrup to avoid imitations. A closing line warns against blindly following others and losing gratitude.
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California
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