Troubles Beset Tourist Abroad In Europe Hotel Portier Power
A Chicago dispatch notes Americans eyeing European hotel work amid high building costs and strict wage standards. It describes porters as powerful figures, rooms scarce where guests sleep in bathrooms, and travel chaos from Budapest to Vienna as readers glimpse postwar hotel business hopes. Peru plans major water and sewer upgrades in Lima and nearby towns.
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Vienna
Europe
Germany
Austria
Munich
Particwar
Hotel Portier
Adlon
Berlin
Wahnsee
Budapest
Ritz
Miriam Teichner
Chicago News
Home, Just Erected, Burned to the Ground
Stephen A. Long, a Margate City carpenter, built a small bungalow after a summer of saving. The family stayed in tents and celebrated with a theater outing. Returning home they found the unins ured house ruined by a fireplace spark that leaped to the structure.
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Stephen A. Long
Margate City
N. J
Long
One Lone Trout Stops Coal Mine
Nearly 600 workers were idled at a Lanarkshire colliery after a single trout choked the water supply for boilers. The boiler cage could not be lifted until the fault was found. The fish weighed one pound six ounces, and work resumed the next day.
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London
Lanarkshire
King Lion Confesses Pride and Roar in Zoo Tale
In a whimsical zoo tale a proud Abys sinian Lion boasts of courage and a loud voice. He contrasts shy critics who fear hearing themselves with his own fearless roar that unsettles children and asserts his wild, handsome presence.
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King Lion
Hans
Dion
Hard for Willie Teacher Willie lesson history marked hard
Willie explains why lessons feel tough and reflects on history from stone to iron ages, noting current challenges as the modern era presents a hard bolled ace phrasing.
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Willie
The Object of It Delivers a Witty Club Exchange
Mrs Crawford questions joining a club without seeing its object. Mrs Crabshaw explains the humor, noting the club meets Mondays when she has nowhere else to go. The exchange highlights social quirks and a light, ironic tone.
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Mrs. Crawford
Mrs. Crabshaw
Swamp Root Ad Featured For Women’s Kidney Health
The notice urges women readers to consider Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney and bladder trouble linked to general health. It promises sample bottles for ten cents and notes availability at drug stores, reflecting a historic ad tone.
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Kilmer
Reason Enough First Traveler Hear They Aren’t Sending Mail
Two travelers exchange terse hometown news about mail service to Washington. The first notes none will be sent anymore. the second asks why. The first answers flatly that the recipient is dead.
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Washington
California Fig Syrup Ad Amid Money Advice
Advertisement extols California Fig Syrup for easing constipated bowels in children noting a single teaspoon helps within hours and urging mothers to buy genuine syrup from druggists. The piece closes with a money advice quip about gratitude and faked promises from others.
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California
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