Edgeworth Ad Sample Prompts Pipe Smoker Endorsements
A Forest City Fair Company notice details a tobacco advertising campaign for Edgeworth and the rationale behind offering free samples. Letters from H J Kline and others endorse Edgeworth’s consistent flavor and quality, arguing against giveaways while noting samples aim to convert new customers.
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Forest City Live
Edgeworth
Daffy
H. J. Kline
Securisy Foscat Sien Ve
Fair Co
the Forest Cit
Grand Circuit
Kline
E Seaworth
Cat Han
Mr. Klinen
Eiea
Setting Up The Tree In Homes And Dwellings
A guide to building simple and effective Christmas tree stands from wood boxes and crosspieces. It describes low cost supports for small trees, including using a wooden box as a base, weighting with stones, or filling with sand, and decorative touches like white cotton batting and tinsel to simulate snow.
Ginger Cookies from a Historic Recipe
Cream together sugar and shortening. Add molasses ginger and egg. Dissolve soda in boiling water and mix into dough with baking powder and flour to form a soft dough. Roll and bake cookies spaced so they do not run together.
Medieval Christmas Customs of Candles and Yule Goods
The article recalls how medieval candles and Yule log rituals lit homes for a supernatural Christmas visitor. Bakers sent Yule cakes or Yule babbles, early Christ images, while Rome and Vatican traditions show Christ Child images. English landowners kept grain sacks for all to take, with extra feed for cattle on Christmas Eve.
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Chandlers' Guild
Vatican
England
Lemon and Sardines Improve Sardine Mixture
A note suggests adding a little lemon juice to the sardine mixture to improve its flavor and balance.
Santa Busy Packing Toys for Children in Suita Claus Tale
In a festive narrative Santa Claus fusses over packing hundreds of toys and gifts. He lists candy, fruits, dolls, trains, books, puzzles, clothing, and animals, insisting he never forgets and will finish packing before Christmas while sharing playful reflections on elephants and lambs.
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Suita Claus
Santa
Santa Claus
Jie
Billy
Mery
Maury
Ant
Tim
Elopement Rumor Spreads Through Quirky Exchange
A fragmented dialogue suggests a rumor of a lifeguard eloping with an heiress. Mr Grip pling and Me. Gudapur exchange cryptic lines about explanations and winter curiosities as the note ends.
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Lfeguard
Mr. Grippling
Gudapur
Canada Dominates at Chicago Live Stock Show
Canada shines at the International Live Stock Show in Chicago. Alberta oats weighed 48 pounds per bushel and claimed top prizes, while Alberta won the alfalfa seed contest and Canada swept wheat and oats first prizes. Saskatchewan’s Wee Donald’s horse captured back-to-back grand championships. Dominion breeds, including Clydesdales and Percherons, earned many class wins as officials highlighted the northern government exhibit.
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Canada
United States
Chicago Stock Yards
Alberta
J. W. Lucas
Cayley
Wee Donald
Saskatchewan
Clydesgales
Dominion
Foolish Question About Missing Leggings
A clipped quip exchanges about a pair of leggings in a loose crew of a captain named Ike. Boston Mike notes that with about two hundred men all wearing leggings, finding a stray pair would not surprise anyone in the company.
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Boston
A Grievous Mistake at Jim Rose’s Boarding House
A note from the Exchange describes a humorous misstep by Jim Rose who cut a leg from his Sunday trousers to patch old ones. He sits with feverish temper, doing his own mending due to lack of a wife.
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Jim Rose
Blue Nose Nickname Origin in Sam Slick Tale
A Canadian character explains Nova Scotians are called Blue Noses from their famed potatoes. The line notes Americans gave the nickname due to the potato variety and high quality associated with Nova Scotia.
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Nova Scotia
Haliburton
Sam Slick
Nova
Railway Engine Tests On Coastline Line
A south coast railway company experiments with a new engine capable of moving sideways and forward, promising enhanced maneuverability for coastal routes.
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South Coast Railway Company
London Punch
God Be With Ye, A Parting Word In Everyday Speech
The column notes that goodbye derives from God be with ye though few think of it now. It jokes that even a butcher may hear the phrase in modern calls over the phone as shoppers forget items like lamb chops. The piece ends musing on enduring eating habits beyond language shifts.
Farm loans rise under War Finance Corporation program
Washington reports total agricultural loans under the Aug 24 amendment reach 90.57 million dollars with 15.83 million for cotton 1.98 million for grain 3.17 million for livestock and 8.88 million for other farm uses. Remaining loans approved but not yet paid total 5.21 million. Co operative associations receive 3.81 million without bank endorsement and livestock companies 2.28 million.
Chinaman Kills Bandit in El Paso Encounter
In El Paso Texas Gee Tong a Chinese truck gardener living in the eastern suburbs fired on masked armed intruder Elfran Ruiz who was attempting a robbery Ruiz was killed instantly Tong retreated to a rear room seized a rifle and fired as Ruiz pursued him across the yard and toward the fence```
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el Paso
Tex
Elfran Ruiz
Gee Tong
Juan Yung
Tong
Ruiz
Corn Is Still King In 1919 Farm Values
Washington reports corn leads twenty leading crops in value for 1919 with a figure of 3,507,707,102 dollars. The total value of the top crops nears 18,750,000,000 dollars with hay and forage, cotton and cotton seed, wheat and oats following.
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Washington
Census Bureau
New York Plans Germ Inoculation of City Rats
The New York city health department announced a program to inoculate a small portion of the rat population with a germ designed to kill them and spread to other rats. Officials say about six rats in the city’s 6,000,000 will be targeted as the project begins.
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New York
City Health Department
Three Bodies Recovered After Sta bler Hospital Fire
Three bodies were recovered from the ruins of the Sta bler hospital in Greenville Alabama after a blaze destroyed the three story building. The victims were in rooms on the top floor and could not escape the flames.
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Greenville
Ala
Stabler Hospital
Increase in Cadet Corps Proposed at West Point
Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, superintendent, proposes raising West Point cadets from 1334 to 2500. The annual report notes the academy can currently train only about one third of officers needed for a 150,000 man peacetime army and would not meet officer material needs in wartime.
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West Point
Ashington
West Point Military Academy
Douglas MacArthur
Twas Ward
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