Red Cross Efforts Highlight WWI Aid Across Europe
The article details American Red Cross activities in England France Italy and Belgium. It notes hospital care at Salis bury and Dartford, Christmas rolls calls, Queen Elizabeth’s aid to patients, and support for orphans in Verona. It also cites canteens on the Italian front serving thousands daily and shoemaking for Belgian children at Limoges.
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American Red Cross
England
Salisbury
Southampton
King George
Queen Mary
Princess Mary
Dartford
London
Queen Elizabeth
Belgium
Verona
Italy
le Wavre
Limoges
Red Cross
France
le Harve
Department of Civil Affairs
Made by an Artist in Furs in Two-in-One Cape-Coatee Style
An article on a luxurious fur cape-coatee that blends cape and coat elements using Hudson seal. It describes the wrap’s design, the attached fur scarf, and the melon-shaped muff, noting variations with squirrel and other pelts. It highlights versatility for different climates and fashion of the season.
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Cnpe
Hudson Keal
Broadrall
Mole
Kolinsky
How to Sew a Double Decker Bag With Ribbon
A Christmas gift idea using two yards of dress ribbon and an embroidery hoop. Cut cardboard rounds the hoop size for bag bottoms, pad with cotton, cover with ribbon, divide ribbon halves and sew. Attach one half to a cardboard round and fix to the hoop rim. repeat for the top, sewing the bottom inside the hoop.
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Aix
Dressup Frocks Fashion Notes for Evening Gowns
A simple dinner gown may use black malines lace and black net over white English embroidery. A dark green charmecuse frock with long sleeves and narrow draped skirt needs no trimming. A pale pink batiste frock should be trimmed with filet lace and blue tingel cloth with gold threads.
Tom Brattle Finds Love Through Harsh Tongue and Deception
In a 1918 era workplace tale, Tom Brattle climbs the Universal Chopping Bowl sales ladder by talking fast. He schemes to hire Mrs. Dawson as a high‑priority telephone operator, moves to woo her, and faces fallout when she turns out to be Bill Dawson’s wife. The ruse backfires as romance blooms unexpectedly.
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Tom Brattle
Universal Chopping Bowl Company
Tom
Caracerno
Dawson
Mrs. Dawson
Yom
Mr. Dawson
Agency
Pam
Young Dawson
Billy
Nora
BI Dawson
Bill Dawson
Bill
Vou
Hans
How It Came About Winter Siege Tale
An old soldier recalls a dire winter siege with extreme hunger. Pat O Arlen confirms a single bite daily for weeks, claiming a leg injury yielded a bite, and an insurance lapse left him under the same strain. The dialogue mixes grim exaggeration with survivor bravado, underscoring hardship.
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Pat O' Arlen
Pat
Shell-Shock Experts Graduate From Smith College
Sixty five young women graduate from the Training School for Psychiatric Local Work at Smith College Northampton Mass and are styled shell-shock experts. They will go to clinics in New York and Boston to begin statthuntics peauetical work with dervun patients.
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Smith College
Northampton
Mass
New York
Boston
Low Meat Prices and Cattle Costs in Swift & Company Analysis
The piece argues that low consumer meat prices harm cattle producers and that packers must minimize processing costs to keep meat affordable. It explains how if farm cattle magically became meat, farmer earnings would increase little while consumer prices would drop little, highlighting Swift & Company’s role in distributing meat and by products nationwide.
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Swift & Company
Harold's Dinner Table Mirth Turns Missing Chicken
A friend’s dinner tale recalls Harold mishearing a remark about leaving chicken. He asserts someone named Smith took manners and all, sparking humor at the table.
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Harold
Smith
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Promoted in Ad Cake
Purported doctors advertise Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure kidney liver and bladder remedy. The ad claims safety of ingredients and urges readers to send ten cents for a sample while noting bottles come in two sizes and are sold at drug stores. A commentary aside humorously notes political chatter and a jibe about graduation customs.
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Kilmer
Dr. ‘Imer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Not Frederick Signatures Hint at Pressure in Deed Case
A lawyer questions a florid woman about signing a deed and asks if her husband consented. The woman challenges him and seeks the husband, Frederick, to confirm whether coercion occurred, while a small, quiet man sits nearby.
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Frederick
Erederick
Important to Mothers Castoria warning echoes in old remedy ad
At a party a man mistakes a stranger for his wife and jokes about errors of identity. The column recalls the signature claim of Castoria as a remedy for children and notes the exchange as a humorous aside from the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Fletcher
Owas
Bhim
Louisville Courier-Journal
Hall's Catarrh Medicine and a Football Farewell
A misfired OCR snippet touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh and mentions long standing druggist sales. It also contains a casual, unrelated sports quip about a man kicking versus football growth and a brief, unclear quote about Wimsy and a comeback.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
United States
U.S. A
Hall
Chang & Go
Toledo
Oblo
Wimsy
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