Red Cross Efforts Across Frontline Hospitals and Homes
The article highlights American Red Cross activities in England France and Italy. It notes a 186 acre Salis bury farm hospital, King George and the royal visit to Dartford, and the Christmas roll call. It reports the Queen's Purse fund aiding Belgian war victims, Verona orphanage support for ten infants and twenty toddlers, and 65 decorations among ambulance service workers. It also mentions extensive Red Cross canteens in Italy serving fifteen thousand men daily and shoemaking for Belgian children in Limoges.
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American Red Cross
England
Salisbury
Southampton
King George
Queen Mary
Princess Mary
Dartford
London
Royal Visitors
Queen Elizabeth
Belgium
Verona
Italy
le Wavre
Limoges
Red Cross
France
le Harve
Department of Civil Affairs
Made by an artist in furs cape and wrap trend report
A fashion piece describes a fur cape coat and matching muff, highlighting Trudson seal and other pelts like squirrel and mole. The design blends cape and coat lines with a narrow scarf detail, showing versatility for mild days and luxury for formal wear.
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Mole
Kolinsky
Christmas gift bag from Dresden ribbon and embroidery hoop
Use two yards of Dres den ribbon six and one half inches wide and an embroidery hoop to craft a double decker bag. Cut cardboard bottoms, pad with cotton, wrap with ribbon, divide ribbon, sew to cardboard rounds, and attach to the hoop rims.
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Dresden
Dressup Frocks for Dinner Gowns
A charming simple dinner gown may be made of black mulines lace and black net over white English embroidery. A dark green charmeuse frock with long sleeves and a narrow draped skirt needs no trimming. A pale pink batiste frock should be trimmed with filet lace and girdled with blue thusel croth, gleaming with gold and silver threads.
Tom the Talker and the Dawsons Switchboard Scheme
Tom Brattle a fast talking sales chief schemes to hire a Dawson family wife as a switchboard operator. His plan backfires when Mrs. Dawson turns out to be Nora Bills wife and Tom realizes his love was for a married woman. His tongue falters as happiness finally arrives.
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Tom Brattle
Universal Chopping Bowl
Tom
Torm
Dawson
Tan
Miss Dawson
Dawsons
Mrs. Dawson
Mr. Dawson
Agency
Young Dawson
Billy
Nora
Bill Dawson
Bill
Bills
How It Came About
In a shabby tale two old soldiers recall a brutal winter. One says they survived on horse flesh for two weeks while the other claims living a month on a bite from his own leg after a dog injured him. The exchange grows heated as they debate the plausibility of cannibalism.
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Pat O'Brien
Pat
Shell Shock Experts Graduate From Smith College
Sixty five young women graduate from the Trained School for Psychiatric Social Work at Smith College in Northampton Mass and are styled shell shock experts. They will go to clinics in New York Boston and other cities to begin six months practical work with gerous patients.
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Traintie School For Psychiatric Social Work
Smith College
Northampton
Mass
New York
Boston
Meat Prices and Packers Profit In Beef Trade
An analysis from Swift & Company explains that low consumer meat prices suppress demand and high farm prices hurt supply. It argues packers profit mainly from processing efficiency and logistics, with farmers receiving only a small share per pound.
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Swift & Company
United States
Harolds Dinner Table Manners Mix Up
A child Harold is told to wait for space at a dinner. He notices a dish of chicken and whispers that there may be no chicken. His mother reassures there will be some left for manners. A man reaches for the last piece and Harold laments that Mr. Smith took manners and all.
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Harold
Jeff
Mr. Smith
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Promises Purity and Relief
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure kidney liver and bladder remedy made from vegetable herbs with no stimulant. It claims tested purity and offers sample bottles by mail and two bottle sizes at drug stores.
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Kilmer
Dr. Jimer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Not Frederick Compulsion Question Sparks Drama
A lawyer questions a florid woman about signing a deed, insisting there was no compulsion from her husband. The scene shifts to a meek man beside her as she asks to see Frederick and to be compelled, revealing tense family dynamics.
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Frederick
Castoria Signatures Stir Party Slip Leads to Humorous Mixup
At a party a man mistook a guest for his wife and joked about misidentifying a son by the ear. The moment prompted lighthearted banter as the speaker apologizes and comforts the embarrassed partygoer. The scene reflects a small social gaffe reported in the Louisville Courier Journal.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claim
An old ad offers 100 dollars for any case of data that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It claims internal action through the blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over forty years with testimonials free. J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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HALL
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Like Producing Like and Combacks in Football Talk
Fragmentary advertising style prose discusses a send off for Jimsy and a promised comeback. It mentions a nighttime remedy Roman Eyo Gaisam and makes casual remarks about kicking, running, wine, and a person named LACORS. The passage is muddled and reads as a mixed snippet from a 1910s era newspaper item.
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Jimsy
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Talker
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Mothora
Fletcher
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