Coast and Geodetic Survey extends Key West drag work
The United States coast and geodetic survey seeks extension of wire drag surveys west of Key West. Naval base and port importance justify systematic examination of channels from Man Key to Marquesas Key and toward Dry Tortugas. Depths show 28 feet on charts but shoals reach 22 feet.
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Key West
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Davy Department
West Channel
Man Key
Marquesas Key
Proper Course for a Briton Internment Dilemma
A Briton regrets patriotism and plans to intern Germans as a proper act. A humor tone surfaces as a high roller, broke and amused, contemplates women and the odd social pressures surrounding wartime policy.
Soldiers Who Wear Veil and Goggles in Desert Campaign
In German Southwest Africa General Botha’s expedition faces a sun scorched desert. Troops haul all supply with no local fodder, while veils and goggles shield eyes from the heat. Midday temperatures reach 122 degrees, pushing many Boer soldiers to hospital.
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German Southwest Africa
Rotha
Botha
Lower at the Top in a French Hotel
An American traveler returns from a tour and enters a French town hotel near Paris. He is shown top floor rooms at five francs a day and chooses a comfortable, inexpensive lodging. An acquaintance jokes that basement rooms would cost more, highlighting the hotel’s price disparity.
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Paris
France
Everybody's Magazine
Oh That Lash Comedy Helps Tommy’s View on Fatherhood
A short vignette features Tommy watching a ringmaster wield a whip. He comments that the whipmaker’s job would not suit him, humorously revealing his view on his own father.
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Tommy
Lucky Sayings Echo Old Western Woes
A terse exchange ties luck and danger as a character muses on fame and marriage. The dialogue hints at perilous fates and widowed legacies, reflecting frontier hardship and fate. Maud is referenced, suggesting a story of risk, luck, and mortality in a bygone era.
Supposed Children Haunt a Couple in a Lurid Vision
A young couple confronts a provocative question of children and inheritance as a Gossip presses the Mother about tuberculosis in three generations. The Girl, listening in another room, envisions a stark beach scene where thousands of naked children are scourged by a Great hand, symbolizing doomed offspring due to inherited disease, while the Dream Spirit warns of life burdened by heritable illness.
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Ltne
Mar
But No Woman May Bring An Immoral Soul To Life
The Girl battles a whispered warning from The Gossip about having children before marriage. Faced with haunting thoughts of inherited disease and doomed babies, she confronts the choice with The Man. Together they decide the only right action is to refuse pregnancy and end the plan for their wedding.
Simpler Vermin Control for Soldiers Suggested in War Time
A French Academy of Medicine member proposes a warm weather method to rid uniforms of vermin. Instead of gasoline or kerosene rubbed into seams, the recommended approach involves removing clothing for treatment, aiming to reduce infestation efficiently.
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French Academy of Medicine
William Penn Chairs Restored by Blind Women
Two chairs once owned by William Penn, kept in Independence Hall, were repaired by two blind women from the Pennsylvania Industrial Home for Blind Women. Cane bottoms, cracked over years, were replaced with careful work in Congress Hall, preserving the relics without moving them.
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William Penn
Philadelphia Ledger
Pennsylvania Industrial Home For
Independence Hall
Congress Hall
Miss Ira Frost
William Peon
Soap and Ointment Promote Quick Healment
An advertisement extols a soap to cleanse and purify and an ointment to soothe and heal. It pledges relief rest and sleep and speedy complete healment in most cases for young and old even after other remedies fail. Sample by mail with Book Send postcard to Cuttcura Dept XY Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Cuttcura
Dept. XY
Boston
Reforming the Village Drunkard and Local Figures
A Kansas City Star quips on reforming various village personas. J Fuller Gloom of Sniffel s Mo mocks that many familiar local roles from the town drunkard to the gossip, the poet and preacher would benefit from a change of heart.
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J. Fuller
Kansas City Star
Fragmented ad copy and stray quotes in 1920s style
A jumble of quotations and ad lines includes a London baronetcy remark about resignation not being possible, a cryptic handwritten reminder about reading and writing, an Eph Wiley quip on streetcar conductors, and product ads for Red Cross Ball Blue and Marine Eye Remedy Co. Some lines read as social commentary on marriages and appearance.
Women in Cleveland and Hanover Say Lydia Pinkham Helped
Cleveland Ohio and Hanover Pennsylvania women report relief from years of pain and fears of surgery after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They credit the remedy with restoring regular cycles and energy enabling them to work and feel well again.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
C. H. Garrrits
Conntans Bt
Hanover
Pope Ava Wilt
Walnut St
Lydia E. Plakham
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McNeill & Libby
Chicago
Jim
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Folk
CSSIM
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Mlage
Cuthura
London
Eye Comfort
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Eph Wiley
Red Cross
Lydiam
Daisy Fly Killer
N. Y
Cincinnati
Fletcher
Oney
Castoria
Bengt Ee
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