Babe Ruth plays first game since reinstatement at Polo Grounds
Thousands pack New York Polo grounds to watch Babe Ruth after Commissioner Landis allows his return. He strikes out in the first game, then starts a home run streak in the following game as spectators note other local curiosities and ads fill the pages.
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St. Louis
Browns
New York
Yankees
Babe Ruth
Kenny Williams
Forest Park Highlands
Mississippi River
Shaw’s C Gurdens
W. T. Starvant
Huntinburg
Polo Grounds
Landis
King of Swart
Women to Enter High Seas Jobs in Civil Service Exam
SEA NOW CALLS TO WOMEN Modern girls may enter masculine sea work by taking competitive exams for the United States Civil Service Commission in Los Angeles. Open positions include junior engineer and deck officer with a $2,000 yearly stipend, lab and field aids in cotton breeding, pyro technic assistant, plant physiology aid, computer, and stenographer roles. Last listing notes a veterans’ bureau chauffeur role is men only.
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High Seas
United States Civil Service Commission
Federal
Los Angeles
Express
John Henry
Indian Service
Veterans’ Bureau
Not Easy to Kill Soldier and Hotel Rooms in War Reflections
The article weighs ammunition use in war, estimating three tons of metal per man killed and noting vast artillery barrages. It also surveys loneliness of hotel bedrooms for traveling salesmen, arguing Bibles in rooms aim to provide comfort amid isolation.
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Gideon
Nomad on Hale and the journalist’s duty to the New Testament
The Nomad in the Boston Transcript recalls Edward Everett Hale on religion and journalism. A Boston youth reporting Hale from Leipsic describes Hale’s guidance, stressing his view that American journalists need a strict impartial course of the New Testament.
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Nomad
Boston Transcript
Edward Everett Hale
Boston
Hile
Leipsie
Tam
Plum Office Inquiry at Statehouse
Deputy attorney general Dale Stansbury was approached by a nun asking for the plum office and where to get jobs. Stansbury directed her to the custodian's office, noting the nun appeared to know about jobs.
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Plum
Dale Stansbury
Statehouse
Mr. Stansbury
Stansbury
The
Inquirer
Indianapolia News
Commencement Exercises at the Immaculate Conception Academy
The program for the Commencement at St Ferdinand hall on Sunday June 11 includes violin and vocal solos, a class poem, alma mater, and address with diplomas by Rev Columban Thuis. Names of graduates and certificate recipients span Emma Boeglin Mary Hublar Thelma Holiday and others. awards for music and typing shown. The notice closes with unrelated paid ads and government brief items.
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Sisters of Stenedict
Board of Education
State of
Indiana
Academy of the Immaculate Conception
Ferdinand
St. Ferdinand Hall
Schenk
Thelma Holiday
M. Higgins
Columban Thuis
Emma Lee Boeglin
Mary Ellen Hublar
Almeda Mueller
Margaret Genung
Mary Catherine Habermil
Irma Schenk
Cecile Harris
Kathleen Leingang
Louise Ratterman
Audry Jacobi
Genevieve Collins
Local residents share visits across towns in Indiana and Kentucky
Mrs. Andy H. Bredhold and babies returned to Akron Ohio last Thursday. Families from Jasper Huntingburg St Henry and Owensboro visited relatives in the area over the weekend. Couples attended weddings and dances in Jasper and Corydon with trips to Louisville and Cincinnati noted.
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Andy H. Bredhold
Akron
Ohio
Ely's Cream Balm Promises Quick Catarrh Relief
Healings cream promises instant relief from nasal congestion and head colds. Apply a small amount into the nostrils to clear air passages and breathe easily, with claims of antiseptic action and germ destruction.
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Ely
Hamburg Breast Tea For Cold Relief
A small package remedy suggests taking a tablespoonful steeped in boiling water then strained and consumed as a teacup full any time of day or before bed. It claims to break a cold or grip by opening skin pores and relieving congestion while loosening bowels to expel the illness. The advertisement touts affordability and vegetable harmlessness.
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Hamburg
St Jacoby Oil Promises Quick Backache Relief
Advertising copy promotes a 35 cent bottle of St. Jacoby Oil for backache lumbago and rheumatic pain. It claims rapid relief by rubbing into the sore area with a note that the product is non burning and provides magical, honest relief.
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Honest St. Jacobs
St. Jacoby
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