Comrade Searles Visits San Gabriel Mission Sketches
Comrade Searles of Sawtelle Soldiers' Home, aged ninety-one, recalls past visits to the San Gabriel mission after traveling by trolley. He sketches the campanile, the mission stairway worn by Indian neophytes, and the Old Grapevine, praising his enduring memory and vigor.
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Sawtelle
Sap Gabriel
San Gabriel
King’s Highway
Mission
State House
Philadelphia
California
Los Angeles Times
Bear Traps For Burglars In Brooklyn Home
A Williamsburg resident, after ten burglaries, set a bear trap inside a window and caught one burglar. The incident, reported by the New York Herald, suggests the crook will not repeat crimes. The piece notes traps are dangerous for residents and pets and warns against widespread trapping.
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Cogan
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Enright
New York Herald
Dail
Electrified farming spreads in Sweden powered by water
About a third of Sweden’s farmland now uses electricity for power. Farmers ask about electric plows and harrows while electric saws lift hay and grain. Officials predict rapid shift to an electrical basis with power from large and small water-power sources. A Chicago Evening Post tip suggests American farmers could copy the approach.
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Sweden
Harge
Chicago
Dunn insists on jury trial for minor injury case
Mr. Dunn stands in court with bandaged head after a disturbance, refuses to plead guilty and asks for a jury trial. He recalls being attacked near the corner, then waking to doctors sewing him up and seeks witnesses to learn what he allegedly called the aggressor.
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Mr. Dunn
Not If He Can Help It Old Tea Was Colored Janitor
A Philadelphia area story recalls a colored janitor nicknamed Old Tea for his slow shuffle. He is described as not really old, but his tired gait and phonograph listening lead to the label. He declares he will never tire, while dragging himself up stairs under his employer’s questioning.
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Tom
Indianapolis News
Farm Telephones Lead Census Counts Across Nations
The census counted farm telephones in the United States on January 1, 1920, totaling 2,508,002. In most other countries excluding Canada, farm telephones are rare. Several U S agricultural states have more farm telephones than Italy’s entire territory, including Rome Milan and Naples.
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Bureau of the Census
United States
Canada
Italy
Rome
Milan
Naples
Outlook Encouraging Amid East West War Finance Readings
Eugene Myer of the War Finance Corporation reports a hopeful national mood after a six week tour. He cites better crop prospects, reopening mines in Utah Montana and Arizona, and resumed railroad building in the Southwest. Farmers will buy cautiously while prices and labor stabilize with easier credit and improving business conditions in Ferdinand and beyond.
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East
Eugene Myer
War Finance Corporation
West
Utah
Montana
Arizona
Southwest
Myers
Ferdinand
Quality Printing Promise Promotes Better Business
An ad touts superior printing as a measure of business quality. It argues pale or messy prints harm reputation, while well crafted stationery conveys reliability. The firm offers affordable handbills and color letterheads and claims to deliver good work with skilled equipment and know how.
Backache and Kidney Woes Promoted By Meat Diet
An article urges relief for sluggish kidneys using four ounces of Rad Salts daily to flush waste and neutralize urine acids. It warns of backache headaches dizzy spells and rheumatic twinges from meat overconsumption and cites Jad Salts as a safe inexpensive remedy. It notes Wesley Ahring of Santa Claus was in town Tuesday.
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Wesley Ahring
Santa Claus
Odd freak of nature and Paderewski admiration both noted
A fragmentary article discusses a two legged animal at an Oregon hospital and praises pianist Paderewski for extraordinary endurance. It references Port Feuge Durylian Fort Garry and quotes Harold Bauer in Etude on Paderewski’s work ethic and tone range.
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Animal Hospital
Porthnd
Ore
Coleburne
Port Feuge
Paderewski
Tewis
Brard’s
Poland
Harold Bauer
Athletic Girl Star Sets Hurdles Record in Philly Meet
Dorothy Plough, noted as an athletic star, ran the 100 yard dash in ten seconds at a Philadelphia meet tying the women's record. An infection in her right leg had required amputation two months earlier. Dr. M. H. Ross of Los Angeles is named as the owner of the hen.
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Dorothy Plough
Philadelphia
Lere
M. H. Ross
Los Angeles
Academy of the Immaculate Conception Ferdinand Indiana
The Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand Indiana is a boarding and day school for girls run by the Sisters of St. Benedict. It is commissioned by Indiana's Board of Education to confer all rights of commissioned high schools and offers music and art programs with emphasis on physical health knowledge cultured manners and moral training. For particulars write Sister Superior.
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Sisters of St. Benedict
Board of Education
State of
Indiana
Academy of the Immaculate Conception
Ferdinand
Social notes from Ferdinand area visitors and travels
Local residents from Louisville Jasper Evansville and surrounding towns gathered Friday to Sunday for visits and trips. Names include Ed Schilevel Mrs Schilevel and Dr Guysell at Siberia Birdseye Huntingburg Ferdinand Danville Danville Keust Werne clusters.
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Ed Schilevel
Louisville
Guyssell
Henry Bromm
Mary Schwoeppe
Albert Weaver
Guysell
Siberia
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