Warning on Dust Explosions in Mills and Elevators
A United States Department of Agriculture bulletin reviews through 1919 dust explosions in flour mills cereal mills and grain elevators. Despite prior disasters the period from 1917 to 1919 saw fewer catastrophes due to improved preventive devices and careful operations amid ongoing risk.
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United States
Canada
Northwest
Bureau of Chemistry
United States Department of Agriculture
Nose Reattached After Skylight Collapse At Windsor Racetrack
Stable boy William Stobertson had his nose cut off when a skylight fell on him at Windsor. Surgeons reattached the nose after it was found in the stable straw. He was discharged days later and called it a miracle.
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London
King Edward Vid
Windsor
William Stobertson
King Edward VII Hospital
Robertson
Red Ink Not Blood Startles Injured Man at Harbor Hospital
Albert Fisimo burst into Harbor Emergency hospital in San Francisco claiming his arm bled. Dr A Friedman inspected the streaks and laughed, confirming the injuries were red ink from a mixing error with iodine while loading boxes on a wagon.
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San Francisco
Cal
Albert Fisimo
Harbor Emergency Hospital
A. Friedman
Fisimo
Yank Weds Escape Plotter In Minneapolis
James W. Shea of Grand Forks North Dakota, a U S soldier, married Mrs. Margaret Gentzke in the city clerk's office. Gentzke, 81, was convicted of treason in Germany for aiding Shea and others to escape Hun prisons and had just completed her sentence.
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Minneapolis
James W. Shea
Grand Forks
N. D
United States
Margaret Gentzke
Germany
Shea
Gentzke
Kaiser Kitchen Sent to Smithsonian as War Trophy
Washington reports that the field kitchen of Wilhelm II, late Kaiser of Germany, will join the Smithsonian collections. The elaborate kitchen, used behind the fronts, was loaded aboard a transport at St Nazaire, France, by German prisoners of war and is bound for Washington along with other war material.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Willam Hohenzollern
Kaiser
Germany
St. Nazaire
France
Indiana state board of pardons issues September report
The Indiana state board of pardons recommends pardons for three individuals, eighteen paroles, six sentence commutations, one ninety day parole, and clemency denial for thirty-one. Governor Goodrich receives the report from Muncie detailing September session actions.
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Indianapolis
State Board of Pardons
Goodrich
Woman Saved From An Operation In Wis
Mrs A W Bunzer of Black River Falls says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her from an operation after organic troubles left her bedridden and unable to work. Doctors in Eau Claire urged surgery but the remedy cured her, and she urges others with inflammation ulcers displacements backache nervousness and irregularities to try it and write for advice.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Eau Claire
Lydis E. Pinkham
A. W. Bunzer
Dr King's New Discovery Promoted For Colds Coughs
The ad touts Dr King's New Discovery as a proven remedy for cold or cough and related symptoms. It claims strong relief for croup and emphasizes decades of popularity and steady growth in use. Prices listed are 60c and 1.20 dollars at all druggists.
Dr King’s New Life Pills promote quick cleansing
An old time advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills to cleanse the system, improve liver function and bowel regularity, claiming quick, positive results for a strong healthy body. Available for 25 cents at all druggists. Try them tonight.
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Dr. King
Sloan's Liniment Promises Quick Relief for Aches
Advertises Sloan's Liniment as easing pains from rheumatic twinges to neuritis and lumbago. Claims quick relief, cleanliness, economy, and wide use with price points 35c 70c and 140.
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Sloan
Odd Tales and Advertisements of Daily Life
Excerpts reveal humorous quips about hair loss and manners, a health claim for Dr. Peery’s Dead Shot as a worm remedy, Mount Washington trip banter, and a Cuticura skincare routine ad plus a shoe joke. The piece blends satire, product pitches, and light social chat.
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Department of Agriculture
Middle West
South
Yank
Kaiser’s Kitchen
Corpus Christi
Tex
Ecsusnit. da
Corp Chriat
Indiana News
Muncie
Indiana
W. F. King
State Board of Health
Commercial Club
Doctor King
Wabash
St. Louis
America
James P. Goodrich
Grain Dealers
Evansville
Kentucky
Lawrenceburg
Meredith J. Sulllivan
John W. Clayton
Tri-State
Indiana Department of Conservation
Richard Lieber
Ilinois
Ohio
Washington, D. C
Mary L. Sears
Anderson
Martha J. Poorman
Saratoga
Esther McElwain
Winchester
Sophia Koch
Laporte
Sarah L. Jones
Twelve Mile
Sinan J. Gelmann
Josephine Hurley
Ewing
Hulda Haycock
Bethlehem
Sarah A. Fauber
Logansport
Theodoctn K E. St. Clair
Terre Haute
Maury A. McAllister
Tell City
Sarah C. Lank
Greencastle
Phebe A. Hall
Tippecanoe
Bertha A. Gilmore
Frankfort
Laura A. Blackburn
Decatur
Phoebe A. White
Brazil
Edith Canney
Bedford
Elizabeth Mineka
Columbia City
Margaret J. Richardson
Franklin
Catherine N. Wylie
Bloomington
Louverna Rease
Noansville
Anna M. Diehl
Elkhart
Jasper
Hammond
Lake County
Greensburg
James A. Burns
Alert
Indiana State Bank of
North Manchester
Goshen
Elkhart County
Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners
Elkhart Township
Allen BR. Bemendorfer
United States Army
Marty Y Smith
Richmond
Newcastle
Mitchison
Colfax
Lebanon
Wilbur Wubbard
Ruth Tabbard
Charles Hubbard
Wilbur Habbard
Wubbard
State Board of Tax Commmnissiones
L. A H. Wright
State Highway Commission
Wright
The
American Legion
Vincennes
Minn
Legion
Indiana W. Co, T U
Taffayette
Purdue University
Chicago
South Dakota
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dr. Peery
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Mount Washington
Granada
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