Bird Club Has 700 Boarders In New York City
Virginia Pope runs the largest boarding house in town at 130 West Sixty-fifth Street housing a menagerie of 700 and counting. The club greets visitors with lively talk, music, and clever birds, including a Mexican yellow head parrot worth thousands and a rose-tinted cockatoo named Coco. The facility, active year round, cares for sick birds, teaches table manners, and features an ambulance and a hospital for avian patients.
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New York
New York City
Virginia Pope
Bird Club
West Sixty-fifth Street
Bird
Yankee Doodle
Polly
Georgia
France
Coco
Miss Pope
Canaries
Polly Shapard
Mates
Abe
Bob
England
Margaret Anglin
Animal League
Buffalo
Boston
Philadelphia
A Man a Maid and a Motor a chance meeting on a lonely road
Phyllis Deane, stranded on a dark road eight miles from anywhere, encounters John Harbord who stops to help. She hides, but he fixes the car and reveals he just returned from the west. He asks for a lift, and they ride together as the night leads to mutual curiosity and growing tension.
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Phyllis Deane
Phyllis
Aunt Mary's
Phyllia
Harbord
John Harbord
Judge Harbord
West
John
Carrying cash harms credit and fuels crime say experts
Baltimore Sun reports J H Tregoe and Morningstar of credit associations urge Americans to stop carrying wads of cash. They advocate using banks and checks to reduce currency in circulation, noting workingmen also keep cash on hand for purchases like planes and diamond rings, inviting theft risk.
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National Credit
J. H. Tregoe
National Association of Credit Men
Baltimore
Morningstar
Credit Men’s Association of
Baltimore Sun
Mangoes Cultivation Showcased by U S Department Field Station
The Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the Department of Agriculture, working with British East Indian departments, has assembled a vast mango collection. At Miami Florida’s plant introduction field station about twenty varieties bear fruit this year from over seventy sorts. Some are nearly fiberless like freestone peaches and can be eaten with a spoon. The mango tree, when bearing, is a spectacular long lived sight with yellow fruits in clusters beneath dark green leaves.
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Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction
United States Department of Agriculture
Wanamaker Celebrates 82nd Birthday Quietly
John Wanamaker marked his eighty second birthday at Rodman Wanamaker’s Chelsea Pennsylvania cottage. He spoke of aging, noting birthdays come rapidly as years increase and that a man grows to value friends more with time. The Boston Post reported the observation.
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John Wanamaker
Rodman Wanamaker
Chelsea
A Thorough Enthusiast and the Votes for Women Asked
Mr Meekton and Leonidas discuss the pending votes for women. They worry that woman voters may still allow many men to win office, repeating past patterns despite expectations of progress.
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Henrietta
Mr. Meekton
Leonidas
Corns Lift Right Off Without Pain Says Freezone Ad
A Baltimore American quip promotes Freezone as a quick corn remover with a tiny bottle sold by druggists. It claims immediate relief from hard and soft corns and corns between toes without soreness. Also notes indigestion symptoms and a Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills ad reference, plus a Hamlet joke.
Catarrh Cure Promoted by Hall's Medicine
Catarrh is a constitutional disease requiring treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and claims to act through the blood on mucous surfaces. It is advertised to destroy the disease's foundation and improve overall health. Circulars free from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Women who wear tight shoes have narrow soles.
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Hall
Nature
F. J. Chaney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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