Speedway Notes and Mother's Day at Speedway Hospital
The Medical Library at Speedway hosts a new pool area and Dr Hooper visits from the Marine Hospital. Mother's Day activities include flowers and postcards for every patient, courtesy of G Wooking and the Sixth District Federation of Women's Clubs. Veterans of Foreign Wars will sell ponples at the Gold Bunr Mothers Carnival in Grant Wark, Chicago to aid sick and disabled veterans. John Henry Hayes visits Chicago, enjoys luncheon, and plans to join Dr Stevie Smid. Dr Smith offers guidance on Opiphant Ave amid lively anecdotes about the race and familiar names. Dempsey Carpentier fight photos shown. Forest Bark women assist Hospitalization Day as seventy-five men attend a banco party.
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Bypeedway
G. Wooking
Federation of Women's Clubs
Grant Wark
Chicago
Young Marjory Questions Eve The Apple Story
Five year old Marjory after hearing Eve and the apple remarks that the trouble was the tree wasn’t sprayed and Eve should not have eaten from a tree that wasn’t sprayed. She adds you never can tell what will happen. Boston Transcript.
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Marjory
Eve
Miya Smitth
Doston Transcript
Pralee of the Pitiful Quote on Peace and Pity
A fragment quotes Francis Paget noting there is no true peace without active pity. The speaker believes the lowly effort to ease others' misery brings a happier temper of mind and work.
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Francis Paget
Freckle Remedies and the Beauty Myth
This column reviews the craze for freckle removal products like Smiths Freckle Cream and Jones Freckle Lotion, lampooning miracle claims and warning that most remedies fail to remove freckles. It notes misleading ads, patient disappointment, and attempts with home treatments, ending with a reflection on the social fixation with freckles and beauty.
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Agnew
Ayrea
Mary Pickford
Gloria Swingom
Aschers Week Offers Vaudeville and Film Attractions
Grace Orma billed as the funniest string bean in vaudeville headlines Monday through Wednesday. Norma Talmadge stars in Smilin Through in an eight reel feature. Thursday and Friday present Charlie Chaplin in Pay Day and Gareth Hughes in Don’t Write Letters with four vod-a-vite acts. Saturday May 20 features Dorothy Dal- in another arrangement.
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Charlie Chaplin
Gareth Hughes
Dorothy Dalton
Grace Orma
Norma ‘Falmadge
Charlie Chapin
Garreth Hughes
Dorothy Dal
Thrift Atralm Actor Plans Championship Turnaround
An actor in town learns a Broadway hotel worker claims a rival is champion due to small tips. The actor vows to seize the title by defeating him.
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Atralm
Tiahtwad
Tragedy Ends Youthful Love in Chicago Journal Tale
A Chicago Journal fragment recounts a youth romance ending in tragedy when a ring given at age eight was sought by the lover’s mother. The ring’s seizure and an implied subsequent act end the first love affair in a cautionary note from the era.
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Bho
Johnny
Chicago Journal
Proof to the Contrary in a Lively Medical Snippet
An odd transcript notes yawning tied to air supply deficiency in the lungs and mentions a physician’s view while a speaker jokes about “pumping hot ale.” The brief appears to reflect early medical speculation and casual commentary on breathing and yawning.
Radio Receiving Set Offered From Speed Construction Co
Complete home radio kit with audtion bulb battery and phoner installed for fifty dollars. Speed Construction Co 205 Elgin Avenue Forest Park F P 1329 W offers am diodes condensers and more information available by phone.
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Speed Construction Co
Elgin Avenue
Forest Park
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Omcer
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Dental Department
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Banco
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Bartling
Madison Street
Forest Park, Ill
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Smith
Mabel Normand
United Staton Gates
G George H. Bisse
Benjamin Silva
Yale
Edwin L. Drake
Titusville
Ascher’s Forest Park Theatre
Colleen Moore
Norma Talmadge
Delea & Orma
Ascher's
Radio—Radio—Radio
S. Berliner
Desplaines Avenue
Roosevelt Road
Thanater
Hertul
Symonds Inn
Strdard
Cascara
Gale
United Drug Co
Jayne
Rexall
Olnger
RAIR
Feam
Tures
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Liggett’s Chocolates
All
Liggett’s
Opeka
Formosa
Florence J
Lord Talth
Sie Nichols Bir
Sde Viva
Don
Cascade Linen
Blandhard
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