Tradesmen Needed in Signal Corps for War Effort
Recruitment notice calls for signal corps tradesmen and skilled laborers. It lists qualifications across radio, telephone, telegraph, carpentry, blacksmithing, cooks, stenographers, and more, with postings for training, distribution to camps, and eventual service in France.
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Signal Corps
Prem
Washington
Brera
Althuaeh
Binvicsnitthes
Sobblers
Piet Leavenworth
Kew
France
de Améttan Litrary Association
Fonds
Pasoeiation
Associaton
Wood Growth in Trees Through Different Growth Phases
The text explains that wood grows lengthwise in the first year, then adds thickness yearly while longitudinal growth slows, with length increasing by only a few twigs each subsequent year.
Duryea War Relief Head Seeks Perpetual Fund
Mrs Nina Larre Duryea of New York leads the Duryea War Relief in France and after the war aims to raise funds for a perpetual program. She highlights the relief’s impact including clothing for 600 refugees 41 soldiers 56 prisoners 914 women 14 850 wounded and 32 000 dressings sent to hospitals.
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Nina Larre Duryea
New York
Duryea War Relief
France
Wax
Paris
Duryea Relief
Duryea
Deep Breathing and Health Claims From Montclair Garage Sign
Fragmentary OCR shows an ad like note warning about deep breathing and air inhalation touted at a Montclair garage. It discusses saccharine concerns linked to digestion and cancer and mentions general caution with diabetics and infants, though no clear medical consensus.
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Montclair
Use of Coffee Grounds in Garden Fertilizer
Popular Science Monthly endorses disposing coffee grounds into sinks or gardens. Grounds carry valuable fertilizing nutrients including nitrogen potassium and phosphorus. The note closes with a reflection on noble deed consciousness.
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Saya
Popular Science Monthly
Doing Things Well in Mil walker Evening Wisconsin
A reprint discusses a saying that all worth doing is worth doing well, contrasting older standards with modern reluctance to correct mistakes and accept criticism. It notes tavern smoking history, censoring, and liberal shifts, citing Dutch visitors in Harvard College in 1079 who remarked on the smoky atmosphere.
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Milwalker Evening
Wisconsin
Meril
Lnn
Harvard College
Ingro wing Toenail and Other Odd Medical Tips
A miscellany of health notes and humorous quotes touches on ingrown toenails and self treatment myths, Bright disease causes, rigid living, courtroom wit, Pyrenees wealth prospects, a Kansas City boy’s notoriety, a hookworm description, and a drowning rescuer joke.
Tramp Printers Land in Prison
An appeal to guards by Uncle Jim to rescue disgraced tramp printers ends in jeers until the superintendent finally discovers them after three months of servitude.
Canary Alights On Woman Hat In City Mischief
Chienen Ilde a canary bird perched on Mrs. Lewis Brock's fur hat at 6862 Cornell Ave. The tale shifts to Gus and Bill, tramp printers in a boxcar bound for nowhere, waking near a Pontiac reformatory guard and entering a factory amid a murky, uncertain odor of an unfamiliar shop.
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Chicago
Mike
Gus
Bill
Bil
Pontiac Reformatory
Parlor Bird Imposter Replaces Mike as Pet
Mrs. Brock recalls buying a new bird after the original, Mike, was dug up and stuffed. The scene unfolds with a misrouted ride, a lost bird in the draperies, and a plan to replace Mike with the new pet in the home parlor. Mrs. Brock gained attention last year for caring for Marjorie Delbridge, the white child raised by Mammy Jackson.
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Mike
Gus and Bill Win Freedom From Chicago Prison Case
Two unemployed ex prisoners Gus and Bill, once in a Pontiac reformatory chair factory, spend months challenging their detention. They move from guard cells to a prison print shop where Uncle Jim Maddigan, a renowned Chicago printer, helps secure their liberty as legal proceedings finally resolve in their favor.
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Gus
Bill
Jim
Maddigan
Uncle Jim
Chicago
Wheels of Justice
Watch Recovered After Laundry Run At Fort Sam Houston
ASan Antonio watch was left in a shirt pocket and sent through the Fort Sam Houston post laundry. An employee felt a bulge in the pocket just before washing, saving the item from being ruined. The owner retrieved the watch unharmed and still keeping perfect time.
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San Antonio
Tex
Fort Sam Houston
West Virginia man blocks road with gun in pursuit of girlfriend
Lee Brown of Howesville pulled a gun and stole his rival’s girlfriend Miss Anna Howard after blocking the road with his car. Brown seized the woman as she rode with Hunter Perris and another couple, then fled in his machine. He was later arrested and fined by Magistrate W. M. Murdock for carrying concealed weapons.
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Kingwood
W. Va
Lee Brown
Howesville
Here
Brown
W. M. Murdock
Anna Howard
Hunter Perris
Aged man digs own grave. Nebraska man dies in fall
Rising City Nebraska residents recount Prank Krenk age seventy five who with son in law Joseph Barcal finished digging a grave in the National cemetery and, while removing supports, fell head first into a ten foot deep hole and broke his neck dying at once. He was buried in the grave he prepared.
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Neb
Krenk
Able
Joseph Barcal
National
YEA BO COLLEGE FOR HOBOES LATEST
The International Hobo College Board plans a college for hoboes in Cincinnati to uplift the unemployed. James Eads Howe of St Louis, a millionaire, is among the incorporators. The school aims to provide literary and educational work and to develop their mental moral and spiritual forces.
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Cincinnati
International Hobo College Board
James Eads Howe
St. Louis
Ingenuity in Omer Man Sparks Backward Kitchen Floor Suit
Omer Mich Eliphalet Jones builds a slanted kitchen floor so his one leg longer wife can walk without limping. Now Mrs. Jones sues for divorce alleging the floor forces her to walk backward from sink to stove.
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Omer
Mich
Eliphalet Jones
Bread and Newspapers in Hard Times
An old echo of thrift with Oliver Wendell Holmes urging bread and the newspaper as essentials. A boy named Buddy notices two handled cups, a gag hinting at practical jokes amid scarcity.
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Leutenant
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Asks Square Deal For Soldiers Returning From War
Clavel reports on demands for fair treatment of returning soldiers. Business leaders urged jobs and real chances, not hollow gestures, citing Britain and Canada where veterans faced equal opportunity. Also notes other items: fumes incapacitating 25 at a Youngstown party and various Ohio news items from Farm Institutes to divorces and smallpox data.
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Corkburn
Great Britain
Canada
Toronto
Youngstawr
Sharon
Hubbard
Youngstown
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OAMI
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Staten
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Brn
Merion
Ermuler
Allen Etotus
Porto Tien
United States
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Belen
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Italy
Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Labor
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Ikely
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Department of
Tater
Benne
Cuba
Sandlinn
Providence
Atlants Constitution
Holy Land
Weils Sad
Sinai Desert
Gaza
Egypt
Jerusalem
RED Cross
American Red Cross
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Marne
Polly
Bhen
Peple
Bright
Diplor Tic
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Pyrenees
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K. Cc
Mniman
Kansas City
Atchison Globe
Lill
Kheir
Ron
Bo! College For
Buddy
Square
Clavel
Ross
Cloveand Rotary Club
Plan Farm Institutes
Cleveland
Farmers Institute
F. L. Alen
Clark S. Wheeler
Oho State University Agricultural Extension Service
Wheeler
Independence Institute
Sandusky
Erie County Bar Association
Columbus
Ohio
State Department of Health
Department
Shelby County
Nore
New York Central
Colombus Avenue
Harry Hill August Reimenschneider
Uncle Sam
Canton
Charles E. Davis
Wells Avenge
South Draft Board
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Frederick Perkins
Hishtyrlird
Glenn
Dayton
Gus Mielke
Dayton Gas Co
Mary
Bettef
Henry Thomas Loomis
Loomis
West Williamsfield
P. R. Spencer
BE. A. Felton
Spencerian Commercial School
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