50 000 Sacks Of Paddy Saved For Rice Flour
California millers last week began grinding 450 000 sacks of damaged paddy into rice flour for export after a grain corporation tip. The salvage could total 1 000 000 to 1 200 000 for growers. Export demand grows. Scandinavia leads, with Africa, Chile and Cuba supplementing. Local dealers worry about home needs due to heavy foreign buying.
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San Francisco
Grain Corporation
California
Scandinavia
Africa
Chile
Cuba
How Thin Folks Can Put On Flesh
If you are weak and emaciated and cannot gain weight, send to Geo. A. Gorgas for Iron Phosphate a three weeks treatment. If after three weeks you are not stronger, your eyes brighter, nerves steadier, sleep better, or have not gained several pounds, you can get your money back. Blood Iron Phosphate sold only in original three week packages at $1.50 per package, 50 cents a week.
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Geo. A. Gorgas
Gorgas
N. 3Rd St
Third
Walnut Sts
Penna. R. Station
Natonex
North Third Street
Wendell's Ambition Pills Promise Quick Nervousness Relief
An advertisement offers Wendell's Ambition Pills as a quick remedy for tiredness nervousness and low spirits with a money back guarantee. It claims benefits for overwork too much drinking or smoking and various nervous system issues including insomnia loss of appetite and exhaustion.
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Wendell
Lawsuit Ages Highlight Historic Court Delays
A London Tid-Bits note compares the Rhodesian mining rights case in the Lords to famed protracted suits. The Thellusion will case ran 1757 to 1857, the Bishop Demetra will case lasted 122 years, and in 1908 Friemar settled a 478 year dam case.
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London
House of Lords
Thellusion
Demetra
Friemar
Thirty Children of One Negro Family Aiding War Effort
A Daily Express report highlights John Ward of Goldsboro North Carolina as a man whose large family contributed to the war. Thirteen of his eighteen sons served in Ninth and Tenth U S Cavalry while seventeen daughters did war work. The family reportedly includes thirty five children with twins and quadruplets among them.
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John Ward
Goldsborough
N. C
Daily Express
Ninth
Tenth
United States Cavalry
Barrage Fire Cost John Bull Sixty Three Million
A London report notes that a single wartime barrage fire, aimed at breaching trenches and defenses, cost about 63 million dollars. The text emphasizes the heavy expense borne by the aggressor and the target in such intensive artillery actions.
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John Bull
London
Jess Willard Announces Own Story for The Philadelphia Press
Heavyweight champ Jess Willard confirms he is writing an ongoing Own Story for The Philadelphia Press daily and on Sundays, outlining his career views and plans for future fights.
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Jess Willard
Philadelphia Press
How Fat Folks May Become Thin
A dated promotional piece claims excess weight stems from low blood oxygen. It endorses Phynola tablets taken after meals and at night, asserts fast results, and names Gorgas druggist with several local store locations as supply sources.
Woman praises Natonex for rapid relief from pain and distress
Mrs. William Mack of Wilkes-Barre recounts dramatic improvement after using Natonex for a severe condition. She details prior suffering from poor appetite gas numbness insomnia and nervousness and says symptoms vanished after starting Natonex. She notes low cost and urges others to learn about the remedy at Gorgas drug store.
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Natonex
William Mack
Sambourne Street
Wilkes-Barre
Valley Railway cases move to Public Service Commission ruling
Complaints from Cumberland county towns over the Valley Railways fares and crowded cars reach the Public Service Commission for decision after final arguments. The seven cent fare and service issues follow a 20,000 dollar study, with analysts debating bridge toll contracts and property valuations.
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Cumberland County
Valley Railways Company
Public Service Commission
Harrisburg Railways Company
Commission
Charles H. Bergner
E. M. Biddle, Jr
Carlisle
Biddle
Bergner
Harrisburg
Lincoln Highway
Glenloch
March of Progress
Philadelphia
Northumberland
Northumberland County
Henry F. Walton
State Hospital For the Criminal Insane
Farview
Walter McNichol
Henry Ashmead
Walton
Public Service Commissioners
Pittsburgh Railways Company
East Liberty
Pittsburgh
George A. Dale
Duquesne Auto Transportation Company
Pittsburgh Bus Company
Railways
Packard Auto Transportation Company
The
Railways Company
A. W. Robertson
H. K. Siebenack
C. K. Robinson
E. A. Barchfeld
R. T. Holden
Jacob Seligsohn
Sproul
Senate
Saegertown
Crawford County
F. M. Fox
Harley D. Carpenter
Hunter
Frank N. Hunter
Allegheny County
Edmund K. Trent
Allegheny
House Appropriations Committee
Hazelton State Hospital
Institution For
Overbrook
Glen Mills
Scranton State Hospital
Coaldale State Hospital
Pyamtuning Swamp
Children Find Their Parents Dead
George N. Eby recently discharged from the Army and his wife were found dead by their 9-year-old son and a younger brother at their home in Philadelphia. Police say Eby shot his wife and then killed himself. The children discovered the bodies when they checked why their parents had not arisen at their usual time.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
George N. Eby
Eby
Imitation Pearls From Fish Scales Captivate Paris Makers
Paris reports that true pearls aren’t the only gems in fashion. A refined process creates glass spheres filled with a pearl lustre using scales from a small white fish. Hundreds of thousands of fish yield the orient essence per pound. Distinguishing marks include weight and edge shape. Uncle Levi Calvert, 115, Western Kentucky’s oldest resident, dies after a long life and claimed youth by leaping high.
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Paris
Calvert
Kentucky
Cunty
Hickman
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Bitro
Teeside
Enon
Vancouver
Victoria
Seattle
Juan de Fuca Strait
Pacific
Canada West
Devonshire
Canadian Pacific Railway
Broadway
Madison Square
Boston Transcript
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Great Metropolis
Levi’ Calvert
Levi
Louis, Ma
Manhattan & Candy Stripe
Munsing
Cooper’s
Varsity Union
Market St
Deutrichs
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