Tradeoffs in a Historic Subscription Notice
A compact note lists subscription options including a daily option, a one year plan at 4.00 and a semi weekly rate at 200 alongside editorial and advertising mentions, reflecting billing terms for a historical newspaper segment.
Mountain Movers Move Mount Whitney by Press Fanfare
Geologists reject the Oakland Tribune stunt claiming a mountain cannot be moved. The piece jokes that the Tribune shifted Mount Whitney into Kern county in a nightly editorial prank and mocks mapmakers for errors.
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Mount Whitney
United States
Oakland Tribune
Tulare County
Kern County
Tribune
The
Snbune
Alount Whitney
Henseforth
Radio Church Opens In Old Outlaws Cabin Near Tonopah
An abandoned outlaw rendezvous near Tonopah Nevada becomes a radio church. No pastor or formal congregation exists. a voluntary audience tunes in from 500 miles away using a radio receiver as the church. The piece suggests radio churches may spread to remote regions worldwide.
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Tonopah
Nev
War gardens in Toronto offer hope and limits
Vacant lots in wartime Toronto sparked a movement led by the Toronto Vacant Lots Cultivation Association. About 240 gardens, many tended by Italian families with low incomes, supply winter vegetables and fresh food while facing pressure from new buildings. The author notes gardening remains beneficial for tenement dwellers beyond economy.
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Toronto
Editorial snapshots of varied 1920s notices
A collage of brief quotations from multiple papers mentions Dayton jazz for visitors at a trial, a tally of laws enacted after 38,844 proposed, baseball nostalgia, fly trivia about lighting, a London collector paying 4500 for a joke book, and opinions on Coolidge and mailing weeks.
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United States
The Office Cat and Miscellany of Quips and Quirks
A collage of offbeat lines from a satirical page featuring puns and jokes about daily life. It includes remarks on plumbers baths and conscience, social pretensions and headlines of the era, with playful jabs at culture and language.
Amundsen May Try Once More
Copenhagen report says Roald Amundsen will attempt another north pole flight after a disappointing earlier run. The piece notes his party aims to outrun competing expeditions, but United Press in Norway has not confirmed the story and the New York alliance has not received confirmation.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
North Pole
Roald Amundsen
Amundsen
United Press
Norway
Alliance
New York
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