City considers reimbursement to Roland Park firm for mains
The Winston-Salem city council was asked by Wicker to reimburse T. W. Edmunds the cost of water and sewer mains around Brantley Circle, about 1700 dollars. The 1915 agreement to take over lines and paving disputes were debated, with payment by property owners through R B Terry as trustee debated. decision postponed to next Tuesday.
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Roland Park
Brantley
Wicker
Park Company
R B. Terry
Mr. Edmunds
Find it hard work to sell your stuff poem on cuff
A dialogue hints at struggle selling goods and a poem written on a cuff. The speaker recalls luck from writing verse on fabric, then the laundry not returning it, underscoring a quirky, everyday hardship.
Inside Bath Wellness Fad Promises Health From Hot Water
The article touts drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to flush the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims this internal bath prevents poisons and toxins entering the blood and cites improved health and energy for adherents.
Capital City the Champ in Gardening
Raleigh led North Carolina in war gardens last year with joint efforts from the chamber of commerce Rotary club and Woman's club. The plan includes schedules expert guidance and early store closing to free workers for gardening. This year stores may close at 5 pm on workdays and Wednesday half-holidays to boost garden efforts.
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Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Woman's Club
Althon
Department of Agriculture
Merchants’ Association
Crew of Argentine Steamer Minister of Inriendo Arrives
Several crew members of the Minister of Inriendo, sunk in the Mediterranean January 26, arrived in Buenos Aires on Monday February 25. Their testimony will be taken tomorrow and the government may frame a protest to Berlin. It is not yet established that the vessel was torpedoed. initial reports suggested a German submarine attack.
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Buenos Aires
Minister of Inriendo
Mediterranean
Berlin
Womanly Warnings From Chicago News Riff on Cossacks
A terse Chicago News item notes a woman insisting on calling Cossacks by their name while others mock the term. The piece adds a wagging aside about women kissing and biting each other's complexions, reflecting period humor and social gender satire.
If wives would continue to be sweet hearts
A playful verse suggests husbands would stop paying club dues if wives stayed sweet hearts. The remark frames domestic harmony as a humorous incentive to maintain financial support for social clubs.
Calotabs Calomel Purge Promises Quick Cold Cure
Physicians tout Calotabs as the nausea free calomel purgative to treat colds grippe and coughs. One Calotab at bedtime with water supposedly clears a severe cold by morning with no nausea or eating disruption. Sold in original sealed packages for thirty five cents with guarantee and refund if not delighted.
Negroes Work to Sell War Savings Stamps in Guilford
J. W. Edmondson, Prof. Ossie Davis, H. B. Merritt and O. W. Simmons are authorized to tour rural Guilford county schools to mobilize African American participation in war savings and thrift stamps. The team plans to visit northern area schools tomorrow and spend Thursdays on ongoing outreach.
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Party of
Guilford County
Wilson's Four Principles for Postwar Peace
President Wilson outlined four guiding principles for the war’s final settlement. He urged justice in each case, resisting barter of peoples and lands, focusing on populations’ interests, and satisfying national aspirations without sowing future discord.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Terest
Europe
Price of firewood stirs House debate in DC
Representative J Hamilton Moore of Pennsylvania urged action on the District of Columbia fuel shortage. He cited cord wood rising from 8 to 20 22 dollars a cord and even higher for kindling. A Maryland fuel administrator poster warned of coal shortages next winter, prompting Moore to condemn food and fuel administration policies.
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Washington
J. Hamilton Moore
Pennsylvania
House
District of Columbia
Maryland Fuel Administrator
Foley advertising slip for cough and cold remedies
A newspaper clipping invites readers to mail five cents with name and address to Foley and Co. at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago NL to receive trial packages of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets from Mann Drug Co.
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Foley and Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
Mann Drug Co
Sage and Sulphur Compound for Darker Hair Effect
An old time recipe uses garden sage and sulphur to darken gray faded hair. A ready made Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound is sold in drug stores for convenient use. Applied daily with a sponge or brush it claims to produce natural even darkening and a glossy soft look.
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Wyeth
Wryeth
Tarkington satire lists eight wars lies and more
Booth Tarkington parodies wartime propaganda in a sequence titled Answers to Heines Nonsense Lie No. 1 through Lie No. 8, mocking capitalist motives, German plots, and anti Allied chatter. The piece cites supposed statements about profits, bonds, munition makers, and alleged German schemes while lampooning claims of just peace and Red Cross money.
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America
England
Germany
Manila Bay
Zimmerman
Mexico
Kaiser
Kaisers
Europe
Hes
You May Find It In Stocking Freezone Corn Remedy
A Cincinnati authority advertises freazone as a quick corn cure. Apply a few drops to the corn and it stops hurting, with the corn falling off by the next day. The surrounding skin heals pink and smooth. A quarter ounce suffices to treat all feet, sold by druggists for a few cents. The compound is made from ether.
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Cincinnati
Mission Band Invitation Mock Speech
A fragment from the Christian Register shows Mrs Johnsing and Mrs Snow in a brief exchange about joining a mission band. Mrs Snow declines, expressing disbelief at the request and noting she cannot even play the organ.
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Mr. Wicker
Winston-Salem
Roland Park Company
T. W. Edmunds
THE
Argentina
Chicago News
Ady
J. W. Edmondson
Ossie Davis
H. B. Merritt
O. W F. Simmons
Dis
Neuro School
Raps
Price OF Fire Woop
Moore
Food and Fuel Administrations
North State Telephone Comp
Heinie
By Booth Tarkington
United States
Shéy
Mariana
Laconia
CIA
Avice
Red Cross
Washington Street
Wilbur Avenue
Willa Avenue
Rockefeller
Louvain
Cincinnati Authority
Dumas
Theda Bara
Fox
Broadway
New Spring Woolens
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