Lydia Pinkham Medicine and Martian Escape Tale Combined
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women's health while a Robinson Crusoe style Martian adventure describes a perilous voyage through Barsoom with Dejah Thoris and Sola. The protagonist defeats Thark warriors, escapes on a boat, and clashes with a pursuing force amid rugged terrain.
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Donna E.pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Carrie Williams
Overpeck
Ohio
Barsoom
Dejah Thoris
Lola
Bhoat
Sola
Warhoon Chieftains Clash Over Thark Captive
The narrator regains consciousness among Warhoon warriors and meets Bar Comas the jeddak. Dak Kova, his jealous lieutenant, forces a confrontation claiming the captive Thark will battle a wild thoat at the great games, signaling looming peril and feud.
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Warhoon
Purgatory
Gchenna
jJeddak
Jed
Jeddak
Bar Comas
Leutenant
Dak Kova
French contend over Mont Blanc name and mapping
The article notes a French campaign to rename Haute Savoie to Department du Mont Blanc as many believe Mont Blanc lies in Switzerland. It underscores local annoyance and the current framing of the peak in French geography debates.
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Mont Blanc
Byron
France
Chamonix
Haute-Savoie
Switzerland
Department de la Haute Savoie
Department du Mont Blanc
Springfield
Tennessee Tar
Iowa and national figures in brief local notes
A roundup of varied items from Iowa: Fort Dodge carpenters settle a wage scale of 20 cents an hour. Iowa City's cavalry troop awarded 32 horses by the U.S. government. Iowa automobile registrations reach 414,883 by May 1, 1921. Also noted are a corn and oats shipment revival at Buck Grove, a tragic death in Sioux City, and multiple legal, military, and civic items across the state.
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Fort Dodge
American Legion
Hugh Skerd
Earlham
Ackley
Horace Green
Sioux City
Buck Grove
Bird T. Baldwin
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Iowa City
National Research Council
Washington, D. C
Joe Banoch
Creston
Jameson Department
Osceola
Midland Packing Company
Stillwell
McMillan
Spirit Lake
Superior
Jed Shier
Arch Dempster
Centerville
Chicago
Illinois
Farmers’ Creamery Company
Cascade
J. B. Aitchison
Dan Barrett
W. W. Kueh
A. M. Parmenter
Farmers’ Savings Bank of
Grimes
Parmenter
Kuehl
Planters’ Terminal Elevator Company
Des Moines
Percy
Knoxville
Mugene
Chuck” Sellers
George Livingston
Supreme Court
George Fields
W. J. Metuch
Phoebe Demming
Adair County
Ed Demming
George H. Gallup
Jefferson
Towan
University of Iowa
Roy K. Jorney
Tabor
Sioux City Gas Company
Bayer Aspirin and Linoleum Guidance in One Ad
An old advertisement promotes Bayer Aspirin with the Bayer Cross and lists uses from colds to rheumatism. It also advises linoleum buyers to add felt lining to reduce noise, warmth, and floor stability, noting extended linoleum life.
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Bayer
Chroma and the New Rich in Art Taste
Philadel phia art critic Harvey Maitland Watts cites a dinner tale in Rit tenhouse Square about a new rich wife buying art in Walnut Street and asking for cheaper back hall pieces. The mix of satire highlights how value and taste shift with sudden wealth. Four Million Shy mentions France's reduced population after the war and a quip about a gun loss.
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Harvey Maitland Watts
Philadelphia
Rittenhouse Square
Walnut Street
Chroma
France
Birds as street cleaners in Costa Rica
In Philip Marden's Sailing South a garbage wagon in San Jose is followed by a sober platoon of vultures. The narrator notes the birds’ orderly scavenging around the cart, observing how the streets stay notably clean as box yards handle the waste.
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Costa Rica
Philip
Marden
Fellows
San Jose
Old Blue Laws and Sunday Kisses Quip
A Louisville Courier Journal clipping notes a joke about Sunday kissing under old blue laws. The punchline suggests no husband was ever charged, reflecting skepticism about enforcement and penalties for such offenses.
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Louisville
Courier-Journal
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