New Yorker hotel sleep test tracks guest dreams and pillows
A New York hotel conducts a two week sleep study by Dr. Donald A. Laird using mailed questionnaires to guests. It gathers age weight city business status sleep quality, bedtime, wake time, pillow and mattress preferences, noises, and whether altitude affects rest. The project aims to deduce how being higher up affects sleep quality among metropolitan snoozers.
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Lake Okeechobee
New Yorker
Donald A. Laird
Colgate University
Laird
Old Turkish Fort to be Excavated by Chicago University Team
In Constantinople Professor Van Osten leading a Chicago university archaeological mission at Ghiavour Kale in Anatolia as President Kemal Pasha requests excavation of pre Babylonic Hittite fortress and nearby traces. The work to last weeks with the Turkish leader observing, before continuing at Alichar on the remaining monuments.
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Chicago University Archaeological Research Mission
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Ghiavour Kale
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Alichar
That Little Word and Was Important
United Press reports Tony Faber faced a liquor charge in Washington awaiting Judge J. Chew Sheriff’s sentence of 200 dollars or six months. He left, causing officers to pursue him in Hayattsville Maryland where the offender was later returned to court. The judge amended the sentence from or to and, changing the condition of his confinement.
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Washington
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J. Chew
Prince George's County Court
Hayattsville
Sheriff
Dynamite Found Under Delphi School Building
A janitor at Deer Creek school uncovered forty sticks of dynamite and a nitro glycerin bottle beneath the building, with a 500 foot fuse burned part way. The discovery mirrors the Bath Michigan schoolhouse explosion, where Andrew Kehree lit a fuse causing twenty injuries or deaths. Authorities investigated whether the blast was intended to fail or disrupt.
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Remarkable Konjola Case Urges Trial For All
Endorsements flood the Konjola records as a 32 ingredient medicine. Mrs. Lilly A Ward of Indianapolis testifies seven million bottles sold in two years and relief for stomach liver kidneys and rheumatism. Konjola Man at Hook’s Dependable Drug Store invites inquiry and questions.
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Local Bomb Attempt Mirrored Bath Tragedy
A bottle of fluid extinguished a flame and a deadly explosion was prevented. No suspect linked to the device, but the act resembled a Bath Michigan incident where Kehoe, a former school treasurer, blew up his home and died by suicide. The Deer Creek attempt appeared copied from that case.
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Memory of Charity Dillon Echoes in Townsend History
Memory of Charity Jane Dillon, an early pioneer figure in Townsend, Mont., is recalled as a symbol of community charity and resilience. The note highlights her contributions to local charitable work and her role in shaping town civic life during its formative years.
Toughest Day Agent In War On Capone
Chicago May 23 George Hardboiled Golding leads a ten man team against Al Capone in a bold Prohibition crackdown. He operates from a faux brokerage office on La Salle street, gathering evidence at up to a thousand speakeasies in the business district. Golding, armed with a pistol and axe, plans decisive action against bootleggers as the city watches.
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Capone
America
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Moe Smith
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Middlewest
Speakeasy Operator Golding Faces Untethered Prohibition Risk
Golding arrived directly from Washington and runs his operation independently of Chicago police and the regular prohibition department, raising the likelihood of a sudden swooping act occurring on any given day.
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Golding
Washington
Chicago
Prohibition Department
Brewery chief leaves 960 bottles each to six heirs
Charles Edwin Long, head of a major Southsea brewery, dies at 71 leaving 960 bottles of port to each of his six children. The report notes movable type origins with Coster in China and Europe in 1438 and Guttenberg in Germany around 1450.
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England
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China
Coster
Europe
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Germany
A Family Doctor's Laxative Is Best
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe, lab supervised laxative for all ages. It claims widespread trust, original prescription integrity, and world leading sales, urging use in every drugstore.
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Landmark Montana figure of 60s and 70s dies in 1872
A revered Montana landmark known for kindness to travelers and the surname Charity, who earned the fame of Charity for her benevolence, passed away in 1872.
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Montana
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