Army Orders Record Meat Purchase for U S Army
The Quartermasters Department of the U S Army placed the largest single order in history for 9 5 million pounds of bacon and 184 million pounds of canned meat for the American forces. It will take six months to complete deliveries. hogs and cattle for the order will cost tens of millions of dollars, with packers operating at high capacity to meet military demand.
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Army
Quartermasters Department
Louk F. Swift
Eaid
Chicago
Boy asks to see where the Kaiser lives in Indianapolis tale
A young Indianapolis mother tours homes with her son this summer and points out writers James Whitcomb Riley and Kin Hubbard. The boy, recalling Abe Martin, asks to see where the Kaiser lives to make faces, illustrating a child’s curiosity amid local literary figures.
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Todianapolis
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Kin Hubbard
Abe Martin
Husband Saves Wife Prompts Lydia E Pinkham Ad
A Pittsburgh reader recounts relief from months of backache headaches and weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound following a friend's tip to try the product. The ad cites long experience and invites women with related symptoms to seek guidance from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Dia E. Pinkham
Lydia E
Rorarerc
Knapp St
Pittsburg
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Lydia F. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Lass
Fathers and Sons from the London Times
Four years of war reshaped boys born in 1904 as they faced military age. Fathers saw in their sons a rapid ripening from boyhood to manhood with grave resolve, duty, and a shared blessing as they brace for departure to war.
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London Times
Creete Palette
Treatment of Others in a Dutch German Dialogue
A Telegraaf piece presents a heated imagined dialogue between a Dutchman and a German showing public opinion amid wartime wheat and coal trade tensions. The German insists on self-sufficiency and denies wheat while threatening force, and the Dutchman argues for trade and mutual aid.
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Amsterdam
Telegraaf
America
Holland
Ear Piercing Traditions and Harborside Telegraphs Described
The article describes traditional ear piercing ceremonies with family witnesses and a professional earborer using gold and silver pieces, followed by successive enlarging of the hole. It also notes a new telegraph and telephone line and a Caribbean port harbor near Porte n frolle, connecting Colon ama and Porte n frolle, detailing regional development.
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Burmah Cortesy
Velander
New York Red Cross Institute Helps War Cripples
The American Red Cross funds new vocational schools for cripples to learn trades and reclaim civil life. At 311 Fourth Avenue the Red Lions Institute trains in artificial limbs typographic work drafting and welding with capacity for 400 men. Congress authorized a $2 million Smith Sears program to expand reeducation nationwide.
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New York
Red Lions Institute
Fourth Avenue
Chicago
St. Louis
Congress
Smith-Sears
Federal Board of Vocational Education
United States
New York School
Frank R. Bigier
Ind
Institute
Jeremiah Milbank
Bigler
Kansas City
Douglas C. McMurtrie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Printing
Columbia University
McMurtrie
William C. Gorgas
American Red Cross
War Council
Military Relief
Jesse H. Jones
Protect Olive Trees Decree Enforces Tree Preservation
A Rome decree forbids felling olive trees and cutting principal branches except during pruning. It allows extension to mulberry and fruit trees by ministerial decree. The rule stays in effect until the end of the agricultural year after peace is established.
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Rome
More Than Skeptical From a Boston newspaper
A jumble of humorous clipped sketches recounts traveling salesmen, biblical anecdotes, and a farmer dialogue. It mentions a salesman boasting profits from four thousand dollar deals, a teacher discussing Methuselah, and Uncle Josh at a country table with banter about appetite and wit.
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The
Boston Transcript
Josh
Buffalo News
Sugarless Bread Method From Kansas City Milling Firm
A Kansas City milling company reports a sugar and malt free bread method using 7 pounds of germ middlings per 100 pounds of flour. The germ middlings are scalded with water, strained, and used to make a sponge that expands more and creates a fine texture. A second process uses 5 percent flour with five times its volume in water at 150 degrees to avoid sugar though malt remains desirable.
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Kansas City
Feiper
Willie Sees War Shadow Raise Fourth Of July Hopes
In this Indianapolis News piece a boy named Willie struggles to grasp wartime hatred for the Kaiser. A notice bans fireworks and torpedoes as supplies go to the war effort, leaving Willie wishing for adulthood to denounce the Kaiser with his family.
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Little Willie
Jane
Willie
Kaiser
Indianapolis News
Pimply Faces ad promotes Cuticura to remove pimples
For pimply faces remove pimples and blackheads using Cuticura Ointment. Wash off in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Free samples available by writing Cuticura Dept X Boston. Available at druggists or by mail Soap 25 Ointment 25 and 50.
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Cuticura
Dept. X
Boston
Not Likely. Festus Pester Spares A Glimpse Of A Car
Not Likely. Festus Pester pauses on Grand avenue to look into a motorcar showroom. A suave salesman offers an automobile but Pester declines, saying he is not interested in buying. The brief vignette notes a humorous line about courage and a corkscrew.
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Festus Pester
Grand Avenue
Mr. Pester
Kansas City Star
Haarlem Oil ad promises relief for aging kidneys
An old time home remedy touts GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil in odorless capsules to ease bladder and kidney troubles in the elderly. The ad claims quick relief from backache joint stiffness and various aches, suggesting the oil wards off fatal kidney diseases and offers three capsule sizes.
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Haarlem
Watch Your Stomach In the Summer Time
An advertisement warns that hot weather worsens stomach and bowel ailments and urges using Eatonio tablets after meals for quick relief. It claims thousands have benefitted and promotes buying a large box locally with satisfaction.
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Eatonio
Omar
Scenes of Prosperity in Western Can Supposition
Fragmented text mentions prosperity scenes and a humorous exchange about Dave’s hair dye. The bizarre lines suggest a partial OCR of a local feature with odd dialogue and a casual anecdotal tone. No clear event or identifiable entities emerge.
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