Space Saving Kitchen Chair Folds Under Table Mechanism
A South Chicago inventor patent adds a foldaway chair system in compact kitchens. Each chair attaches inside a table via a bracket and rod, can slide out, lock with a thumbscrew, then fold under the table to hide away. When needed, the chair is pivoted and flipped to face outward again.
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South
Chicago
Philadelphia Ledger
Future food from dirt and laboratory lozenges
Miss Lillian Herman of the University of Michigan predicts a notional future where hungry people grind soil in a private lab, extract nutrients with a sun powered hopper, and produce small lozenges that mimic the taste and content of vegetables, becoming a common habit in later generations.
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Lillian Herman
University of Michigan
Ryerson Library
Grand Rapids
Herman
Attorney questions cause of date dispute in Michigan Gargoyle
In a quoted exchange a lawyer presses that taking a woman to dances triggered trouble. The defendant denies and cites the husband’s objection as the true cause of the issue.
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Michigan
Healthful Postum Beverages Replace Tea and Coffee
A family recounts avoiding tea and coffee during childhood, later choosing Postum a cereal drink free of caffeine. They report improved wellbeing, described as “health first,” noting instant and regular Postum forms and growing neighbor adoption.
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Empire State Potato Growers Co Operative formed
From the New York World report farmers push direct marketing as a solution to low farm prices and high consumer costs. The new Empire State Potato Growers Co Operative Association aims to market one million dollars worth of potatoes and cabbages in its first year, following dairymen and fruit growers toward cooperative distribution. The piece notes flaws in current middleman systems, including lack of competition and inadequate grading, and positions the cooperative as a modern substitute for the market wagon.
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New York World
California Fruit Rowers
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New York
Dairymen’s League
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Co-Operative Association
Dirt's Little Treacheries About Sputum and Air Quality
A health note explains that dirty air can cause gray or black sputum without tuberculosis while inhaled dust can lodge in lungs and lymph glands, potentially triggering coughing and chronic issues. It compares guinea pig lung pigmentation, the role of infection sources, and how different dust types affect risk.
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Willis
A Freak of Nature from Bear Creek
A New York Sun feature describes Bear Creek near Husum Washington as a freak stream. It hides and reappears through caverns and crevices while its bed floods the surface year round. Color varies yellow red and blue from glacier-sourced minerals and copper quartz deposits.
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Mount Adama
Husum
Wash
Columbia River
Hear Creek
Ways That Differ From World Customs
A compact note on how different regions observe rules in traffic dress and tool use. It contrasts left and right side practices in Chicago, Japan, Europe and China, highlighting the clash of daily customs and public behavior across cultures.
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America
Japan
Europe
China
New York Run Teaches Bridge Lesson Nightly
A humorous exchange from New York recounts a couple teaching bridge to a man, noting fashion trends and a playful mishearing. Meanwhile New York fans donate 30000 dollars to Christy Matthewson for tuberculosis care, raised over several benefit games.
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New York City
Christy Matthews
American Attitude Toward Mandates From The Montreal Star
The United States could have saved trouble by joining the League of Nations and ending its grouch on Woodrow Wilson. Washington sends notes to league members demanding rights it would share if a member, while mandates cost others and the U.S. bears none. A 67-year-old woman enters Cincinnati University freshman class, noting it’s her first chance to pursue work.
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United States
Heci
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
State Department
League
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Galler Jackets Nest and Summer Memories
A nostalgic poem recalling boyhood days and a girl in gingham. The speaker lyrically returns to a vacant lot, the sound of bees, and the fabled galler jackets nest, imagining the blue eyes of a girl and a warning to beware the sting. Ben King.
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Ben King
Gold Dinner Plates and Presidential Dignity at Atlantic City
The Hartford Times weighs the idea of President Harding dining on gold tableware in Atlantic City. It argues such display could spark charges of pomp while hunger and unemployment plagued the nation, urging the president to uphold democratic restraint despite his exalted office.
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Hartford Times
Harding
Atlantic City
Warren Harding
Mr. Harding
Dresden
Haviland
Boston
Democratic America
Caesar
Office Dilemma and Tin Wedding Skits in Odd Notices
A jumble of comic snippets and odd notices from various papers features a flirtatious misunderstanding in Louisville, a tin wedding inquiry in Seattle, a Edinburgh village concert cue, and a blunt wagon tale from Heston. A Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph quip praises Tom’s handiwork, while a fortune teller jokes about lighting and money. Farmers are urged to trade city real estate for farms in the corn belt.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Tiberius
Seattle
Ingenue
Heston Transcript
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Davidson Bldg
Bloux City
Chigger Cure and Preventives
A historical note details home remedies for chigger bites using chloroform and creosote products. It advises applying chloroform directly, warns of skin and mucous membrane risks, and suggests alternatives like salted butter for suffocation of mites and soap and water washes after exposure. It adds comments on bite patterns and preventive ideas, noting uncertainty about clothing focus and limited effectiveness of certain traditional treatments.
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Parte
Eich
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Attorney General Daugherty targets rail strike warrants
The speaker argues warrants should extend beyond rail union leaders to rail executives and financiers who defied labor board. He criticizes injunctions as arbitrary and urges even application of law to all parties. He questions wage versus fuel costs and notes rail wage changes from 1914-1920 amid coal company influence.
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Daugherty
Labor Board
Wall Street
Rail
Con
The Gland Theory at International Congress
The article reports that experts at the second international congress of magentios, held at the American Museum of Natural History, stressed the endocrine glands’ role in human development and heredity. It highlights the thyroid and pituitary as key glands influencing mood, conduct, and appearance, and cites Dr Davenport urging caution in viewing crime as gland driven while advocating humane treatment.
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New York Times
American Museum of Natural History
Davenport
Eugenton
Hatia
What Is Wrong In Mexico Recognition Debate
A St Louis report from businessmen recently returning from Mexico questions why the United States has not recognized President Obregon. They claim conditions in Mexico are improving, export tax on oil settled, reparations commission possible, and Mexico prepared to meet debt obligations.
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United States
Mexico
Obregon
Mien Ja
Moexlco
Unclear Historical Verse Fragment in a Coal Trade Tale
A fragmentary OCR passage blends rugged imagery of labor and ascent with a stray line about coal price “16e0 per bushel” and unfamiliar terms. The text reads as a rough poem or prose fragment describing laboring figures, a valley scene, and an apparent coal price note, lacking coherent structure or identifiable event.
California Fig Syrup Adopts Gentle Pediatric Lure
A vintage advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a quick bowel remedy for children. It promises that a teaspoon eases constipation, even when a child is listless or feverish, and claims the syrup restores a playful, well child by morning. It warns buyers to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup with age-specific directions printed on the bottle.
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California
Acorn Folklore Shapes Faithful Safeguards
A fragmentary note describes acorn folklore from Drvidienthes lore. It cites beliefs in acorns protecting against misfortune and aiding households, with drinking midnight rites and moon magic. Welsh and English rural customs link acorn planting to future luck and potential royal fortune.
Bayer Aspirin Brand Ad Sparks Reader Recall
An old advertises Bayer Tablets of Aspirin stressing the Bayer Cross on each tablet for authenticity. The text shifts abruptly to a fragmented scene of two girls playing with dolls and a tense moment as they discuss a plan to hide a broken toy, revealing domestic confusion.
Golden Medical Discovery Endorsed for Lung After Measles
Mrs G 5 Knight reports four months of using Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery for a raw lung after measles torpid liver and poor appetite with improved sleep and calmer nerves. She cites her mother s long benefit and urges starting now to seek tablets or liquid from a druggist and free medical advice from Dr Pierce at the Invalids Hotel Buffalo NY.
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Dr. Pierce
President Invalide’ Hotel
Buffalo, N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Testimonials
Parents share success stories from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aiding fertility and postnatal health. Letters describe healthier babies, restored regularity, and relief from nervous symptoms, urging others to request the company pamphlet and rely on the natural restoration claim.
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