Mothers Advice on Daughter Health in Early Medicine
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century advertisement urging mothers to guard daughters’ health. It warns against cold and wet feet and heavy items, and promotes Lydia Echam's Ve-Comia as a safe, non-harmful medicine.
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BR. R
Portland
Indiana
Ora
Lydia Echam
Ioralore
Rome
Detroit
Mans Nownap
Lorig
East Palmer Reine
Michigah Metropolis
Earth
A Different Matter
The exchange features a judge resolving a window damage incident. The owner of the ball offers to pay, the boy is told no cost, then the judge indicates the bill should be $15, noting a man used to play ball and it involved a golf ball.
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Bill Homer
Parson Blackman of Kansas Elected Legion Chaplain
Reverend Bart Blackman, of Chanute Kansas, widely known as a “man’s man” for the American Legion, was elected national chaplain. He once offered to box any chaplain of the AEF, then resigned from his Chanute pastorate after a controversy over dancing. He later ran a basement cymnasium for Sunday school boys while remaining loyal to his church.
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Walla
Kart Blackwan
Kansas
France
Blackman
Legion
Lo Chanute
Kan
Binckiman
Chanute
British World War I Honor Mother Visits United States
Mrs Amefa Enma McCudden, mother of the late British air ace Major McCudden, arrived in America to honor fallen soldiers and strengthen Allied bonds. General Pershing welcomed her with a kiss at a banquet while she joined the American Legion auxiliary in New York, an honor reflecting the war effort and sacrifice of British war mothers and families.
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United States
Great Britain
General Pershing
Ame Fa Enma McCudden
Island Kingdom
Iphin Ie
Peréiing
She Passed Up the Marines Discovery War
A garbled OCR note claims a person received $400 monthly from the government while others in the armed forces were favored, but the Marines allegedly received none. Details are unclear due to the fragmented text.
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Marines Discovery War
Hele Ferguson Creater
Chi- Creo
Uncle Sam Fair Game and the Mail Pranks
A fragment from an old clipping recounts humorous and oddities about mail trickery. It mentions a revivalist, a canceled stamp, and a note about people tempted to cheat the customs and post. It ends with a vignette of a talkative, puzzled figure named Bragg from Mount Piagy Arkansas and a Kansas City editor’s quip on personal discomfort.
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Detroit Free Press
Uncle Bragg
Gabe
Old Bragg Society of
Mount Piagy
Ark
Doctor
Sorfer
Hive
Kansas City
Grudge tavern landlord and pessimist访 comment
In Grudge a tavern landlord asks Mr NewCome what he thinks of the city. The reply, delivered in dialect, describes Main Street puddles as healthy bogw walls and swine contentedly wallowing, reflecting a pessimistic view of the town.
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Promotes Bright Laundry Whites
Advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue for gleaming linens sold at grocers. Odd lines claim women seldom live to 100 and warn against overestimating men, naming Adam as the original oldest inhabitant.
Taken Literally She There Want a Single Man
A fragmentary note mentions a person of interest and a query about sitting with them, referencing a publication called The Argonaut and a married man named Vin in a terse, dialogic exchange. The text preserves dated, newspaper-like phrasing and tone while avoiding sensational detail.
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Vin
The
Argonaut
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American Legion Weekly
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Slive
Mene
Peruna
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Renee Rey
Mitchell
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Lex
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Hinele Medical CO
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