New York City Life Sparks Talk Of Curbing Excess
A lively column recalls New York scenes from Fifth Avenue charity to summer travel by air and a bid for bathing suit regulation. It references a blind peddler helped across the street, a turtle ad, a Long Beach air service, and a Met Museum flag from 1789, plus notes on stage and Tanlac testimonials.
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New York
League of Nations
Our Fair City
Fifth Avenue
Long Beach
T.b.m
Pay Cut and Freights Question Rates and Wages
Testifying before a senate investigative committee, a senior railway official says high freight rates did not cause traffic loss, blaming a general business slump instead. Another official says Labor Board wage cuts are not deep enough to save railroads but do help, prompting questions why wages rise with tariffs if traffic is weak.
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Washington
Labor Board
Livestock Trade Offer for Truck and Goods
Classified ad from F. R. Hancock on Hamburg pike offers trade exchange of livestock including horses cows hogs for a two ton truck with detachable top in good condition priced at 650 dollars. Located one mile north of Silver Creek and one mile south of Hamburg. Advertisement runs June 1 to 7.
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Hamburg Pike
Silver Creek
Hamburg
F. R. Hancock
Marker and monument ads and lost and found notices
An advertisement for Midway Stone and Monument Co notes a marker service with a May 31 ad date. Lost items include gold-rimmed glasses on Watt street near Ninth with reward. a tan leather folding pocketbook with several bills and a key lost near Spring street, Court Avenue, or LeRose Theater with reward offered.
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Midway Stone & Monument Co
Midway
New Albany
T. F
Watt Street
Ninth
Meigs Ave
Spring Street
Court Avenue
LeRose Theater
For Sale Modern five room home with lot and garage
For sale a modern five room home with bath and hot and cold water two enclosed porches gas and electricity. Splendid city lot near central area with barn and garage priced at 3250 cash 2000. Call Cumberland 1523 Adv May 31 rea
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Cumberland
Keller Shoe Repair Shop Advertisement
Common Building at 7th and Spring offers shoe repair claiming shoes regain new wearing quality at about one third cost. The ad urges customers to get their shoes fixed locally with promise of quality and value.
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T.F
Sage and Sulphur Compound Restores Hair Color Professionally
Old time remedy for darkening gray hair remains popular as Sage Tea and Sulphur shade hair. Modern buyers avoid home mixing with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound sold in drug stores for convenience.
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Wyeth
Ships for sale advertised by multiple steamship lines
A fragmented notice lists several passenger and freight lines including Admiral Line at 17 State Street New York port of call in New ark NY Munson Line and several others with ships for sale to American citizens. It mentions steel steamers oil and coal burners wood steamers halls ocean-going tugs and requests inquiries for sailings and information to the listed lines.
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Admiral Line
State Street
Newark
K, NY
Mateon Navigation Company So
Gay Street
Baltimore
Munson Steam Shi Ling
Beaver Street
New York
Porto NY
S.S - Gon
Broadway
N_Y
Pacific Mail
U. S
Ward Line
Cube
Wall Street
Rice
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The
Metropolis
Philadelphia
George Washington
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lady Billy” Company
Marion Barton
Baylor College
Columbia
Lady Billy
Tanlac
Maggie Miller
North Fifth St
Terre Haute
Ind
Taniac
Mrs. Miller
Miles
Mark
Keller Shoe Repair Shop
Court-Ave
Jeffersonville
Interurban
Harding
Shipping Board
H. Lane
Information Bureau
N. W
Washington,d. C
U.S. Shipping Board
Washington, D.C
A. Gordon Fawkes
Sterling, Hl
L. €. Baird
THOR
Ohio Vacuum Cleaner
Vulcan
Interstate Public
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