Farmer Countesses Plan Farm Themed Photographs
Farmer Countesses propose a plan to photograph farm progress showing hired hands and farmerettes as moving picture stars. The wife agrees but notes the salaries they already earn.
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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1920
Page
9
Supernatural War Rumors in Senate Remarks
Senator Sorghum voices skepticism about ouija board claims and the notion of a supernatural war guiding what George Washington might say in current circumstances. The exchange reflects tension over occult explanations influencing political discourse.
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sSometmes
Sorghum
Gettiye Superstitiene
Washington
Transportation Manager and the Burglar Alarm Plan
A dialogue describes a Transportation Manager asking about a brakeman's courage and a President proposing a burglar alarm for each freight car. The President jokes that each car should also carry a bar of soap.
Dressing Up
Dialogue fragments show Mrs Lasteery and Mrs Lesters debating fashion and social routines in a humorous exchange. The playful banter hints at exclusive design and propriety amid witty mishearings and urban slang.
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Lasteery
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Fragmentary dialogue notes on job vacancy and nearby restaurant
A snippet records a speaker seeking a maid to fill a temporary vacancy and mentions a nearby restaurant where several people are dining. The text is fragmentary and unclear about identities or exact actions.
Spelling Bee Warned About Limitations
A playful exchange cautions a spelling bee participant about self-imposed limits causing frustration and errors. The humorous banter highlights the challenges of ambitious goals and staying within personal boundaries.
No Smoking Rule Sparks Quip in Tit Bits
In a Bits column brief a reader recounts a humorous exchange about a smoking ban. The note questions whether the notice was communicated and ends with a jab about someone lighting a cigarette with it, reflecting light newspaper humor of the period.
Shakespearian Citation on Automobiles Reference
A humorous exchange asks if Shakespeare foretold the automobile and responds with the line Curses not loud, but deep. The mock dialogue plays on a professor of Finglish literature seeking a car prophecy.
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Weoud
Shake Speare
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Accounting for It shows bachelors outnumbering married men
The item notes that bachelors are more numerous than married men, attributing the difference to bachelors lacking a spouse to share burdens or responsibilities. The tone suggests social commentary on domestic life and demographics.
Great Carryings On
Mrs Newbride laments alarming behavior by Gur cook described as carrying on. Mrs Oolbride notes her own similar conduct and says she carried away enough to start a small grocery store.
Improvement in Etiquette Sparks Scolding
A reader notes a sarcastic remark about a woman taxed with lack of neatness. The critique suggests a sharper rebuke would have served better, imagining her sweeping the room with a broom. The exchange highlights social expectations of tidiness in urban life.
Hat in Ring Phrase Echoes in Senator Sorghum Dialogue
In a dialogue, Senator Sorghum dismisses prospects of running, saying Fats do not aid a campaign. He jokes that perhaps someday he will be seen with half soled shoes as a sign of caution.
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Senator Sorghum
Fats
Debt of Gratitude and Ancestral Costumes Talk
A speaker noted a debt of gratitude to ancestors while Mrs. Fimeilt agrees without them there would be no pretty costumes for their fancy dress balls. The exchange highlights pride in heritage and festive attire.
Fresh Air and Feeds: European Quarters and Beds
Theodore Roosevelt recalls European lodging conditions describing nailed windows feather bedding and cramped spaces. He contrasts calm rooms with a cow room next door and notes a bed with death photos hung above it for officers in various towns.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Stephen Leacock
France
Blindness Plague Spreads Across Sahara Oasis Towns
A dispatch from Biskra reports a plague of blindness sweeping Sahara oasis towns. Dr. Toulant of the Pasteur Institute of Ophthalmology says eight of ten desert children are affected, with flies and camel meat markets aiding transmission as hot months approach. about 100,000 Arab children in northern Africa infected.
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Sahara Desert
Washington
Biskra
Toulant
Pasteur Institute of Ophtalmology
American Red Cross
Sahara
al- Tah' Ousis
Usin Texion
Africa
Wireless telephony aided postwar British air service
The Halifax Morning Chronicle notes a post armistice British postal air route to Cologne using ground wireless stations every fifty miles. Small sets connected with aircraft up to thirty miles distant and receiving from air to fifty miles, often with three stations at once, showing rapid progress since 1915 trials.
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Cologne
Halifax Morning Chronicle
British Air Service
Diamond trade accelerates in British Guiana markets
Considerable activity has prevailed in the diamond trade in British Guiana within the past few months and prices have advanced to a high level heretofore unknown. Expeditions are dispatched to interior fields as interested parties in Georgetown push the business. The English market is eager to absorb stones of any size, bought for both English and American markets despite high prices.
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British Guiana
McCann
Georgetown
Confectionery Demand in Samoa Tied to Climate
In western Samoa with a 31 000 population and under 1 000 whites, demand centers on hard candies called boiled lollies selling at 25 cents per pound. Lozenges are rare, and tullies and chocolates suffer humidity, imported in sealed tins at 50 to 75 cents per pound.
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Sama
Swiss Crop Yields Decline in 1919 Except Fruit
Swiss crops in 1919 fell short of 1918 levels due to unfavorable atmosphere, a cold wet spring, drought in early and late summer, sudden temperature drops and early frosts. The area planted in 1919 was also smaller than in 1918.
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Switzerland
Lumber profits from Atlantic City boardwalk rebuild
The Atlantic City boardwalk segment rebuilt after fifteen years yields lumber sold at sixty dollars per thousand feet, up from the original cost of thirty dollars per thousand. The note highlights profits from reuse of building material.
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Atlantic City
Era of vehicle thieves gives way to air born theft
Quote from American Motorist notes burglars used cars to steal as precursor to an era of airplane theft. The text underscores the arrival of flight crime as overdue and looming in the future.
Mixed clubs and marriage bureau urged to boost English matrimony
A London Mail Continental Edition piece argues social reformers should foster sex integration via municipal mixed clubs and a marriage bureau to counter the decline in marriage rates. It notes urban isolation, late marriages among middle classes, and urges more social interaction and matchmaking services.
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England
London
London Mail
Origins of soft drinks in Philadelphia traced
A Philadelphia writer notes that soda water and soda fountains began in Philadelphia with Eugene Roussel who ran a perfumery a century ago. The centennial and Franklin Institute events highlighted the industry and Robert M. Green introduced the ice cream soda in 1874, launching a product line that grew to about a billion dollars annually.
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Philadelphia
Eugene Roussel
United States
Robert M. Green
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Nickel Coins Again in India Introduces Nickel Sanna and 4-anna Pieces
The Indian government issues nickel Sanna and 4-anna coins, adding to long circulated two nanna and sanna pieces. The 8-anna coin is noted as the highest valued base metal coin, valued at about 28 cents in exchange. The move follows high silver prices, with possible disappearance of Sanna silver coins.
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India
Brooklyn Eagle
When a Traveler Returneth Home
A Bacon aphorism urges travelers to keep up correspondence with valued acquaintances, let travel show in thoughtful discourse not clothing, and avoid shedding native manners. It counsels modest storytelling and weaving learned flowers from abroad into one’s own country customs.
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Francois Bacon
Lord Vernlam
St John as Author of Gospel and Epistles
The text asserts St John the brother of James and son of Zebedee wrote the Gospel letters and Revelations. It notes the Revelations were penned during exile on Patmos and the Gospel and Epistles after returning to Ephesus where he led the churches.
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St. John
James
Zebedee
Patmos
Ephesus
Funny hotel badges reveal dentists at Gibson
A wartime Prohibition era gathering recalls the Gibson hotel bulletin system and a misread badge joke. A waiter, seeking to identify guests with badges, learns the posted notice shows a National Association of Gynecologists, Obstetricians and Anesthetists convention, prompting the quip that the badge wearers are “the centists.”
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Cincinnati
Chicago
Igoe
Manager Hawks
Gibson House
Gibson
Tess
Jess
National Association of Gynecologists
Cincinnati Times Star
Diversity Among Students at Glasgow Astronomy Study
The University of Glasgow conducted experiments by T L MacDonald on how personal mental habit affects astronomical drawing. Six students copied Mars Artoniadi drawings and lunar photos without guidance, each showing a unique focus canals lakes or shading. The study suggests planetary astronomers fall into canal, spot and shade sensitive classes and drawings need corresponding corrections.
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T. L. MacDonald
University of Glasgow
Mars
Artoniadi
Heads of Church of England
The highest office is the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop of York governs York province. Canterbury governs the rest of England. Canterbury acts as primate of all England with general authority. York crowns the queen. Canterbury crowns the King on public occasions.
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Church of England
Archbishop of Canterbury
All England
York
England
County of York
Humber
Dee
Isle of Man
All
Lower California Pearl Fishery and Its Global Reach
La Paz stands as the seat of Lower California pearl production with annual output around 256 666 pesos. The Gulf of California is divided into four rotating fishing regions used May to October. Indian divers equipped with modern gear harvest mainly black pearls, sourcing virtually all world supply. Notable historic pearls include a pigeons egg size sold for 50 000 pesos to Spain's queen and a 1891 pearl fetching 17 000 dollars.
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la Paz
Lower California
Gulf of California
Manuel Osio
Spain
Roosevelt Cabin Move Planned for Capitol Grounds
The Theodore Roosevelt cabin used at Medora from 1883 to 1886 will be placed in Liberty Memorial park as part of the new capitol grounds in Bismarck. The Bismarck Daughters of the American Revolution will build a protecting fence around the structure before its removal to a permanent site.
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Theodore Roosevelt
North Dakota
State Capitol
Bismarck
N. D
Liberty Memorial Park
Capitol
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Medora
Milks Emulsion Promises Quick Health Restoration
A testimonial from Emma Withers of Belmont NC credits Milks Emulsion with restoring strength, appetite, and digestion after a severe flu and prolonged illness. The ad highlights its palatable emulsion form, claims to aid bowel action, and offers a six bottle guarantee with refunds if not satisfied.
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Charlotte
M. C
Emma Withers
Bel‘mont
N.gc
Milks Emulsion Co
Terre Haute
Ind
Adv
Lift off Corns With Freezone Ends Painful Toe Calluses
Advertisement claims Freezone instantly relieves pain and lifts corns and calluses from feet with a few drops. It promises quick painless removal and root with a tiny bottle sold at drug stores.
Nothing Grows Like Interest in Yearround Thrift
Slogan-style note claims interest expands continuously while thrift and intelligence destroy pests, suggesting ongoing benefits of saving and prudent planning. The terse statement frames financial growth as a constant, universal rule.
Freckles Gone With Othine Double Strength
Advertises Othine double strength to remove freckles with nightly applications. Promises swift results, notes most need only one ounce, and offers money back guarantee if it fails.
Honest listener offers records to seal book deal
An appreciative listener tells the book agent he does not want the books but will buy a full phonograph record set if he can hear his engaging talk about them. The exchange highlights a sales tactic linking spoken rhetoric to a material purchase.
Master of circumstances through faith and courage
A reflection contrasts the empowered person of faith with the fearful individual who yields to events, asserting that belief grants strength to shape the world while doubt corrodes resolve and leaves one at the mercy of fate.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims to Cure Deafness
Catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts through the blood to reach the mucous surfaces. The cure depends on reducing inflammation of the Eustachian tube to restore hearing. $100 reward for any case not cured by the medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
KF. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Platinum supply shifts as Russia curtails output
The article notes a near halt in Russian platinum production and states that under normal conditions Russia supplied about 90 percent of world output, with the United States consuming about half of global platinum.
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Russia
United States
Newcomers in the house opposite raise chatter
A brief exchange mentions unfamiliar tenants across the street described as weary and of little social standing. The dialogue references plans for success with a German adage and a quip about business planning.
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