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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1925
Page
4
Fall and Winter Edition Preview by The Times
The Times announces a Fall and Winter Edition highlighting stylish, seasonable goods and quality merchandise. It urges readers to buy wisely, noting longer lasting coal and durable clothes while local merchants advertise for the coming winter season.
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Halloween Pranks Stir Kingsport Residents
Town officials caution against wild Halloween pranks by youths while noting planned decorum. Residents report late night noise and minor property damage as children roam, with warnings that law and order will be enforced. The piece also mentions a soon to be featured portrait of Woodrow Wilson on postage stamps and suggests a fourteen cent denomination.
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Kidlet
Hallowe
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Wilson
Governor Smith hints at presidential run despite ruling out office
The New York Herald Tribune notes Governor Smith will not seek any office but adds that he would consider the presidency if offered. Analysts in Tammany Hall and others interpret his stance as elevating him to the national spotlight while asserting he remains above the New York governorship. The piece suggests the remark reframes Democratic faction tensions and positions Smith as a potential front‑runner.
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New York Herald Tribune
New York City
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Jude Qlyany
Tammany
Tlad
Madison Square Garden
al Saith
New York
Joe
United States
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Herald Trib
Albrook Declares Democratic Candidacy Too Early
The Charleston Mail reports that Al Brook openly seeks the Democratic nomination, admitting that ambition is his political weakness. His stance signals a self‑same path toward the presidency and governorship, with no subtle strategy but clear intent from the outset.
Bright waistcoats flare as women lead fashion shift
A London dispatch notes women now wear bright waistcoats, making fashion bold and eye catching. The New York World questions gendered style anxieties and jokes about possible future trends in trousers and grandpa’s pants.
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London
Grandpa
New York
The Carpet Tacks and Public Rebuke
The Baltimore Sun quotes a joke that a standardizing committee plans to ban carpet tacks deeming them unfashionable. It jokes that without carpet tacks a dishonest public administrator cannot be brought to task.
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Baltimore Sun
Fragments of a Humorous Exchange in Old Papers
A string of jokes and quips appears pasted from various papers including Punch and Vikingen. The dialogue features a wealthy aunt, nervous nephew, a safety note about a counterfeit dollar, and puns about apples and ham. Multiple captions cite different sources and locales.
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Thieves Steal from Philadelphia Saloon in World War Era
A Philadelphia saloon was robbed of 8500 from the cash register during a recent disturbance as thieves struck in the wartime period. Eleven thousand acres were added to New York state’s Lake George Park. A grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial funded a ha regu at Harvard and Radcliffe. A Pittsburgh business man lost 48000 in a card game, two men arrested for allegedly jawindling him. Canon H Adye Prichard urged Britons abroad to uphold imperial traditions. Gettysburg Farmers Day scheduled wines from Adams County with prizes for top beverages.
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New York
Pacific coast star Hony Laare hits 60th home run of season
Hony Laare, shortstop for Salt Lake in the Pacific Coast League, belts his 60th circuit of the year as fans follow coast league standings. News notes cover telephony tests, Germany trade gains, riflemen patrolling Pennsylvania panther areas, New York police crime charts, Astor estate views by private rail line, Ku Klux Klan church service funding, and copper conductivity advances by Dr. W P Davey of General Electric.
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Pacific Coast
Hony Laare
Salt Lake Sam
W. P. Davey
General Electric Company
The Mighty Smith and the Hidden Prisons Unearthed
Excavators uncovered ironwork and cell features buried for two centuries in a hillside dungeon beneath the county’s old court house. The 1752 date marks the courthouse, while the dungeons appear much older, with crosswork iron windows and thick doors still intact.
Rubber lands shift as Firestone expands in Liberia
British rubber growers warn of five years' notice to face competition when Firestone rubber trees yield in Liberia and supply to the United States begins. The article notes Soviet revenue from resumed full-strength vodka and a 40 percent spirits reintroduction to curb peasant illicit brewing. It also mentions an 1350 B C marriage proposal tablet translation by Dr Ephrian Sneiser of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Firestone Company
Liberia
United States
Russia
Ephrian A. Sneiser
Univrsity of
Pennsylvania
Dahamunpa
Underground Prison Unearthed in Richmond Work Site
Excavators at Twenty second and Carry streets in Richmond unearthed a row of three ancient dungeons beneath a corridor. The relics suggest a subterranean prison once operated in the area and draw interest from local historians.
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