Spotlights: Herbert Sados Headlines Bijou Week
Herbert Sados, a 17 year old juggling prodigy born to English parents in Africa and raised in England, headlines the Bijou this week. He has won medals in major European countries and recently began touring America, playing prominent vaudeville circuits in the Northwest.
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Herbert Sados
Africa
England
Sados
France
Germany
Spain
America
Northwest
How to guard against the croup for young mothers
Practical guidance for preventing croup in children emphasizes early treatment. It cites hoarseness as the first sign, describes the cough with a metallic crowing sound, and recommends Chamberlain's Cough Remedy per directions to avert full attacks, noting it contains no narcotics and is widely trusted.
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Chamberlain
Spat Em In Spat Em Out
A campaign vignette recalls a drunken intruder at a public dance hall who is escorted out after a brief delay and then returns, only to be forcibly ejected again. The anecdote links the scene to searches for answers about political defeats and White House ambitions.
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Bryan
White House
Skedaddie
A Thought and a Rink Alderman Houska Leads City Children
Alderman Joseph Houska promotes outdoor recreation by securing a vacant Adams and Hood block for a public rink. He spurred community action with posters and supervised the work as boys cleared weeds and excavated the site. The project underlines the City Beautiful movement and offers lasting pleasure to local youth.
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Joseph Houska
City Beautiful
Park Commission
Houska
Michel Brewing Company
Adams and
Hood Streets
Houska Ir
Stopping kissing and the lovers kiss menace
A jokey letter to the Journal mocks warnings about kissing spreading disease. It mentions the temptations of two sweethearts kissing and cites the Milwaukee Journal with a playful plea for a solution. The writer, John Loving Mushpate, asks how lovers can be prevented from kissing and proposes no real answer.
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Milwaukee Journal
Maryland Watson
Journal
Dear Journal
John
Court bars secret process restraint in employee contract
New Jersey court rules that a contract compelling Nichols to refrain from divulging steel-making secrets effectively binds him to lifelong servitude or idle retirement. The decision in Taylor Iron & Steel Co. v Nichols condemns such restraints as servile and unrelieved by any obligation of support.
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Nichols
Court of Errors and Appeals of
New Jersey
Taylor Iron & Steel Company
Atlantic Reporter
Still Puzzled Life Quote Highlights Auto School Chat
A clipped life quote recalls a student at an automobile school asking if he understands. The instructor replies with a joke about what makes the thing go without horses, capturing a witty exchange from Life magazine.
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Pat
Automobile School
Quips and Cranks and Wanton Wiles at the Forks
A brief verse from the Atlanta Constitution laments mischief at a crossroads. It warns against aiding a troublemaker and advises choosing the right path while fleeing danger. The piece uses rustic dialect to convey urban caution and irony.
Publication Helps Catch Criminals Says Adair
Western detective Hilary K Adair argues news reporting aids police work. He cites a 1892 Pennsylvania murder where a full page story and photo alerted the killer, prompting the chief to fear public exposure would spoil the chase. The editor and officer clash over print power.
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Hilary K. Adair
St. Joseph
M Adair
Mr. Adair
Pennsylvania
Washington Star
The Forbidden Road by Maria Al3sawness
Rupert Haverford aids the restless Camilla Lancing through fog and fatigue as they seek a return to Yelverton. Their uneasy bond deepens amid tension over money status and motive, with hints of a hidden, delicate attraction and Camilla’s wary hope for respite from her entanglements.
Rural legislators cited by Harrisburg man quote
A Harrisburg man quotes rural legislators who struggle to manage their own needs and duties for constituents. He recalls a northern county gentleman at the post office asking for stamps and the clerk asking the denomination. The reply, Lutheran, is noted satirically.
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Harrisburg
Seven hours of pleadings in Caledonian court
A celebrated Scottish lawyer spoke for seven hours at the Caledonian equivalent of a supreme court. Exhausted, he returned home for supper and was urged to conduct family worship. His mother admonished him for long speech and brief prayers, while he quipped that the Lord is not so dull in uptake as the judge’s bodies. An added quip notes a man asking to say something to one person, yet having said it to every girl he knows.
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Rupert Haverford
Mrs. Lancing
Yelverton
Camilla
Haverford
Camilla Lancing
Mrs
Agnes Brenton
Verton
United States
United
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Red Cross
Lacrosse CO. Med. Soc’y
Supreme Court
Hammerstein tells of slow opera success in Philadelphia
Oscar Hammerstein spoke in Philadelphia on his opera triumphs noting that success arrived slowly. He recalled missing trains in Nola Chucky and a late conductor’s dog signaling the delay, a humorous anecdote cited by the Washington Star.
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Nola Chucky
Washington Star
King Louis of Bavaria and the breadmaker sentry
An amused tale recalls King Louis of Bavaria angering a palace guard who did not salute. The guard, not recognizing the king, taunts a baker in the army, threatening to dough him in a quiet place three kingdoms wide. The story ends with a sharp retort from the sentry in a London News tale.
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Louis
Bavaria
London News
The Same as Ever The Sociologist Interacts
A road worker pauses as a sociologist glances with sympathy at his long hours. The worker replies simply that his shift lasts sixty minutes.
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Wig
A.M. Brayton
Leily
F.H. Burgess
Aice
Congress
the Tribune Is A Member of the
Lee Newspaper Syndicate
Ee & Yo
Chicago
Oottte Bulding
Coste Maxwell
Ow “Meh
New York
the Tribune
Association OF American Advertisers
A. A. Biever
Lacrosse Tribune
Frank H. Burgess
A. BE. Bleekman
Notary Pubile
Atlanta Constitution
Maria Al3sawness
U. S
Batavian National Bank
Resources
National Bank
Tek
Merry “Beisime
Moss
South Third Street
New York Herald
Philadelphia Ledger
Oscar Hammerstein
Philadelphia
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