Emerald City Gate Opens on Oz Adventure
Dorothy and companions reach the Emerald City and meet the Guardian of the Gates who explains Oz’s power. To view the city they must wear spectacles that block its dazzling green glow. The guide locks each pair with a key as they enter the emerald streets toward Oz’s palace.
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Green Man
Emerald City
Binca
Dorothy
Guardian of the Gates
Scarecrow
Tin Woodman
Alan
Ted
Palace of Oz
Great Wizard
Sol
Emerald City of Oz Green World Adventure Continues
Dorothy and companions enter a green City with emerald buildings and green clothing. They reach the Palace of Oz where a green uniformed guard arranges an audience with Oz whom they must visit alone. Dorothy is shown to a lush green room with silk dresses, a fountain, and green books as the tale continues.
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Dier
Dorothy
Toto
Stork Nest on Colmar Cathedral Surprises City
The city architect reports a stork nest on Colmar Cathedral summit about thirty years old. It measures six feet across five feet high and weighs over three quarters of a ton, requiring a pickax to break apart. Built from twigs and clay, the nest contains 24 sacks of material and odd items such as 17 ladies stockings five fur caps blouse sleeve shoes leather and four railway porter buttons.
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Colmar
Upper
Alsace
How He Kept His Clothes Dry
An elderly Scottish professor on a large shooting party vanishes as a rainstorm hits and returns dry as a bone. He explains that he removed his clothes and hid them to stay dry until the storm passed.
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Kat
Tabernacle Fire Destroys Historic Building in Des Moines
Fire of unknown origin consumed the old Tabernacle on East Grand between Fourth and Fifth, causing $65,000 in losses with $29,000 insured. The Tabernacle housed Guaranty Hosiery mills and seven lodges, leaving only a brick pile. Nearby homes and businesses suffered damages, with multiple families displaced and significant furniture losses due to water damage.
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Des Moines
Tabernacle
East Grand Avenue
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Guaranty Hosiery Mills
Finch Realty Company
Finches
Sam Sunberg
Sunberg
Grand Avenue
Des Moines Paint Company
W. Doise
Fifth Street
Phillip Smith
W. C. Wright
Bank president J H Wintrode shoots self in office
Winterset Iowa December 27 Dr J H Wintrode president of Citizens National Bank shot and killed himself at his desk after a morning with bank staff. He had feared gall stone ailments and expressed despondency about his health. The family and city share in the tragedy as his suicide is reported. In Mason City, Patrick O Neil dies after land hunt while C G K Hildreth suffers serious injuries when Milwaukee No 102 collides with Rock Island No }
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Winterset
J. H. Wintrode
Citizens’ National Bank
Dr. Wintrode
W. J. Cornell
Thompson
Wintrode
Des Moines
Colfax
Mason City
Det
Patrick O' Neil
Hildreth
Kensett
Milwaukee
Rock Island
Plymouth
Haskell Superintendent Advanced Announcement
Lawrence Kansas December 27 J B Peakrs superintendent of the Maskell Institute has been appointed national supervisor in charge of education of the Indians with headquarters in Washington.
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Haskell
Lawrence
Kas
J. B Peakrs
Maskell Institute
Washington
Mrs Youtsey Seeks Divorce in Winchester Case
Winchester Ky Dec 27 Mrs Fleury B E Youtsey filed suit here seeking divorce from her husband who is in the penitentiary for the alleged assassination of Senator Groove several years ago.
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Youtsey
Winchester
Fleury
Senator Goove
Rock Island elects Henry J. Mudge president
Henry J. Mudge, elevated from within the Rock Island system, is highlighted as a self-made railroad official of long service. Beginning in 1872 as a water carrier on the Santa Fe, he rose through roles from telegraph operator to assistant superintendent. He became general superintendent in 1894 and general manager after moving to Rock Island, then vice president in 1905.
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Henry A. Mudge
Rock Island
New York
Henry J. Mudge
Mr. Mudge
Santa Fe
Mudge
Grand Division
The
Wasps as a Girls Pets in Andover
Andover England shows an unusual hobby as Miss Black Hawkins keeps tame wasps on her hand to illustrate that wasps are friends of man. The note claims wasps protect fruit from pests and feed on rotting fruit. It also mentions that male wasps do not sting, while females and neuters do.
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Andover
England
No Chance For A Barber At Volunteer Camp
A London TitBits note recalls a new adjutant in a metropolitan corps who punishes men with haircuts by pushing their peak caps forward while shouting hair out here His elderly long service target reveals a bald head except for a thin gray line below the cap, provoking laughter and ridicule.
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Jné
London
First Woman Appointed Medical Officer In Tasmanian Schools
Dr Gertrude Halley a Melbourne University medical graduate has been re appointed medical officer of the public schools in Tasmania. She is the first woman to hold the post and reports indicate high satisfaction with her work prompting a movement to appoint women to remaining offices to the exclusion of men.
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Gertrude Halley
Melbourne University
Tasmania
Halley
Coffin Gift Joke For Old Folks Sparks Father’s Outburst
A young missionary jokes about gifting a coffin to elderly Chinese elders. He quips that in China a coffin is a welcome present, prompting the father to slam the door in mock anger as the absurd remark ends.
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China
Havana
You Can Rely on Resinol for Quick Relief
A Cleveland dentist endorses Ungt Resinol for dry skin relief after months of trials. He reports two applications provided more relief than all other remedies and offers to recommend it widely. The piece includes a brief aside about Japanese burial customs and a compass diagram in Japanese homes and hotels.
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A. EB. Hatch
D. D.S
Cleveland
Ohio
Japan
Attractive Klondike Incubator Promises Efficient Hatchery
An advertises a rosewood styled incubator by New Klondike Incubator Company Des Moines Iowa. It touts neat appearance easy regulation even heat and oil economy and claims to be peerless for hatching chicks and ducks. Catalogue available on request with information for raising chicks young and old.
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Klondike
Klondike Incubator Company
Des Moines
Iowa
Gupid's Cynicism in The Circle Dialog
The Circle presents a sparing exchange where Gupid questions a man about courting a singer. He recalls she always sang a song he loved and reveals he did not marry her because he could buy the song for 50 cents.
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Gupid
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Containing Mercury
Historic medical ad warns against mercury in catarrh ointments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo makers F J Cheney Co. Internal use claimed to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Includes testimonials, dosing, and pharmacist sales note. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and Wizard Oil as throat remedy with light humor about appearances.
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Hall
FL J.ury & Co
Toledo
Hlo
F. J. Cheney & Co
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days No Money Back Guarantee
Pazo Ointment promises to cure itching blind bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days with a money refund if not. The ad mockingly notes doctors disagree and ends with claims about your own grocer selling Russ Blue to whiten clothes and preserve temper, warning you’ll only be beaten by yourself.
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Land of Oz
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Chap XI
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Stork
Tabernacle Burns
Old Tabernacle
Winterset Banking Institution
Henry U. Mudge
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