Mrs. Miller Finds Tanlac Restores Health After Grippe
Mrs. H. B. Miller of Blairsville near Johnstown says a severe grippe left her nearly a nervous wreck with loss of appetite gas pains and constant belching. After taking Tanlac she reports normal sleep appetite and no nerves plus ongoing wellness during grippe epidemics. Tanlac sold by Druggist L. N. Moyer.
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H. B. Miller
Blairsville
Johnstown
Grippe
Tanlac
L. N. Moyer
Diverse Local Bits From Pennsylvania News Patch
Halifax's Phoebe Krick aged 80 has knitted fifteen stockings and holds yarn for a sixteenth. A Dauphin county grocery closure and flour sale ban followed a cereal ruling. Pottstown's new post office nears occupancy with civil service exams at $550 and $600. Florence Laubs, 16, Green Castle High pupil, died with chloroform in bed. Mrs. Joseph Miller reports December and January egg records totaling 669 and 1464 eggs, selling at 60c a dozen. W. M. Patton spoke on future potato uses at New Freedom. Goodman's repair track death case involved a frozen body found in a sealed car. Hershey Chocolate buys H. T. Yost plant in Myerstown. Pittsburgh man Samuel Seex receives letter from Russia uncle Isaac Katlin dated 1914, censored but intact. Katlin died nearby amid war’s hardships.
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Phoebe Krick
Halifax
Wendel Mahek
Donald McCormick
Dauphin County
Mahek
Pottstown
Florence
John Laubs
Green Castle
Joseph Miller
Waynesville
Farmers’ Institute
New Freedom
York County
W. M. Patton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Goodman’s
Altoona
Henry Matthews
Florida
Boliver
Hershey Chocolate Company
H. T. Yost
Myerstown
Tis
Jtun
Lebanon Valley
Samuel Seex
Pittsburgh
Isaac Katlin
Russia
Konstantinovo
Katlin
Egg of Phoenix Found in China Fossil Ostrich Shell Displayed
Naturalists working for American museums in China recovered an enormous egg claimed by locals to be the Phoenix egg. The Museum of Natural History in New York declares it a fossil ostrich egg, with one small hole where contents may have disappeared. The egg, found by a Henan peasant along the Yellow River, held about two quarts of fluids and illustrates ancient China’s high cost of living.
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China
Museum of Natural History
New York
Boston Transcript
United States
Henan
Yellow River
Museu
Jair
Arabia
Heliopoli
Wireless Messages and Wave Length Conflicts
A wireless telegraph message can be confused by a receiver tuned to the same wave length as the transmitter. If the receiving set is not on the same wave length, it will not pick up signals from a different wavelength.
Inducement at Philadelphia Marine Corps Recruiter
Christopher Brown from Braintree visits a Philadelphia recruiting station and expresses a wish to enlist. The sergeant questions if Braintree is a breakfast food or educational institution. Brown asserts Braintree is a Massachusetts town that produced two presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, plus John Hancock and Col. Charles G. Long. He jokes about potentially leading the Marines in a year or two.
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Christopher Brown
United States Marine Corps
Philadelphia
Troy Times
Braintree
Massachusetts
United States
Brown
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
John Hancock
Col
Charles G. Long
Marine Corps
Camera Marks Airplane Hits at Toronto Aviation School
The Toronto aviation school trains aviators with a machine gun camera system. Two apprentice flyers fly combat-like drills where each trigger snap records a film frame instead of a bullet. A hit yields an image of the enemy plane on film, a miss leaves a blank frame for later tally of accuracy.
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Toronto
Bolesm discussion highlights corrupting power of money
Charles I Murphy of Tammany remarks on Bololem and money’s sway. He recounts a southern senator who gave twenty dollars to a colored church. The collector and elders whispered as the pulpit was reached, then the senator hinted to depart after a bribe to stay quiet. The town’s claim of two honest men is mocked.
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Charles I. Murphy
Tammany
South
Operation by Telegraph Saves Australian Patient
An operation by telegraph, guided by a surgeon 1,600 miles away, saved a patient in Hall's Creek northern Australia after a fall near Hull's Creek. With no local doctor within 1,000 miles, Perth advised via telegraph and the postmaster performed the urthera rupture surgery using available instruments, chief being a razor.
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Telegraph
Australia
Scientific American
Hull's Creek
Perth
Hall's Creek
Turkish Sultanate Heirarchy and Succession Rules
The Turkish government is described as a hereditary monarchy with the sultan as both temporal and spiritual head. Succession passes to the senior male descendant of the house of Osman, with Mohammed V named as the thirty sixth sovereign and twenty ninth since Constantinople. The sultan does not marry, but children born in the harem are legitimate and equal in lineage. the oldest male child succeeds regardless of the mother’s status.
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House of Osman
Mohammed V
Constantinople
Turkey
Big Game Problem Plan For Wildlife Sanctuaries
Remsen Crawford in Collier s notes propose sanctuaries in national forests to let big game breed unmolested and bill pending in Congress. The Hornaday plan, named for Dr William T Hornaday, argues protected breeding grounds could yield millions of head for market and ease a meat shortage by allowing deer and elk to multiply in wild timber and brush lands.
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Hoover
Remsen Crawford
Collier’s
Congress
America
Hornaday
William T. Hornaday
Zoological Park
New York
Doctor Hornaday
United States Army Teague
American Defense Society
United States
Meatless Mince Pie Adds Meatless Menu Item
The national emergency garden commission unveils a camouflage mince meat as a meatless pie filling to aid food conservation. Tried by five hundred troops on a transport, it was praised as perfect and requested for more. It uses seeded raisins prunes juice and cider with brown sugar to mimic traditional meat pie filling.
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Natonal Emergency Garden Commission
Food Administration
Sleeper Tax Hits Porters in War Time Rant
The Kansas City Star reports that traveling salesmen and the public riding sleeping cars face a new wartime tax. Negro porters say they bear a heavier burden, as tips drop from 25 cents to 10 cents while the government adds 10 percent to sleeper fares since November first.
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Kansas City Star
Neigro
Icelanders Are Intellectual In Crisis with Denmark Says Writer
A writer asserts Icelanders possess political acumen and high literacy, ready for possible conflict with Denmark. He notes Iceland ranks among the world’s most literate nations with widespread reading and writing, including fishermen and guides who pen poetry of merit.
Paper as Fuel in Milan Balconies
In Italy households save odd paper scraps, soak and knead them into balls, then dry them in the sun to use as heat later. Fashionable Milan streets show pyramids of these paper balls stacked in the balconies of the rich.
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Italy
Milan
Americans Over the Top in War Entry Celebration
In No Man's Land Canadian trenches guard as United States declares war on Germany. Private Scotty Anderson leads 160 Americans across to seize the German first line, routing defenders, taking prisoners, and returning as heroes to Canadian comrades. The moment marks Uncle Sam joining the conflict.
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Lusitania
Arthur Guy Empey
England
France
No Man's Land
Henry James Buxton
United States
Canada
Scotty” Anderson
Boston
Fraisco
Scotty
Tong
Jack Murdock
Murdock
Germany
No Man’s Land
Uncle Sam
Sue Petior
Logging Trains Use Caterpillar Steam Locomotive
In Northwest lumber districts high in the mountains, logging trains haul large timber loads from forests to mills. Snow aids operations by enabling a powerful cog-wheel caterpillar tractor steam engine. Front trucks act as sleigh runners steered by a visible operator at the wheel.
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Northwest
Trackless Engine Powers Log Haul on Railless Route
A ginner handles duties as if on track while a fireroan keeps steam up. Special sleighs as wide as the locomotive carry logs, and the trackless engine can drag eight or more truckloads at once.
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Ginner
Why He Quit: Sugar Famine Causes Confectionery Closure
In Indianapolis a new north city confectionery opened but a skilled candy maker sparked a spree and depleted stock. The proprietor hunted him down, repaired the worker, yet a sugar famine ensued leaving no sugar available. After days of shortage the candy maker was absent and the shop closed auctioned stock and fixtures, ending the business.
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Indianapolis News
Sunflower touted as future US economic staple
The Christian Science Monitor notes sunflowers may replace Jinseed in US markets and cites a report by the National Paint Oil and Varnish association claiming sunflower cultivation could yield farmers from $30 to $86 per acre. The piece also muses on Kansas profits and asks if the jamson weed could be developed to please Missowl.
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United States
Christian Science Monitor
National Paint, Oil and Varnish Association
Kansas
Scrap Iron Harvest From War Wreckage Draws Government Action
Reports from front observers state that salvage of metal debris on battlefields is now controlled by national authorities. A daily salvage corps gathers steel, copper, aluminum and other metals from exposed ground, processing them into munition components while damaged lead is largely unrecoverable.
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Europe
London
Secont
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Monsieur
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J. E. Charles’ Drug Store
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