Evolution of Telephone Operators From Men to Women
An old report praises the shift from large male staffed switchrooms to orderly modern operations run by women. It notes the old system with dangling cords and traveling operators, contrasting it with today’s clean, supervised, seat-bound workspaces where operators connect calls from their chairs.
Bell engineers unveil world’s most powerful vacuum tube
Bell Laboratories announces a 100 kilowatt vacuum tube, the largest yet, promising revolution in long distance wireless telegraphy and a drastic drop in transatlantic maintenance costs. The device fits in one hand yet delivers bridgeable power for telegraphy, signaling a major strategic lead.
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Bell Laboratories
Atlantic
Long distance call saves woman life in Chicago
A Rochester to Chicago long distance call on September 4th helped police reach Mrs. Lillian Seaman of Chicago after she wrote that she might die before the letter arrived. Police and operators located her, found her unconscious from gas, and she was rushed to a hospital where her life was saved by swift action.
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Rochester
Lillian Seamer
Chicago
The Kittches Cabine rs Babee 4 H Menu Wonders
A fragmented 4 H club page offers recipes and fare notes including Pepper Cabbage Salad Tapioca Delight and Club Sandwich. It describes dressing mixtures with cream sugar salt and vanilla and suggests Waffles and a dessert with strawberries and whipped cream. The text is garbled but lists multiple dish ideas and instructional snippets.
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Icharkat
The Kitchen Cabinets 1922 Recipes and Advice Tacked
A fragmented 1922 kitchen column covers cooking tips and recipes. It includes notes on Hamburg steak variations, a Peanut-Butter Luncheon toast dish, Apple Spread, Lemon Potato Pie, Lima Beans or Cassrole, and general culinary hints with measurements and steps.
Have a Conkey Corner in Your Home
Promote Conkey's remedies for poultry with an offer of Conkey's tonic and a free Poultry Book. The ad urges readers to visit and purchase from a full line of Conkey's products framed as the old reliable tonic for fowls.
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Conkey
Raezer's Pulmonic Health Remedy Advertised
An advertisement touts Raezer's Pulmonic as a non narcotic medicine for after effects of the flu pneumonia laryngitis asthma and croup in children. It claims extensive health restoration and lists Lititz Pennsylvania as the company base with mail order pricing and payment options.
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Raezer
Raczer’s
Pulmonie Co
Lititz
Pulmoni¢ Co
Post Office
American Express
Fragmentary Washington Star Quote on Delivery
A garbled Washington Star passage shows a speaker claiming a delivery, with distorted wording about passing in people of a feature. The fragment hints at a claim or command but lacks clear context or names to confirm specifics.
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Washington Star
Stockings and Stock Deed Fragments in Legal Notice
Fragmentary OCR text notes long stockings and leather stocks, mentions law calls and upper stocks. References Wad Mam Midge and a devise or trust with terms around a date and exchange. Details are unclear due to garbled wording and missing context.
Rat Snap Promises Hog Savings Says James McGuire
James McGuire of New Jersey touts RAT-SNAP as a rat control solution for farmers. An ad notes the product costs 85 cents, 65 cents, or 1.29 dollars and comes in cake form that dogs won t touch. Sold and guaranteed by L. N. Moyer in Lititz and S. M. Fahnestock in Lexington.
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James McGuire
New Jersey
L. N. Moyer
Lititz
S. M. Fahnestock
Lexington
Unclear OCR Fragment Tumbling Through Island Names
Fragmentary text mentions Charest Folin of Gasol and references a treaty dated Plecpitherm 24, 15ta tied to a second war and U S aid Bayh. Opaque phrases about shawls, garth, and birthplace notes cloud the event or context. The fragment lacks coherent facts to form a solid summary.
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Twentysie Islands
Chait
Geluiem
Garth
Pheci
Issest
Charest
CHINA'S GREAT WALL CRUMBLING SIGHTSEERS REPORT
Visitors describe the great wall near Naiun forty miles from Peking as slowly crumbling with ruined salients and blocks torn from the superstructure. Despite wear the wall extends to Tihei and still has active features. construction began in 200 B C under Chih Huang Yi to keep out the Turura with hundreds of thousands of workers at different periods.
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Ching
Naiun
Peking
Shaghaikvan
Tihei
Chih Huang- Yi
Tannihal
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