Tire Firm Buys Wingfoot Field in Akron for Airship Use
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company acquires Wingfoot Field near Akron two miles from its factory. The privately owned aviation complex will expand aero nautical work, support dirigible production and testing, and may host a flying school for airship pilots. The facility includes a 460 by 159 by 60 foot hangar and hydrogen plant, with barracks for 100 men, boosting Akron into a leading air port region if plans proceed.
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United States Naval Air Station
Wingfoot Field
Akron
Onis
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Wingfoot Flell
United States Navy
Christmas Shopping Confusion and Remedy Claims
A stenographer discusses gifting to a two month old while a shop girl questions the need. The piece shifts to promote a “system regulator” named Prickly Ash hitters claimed to purify and strengthen organs and improve sleep and mood, priced at $1.25 per bottle from Ranson and Melun.
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Christines
Mos
Ranson, & Melun
Fervor Dampens in Southern Oklahoma Camp Meeting
The report notes the mood among Black community members settling crops and gathering for a camp meeting. A minister leads joyous gospel praise as a preacher becomes animated, shouting about heaven. A male attendee briefly exclaims and the scene includes singing and Sister speakers in the crowd.
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Oklatonti
Oug
Ar Hese
Legun
Sisters
Amd
Bradder Mose
New York
Black Draught praised as family remedy through generations
Mrs. Chas. Gaston of Ringgold California endorses Thedford s Black Draught as a staple family medicine used since childhood. She credits it with easing headaches from constipation malaria chills and liver and bowel troubles and saving doctor bills. The remedy is described as purely vegetable and helps regulate the liver and purify the bowels.
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Ringgold
Chas. Gaston
Thedford
Bil
Prickly Ash Bitters Offer Health Claims
An old advertisement touts Prickly Ash bitters as cleansing the blood boosting kidneys and aiding the stomach with a price of 1.25 per bottle. The note includes a stray remark about a boss and a suggestion to send Llano News to friends or relatives.
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Bensam
Farmers consider strike and cooperative action risk
Half the respondents in a post office department questionnaire say they may quit farming or cut production. They cite high costs and long hours. some fear farmer unity aimed at limiting output. The piece notes stubborn tensions and argues for reform rather than mass action.
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Post Office Department
Ioana
Texas
o—Partlett Tribune
In a Hurry The jese traditions and Conpoeius mystery
The text describes a scene near Tientsin with a grieving woman named Shula and a man who laments his fate. A grave vow binds her to not remarry until her husband’s grave is dey. The dialogue hints at cultural ritual and personal tragedy within a fragmented excerpt.
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Tientsin
Shula
Luke McLuke Skeptical on Suffrage and Legion Appropriations
Luke McLuke argues suffrage may not affect the nation and warns Congress will pass laws. He recalls a recent legislative act and cites a 340000 appropriation for cabacco related to convicts, urging caution and memory of past expenditures.
Powdered miscue with a khaki recruit and horse
A khaki clad recruit rushes to a regimental vet claiming the powder nearly killed him. The vet asks when the powder was placed in a tube and blown into the horse. The recruit admits he blew into both ends, nearly overdosing himself as the horse blew first.
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Weill
From Foot to Head in a Brief Career Tale
Mr Oldboy recalls his brother Tom rising from chiropodist to barber in short order. The text then touts Prickly Ash Bitters as a summer blood purifier for liver and bowels, priced $1.24 per bottle from Ransom McInnis.
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Mr. Oldboys
Tom
Ransom & McInnis
Father Knows Tax Day Pride in Small Sons
The Brownwood Bulletin satirical note by Editor Jim White salutes Father as the day he files his income tax report. The piece hints that the rest of the year his children vanish into the so called KaLinty column.
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Jim White
The
Bulletin
Jim
Brownwood Bulletin
Visiting habits in the nation during sales pitches
Percy Noodles laments social visits fading into sales chatter as he recalls a capricious answer from a capitalist's daughter who compared his status to a poodle. The remark underscored a climate where visiting is mostly tied to selling.
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Percy Noodles
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White Star Laundry
Hoels
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Llano, Texas
E. Shults
Tire Company
Georgia
Meinnis
Tillie Clinger
W. F. Gray
C. E. Schults
A. Vander Stucken
W. Vander Stecken
W. B. Haynie
Grady Faullon
Land, Texa
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Wight-Evil
Luke McLuke
Erans
Ebay
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Southwestern Phone
Dabbles
Rockwell Bros & CO
B. Lange
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