Al Stone's Tragic Return and Lost Broadway Dream
Grace Farrel searches New York streets for Al Stone the former singing waiter and soon to be famed songwriter who vanished after Molly Winton elopes with his best friend John Perry and takes their child Junior Al drifts into despair living on docks and cheap meals while Molly seeks divorce in Paris Grace learns of his decline and the two reconnect only as the tale resumes with Al avoiding his past and Junior's memory awaiting continuation.
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al Stone
Grace Farrel
Grace
Blackie Joe's
Blackie
Blacke
New York
Hi Grace
Molly
Junior
Paris
Molly Winton
Junior Stone
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France
Perry
Riviera
East Sde
Marcus
Walled Arabian City Sanza Describes Fortified Ruins and Mosques
A desert town in southwest Arabia named Sanza sits behind a four mile thick rubble wall with four gates and many turrets, mostly ruined. Within the walls lies a grand mosque area housing lapidaries who cut Yemen quartz and chrysoprase stones.
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Sanza
Arabia
Yemen
Feet Sore Use Minards Iniment
A compact ad style line urges readers to use Minard s liniment for foot soreness. The rest presents a jumble of witticisms and trivia about bachelors and volcanoes, offering a peek at miscellaneous period content rather than a single clear news item.
Furnace and Eskimo Described in North American Review
In a narrative from North American Review Eskimo Muk-pi visits an Alaskan home and questions a furnace. The narrator leads her to a cellar where a crude oil drum serves as a furnace and explains how its heat travels through pipes to warm four rooms above. The Eskimo reacts with fear yet follows as they return upstairs to warmth.
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May Lee Davis
North American Review
Muk-pi
Mul-pi
Devil
Mukpi
Nerves Trouble Florence Coutier
Florence Coutier of Bark Lake says nerves troubled her nights and days, affecting sleep and rest until a neighbor advised a remedy.
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Florence Coutier
Bark Lake
PTC Va at NeRveP box promotion note
The first box did me good and after the sixth box I was able to return to my work. Price five cents a box at all druggists and dealers or mailed direct after payment, by The T Millburn Co Limited, Toronto Ontario.
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T. Millburn Co Limited
Toronto
The Experience Of Many A Humble Swedish Investor
A Swedish maid with a modest nest egg grows rich on life savings then sees gains of 25 000 only to lose 35 000 as motor stocks plunge. The tale closes with her reflection that it comes so slow it goes so quick.
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Wall Street
Sweden
Manitoba co operative fishers begin Lake Winnipeg work
The Manitoba Cooperative Fisheries Ltd, an alliance of about 400 fishermen on Lake Winnipeg, began operations on September 1 1928. In the first season ending April 30 1929 it handled 6 190 000 pounds of fish, part of a Lake Winnipesaukee catch of 14 500 000 pounds. Also noted is Mother Graves Worm Terminator praised as a vermicide saving children and a shipment of 200 silver foxes valued at 70 000 from Prince Edward Island to Sweden, the fox farming hub in Canada.
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Manitoba Co-operative Fisheries, Ltd
Lake Winnipeg
Lake Winnpes
Prince Edward Island
Fox Ranches
Canada
Sweden
Toni Castoria
Englishenan Invents New Dance Floor at Savoy Hotel
A new hydraulic dance floor at the Savoy Hotel London rises to table height in 30 seconds and can be viewed from the cabaret without standing. Inventor W. J. Huggett and chief engineer F. C. Pay led a six month project costing over $50,000, using four artesian wells to power the system.
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Sevey Hotel
London
England
Savoy Hotel
Savoy
W. J.huggett
F.C. Pay
When Your Baby Catches A Cold Baby's Own Tablets
How to treat early cold symptoms in infants with Baby's Own Tablets. The ad promises rapid relief and prevention of complications, claiming the remedy is safe for babies and acts as a gentle laxative to ease stomach and bowels. Distributed by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Interesting Cinema Beside Royal District Nicknamed New Yet Historic
A compact cinema near Buckingham Palace Road, built by E C Lascelles for Royal Family use, sits on an old church site. A planned subterranean passage to ease access was abandoned. Also notes Mark Twain's early use of a typewriter and Miller’s Worm Powders claim to remove intestinal worms. The article mentions pearl shell yields off Australia’s northwestern shore over a decade.
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Royal Riding School
Buckingham Palace Road
Victoria Station
E. C. Lascelles
Lord Lascelles
Buckingham Palace
Words of faith and endurance in a sorrowful week
A fragment from a periodical page quotes poetry and essays on grief, perseverance, and moral reflection. It notes biblical lines and a meditation on sorrow as a lasting, shaping force, with a brief endorsement of Dr Thomas' Electric Oil and its international reach.
Airplane Traces Blackmailer via Carrier Pigeon in Germany
An aerial photo thwarted a blackmail attempt in Germany. A wealthy man received a package with a carrier pigeon and a letter demanding a large ransom. The pigeon was released, followed by a plane that photographed the landing site, exposing the offender’s home. The target, an unemployed miner from one of the victim’s mines, was identified.
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Germany
New influenza treatment praised by Dr Raymond M Pearce
The British Medical Journal highlights a new treatment called SUP. 36 for influenza. Described by Dr Raymond M Pearce, the compound is a para-benzoyl-pari amino-benzoyl-amino naphthol sodium sulphonate and is presented as the latest option in influenza care.
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Raymond M. Pearce
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