Franklin man Harry Daly to tour Peoria with stomach health show
The Franklin man Harry Daly, famed for claiming a medicine formula from a French chemist, will visit Peoria for two weeks with a free vaudeville show at the Pythian Theater. Daly says 50 to 60 percent of Americans suffer poor health from digestive issues and aims to educate stomachs with his theories and medicine.
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Shay
Harry FE. Daly
Franklin
Peoria
Ife
Franklin Man
Pythian Theater
Torricelli and the Vacuum Barometer Discovery
The barometer was invented by Torricelli in 1643 while studying atmospheric pressure. He showed that water rises in a vacuum only to a height balanced by atmospheric pressure, using a mercury filled tube to create a near perfect vacuum now called the Torricelli vacuum.
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Torricelli
Galilei
Florence
Food Prices Soar Drives Milk Transportation Call to ICC Probe
Washington. Justice Department agents monitor bread and milk price rises. Milk producers urge a nationwide inquiry by the Department of Agriculture with W J Spillman and B H Rawle to examine the milk supply and transportation costs, aiming to report on a fair summer and winter basis.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Th Department of Justice
Chicago
Memphis
Birmingham
Carl 8. Vrooman
Vrooman
Department of Agriculture
W. J. Spillman
B. H. Rawle
Jeems Henry Conjured Angers Aunt Tildy In Riotous Outburst
Aunt Tildy rushes into a firehouse exclaiming Jeems Henry has been conjured. She demands a phonograph to alert car cleaners’ sempo rium and Dan to depart home, while Dr Cutter allegedly distracts two vultures and contemplates quarantine and inoculation amid a wild scene.
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Henry
John
Tildy
Dan
Cutter
Chile
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Taste of the Elect and Quiet Winter Trials
The piece notes a winter ordeal of standing in a slippery washbasin to sponge a shivering body with water from a china bowl, praising the persistence of the elect in unheated rooms during zero weather. It also discusses how metals flow into each other, with gold penetrating lead when left in contact for a month if surfaces stay clean.
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Elect
The
Atlantic Monthly
Wilson says United States is too proud to fight
The president told an Omaha audience that America is ready to fight if the cause is just, despite recent killings of Americans including women and children, prompting questions about how Europe should interpret his stance.
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Wilson
Omaha
America
United States
School on wheels teaches in a box car in Utah
Salt Lake City reports a box car on the Southern Pacific line fitted with benches serves as a daily school for twenty five or more children. Fore man Taft's extra section gang of fifty under Superintendent Whalen’s Los Angeles division moves the car from place to place so students never miss a day.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Southern Pacific Company
Taft
Whalen
Los Angeles
Painted Hen Incident Triggers Theft Charge in Paterson
Mrs O Hares tale recounts a green spotted chicken seen near Alexander Millers yard. Nelile O Hare alerted a man and had him arrested on a charge of purloining hens and crafts after decorating birds with paint to trace missing fowls.
Girl Rescues Kitten From High Voltage Wires
Los Angeles story of Gertrude Hemingway a Venice girl who braved danger to save a kitten trapped on a fifty foot telegraph pole after two days in a network of high voltage wires. She lives on Washington boulevard and sought a man brave enough to help but acted alone to perform the rescue.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Gertrude Hemingway
Venice
Hemingway
Washington Boulevard
Hughes versus Wilson on record and labor tariff defense
The piece argues Hughes is defined by deeds over rhetoric and contrasts his New York governorship with Wilson’s administration. It credits protectionist tariffs as the great labor law and warns Democrats would erode wage earner prosperity without tariffs, urging continued Republican protection.
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Mr. Hughes
Mr. Wilson
Watson
Mr. Taft
Mr. Roosevelt
Hughes
New York
Wilson
America
Cir Tles
Europe
Fiery words and unresolved Mexico tensions cited in 1916 speech
The piece quotes Woodrow Wilson on direct challenge to violated sovereignty while noting flag salutes denied at Vera Cruz, Villa’s escape, Carranza's stance, and no American reparations. It comments on public reaction and the elusive call for decisive action despite rhetoric.
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Woodrow Wilson
Vera Cruz
Villa
Carranza
United States
Mexico
Opportunism in the White House. a flexible leader
A New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser critique labels the incumbent as highly pliant, switching between states’ rights and nationalism, pacifism and war rhetoric, wage moderation and wage increases, and warns of opportunism shaping policy beyond political limits. General Pershing’s army is praised as fit for both battle and leisure within political bounds.
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Woodrow
White House
Col “Roosevelt
Phips
New York
Globe and ‘Commercial, Advertiser
Women sufferings and kidney pain find relief
Mrs Thomas Riley of Marshall testifies her back aches, nervousness, dizziness and irregular kidney secretions eased by Dean's Kidney Pills. The ad claims congestion and inflammation of kidneys cause back and hip pains and urges readers to ask for the remedy at 50 cents from Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY.
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Dean’s
Marshall
Thomas Riley
St. Marshall
Boris
Dean
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Drug
North Side Square
Maxwell. Service
Maxwell
Maxwell Service
Maxwell Organization
Detroit
Charles Brandenstein
Marshall, Ilinois
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