Sailors Battle for Comfort under New Ship Regulations
An article reviews how modern ship rules improve sailor life with better berthing bedding and wash facilities while preserving enduring sea law. It notes standard beds, iron frames, and provided bedding under Emergency Fleet rules, plus separate crew messes and ships’ showers. It emphasizes the rule that all hands on deck for safety override regular tours and compensation during danger, with the captain’s orders as law at sea.
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Flo
Iemuch
Trewell
Shipping Board
Rnlox
Pip Hoger Spardtyine
Jhiek
Lana
Tor
Connerton
Hall's Catarrh Medicine ad claims cure and money back
Frank J Cheney swears to indemnity if Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure catarrh in Toledo New York or Illinois. The notice promises a $100 payment if the tonic cures catarrh and advises readers to send for testimonials. It promotes Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
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Chile
Toledo
Tucas
Frank J. Cheney
Fr. Chenay & Co
Hall
B. I. Cheney & CO
Prices and commodities listed for farm products and grain
A fragmented market page lists potatoes butter pork veal sheep calves hides and live stock prices plus grain items. It shows per weight and per ton rates for beef, poultry, and dairy products alongside wheat oats barley rye corn and feed items from a company.
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Wright
SPARK
Spanish War Pals in Draft Reunite at Registration
Fred Tate, Kansas City secret service head, spots John Rumley, Gettysburg friend, at draft registration. Tate notes the reunion echoes events from the Spanish American War and both men fear another call to arms.
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Tate
Rumley
Fred Tate
Secret Service Department
Kansas City
Une
Proved Spirit of Democracy Powers Allied Effort
The text praises American voluntary service and sacrifice to sustain Allied operations and European relief. It notes doubling exports to Europe, the role of Africa in feeding Allies, and the Food Administration’s success under democratic trust. It emphasizes mobilization, organization, and support for democracy through voluntary action amid war.
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Europe
Algerica
Germany
Dhlima
Food Administration
United States
United Siles
America
Save 16 000 000 bushels of wheat threshermen and farmers unite
The nation saved about 16 million bushels of wheat by cleaner threshing and better field gathering during six months. State and local reports credit farmers and threshers for sharply reducing harvest losses from about 4 percent to minimums. The Ford Administration highlights patriotic service and unions of growers contributing to the result.
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United States
Cosin
U. S
Wis
Ditorn
The
Food Administration
Ford
Food Conservation in America Triumph of Self Denial
The piece extols voluntary food control in the United States during wartime. It lauds abstinence from wheat and sugar, arguing thrift and restraint prevented shortages, curbed speculation, and kept prices stable. Americans are praised for national duty and generosity as they support global needs.
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America
Pigeons Mighty Factors in War
Thousands of pigeons fight as bravely as soldiers, flying through shell fire to carry messages crucial to operations. The article describes how birds are used with baskets, nets, and even perches on balloons and cavalry, delivering urgent information that can determine success or failure on the front.
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Tate
Kent
Spizeon
Garman
Reverse Action Moralist Says Aim Is Everything
A terse remark from a moralist in the Boston Transcript appears to question the value of one’s aim in life. The brief reflection notes that not all effort toward goodness guarantees positive outcomes, suggesting skepticism about moral reform.
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Boston Transcript
Compound Hemorrhoid Remedy Ad at Humphreys’
An old classified style advertisement markets a four in one hemorrhoid ointment for external internal blind or bleeding itching or burning relief. It claims one application brings relief and lists price as 23 cents. Distributed by Sand Tree Semple of Ointment to Humphreys’ Homes Medicine Company.
Weesuse Remedy Gains Noted Market Reach and Esteem
A historic notice notes a cough medicine named 3 Coumn Remedy expanding from a small start to wide distribution and immense sales. It emphasizes the product’s exceptional merit and growing recognition among consumers and merchants.
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