The Singing Fool Ends in a Deserted Night Departure
Al Stone, a New York club singer and part owner of Club Bombo, returns home on New Year’s Eve to find Molly Stone has left him with their baby Junior. A letter reveals Molly’s affair with John Perry, Perry’s betrayal, and Molly’s plan to take Junior as she and Perry flee. Al races through the crowd to face a ruined marriage and an uncertain future. To Be Continued.
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al Stone
Blackie Joe
New York
Molly Winton
Molly
Junior
John Perry
Perry
Bombo
Celeste
John
Boston
Florida
Dr Thomas Eletric Oil Promoted as Poor Man’s Aid
Advertised as a portable medicine sold in small bottles for a low price, Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil is touted as having concentrated power and wide uses, making it a staple for the poor man. No dealer’s stock is complete without it.
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Thomas
Sulphate Plant to Rise South of Moose Jaw by Next Year
Within sixty days construction will begin on a large sulphate plant about sixty miles south of Moose Jaw. The facility will draw sodium sulphate deposits from Horseshoe Lake near Ormiston and is expected to operate by June next year. The Barnum Reduction Corporation of Charleston, West Virginia, leads the project.
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Moose Jaw
Horseshoe Lake
Ormiston
Barnum Reduction Corporation of
Charleston
West Virginia
Witty Ad Lines Highlight Wart Remedy and Busy Youth
In a terse humorous note the ad copy touts Minard's Liniment for warts and teases the rising young man likely to prevail only if he keeps late hours. It closes with a quip that all things come to those who wait except the man who owes you money.
St Kilda Faces Evacuation Over Shrinking Population
The St Kilda island group in the Atlantic, now home to 38 people, may be evacuated and residents relocated to the mainland. Sheep are kept for wool, with food from sea birds and occasional potatoes when harvests allow. The hardy inhabitants resist leaving their lonely homes despite the hard life.
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Britain
St. Kilda
Atlantic
Baby's Own Tablets praised as a universal remedy
A promotional note extols Baby's Own Tablets as a mild yet thorough laxative for infants and children. It claims relief from colds fevers constipation indigestion colic and teething pain, with Mrs J H Bromley of Westmeath Ontario cited as a satisfied user who would not be without them. The firm offers the product for 25 cents per box by mail from The Dr Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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J.H. Bromley
Westmeath
Ont
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Museum of Antiques at garden fete
Looker-On reports a humorous Museum of Antiques at a garden fete in the London Daily Chronicle. Exhibits include a gigantic four inch safety pin from the 1890s, long daggers labelled hat pins of 1909, a frayed braid edge, a wide skirt made from brush braid, a lingerie blouse with numerous hooks and eyes, and other relics favored by mothers and grandmothers.
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London Daily Chronicle
Courtesy Of the Road Warns Against Reckless Drivers
An editorial laments reckless motorists and urges adherence to a driving courtesy code on the King's highway. It condemns a mindset of quick temper and self interest, arguing safe, polite conduct protects the innocent. the piece also references Holloway's Corn Remover as a favored remedy.
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King's Highway
Little Helps For This Week In Godly Reflection
A compact devotional noting springtime signs as hints of heaven and divine care. The passage quotes Browning and Powers, urging readers to pause, ponder grass and blossoms, and feel the benediction in nature as a reminder of Jesus in Galilee and the Father’s watchful regard.
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Jesus
Galilee
Horatio N. Powers
Farewell to the Leicestershire Regiment from Rhineland
The evacuation by the second battalion of the Leicestershire regiment became the first complete British unit to leave the Rhineland. The entire population turned out despite heavy rain to bid the soldiers godspeed.
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Leicestershire Regiment
Rhineland
Bolivia States All Useful Minerals as State Property
In Bolivia legislation declares that all useful minerals originate in and belong to the state. The policy asserts national ownership of mineral resources.
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Bolivia
Fertilizer Boosts Wheat Yield On Local Farm Trial
A Pokrant farm plot near the Canadian Pacific Railway station in Morden was sowed with fertilizer from the district experimental farm. It produced 41 bushels per acre versus 80 on an unfertilized adjacent plot. The fertilizer is claimed to retain soil value for three years.
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Pokrant
Morden
Canadian Pacific
Cora Ponders Bachelor Status and Early Wheels
Cora muses on why he is a bachelor noting he lacked a car in his youth. The remark hints at personal history shaping present singles status.
Meteors Weight Earth Slows Rotation Says Harvard Astronomer
Dr Luyten of Harvard Observatory in Bloemfontein asserts about 30 million meteors strike Earth daily and their cumulative weight could gradually slow Earth's spin by about a thousandth of a second per million years. He notes geologists will devise reducing measures in time. The rest mentions Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for farms and a note on light entering through the upper third of windows.
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Dr. Luyten
Harvard Observatory
Bloemfontein
South Africa
Neon Sign Ad Boom Shines In China
Neon light signs gain popularity across China quảng advertising restaurants shops and newspapers. The trend reflects growing urban commerce and visual culture in major cities as businesses seek eye catching external branding.
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China
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Warner Bree Pictures
Irie
Ww. N. U
Moose
Minard
Lydia E. Pinkham
Rena Weer
Lonely Island
Museum of Antiques
London
England
Holloway
Roya Yeast
Song of Solomon
Robert Browning
Cora
Bach
Elor
Earth
Observatory
U.S. Public Health Service
Canada
Labastine, Limited
Ris
Winnipeg
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