Woman credits Pinkham remedies in life changing letter
Mrs. E T Galloway of Carter's Creek Tennessee writes she was nearly invalid three years ago. She used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash and says she has been well for two years able to work on farm and at home. She offers the letter to help other women with similar ailments.
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Carter
Tenn
Tia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
E.T. Galloway
Carter’s Creek
Ga Galloway
Heathen collection plate exchange in church chat
Dialogue captures Mrs Smith John and Mr Smith On debating a church plate gift. They joke about misusing a hal f dollar in the offering, noting the heathen collection and whether mischief would be noticed.
Angered patron confronts grocer over eggs claim
In a village shop a furious man accuses Mr Peavey of selling his wife eggs he labeled fresh. Peavey concedes but cites Sam Wiley as source. The men recall Wiley exchanging eggs for biscuits months earlier. The exchange features two amused, stubborn bystanders.
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Sam Wiley
Sam
Small Christmas phone board for home use
A screen covered with plain and figured cretonne holds telephone numbers and calls, offering a handy house decor piece at Christmas time. It will be welcomed by both men and women as a convenient recording aid.
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Cretonne
Christmas gift craft pin tree for women friends
Describe a simple handmade pin tree using two corks and a florist pin. The green-painted cork acts as the tree trunk while the small cork sits above it. A long pin connects them and colored pin heads are pushed into the corks to form a tree shape, with a ribbon band holding small safety pins.
Ingenious Cretonne Bag Folds Into Shopping Accessory
A cretonne bag is shown that folds into a pretty shopping bag. The design features a capacious long bag with a small envelope bound by braid, attached to one side and secured by snap fasteners for conversion.
Smart Nanette Fans Capture Paris to Party Style
The article highlights Nanette fans evolving from humble beginnings in France to chic accessories for fashionable society. One fan features a green ribbon binding with an organdy rose finish, while another shows plaited fiber with painted and millinery flowers, ribbon-covered handles, and soft color accents.
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France
Slippers for Christmas Revealed in Santa’s Pack
A holiday note highlights Santa’s generous supply of slippers including bedroom slippers made of ribbons and adorned with small ribbon flowers. The piece emphasizes festive footwear options for the season.
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Santa Claus
Christmas Candles and Frames Brighten Gaily Decked Gifts
This item describes Christmas candles with wax flowers and painted or gilded decorations. It notes ribbon or frame designs, including a picture frame with a glass front and cardboard back, fastened with gold braid and cut to form an easel support.
Baby Bibs Describe Pink Toweling and Honeycomb Cotton Sets
A brief description notes two baby bibs, one pink and white Turkish toweling and the other honeycomb cotton. The square bib uses taped ties and the smaller bib has shell crochet edging in mercerized cotton.
Covington's six drop-kicks in Center Louiaville clash
Center College quarterback Herbert Covington executed six drop-kicks against the University of Louiaville. The kicks occurred in the first, second, and third periods with distances of 40, 80, and 82 yards noted. Officials said the feat did not set a world record, five being the previous best in a game.
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Herbert Covington
University of Louiaville
Interesting Sport Notes Highlight Varied 1920s Athletics
Alfred Shrubb coaches Oxford track while Princeton material outclasses Penn on size. Detroit infielder George Cutshaw to play winter ball in Los Angeles. Montreal’s Dorval track may rent infield for golf. Bill Killefer earns Cubs manager contract. Miller Hagens returns to New York Americans. West Side Tennis plans 20 000 seat stadium in New York. World records and old-timer notes pepper a broad sports column with tennis, football, boxing, and golf mentions.
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West Side Tennis Club
New York
Grimes to Stay With Dodgers If Ebbets Keeps Plan
Burleigh Grimes, star right handed spitballer, will remain with Brooklyn if President Ebbets does not flip his stance. Grimes will pitch for the Dodgers next season or run his Minerva car business. If traded, other owners would seek his services.
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Ebbets
The
Robins
Flatbush
Burleigh
Tennis Umpires Organizing in Japan National Association
Japan plans a national lawn tennis umpires association modeled after the American body. Miki Miho leads the effort and may soon return to Japan with a national championship cup donated by Japanese residents abroad. Zenzo Shimidzu praises Milo as an excellent tennis critic in the Davis Cup context.
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Japan
Miki Miho
Heo
United States Tennis Umpires’ x Association
Miho
Milo
Accordei
Zenzo Shimidzu
England Cup Sees Over 300 Teams Start Preliminary Round
More than 300 soccer clubs across England enter preliminary rounds with losers eliminated until two reach the final next April. Similar structures exist for the National Cup with 182 entries spanning East and Middle West, and the American Football Association Challenge Cup with eastern and western teams. Rounds occur monthly.
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England
Middle West
Cat and Mouse game joys Christmas guests
A lively children's diversion for Christmas visitors, where a circle forms and one player acts as cat while another is mouse. The cat tries to catch the mouse as the latter darts in and out of the circle. Players help the mouse escape by letting it pass under their arms into or out of the circle.
Mouse Chase in Circling Game Delays Cats Efforts
A playful scene shows a cat hindered from advancing as it lowers its paws and backs out of a circle while the mouse evades in a tense pursuit. The image captures a humorous standoff with both animals focused on the next move.
University of Detroit cancels stadium cushion rentals
University of Detroit officials cancelled the cushion privilege at the new stadium after spectators at the U D Wilmington game tossed rented cushions onto the field, hindering play. The move aims to prevent repeat disruptions and keep play uninterrupted.
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University of Detroit
U. of D
U. of D.wilmington
Aprons as Welcome Gifts in Grit Advertisement
A vintage notice describes yellow muslin aprons trimmed with appliqué designs of fruit or flowers. Plain white bib aprons to protect dresses on Sunday, blue chambray variants with gingham trims, Polly Prim styles with small waists and full skirts, pockets, straps, and neck trimmed with rick rack and finishing braid.
End of Porterhouse Steak Ends Used for Rich Soup
When serving short steak or T-bone steak, trim the tough ends and save them for soup the next day. Simmer the scrap meat with a carrot, potato, onion, a little rice and some tomatoes to create a hearty broth worthy of a king.
Cleaning White Paint With Ammonia and Soap Tips
Use spirits of ammonia in sufficient quantity to soften water and ordinary hard soap to make white paint look clean with little effort. Do not use too much ammonia or the paint will be damaged.
When Darning Socks and Netting Work Together
While mending stockings the article notes using black mosquito netting as a foundation and describes a mother with a workbasket of stockings after each wash day finding a renal time shaver.
Hawaii Team to Tour U S for Swim Meets in July
A group of 20 Hawaii swimmers will visit the United States in July for a competitive tour. William Hoppe, a 35 year old ex-champion, headlines the delegation. The note also mentions Finland’s Paris performance and other athletic feats by Panve Nurmi and Herman Hunt in long-distance events.
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Haewaii
Finland
Paris
France
Panve Nurmi
Baseball rule upheaval in 1880 season history
The passage notes major shifts in 1880 including called balls granting first base, Sunday play banned by law, New Yorks first professional bat park opening September 2, and a baserunner out on a batted ball rule. It also mentions reducing the first base entitlement to seven balls and the three foot path to first base.
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New York
Golf marked by its most rapid changes
The article reflects on how golf evolved from its early days with feather balls and few clubs to modern conveniences. It notes Scots resisted rubber cores and steel shafts, preferred short courses, and valued tradition while acknowledging tools and courses improved play over time.
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Great Britain
Roberts Is Big Star Of Center College Eleven
The photograph highlights “Red” Loberty as the standout right end for Center College after Bo McMillan’s departure. He is described as the brightest individual star among the members of the “Craying Colonels.”
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Red" Loberty
Center College
Bo McMillan
I'raying Colonels
Louisiana Wins Galbraith Trophy At Legion Meet
Louisiana holds the Galbraith trophy as the team with the most points at the American Legion convention track and field events in New Orleans. Permanent possession requires a three year consecutive win.
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Louisiana
American Legion
New Orleans
Krug Sent to Los Angeles by Chicago Nations
The Chicago Nations released third baseman Martin Krug to the Los Angeles team in the Pacific Coast league.
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Krug
Los Angeles
Chicago Nations
Martin Krug
Sharkey Becomes Turfman With Stable of Horses
Sharkey, the former heavyweight boxing star of a generation, has reinvented himself as a turfman. He now runs a stable of horses and pursues a new career in racing after years of highs and lows on the road to fame and fortune.
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Sharkey
Fom Sharkey
Baseball takes root in Madrid with two new teams
Madrid forms two baseball clubs planning regular games. The only prior contest, in 1908, featured an American nine from the cruiser Niagara beating a Madrid football club scratch team.
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Madrid
Niagara
Kramer Named Chairman of National Cycling Association
Frank L. Kramer elected chairman of the National Cycling Association after serving as acting chairman following the death of St. F. Kelsey. He remains a board member of the association and holds the secretary position.
Woman's League Thrives as Ontario Basket Ball Association Opens
The Ladies' Ontario Basket Ball Association enters its third year, signaling growth and ongoing community sports involvement.
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Woman's League
Ladies’ Ontario Basket Ball Association
Wins Seventy-Sixth Race by Single G at Rochester
Single G won his seventy sixth race at Rochester New York pacing the third heat in 2 05 1 4 on a half mile track. He has started 117 races of more than 400 heats and finished behind the money only four times in his career on the light fulllness circuits. Trainer Gets Two Will Pitckerson of Goshen trained Min Quest, Wilts 2004.
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Single G
Rochester
N. Y
Gold in Sands of Queensland and New South Wales
The report notes attempts to recover gold and other precious metals from coastal sands in Queensland and New South Wales. It suggests some promise of success with finds of gold, platinum, and uranium. Metals are believed to reach the strand from submerged rocks broken by powerful waves.
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Thia
Queensland
New South Wales
Genghore
Diamond Dyes promise easy home dyeing for all fabrics
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as a guaranteed home dyeing solution. It claims dyes work on wool, silk, linen, cotton, and blends without streaking or running, promising draperies, skirts, and sweaters restored to new.
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Goa
The Silver Lining in a Family Tension
The heir to a family fortune remains loyal to his father amid implied flaws. A vacation approach prompts questions about who cooks, and the reply notes dad’s cooking is so-so but his meat cuts are bearable. The piece hints at gender role humor and family dynamics.
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Dad
Cole's Cuarblo salve ad promises scar free healing
An old advertisement claims Cole's Cuarblo salve stops pain from burns or cuts instantly and heals without scars. It urges purchase through druggists or by sending 380 cents to The J. W. Cole Co. in Rockford Illinois.
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Cole
J. W. Cole Co
Rockford
Taft Father Deeds Oil Farm For Promise of Home
A fragment recounts a confrontation where Taft asks if the father deeded an oil farm in exchange for a promise of a good home, and the reply accuses the father of treating him like a fool. The exchange is described as coming from a City Star source.
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Taft
Itanous City Star
Fragmented dialogue on waves and radio farewells
A clipped exchange references permanent waves and radio talk. The snippet ends with a fleeting good-night kiss beneath a farewell performance, hinting at a scene of wistful parting.
Gold Brick Swindle Traps Assayer Who Paid Big For Fake
A gold assayer buys a claimed solid gold brick for seven thousand dollars after a dealer offers a bargain. He discovers the brick is gold plated brass and realizes he was duped. The tale warns readers to test valuables until an expert confirms real metal before purchase.
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Louis Issayer
bin Ag Balog
Alaas
Sila
Detective Story Magazine
Greek Goddess Reference Sparks School Debate
A classroom incident at a high school notes a student response about a Greek goddess of the chase. The pupil allegedly claimed the goddess was Diameter, triggering discussion on ancient myth accuracy and teacher guidance. The episode underscores how myth details enter student assignments and prompts review of classroom sources.
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Vt 9Erty High School
Ar Hoy
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Jefferson Avenue East
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Cordeln
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Dodd's Medicine CO
Buffalo
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