Tanlac makes farmer regain strength and weight after illness
J B Williams of Greenbrier Tennessee reports gaining 25 pounds after four bottles of Tanlac. He describes recovering from a nervous indigestion that weakened him, improving appetite and sleep, and returning to his regular work weight of 185 pounds. He recommends Tanlac to others with similar troubles. There is a Tanlac dealer in every town.
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Greenbrier
Tenn
Nashville
Mr. Williams
Bill
Taniac
Tanine
Ady
Neighborhood Prank Raises Cain in Local Garden
A lighthearted exchange notes last year’s garden yield was zero while nearby youths caused a disturbance by raising Cain in the neighborhood. The remark reframes a common nuisance as a humorous action impacting residents and their plots.
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Cain
Freckle Remedy With Lemon Juice and Orchard White
A home mix of two lemons and three ounces of orchard white creates a cheap freckle lotion. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles and blemishes for clearer softer skin. The ad promotes harmless results and low cost.
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Ady
Cuticura Heals Sore Hands Advised Routine
A short advertisement promotes Cuticura for healing sore hands. It recommends soaking hands in Cuticura Soap, drying, then rubbing Cuticura Ointment, and removing surplus with tissue. Free samples offered by mail with a booklet from Cuticura Boston.
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Dept. Boston
Did You Register The Movie Actor Reply
The director asks if the actor registered and the actor confirms with a confident boast that he did so immediately after filming.
Woman crowns glory with hair care ad strangely urging
An odd ad touts La Cre ole Hair Dressing to hide gray hair at $1.00, claiming natural results. It then promotes Dr Peery's Worm Remedy with a quirky line about neighbors and a promised return mail offer for 26 cents from 372 Pearl St New York.
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Dr. Peery
Pearl St
New York
Brass Band Quip Sparks Humorous Debate on Music
A playful exchange questions discipline and performance as a brass band member jokes about firing a difficult musician while another frets she might quit. The dialogue reflects humorous workplace banter about instrument quality and personal temperament.
Food Control Debated as Prohibition Emerges in Congress
Washington debate centered on government control of food and fuel with a new bone dry provision to stop alcohol production during the war. The Senate and House battles produced amendments empowering the president to regulate distribution and seize distillation stocks, while provisions allowed limited wine making and certain exemptions.
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Congress
Senate Agricultural Committee
Senate
Lodge
Senate Agriculture Committee
Administration
House
McLemore
Slayden and Young
Texas
Mekker
Missouri
Ward
New York
Barkley
Kentucky
Registration figures for all states announced
Washington reports that about half of 9 649 938 registrants claim exemption. Figures show those registered, estimated registered, and exemptions with Kentucky and Wyoming pending. Interior reports 6001 Indians included. sparsity on the Pacific coast prompts an inquiry. Crowder deems registration near 100 percent, near the census estimate of 10 298 104 if federal eligibles are counted.
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Washington
Department of the Interior
Pacific Coast
Crowder
Retail food prices rise across United States
Retail food prices increased about 5 percent from April 16 to May 15 and 39 percent for the year ending May 15. Flour jumped 29 percent in the month, with corn meal up 15 percent, beans 14, bread 13, and rice 11. Onions fell 2 percent and butter 9 percent, while beef rose 2 to 4 percent and potatoes 6 percent. The year’s peaks include potatoes up 149 percent and flour up 122 percent. four-year gains total 66 percent. Farmers received about $1.50 per bushel for last year’s wheat, compared with $8.40 and $9.70 in prior years.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Canadians Close to Lens in New advance
Canadians from Nova Scotia Ontario Manitoba and British Columbia attacked on a two mile front south of Lens protected by heavy fire and captured German first lines before Avion and the village of Leauvette marking another breakthrough in the Lens sector.
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Paris
Lens
Nova Scottia
Ontario
Manitoba
British Columbia
Avion
Leauvette
Aisne
Brazil Revokes Neutrality Decree in War Dispute
Rio Janeiro reports Brazil has revoked its neutrality decree amid the war between the Entente and Germany. Washington notes major coal price cuts east of the Mississippi with public prices down 1 to 5 dollars per ton and 50 percent off for the government, effective July 1 after talks among operators and officials.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Germany
Washington
Mississippi River
Lane
Canadians Tighten Noose Around Lens Coal Center
Canadian forces close the pincers around Lens in Pas de Calais as they capture La Coulotte and push west and southwest of the town. British units envelop Lens on three sides while German mining of nearby coal ceases, signaling a likely fall of the position.
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Paris
Lens
Pas de Calais
la Coulotte
American Soldiers Land in France Defying Submarines
The advance guard of the United States army is on French soil preparing to fight Germany. Thousands of seasoned regulars and marines, hardened by service on the Mexican border Haiti or Santo Domingo, have been rushed overseas to join French, British, Belgian, Russian, Portuguese and Italian troops on the western front.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Haiti
Santo Domingo
Contracts Set for Wooden Ships
Washington reports contracts for ten completed steel merchant ships four completed wooden merchant vessels and twenty wooden ship hulls announced by Major General Goethals head of the emergency fleet corporation Deliveries are set for 1918 Twelve ships will be built at Houston and four at Beaumont Texas
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Washington
General Goethals
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Houston
Beaumont
Texas
Three Crown in Ferry Accident
Houston Tex Mr and Mrs Barney McDonald married last Saturday at Silsbee and Miss Marie McDonald sister of the bridegroom died Tuesday at the Lynchburg ferry when their automobile plunged into water at least thirty feet deep McDonald was an oil field worker at Saratoga.
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Houston
Tex
Barney McDonald
Silsbee
Marie McDonald
Lynchburg Ferry
McDonald
Saratoga
May imports reach record high in American history
Washington reports May imports at 281 million dollars the highest monthly total on record for American commerce. Exports for May amount to 551 million dollars, up 21 million from April.
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Washington
Body found hanging from tree near Navasota incident
In Navasota Texas the body of a Black man identified as John Harper was found dangling from a tree on the Houston Navasota road near Court ney Friday morning. He was said to be among a group arrested the day before in connection with the death of 12 year old Ollie May Goodrum in a car chase by Black occupants.
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Navasota
Tex
Houston
Courtney
Justice of the Peace
H. A. Abercrombie
John
Ben) Harper
Ollie May Goodrum
Charles Goodrum
Young Lane an Aviator
Franklin K. Lane son of the secretary of the interior has joined the aviation division of the armed forces. He appears in his flying costume in this image.
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Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Armed Service of the Nation
Aviation Division
Poorleigh Seeks Blessing to Marry Rich Daughter
In a luxuriously furnished room a young suitor pleads for Ethelinda’s hand. The old manufacturer questions his ability to support her. The hopeful lover insists he is not poor, while the father admits even he has difficulty providing.
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Poorleigh
Ethelinda
Fair Maiden
Canadian Home Journal
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