Career of Booth Utahs Commander
John E. Booth of Spanish Fork rises from farm work to pharmacy owner and leader of Utah American Legion. He served in infantry field artillery and medical corps, helped found posts, organized play grounds, chaired conventions, and became department commander and national executive committeeman. He and his wife Beatrice McKell ran the drug store during wartime and Booth continues civic service through 1927.
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American Legion
John E. Booth
Department of Utah
Legion
Spanish Fork
University of California
Booth
Beatrice J. McKell
Infantry
Field Artillery
Utah
the Legion
First Legion
St. Paul
National Americanism Commission
Tailored lingerie tones set for autumn hats and bloomers
Julia Bottomley describes fall fashion focusing on tailored lingerie sets and hats with velvet and crinkle crepe materials. She notes pastel colors, lace trims, and practical yet pretty designs for college and business wardrobes, highlighting four versatile hat styles and coordinated accents.
Can Picking Contest Crowned Noah Bennett Champion
Noah Bennett of Belle Plaine Iowa won first prize as the champion can picker at a Belle Plaine American Legion event tied to clean up week. He collected 5 384 cans between one and six on a Saturday afternoon and local merchants donated prizes while school boys gathered about a hundred thousand old cans during the afternoon.
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Noah Bennett
Belle Plaine
Iowa
American Legion
Noah
American Legion Auxiliary Offers National School Medal
The American Legion Auxiliary has adopted a national school medal award to honor one eighth grade girl in every community. The medal recognizes scholarship, honor, service, courage, leadership and Americanism as core qualities for the nation’s girlhood.
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American Legion Auxiliary
The Kitchen Cabinet and Honey Recipes for 1900s Readers
A fragment from a 1986 Western Newspaper Union piece offers homey kitchen lore. It lists cookie recipes from plain to fancy and explores honey's culinary uses, with instructions for cookies and dairy based desserts. It includes Honey Ice Cream, Salad Dressing, Honey Pudding and Custard with detailed steps.
Strange Animals Discovered in Malay Peninsula by Carveth Wells
Explorer Carveth Wells reports unusual wildlife in the Malay peninsula including a flirtatious fish, tree climbing monkeys that brush teeth after meals, and birds that sleep upside down. A noted creature flirts with a real Wink as the only swimming animal to do so.
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Malay Peninsula
Carveth Wells
Cure for Sleeplessness Proposed in Paris Review
A Paris medical review recommends isopropy progenyl barbiturate of amidourine as a remedy for sleeplessness. The text notes a patient may pronounce the name slowly or simply take the drug as directed, reflecting contemporary medical rhetoric.
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Paris
New York World
California Fig Syrup Adirm Childhood Health Remedy
An early 1900s style ad promotes California Fig Syrup as the best laxative for children. It claims a teaspoonful will cleanse the bowels and restore a well playful child within hours, noting it suits cross feverish or constipated kids and that only the genuine product carries proper directions. It warns mothers to insist on California and to refuse imitations.
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California
Finally Compelled to Make War on Pigeons
Pigeons in Oslo have multiplied creating a public nuisance with nests under eaves and swarms in streets. Insect eggs from the birds hatch inside homes, spurring medical pleas to kill pigeons and stop feeding them. A animal protection group opposed but concedes birds can forage, and the war on pigeons begins in earnest.
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Oslo
Women's Society For the Protection of Animals
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Clear Complexion
Advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for complexion and scalp care with Cuticura Ointment for occasional use and Cuticura Talcum for fragrance, claiming the trio keeps the skin clean and hands soft and white.
Dignified Southerner Spots Blind Woman On Street
A older southern man walking with a friend on Fifth Avenue stops to help an elderly blind colored woman cross the street. He reassures her with the phrase you all right mammy before returning to his companion. The scene is described in the New York Evening World.
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Fifth Avenue
New York Evening World
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American Legion News Service
Nature
Julia Bottomley
Western Newspaper Union
Bellans Indigestion
Bellans
Houston
Galveston
Dickey
Mal Dickey Drug CO
Bristol
Tenn
F. W. Heitmann Co
Texas
East Texas
Dodd & CO
Marshall, Texas
Wintersmith
Wintersmith Chemical Co., Inc
Louisville
Kentucky
Intersmith
Brazil
Immigration Company
South America
Portland Cement Association
Washington Street
Chicago
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