Stone Scares Hawk Drops Trout to Man
Harrisburg June 7 The State Forestry Department reports Stanley Cole of Watrous on Pine Creek Tioga County saw a fishhawk dive and drop a 16 inch brown trout after a stone was thrown. The trout bore three deep talon holes. Cole is hailed as champion rodless lineless and baitless fisherman of the north tier.
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Harrisburg
State Forestry Department
Stanley Cole
Watrous
Pine Creek
Tioga County
Cole
North Tier
New Irish Potatoes Bring Low Prices
The first train load of new Irish potatoes moved north from Mackeys at Columbia Tyrrell county. The crop is fair around Columbia but poorer locally due to weather. Prices are quoted at 4 to 6.50 in New York and Philadelphia, weakening expectations for local diggers and hurting truckers after a poor May pea market.
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Mackey’s
Tyrrell County
Columbia
New York
Philadelphia
Doan’s Kidney Pills Back My Back to Health
Mount Airy resident G. W. Gates describes chronic backache and kidney trouble from heavy lifting. He credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with quick relief and ongoing use to maintain back strength, price 60 cents at dealers, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Mount Airy
G. W. Gates
N. Main St
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Mfrs
Buffalo
N. Y
Andrews Leads Mongolia Quest for Garden of Eden in Gobi
Roy Chapman Andrews heads a 15 member team from the American Museum of Natural History sailing for Mongolia to search the Gobi desert for the birthplace of man. The five year expedition aims to excavate early human bones and fossils while probing the era when the Gobi was a verdant tropical plain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gobi Desert
New York
Roy Chapman Andrews
American Museum of Natural History
Mongolia
Gobi
Greenvile Woman Praises Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound
Mrs Holleman of 2214 Marshall Street Greenville Texas says monthly cramps headaches and cold sensations disappeared after using four bottles her doctors had suggested surgery. She credits the Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with relief and urges others to use it as a dependable remedy for women’s troubles known for fifty years.
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Greenville
Texas
Lydia E. Pink
Mra
Jolleman
Marshal Street
Lydia EF. Pinkham
Real Help to Elderly Persons Constipation Remedy
Advertisement touts Chamberlain's Tablets as a safe aid for elderly people to avoid constipation and its poisons. Claims include better appetite digestion liver function and regular bowel movements without griping or nausea. Priced at 25 cents.
Notary Public Report and Commission Details
Report of notary public W. L. Sydnor with commission expiration noted as January 26, 1926.
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W. L. Sydnor
Is overeating a crime a satirical note from the Saturday Evening Post
The essay argues against overeating comparing modern cabinet aid to a wall street binge and contrasts it with ancient restraint. It laments overindulgence as a quiet crime while noting society punishes drunkenness but tolerates gluttony hidden as a "blind tiger" under a bishop’s waistband.
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Washington
Wall Street
Hankers Club
Rome
Saturday Evening Post
Women quit old vocations reveal shifting employment
Census figures show New York women moving away from traditional feminine roles such as teachers operators and laundresses. Stenographers and clerical workers rise significantly though numbers in seamstressing decline. stevedores and policewomen appear in small but notable counts.
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Census Bureau
New York
Selenium spray banishes lawn weeds and harms foliage
At an American Chemical Society meeting F Marion Lougee and B S Hopkins described experiments using selenium in pesticide sprays. They reported complete banishment of dandelions and broad leaved plants with minor blue grass and clover injury, and good control of bitter root and apple scab though foliage suffered. The most successful spray used selenious acid and sodium selenite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Marion Lougee
B. S. Hopkins
American Chemical Society
Swan disrupts Chertsey swimming race for challenge cup
A Thames race at Chertsey England was declared void after a big male swan attacked swimmers including a bald man. The swan forced delays by dashing across the water and assaulting competitors, prompting onlookers to intervene and the event to be abandoned.
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Chertsey
England
Thames
Constable Davidson Fines Himself After Self Arrest
Constable E. L. Davidson fought a restaurant worker in Matoka West Virginia and swore out a warrant against himself. He arrested and testified against himself, then fined himself ten dollars. He said he fulfilled his duty by upholding the law and defending himself against false reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Davidson
Matoska
W. Va
Public Health Service Surgeon Links Mothers Intelligence to Infant Health
A United States Public Health Service surgeon argues that community intelligence, especially that of mothers, determines baby welfare. He notes stark contrasts in the Panama Canal zone where children on one street are healthy while those on the opposite side die at a frightening rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Public Health Service
Panama Canal Zone
Bird lays seventeen eggs in nineteen days in England
A sparrow in Welling borough, England, laid seventeen eggs in nineteen days despite daily raids by a man testing the bird's laying power. The bird abandoned the nest and built a new one elsewhere.
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Wellingborough
England
Trust deed foreclosures in Mount Airy sell land to satisfy debts
Two notices of trustee sales in Mount Airy North Carolina. The first by Phoebe Hancock and J A Atkins secures $845.40. property described by bearings and lines and to be sold at public auction in front of Bank of Mount Airy on May 31, 1924. The second by Porter Johnson and Flora Johnson, secured for $1,000. land in Mt Airy described as blocks from Edwards Moser plat, to be sold at public auction on July 12, 1924, at 1 PM in front of Bank of Mt Airy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoebe Hancock
J. A. Atkins
Register of Deeds Office
Surry County
N. C
Bank of Mount Airy
Mount Airy
John Leitch
H. Born
Woodruff
Valentine
DePalma
Jess Goins
Goins
Porter Johnson
Edw. M. Linville
J. C. Rose
Office of the Register of Deeds
Bank of
Mt. Airy
N. C.ana
D. Edwards
C. Moser
Fairview Heights
J. Is
Edw
M. Linville
Frightening at Night Prompts Quick Remedy Prep
A warning of night pains and cramps with gripping diar rhoea urges keeping Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy on hand for immediate relief. The ad underscores comfort and ease from pain for all ages.
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Chamberlain
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H. R. Hege
Blue Ridge Inn
J. D. Hogan
Granite City Motor Co
Sydnor & Sparger
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Wolfe Drug Co
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Garden OF Eden
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Walter Granger
Charles P. Berkley
James P. Chapin
L. B. Roberts
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J. B. Shackleford
S Bayard Colgate
Lydia E. Pinkham
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