Odd July Incident in Chicago and Texas Vignette
A July incident in Chicago saw robbers relieve George Carlson of $130 and his watch while leaving 10 cents for car fare as they declared they were good sports. Texas rangers at Kilgore aroused by race trouble disarmed locals, prompting surrender of their own guns. An ironic reflection on optimism at a boarding house and a quip about the original board of education as the blackboard.
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George Carlson
Chicago
Texas Rangers
Kilgore
Texas
Advertising wisdom for merchants from R H Kennedy talk
R H Kennedy of the National Cash Register Company addressed businessmen at the Woman's History Club rooms on successful modern methods. The speech urged clear simple ads focusing on goods, price, and honesty, with consistent type and layout, plus ongoing news in store advertising. Kentucky silos expand as cattle feeders and dairymen adopt canned corn, and the Extension Division aims to boost silo construction statewide.
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R. H Kennedy
National Cash Register Company
Woman’s History Club
National Cash Register
Dun &Co
Kentucky
College of Agriculion
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Serice
America
Strother Motors Co
Mt. Sterling, Ky
the Advocate For Printing
Board of Education
Chesapeake & Ohio R’v
Pullman
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Richmond
Old Point
Norfolk
Virginia
North Carolina
Louisville Steel Equipment
Ocean Chime
Leonard
Chenault & Orear
Lemon & Son
Fao
Bemongson
Kennedy
Caeninn
Eighty-Third Field Artillery
Markland
the Mont
Gomery County Fair
Wood
France
Montgomery County
Stockton’s Electric Dry Cleaning Company
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