Telegraph in Selling promotes use of telegraph in sales
Western Union publishes a booklet titled The Telegraph in Selling showing real sender consents and letters illustrating telegraph driven orders. Examples include a shoe jobber generating over 250 dealer responses and $25,000 in orders, a flour agent moving thirty car loads, a coal company gaining eleven carloads, and an Olive Oil Co turning 21 Night Letters into $6,000 of sales. The piece argues telegrams reach the right person quickly and pack punch for action.
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Western Union
Western Union Telegraph Company
M. Doll
Jersey Cloths Still In the Fore For Fall
Jersey cloths, notably Brick red wool, lead fall suit material with a box plaited skirt, envelope pockets, and a straight belt. A delicate trim of silk fringe, embroidery, beading, and lace marks the vogue, while a sheer organdie guimpe with matching collar adds simple charm and practicality for winter wear. Skirts keep their circumference but appear narrower due to plaits. fashion mixes organite neckwear with fine net or linen options.
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Anna May
Missing Youth Found In Atlantic City After Nine Years
Jay Loose, who disappeared from Tiffin Ohio nine years ago while en route to school, is located in Atlantic City as Lou France a 23 year old Western Union clerk. He was recognized by former schoolmate Harry Brandenberg at the telegraph office and reunited with his mother who learned he would visit his parents within months. He said he and another boy traveled for weeks after leaving Tiffin visiting the Jamestown exposition and moving north, settling in Atlantic City for several months.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Jay Loose
Tiffin
Lou France
Western Union Telegraph Company
Loose
Harry Brandenberg
Brandenberg
New York Educators Call Dialect Out Of Textbook Songs
New York high school music teachers form a committee to press publishers to remove Negro dialect from public school songbooks. They urge standard English for all students, noting foreign students struggle with dialects. Proposed changes include altering words in Dixie and the Star Spangled Banner to simpler forms.
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New York
Frank R. Rix
Dixie
Webber
Go to Supreme Court Over I W W Prison Bail Rules
In Scranton on September 18, counsel for 267 Industrial Workers of the World prisoners said they would seek writs of habeas corpus in federal courts, alleging constitutional rights violations. Bail demands total about 1.395 million dollars for 260 prisoners, with nineteen leaders facing 10,000 each and other prisoners at 5,000. Several released or bailed. many families reportedly in distress as strikes had preceded arrests.
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Scranton
Industrial Workers of the World
Grand
Old Forge
Poisoned Candy Try by Stranger on Child in Philadelphia
Four year old Russell Cobb was handed a bottle of deadly poison by a man described as a degenerate and urged to feed it to himself and his playmates. The child carried the bottle home to his father, Earl Cobb, who consulted a druggist and learned the bottle contained the poison. The stranger claimed it was "nipe-candy" and insisted the boy eat some and share with others.
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Philadelphia
Russell Cobb
Thompson Street
Earl Cobb
Fifteenth
Master Streets
Slayers get sixty years for their work in Pongollo case
Tony Froio was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty years in Pottsville Pa on September 18. This marked the third conviction for the killing of Joseph Pongollo in the county last April, bringing the total to sixty years imprisonment for the three principals. The court criticised juries for not returning a first degree verdict. The guilty parties were arrested after a 6000 mile chase across states by Sergeant Smith and Trooper Burns of the state police.
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Pottsville
Tony Froio
Joseph Pongollo
Thi
Atates
Smith
Trooper Burns
Atate
Innocent Man Falls Dead in Chester police office
Chester Pa Sept 1 Herbert Walker forty five of Wallingford died in Captain Sills police station office after being discharged at a hearing. As he extended a goodbye salute Walker suddenly collapsed and died moments later.
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Chester
Herbert Walker
Wallingford
Captain Sill
Walker
Censors Open Navys Envelopes Delays Mails to Orient
British censors opened official Navy envelopes at Vancouver Washington, revealing why post office contracts for mail transport to the Orient via Vancouver were canceled about two weeks earlier. The action was stated as the reason for halting those mail contracts.
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Vancouver
Washington
United States Navy Department
Ofice Department
United States
Orient
Coal cars block tunnel derailment forces trek over peak
Passengers on a Baltimore and Ohio accommodation train were driven to tramp about a mile over the summit of the Sand Patch tunnel in the Alleghenies after ten coal cars derailed due to a defective rail. The railroad laid on trains to each end of the seven mile long tunnel while travelers walked the exposed top stretch.
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Mountain Peake
Connellsville
Baltimore and Ohio
Alleghenies
Sand Patch
Grab Food Pirates Hoard in Egg Sale
Rome reports ten million eggs seized by the government from speculators are being resold publicly at two cents each. The sale aims to cut living costs, which have risen about twenty five percent in six months.
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Rome
Prince Albert Invalided Home After Abscess Operation
London report says Prince Albert second son of King George was invalided home due to an abdominal abscess. An official communication notes he has undergone an operation and is recovering but will be unable to return to duty for some time. Berlin dispatch claims Russia influenced Romania to ban liquor sales and allow Russians in Romanian police and finance roles as well as fort commanders in the northeast region.
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Saladin
Jerusalem
Mosque of
Omar
Prince Albert
London
King George
Rumania
Berlin
Vossteche Zeitung
Russia
Romania
Rumanian
Secret Police
Department of Finance
Rall
Not Liable for His Apoplexy in Reading
Alan Hersch, a janitor for the Reading School District, had his $2000 workmen’s compensation claim denied by Referee Houck. He hid apoplexy and was injured removing snow from a school district sidewalk. The article notes India’s plan for a hydroelectric plant delivering turbine water at 30 psi.
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Reading
Alan Hersch
Houck
Workmen‘s Compensation Board
Hersch
Ex Mayor Seth Low Dies After Long Illness
Seth Low, former mayor of New York and twice mayor of Brooklyn, and eleven year president of Columbia University, died at Bread Brook Farm Bedford Hills N Y at sixty six. Born January 18 1860 in Brooklyn he studied at Polytechnic Institute and Columbia. His death followed months of illness.
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New Yorker
New York
Seth Low
Columbia University
Bread Brook Farm
Bedford Hills
N. Y
Brooklyn
New York City
Salem
Maas
Ablel Abbott Low
Young Low
The
Polytechnic Institute
Columbia
Wilson to Attend Funeral for President's Sister
President and Mrs. Wilson travel to Columbia South Carolina to attend the funeral of Annie B Howe wife of a Wilson relative. Services set at a Presbyterian church in Columbia with the president returning to Trenton tomorrow afternoon. Prof Stockton Axson joins the party at Trenton as arrangements for a political conference are paused during the absence.
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Columbia
C. Long Branch
N. J
Wilson
Annie B. Howe
New London
Conn
Presbyterian Church
Stockton Axson
Wilgon
Infants Crossing Line With Suitcase Sparks Quarantine Alert
A Hagerstown couple carried their year old baby in a suit case to cross the Mason and Dixon line during the infantile paralysia quarantine. A Shady Grove officer heard the infant crying and returned the child and parents to Marl and Wilmington. Det. plans a new free library building costing six hundred thousand dollars.
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Waynesboro
Mason and Dixon Line
Hagerstown
Shady Grove
Marl
Elkton men jailed after auto crash shooting
Clyde Hunnewell and Leland Ott were arrested in Elkton on charges of shooting Harry Hallock near Ridgeley, with Hallock hospitalized in serious condition. After the incident Ott and Hunnewell fled toward Maryland. Ott denies self defense. Boil back to Wilmington after a road collision involving Blorry and Walter Bullock led to a separate fight over reckless driving.
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Elkton
Clyde C. Hunnewell
Margaret Wolf
Elk River
Leland Ott
Delaware
Harry Hallock
Riigely
Hunnemell
Wilmington
Ott
Blorry
Walter Bullock
Bullocks
Harry Bullock
Hunnewell
Maryland
Boy Narrowly Escapes Copperhead Attack
In Marietta Pennsylvania on September 13, twelve year old Lester Miller and companions hunted in York county hills when a copperhead sprang at Miller. A bystander protected the boy as he fell and the party helped him escape the venomous strike. Samuel Brown killed the snake, which measured twenty seven inches.
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Marietta
Lester Miller
York County
Miller
Samuel Brown
Electric shock kills Reading man near Fleetwood
Jeremiah Flicker of Reading was instantly killed when an iron bar he held touched a heavily charged electric wire near Fleetwood. The accident occurred on September 18 as the bar conducted about 500 volts through his body. Experiments have indicated to Hon durag that it may become an important cotton-valuing nation.
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Reading
Jeremiah Flicker
Fleetwood
Hondurag
Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Story From Clarksburg
Mrs HaRoto Af Siri of Clarksburg West Virginia credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with curing cold induced suppression and restoring strength after childbirth. She notes long term relief from urinary and reproductive ailments and urges others to seek confidential advice from the Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Clarksburg
W. Ve
Lydia E. Pinkham
HaRoto Af. Siri
Water Street
W. Va
Lynam
Pinkham Medicine
Mass
Varnish State Paint Ad Highlights Shades and Prices
An old advertisement promotes Varnish State Varaisshi Stati with colors including Cherry, Mahogany and Walnut. It lists 12 pint cans at 20 cents and quart cans at 35 cents, mentioning vent and can quantities.
Floor stain and finishes in multiple colors and sizes
Advertisement lists floor stain colors Cherry Mahogany Walnut Dark Oak Light Oak with gallon cans at 1.25 and 12 gallon cans at 0.65. Includes Kalkomo and Muresco cold water paint in 5 lb packages at 0.35 each and varnish Wanine floor oil at competitive prices.
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Toledo
Ohio
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Ann Arbor
Paulsboro
Wilam Henton
Chistcian
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India
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American Press Association
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Pato Hay
Newark
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Nonoe
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Adamstown
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