The Mumbling Ghost of Shamokin
Frank Helmar recalls a frightening return to Shamokin in 1929 after learning his old friend Jack Hasco was dead yet later encountering a living Jack Hasco who spoke in mumbling phrases. Baldy Williams later explains the survivor’s altered speech and the double identity in a twist of fate.
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LI Ello
Frank S. Helmar
Shamokin
Frank
Elmira
N. Y
Jack Hasco
Jack
Old Town
Baldy Williams
Baldy
Frank Helmar
Jack Hascos
West End
WIN Service
Vintage Years for Perfumes Draw Noses to Rare Scents
The article explains perfume vintages like wine, noting seasons when flowers flourish produce richer fragrances and greater variety. Major houses stock up in such years to guard against crop failure and ensure supply. It also surveys tanning, listing 150 animal skins used commercially and noting a morbid reference to Burke’s preserved skin.
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William Burke
Scotland
Home crafts with drawer pads and machine quilting
Ruth Wyeth Spears shows how to decorate drawers with quilted pads using glazed chintz and muslin. The article describes cutting, basting, spacing, and quilting with a machine quilter, plus finishing edges and backing. It promotes Spears books and autographs at 2108S Des Plaines St, Chicago.
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Spears
Pershing Reflects on Fellowship During Tours Visit
General Pershing visited the base hospital at Tours during the war and spoke with a wounded soldier. The man guided Pershing by describing the exact terrain of his wound location, illustrating how the general felt personally connected to the frontline.
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Tours
General Pershing
Soissons
Shadowless Groundhog tale mocks the shadow sign
February 2 marks Groundhog Day, a calendar joke about a rodent prophet who sleeps through dawns of shadow. The groundhog, a winter sleeper, never reports shadow, emerging late in winter or early spring in southern regions and as late as May in the mountains.
Polished Man Education Inspires Gentle Reading Reflection
The passage notes reading and reflection as essential to completing the gentle man, citing Locke as a guiding idea in cultivating virtue through education and thoughtful company.
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Locke
Time to Sew for Now and Spring Patterns
Sewing patterns offer two-piece girls outfits and apron sets with detailed sew charts. Includes fabric suggestions and yardage for various sizes, with ordering info from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept in Chicago.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bergson on Instinct and Intelligence
The quote defines instinct as using or building organized tools and intelligence as making and using unorganized instruments, attributed to Henri Bergson. It contrasts the perfected faculties of instinct and intelligence in terms of tool use and creation.
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Henri Bergson
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Offers Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a fast remedy for acid indigestion and related headaches. It recommends taking two tablets at first distress, carrying them discreetly, and having a home bottle and carry box clearly labeled Phillips Milk of Magnesia.
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Phillips
Doomed to Perish He That Despiseth Small Things
A short biblical aphorism from Emerson warns that undervaluing small things leads to downfall. The quote emphasizes vigilance in minor matters as a path to avoiding larger ruin.
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Emerson
Creomulsion Promises Relief From Persistent Colds
An advertisement urges consumers with lingering coughs cold bronchial irritation to try Creomulsion. It claims to reach the seat of trouble, soothe inflamed mucous membranes, loosen phlegm, and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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Adventurers’ Club
RSELF
East Side
Ruth Wyeth Spears
BASTE
Pershing
Ile
Magnesia
P. A
Ae Fy
Prince Albert
Arry Romano
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
R J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Yoda
America
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