Flying Holidays in a Jet Age for Christmas Travel
A colorful preview of a future where airports glow with holiday lights and Santa travels by plane. Families could order dinners from Chicago or receive gifts via air delivery as Christmas flights become common, turning winter skies into a festive showcase for air travel.
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Santa Joins the Caterpillar Club in Flight Metaphor
Westar Newspaper Paton describes Santa adopting modern aviation by joining the Caterpillar Club. The poem imagines Santa using airplanes to deliver gifts as reindeer days fade, with peril if a flight fails.
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Christmas Eve Search For a Kitten Ends With A Toy
In a snowy city block, Peter and Mary help a neighbor, Allen, find his missing kitten before Christmas. After a long night of worry, Allen’s family retrieves the cat from a back yard, and Peter and Mary celebrate with a festive tree and renewed goodwill.
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Christmas Cookies Delight Readers Crave
Christmas cookies bring joy in preparation and festivity as readers savor the holiday treats and shared feasts.
No Cash for War Debts Dampens Allied Trust
The piece argues Britain and France will not pay the 360 million dollars owed to the United States and Great Britain, questioning spotless honor. It contrasts France's plan to pay installments and cites Napoleon calling England a nation of shopkeepers, noting their habit of settling debts to preserve credit.
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Two convicts win freedom after tuberculosis preventive trial
Carl Ericson and Mike Sehmidt volunteered for months of medical trials at National Jewish Hospital using a preventive serum claimed to stop tuberculosis. Doctors warned of deadly risk, but the men endured and secured their liberty as the result of the experiment.
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Mike Sehmidt
National Jewish Hospital
Beth
Atlantic Echoes of Crime Wars and City Notions
A wide array of vignettes covers crime fighting by President Roosevelt and private citizens, Dafoe’s New York visit amid skyscrapers, Dr. Rosenbach’s Shakespeare building idea, Rev. Davis’s Long share the wealth stance, and cock-fight arrests near Los Angeles. Also notes about labor in Detroit and relief workers facing overbearing supervision.
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Joseph A. Davis
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Housewife’s Idea Box for Scraps and Mosquito Netting Bag
A homemaking note suggests using mosquito netting to store fabric scraps. Cut a yard of netting to form a bag, then place scraps inside so you can see and grab what you need quickly. The guidance is attributed to The Housewife and appears in Public Ledger content.
Sextuplet Birth Records Found by Field Museum Expert
Dr Berthold Laufer of the Field Museum in Chicago reports no record of a quintuplet birth in China but uncovers two sextuplet events. He cites a 1574 account in Kwang-p ing fu showing six children born at once, a 1805 village birth in Ewel chou with all sons, and a 1527 Hoklen case of seven girls who did not survive.
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Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
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Relief From Eczema With Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Mrs Wm Twomey of Jamaica Plain Massachusetts shares a testimonial about eczema on hands spreading to the face. After using two cakes of Cuticura Soap and three tubes of Cuticura Ointment she reports healing. Potters Drug and Chemical Corp advertise Cuticura products with prices.
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Watch Your Kidneys Doan's Pills Ad Amidst Warnings
Warning style advertisement urges readers to protect kidney health. It describes kidney function, symptoms of impairment, and suggests Doan's Pills as a remedy. The copy claims nationwide user approval and recommends purchase from any druggist.
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