Woman Recovers After Using Vegetable Compound
Mrs Samuel Murphy of Dover Delaware credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with ending her cramps faint spells and fatigue. She says one dose before supper and continued use left her able to work all day stay awake later and feel consistently better. She urged others to try the product and notes three friends already changed their minds about it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Del
Lydia E.pinksham
Samuel Murphy
Cecil St
Dover
Delaware
Freshen a Heavy Skin with Cuticura Talcum Powder Ad
In a London Mail style jab at a young woman, an advertisement promotes Cuticura Toilet Trio products Soap Ointment and Talcum as a fragrant economical solution for face skin and baby dusting. The copy mocks propriety while selling beauty aids.
American Women Reported Kidnapped Near Shanghai
Two U S women Miss Elizabeth Berglund and Miss Ingeborg Nystal from the Augustana Mission at Juchow Henan Province were missing after bandits seized the town near Shanghai. The minister Rev Arne Anda is held for 100000 dollars and 200 rifles, with reports of his disappearance on November 21.
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Shanghai
Elizabeth Berglund
Ingeborg Nystal
Augustana Synod
Juchow
Henan Province
Hankow
Kiahsien
Arne Anda
Sichwan
Honan
Anda
Minnesota Missionary Women Serve in China
Miss Elizabeth Berglund of Hopkins and Miss Ingeborg Nystul of Goodridge, Minnesota, are cited by Dr. O. J. Johnson of the Foreign Mission Board as long time workers in China. Berglund spent two years at Luther Bible Institute then a year studying Chinese in Peking before teaching primary classes at Juchow for three years. Nystul has spent fourteen years in China, trained as a nurse at Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul, and recently returned to Iochow after a furlough and short leave at the St. Paul institution.
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St. Paul
Minn
Elizabeth Berglund
Ingeborg Nystul
Minnesota
O. J. Johnson
Foreign Mission Board of Augustana Synod
Miss Berglund
Hopkins
Luther Bible Institute
Juchow
Miss Nystul
China
Goodridge
Bethesda Hospital
Iochow
St. Paul Institution
Bandits Hold Pastor in Henan Province
Chinese bandits terrorizing missionary settlements in Henan have seized Rev. Arne Anda from Sichwan on November 21 and hold him at an unknown destination. They demand a mission school girl be surrendered and have ordered an English missionary at Kingtzekwan to pay $10,000 under penalty of burning the settlement.
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Hankow
Henan
Arne Anda
Sichwan
Central China Post
Kingtzekwan
Freight rate cuts hoped if railroads prosper
William H. Finley, president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, told the Chicago Association of Commerce that if railroads share in general prosperity and gain latitude like other industries, they could reduce freight rates. He warned against mounting bonded debt, urged objective regulation, and suggested Europe’s economic approach as a model.
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Chicago
William H. Finley
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Chicago Association of Commerce
Finley
Europe
Long Bridge Test Well Hits Deep Gas At Latrobe
Engineers report the Long Bridge test well near Latrobe Pennsylvania struck gas at 7 428 feet after 380 months of drilling and the gas is flowing at 500 000 cubic feet per day.
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Pittsburgh
Long Bridge
Latrobe
Arorld
Two Thousand Dollars Stolen from Post Office Switch
In Hornell New York a five minute blackout led to a theft of a package containing $2000 from the post office. Police investigate the security lapse and identify potential suspects.
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Hornell
Kansas City Editor Indicted Over Tax Lists
Kansas City Journal and Post executives Walter S. Dickey and Ralph Ellis face six counts under a federal tax law test case. Indictments cite publication of income tax lists and names linked to public figures and a Broadway star. Trial is set with arraignments to follow. penalties include fines up to 1000 dollars or up to a year in jail.
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Kansas City
Walter S. Dickey
Kansas City Journal
The
Kansas City Post
Ralph Ellis
Stone
Frank ©. Niles
Frank Bernardin
Harry Brewer
Logan Clendenning
D. M. Pinkerton
Jeanne Engels
Dickey
Ellis
Topeka
Kan
Journal-Post
U S Officials Warn Over Immigrant Influx From 1923 24
Secretary of Labor Davis told the American Club luncheon that about 850000 immigrants entered the United States illegally in the 1923 24 fiscal year. He cited Mexican and Canadian border routes and noted 35000 foreign seamen never returned to their ships. He warned that opening immigration would overwhelm the economy and argued for prioritizing American workers and rehabilitation over large intake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
American Club
Davis
United States
Immigration Department
America
68th Congress Opens Final Session in Quiet Start
Washington says the Sixty-eighth Congress begins a short session likely to be dull with few major matters. Only government supply bills Muscle Shoals Isle of Pines treaty postal salaries veto, farm legislation and world court are seen as possible actions.
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Muscle Shoals
Isle of Pines
Washington
World Court
Congress
Cole Estate Bequeaths $1 Million to Heirs
The will of Cornelius Cole, Civil War era U S Senator and Lincoln ally, filed for probate in Los Angeles reveals a net estate value near one million dollars. Cole died November 3 at age 102, leaving cash, securities, and real estate.
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Cole
Los Angeles
Cal
Cornelius Cole
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Three Acquitted of Murder in Tuscola Case
A Tuscola jury found Lee Benskin Harley Campbell and Leonard Campbell not guilty of killing Sherman Denny. The panel deliberated about an hour and a half. Harley Campbell admitted shooting Denny on May 17 but claimed self defense. Separately four airplanes bound for China were seized on the Germian steamer Pfalz in Colombo Colombo Ceylon.
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Tuscola
Lee Benskin
Harley
Leonard Campbell
Sherman Denny
Harley Campbell
Denny
China
Colombo
Ceylon
Germian
Pfalz
Interstate CCS reads rates on horses and mules
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered readjusted freight rates on horses and mules from Fort Worth Texas to nearly every point in the southwestern quarter of the United States.
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Washington
Fort Worth
Tex
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Father shoots daughter then kills himself in arranged marriage dispute
In Buffalo, Salvatore Giglia killed his 14 year old daughter Mary Giglia who refused an arranged marriage to an elderly suitor and then fatally shot himself. The tragedy underscores coercive family pressure in forced unions.
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Kille
Buffalo
N. Y
Mary Giglia
Refu
Salvatore Giglia
FUR WILL FLY OVER SLAP AT LA FOLLETTE IN SENATE
Senators La Follette Brookhart Ladd and Frazier were read out of Republican councils for backing a third party ticket. A near unanimous resolution barred them from future meetings and key committee vacancies. Borah vows to bring the issue to the floor as party factions brace for a sharp Senate clash.
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Washington
la Follette
Wisconsin
Brookhart
Iowa
Ladd and
Frazier
North Dakota
Coolidge
Senate
Old Guard
Congress
Edge
New Jersey
Reed
Pennsylvania
Ernst
Kentucky
and Spencer
Missouri
Harrold
Oklahoma
Senator Ladd
Ladd
Borah
75,000 Railroad Workers Win 5 Percent Raise
The United States Railroad Labor Board grants about 5 percent wage increases to 75,000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen affecting 45 western railroads. A new minimum wage of 7 per day for engineers and 5.25 per day for firemen in passenger service is set, with additional per mile raises for freight service and yard workers.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
New York Central Railroad
Western Railroads
United States Supreme Court
Dirigible TC-5 Wrecked After Hit With Girder
The US army dirigible TC-5 was badly damaged at Scott Field Illinois when ground crew slipped in snow and lost control. A gust of wind knocked it into a steel girder tearing a fin and causing 170 000 cubic feet of helium to escape with a loud report. Damage estimated at 15000 dollars. helium valued at 17000 dollars. No injuries among crew or ground staff. Wind velocity 17 mph ten minutes before movement.
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St. Louis
United States Army
Scott Field
Ill
Ford car plant in Antwerp closes over Belgian tariff
The Antwerp Ford assembling plant, which supplied Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, shut down due to a new Belgian tariff officials say makes import duties prohibitive.
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Antwerp
Ford Automobile
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Luxembourg
Switzerland
St Patrick's Day Declared Dry in Free State
Dublin dispatch reports the Irish Free State Senate amended liquor laws to make St Patrick's Day fully dry, aligning it with Good Friday and Christmas in prohibition.
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St. Patrick’s Day
Belfast
Irish Free State Senate
St. Patrick's Day
Dublis
Calles Takes Oath as President of Mexico in Large Ceremony
In Mexico City Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles took the presidential oath before a 25 000 crowd at the national stadium. Cadets from San Jacinto Military Academy guarded the platform as Congress members, diplomats, justices, and governors watched. Obregon sat with Calles as 600 disabled veterans were honored in the arena. Col. Filiberto Gomez administered the oath.
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Mexico City
Plutarco
Elias Calles
Republic of Mexico
San Jacinto Military Academy
Calles
Congress
Supreme Court
General Obregon
Obregon
Col
Filiberto Gomez
Dr Drake's Glossco Croup Remedy Ad Claim
An advertisement promotes Dr Drake's Glossco as a physician prescribed remedy for croup that relieves symptoms in 15 minutes without vomiting. It touts fast relief for coughs colds and whooping cough and urges parents to keep a bottle available, priced at 60 cents.
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Doug
SPOHN
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
Muddled Vintage Quips and Puzzles in Fragments
A garbled jumble of quotes and quirky lines touches on cooking tests old recipes art and aging. It mentions a lone swimmer in a family and hints at cross word puzzles expanding vocabulary though not like golf.
Handmaids in Bible No Manicure Reference
The dialogue playfully questions if biblical handmaids were manicurists, noting no biblical text assigns such a craft to them. It treats the idea as a humorous hypothetical rather than a factual claim.
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Mack
London Mail
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James H. Allen
Forbes St
Robhy
Allenrhu
Wolff-Wilson Drug CO
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Cnn Aera
Oftroit
Tab
U.S
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Federal Grand Jury
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Journal and Post
New York Tribune
U. S
Brazil
Texas
Progressives
Republican Conference
Labor Board
Brotherhood OF Engineers and Firemen
Ford
Mexico
Omaha
Neb
Carl F. Egge
Air Mail Service
Auto
Sherman
B. T. Hill Jr
B.T. Hill
Young Hill
Bloomington
Illinois
Farmers’ Political Conference
Portsmouth
Ohio
Edward Pollitt
Front Street
Garfield
Leonard Ear Oil
J. B. Bergeson
Qtort
Leonard EA Oil
Newark
Croup
Sauheae Tare
Hall
B. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Teamster
Peterson Ointment Co., Inc
Peterson
William Haase
West Park
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Peterson Ointment Co
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