Nationwide Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Mobilizes Washington
Washington joins a national effort urging cleanliness and beautification. Citizens of all ages volunteer with brushes, paint, and brooms to improve homes and public spaces. The program, led from St. Louis, emphasizes health, fire prevention, and rising property values as benefits of the annual crusade.
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National Capital
Washington
Congress
Germany
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
St. Louis
National
Sometown
Toly
Richard Coeur de Leon
Clean Up and Paint Up Drive Mobilizes Thousands
Civic patriots in over 7,000 towns launch a broad Clean Up and Paint Up effort to remove rubbish, repair buildings, and brighten streets. The initiative links sanitation with prosperity, urging communities to join and improve value, health, and appearance.
Let Us Make Our Town Cleanest in the World
A community campaign promotes a Clean Up Paint Up effort to lower fire insurance costs reduce losses and boost property values. It urges residents to plant trees clean alleys improve yards remove unsafe buildings and educate children on fire prevention and cleanup.
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Cain
Indianapolis
Supa
Minister Urges Clean Up Movement For Better Life
Doctor Rhodes of the Clean Up and Paint Up movement calls for cleaning up life and city to inspire inward betterment. He links outward tidy surroundings with spiritual renewal and suggests everyday effort improves the soul as well as the urban landscape.
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Lfe
Doctor Rhodes
Keep the Home Fires Burning in Thrifts Sake effort
A community drive titled Keep the Home Fires Burning seeks to raise pride and participation in Thrifts Sake efforts. Organizers urge residents to support thrift and improvement programs to boost happiness health prosperity and beauty in the town.
Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Notes
In Brookfield Missouri campaign workers emphasize gerim breeding intents and offer a matinee for ten clean empty cans. Woodward Oklahoma runs a similar plan exchanging six cans for a ticket. Two large loads collected. Abraham Lincoln cited pride in home towns and public health.
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Brookfield
Woodward
Okla
Abraham Lincoln
Winthrop College Edges Toward New Dormitory and YWCA Building
Governor Manning reports Winthrop College exceeds 1000 students with strong attendance. A new dormitory for 250 to 300 will be built to accommodate more high school graduates. Funds for a $100,000 YWCA building reach $90,000 with $10,000 more due by June. College also plans home economics teacher training under a state vocational law.
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Columbia
Winthrop College
Overnor Manning
South Carolina
Johnson
Women's Christian Association
Winthrop
Smith- Taghes
Bethea school sparks war effort and wheat drive
Bethea two teacher school five miles west of Warrener shows war influence as students carry gospel home and night class reaches adults. Farmers sow 61 acres of wheat this spring for Allied needs, a jump from ten acres last year in the community’s war work. In Newberry an auto crash on the Newberry Laurens highway claims 19-year-old Mattie Gardner and injures two others including a 14-year-old granddaughter.
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Kaiser
Mike
Bethea
Bethea School
Warrener
Mary Lnva Tite
Myrtle Burke
Newberry
Mattie Gardner
J. C. Gardner
Lydia Section
Darlington County
Quota Met as Lamar Farmers Aid Liberty Loan Drive
A Lamar meeting led by Solicitor J. Monroe Spears raised 45000 for the third Liberty Loan. Most subscriptions were in 200 increments from Roundvalde area farmers. Expected district totals from Tamareeheol and nearby districts were 20,000.
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Lamar
J. Monroe Spears
Rountevalde
Tamareeheol
Thelve
California Syrup of Figs Ad Claims Safe Child Laxative
Public health style ad claims a laxative cure for cross and feverish children. It promotes California Syrup of Figs as harmless and effective, urging mothers to use a spoonful to cleanse the bowels and restore a playful child, with directions on the bottle and the maker's name.
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California
California Syrup of
California Fig Syrup Company
Ady
Outspoken Exchange On Tombstone Talk Sparks Street Car Chat
Two outstate monument dealers discuss designs and inscriptions on a street car. A colored passenger overhears and bluntly replies that he wants no tombstone markers, joking about a grave marked by a watermelon vine and a garbled phrase.
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Dent
Dnidhunnpolis News
Mrs. Sallie Ja Chitwood Praises Black-Draught
A Wyoming woman endorses Black-Draught as a versatile remedy from liver and stomach troubles to colds and teething issues. She notes it has given satisfaction for children and adults, used as a tea and laxative, with over 70 years of popular use.
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Rockymount
Sallie Ja
Chitwood
Shedford
Andy
The Way of It and the Curious Text Fragment
A short, quirky passage presents a garbled mix of phrases about peeking at cards and favorites. The lines hint at misunderstandings or misread notes, with fragmented dialogue suggesting a playful or cryptic mood.
Illiterate Ad Snafu Promises Free Eye Care Remedy
Fragmentary ad text claims free eye remedy and eye care services. It includes garbled phrases and misspellings suggesting a scam or erroneous OCR from a Chicago area source. No verifiable names or dates are readable.
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