Traveling salesman jokes lead to unexpected romance
Ned Dawson plans a year of travel but a rain drenched pharmacy encounter with Edna Wardell sparks a romance. Ned fakes a prescription and by chance helps her ill father, earning an invitation to the Wardell home and a marriage proposal as the couple celebrates Ned’s fortune and future plans.
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Ned Dawson
Rodney Blair
Ned
Mr. Blair
Mies
Wardell
J. H
Edna Wardell
Mr. Wardell
Papa
Blair
Miss Wardell
Before and After Jokes About Marriage
Meeker quips he never understood his wife before marriage Bleeker asks if he now does. Meeker replies that she never lets up until he does. The brief exchange lands as a light humor item.
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Meeker
Bleeker
Illinois News Nuggets Headline Summary
Illinois items report Urbana visits by Prof D O Barto and Prof Green to Sanga mon county schools. Hanover notes Chicago syndicate options on 5000 acres near town for a Hungarian vegetable colony. Red Barn in Dixon closes and Considinia Gredinar pays 150 fine. Springfield reports motion to stay C B Munday in peniten t iary. Clinton notes death of Henry Koons, coal dealer from Decatur, due to heart disease.
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Hanover
Chicago
Henry Koons
Clinton
Illinois
Decatur
Illinois Briefs Roundup From Across The State
A statewide scatter of short items notes Fort Sheridan’s planned alien camp, wage strikes at National Zinc in Springfield, births in Springfield, and university policies on uniforms. Other items include court actions in Carlinville, a captaincy for Charles Robertson, a possible fatal attack in Pana, and a Peoria student’s eye injury from chemicals.
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Fort Sheridan
National Zinc Company
Springfield
Henry Collins
War Department
University of Chicago
Carlinville
Board of Education of
Virden
Charles V. Robertson
Tinois University
United States Army
Daniel Davis
Henry Merkett
Pana
Howard Brehm
Peoria
Orleans
Standard Oil Company
Edinburg
University of Illinois
Urbana
Terre Haute
Virgo County
Indiana
William G. Royce
Bloomington
Lincoln
Douglas
Samuel W. Wade
Nicholas
Girard
South Chicago
Countess Cardelli
S. W. Lainson
Chicago Board of Trade
Karl Albert
Chicago
Northwestern University
Evanston
Red Cross
Shelton McGrath
Charles
Stubbles
Representative Putnam
Waverly
South Otter
Jed Killius
Belleville
German- American Alliance
United States
Lincoln Centennial Association
Grippe Wiley Maper
Griggsville
James Squire
Carrollton
Laomi
South Pekin
Medora
Gideon Forwood
Union
Illinois State Attorneys’ Association
Marion Emerick
Henry R. Roesch
Joliet Penitentiary
State News Briefs Reach Wide Illinois
A roundup of Illinois items notes Stanley Vance named United States commissioner for the northern district, University of Chicago divinity school plans, Miles Barry dies, city hall project advances, Grafton fishery losses, and Grayville and Pinckneyville church news. Also listed are road improvements in Sangamon County, midstate deaths, commissions in the army, McLean county arrest, and various civic incidents in Springfield, Bloomington, Rockford, Danville, and Chicago.
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Stanley M. Vance
United States
Inois
Charles H. Green
University of Chicago
Alvins
Madde Padi
Divinity School
Miles E. Barry
Chicago
Barry Transportation Company
Dwight
Grafton
Grayville
Bloomington
J. Russell Yates
Quartermaster Department
United States Army
Chester Ernest Schad
McLean County
Ray Ekin
Carlock
Andrew Jackson Sanders
Sangamon County
Pawnee
A. A McKeene
Springfield
State Fair
J. Ogden Armour
Henry Clinton Collins
Seventh
Ilinois Infantry
Bauman
Antisaloon League of
Quincy
Naples
Mary Gates Dawes
John” Murphy
John Evlander
Lutheran Church Reader
Rockford
Edward Dorn
Belvidere
J. W. Smithson
Decatur
Aurora
Marvin Bauer
Mary Correll
Loop
Dudley Grant Hayes
Board of Education of
Red Cross
Medical Women's Club
Cheago
Watseka
Iroquois County
Knox College of
Brighton
Lorene Pryor
John Jackson
Santa Anna
Cal
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Clara Langhorst
Carl F. Laner
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Shelbyville
California Syrup of Figs Promised Safe Laxative for Children
An old advertisement extols California Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative that cleanses the stomach and bowels without griping. It urges mothers to use a teaspoonful when children are cross feverish or have sour stomachs and to buy the 50 cent bottle with dosing directions for all ages. The copy concludes with a joke about ideal husbands and digestion.
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California
A Friend's Advice Helps Woman Avoid Surgery
Mrs Nellie Fishback of Louisville credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing years of female troubles head aches and nervousness. She reports restored health able to care for home and baby and says the remedy saved her from a feared operation. The ad invites readers to write for free medical advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
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Louisville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Nellie Fishback
Christy Ave
Dia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Ass
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W. G. Chapman
D. O. Barto
Agricultural College
the University of Iiinois
Green
Red Barn
Dixon
Considinia Gredinar
Munday
C. B. Munday
Supreme Court
Grace
U. S
Carter
Williams Sanatorium
University Av
Minneapolis
Mis
Warren Publishing Co
P.O
Anderson Co
Ovage City
Kam
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