Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Praised by Chicago Mother
A Chicago mother, Mrs Mary Enrico, describes using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to recover from serious health issues. She notes improved health, enabling her to work as a power sewing machine operator and care for her child. The ad urges other women to keep well with the remedy and its Sanative Wash.
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Chicago
Clinois
Lydia EL Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Mary Enrico
Carpenter St
Illinois
Lydia E. Pinkham
Where They Are and Youth Reflections at a Meeting
The item notes lines about boys of youth and a meeting of Oldest Inhabitants. It reports forty six persons said to have died in England at more than 120 years of age.
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England
Sturdy hiker Rufus Harding returns from 2300 mile mission
Rufus Harding, 44, Danville native and ex soldier, completed a 2300 mile trek from Washington DC to Danville carrying four sealed messages for the Danville chamber of commerce. He traveled a foot, endured Kentucky mountains and rail trestles, and plans to visit American Legion posts to share his tales. He started last November with one cent and a 14 pound pack including a cigar for Uncle Joe Cannon.
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Hooy Rufus “Harding
Danville
Washington, D. C
Kentucky
Clarksburg
W. Va
Rufus
Joe
Cannon
Notes From Alaska Dispel Myths About Ketchikan Life
A Ketchikan American Legion historian debunks clichés about Alaska. He notes there are no gold miners, winters have mild low temps, light snowfall, frequent rainwear, no fur or snowshoes at posts, and that gold fishing is the main industry. Cars exist while dog sleds are hot dogs.
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Ketchikan
American Legion
Alaska
American Legion reports 1921 deeds and aid efforts nationwide
The Minnesota post lists 43 262 good deeds by veterans in 1921 with a $25 000 surplus from Kansas City earmarked for a headquarters. Vocational students in Pittsburg Kansas repay loans. a Wran gell Alaska auxiliary unit is chartered likely as The Arctic Circle. Compensation checks total $823 447 80 for 4 924 veterans between Oct 10 1921 and Jan 11 1922.
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Minnesota
American Legion
Kansas City
Northland
American Legion Auxiliary
Wrangell
Alaska
Arctic Circle
On eighteenth street two drivers argue over a horn clash
On eighteenth street yesterday two black drivers in a truck and another car blocked traffic after a horn dispute. Both pull their vehicles aside and argue over right of way before they resume driving.
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Eighteenth Street
Wayaia
Kansas City Star
Diamond Dyes Promises Easy Home Dyeing for All Garments
A vintage advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as simple for any woman to use on sweaters skirts and children's coats with directions included. It guarantees no spotting fading streaking or running and instructs buyers to tell the druggist the fabric type whether wool silk linen cotton or blends.
How Noiseless Is the Growth
A reflection on unseen progress, comparing quiet advance to corn’s growth. The excerpt notes steady, imperceptible victories of the press over time, progressing without notice until suddenly apparent at harvest.
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de Quincey
Cuticura Taleum Powder Promotes Fresh Skin
An advertisement touts the Cuticura Taleum Powder as an antiseptic and fragrant economical powder for face skin baby and dusting use. It is part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio alongside Soap and Ointment and claims to render other perfumes superfluous.
Police Chief Blasts Bootleg Pols and Society Leanings
Chicago Police Chief Charles Fitzmorris rails at bootlegging officers who seek wealth and society, recalling a New York profiteer labeled Blane who climbs social ranks. The report notes innovations like yeast based synthetic leather and rubber, and a quip about a woman seldom knowing what she wants.
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Charles Fitzmorris
Chicago
Blackstone
New York
Blane
Mr. Blane
Probably the Only Day and Other Court Jokes
In Ju venile court a few days ago was a laugh producer an attorney asks if you refused to go to church with your wife defendant says he goes to Sunday school on Sundays. Bonedry jokes with hic and other quips about crooked transactions and a New York dining misstep with horses d oeuvre and horse doves.
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New York
Sue
Boston Transcript
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Mrs. Enrico
Bellans
Dodd
Samuel P Benton
Central Ave
Hot Springs
Ark
Dodd's
Dodd’s Medicine CO
Buffalo
Gripe
MFG. CO
Consolidated State Street
N. Y. Chicago
Legion
Swinole
Washington
Ketchikan Legion Post
Pittsburg
Kan
Wash
The
Americean Legion
Seattle
Frank Apgar
United States Army
Boston
Mass
Legion Post
Racine
Wiscom
Ministry of Pensions
America
Wrigley
Iwal
Bonedry
Canute
Eve
Satan
Postum Cereal Company, Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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