Rejuvenated Merchant Endorses Tanlac After Recovery
R E Boyd a retired hardware merchant of Washington D C says Tanlac relieved his chronic indigestion and stomach weakness since October fifteenth. He reports renewed energy eating heartily sleeping well and outwalking men twenty years younger. He urges readers to try Tanlac noting its broad sale with over 40 million bottles sold. Tanlac is sold by all good druggists with no substitute.
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Tanlac
R. E. Boyd
St. W. W
Washington, D. C
National Capital
Mr. Boyd
Taniac
Ready Witted Tommy Returns as Late Homework Joke
A Boston Transcript joke shows Tommy explaining his tardiness by the road being 80 slippery with every step sending him back two. He ultimately walked home.
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Tommy
Boston Transcript
Illinois News Briefs Collate Local Events and Crises
Reports from across Illinois include a Harrisburg marriage of William Gaskins, Sr. and Mrs. Sarah Priest. a Woodland farmer John Herd’s fatal fall from a windmill. ice jam danger on Rock River. lawyers aiding DUI prosecutions. a $5,000 damages award to Roy Atkins over Lusitania deaths. Miss La Ferr Neece named youngest bank cashier in Illinois. Jerseyville students build their own workshop. University of Illinois receives over $200,000 in gifts. Emerson Flynn charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. McNary-Hogan price plan endorsed by county farm bureaus. opposition to Joliet waterway plans. breach of promise suit in Peoria. requests to declare sailor Frank J. Schuessler dead. birth of a Chicago boy police force program. 600 students to train as guard officers.
Army air service sets records with aging planes
Over the past year the army air service established 11 world records using older aircraft refueled in flight. Distances of 500 to 5,300 kilometers were set at Dayton Ohio and San Diego California, with a 36 hour 4 minute 81 second duration record by Oakley Kelly and J A Macready, later surpassed by L H Smith and J P Richter at San Diego with 87 hours 15 minutes 43.8 seconds.
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Army Air Service
Dayton
San Diego
Cal
Oakley Kelly
J. A. Macready
L. H. Smith
J. P. Richter
United States Army Recruiting News
Motive in a Carnegie Puppet Line Sparks Mock Debate
A snappy exchange from a Carnegie puppet piece frames a joke about who invented modesty. The first speaker claims motive, the second jokes about a bow-legged woman as the inventor, reflecting satirical theater of the era.
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Carnegie
China to Add 40000 Rickshaw Men to Tram System
China plans to replace many rickshaw pullers with electric trams by spring 1924. The Forbidden City funded the capital for a new tramway by popular subscription, with opposition from rickshaw men who would lose work. The plan is to reassign rickshaw workers to tram duty to meet competition from cheap electric transport.
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China
Peking
Forbidden City
Heiress Rejects Jack After Fair Offer
A Boston Evening Transcript item notes an heiress refused a proposal from a man who pledged to be a good husband and would refund the money if he did not turn out exactly as represented. The exchange reflects a cautious, humorous social vignette from the era.
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Jack
Boston Evening Transcript
A Girl of Capacity Pennsylvania ad
An advertisement seeks steady work for a strong capable female laborer described as 20 gallons in horizontal capacity and ready for ongoing employment in Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania
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Pottstown
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Henry Ganze
Zion
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Versailles
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Dowell
Union Colliery Company
Duquoin
Sheriff White
Murphysboro
Freda Beseke
Circuit Court of
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Charles Beseke
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