Fragmentary World War II Dispatch Tale and Curious Arts Notes
A garbled excerpt blends a South African war anecdote with a dispatched message episode and a later note on a copper engraver Theo de Bry. It references a courier delivering dispatches, a terse exchange about timing, and a request to say please. The fragment then shifts to a 16th century copper engraving of thimbles and a late 19th/early 20th century note on a Chicago news item.
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Theo de Bry
Tiv Rares Amour
TV Ieaisorts
Relics Tell of Big Cold Boom at Tombstone Arizona
A tour of Tombstone’s remaining relics recalls the gold camp boom. Bird Cage Opera House, Can Can restaurant, Red Light Saloon endure as bats haunt decaying fronts. The iconic stage, piano platform, and famed Do not shoot the piano Dinger sign survive in memory of the frontier era. Monument honors Ed Schefflin, founder, built from his first mine’s boulders.
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Gold Camp
Tuckon, Ariz
Theson
Tombstone
Aria
Arizona
Southwest
San Francisco
Canon
Hine
Tomber Stone
Mige
Corral
Tucson
Ito Ed Schettlin
Schefflin
Panhandle
Texas
Scheffin
Kold
Huachuca Mountains
Schein
Hammer Meets Cold Iron on Dixie Highway Auto Incident
Middletown report details two men, Wiley Coldston and Bert Hammer, who after a drunken auto ride were stopped on the Dixie highway and brought before a justice of the peace charged with driving an automobile while intoxicated.
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Middletown
Dixie Highway
Wiley Coldston
Bert Hammer
Jam for the Doughboys Largest West Coast Order Placed
Seventeen car loads of special jam have been ordered from a Bellingham manufacturer by the government to feed doughboys overseas. It is the largest order of its kind ever placed in the West. Government purchasing agents expect rapid fulfillment from the berry district hub.
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Bellingham
Wash
Heart Cut, Lives Four Days in Oakland Tragedy
Antone Pereira of Oakland lived four days after a knife wound inflicted while a fellow worker demonstrated Italian fighting at a wharf. Surgeons report it is the first known case of surviving such a wound this long.
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Oakland
Cal—amouga
Antone Pereira
Pereira
Chang Chien's Nantung Chow reforms show new China progress
Frederick W Sitex reports from Nantong on the Yangtze where Chang Chien leads a quiet but bold program. A cluster of industrial, educational and social schemes includes land reclamation, canal building, schools, a public library, embroidery and tapestry shops, and a villa-like campus with gardens. The effort aims to train and employ 3 million Chinese families through six companies and related development bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ourists
China
Yangtee
Callege
Chines
Dowsle
Clon
Iin-Tung
Chow
Yangtse River
Shangghai
Yangtse
Chang Chien
Nan Ting Chow
Uis
Chang
Xalt Maeshes Jong
Thenment
Ching
Notte
Me. Chang
America
Setting Bricks With New Machine Aids Labor
A long standing labor shortage for setting bricks spurred a new machine design. It works with an overhead crane and uses long inverted T shaped fingers to lift brick courses between dryer cars and kilns. The invention promises notable flexibility in brick manufacturing processes.
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Mchanics
Salina man mocked for hiring girls to boost war effort
A Salina man boasting of employing girls to free manpower for military service was criticized after his wife revealed the plan at a women's meeting. The Journal notes he is hiring girls, claiming they can be cheaper, sparking controversy in Kan City Star reporting.
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Salina
John
Kan
City Star
California Syrup of Figs advertisement copy
A long ad sample extols California Syrup of Figs as a gentle, thorough laxative for children and adults. It promises quick relief from constipation and associated symptoms by a flavored, easy to take remedy. The copy warns against counterfeit products and urges asking for the genuine company product.
Why Women Dread Old Age Health Ad
A fragmented ad style page urges women to fear old age and promotes Haarlem Oil Capsules as a cure for aging symptoms. It claims kidney and bladder health prevents senile ailments, promises renewed vigor, and warns of fake products while asserting GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil is the original imported brand available through druggists. It also contains a catarrh medicine section and a garbled humorous exchange about a bulldog.
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Haarlem
Adv
Dodson's Liver Tone Promises Safer, Gentler Warning
Calomel loses a day’s work with claims that Dodson’s Liver Tone is a safer vegetable remedy. Advertises a money back guarantee if it fails to relieve liver issues and constipation, praising its pleasant taste and gentle action for children and adults. Mentions a large bottle at low cost and promises wakeful energy next day without nausea or loss of work.
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California
Caliifornia Fig Syrup Company
Adv
Tutt
Calomel
Dodson
Doilson
Igor Sind
Unclear text fragment referencing meeting and questions
The readable portion hints at a plan or prompt about asking for something, mentioning a meeting and a person named Lemlon. Details are fragmentary and no coherent event or outcome is evident.
Sunburn Remedy Ad Puffs Lemons and Orchard White Lotion
An overblown ad touts lemons and Orchard White to create a freckle sunburn remover and tan lotion a grocer can supply. It promises clear soft white skin at tiny cost with massaged application to neck arms and hands. The piece imitates a sermon tone and includes other tonics and quack claims from grimy ads.
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Ion Whitener
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DELCO
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Lydia E Pinkham
Jorelen
Hinself
Spalth-Doe Tlon
Smith-Durrien
Kitchener
Chicago News
Ariz
Hammer
Cold Iron
Bar of Justice
THE
Doughboys
Cabont
Cht Thee Enterprises
Tt Ds
Nan-tung Chow
Nan Tung Chow
Tiele
Gevat
Tetsal Waren
Emt Merce
Tlolt
Mnny
Dines
Tai Development Organizautionis
Lepital Colin
Andscape
Lena
Mabel
Eben
Douglas Purelunites
Witte
Thes Fenrold
Tye Neler
Stork
Helen Exeli
Halls Catarre Medicine
All Druggiste
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Mort
Jersey
Charleston
Wakefield
D. F. Jamison
Summerville
S.C
Luktin Nevraigla
Palos Te Hack
Gatarrac
Illen
Audmess
Ee Sana Ie
Thomas E. Orter
Omateworte
Kodaks & Supplies
Saishion
Galeski Optical Co
Richaad
Charlotte
Spohn
Anita Yall Tod Winter
Ait Anne
Lemlon
Pitiney
Rheny Copes
Grove
Hinarest
Terre Yan
Englund
Putting Tunse Youn
Dean
D.C. Keys
Fulton St
Brolyn
N.Y
Buck
Beni
LN Vaughan
Notary Public
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
Cuticura
Eatonic
Ian
Aston
Seni
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