Light and Shadow of Wall Street Prosperity
A vivid portrait of a booming Wall Street era showing how rising market activity boosts jobs and commerce across finance, real estate, dining, barbering, taxi services, telegraph firms, subways, and office supply traders. The piece then tours St Pauls churchyard and Vesey Street noting old headstones, a vanished restaurant Franks, and the Fulton Market mornings.
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Wall Street
Financial District
St. Paul's Churchyard
St. Paul’s
Trinity
Vesey Street
Wrank
Astor
Frank
Color in Food Selection Study Highlights Greens and Vitamin A
The article notes color influences choices in home decorating and eating, stressing vitamin A in greens. It ranks escarole, kale, lettuce, and romaine, with carrots and sweet potatoes high among vegetables, and prunes and bananas leading fruits.
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Edith M. Barber Olor
Nutrition My Neighborly Guide to Foods and Quick Dishes
A 1933 Bell Syndicate piece offers diet tips and simple recipes. It emphasizes vitamin A from milk and carrots and iron from spinach, egg yolk, and meat, plus minerals from fish and grains. Recipes include Banana Sherbet and Liver With Cream Sauce.
Street Scenes and Food Facts From A Vanished Era
A fragmented reminiscence recalls sidewalk stalls closed when the Eighth Avenue subway rose and two maids brawling on Park Avenue. The piece shifts to a late night bungalow incident and then to vitamin A in foods with notes from Dr. Hendy Sherman, outlining units and health implications.
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Church Street
Sixth Avenue el
Eighth Avenue Subway
Park Avenue
Brighty-fixth Street
Hendy Sherman
Hocus Pocus Origin and Its Shifting Meaning
By Jean Newton the piece traces the phrase hocus pocus from stage magic gibberish to its broader use signaling trickery. It notes Ochus Bochus a seventeenth century Italian wizard and mentions Ben Jonson in Magnetic Lady as a related use.
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Ochus Bochus
Houdini
Thurston
Ben Jonson
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Woodchuck’s Return Hints at Bright Warm Days
A playful verse recalls a woodchuck leaving his den as days grow bright and warm again, a lighthearted nod to seasonal change and simple folk humor.
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Woodchuck
Wanted An Uncle in Aunt Jo's Quiet Night
Peggy dreams of an uncle as Aunt Jo recalls a vanished romance and a lamp kept burning. A stranger notes the neighbor’s odd habit of lighting her lamp each night while Jim Hargraves threatens to break bones if told. Peggy wakes with the belief Aunt Jo may marry, and the man from next door holds her in his arms.
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Peggy
Josephine Lawlor
Miss Lawlor
Josephine
Redeemer
Lord
Jim Hargraves
Hargraves
Emerald Outshines Diamond by Carat Weight
An emerald weighing one carat is larger than a diamond of equal weight. The unusual comparison highlights gemstone size at a marketplace or exhibition.
California Syrup of Figs Ad Promotes Child Appetite
An advertisement urges mothers to use California syrup of figs to treat poor appetite in children. It claims a sluggish colon causes appetite loss and promises quick improvement in eating, energy, color, weight, and spirits. The copy promotes the product as a pure vegetable laxative and warns against substitutes.
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California
N. R.A
Kruschen Salts Promise Fat Loss and Health Boost
An advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a simple fat burner and energy booster. It claims daily half teaspoon in hot water before breakfast with diet tweaks will reduce fat in four weeks, improving skin eyes and vigor, with a money back guarantee and testimonials including Mrs. J. E. Burnworth of Fort Wayne Indiana.
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Europe
J. E. Burnworth
Fort Wayne
Ind
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France
South America
Marseilles
la Rochelle
Lights OF
New York
L. L. Stevenson
William Street
St. Paul's
Hudson
Broadway
St. Paul
American Animals
Associated Newspapers
WNT Service
A By
Jean. Newton
P. B. Volland Co
WNU
Wales
United States
Colwyn Bay
Great Britain
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Gre
Ruggists
Mr Bim
Dean
Agen Ant
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