Painting and Paperhanging Services Promoted in Ads
Multiple报价 for painting and paperhanging services with guarantees and references from firms like Retail Merchants Association Petrich-Saur Lumber Co and Lockwood National Bank. Individual workers A G Goff O E Davis G H Hicks advertise prompt neat work and cheap rates plus paper supply options. WANTED HOUSES TO LEVEL PAINT AND PAPER and carpentry tasks also offered. Call Crockett numbers.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
Petrich- Saur Lumber Co
Lockwood National Bank
A. G. Goff
Travis
O. E. Davis
Crockett
G. H. Hicks
Call Crockett
U P Labor Appeals Meet Draws Small Response
Washington reports Democratic leaders say labor backs the current administration as wage gains reach about 12 percent in the last year. A labor wage-up study cites 1486 reports across 138 publications, affecting roughly 5.7 million workers with total payroll gains near 300 million dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Republican Party
Democratic National Committee
Department of Labor
Wilson
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Colorado
Ilinois
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Bay State
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Bakers
United States
Labor Department
For Sale Pianos and Musical Instruments
Classified notice listing multiple pianos for sale including a 310 Knabe in first class condition for 60 dollars and a 360 mahogany up right grand piano on mortgage sale for 65 dollars. Also mentions used pianos at 25 to 75 dollars, a player piano for 225 dollars, and a nickel plated B flat and C cornet for 10 dollars. Addresses include 161 Light 405 Devine St 309 W Commerce 1121 E Houston St and 334 Rivas.
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Knabe
Light
Devine St
Fischer
Steinway
Emerson
Mayor Piano Co
Mayor Temple of Music
Travis
Soledad
McCurry
Commerce
Commerce St
Houston St
German food shortage warned by socialist leader
A Berner Tagwacht article warns Germany faces nearing food exhaustion through harvest time. It notes 18 million tons annual grain use, 2 million imported, 12 million harvested last year, 33 percent reduced consumption, and slim prospects for potato supply and meat rations.
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Berne
Germany
Roumania
The Cro Magnon People in Western Europe
Twenty five thousand years before the Pharaohs Cro Magnon humans entered Europe from Asia along the Mediterranean. They displaced Neanderthals, created art on caves and bone, made tools from stone and bone, and left a lasting cultural influence with evidence of their descendants in Dordogne.
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Western
Europe
Mediterranean Sea
Asia
Vezere
France
Dordogne
Massachusetts inventor adapts lighting circuit alarm bell
A Massachusetts inventor develops an automatic fire alarm that attaches to a building's electric lighting circuit to trigger a bell. The device uses existing wiring to sound an alert, potentially speeding notifications during a fire.
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Massachusetts
Queen Elizabeth Wins Hearts Across Belgium With Kind Deeds
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium deepens popular affection by visiting trenches in uniform, founding the Charles Theodore school and Maria Jose Garden for Belgian children, and secretly helping families with gifts and coffee cakes. Soldiers at the reeducation institute send lilies in gratitude.
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Paris
Queen Elizabeth
Belgium
Madame de Page
Charles Theodore School
Maria Jose Garden
Institute
Port Villet
Plan to Cut Germany Off After the War
Paris reports a strong French movement to ostracize Germany after the war by closing frontiers to German goods and barring French shipments via German railways. Russian circles echo this stance as they discuss reliance on merchant fleets to reach allies.
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Paris
France
Germany
Russia
Duma
North Sea
Baltic
Mediterranean
Petit Journal
Riga
Libau
Petrograd
Constantinople
Odessa
Dunkirk
Europe
Brest
New York
Calais
Cronstadt
Russian Empire
United States
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Charles Roux
Paris Chamber of Commerce
David Monnet
Germany Plans Berry Canning Drive This Summer
The Deutsche Tageszeitung reports at least 5000 tons of berries will be picked in Germany this summer. Schoolchildren collect berries in forests and mountains to make jams and marmalades as fat substitutes grow scarce. Government has stored large quantities of sugar to support canning factories and private individuals.
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Berlin
Deutsche” Tageszeitung
Germany
Tragic Bomb Accident at Paris Barracks
In Paris on July 22 vonne Brito dropped a lighted bomb near comrades and leaped on it to save others. The explosion killed him with only fragments remaining, but reportedly no others were harmed.
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Tife
Paris
Vonne Brito
Serbian Refugees Arrive in England Aided by Government
London July 22 England opens its doors to thousands of Serbians many wish to stay long term. Youths arrive eager to learn and study at Oxford or Cambridge aided by state funding. Some are housed with English families as they attend public schools in London.
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London
England
Belgium
Oxford
Cambridge
Lincoln Humor Sparks in Courtroom Tales from Illinois
The article recounts humorous Lincoln anecdotes from Illinois courtrooms. Judge Weldon recalls Lincoln joking about a “plug for my gallus” to fix his suspenders while addressing a paper. Lincoln’s quips turn a horse trade into laughter, including a mock reversal with a sawhorse when a judge’s horse is poor.
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Lincoln
Ilinois
Francis F. Browne
Abraham Lincoln
Lawrence Weldon
Sinois
Judge Logan
Logan
Linecoln
Outflanking the Smoker and the Tobacco Debate
The piece discusses the long history of tobacco opposition on moral grounds and the rise of smoking, noting a pivot to fire safety. It cites New York fire department data linking 1806 fires to cigars and cigarettes and 1314 to matches, arguing property loss concerns could pierce smokers’ defenses.
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Europe
Chicago News
New York Fire Department
New York
Berlin Faces Peace Session as Hope Fades for Victory
Berlin reports rumors that Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg may summon a special Reichstag session in September to discuss peace. The government accepts hardship as political, while food shortages grow. Meat, bread, sugar, and potatoes are increasingly scarce, with public unrest rising as the war economy tightens. The Vorwaerts confirms the lack of provisions and criticizes prior claims of adequate supply.
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Berlin
von Bethmann Hollweg
Reichstag
Roumania
Vorwaerts
Swiss Papers Urge Aiding Allies in War Against Germany
The Gazette de Lausanne calls for French-speaking cantons to invade southern Germany via Swiss land and to join the Entente. It argues neutrality is costly, predicts Germany’s defeat, and urges Switzerland to ally with the victors for political and commercial gains before it is too late.
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Berne
Switzerland
Germany
Gazette de
Lausanne
Fashion pirates encroach on teas in West End
London report notes wartime fashion thieves sketching outfits at afternoon teas in the West End. They use pencil and pad to copy styles seen on well dressed guests, a shift from Riviera and racecourse pilfering before the war.
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London
Riviera
West End
Parlor Conversation Sets Evening Tone in Small Town
A fragmentary diary style exchange hints at a long night of light talk in a parlor. A mother questions a daughter about keeping a young man late, and the daughter explains they indulged in conversation.
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Texas
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West Virginia
Pennsyvania
Wisconsin
Utah
Vermont
Taft
Ring Travis
W. M. Figh
Ring Crockett 2827
S. A. Builders’ Exchange
L. C. Smith
Belmont
Draughon's College
E. Houston St
TSS
Pecos St
Bugsy
North Street
Belmont St
Telephone Crockett
C. Crockett
Tobin Hill
Laurel Heights
Ring Crockett
Burleson Bt
Marlborough Place
Ing, Packing and Shippin
SOBBY
North Medina Sti
Hone
By Garrett P. Serviss
New World
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Colombiere
Ain
Elizabeth
Rapdael-Georges Levy
French Institute
Austria
Japan
Serbia
Hood
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