Advertising Value Of Four Cents For A Dollar In San Antonio
A San Antonio plan shows how $17,000 spent on the Texas open golf championship over three years yielded $300,000 in free publicity through news coverage and star players. Local groups push a February tournament with $4 copper cent cost for a potential $166,000 in advertising space, urging residents to invest for mutual benefit.
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San Antonio
Alamo City
San Antonio Golf Association
Hotel Men’s Association
Bexar County
Students to Vote at Washington Irving Junior High
Washington Irving Junior High will hold a student presidential poll on October 16 to measure preferences based on newspapers and periodicals consulted at school. The principal stresses the vote will be nonpartisan and uninfluenced by teachers or home discussions.
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Washington Irving
Plan in the Childs Life by W A McKeever
An ancient education column advises parents to craft a balanced work play study plan with child input. It recommends prioritizing the child's interests, scheduling productive habits, and allocating time for evening recreation and Saturday work, with Sunday treated as essential to the plan.
Telegraphic Crossword Puns Reveal 1920s Busy Life
A playful volley on telegram era habits shows Americans racing to finish tasks, run businesses, settle debts, and chase love through urgent messages. The piece riffs on daily pressure, social quirks, and a long string of telegram exchanges.
Wayside Wisdom for Those Facing Change
Verse offering stoic counsel to men facing breakups and job loss. It urges resilience and self-improvement, tossing in comic images like buying an old car and staying fit. It invites optimism as new prospects arise and parties move forward with grit.
SOME SAP AND SALT By Bert Moses
A short prose piece discusses romance and grammar with humor, asserting that real love ignores rules while noting a bachelor’s fate. The text is a 1924 copyright notice attributed to Premier yné., Inc.
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Bert Moses
Premier
Yné., Inc
Treatment of Fainting by Senator Royal Copeland
A medical guidance piece explains how to treat fainting by keeping blood in the brain. It advises lying the patient flat or elevated at the feet, loosening tight clothing, and avoiding water or stimulants when unconscious. It emphasizes crowd control and waiting for recovery helpers.
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Royal S. Copeland
United States
New
Newtonk City
Tractors on the Farm by The Spectator
The piece highlights tractors replacing horses on farms, noting savings for horse care in heat and higher yields. It cites USDA on non monetary factors in tractor profitability, details use patterns in the winter wheat belt, and reports reduced hired and family labor by about one and a half months per farm.
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United States Department of Agriculture
The True Value of Real Friends
A 1925 piece argues popularity hides weak stance, praising royal friendship. It notes true friends risk disfavor to help others conquer faults and truthfulness matters in both friends and foes.
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International Feature Service, Inc
From Bus Boy to Waldorf Maître d Oskar Story
A famous hotel figure began as a bus boy at Hoffman House earning 2.50 a week. He rose to waiter and department manager at Delmonico's, then maitre d hotel at the Waldorf Astoria 27 years ago. Now he holds no title but earns 50 000 a year. This Oscar of the Waldorf is widely known.
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Hoffman
New York
Delmonico’s
Waldorf Astoria
The
Waldorf
Oscar
the Waldorf
Copsright
King Feature
Tye
Fairy gifts and fairy money in literature and belief
The piece explains fairy gifts as transient, noting that fairy money is believed to vanish into leaves or grass. It cites Moore's Believe Me and other poets who used fairy gold as a motif and mentions the idea that fairies may symbolize Providence in some beliefs.
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Moore
Earth
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Er ‘Kiser
Ompany
Sonny
J. J. Mundy
Sopyright
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