New York State Barge Canal Opens Duluth to New York Route
The New York barge canal links Lakes Erie and Ontario to the Hudson, enabling freight from Duluth to New York by water. Built Buffalo to Albany at a cost of 154 million dollars, the system offers cheaper, faster transport, with electric canal boats and a three and a half day voyage from Buffalo to New York, vs about five days by rail. Shipping costs drop from five cents to about two to 2 1/2 cents per bushel.
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Duluth
Minn
New York City
Buffalo
Albany
Hudson
New York
New York State
Panama
Hudson River
Canada
Welland Canal
St. Lawrence
New Canal
Lakes
Medical officer urged in U S cabinet by Mayo
Dr Charles W Mayo former Mayo brother and AMA president argues for a medical cabinet officer in the president's cabinet. He cites wartime gains in sanitation and disease prevention and warns of tuberculosis and disease deaths among soldiers in past wars.
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New York
Charles W. Mayo
Mayo Brothers
Rochester
France
Mayo
Cuba
Gorgas
Panama Canal Cone
No One Should Have Gray Hair Ad Claim
A vintage advertisement touts Q Han Hair Color Restorer as a harmles, ready to use liquid that claims to restore natural hair color gradually for gray or faded hair. It markets related products including Q Ran Liquid Shampoo and Odorless Toilet Paperless Depilatory and offers a free book on hair culture, with drugstore availability and a Memphis company address.
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Wrute
Mt. Only
Owl Crow Co
Bartell Drug Co
Beattle
Hewsig-Elisa Drug Co
Memphis
Tenn
Toliet Papaleo
Iron and wellness claim from Dr Ferdinand King
Dr Ferdinand King promotes organic iron-Nuxated Iron as safer and more effective for women’s strength and appearance, claiming 106 percent improvement in two weeks in many cases and noting risks of ordinary iron products. The advertisement cites druggists and lists a string of film showings and theater listings alongside the health pitch.
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Ferdinand King
Ferdinand Kine
Owl Drug Co
Martel Drug Co
Seite Pharmacy
Police Pet Mice Arrest Highlights Portland Man
Harvey Merrill of Portland, 27, spent the night in the city jail after being arrested for peddling without a license. The police station kept five white mice used to attract crowds as part of his selling of mending cement and razor strops.
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Harvey Merrill
Portland
Il-la-hee community housing near Seattle west of Yesterway
Il-la-hee offers one quarter mile water front with a club house for residents, marketed to Seattle families for summer living. Listings note meadow orchards trees and boat service, with twenty water front tracts for sale. Residents can live at Il-la-hee and commute to Seattle or the Navy Yard by boat at 9:30 a m.
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Will TH. Parry
Federal Trade Commission
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club
Il-la-hee
Seattle
Yesterway
Tl-La-Hee
Navy Yard
Yard
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Willard Mack
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Pauline Frederick
Alice Joyce
Harry Morey
M. Guterson
Tierney Delibes
H. B.warner
James Oliver Curwood
Mack Sennett
Fun
Litle
Fatty Arbuckle
Mabel Normand
John Hamrick
University
U. S
Doings IN Filmcom
Lionel Barrymore
Liberty
Linerty
Charles Rey
Clemmerm
Anita Stewart
Norma Talmadge
Coliselm
tHeuse Peters
Colonital
Thode Bera
Strand
Sareh Bernhardt
Prance
Ken. B. Warner
Treft
Drences Nelson
the Almighty Dellar
Charles Ray
Clemmer
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House Peters
Tully Marshall
David White
Rene
David
Rex James Oliver Curwood
Far North
The
Rex
H. Bo Warner
Mothers of
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London
Theda Bara
Kk. K. Lincoln
Lubin
Frances Nelson
June Elvidge
Parry
Rhodes Co
Copenhagen
Ong
Thomas Edt
Won
Insurance Pol
Liberty Bond Booth
E-M-C
Dimity
Batiste
OLE Hanson & Son
New York Block
Elliott
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