Market tastes change at Westlake market says manager
Thomas L. Boyd of the Westlake market notes shifting buying patterns in Seattle. Families move from nuts fruits and vegetables to staples like flour and sugar with a 20 to 25 percent rise in staple business. C O D business has doubled in 18 months and daily COD volume reaches about $500. Deliveries amount to eight to ten tons to the north end on busy days.
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Seattle
Thomas L. Boyd
Westlake
Boyd
CO. D
North End
Pittsburg Aims To Be The Smoke Less City
Oct. 22 Pittsburg develops an esthetic soul and artistic temperament. The city aspires to world fame as The Smoke Less, not Smoky. Smoke Regulator Henderson plans to publish in November the names of local millionaires and new millionaires who smoke commercially.
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Pittsburg
Pittaburg
Henderson
Moving Picture Detective Sparks Holmes Pipe Comparison
A playful remark imagines Sherlock Holmes smoking a pipe while evaluating a moving picture detective. The line blends classic detective lore with modern screen figure for humorous contrast.
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Sherlock Holmes
Confessions of a Wife and a Man's Hidden Rifts
The narrator discusses Herbert's ruling passion and his jealousy of outside interests as a wife contemplates independence. She notes many gifts for Kitty, then argues a married man may seek interests beyond his wife. She imagines a future with mutual respect allowing separate paths. September weather and rainfall data conclude.
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Kitty
Herbert
Old Prescription for Weak Kidneys
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a tested physician’s prescription for kidney liver and bladder diseases. It claims rapid relief and urges readers to buy a bottle or request a sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
St Jacobs Ointment touted for backache relief
An old advertisement claims back pain comes from lumbago sciatica or strains not kidneys. It suggests rubbing St Jacobs Ointment onto the back to instantly reduce soreness stiffness and lameness with a harmless formula that won’t burn the skin.
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St. Jacobs
St. Jacob's
U S Princesses Aid War Sufferers in Rome
Princess Torlonia and Princess San Faustino, both Americans by birth, are active in Rome's economic kitchens feeding the hungry. They have turned thousands of dollars into food for Italians and work beside the front rank of relief efforts amid food shortages.
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Rome
Aomic
Torlonia
Eli Moore
Charles Moore
New York
Prince San Faustino
Ma Campbell
America
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Ilete Grocery Store
Best
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IRS
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Hotel Baden
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OLD Holland Butter CO
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Salt Park
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Pike 4
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Western Ave
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Harry
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