Camp Perry rifle matches draw thousands and big prizes
From August 9 to today Camp Perry Ohio hosted five major rifle matches including the seventh annual National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice and NRA events. Thousands attended as officers enlisted men guardsmen and civilians competed for substantial prize money and medals while press and correspondents kept up a long running Sea Girt tradition with a national trophy tied to newspaper teams.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
National Board For Promotion of Rifle Practice
National Rifle Association
Ohio State Rifle Association
Department of the Lakes Rifle Association
Ohio National Guard
Ohio State Rifle
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Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Kentucky
Department of the Lakes
U. S. Army
National Guard
Army
Megs Hall
Congress
Brigade
Navy
Sea Girt
New Jersey
Leslie R. Fort
Fort
Lakewood Journal
Sea Girt Range
Hea
Sen Girl
Arma
Illinois State Rifle Association
Ciation
National Board For
National Rifle Association of America
United States
National Board
Are Blondes Inferior in Chicago Debate
Chicago judges and asylums superintendents clashed with Maj. Charles E. Woodruff over his claim that blondes are morally and physically inferior to brunettes. Officials noted no clear excess of blondes among prisoners or asylum inmates, while Woodruff cited prison and reformatory statistics to argue blondes are at risk of extinction unless they adapt.
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Chicago
Charles E. Woodruff
United States Army
Jalla
Woodruff
New York State
New York
America
Dr. Woodruff
Theodore Brentano
George ‘Kersten
Supt
Wilhite
Dunning
Podstata
State Hospital For the
Bigin
Clinton Prison
Elmira Reformatory
Harriman Plans Sun Room atop Fifth Avenue Mansion
The financier Harriman commissions a 48 by 36 foot sun room atop his Fifth Avenue home with two bedrooms two baths and a sitting room. An interior porch on Sixty ninth street offers park and city views while skylights and adjustable shades permit open air or enclosed conditions for year round gardening and living. The plan by architect Grosvenor Atterbury and Julius Peabody aims to create a conservatory like retreat high above the street de luxe comforts with climate control for orchids grapes and other plants.
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Aphyasieian
H. Harrimean
Hartiman
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-ninth Street
New York
Grosvenor Atterbury
West Forty-third Street
Atterbury
Julius Peabody
Cally
Central Park
Harriman
Coming Young Man Prompted Interest
A casual exchange questions who is of interest the narrator prefers a “young young man” over a “Coming Young Man,” reflected in light dialogue between Percy and Kitty with a soft, humorous tone.
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Percy
Kitty
Hudson Fulton Celebration Round Trip Train Ticket Deal
Chicago to New York City and return fare 25 50 on Grand Trunk Lehigh Valley double track route tickets sold daily until September 30 liberal stop overs apply to agent of any eastbound line or write W S Cookson A G P A 135 Adams St Chicago The waist line amusing piece notes shifting fashion and a quote from Mrs Wilson Woodrow in the American Magazine.
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Grand Trunk
Lehigh Valley
W. S. Cookson
Adams St
Chicago
Wilson Woodrow
American Magazine
The Antispeed Argument Hare and Tortoise Fable
A man in charge rebukes a messenger boy for reading a fable. He says the tale is worse than a novel, calling it the hare and the tortoise allegory. The exchange frames a critique of slow progress versus rapid change.
Castoria and Other 19th Century Ad Snippets
A collage of vintage ad snippets and jokes on health tonics like Castoria promising babies safety, while jokes touch on love headaches indigestion and teeth whitening with Wrigley’s Spearmint. Brief gibes about fame, notoriety and undertakers pepper the collage.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
A Noah Kentucky reader reports relief from headaches nervous prostration and bleeding during menopause after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The notice touts the remedy as the best for female troubles and invites confidential advice from Mass Heavies.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Noah, Ky
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Hermano
Noah
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NCLE
Sam
Pi Satish Monson
John Taylor Humphrey
Bird W. Spencer
Humphrey
Atate Hospital For Insane
Elgin
Sun
Hudson-Fulton
New York City
Bearn
Wrigley
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