Floods Create New Heroes Across Eastern States
A flood crisis brought Red Cross workers and Coast Guard teams to save families from Maine to Ohio. In Wheeling and Pittsburgh crews evacuated residents as waters rose and receded, while volunteers tended refugees, restored basic services, and aided long term housing needs. The piece highlights personal acts of courage, humor amid loss, and the broad relief effort through 18 states and multiple agencies.
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Mummie
Brassard
the Red Cross
Pittsburgh
America
Relef
Maine
Virginia
New Jersey
Ohio
Johnstown
Wheeling
W. Va
American Red Cross
United States Coast Guard
Red Cross
Red_Cross
Wilkes- Barre
Kingston
Susquehanna
Red Cross Chapter
Market Street Bridge
Coast Guard
Hilda’s strict upbringing clashes with modern fashion
A humorous tale traces Hilda from a sheltered New England family to a city career as a designer of one piece bathing suits and a leader in a nudity group. The piece satirizes exaggerated propriety and moralizing amid changing social norms.
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Hilda
Grandmother Agatha
Emil the Rebel Against His Cautious Family
A humorous portrait of Emil born into ultra cautious parents who forbid skates and sleds for fear of danger. He grows sheltered and winter careful, then rebels and wins his own home, while the tale skewers excessive caution and editorially watched childhood.
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Emil
Iks
Curious Facts for Curious People
A miscellany of quirky observations from everyday life and trivia. Includes notes on common barber practices in British Guiana, eel feeding habits, pencil sharpener reliability, and odd household tips. Mentions Roosevelt’s middle name, hay fever, and the decline of buggy whip making.
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America
British Guiana
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Delano
Indolence Declares As Virgin Islands Only Malady
A travel remark from Cosmopolitan quotes Eleanor Hardy praising the Virgin Islands. It notes winter temperatures 70 to 80 degrees, summer figures up about five degrees, constant trade winds, and that Saint Thomas experiences little illness. The piece jokes that visitors mainly suffer from indolence, not disease, and that laziness is enjoyable in the tropics.
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Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas
The
Virgins
Eleanor Hardy
Cosmopolitan
Postum Free Offer Promises Weeklong Health Boost
The Postum Company advertises a full week’s supply of health giving Postum free to any reader who writes for it. The offer appears in another section of the newspaper as an advertisement.
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Postum Company
The Difficulty of Being Natural Says Opie Read
A quotation discusses authenticity, noting the struggle to appear natural and to resist the urge to perform. It cites Opie Read’s remark that the hardest task in life is to simply be natural.
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Opie Read
Adlerika claims quick relief for constipation
The ad promotes Adlerika as a fast solution for constipation sleeplessness sour stomach and gas bloating. It claims action within 30 minutes after one dose and asserts complete cleansing of the bowel and reduction of intestinal bacteria including colon bacilli per Dr H L Shoub of New York.
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Adlerika
H. L. Shoub
New York
Effective Tools Highlight Rolling Pin Over Steam Roller
A historical note argues that rolling pins can be more effective than steam rollers in certain tasks. It emphasizes practical, hands on results and surface handling advantages in artisan and industrial contexts.
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Alwyn W. Knight
East
Potomac
Androscoggin
Susquehannna
Department of Rivers and Floods
United States Weather Bureau
Washington
Kenosha
Powhatan
People Retain
Hadley
Mass
Winchendon
Mary Scanion
Bellaire
Henry Rogers
Western Newspaper Union
McClure Avenue Presbyterian Church
McGoofey
H. J. Phillips
United States
Jolson
Kaiser Wilhelm
Charlie
Ambrose
Tinh
Irgin Isles
Doans
Milnesia
Magnesia
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