American girl acts cupid in Paris earns 2.50
A young American known as Miss X advertised as a guide for young ladies in Paris. An automotive mechanic in New York answered, sought the girl he met in Paris, and asked Miss X to arrange a marriage proposal. She connected them, and he sent a check for two dollars and fifty cents after the wedding.
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Paris
Seine
Cupid
Miss X
New York
Jean Jaures
Mademoiselle
Dugout on Rich Lot Inspires San Francisco Cavemen
Frank Schroeder and Frank Madero, once broke veterans, built a front line trench on a $100,000 vacant San Francisco lot now a flower garden. They added telephone service, a radio, and shrubs as the cave grew, claiming the distinction of the city’s only cavemen who squatted on valuable property without financial recompense.
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San Francisco
France
Frank Schroeder
Frank Madero
Schroeder
Madero
Family tombstones sold by former aristocrat in Moscow
Lady Maria Skaratina-Demskaya, once a leading figure at the St. Petersburg imperial court, now begs in Moscow. She reclaimed and sold the sculptured gravestones of her father and mother when a monastery housing the family tombs planned razing, funding her poverty.
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Moscow
Maria Skaratina-Demskaya
St. Petersburg
10 000 000 Candle Power Leads Flyers to El Paso
El Paso Tex Visible between 100 and 150 miles the 10 000 000 candle power light atop Mount Franklin near here guides aviators nightly over Texan Mexican and New Mexican wastes to El Paso Sixteen thousand pounds of material moved up the rough mountain side by man power were used in making the 50 foot tower.
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el Paso
Tex
Mount Franklin
Seven-year-old Inez Carter receives first palate
Memphis surgeons in a hospital successfully grafted a palate for seven-year-old Inez Carter from her right arm. Previously she lived without an upper palate, causing discomfort and stunted growth. after the graft the new palate formed and she could breathe and eat more normally.
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Memphis
Tenn
Inez Carter
Inez
Moorhead
Miss
Eskimo Boys Flee Back To Arctic Wastes From Disease
Two Eskimo boys Ben and Sam fled south to learn white man ways but fell ill with influenza pneumonia measles tonsillitis and mastoid and adenoid operations. They sailed back on the Nascopie to return to Baffin Land, saying they prefer the Arctic. The project aimed to prove Eskimo equality with whites.
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Toronto
Ben
Sam
Arctic
John Eli
Southampton Island
A. L. Fleming
Montreal
Hudson Bay Company
Ven
Surgeon Gives His Own Blood to Save Friend
In St Paul a surgeon performed kidney surgery on J. M. Riegel, a noted newspaper man, and, as transfusion became critical, he gave his own blood. The act followed by others was done without tests due to urgency, and Riegel improved after the transfusion before the doctor returned to a second major operation.
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Reigel
Cache of Tear Gas Found Buried in Wilmersdorf
Residents in the Wilmersdorf suburb of Berlin panicked after workers unearthed a large cache of tear gas, buried just inches below surface. Glass bottles broken by the digging released poison, injuring several and sending others to hospitals. Police linked the site to a former war-time tear gas factory where about 100,000 bottles had been buried when production stopped.
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Berlin
West End
Wilmersdorf
Lightning empties West Indianapolis house storm claim
Police Sergt. George R. Liese reports a sudden lightning flash near his West Indianapolis home allegedly evaporated 95 barrels of water from his cistern. He found the cistern dry with no leaks in the concrete.
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Indianapolis
George R. Liese
Liese
United States Wise in Giving Up Old Things
A Maine blacksmith aged seventy five shod a twenty five year old horse in a century old shop with aged tools, illustrating American eagerness to replace old with new. The Indianapolis News notes Americans impulsively discard the ancient for merit in design and materials.
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United States
Maine
Egypt
China
Indianapolis News
Hindu Puja Festivals Across India Stir Markets
Hindu festivals with national appeal include the Durga Lakshmi and Kali pujas in northeast India and the Dewali in the rest of the country. The pujas occur in October with multi day celebrations. Government trade slows to a near halt as bazaars run active in the days before the festival.
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India
Their Acquaintance And Do You Know Him
A brief, wry line depicts social distance as a character confesses familiarity with someone yet refuses conversation, capturing a mood of constraint and guarded polite distance. The exchange hints at nuanced relationships within a community or circle.
Dallas Lady's Child Came Through Fine
Mrs Carr shares her daughter Nettie Virginia recovered after a illness with Nature's Remedy Juniors. The ad claims NR Juniors restore appetite energy and color, helping the child’s bowels and blood. Available at druggists for 25 cents.
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Dallas
Mrs. S
Carr
Yancey and Company Hair Product Ad
An old Virginia advertisement offers BTRATE-WAY hair straightening for colored customers. It promotes a trial jar by mailing 50 cents along with name and address to Yancey and Company, Inc. in Louisa, Virginia.
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Yancey and Company, Inc
Louisa
Virginia
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