The Custard Cup a. Lettie Penman poses to land job
Lettie Penman pursues an advertising firm role as she infiltrates The Wideawake agency with a bold plan. She aims to meet the manager by presenting herself, using calculated charm to navigate the desk worker’s skepticism and the firm’s cautious atmosphere.
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Lettie
Dee
Mra Veniseli
Letrid
Ani
Pentel
Walerink Iy
Dnre
Wideawake
Elin
Mr. Addr
Almont Cate
Lotte
Lettie schemes to fraud and loses holiday joy
Lettie and Mrs Abbott clash over a cheating scheme to move advertising cards through a house door. Lettie frantically defends herself, is shoved out, runs away in tears, and reacts to a Christmas dream of missed gifts, while a loyal dog comforts her amid the town’s cold December mood.
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Latile
Lottie
Matt
Lettie
Hernie
Lette Rae
Haly Jimmetty
Tack
Arma
Miss Penfeild
Witeawake Advertising Agency
Jack
Hier
Legge
Santa Claus
Radio Amateurs Reflect On Early Broadcast Lessons
The piece recalls amateur radio life from before the war to the rise of short wave sets and regenerative receivers. It notes the shift from simple couplers to improved grid plate coupling, stating how a three-circuit tuner plus new coupling yielded stable tuning and better tone, while acknowledging the excitement and flaws of early broadcasts and neighbor receivers.
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CG. H. Ward
Harry Lauder
Navy Press
O.W
Radio Newsy
Lydia E Pinkham's remedy for midlife women in Minnesota
An advertisement from St Paul Minnesota touts Lydia E Pinkham's table compound for women aged forty five to fifty five. It claims to ease nervousness irritability melancholia heat flashes dizziness and suffocation sensations during a life crisis and promotes contact with Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Massachusetts for more literature.
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Trentag
Lydia
Ted King
Hooxer
College
St. Paul
Minn
Pinkham
Lydia E
Pinkham Media
Doctor and caddie discuss shoe size on golf round
A humorous exchange unfolds as the doctor and his small caddie debate shoe sizes. The caddie asks for shoes, unsure of his exact size, while the doctor quizzes him about his wear. The fragment hints at a punchline about fitting footwear.
Castorim Baby Remedy Endorsed By Physicians
A vintage notice touts Fletcher's Cystoria as a twenty year plus mild substitute for castor oil paregoric teething drops and soothing syrups. It claims no narcotics and bears a physician endorsed appearance with signature on the genuine packaging.
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Fletcher
The Eyes Have It From Time Whittering
A fragment from Elizabeth Robins offers witty lines on women and eyes. The quotation contrasts the ability to help make eyes with merely having eyes.
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Whittering
Elizabeth Robins
Shunting Method to Silence Neighbor’s 20 and 260 Meter Signals
A newspaper note explains a method to suppress a neighbor’s broadcast on 20 meters by tapping a single circuit tuner into the antenna. By connecting a variable condenser and inductance in series to the plate side of the phone condenser and grounding from the fixed receiver condenser, unwanted signals traveling on adjacent wavelengths are diverted to ground, preventing interference.
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Mr. Abbott
Lettie Toreathumal
Abe
Miss Penfield
Inding
Wen
Carey
Pate
Werame
Waaham
St.Paul, Minn
Bayer
Willions
Colda Snahn
Palo
Dick Hist
Mars
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