War Talk and Army Moves Mark Early May Congressional and Military Shifts
Washington reports lawmakers push to pass stalled appropriation bills for national defense and other measures while the War Department reorganizes top commands. A leak probe leads to tighter press gallery admission rules. May Day will shift generals Leonard Wood J Franklin Bell and Clarence Ransom Edwards to new regional commands.
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House of Representatives
National Defense
Senate
Congress
Wilson
House
United States Army
Leonard Wood
Governor’s Island
New York
Army Department
Charleston
S. C
J. Franklin Bell
Governor's Island
Wood
Clarence Ransom Edwards
Boston
Mass
Department of the Army
Edwards
Panama
Canal Zone
New England Coast
General Wood
McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Clarence R. Edwards
New England States
General Edwards
War Department
Lmelight
Cleveland
United States Military Academy
Sep
Panama Canal
Philippines
Clarence
R. Edwards
Woman Recovers Health After Pinkham Remedy Trial
Chicago woman describes two year illness improving after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports restored strength and no further weakness and endorses the remedy for displacements, inflammations, irregularities, pains, backache, and nervous prostration.
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Chicago
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jos. O’ Bryan
Newport Ave
Moving Picture Ideas Wanted for Big Pay
Advertises a paid program offering $1 and up to $1,000 for ideas and plays for photoplay construction. Claims no experience needed and promises no further expense. Response to Schwab Co, 122 W49th St, New York.
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Ead
Postpala
Schwab CO
W. 49Th St
New York
Ivory carving replaces white elephant gift
W H Boyd of Cleveland received a letter from a friend in India claiming to send a white elephant as a gift. The worry of an elephant on his hands faded when the present arrived, an ivory wearing charm watch carving rather than an actual animal.
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W. H. Boyd
Cleveland
India
Boyd
California Syrup of Figs Advertises Child Laxative
Mothers are urged to use California Syrup of Figs as a safe tasty laxative that cleanses the stomach and bowels without griping. The ad claims it helps when children are feverish or have sour stomach and urges buying the 56 cent bottle with directions for all ages.
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California
Process of Elimination
A portly man gazes at a tray of dishes and asks how George remembered the order. George explains he told the chef there was a man outside who wanted everything on the bill except the olives.
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George
Trial package offer for kidney cure advertised in Buffalo
An old advertisement urges sending 10 cents to Dr. Pierce at the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo for a large trial package of Anuri claimed to cure kidneyaches. The notice reads like a health scam typical of frontier era ads.
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Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
Quotations on a June day and a February remark
A dialogue highlights seasonal contrasts as one speaker notes the rarity of June days while another quips that February twenty ninth has many clever twists. The exchange underscores playful wordplay about dates and timing.
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