Babson Reports Cost of Living Decline in 1920s Statistics
Babson Park Mass September 20 Roger W Babson says cost of living has declined since 1913 with wages rising. He notes coal strikes and labor trends, investors among unions, and a shift toward home buying and securities. He cites price changes in food fuels metals and manufactured goods and highlights building sector dynamics.
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Babson Park
Mass
Roger W. Babson
Babson
Tillmois
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Gad
Brotherhood
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Noth Labor
Geng
American Federation of Labor
Senece
Gabson
PuBlishers
Financal Burra
Relief for rheumatism with S.5.2 claims
A vintage advertisement touts S.5.8 as a long used rheumatism remedy. It cites user testimonials including Earl C. Campbell of Johnson City Tenn who reports relief after a course. The product is described as plant based and sold in two sizes at drug stores.
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Earl C. Campbell
Main Street
Johnson City
Enn
Million Dollar Life Policies Held by 187 Americans
A 1927 survey lists 187 Americans with life insurance policies worth a million dollars or more. Notables include Rodman Wanamaker, Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Will Rogers, and Joseph M. Schenck. Forty five New Yorkers are among the threshold holders.
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Mary Piskeoed
Rodman Wanamaker
New York
Babe Ruth
Frederick G. Banting
Toronto
Adolph Zukor
Glenn Swanson
John Barrymore
Clarence Mackay
Postal Telegraph Company
Charlie Chaplin
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Will Rogers
Joseph M. Schenck
Norma Talmadge
Magpies and Poison Arsenic War Sparks County Debate
In Del Norte Colorado Extension Agent T G Stewart cites observations of arsenic poisoning in magpies with a three week silence period before renewed killings. He suggests new flocks may forget prior fate. The U S Biological Survey has declared war on the magpie problem. A Wesleyan student Marl L Gaylor of Cliftondale Mass sets a new breath holding record of fourteen minutes and two seconds, surpassing the prior ten minutes ten seconds.
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del Norte
Colo
T G Stewart
Grande County
Stewart
United States Biological Survey
Middletown
Conn
Wesleyan
Marl L. Gaylor
Cliftondall
Mass
University of California
Edward J. Schneider
Towed Childhood Sweetheart
A historical note describes a test where air could not be drawn into the lungs. Mr Gaylor used oxygen to prepare, breathing to purge carbon dioxide, then took three deep oxygen breaths with the last held for the record time. Background features a green calico and blocks in yellow red and white. Mrs Gustin contributed quilting circles in each block.
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Gaylor
Gustin
Quilt of 4620 hexagon bricks by Kansas City creator
Mrs Alfred M. Gustin of Kansas City made a quilt from 4620 hexagonal bricks the size of a quarter. She drew her idea from her mother who made one for her when she was sixteen. The work took more than six months and the pattern features a hexagon blocking.
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Kansas City
Alfred M. Gustin
Gustin
Haines pushes censorship bill to curb objectionable films
Flor ence L. Haines wins a fight in New Jersey as she seeks to empower authorities to close objectionable motion pictures. She proposed a courtesy censorship bill at a closing joint session of the state legislature last year, continuing her push despite the bill's failure.
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Jersey
Newark
WN J
New Jersey
Florence L. Hames
State Assembly
Haines
State lawmaker vows renewed push on film control in New Jersey
Miss Haines states she will press motion picture control again in the New Jersey legislature. If the bill fails this session she will return with a strengthened, revised proposal in the next session.
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New Jersey
History of the Drum Through Civilizations
The drum has a long ancient history with examples from Egypt and Greece and mentions of its use in South American temples. It notes Pizarro's supposed discovery and Irish influences, though details fade as the Emerald Isle is invoked.
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Bacchus
Pizarro
Ireland
Women in 1960s gain jobs and health warning
Fifty years ago women faced limited work options. Today women enter factories and many professions, yet health costs rise. Elizabeth Chamberlain of Trenton, New Jersey, reports success using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and endorses it to coworkers and readers seeking better health.
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Elizabeth Chamberlain
Lydia E. Pinkham
Chamberlain
Monmouth St
Trenton
N. J
Drum Beats and Veterans Faithful to the Union
The Purlana of New England used the drum as a church bell during the Revolutionary and Civil wars. Captain J. Chedester, 80, Civil War veteran from Redland, California, has made thirty two trips across the continent to attend national G A R encampments.
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New England
J. Chedester
Redlangp
Calif
G. A. RB
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