Do You Know What Ails the United States
Do You Know Wro s Writings questions reveal common habits of spendthrifts and risk seekers. It lists a young man with a new suit, a worker fearing overwork, a housewife hiding market baskets, a factory girl buying a $350 fur coat, a man chasing a $15 hat, an investor chasing 100 percent profits, a shopper asking wrap it up, and others who neglect thrift. The piece argues these acts reflect financial recklessness endangering national welfare.
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Wros
Treasury
United States
The Uses of Adversity in Labor and Capital
The author argues labor and capital must coexist with mutual restraint to protect public welfare. Prominent industrial leaders like Schwab advocate optimism, while others threaten strikes and wage demands. The piece recalls medieval wage laws and Ball's critique, urging balanced labor market judgment and avoidance of dominance by either side.
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The
New York Times
Schwab
Gary
Tabor
Enlend
John Ball
Ball
Adam and
Eve
Tragic death under deportation cloud in New York report
A New York paper details a Russian-born woman’s suicide under a bridge as her husband, a Slav immigrant active in radical circles, faces deportation. The piece contrasts her brutal past with her plea for liberty and questions the impact on the husband and broader anti radical policy. The narrative condemns radical propaganda while noting Bulgaria’s Neuilly treaty implications for access to the Mediterranean and future Balkan tensions.
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Purgatory
Los Angeles Times
New York
America
Russia
Liberty
Trotzky
Lenine
Mephistopheles
Bulgaria
Neuilly
Thrace
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Constantinople
The State Department's Job In Outrage Toll
The state department bears a thankless task sifting genuine outrages from stage managed incidents. It faces a grim task of classifying claims and determining which are authentic versus orchestrated by hidden motives, amid tensions involving Mexican incidents and American citizens.
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State Department
American State Department
Drinking Cologne and Denatured Alcohol Poisonings Exposed
A Chicago health report warns that substitutes like lemon extract denatured alcohol wood alcohol and even cologne can intoxicate drinkers. It notes 14 deaths from wood alcohol as hoarded temperance drinks spread and details how some sellers label bottles as poisons while customers risk fatal doses through repeated use.
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Oklahoma City
Tola
Ise Porter Conesoa
D A
Misosuri
Chicago Health Department
Chicago
Cologne
Hunters Describe Africa's Abundant Wildlife Visit
A French colonial writer reports hunter’s paradise along the Niger valley. Wild game is everywhere after five years of hunting suspension, with partridges thick as natives spear them, boars, elephants, and even a rare storm eel fox gliding past in under an hour.
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Milwaukee Journal
Africa
Niger
Willerying
Talking Glove Invention Enables Deaf Blind Talk From America
A American doctor develops a glove for deaf mute and blind people to spell words by touching Braille letters on the fingers. The wearer presses each letter in sequence to form messages, with the hand held out or laid on a surface to spell.
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London
America
Private Stock All Gone And Monkey Gland Talk
A collage of humorous clipped lines from papers notes grafts joke on Dr Voronoff monkey glands and quips about camel glands for thirst. A Scotsman bike theft tale ends with a yokel evading punishment claiming he only came up for three days.
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Boston Transcript
Marks
Dr. Voronoff
Boozer
The Farmer and Labor Debates in Wisconsin Politics
The Milwaukee Journal notes growing friction between farmers and labor in any potential political alliance. Farmers resist nationalizing land and six hour days, fearing misalignment with labor aims. Independence and public interest guide farmers, not special interests, as the rock upon which alliances may fail. Also, a Milan parade showcases war veteran dogs leading the march, many wounded, with soldiers guiding amputees and wreaths from local women.
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Farmer
The
Milwaukee Journal
Milan
Linle
Bayer Aspirin Headache Package claims genuine aspirin
The ad promotes Bayer aspirin as genuine aspirin in Bayer labeled packaging with directions for headache cold pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. It asserts Bayer has provided aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years and notes a tin of 12 tablets costs a few cents. It also mentions the League of Nations as a question of the hour.
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Bayer
League of Nations
Montgomery Ward & Co
Woman Works Fifteen Hours a Day in Peru
Mrs Anna Meteriano of Peru Indiana credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a long standing displacement and backache. She describes starting at 4 a.m. to do housework then factory work all day, returning home to chores and feeling strong and well. She urges other women with similar ailments to try the remedy.
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Peru
Ind
Yoia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Anna Meteriano
West 10Th St
Fragmented 1900s ad and column items mix in baffling text
The snippet blends a Boston Evening reference to a Cuticura advertisement with a dubious health claim, an illicit marriage or social note, a romance line, and stray lines about cold prevention and rainfall stimulation.readable names include Boston, Cuticura, and Hall's Catarrh Medicine, though many parts are garbled.
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J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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