Favorite Prescription and Dr Pierce’s Medical Fame
A historic note profiles Dr. Pierce who, after practicing in Shomg district, gained fame and was often consulted across towns for his successful treatments. He later moved to Buffalo and launched Favorite Prescription, widely sold in tablets and liquids, praised by thousands of women for curing distressing ailments.
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Treasury Plans Three Year Tax Revision To Meet Debts
Secretary Houston will review a three year program to revise the federal tax structure. Officials propose abolishing excess profits taxes and replacing with a graduated income tax on incomes over five thousand dollars. The plan aims to keep total revenue near four billion and requires strict economy in federal spending.
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Treasury
Houston
Budget Reform Moves With Harding Administration
Washington reports that the new administration will push a federal budget system likely to spend about four billion dollars annually. The Good-McCormick bill moves through Congress, with changes to empower the treasury and create a budget bureau, an assistant director, and a general accounting office. If enacted, a unified appropriations process would consolidate eight committees into a single 35 member appropriations panel.
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Ten Thousand Have Lost Liberty Bonds
More than 10 000 bond owners lost Liberty bonds or Victory notes through theft destruction or carelessness. Last year 7 563 people reported losses 6 038 of them coupon bonds. Officials say many coupon bonds remain in private hands harming relief chances for owners. Government urges exchanging coupon for registered bonds noting benefits and urging banks to handle the process.
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Congress
Treasury
Heigh Ho Planned by 100 Women Theater Group
Washington based Washington Theater Productions formed by 100 women from official life and business circles launches its first venture Heigh Ho a musical satire. The cast includes Bradford Allen Louis Cassavant Thomas Conkey and Miss Fern Doubleday with Deems Taylor as musical director. Plans for a large theater complex are in motion with tours to Baltimore Richmond and Chicago.
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Lost Handbag Brings Couple Together On Christmas Eve
Randall Petrie follows a retraced thread of love when he returns a lost handbag to Ada Wilton, uncovering a past hidden letter. A rekindled romance blooms as Ada and Petrie regain trust, plan a Christmas gift for Ada’s mother, and consider a wedding march.
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Obsessing Over Happiness Warned For Girls
Ernest Dimnet critiques moralistic literature that pushes happiness as a right for daughters. He advises mothers to steer daughters toward restraint and a Puritan balance, noting excess praise of happiness fuels restless, unsatisfied longing.
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Ruth
Chicago
Ernest Dimnet
Harper's Magazine
Historical glance at ancient and early modern anesthetics
The article recounts ancient and medieval anesthesia methods from Homeric poultices to Egyptian carbonic acid mixes, notes Herodotus on inhalation, and cites mandragora and nitrous oxide’s later discovery by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1799 as a turning point in surgical pain relief.
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Humphrey Davy
Reggie Hke Read A Book Sparks Sharp Critique
A fragment describes Tecan reading a book to Reggie Hke and a critic warns against wasting time on a seemingly foolish creature. The lines touch on misjudgment and the lingering impact of a shadowy presence.
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Reggie Hke
Green's August Slower Remedy Ad Claims Fifty Four Years of Use
The advertisement markets Green's August Slower as an effective helper for nervous dyspepsia constipation indigestion torpid liver dizziness headaches and related fermentation complaints. It cites fifty four years of use across thousands of households worldwide with no failures and notes availability everywhere.
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Hoosier teachers witness streetcar exchange prompt
O A Hutchens recalls two Indiana school teachers at the State Teachers association convention. In a streetcar one asks if hands out of car windows imply rain. The other wonders why people extend hands so often, offering no clear explanation.
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State Board of Accounts
State Teachers’ Association
Indianapolis News
Recalled Classroom Joke About Principal Ruler
In a school day vignette a teacher asks which ruler inspires most respect and fear, and Willie answers with a sly jab about the ruler on the teacher's desk. The tale reflects corporal punishment era discipline and student wit in dialogue.
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Willie
Teacher
Famous Fish Family Fact Sheet
Pickerel denotes small pikes and young pike, typically under 12 inches. The muskellunge is a large North American game fish reaching up to eight feet and found in northern fresh waters.
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Reprisal at music school sparks a sharp taunt
A verse from Beeston Transcript mocks a music teacher and pupil named Johnny. The lyric reveals family pressure and jealousy as the mother aims for her child to outperform a neighbor girl, stirring sotto voce hostility.
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Beeston Transcript
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