Prison reform call slams Alabama justice and prison system
Isadore Shapiro writes from Whatinghai urging humane treatment over punishment. He rails against debt imprisonment and calls for probation, indeterminate and maximum sentences, a women welfare bureau, and a prison system focused on rehabilitation with work opportunities and reduced political influence.
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Women Welfare
City of
Birmingham
United States
Central Ho Association
Hope Halls
Ballington Booth
Pisgah
Senti
Bureau of Women Welfare
Alabama
Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers Promise Nerve Vitality and Relief
Vintage advertisement touts Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers as a cure for nervous fatigue. Claims improve vigor for men and women, banish headaches and sleeplessness, and promise vitality, with a 50 cent trial and direct mail order from F. J. Kellogg in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Kellogg
Kellogge
AMD
Keloge
F. J. Kelre
Hoffmaster
Battle -Mich
F. Ji Kellogg Co
Hoffmaster Block
Battle Creek
Mich
Kellogg Wafers Offered For Sale In Mobile
The regular $1,000 size of Kellogg's Wafers are offered for sale in Mobile Alabama. Sutton Bros located at 80 St Francis Street is among the dealers. T. S. Van Aller at 210 South Broad Street and C. H. Burkett in New Jersey are listed as distributors.
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Kellogg's
Mobile
Ala
Sutton Bros
St. Francis Street
T.S. van Aller
South Broad Street
C. H. Burkett
New Jer
Free to Asthma Sufferers New Cure Method
An ad offering a new method claimed to cure asthma at no cost. It states relief for all ages and all forms of asthma whether long standing or recent, promising prompt improvement and appealing to apparently hopeless cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frontier Asthma CO
Ee and Hudson
Buffalo, WN. Y
West 25Th Street
New York City
Montana Ranch Life Attracts Orphan Sole Son Of German Line
Seventeen year old Johann Schultz, born in Minneapolis, prefers life on a Montana ranch to a German fortune and education offered by his grandfather. Orphaned after his mother, who left Hamburg, reached Minneapolis, he grew up with the Elmer family then moved with them to a ranch in Custer County. Schultz says he plans to stay with Matt Pickens on the Pickens ranch near Ekalaka and will be seventeen next February. Consul W von Loehnessen will be informed of his decision.
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Butte
Mon
Montana
Johann Karl Christian Schultz
Minneapolis
Germany
Hamburg
Elmer
Elmers
Johann
Custer County
Matt Pickens
M. L. Rickman
Montana Bureau of Child and Animal Protection
Pickens Ranch
Ekalaka
W. von Loehnessen
Seattle
Twin University Freshmen Engineers Share Life Like Copies
Madison, Wis. Nov 29. Stephen and Edwin Gould, Kansas City born twins and university freshmen engineers, are identical in height weight and looks. They attend the same classes draw the same marks and even switch partners at dances. They say they differ slightly on spouses and plan harmony after marriage.
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Madison, Wis
Stephen
Edwin Gould
University
Eddie
Steve
Kansas City
Young girl seeks mine aided by dying grandfather diagram
Miss Frances Leighton abandons music to prospect for a lost California gold vein in a remote Southern Sierras canyon. She follows a crude diagram drawn by her dying grandfather John Easton, who told of a rich vein after arriving in California in 1649. She hunts alone, has built a cabin, and seeks the mine.
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Oakland
Cal
Frances Leighton
C. P. Leighton
Sierras
John Easton
Easton
California
Leighton
Sacramento
Child Injured by Sow in Essex Pen
In Creston Iowa on November 29 the young daughter of Mr and Mrs Lindquist visiting neighbors was nearly killed by a sow in a pig pen. The child tried to lift a piglet, the sow tossed her, lacerating arms and body before rescue. She is believed to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creston
Iowa
An Rank Lindquist
Essex
Fragmentary wartime rhetoric on democracy and justice
The readable fragments describe a broad call for natural resources conservation and democratic rights. It frames a epochal struggle within America as a moral war, urging humanity, truth, courage, and divine guidance toward justice and equality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Tice
Providence
Live Pig Shipped by Parcel Post in Vermont
A live pig weighing unknown pounds arrived at Montpelier post offices for William L. Brown, 49 Street, with Joseph King of Rochester, VI as shipper. The pig was turned over to its owner immediately and caused much attention as it rode atop mail bags from the railroad.
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Montpelier
William L. Brown
Joseph King
Rochester
Encouran Fe
Tte
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Isadore Shap
Supreme Court
Apostles of Humanity
Board of Pardons
Oates
National Committee On Prison Labor
Whiten
New York
Baudie
RF. D
Far West
Conti Street
Brown-Morgan Coals
Baon
PIPER
Mobile Brown-Morgan Coal Co., Inc
Nee
Gaillard, Johnston Coal CO
Francis Street
The
Bank of Mobile
National Banking Association
Cueh
Diagn
Internatonal News Service
McCowan & Dietz
Dauphin Street
Poplins
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Ivory
Pearl
Coral
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