Air Mail Christmas Sky Parade Through the Years
A vivid piece by Elmo Scott Watson recounts how air mail and express services transform Christmas gifting. It notes pilots, planes, and routes from 1918 to private contract lines, the shift from trains to air, and the advent of radio beam navigation guiding mail flights coast to coast.
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United Air Lines
Elmo Scott Watson
Santa Claus
Air Mail
Air Express
United States
Santa
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Dander
Blitzen
Pratt and Whitney
Curtiss
Fokker
Boeing
Corsair
Express
Los Angeles
Illinois
Harry S. New
United States Postmaster-General
War Department
Washington
New York
Waldorf
Philadelphia
Post Office Department
Cleveland
Chicago
Detroit
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas origins traced to pagan rites by Prof Sweet
Professor William Warren Sweet of the Divinity School spoke to a University of Chicago group at Bond Chapel on Christmas history. He traced Christmas roots to Roman feasts Saturn and Kalends, noted early American bans, and observed the modern holiday blends pagan customs with Christian tradition and commercialization.
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William Warren Sweet
Divinity School
University of Chicago
Bond Chapel
Doctor Sweet
Europe
America
Rome
Saturn
Italy
Earth
Baptists
Congregationalists
Sweet
New Silent Electric Flashlamp For Short Photography
A novel lamp produces an intense brief light for photography by filling the globe with gas and aluminum foil. When current flows, a silent flash occurs, eliminating the noise and inconvenience of traditional powders. Each flash requires a new lamp.
End Serious Cough Remedies Claim Creomulsion Protects
An old advertisement touts Creomulsion as a powerful yet harmless cough remedy. It claims seven proven modern science aids combat germs promptly with no narcotics and offers a money back guarantee if any cough or cold remains relieved.
Getting Them All I Must Have My Vitamins
A patient recalls a doctor giving a foods list for vitamins and then loses it, prompting a plan to order hash to fill nutritional gaps.
How One Woman Lost 10 Lbs in a Week
Dayton resident Mrs. Betty Luedeke promotes Kruschen Salts as a safe weight loss method claiming she shed ten pounds in seven days. The ad urges dissolving a half teaspoon in hot water each morning and limiting fatty foods, promising a month’s supply for a small price and a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Luedeke
Dayton
America
What does your daddy sing
A brief humor piece from The Morning Record features a child asking what his father sings and the father’s witty reply about not singing, followed by a humorous exchange about having a bathtub at home.
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Santa Clausy
Alaska
San Francisco
Trinidad
Doris
Eddie
Bliss & Son
Live Stock Commission Stock Yards
Omaha
Hotel Conant and Harney
Paxton
Joseph Huckinsard
Mer
Nebraska
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