World News Snapshots From Years Past
Western Jesse W. Lillienthal dies delivering at the St Francis hotel. Los Angeles mayoral race winner Meredith Snyder defeats incumbent F T Woodman. Venice announces a $50,000 prize for aviators attempting a Mansfield to Australia flight. Garfield heirs share $17,000 estate. Timber and wartime notes from across North America and Europe cover health, aviation plans, and political shifts.
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Union News Servig Western
Jesse W. Lillienthal
United Railways of
San Francisco
St. Francis Hotel
Meredith P. Snyder
Los Angeles
F. T. Woodman
Venice
Calif
Thomas H. Ince
Australia
James A. Garfield
Lucretia R. Garfield
Lloydminster
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Alaska
New Mexico Projects and Mines Highlight Busy Era
Contracts for a new administration building and a cadet hospital at the New Mexico Military Institute Roswell set at 65000 dollars, to be ready by fall. Clayton displays big road signs, Taos county plans eight miles of road, while a Lordsburg mine reports free milling ore up to 25 ounces per ton valued at 500 dollars.
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Navy Department
Boston
Federal Reserve
Kansas City
Pittsburg
Kan
Great Britain
Jacob Trieber
Little Rock
Ark
New York
San Francisco
Lincoln
Neb
Missouri
Gardner
Lansmite
Burieson
Wilson
Chicago Federation of Labor
Chicago
Jack Higgins
Wabash
Ind
Western
Union News Service
Bee
New Mexico Military Institute
Roswell
Clayton
Colorado-to-Gulf Highway
Clayton Rotary Club
Wity
State Highway Commission
Taos County
Santa Fé
Taos
Rinconada
Cleneguitta
New Mexico
Bounds Ranch
Lordsburg
Gallup
Little Burro Mountains
Spear
Grant County
Gold Hmn
Chino Copper Company
Hurley
Court House
Fulgencio Archibeque
Tuan Valdez
Sapello
Romero
Vallez
Archibeque
Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Promoted For Female Troubles
Canton Ohio advertisement urges women to try Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound to avoid surgery after doctors advised operation. It cites personal success and urges readers to write Lydia Medicine Co. for information and history of the remedy. The ad references Mrs Boyd and Marie Boro.
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Canton
Ohio
Eula Paka
Erie
Lydia
Marie Boro
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Medicine Co
Lynn, Masa
Silk Industry Of India And Varieties Of Silk
The article notes about 1,000,000 people in India work in silk production and describes domesticated cocoons, harvesting methods, and feeding practices. It explains Tasur or tusvor silk from China and Japan, Mugu silk as an Asian product, Eri silk from caterpillars feeding on castor oil, and highlights that Eri silk can be spun without killing larvae, valued in India for religious reasons.
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India
China
Japan
Film Pun Hiring Humor Mocking Attendant Position
A man applying for an insane asylum attendant claims experience with irrational persons. He answers that he was a motion picture director for years, and is hired on the spot. The excerpt lampoons tired poetry as tedious as a cookbook when sad.
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Lebanon
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Uresoxero
Paris
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Mike Gibbons
St. Paul
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Charles Albert
Bender
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