Parcel Post Service Offers Fast Rural Deliveries
Local Magnolia Illinois business offers parcel post service for drugs veterinary supplies patent medicines and general drug store items. Rural route customers from Magnolia McNabb Granville Lostant Wenona Toluca Varna Lacon and nearby towns receive same day or next day delivery with postage paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia
McNabb
Granville
Lostant
Wenona
Toluca
Varna
Lacon
Government war risk insurance is permanent says official
Director Cholmeley Jones of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance warns against false claims that government life insurance ends after five years. He notes that veterans may convert temporary wartime coverage to one of six permanent forms within five years after peace is proclaimed, and stresses the policy’s fixed premiums despite aging.
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R. G
Cholmeley-Jones
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Philadelphia
Timeless old fashioned foods and sauces
A collection of instructions for mulled buttermilk soup caraway bread brown nut bread kidney beans with sour cream and sauces for fish and beef with ham timbales and lucullus sauce including detailed ingredient lists and steps for preparation
Foley advertising slip offers trial packages
A promotional card invites readers to mail a cut out slip with 5 cents to Foley & Co in Chicago for a trial package. The offer includes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets, operated by Foster Drug Co.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
Foster Drug Co
Mrs Miller War Helper Returns to New York
Mrs F Miller a noted writer and painter who lived in Rome for nine years after leaving New York is photographed on arrival in New York. During the war she guided hundreds of American soldiers in Rome and worked with YMCA Italy and various Italian charities. She is here on business and to visit friends in the United States.
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F. Miller
New York
Rome
Italy
United States
Blaze of Glory diamond sways Hohenzollern fate tale
A legendary gem linked to Prussia and the Hohenzollerns is said to have doomed rulers who possessed it. The so called Blaze of Glory, once gifted by King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba, allegedly cursed its owners across centuries until William II ignored warnings and kept it in his crown. A separate item reports Jesse Steelman of Scullville New Jersey killed when a grindstone detached from an auto-driven setup beheaded him.
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Prussia
Solomon
Sheba
Persia
El-Hakim II
Brandenburg
Silesian
Holland
Herr Zunkelhorn
William
Jesse Steelman
Scullville
N. J
Steelman
J B Henderson Moves Across States for 30 Years
Dalton resident J B Henderson has moved his family 84 times over 30 years. A letter mailed in 1914 took six years to reach him, illustrating how widely the family has traveled during that era.
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J. B Henderson
Dalton, Gas
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R. M. Barnes
Wallace J. B
J. H. Magoon
John Gannon
Santa Fe Avenue
Frank Ports
Llinois
Henry Thoreau
Verere
Housands
Huber
John Johnson
Til
Elmo the Mighty
E. K. Lincoln Star
Alice Brady
Madeline Traverse
Splendid Sun
Neal Hart
Gallagher
Mutt & Jeff
Hard Lines
FOX Service
Thomas Dixon
J. Warren Kerrigan IN
Hodkinson Service
Sid
Texas Guiman
Bill Hart
oFeete
Mae Marsh
BRAY
Peru
Goldwin Service
Mary Pickford IN
Stella Maris
Suoa’’ Artcraft Service
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