Westinghouse Adverts National and Local Campaign via Papers
Westinghouse Electro and Manufacturing Company will spend almost its entire advertising budget on newspapers after April 1. J T McQuiston says newspapers are the only medium to nationalize and localize sales campaigns, enabling a nationwide effort while adapting to district needs. The move follows decades of advertising experience since 1886.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electro and Manufacturing Company
J. ©. McQuiston
McQuiston
Immigrant Bing You Wins Stay Under Charles II Law
After four legal attempts to block deportation, Bing You a Montreal resident known as a Mon treal Chinaman invoked a historic Charles II era law. A harness corpus order by Justice Gruneau in the superior court practice division granted his free remaining in Canada.
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Um Bing You
Montreal
Justice Gruneau
Superior Court
Canada
How Do We Hear
Inside the ear the ear drum vibrates when struck by sound waves. Three small bones pass the vibrations to a liquid filled bag where nerve endings detect the motion and send signals to the brain to create hearing.
Safety First Always Pays Big Dividends
A compact moral on workplace safety urging vigilance and proper tool handling. It warns against loose axe handles and careless habits, noting that quick fixes can cost days in hospital and even life. It emphasizes thought over excuses and sets example as the best sermon.
Safety Pays for Workers by Reducing Time Lost in Accidents
The message urges safe practices to save money and prevent injuries. It emphasizes avoiding hurry in work, advising to make haste but not hurry to reduce time lost to accidents. Target audience is workers and managers seeking safer, cost-saving operations.
Hair Raid at the Barber Shop Sparks Pole Expedition Parody
A humorous line mocks a barber visit as an expedition to the Pole with the segment noting a mock heroic journey to the barber. The playful tease headlines a local cartoon or column item.
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Pole
Adid
Ill temper masks nervousness in many men
The remark notes that apparent nerves often conceal ill temper rather than true anxiety, suggesting a tendency to misread emotional states in men.
The Older Lamb Learns to Act Sheepish
A concise proverb-like note reflects on a young lamb growing older and adopting more sheepish behavior as it matures, implying nature shaping character.
Frog Eye Winks Upward
A brief, quirky note describes a frog lifting its eyelids in a upward wink motion. The human reader observes a curious animal behavior noted in a diminutive, lighthearted tone.
Gravity Awakens: Newton Hit by Falling Apple
An oddly framed quote claims Sir Isaac Newton exclaimed about realizing gravity as an apple struck his head, illustrating a humorous take on a pivotal moment in science. The line invokes Newton’s discovery of gravity and his reaction to an everyday event.
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Sir Isaac Newton
Smoke-Eating Machine Arrives for Minneapolis Firefighting
Firemen in Minneapolis may lose the nickname smoke eaters as a new device literally consumes smoke at fires. The machine resembles a steamer type engine with a boiler like apparatus and a 15 inch diameter hose drawing smoke from rooms. It proves effective in stubborn basement blazes with heavy smoke but minimal visible flame.
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Minneapolis
Donkey Engine Horsepower Question Ends Lecture
After a lecture the professor asks for questions. A student asks how to calculate horsepower in a donkey engine, prompting a careful explanation.
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M. E
It’s Easy to Be a Fool but Foolish to Be Easy
A pithy maxim contrasts caution with naivety. The line suggests wisdom comes from restraint and thoughtful judgment rather than taken-for-granted ease.
A Toast To Laughter
The Log notes laughter as the sunshine of the soul and the treasure of innocence. It praises humor as the cure for blues, the spur of pure joy, and the glow of a clean conscience, shaping bright smiles and mirth.
Five Results From Advertising
A manufacturer lists five outcomes from advertising. It builds stable markets less affected by mood, demands quality production, rallies all to a shared purpose, attracts loyal and growing distributors, and earns national recognition of merit for quality merchandise.
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Saes
Rod and Gun April issue features Blended Brigades tale
The April Rod and Gun and Canadian Silver Fox News highlights Samuel Alexander White’s Blended Brigades as a key story in a varied table of contents. Nature notes from Bonnycastle Dale, porcupine and skunk articles by H Mortimer Batten, and Outdoor Talk by W C Motley accompany sections on angling gun kennel topics and national fish and game resources discussion. Published monthly by W J Taylor Limited in Woodstock Ontario.
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North West
Samuel Alexander White
Rod and Gun
Silver Fox News
Bonnycastle Dale
Maritimes
H. Mortimer Batten
F.Z.S
W.C. Motley
W. J. Taylor, Limited
Woodstock
Ontario
Captain at Southampton on Irish applicant for sea posting
A terse exchange at Southampton has a captain questioning an Irish applicant about sea service and origins. The Irish man retorts with a brisk jab about traveling from Ireland by cab.
Wallpaper Removal Method Using Flour Paste
A home remedy advises stirring a quart of flour paste into a pail of net water and applying it to ten walls. The thick mixture slows drying, saturates the wallpaper, and allows easy scraping or peeling off.
Definition of space as nothing, a student’s struggle
The scene centers on Richard being pressed by the principal for a definition of space. Richard blushes and stammers that space is where there is nothing and that he cannot explain it exactly though he has it in his head.
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Richard
Roy
Manager chides conductor over rain song choice
A restaurant manager confronts an orchestra conductor about song selection during a visit by the National Association of Umbrella Manufacturers. He complains the tune It Ain't Gonna Rain No More is inappropriate for the event.
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National Association of Umbrella Manufacturers
Wages and votes stir crowd at suffrage event
A female suffrage speaker demands wages as a goal. A male speaker interrupts claiming the issue is not voting but securing work, arguing women only need jobs. The exchange captures tensions over economic rights in the movement.
Soviet Peril and the West
Article argues Soviet aims to destroy British capitalist power and unite the East against the West to spark universal revolution. It warns Americans not to ignore Soviet actions that threaten their civilization and safety.
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Great Britain
China
Lenin
There’s only one thing a wife admits she doesn’t know
A reflective line compares marriage to fishing with love as the rod and fate casting, depicting the husband as a poor fish in a quip about romance.
Fragmented dialogue scene with quirky exchanges
A fragmentary exchange shows a doctor patient moment, a driver addressing a young woman, and a wistful remark about being a pebble in her life. The lines mix humor and ache in a clipped, urban voice.
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