Wolverine road boosters parade from Lansing to Grand Rapids
Governor Ferris leads a 1500 vehicle caravan from Lansing to Grand Rapids to promote a Detroit to Grand Haven Wolverine highway. About 20,000 spectators across towns hear governors and congressmen tout good roads. pledges for funding pledged at each stop, with Ionia and Grand Rapids drawing the biggest crowds.
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Wolverine Highway
Lansing
Grand Rapids
Wolverine Paveway
State of Michigan
Governor Ferris
Detroit
Grand Haven
Michigan
East
Congressman Kelley
Gerrit J. Diekema
Edwin C Shields
Crossroais
Monroe Avenue
Pantlind Hotel
Reeds Lake
Ionia
Fair Grounds
Greenville
Belding
Grand Ledge
Portland
Saranac
Lowell
Gvernor Ferris
Wolverine
Commot
Phil Colgrove
Denison's Coffee Promises: A Quirky Yorkshire Inn Mentioned
A fragmentary item notes Denison's Coffee as a remedy when others fail. It then references an inn in Yorkshire called the Ass in the Bandbox, a sensational novel selling briskly, and a judge calling it a burning shame. A prize fighter is quoted on money and a saloon.
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Yorkshire
War and a Red Parasol Clash in Bar Harbor Luncheon
Judge John Drew condemns war at Bar Harbor luncheon. He compares man to beasts, citing a fool bull chasing a red parasol in a cornfield and a fool man chasing a red parasol in New York. The exchange hints at wartime anxieties and domestic interruptions as locals discuss security and theater plans.
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John Drew
Bar Harbor
New York
Doctor warns coffee harms nerves and digestion
A doctor argues coffee harms health and promotes Postum as a cure. A lifelong coffee drinker recalls nervous prostration, switching to Postum, sleeping better, gaining weight, and increased energy. Family also avoids coffee, with Postum sold by grocers from Battle Creek, Michigan. There’s a reason for Postum.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Noted Farmer Promises Quiet Farewell to Boarders
A weary audience hears Farmer Corntessel say he will not be sorry when the summer boarders depart. He offers geniality and appreciation yet notes it is time they go home and learn new jokes.
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Michigan
F. E. Millen
Farmer Corntessel
Premature Baldness and Cuticura Appeal
An advertisement urges use of Cuticura Soap to cleanse and purify the scalp and Cuticura Ointment to soothe healing. Free samples via mail request by postcard to Boston. Also notes a joke about working in a chilled steel department and a remark that the pope refuses to leave Vatican precincts.
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Cuticura
Dept. XY
Boston
The
Vatican
On Installments and a Joking Exchange
A brief item notes a witty exchange from the Boeton Transcript about a piano loaned on installments with a playful line about an octave of it. The remark highlights humor in everyday debt and possessions.
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Boeton Transcript
Swamp-Root Kidney Remedy Ad
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as the top remedy for kidney liver and bladder diseases praised for quick gentle effects. It claims availability in two bottle sizes and offers a ten cent sample by mail from Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
The Rupture Knicker Fire the cook
The New York Sun note mentions a rupture and references Knicker Fire and a cook being handed her passports as part of a vivid, clipped wartime or incident report style scene with terse dialogue and sharp phrasing.
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Bocker
New York Sun
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Cato Roe
Ra& H
Chicago, Co
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Ferris
Good Roads Drive
Milan Land Company
Joel L. Marble
Norman Lasky
Milan
Samuel J. Moore
Fine Arts Theater Company
Moving Picture Theater
A. Arthur Caille
Henry J. Guthard
John J. Walsh
Grand Rapids Investment Company
Illinois
State Livestock Sanitary Commission
Halladay
Mr. Dalladay
Anphuut
Home
Staf
O. E Robey
Farm Mechanics Department
Information Bureau
Women of
Agricultural College
John Haarer
Holm
M. L. Holm
State Board of Health
Upper Peninsula
Houghton
Sarah A Caskey
Gregory
Julia E Clark
Adair
Alice J. Colvin
Whittemore
Melissa J. Jackson
Muskegon
State Senate Chamber
le Lea Cele
Joe
the Cextaur Company
Castoria
Denison
Mike
Harry
Mary
Umson
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DU Pont Powder Company
Wilmington
Delaware
Standard Oil Company
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