Parcel post debated as farmers gain from service
A Wisconsin farmer argues parcel post is impractical for marketing crops, while Herbert Quick says it will grow with time and should complement rail, wagon, and boat transport. He cites a Cook County parcel post club and urges farmers to organize for bulk marketing. The piece links free services to rising costs and urges ending free notices in newspapers.
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Wisconsin
Herbert Quick
Farm and Fireside
Quick
Agency of Transportation
Farmers’ Express Service
Cook County
Courier-Journal
Science restaurant promises 1000 heat units for 10 cents
New York opens a scientific eatery offering 1000 heat units for 10 cents per lunch based on Professor Lusk's menu. The plan allocates 7% ounces beans 1 ounce pork 2 1/3 ounces butter 5 ounces milk and 5 ounces coffee per meal, with three meals totaling 38,000 heat units for the day for light work.
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New York
Graham Lusk
Department of Physiology
Cornell Medical College
Lusk
Caillaux Trial Opens as Paris Sees Stolen Queen Past
Madame Caillaux remains calm as her trial starts in Paris. She is jailed in the Conciergerie, next to Marie Antoinette’s former cell, after transfer from Saint Lazare. Defense plans to call witnesses regarding Gaston Calmette’s injuries as proceedings begin.
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Paris
Madame Caillaux
Conciergerie
Palais de Justice
Marie Antoinette
St. Lazare
Gaston Calmette
the Figaro
Mmme
Caillaux
Assize
Mme. Caillaux
Mme
Corciergerie
Assize Court
M. Calmette
Joseph
Statewide miscellany of injuries rescues and arrests
Altoona mayor fines fortune tellers known as Indian gyp s for 25 cent readings. David Specht near Sunbury loses blood after mower accident. nearly dies. Brown of Freeland hospitalized with a broken arm from a wrestling bout. Pierce Shupp of Hazleton treated for serious blood poisoning after scratching a pimple. Michael Grozel of Freeland dying from a broken back and ribs after coal fall at Hazleton State Hospital. Malcolm Slear, 11, exhausted in Susquehanna River. rescuer David L. Bly saves him. Lehigh Traction motorman Leonard Manier jailed by McAdoo Burgess William Fox on concealed revolver charge. Patrick Gilday of Wilkes-Barre named to a commission to amend commons. successor to Dennis A Hayes.
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Susquehanna
White Deer
David L. Bly
Leonard Manier
Lehigh Traction
William Fox
McAdoo
William
Patrick Gilday
Wilkes-Barre
Ission
Commons
Dennis A
Hayes
Washington ticket for Pennsylvania offices
The slate lists GIFFORD PINCHOT for United States Senator and GOVERNOR WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS with Lt. Governor PERCY S. SMITH. Secretary FRED E. LEWIS, and Representative WILLIS J. HULINGS are named along with State Senator JOSEPH H. DeFREES and General Assembly member JOHN G. SMITH.
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Washington Ticket
United States
Gifford Pinchot
Pike County
General Assembly
John G. Smith
Warren
Pet Economies And The High Cost Of Living
Our pet economies are costly and silly, affecting each person differently. The essay notes examples from butter to bologna lunches and electricity to laundry, showing how frugality becomes self defeating and leaves people happier yet more uncomfortable.
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Indianapolis News
Comparisons of Women Through Ages Courted in Wit
A cynical bachelor quips on women's ages using a tiered drink metaphor. He compares girls 12 to 15 to lemonade and 18 to 25 to champagne, 25 to 40 to liqueur, 40 to 58 to homemade port, and over 50 to vinegar, illustrating odious age judgments.
Not Bad Newspaper Headline From Chicago Tribune
The fragment references a Chicago Tribune headline stating Not bad. The piece hints at discussion of a work titled The Woman We Marry and a Fiction segment, implying a literary or editorial context without detail on exact events or outcomes.
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Chicago Tribune
Doorknobs and Hands in Disease Spread
The text argues health officials should not stop labeling doorknobs as disease vectors. It likens microscopic visions of germs on doorknobs to a social warning about handshakes and introductions. It emphasizes avoidable contact and urges minimizing direct hand-to-hand greetings.
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Kanasas
Mr. Jones
Mr. Smith
Linotype Poet Adapts Kipling at Phoenix Dinner
At the Phoenix Republicans dinner Clyde Timberlake recited an adaptation of Kipling about the hereafter and ideal work life, envisioning printers resting until reawakened by a master foreman and working for the joy of printing. The verse imagines radiant future scenes for linotype workers and the god of things as they are.
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the Phoenix
Ariz
Clyde A. Timberlake
Kipling
Earth
The Dansant and Fashion Snapshots of Life
A vivid Life magazine fragment surveys fashion and social scenes with quotes on lemon drinks wigs hats and flirtations. It notes humor and style in casual conversations and hints at a divorce and a rapid departure as part of a lively cultural vignette.
Boston Doctor Claims Heels Cure Headache
In a brief, satirical note the Boston Transcript reports a physician’s claim that high heeled shoes cure headaches and that silk stockings help sore eyes, reflecting humorous press commentary of the era.
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Boston
Boston Transcript
Precious Moments Inspire Warren Mail Readers
A brief feature invites readers to subscribe to the Warren Mail service, highlighting the value of time and the appeal of gilded threads of gold as a metaphor for precious moments.
What Old Glory Said
Secretary of the Interior Lane delivers a fairy tale like Flag Day speech to clerks, presenting Old Glory as a reflection of the people. The flag represents belief, work, pride, and the nation’s dreams, moods, and struggles, tied to democracy, the constitution, and collective effort.
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Lane
Rev H G Ogden Leaves Jamestown for Rochester Pastorate
Dr Horace G Ogden longtime pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church Jamestown has accepted the Rochester church invitation to become its pastor. He weighed Rochester and Sewickley Pa positions before choosing Rochester, with many Warrers wishing him success in his new field.
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Horace G. Ogden
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Jamestown
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Rochester
Ogden
Sewickley
Pittsburg
Warrer
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America
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Altoona
David Specht
Sunbury
William Draper Lewis
Philadelphia
Percy S. Smith
Allegheny County
Fred E. Lewis
Lehigh County
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Oil City
Venango County
Joseph H. Defrees
George B. Munn
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Paul Poiret
Peru
Roger Lamson, Jr
H. G. Ogden
Erie
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Buffalo
Pullman
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