Mary Lou’s Fashion Awakening and Friendships
Mary Lou, an isolated farm girl with long braids, befriends Mildred Stone who visits from the city. Inspired by Mildred’s stylish clothes and cut hair, Mary Lou cuts her braids and remodels her dress and stockings to look fashionable, hoping to win approval and compare herself to urban life. Her grandmother’s reaction awaits tomorrow.
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Mary Lou
Mildred Stone
Stone
Mildred
Grandma Stone
Mary Low Rice
Mary
Maury Fou
Marylou
Mr Low
Marylon
Mary Iou
Owith Jones
Ter
Mary Louw
Mary Low
Mary Leon
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
New York City
Prohibition Tale and Pinkham’s Claims Across States
An elderly woman on a Minnesota train faked a baby to conceal a whiskey jug as officials crack down on liquor imports. The piece blends testimonials praising Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for expectant mothers and a local Mason City anecdote about strict prohibition controls.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Andi
A. M. Myers
Gordonville, Mo
Mason City
Austin
Minn
Jin
High Cost of Lining Prices Rise and Fall in Markets
A local expert blames weather and tariff for butter and egg price shifts as foreign imports grow, while butter and egg markets show wide swings. Sugar prices drop, strawberries and oranges price lower, vegetables flood in from the south and west. Foley Kidney Pills ad follows.
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Canada
Argentina
United State
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
South
California
Mississippi
Louisiana
Des Moines Railways Workers Seek Higher Wage Scale
Des Moines City Railway conductors and motormen demand a new wage scale at a union conference with President Emil G. Schmidt. The proposed first year rate is 30 cents an hour with 29 24 and 28 cents in the following years, plus time and a half for overtime and a $8 monthly minimum for every man.
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Des Moines
Murdered man's friend warned in shocking note
In Dubuque Iowa February the Brazzell murder remains unsolved. The widow who found the mutilated body after Jan 24 visit Forest City is staying with a sister. An anonymous letter warned a street car conductor who knew Brazzell to uncover what he knows. authorities are reviewing it. Streetcar workers consider hiring an outside detective.
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Dubuque
Charles Brazzell
Forest City
Brazzell
Waterloo boosters push Iowa building for Panama Exposition
Des Moines Capital reports Waterloo progress on a 30000 dollar Iowa building for the Panama Pacific Exposition. Chief clerk George Gallarno notes funds are secured and a three-man committee E W Miller Lore Alford A V Fowler was formed to push the project with backing from state manufacturers and stockmen.
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Des Moines
Waterloo Poostera
Iowa P
George Gallarno
State Municipal Accounting Department
Iowa
Gallarno
Waterloo
E. W. Miller
Lore Alford
A. V. Fowler
Unique speed judgment experiment planned at Drake University
Dr. Florence Richardson of Drake University plans a unique psychology experiment for students to study judging the speed of a moving automobile. She will use a dozen machines of varying sizes including a six cylinder self starting limousine to gather data on perception speed.
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Tes Moines
Florence Richardson
Drake University
Richardson
Students to judge car speeds in curbside test on Kingman
Dr Richardson's class of sixty five will line up on Kingman boulevard to judge speed of ten cars at speeds from eight miles per hour to maximum. They will average opinions to seek a rule for estimating speed and test if noise affects perception of speed. Police will suspend speed rules for the event.
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Dr. Richardson
Kingman Boulevard
Richardson
Mail Weighing Set Across Western Railways
Muscatine Iowa February 3 Preparations are under way for the 1914 weighing of mails and the shift in government mail contracts for four years. Orders from Rock Island offices provide scales for mail cars and major station platforms west of the Missouri. Officials expect a large rise in mail weight and higher receipts from contracts as western railways prepare.
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Muscatine
General Offices
Rock Island
Missouri River
Mi-o-na Stomach Tablets Offer Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Mi-o-na Stomach Tablets as fast relief for indigestion and stomach misery. It claims the product strengthens stomach walls, boosts digestive fluids, and soothes irritated membranes, with fifty cent boxes sold at drug stores and a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
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Wangler
Doctors Now Agree On Eczema Remedy in Kansay
A local campaign promotes D. D. D. as an eczema and skin ailment remedy. Dr. Ira F. Gabbert Caldwell Kans and other physicians endorse it, toutting immediate itch relief. The ad claims D. D. D. soothes, cools, and can cure skin conditions with simple washing.
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Kansay
Ira F. Gabbert
Caldwell
Kans
Wangler Grog. Co
4Th St
T. Richardson
Anna Holmes
West Eighth Street
Kansas City
Ice Craft Hits 90 Mile Clip on Minneapolis Lake
A freak craft combining an ice boat, auto and flying machine carried five passengers on Lake Calhoun and set a new Minneapolis speed record. The two mile course was completed in 82.7 seconds, averaging over 94 mph as spectators watched.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lake Calhoun
Allen Nyquist
Tenth Street
Musterole advertised relief for many ailments
An old musterole advertisement touts its ability to ease sore throats, bronchitis, lumps, and headaches, claiming it avoids blistering plasters. It urges readers to mail order two jars for $2.40 if local druggists lack it, and includes testimonials praising faster relief and painless application.
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Mutt and
Jeff
ANGAD
John Mitchell
Mas- Lena, N. Y
E. W. Sanpers
Rowlesburg, W. Va
Winnie Tir
Winter Taven, Florida
The
Cincinnati Time Recorder Co
Cincinnati, Ohio
Musterole
Cleveland
Ohio
T. G. Emery
Waterboro, Me
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