Sugar Shortage Exposed by Price Fixation Theory
A long column argues the sugar shortage stems from a covert price manipulation by producers and distributors. Cites Attorney General Palmer backing a ten cent per pound wholesale price as trigger for withheld supplies and higher retail costs. Notes a candy firm paid premiums to secure sugar, illustrating profiteering, and predicts future market behavior once a government stance stabilizes prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deverly
Palmer
Rapids
Health Talks and Safety Museum in New York City
A health column discusses the new American Museum of Safety in New York City, its purpose to educate on accident prevention, and the broader link between fatigue and accidents. It includes questions about spina bifida, congenital spine defects, and legalities on exposing sick children to others, with advice on medical care and public health enforcement.
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Lfix
Phin
Cincinnati
Attics
American Museum of Safety
New York City
United States
Europe
Mammy Bablen
Little Life Confidences in an Odd Couple
Andrew and Imogene Fulkerson discuss perception of ambitious peers who rise above mediocrity in science and society. The dialogue riffs on egotism, class labels like et al and innocent bystanders, and the price of ambition in a town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew
Imogene
Hvroe Fulkerson
Mary Walker
Tim Woodruff
Bill Bryan
Jim Ham Lewis
Bill Suizer
Joe Cannon
Atsa
The Sandman Story With Mouse And Frog
Mr Mouse fears drowning and seeks a pond refuge after being driven from the barn by Mrs Tabby. Mr Frog offers a water test ride, but Mouse cannot adapt to life in water, deciding to return to the barn to endure Tabby’s trouble rather than live in the pond. The tale ends with Frog noting the humor and the mice’s preference for the barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mouse
MR. Frog
Mr. Mouse
Cam
Dog
Mr. Frag
Fragmentary Note on Old Newspaper Dance Terms
Readable fragments discuss dance terms and wedding related questions in a distant newspaper era. The text references marriages, posting, rates, and deterrents without clear names or events. Limited context prevents precise identification or dates.
Hogs and Pork Prices and Public Action
Iowa editors examine live hog prices at Sioux City with top sales near 14 per hundred pounds and common sales 12.60 to 13, noting a 40 percent drop from peak highs. They question pork price slack, potential hoarding, and profiteering, urging enforcement of new laws and government action to protect consumers. A second item notes fur prices rising, benefiting young women, and introduces shark skin leather developments amid hide shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City
Congress
Department of Justice
Brain Tests by Sam Loyd a cryptic garden and barn door puzzle
A puzzling note by Sam Loyd titled Brain Tests describes guessing two missing words in a short riddle about purchasing items at a hardware shop. The fragment hints at a garden and a barn door, inviting readers to solve the blanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anner
Eben
New Shark Net Aids Leather from Skins and 200 Sharks a Day
A novel fishing method uses a 600 foot long, 18 foot deep net with a four inch mesh to harvest sharks. Operated from small boats, it has yielded as many as 200 sharks in a single day. Popular Mechanics features a page showing the apparatus and striking catches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opular Mechanics Magazine
A MURTHERING PRACTISE
London Post reviews historical critique of football opponents and violent rhetoric. Philip Stubbes in An Anatomie of Abuses (1583) condemns harsh conduct, rage, malice, and brawling as dangers in sport and society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Post
Philip Stubbes
Fiddle-Fit Enema Cure Ad Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement claims a Fiddle-Fit enema cures headaches and digestive woes by cleansing the stomach removing sour undigested food and foul gases and carrying out all constipated waste. It asserts the poison reaches the brain causing dull headaches and promises relief by morning.
Pepes Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement touts Pepe's Cold Compound as a fast remedy for severe cold and flu symptoms. It claims the first dose opens congested nostrils, relieves headaches and feverishness, and ends misery, with doses every two hours and no quinine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pepe
Graduate Engineer Asse Mem Am Soc E Edward Tourtellot Civil Engineer
Edward Tourtellot of Oelwein Iowa is listed as a graduate engineer with membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers. The entry notes his roles in municipal drainage rural engineering land surveying and related estimates and reports with office at City Hall and residence at Black 995.
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Asse
Soc
E. Epward B. Tourtellot
Oelwein
Iowa
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Wolk Park
John G. Hartman
J ‘Eer
Waterloo
Associated Press
Wn Wet
Washington, D. C
G. Dougherty
New York
Philadelphia
Siery, Brooks & Winter, Reps
The
Delowatia
Germany
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Germ
Spain
Remy Ubrasion
Lhe
John 1. Huber
Sandman
Mrs. F
Aleck
Gil
sTure
Tete Joe
Epa
Dubuque
Parr
Coffaa
By Sam Loyd
Beres the
Clara
R.H. Finney
Reelsville
Ind
Lane
Holland
Aji
Sloan's Liniment
JFL
Sloan
Handy
Walter Baker & Co.Ltd
Dorchester
Mass
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