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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1920
Page
8
Federal prisons include facilities at Fort Leavenworth Kansas Atta Georgia and McNeil Island Washington. The report notes the locations of federal and civil prisons across multiple states.
A Boston Herald account recalls a late night arrival at Back Bay station where a lone female traveler faced a single taxi line. A courteous Black driver offered her a seat beside him in the cab, provoking murmurs from two men who critiqued the scene. The trio departed with the woman beside the driver and the two men remaining inside.
In a town store building two artists displayed paintings with little space. The critic disliked the first room and praised landscapes in the second. A polite attendant then revealed the third room saying he printed the pictures he did not like, a remark that astonished the observer.
A brief notice directs authors to present their work to Ed Riley located at The Leaden Two Dollars annual rate. The item reads as a small classifieds style prompt existing in a historic newspaper snippet.
A so called authority claims waking with backache and kidney discomfort signals excess meat and uric acid. It advises relief by flushing kidneys, using Jad Latta or lithia drinks, and suggests lemon juice with water and other remedies to cleanse the urinary tract.
An old umbrella stand and hat tree from the 1840s Capitol corridors was found and restored by House of Representatives clerks. They presented it as a wedding anniversary gift to William Tyter Page, longtime clerk, who will take the relic to his Lexington Kentucky home. Notables who used the piece include Henry Clay Daniel Webster John C Calhoun and John Quincy Adams. An ancient woolly topper once worn by Cal Joe Canton is also mentioned.
A California chemist reportedly found no method to extract platinum from ore once used for gold and silver. The article notes a company continuing to mine and process gold, silver and platinum while discussing a vague anti variation device and an ostrich eyed watch-like mechanism.
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