Fat reducing gum and laxatives hype warned
Thousands of women are being swindled by vendors selling fat reducing chewing gum drops that promise slim figures. Analyses found no real slimming effects, only a mild laxative in some products. Instructions urge eating less, long walks, and limited bread and potatoes, but doctors say being slim is not healthy for fat people and advise to "be yourself."
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Flarntony
Wellington
Ross Wilkerson
George McCullough
A.bh. Cochran
Folly O'Neil
Ross
Jimmie
A. V. Cocke
Wildflowers Spread Across Wellington and County Roads
A reader extols the beauty of wildflowers along roads to Shamrock and Memphis, notes fields of sunflowers, and praises native plantings. He plans to plant Collingaworth County flowers, mentions local offerings from Billy Wolfram and Dro Orr, and urges beautification for prosperity.
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Secon
Shamrock
Memphis
Collingaworth County
Modern brides learn cooking science says Elizabeth Carter
Elizabeth Carter of the Radio Household Institute argues that young brides are more knowledgeable about home management and cooking than prior generations. She notes cake flour aids rising and digestion, citing science aiding housewives and domestic science as a key modern school subject.
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Elizabeth Carter
Radio Household Institute
Miss Carter
Teach the Boys Power Use on Farm MachineryAdvocates urge stronger electricity instruction for vocational agricultural teachers to train boys in practical power operations.
Federal Board for Vocational Education regional agent notes electricity use grows on farms in the South and other waterpower regions. He calls for retooling teachers to teach operation of electrical equipment and power machinery to reduce reliance on animal power and expand labor-saving devices.
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Federal Board For Vocational Education
Department Agriculture
Moon Almanac Beliefs Debunked by Agriculture Dept
The Department of Agriculture rejects planting by the moon as superstition with no scientific backing. It notes farming, breeding, and other farm tasks are not influenced by lunar phases, despite aged sayings.
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Department of Agriculture
France
SMALL TOWN BIG STORES
Stores in tiny towns show large annual sales. Garver Brothers in Strasburg North Dakota with 1000 residents moves about a million dollars yearly, Outlaw in Winner South Dakota with 3000 people sells 850000, Lynden department store in Washington with 1250 residents does 750000, Temple Oklahoma B and C Cash with 1000 people does 735000, Devil's Lake North Dakota Fred Mann's 1300 residents sells 500000. The piece credits stock, service, and strong local newspaper advertising as the keys to success in small towns.
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Garver Brothers
Strasburg
Outlaw Concern
Winner
S. D
Lynden
Wash
Boston University course on buying women draws critique
A BU program teaching women how to purchase is criticized by many, while some husbands argue the focus should be on teaching restraint rather than consumer action. The remark highlights tensions over gender, autonomy, and control in social norms.
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Boston University
Senator Attacks Short Sessions Waste of Public Funds
The senator argues short congressional sessions squander public money. He contrasts with longer sessions and raises questions about efficiency. Lady Astor quips that having a husband is a full time job, prompting remarks on the duties of public life and marriage.
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Lady Astor
Opinions On Fathers Sons And Civic Progress
Readers across West Texas weigh in on family influence and the impact of a father and son relationship. Columns praise paternal guidance, discuss censorship, and note civic gains from prudent taxation. Voices from Shamrock Canyon Dalhart McLean Wheeler Clarendon press the case for progress through education and public virtue.
Right to Speak Freely Cited in Quitaque Post
Quote from W. J. Miller in the Quitaque Post defending free expression. The remark asserts that people may voice thoughts unless they incite crime or offend decency, stating no one may forbid speaking one’s mind.
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W. J. Miller
Quitaque
Sidelights: prayer and laws in a mixture of facts
The piece blends curiosities and quips from history and current life. It notes that faith healings in Pennsylvania failed to stop diphtheria, Edison jokes about aging by work hours, and a claim that the United States hosts around a million laws. It also jokes about Moses’s Ten and heavy armor as a solution if disarmament fails.
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Thomas A. Edison
Flappers and fashion flash in 1920s headlines
A collage of era notes argues for quick fixes to sight defects, mocks short skirts, and quotes Chesterton. It mentions Dartmouth knee pants, a couple marrying to The Star Spangled Banner, and a Montreal man locating his sister and brother in the United States after 50 years apart.
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Thomas Atlen
Montreal
Slater
Elizabeth
James
United States
Texas and Texans Going Texas Qas The rigs of winter
Texas gas expansion linked to Insull interests to push 1000 mile pipelines into Great Lakes states. Texas gas believed ample to heat nation, enriching local landowners. New rail terminal near old town could shift population toward railway, prompting a developing border town between Del Rio and El Paso as Santa Fe lines extend.
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Texas
Mlinois
Indiana
Texas Panhandle
Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Insull
Great Lakes
Santa Fe
del Rio
el Paso
Big Bend
Texans Reject State Division Amid Senate Reform Talk
Texas papers treat a proposed division to boost South senatorial representation with skepticism. Texans value pride, history, and the Lone Star flag five points, unlikely to accept tearing apart state unity for temporary political gains despite Empire State-sized concerns about bulk.
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Texas
South
Presidio Town Story Teases Texas Rio Grande Border
Presidio, the Rio Grande town of the Big Ben country, Texas, is described in a fragmentary passage suggesting its historic character and borderland setting, with hints of its regional role and cultural backdrop as a frontier crossing point.
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Presidio
Rio Grande
Big Ben Untry
Texas
Texas irrigation and market gardening expand across the state
The report highlights widespread irrigation plans from Eagle Lake to DeWitt and Wilson counties. Potatoes, tomatoes, fruits, and vegetables are being shipped or prepared for market across East, Central, and North Texas. Officials anticipate rapid development over the next decade and urge publicizing Texas opportunities.
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Eagle Lake
DeWitt
Wilson
Texas
Texas plant farm ships 80 million onions cabbages tomatoes
A plant farm in the Winter Garden District shipped over 80,000,000 onion cabbage and tomato plants this year to destinations across the United States and Canada. The achievement highlights Texas agricultural export reach and industry drive.
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Winter Garden
United States
Canada
Texas
Snappy Stuff From The Vaudeville Shtick To Odd Feats
A jumble of quick, quirky items from a 1920s era page. Dallas man Clyde Hicks shoots out several teeth of friend Johnny Sandel during a stunt. Wisconsin farmer William Otto loses trousers in a self made contraption. Minneapolis man Dev ing Myers eats 20 hot dogs in one sitting, new record. Vincent Catt of Chicano endures 9 hours in a refrigerator with sack wrap. William Stuart of Los Angeles seeks divorce after wife hits him with a wooden leg. Jumble of oddball feats and misadventures across cities and people.
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Clyde Hicks
Dallas
Texas
Johnny Sandel
Cucumber Pickles Spur Texas Cooperative Marketing
The United States Department of Agriculture says about 3,000,000 cucumbers are profitably grown annually for pickles. Cucumbers grown on a scale large enough for cooperative marketing are becoming a profitable Texas industry.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Texas
Calculating In Miles From the Lower Rio Grande Valley Shipments
The lower Rio Grande Valley has shipped over 26 000 carloads of fruits and vegetables this season with at least 5 000 carloads via trucks. If all could be shipped by one train it would cross about half of Texas. Total shipments approach 24 000 000 dollars in receipts. Only three counties form the Lower Rio Grande Valley, about one eighth of Texas, illustrating vast transport scale.
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Rio Grande Valley
Texas
New York
Lower
San Antonio rail link survey to begin soon
A survey to plan a rail connection from San Antonio is set to start, aiming to secure city capital and enable an interstate link. Officials say the work will assess routes and funding needs to advance the project.
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San Antonio
San
San Anton
Capi San Antoni
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