Impersonators Limited Aims To Stage False Celebrities
A vain, inept socialite proposes a venture to Billy Bosworth to impersonate authors and artists. She envisions a company that makes poets look like poets and painters look decorated, while quizzing how to replace real figures without harming sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Ja0sworth
William Bosworth
Jerry Harkins
Kitty Mackney
Billy
Dicky
Jerry
Harold Forsyde
Mr. Forsyde
Farsyde
Chicago Chronicle
Sympathy for the Dog
Town Topics recalls a dispute where Mrs Jiggson protests bull pup aggression toward a mother figure. Jiggson threatens to have the animal shot, expressing distress over witnessing a dumb animal kept safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jiggson
Proper artificial feeding and milk care for infants
Dr. Reeder outlines careful milk handling for infant feeds including scalding bottles, two-clean bottles, and avoiding warmed repeats. He argues for mother's nursing when possible, notes hardships of artificial feeding, and introduces a veal broth based substitute with cautions on starch digestion and saliva.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Home Health Club letters offer folk remedies and herbal tips
Readers report benefits from cutting tea and coffee for hot water therapy and using a hot blanket for colds. A Massachusetts case recommends nightly arm and hand fomentations with olive oil massage and a woolen blanket wrap for numbness and pain, plus careful warming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
David H. Reeder
Laporte
Ind
Home Health Club
Salina
Massachusetts
J. C
Mixed feeding and prepared milk for infants
The article discusses feeding options for babies including mixed feeding with bottles, prepared milk, and barley water to aid digestion. It notes that raw beef juice can help when nourishment is failing, and emphasizes avoiding weaning too early while mothers rest. A forthcoming lecture will cover weaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starr
Health information request payment note to readers
A public notice invites readers to write for health information to Dr. David H. Reeder of Larotte Indiana. The notice requires full name and address and at least four cents postage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David H. Reeder
Larotte
Ind
Burn the Fringe Cuffs Treated with Fire Build Longevity
A writer urges using a flame to restore frayed cuffs rather than scissors. Light a match and carefully scorch the edge to cleanse and preserve the cuff’s gloss. The article claims a fire treated cuff lasts generations longer than one cut with steel.
Forest nursery to boost reforestation near Santa Barbara
The bureau of forestry establishes a Santa Barbara area nursery to seed and transplant Coulter and yellow pine in the Santa Barbara reserve. Initial planting targets the upper Santa Ynez watershed to protect water supply for the city and its 16 000 residents, with drought conditions limiting results.
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California
Bureau of Forestry
Santa Barbara
Bureau
Santa Ynez
Santa Barbara Forest Reserve
Wich
Nebraska
Quaint Northumberland wedding custom endures
In Eglingham Northumberland a historic wedding rite continues with the newly married couple forced to leap over a bench left blocking the church door after the ceremony. The long standing practice remains a local tradition observed in the parish church.
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Eglingham
Northumberland
American recalls Wagner orchestra in Nice casino concert
An American back from Europe recounts attending a Siegfried Wagner orchestra concert at the Nice casino. He sits beside a Western state rancher’s wife and a Russian countess. When asked if Damrosch is the best conductor, he replies with a wry joke about not riding on his car.
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Siegfried Wagner
Nice
Damrosch
Newfoundland Plans Whale Meat Trade To England
Newfoundland develops a whale meat industry as a beef substitute. A dealer says the meat tastes closer to venison and outlines plans to ship to England where it could fetch at least twelve cents per pound.
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Newfoundland
England
Willie a Wise Boy
Dialogue from the Philadelphia Ledger where Willie explains opening the oven door to spoil the cake so they can eat it, with Bridget questioning the action and a mother implied to bake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Bridget
Philadelphia Ledger
Bread and Corn Contest For Edgar County Youths
Paris announces a bread and corn contest connected to the Edgar county farmers institute this winter. The corn event asks exhibitors to enter ten ears and be scored by judges with a professional grader later. Girls bake one loaf from institute furnished ingredients in view of a housewives committee that will award prizes.
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Paris
Edgar County
Farmers’ Institute
Three Women Killed by Freight Train Near Freeport
A north bound Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul freight struck a buggy west of Freeport killing three women. Mrs William J Laibelle was thrown into a creek and died. Her daughter Grace Laibelle landed on the locomotive pilot and died in Freeport hospital. Miss Gladys Brine was hurled some distance and killed.
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Freeport
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
William J. Laibelle
Grace Laibelle
Gladys Brine
Bachelors to Hold Picnic in Nokomis
The Central Illinois Bachelors' association plans its annual picnic and reunion in Nokomis on Wednesday, August 16. Prominent orators will speak and about 20,000 people are expected to attend the festivities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nokomis
Central Illinois Bachelors’ Association
Landmark Gone Bloomington Fire Destroys Oldest Building
The Stipp property in Bloomington, built by James Allin in 1831, the city’s oldest building and site of the first circuit court in September 1831, was destroyed by fire. The structure was famed as the oldest courthouse in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Stipp
James Allin
Crusade Against Sunday Liquor Sales In Paris
State's Attorney Arbuckle has begun a campaign against selling liquor on Sundays in Paris saloons. The report lists various local incidents and happenings from multiple Illinois towns, including deaths, crimes, and civic notes.
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Billy Bosworth
Helen Twyford
Harold Farsyde
Madam
Dicky Garden
Bie
David J. Reeder
M.D. la Porte
Illinois State News
Landmark
Arbuckle
Evanston
Catherine Aishton
Quincy
Michael H. Barry
Barry
Libertyville
Lake County
Cairo
Monmouth
Mississippi Valley Veterinary Medical Association
Fred Moebus
Harold Gross
John Bauer
Blue Island
William Demlow
Amelia Walder
Demlow
Royal
Collinsville
Frank Schuster
St. Louis
Sterling
William Ottens
Garden Plain
Whiteside County
Windsor
W. D. Baker
Christian Church
Galesburg
First Illinois Cavalry
Peoria
Illinois Asstrict
Bryanston
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