Stomach Trouble Healed After Four Doctors Gave Up
Mrs. Mary Hendricks of Owensboro Kentucky credits Mills Emulsion with restoring her health after five months of stomach and bowel trouble. She weighed 70 pounds and recovered to 190 after two days of use and two weeks of treatment. The ad promotes Milks Emulsion as a palatable rebuild and urges trying six bottles with a money back guarantee.
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Litchfield Road
Owensboro
Milks Emulsion Co
Terre Haute
Ind
Adv
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promised Cure for Deafness
A medicinal claim states catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated systemically. Hall's Catarrh Medicine supposedly cures by cleansing the blood and restoring the Eustachian tube, offering a hundred dollar reward for uncured cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Amateur demands leading role in village play
A Swampton amateur theater group hires a London pro to run their annual show. The eager amateur insists on a principal part, but is told his part is the first banana in a fruit market scene after auditions.
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Swampton Dramatic Society
London
Bananas and Blushes Spark Droll Musings
A whimsical note suggests the banana peel as a nuisance and remarks that a blush from a man makes a woman ask if he is a lobster, reflecting light humor on social quirks.
Men and Habits Shaped by Change Across Time
The sentence reflects on how men continually seek to discard certain habits while forming new ones. It hints at behavioral adaptation and social pressures guiding personal change.
Bayer Aspirin Advertises 1900 Tablet Packaging
The 1900 Bayer promotion promotes Bayer Tablets of Aspirin stamped with the Bayer Cross for protection against imitators. It notes directions for colds headaches neuralgia toothache earache rheumatism lumbago neuritis and general pain. Handy 12 tablet tin boxes cost only a few cents with larger packages also sold by druggists. The ad cites aspirin as the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture and cautions against imitation.
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Bayer
Important to Mothers examines Castoria bottles
Important to Mothers advocates carefully inspecting every Castoria bottle for the In Use for Over 30 Years claim. The notice mentions children crying for Fletchers Castoria and asserts that real velvet is entirely silk.
Swamp Root Promises Help for Kidney Trouble in Women
Hundreds of women suffer kidney or bladder issues without realizing the cause. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is advertised as restoring kidney health and easing back pain headaches and fatigue. A sample bottle can be ordered for ten cents by mail from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY with larger sizes at drug stores.
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Kilmer
Cannot Play Three Roles in One Night
A road show manager complains he must have Wellington play Henderson the Spider and Uncle Bin in The Silent Foe. Wellington replies he cannot do it since no human can perform three parts simultaneously. The joke hinges on an in‑play fight where Henderson and the Spider duel and Uncle Bin intervenes.
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Wellington
Henderson
Uncle bin
the Spider
Spider
Bill
At the Circus
A brief item notes a performer praised as a star and mentions she hails from Chicago, highlighting a notable act during a circus event.
Drowning Death Revealed as Barn Crime by Four Boys
Four youths aged eleven to fifteen were arrested in Snow Shoe Pa for killing ten year old Jarvis Hall by tying a rope around his neck and hanging him from a rafter in an abandoned barn on August 17 1919. They then placed the body in a pond and reported a drowning. Police investigation followed after the body was found with signs of foul play.
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Snow Shoe
Melvin Rowan
Arthur
Charles Markley
Thomas Stark
Jarvis Hall
W. H. Hall
Hall
Pennsylvania
Rowan, Markley and Stark
Greek Prince Holds Rank Denials Probe in Switzerland
Geneva reports Prince Christopher of Greece and his wife, formerly Mrs. W. P. Leeds, asked to deny claims they renounced royal rank. Rumors said he severed succession rights and would become Danish count and countess. Constantine and his wife joined the pair for a week at Montreux as tensions fade.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Prince Christopher of
Greece
W. P. Leeds
America
Constantine
Montreaux
St. Moritz
Social Bee in Her Bonnet Sting at Home
A dialogue fragment shows a husband warning about his wife’s lively social worries and her sharp response. The exchange hints at a domestic scene where social obligations are a humorous point of tension.
Marked Cards Alleged in Krohnberg Trial
In New York a shirt maker Louis Krohnberg faces charges of obtaining money by fraud in a stud poker game using marked cards. Police presented two hands from a deck said to come from Krohnberg’s home showing back shading revealing the cards. Complainants claim Krohnberg won five dollars with the marked deck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Louis Krohnberg
Krohnberg
Fainting and Dizzy Spells Reported in Syracuse Woman
Mrs R E Devine of Syracuse New York credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving fainting spells and fatigue during the Change of Life after thirteen bottles. The ad promotes the remedy as free of narcotics and notes its herbal extracts. Also a light aside about the henpecked husband.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lampia
R. E. Devine
Lafayette Ave
Gotham Teacher Marries Convict
Miss Mary Fairchild principal of a Long Island public school has wed Henry Hoppe a former Sing Sing inmate released in 1917 Their romance began while Hoppe was imprisoned with charges of robbery and carrying concealed and deadly weapons They quote Cupid proving stone walls do not a prison make.
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New York
Mary Fairchild
Long Island
Henry Hoppe
Sing Sing Prison
Cupid
New York Teacher Forges Path for Inmate to Freedom
Miss Fairchild then principal of a New York City school chose Sing Sing as a field for prison welfare. She appealed to Judge Rosalsky and Governor Whitman, winning Hoppe’s parole. Over three years he built a confectionery business in New York City proving her judgment correct.
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Miss Fairchild
New York City
Sing Sing
Hoppe
Rosalsky
Whitman
New York
Allen's Foot Ease Advertises Shoe Powder Use
The Plattsburg Camp Manual recommends Allen's Foot Ease to prevent blisters and sore spots. Sprinkled in the shoes and foot-bath it relieves swollen feet and bunions and helps break in new shoes. Honest men do what they can, dishonest men do whom they can.
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Allen
Plattsburg
Freezone promises painless corn relief and removal
An advertisement touts Freezone as a painless solution for hard and soft corns and toe corn. A tiny bottle costs only a few cents and is sold by druggists. The copy credits a Cincinnati genius as the discoverer.
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Cincinnati
Adv
Cuticura Soothes Baby Rashes Ad Copy
An advertising note extols Cuticura products for soothing baby rashes with soap ointment and talcum. It claims baths and gentle applications provide relief and purity and mentions a 25 cent price. The second line humorously praises a man as a wise weather prophet who borrows an umbrella.
Diamond Dyes Promise Fadeless Color for Any Garment
Buy Diamond Dyes for easy step by step instructions and guaranteed perfect results on wool silk linen cotton or mixed fabrics. The ad promises rich color that won’t fade or streak and urges readers to consult a druggist for a color card.
Triner's American Elixir of Bitter Wine Ad
A vintage advertisement touts Triner's American Elixir of Bitter Wine as a key to success through nerves digestion and energy. It claims 80 years of market leadership since 1890 and promotes Triner's Angelica Bitter Tonic as a companion product. Distributed by Joseph Tuiner Company Chicago.
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Tuiner
Triner
Joseph Tuiner Company
S. Ashland Ave
Chicago
Advy
Wriggles Escapes Jail for 180th Time in Life
Roy Dickerson charged with aiding bank robbery in Girard Alabama escapes from Los Angeles city jail using a crude key and ventilator shaft. His wife says he once was a vaudeville opener known for freeing himself from restraints and has escaped 180 times with arrests not lasting over two months. His cell mate was found asleep during the escape.
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Roy Dickerson
Girard
Ala
Los Angeles
Cal
Dickerson
Kansas City Mothers Plan Curfew Pledge to Curb Youths
Kansas City mothers group to form an organization of society matrons aiming to end the wild ways of local youth. They propose a curfew agreement between parents and youths, censure street and evening attire for young misses, and require signatories to pledge not to stay out after curfew.
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Kansas City
Canada’s 1920 population and revenue overview
In Ottawa the 1920 Canadian population is estimated at 9 million up from 7 million in 1911. Estimated 1920 revenue totals 825 million dollars with per capita revenue 36.11 and per capita expenditures 75.01. In Council Bluffs three bandits killed and four wounded by Austrian defendants.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
House of Commons
Sifton
Council Bluffs
Ira
Aged Suitor Shoots Widow Then Takes Own Life
In Barre Vermont Hoyt Gallum aged sixty eight, a farmer, shot and killed Mrs. E M Fenwick fifty one, a widow, after she refused immediate marriage and then killed himself.
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Barre
E. M. Fenwick
Hoyt Gallum
Home Still Put Man on Easy Street in Michigan Raid
Officers raided a Fruitport home still operated by John Spazer. He admitted running the still all winter and claimed that cleaning up would put him on easy street.
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Easy Street
Fruitport
Mich
John Spazer
Graveyard whisky sales tied to tombstone counter
Police in Hinton West Virginia report Gordon Kirby used a hilltop graveyard tombstone as a counter to sell bootleg whisky. Prohibition officers found him at the site and halted the operation.
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Hinton
W. Va
Gordon Kirby
Baboon Shepherds Sheep Flock in Remarkable Tale
W C Scully reports in the Atlantic Monthly on trained baboons guarding infants and sheep. One baboon cared for a motherless infant for over two years and another tended hundreds of sheep, displaying strong protective instincts and a tendency to herd home at distant noises.
Buddhist Priest Sparks Sacred Mountain Folklore
In the Ming era the Buddhist priest Pu Men visited Huang Shan in South Anhui and inspired turning it into a sacred mountain. He secured royal funds for temples, including a Purple Sand temple later renamed Merciful Light Hill, with a brass pagoda and a thousand buddha decorations. Hundreds of priests flocked there as roads and temples rose above the springs.
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Pu Men
Huang Shan
Anhui Hills
Peking
North China
Silk Industry in China Employs Millions
The silk industry of China employs between 4 million and 5 million people across the country, supporting extensive cultivation, weaving, and trade networks. This workforce spans rural sericulture centers to urban textile markets, highlighting the sector's economic significance.
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China
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