Local Notes From Ely and Surrounding Areas
Local items include Mrs. Charlie Allison visiting Merkel. Miss Flossy Rhody and Roy Rhody visiting in Hunt County. Paul Owens buying a Buick. Travel includes Tom Graves visiting Marion Smith and W C Brown with family in Sherman. one Arm injury to J C Woodson in a car accident. Camp transfers involve Ernest Smith to Camp Chickamauga Park Hospital Corps. Community events mention Sunday preaching at Hnterprise and Odd Fellows visit to Bells.
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Charlie Allison
G. A. Guthrie
Merkel
Flossy Rhody
Roy Rhody
Hunt County
Paul Owens
Tom Graves
Marion Smith
T. D. Booker
Eetor
W. C. Brown
Eugene
Bernice
Sherman
J.C. Woodson
Mr. Woodson
John Stalcup
Texas
Greenleaf
Georgia
Joel Ross
Willie Smith
Ketor
Willie Samples
Ethel Harrison
Bonham
The Best Plaster for a Lame Back
A flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Liniment bound on the back often relieves a lame back more effectively than a plaster and at far lower cost.
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Chamberlain
Tales From Submarine Crews Revealed After War Ends
The article notes forthcoming revelations from submarine crews about life below the surface. It describes the lookout’s sights, sunken ships on ocean beds, and how depth affects wrecks in the Pacific and Indian Oceans versus the shallower North Sea. It mentions derelicts of the depths and rumored demonic swarms.
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Boys’ Life
Boy Scouts’ Magazine
North Sea
Pacific
Indian Ocean
Your Blood or Your Bullion Dramatic Fringe Scene
A London Tit-Bits excerpt reviews a stage performance titled Your Blood or Your Bullion. Mrs Jinks and her daughter attend with an actor lodger as lead actors stage perilous feats including a precipice fall and prison escape. The villain proclaims triumphs as the hero survives, culminating in a dramatic onstage demise and a teary onlooker.
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Miss Jinks
London
The Prune Club Turns Penny into Bird Dog Metaphor
A breakfast table puzzle among a thin boarder, blond typewriter, and bank clerk turns a penny and mustard into playful clues. They debate what the coin evokes with answers ranging from a story to hot scents, finally landing on a bird dog on the scent.
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Yonkers Statesman
Prospects of a Poet Turned Government Typist
Mr. Penwiggle confirms he is still writing poetry and hopes for pecuniary returns. He plans to persist until he becomes an expert typewriter and then offer services to the government.
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Mr. Penwiggle
Failures as Classified by Secretary McAdoo
Secretary McAdoo divides failures into minority and majority classes. He says the minority meet grief while the majority wait for the setback to reach them.
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McAdoo
Force of Habit Finds Highup in Midday Mopes
A fragment shows a man named Highup, an aeronautic professional, walking with his gaze fixed on pavement as he mopes along, while a respondent notes familiarity with him in a conversational quiz exchange.
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Highup
Wilbur Carter and family visit Sherman relatives
Dr and Mrs Wilbur Carter of Sherman spent the past week visiting his parents Mr and Mrs J M Carter in the area.
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Wilbur Carter of
Sherman
J. M. Carter
Calomel Destroys Sluggish Liver Warns of Dodson’s Tone
An old advertisement extols Dodson’s Liver Tone as a safe substitute for calomel. It argues calomel causes salivation, cramping, and nausea while Liver Tone is harmless and helps the liver, boosting energy and appetite for work or play. It also claims children may take Liver Tone safely.
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Dodson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ely News
Ernest Smith
Camp Travis
Camp Chickamauga Park
Katherine Langroom
Blue Ridge
Edward Doss
Charlie Malone
Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Bells
James Boyd
Denison
ARS
Piyalie Wumms
War Finance Corporation
Freighl
Cleveland
Dyang Ye Ils
Dallas
Travel Ny
The
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
the Prune Club
Prospects
A. Y. Creager & Co
A. Y. Creager
F. W. Creager
Strakt Telephone No
Will Looney
Dray Line
Telephone
Lloyd Beheler
Whitewright
Austin College
War Department
Sherman, Texas
EEA
Wettigee
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