Madam Walker Bequeaths Vast Charity Endowment
The wealthiest Negro woman in America, Madame Walker, dies in New York City leaving an estate valued at $1,000,000. A $100,000 philanthropic trust funds education and reform, $28,000 to Negro schools, $4,000 to settlement work, and funds for an Africa mission school and model homes for Negro tenants. She gave $5,000 toward a national anti lynching drive. Her Hudson River home, worth over $250,000, goes to her daughter for life and then to become a Negro life and achievement museum.
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America
New York City
Africa
Testatrix
Fake Aspirin Fraud Exposed in Brooklyn as Talcum Tablets
Fraudulent aspirin tablets sold by a Brooklyn manufacturer were mostly talcum powder. Genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin carry the Brayer cross and American ownership. Consumers are urged to demand Bayer Tablets in original Bayer packaging with proper directions and dosage.
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Brooklyn
Bayer
Brayer Cross
No Worms in a Healthy Child Tone for Tonic
Advertisement notes that worms cause pale unhealthy color and stomach upset in children. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is claimed to enrich blood improve digestion and strengthen the system. Regular use for two to three weeks will purge worms and restore health. Pleasant to take at 60 cents per bottle.
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Grove
Advertisers as Community Asset Boosts Local Prosperity
A bulletin from the Associated Advertising Clubs extols wide local advertising as a community asset. It notes how most retail dollars leave town for wholesale or manufacturers, with about 25 percent circulating locally through rents salaries and services. Each $10,000 in new business brings $2,500 back into the town, supporting local employment and vendors. The passage also includes a court notice: Ruby Guinn versus Jim Guinn, a divorce action for desertion, filed in Grayson County Texas, docket 27283, with date and clerk details.
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Light Company
Ruby Guinn
Jim Guinn
Citation by Publication in Grayson County Texas 1919
Public notice commands Sheriff or constable to publish in a Gray son county newspaper for four weeks to summon Jim Guinn unknown residence to appear before the District Court in Sherman on the First Monday in August 1919 to answer a petition filed June 24 1919 in the 59th Judicial District.
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District Court
Grayson County
Grayson
Jim Guinn
Sherman
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Alma Douglas
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