The Last Days Of Gen Robert E Lee
A retrospective of Robert E Lee after Appomattox contrasts his fading national fame with enduring personal dignity. Lee becomes Washington University president in 1865 via a comic yet poignant sequence involving borrowed clothes and funds, while his later years are marked by quiet melancholy and steadfast courtesy until his death on October 12, 1870.
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Appomatox
Southland
Powhatan County
Virginia
Grant
Board of Trustees
Washington University
Bolivar Christian
Mary Lee
Robert E. Lee
Colonel Christian
General Lee
Miss Mary Lee
Col. Christian
Lee
Judge Brockenbrough
Brockenbrough
Hugh Barclay
Mr. Barclay
College
Colonel McLaughlin
Lexington
Powhatan
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Stonewall Jackson
South
Honey Grove
Prizes Offered For Best Rhymes With Dr Price Powder
A new contest invites all readers to craft a four line rhyme using only words from the Dr Price Phosphate Baking Powder label. Prizes total 232 awards including 100 dollars for first place and 75 50 and 25 for next places plus twenty three five dollar consolation prizes. Entries due July 1 1922 to Price Baking Powder Factory Chicago Illinois.
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Dr. Price
Price Baking Powder Factory
Independence Blvd
Chicago
Til
Health slipping prompt hope from Cardui cure
Navasota Texas resident Mrs W M Peden recounts recovering strength after realizing her health was slipping. She describes fatigue nervousness and trouble sleeping then credits Cardui Home Treatment with improved appetite rest and energy enabling housework. She endorses Cardui as a tonic and recommends it to other women. all druggists sell it.
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Navasota
Texas
W. M. Peden
Cardui
Cardus
Ford 6 000 000th Model T produced at Highland Park plant
Ford Motor Company announced the completion of its 6,000,000th Model T at the Highland Park plant at 9 14 a m on May 18 and, 5 1 3 seconds later, the 6,000,001st was finished. The firm ships 5400 motors daily to assembling plants nationwide as it traces milestones from 1908 to 1921.
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Ford Motor
Highland Park
Ford
United States
Ford Motor Company
Blue Star Foot Troubles Remedy Ad
A local trade notice promotes Blue Star for foot problems including corns bunions callouses and skin conditions such as itch eczema ringworm poison oak and old sores It claims not to stain clothing and has a pleasant odor from Dyer Jones.
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Dyer & Jones
Visions of the Past Remembering childhood and old home memories
The column fondly recalls youth on Cave Creek with Parson Meadows sermons, Deacon Johnson prayers, a log school, and family scenes. It ends with a plug for vulcanizing services by R. S. Morehead and a nudge to read The Sun.
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Cave Creek
Parson Meadows
Deacon Johnson
Mother
Johnnie Bevins
Sidney Lusk
Lark Davis
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Gen. Robt. E. Lee
R. S. Morehead
Aye Fale Muk
Eagle “Mikado
Eagle Pencil Company
New York
Jimmy Smith
Kellogg’s
W. K. Kellogg
Kelley
the Yard
Hudson, Davis & Co
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