Gas Advertisement Tells Twenty Five Years of Progress
An advertisement by Lone Star Gas System traces twenty five years of growth from a single 135 mile pipeline begun in 1909 to a vast 4000 mile network serving about 300 towns and cities. It highlights early Texas use of coal and kerosene, later widespread natural gas service, and the company’s evolving infrastructure and offices.
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Lone Star Gas System
Texas
L. B. Denning
Lone Star Gas Company
Petrolia
Fort Worth
Dallas
Oklahoma
Fish Coach Query Sparks Swimmer Exchange
A playful exchange features a coach asking if the swimmer swam in the morning and the swimmer retorts by asking if a missing swim was involved, hinting at a lighthearted sports moment.
Lights of New York and a wartime torpedo tale
A column recalling Lex 2 1100 the New York number for actors and firms and a WWI tale reports torpedoes driven by grain alcohol misfired after sailors drank the fuel. Also notes a Brooklyn barber with 25 years of service and a Seventh Avenue bar sign advertising sales tax inclusive 25 cents.
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Uncle Sam
Seventh Avenue
Swordfish Record Reported From Hawaii Trawl
Corporal Harry Levinson of the coast artillery hooked a tiny swordfish with a quarter inch line and a six inch hook from an army tug in Honolulu. The nine inch fish weighed near nothing on a cook’s scale, surprising experts who said the catch was likely only a day old.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Harry Levinson
Coast Artillery
Shantytown Finds Times Are Better in Seattle
In Hooverville Seattle the shantytown shows signs of improvement with a two room house for two dollars at Dutch's realty bureau. Tin and scrap lumber dwellings have grown sturdier while Mayor Jesse Jackson tours the area with a radio and Filipino residents. City limits on new shanties push construction to improve existing structures.
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Seattle
Hooverville
Realty Bureau
Jesse Jackson
How to Cook Round Steak with Paprika and Veggies
Recipe directs cutting one inch round steak, pounding with flour, browning in fat, then simmering with onions green peppers celery paprika salt and water. Cook covered in a slow oven for one hour turning meat for even tenderness.
Potato Dish From Fridge Mix Includes Flour and Spices
A recipe fragment describes slicing raw potatoes and mixing them with four tablespoons flour half teaspoon salt one fourth teaspoon pepper two teaspoons celery salt four tablespoons butter and one and a half cups milk. The instruction ends with a partial line about mixing the potatoes with flour and sea.
Frugal Bake Improves Sorings Dish With Simple Steps
The instructions describe adding butter then pouring into a buttered dish, followed by milk and baking for an hour in a slow oven. It provides concise procedural steps without extra details.
Sugar Pie Merengue Recipe Step by Step
A historical recipe describes melting white sugar in a skillet then adding boiling water to make a syrup. It combines brown sugar flour butter egg yolks and salt with the syrup and cooks until thick before vanilla and a baked pie shell topped by meringue and browned slowly.
Molasses Puffs Recipe Fragment
A partial recipe lists 14 Molasses Puffs individual cakes with ingredients including fat sugar egg molasses milk and flour. The text specifies proportions for a batter but is cut off before full measurements.
Cinnamon Spice Muffin Recipe with White Frosting
Cream fat and sugar then add remaining ingredients and heat two minutes. Fill muffin pans halfway and bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Cool and frost with white frosting made from butter hot cream salt vanilla and confectioners sugar until smooth.
Bust Developer Mistake Shocks City Drugstore
A baldheaded man complains the product he bought fails to restore hair and causes scalp bumps. The druggist examines the bottle label and realizes a terrible error labeling the contents as a hair restorer instead of a bust developer.
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Scott
Only Two Left to Produce the Nation's Goods
A facetious reader submits statistics arguing a small remaining workforce can produce all national goods. It claims 124 million population, 50 million eligible for old age pensions, 74 million subject to child labor laws, 60 million in food production, leaving 14 million unemployed and only 2 people left to produce the nation’s goods.
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U. S
Tyler Journal
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L. L. Stevenson
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Mr. Street
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