Army Engineers and Signal Corps keep the Army connected
The Engineers provide essential building, tunneling, road, and dam work and can deploy to combat as needed. The Signal Corps ensures fast accurate orders reach front lines and maintains weather, photography, and intelligence functions while coordinating a nationwide fixed radio network and nationwide operator pool.
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Engineer Corps
Signal Corps
Corps of Engineers
Army
Defense Advisory Commission
Engineers
Rurik the Red
Baltic Sea
Ijshore
Rurik
National Defense Advisory Commission
The
United States
Horses Outpull Cattlemen In Tug-of-War Display
At the National Dairy Show in Harrisburg a simulated tug of war showed horses outpulling 22 cattlemen who outpulled 22 football players. The horse team dragged a 24 ton load 25 feet, while steelton gridders hauled 14.3 tons 24 feet 11 inches. the cattle handlers reached 27.5 feet before the cable broke.
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Harrisburg
Steelton
Hark the Herald Angels Sing in Christmas Church Programs
A printer once rigidly applied a Bennett era rule that the Herald name may not appear except in italics. Christmas week churches echoed the title with their programs and readings in that era.
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New York Herald
James Gordon Bennett Jr
Vitamins In Vogue Facts On The Vitamin Story
Vitamins have evolved from mystery to a defined science with a focus on B complex elements, vitamin C and D. The text traces ancient discoveries, highlights Dr. Elvehjem’s work on meat as a key B vitamin source, and notes public interest and economic impact alongside roles in growth, appetite, and disease prevention.
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Kramer
C. A. Elvehjem
University of Wisconsin
Memorable Laredo summer memory and Webber Wilson’s rise
A veteran pianist in a hotel lobby radiates cheer as he plays Ramona and sings Kimona. The piece recalls Webber Wilson from Coldwater Mississippi, later a prosecuting attorney and Congress member, with tales of early mock trials and eloquent speeches. Mention of Texas made furniture and theatre seats shipped to Mexico and Puerto Rico.
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Laredo
American Legion
Clifford Davis
Tennessee
Congress
Webber Wilson
Coldwater
Miss
Ole Miss
I. C
Evening News-Scimitar
Memphis
Poe
Tennyson
Webber
University of Mississippi
Calvin Coolidge
Mississippi
Wilson
United States Senate
Virgin Islands
Texas
Mexico
Puerto Rico
BLACK-DRAUGHT Laxative Promises Gentle Nighttime Relief
A vintage advertisement for BLACK-DRAUGHT presents it as a main vegetable laxative. It claims thorough evacuation by morning with relief from constipation headaches and lethargy, urging bedtime use and noting 25 to 40 doses for 25 cents.
Temple Furniture Firm Roots Local Industry
The Temple based American Desk Manufacturing Company supplies chairs for a Salt Lake City theatre and runs a Temple-Chicago route with about 20,000 desks yearly. West of the Mississippi, it stands alone. locally owned, led by A P Brashear and C V Griggs.
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United States
American Desk Manufacturing Company
Temple
Salt Lake City
Temple-Chicago
Mississippi River
Chicago
Temple Concern
Bell County
A. P. Brashear
C. V. Griggs
Texas factory frames growth with local wood and steel work
An observer tours a Texas factory where 200 workers operate steel cutting, woodworking, and painting to produce chairs desks and tables from wood and steel. The piece highlights strong Texas markets for hardwoods cotton and paints and notes rising industrial potential.
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Sta
Texas
Texas Hardwoods
Texas Cotton
Texas Paints
Christmas Cards Order Drive Promises Wide Assortment
The Sun promotes early Christmas card orders with a large assortment and full price range from 50 cents to 25 dollars per hundred. It offers name printing and engraved cards up to high grade options, with representatives available to call.
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the Sun
Call
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Army OF the United States Engineers and Signals
Barbee & Bassett
Insurance Agency
Luther Gordon
Elvehjem
Committee Foods
American Medical Association
Lamb
Mila
Boyce House
Lynch
Stephens & Bryant Insurance — Real Estate
Nat'l Bank
Fort Worth
Yeager’s Service Station
Texaco
Texaco Indian
Texaco Motor Oil
Havoline
Willard Batteries
Gomer May
LaRue’s
L. LaRoe & Co
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