Peplac Promoted Across City At Drug Stores
Yesterday and last night crowds visited leading drug stores to learn about Peplac, its use, and expected relief. George L. Burke spoke on liver and stomach health, noting Peplac as a tonic and purifier used in many homes in the city. It is advertised at Hanover Payne Elvington Jarman & Tre lle and other outlets.
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George L. Burke
Burke
Hanover Drug Store
Payne Drug Store
Elvington’s
Bella“Hardin’s
Buting’s
Fentress
Green's
Jarman & Trelle
Southside Drug Co—Advt
Human Typhoid Germ Source Is the Human Intestines
The State Board states typhoid fever has one source the human intestines of an infected or carrier person. Only human excreta directly spreads typhoid bacteria while animals do not. Proper hygiene and clean food water milk reduce risk. vaccination is advised as a general precaution and life insurance against typhoid.
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State Board of
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Food Control Bill Under Fire In Senate
Senator Reed assailed Herbert Hoover and the food administration accusing appointing 13 agents to run 18 grain markets without law. He questioned an American bankrupt in a British court and alleged plans to divert grain shipments from New Orleans and other South ports to New York for safer export.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senator Reed
Food Control
Herbert Ver
Hoover
Food Administration
Reed
English Girls Cigarette Fiends Spark Alarm in England
London reports a sharp rise in female cigarette use tied to a craze. Where once English women smoked fifteen to twenty a week, thousands now smoke up to a hundred or more weekly. Many youths and girls sixteen or seventeen boast they can smoke fifty a day, dubbing themselves victims of My Lady Nicotine.
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London
England
Theatre Hypocrisy and Charity in The Artist’s Adventure at Royal
Review notes a drama showing at the Royal starring Henry B. Walthall and Mary Charleson. Critics praise the film’s technical quality and its focus on a phase of misguided charity. The piece highlights the tale of hypocrisy among so called charity workers and the theme that charity begins at home.
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Bree
Henry B. Walthall
Iti ‘Wis
Sanay
the Royal
Mr. Walthall
Mary Charleson
George Walsh in Some Boy at the Grand
George Walsh stars as Joyous in the William Fox comedy Some Boy at the Grand tomorrow. Excluded from college for baseball defiance he becomes a hotel press agent and falls for Marjorie Milbank as adventures unfold to a happy ending.
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George Walsh
the Grand
Joyces
William Fox
Grand Theatre
George
Joyous
Marjorie Milbank
Doris Pawn
Texas
Too Much Food Dictator Hoover Quote Cartoon
A Detroit Free Press item notes a Washington reception remark by Hoover urging balanced food rules. A war profiteer visits a sculptor and asks for the finest statue, the sculptor cites Venus de Medici, and the profiteer jokes about buying fifty statues to trim a Newport mansion.
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Hoover
Washington
Newport
Detroit Free Press
The Idea Man We Despise Roger Dunk
Boston Transcript notes a contention with Roger Dunk who dismisses the material as punk and frames his critics as adversaries. The piece reflects a harsh personal dispute, presenting Dunk and his critics within a heated press dialogue.
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Roger Dunk
Boston Transcript
Working it Wrong and the Strike Fable
The speaker narrates Bill leaving to find work but encounters a strike. He joins the strikers before securing employment, highlighting timing and labor unrest as a learning moment. The piece uses dialect dialogue to illustrate social mobility barriers and collective action.
War era food conservation and personal responsibility
A writer urges true food conservation during wartime, arguing conservation means preventing waste rather than abstinence. He promotes buying only what is needed, leaving excess for others, and starting small efforts like home gardening to reduce demand on stores. He cites a “Clean Plate” idea and notes personal gardening as his contribution.
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Reds
Sethia
Tonder
General Wood's Wilmington Visit Ends With Camp Talk
Maj. Gen. Wood’s Wilmington stop featured a nationwide salute and an address praised as one of the most sensible. He toured camp-site offers, thanked the city, and returned to Fayetteville after a day highlighted by free auditorium shuttles and civic hospitality.
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General Wood
rosSrwum
Naval Reserves
H. B. Peschau
Red Cross Society
Lumina
James Sprunt
Fayettevile
Union Station
Coast Line
Fayetteville
Wilmington
Tidewater Power Company
Women urged to save vegetables from waste nationwide
Panic over wartime food surplus prompts President Wilson to call on every woman to can pickle dry and store produce. States from Rhode Island to Washington report large surpluses and seek local canning and drying help, demonstrations, and emergency funds to prevent rot and dump excess into markets.
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Ngtoh
Ine
Io Alout Wison
Secretary of Agriculture
Houston
Department ‘of Agriculture
Arizona
Colorado
Connecticut
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Maryland
Michigan
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermouth
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wilson
New England
Vermont
Massachusetts
Ohio
Ilinois
Minnesota
Towcci
Kansas
California
Oregon
Great Western Circuit Opens in Midwestern Trotting Meet
Peoria, Aug 6 1917 The Great Western Trotting Association opens its season here as a compact circuit through the Middle West with stops at Peoria Burlington Iowa Omaha Des Moines Hamline Milwaukee Peoria Sedalia Mo The meetings run through the week and feature major state fair events in several cities.
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Peoria
Ill
Great Western Trotting Association
Middle West
Burlington
Iowa
Omaha
Des Moines
Hamline
Minne
Milwaukee
Sedalia
Women-Only Units Among U Oklahoma Summers Training Corps
Three of the five companies of summer students in military training at the University of Oklahoma are composed exclusively of women. This highlights a notable gender composition in the campus program during the term.
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University of Oklahoma
Cicotte Sets Mark With No Hit No Run Game
Eddie Cicotte, 33, gains career peak with mastery of the shine ball and control of the knuckle and spitter. He pitched a no hit no run game this season in the American League first with the Red Sox then the White Sox. Cicotte narrowly missed the 1912 World Series after being traded to Chicago following rejection by Jake Stahl.
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United Press
New York
Eddie Cicotte
Cicotte
Red Sox
White Sox
Iie
Chicago
Jake Stahl
Early 1900s Pitchers linked by Detroit moves
The passage notes Jack Coombs starting his major league career while Cicotte had been signed by Detroit and released after failing. Both men later joined the same club associated with Cobb, moving to Detroit in the same year. Since the 1908 season Cicotte has been pitching for them.
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Jack Coombs
Cicotte
Detroit
Cobb
Cicotte’s 1907 Western League success with Lincoln
The record notes Cicotte’s uneven form in 1907 with Lincoln in the Western League. He won 23 games and lost 10, marking his best season in that period.
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Lincoln
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Veteran beaver fuels White Sox pennant push
If the White Sox win the AL pennant it will largely be due to this veteran beaver whose work is the most consistent and the bod harnt among all the carvers of the great baseball club.
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White Sox
Beaver
Bod Harnt
Kaiser Bill’s Bomb Proof Train In Wartime Travel
Amsterdam August 7 The Kaiser travels in a six coach luxury train weighing over 60 tons per coach. Four cars hold the Kaiser and suite while two serve as kitchens. The second coach houses his quarters with saloon bedroom dressing bath and sleeping areas for guards. Steel barred windows armored roof and armed sentries guard the car used by the Kaiser.
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Kaiser
Amsterdam
Berlin
Vienna
Aviall
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