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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1929
Page
3
The Chicago Daily News reports in anticipation of the radio address by Governor John G. Richards delivered in Chicago on the night of June 29 over station WMAQ. The piece notes broad coverage and public interest surrounding the gubernatorial message.
A vintage health ad argues that perfect purification of the system, a doctor backs, leads to renewed vitality. It promotes Calotabs as the ultimate purifier to take once or twice weekly for several weeks, offering a family package with directions for 85 cents at drugstores.
Governor Richards and the late John C. Calhoun are highlighted in a photogravure section of The Chicago Daily News planned book. The page includes images of the state capitol, St Michael's Church Charleston, Confederate monument, Clifton mill dam, and other scenes. The governor promotes a nationwide governors radio addresses book and notes a full page ad costs advertisers 2000 dollars.
An essay argues that education trims the glamor of war yet vast work remains. It cites history books mostly praising war without depicting horrors and notes veterans largely reject fighting again. It compares per capita military spending across nations and notes a shift toward peace.
Prominent Democratic leaders in Washington back Owen D. Young for 1932. The farm boy from Van Hornesville, New York, became a renowned negotiator behind the Dawes Plan and helped resolve postwar reparations. Young rose from farm work to law at Boston University, earning a degree in two years while educating himself.
In 1908, two years post college, he wed Miss Josephine Sheldon Edmonds of South Bridge, Mass. Five children born. four living. He became Chairman of General Electric and of RCA. Despite a busy life in New York and Europe, he maintains a farm life, buying his father’s old farm near Schenectady and living there when away from duties.
The article reviews Bishop Janes Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Virginia criticizing stock gambling. It cites his bankruptcy report, noting purchases and sales of highly speculative stocks, and discusses legal and moral concerns about gambling via securities and mail, with references to judges and policy debates.
Local notices chronicle Mrs Ralph Dunbar and companions in Columbia, trips to Hendersonville and Augusta, visits from Misses Bush, Miss Grace Walton, and others, with several families hosting gatherings. A separate note discusses debates on teaching prohibition in schools, framing it as an economic measure under law.
Gold Star mothers and widows of U S military personnel buried in European cemeteries are invited by the American War Mothers in Washington to join government pilgrimages next May. All expenses are paid by a recent act of Congress, and local mothers may reach Mrs Nichola N Hoek at 2100 N Street Washington D C to participate.
Mexico offers advertisement seeking generale funds at thirty dollars monthly plus coverage of funeral expenses. This notice outlines a financial request tied to assistance measures.
A fragment notes that the Allies are not attempting to bribe Germany to acknowledge a certain fact. The line hints at diplomatic pressure without detailing the issue or the entities involved.
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