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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1929
Page
4
The Chicago Daily News reports on Governor John G. Richards radio address delivered in Chicago on June 29 over WMAQ. The newspaper notes the full broadcast featured policy outlines, political positions, and responses to key state issues.
Physician states perfect purification of the system is foundation of health A thorough course of Calotabs once or twice a week for several weeks purifies the body and restores vitality Get a family package with directions Only 36 one drugstores Adv
The Chicago Daily News will publish a photogravure page on South Carolina with pictures of Governor Richards and the late John C. Calhoun, the capitol, St. Michael’s Church, a Confederate monument, a textile mill dam, a Pacolet river bridge, and scenes of a cotton field and Charleston residences. It includes Richards’s radio address and plans to publish a book of governors’ addresses with ads valued at about $2,000 per full page.
Across nations education and civilization erode ancient war glorification. History surveys show many books neglect peace depictions while veterans oppose renewed combat. Nations differ in military spending per capita. United States funds near 700 dollars while others rank differently. Public mood leans toward peace despite lingering defense interests.
Prominent Democratic leaders in Washington back Owen D. Young for 1932. The farm boy from Van Hornesville, New York, rose to become the world’s leading negotiator on reparations and debt issues, earning praise from Senator Carter Glass and others as a possible Democratic standard bearer. Young worked his way up from farm chores to the Boston University law program, finishing a three year course in two years while studying.
In 1908 the future chairman of General Electric and the Radio Corporation of America is described as two years out of college, married to Josephine Sheldon Edmonds of South Bridge, Massachusetts, with five children born and four surviving. He has led a life of public service and honors, while maintaining a love for farm life. Since moving to New York in 1914 he often travels to Schenectady for business, and bought his father's old farm nearby, where his family resides when not abroad on duties in New York and Europe.
The piece cites Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church South denying gambling links to stock dealings in Virginia. It recounts bankruptcy reports showing purchases of speculative stocks with no installment payments, discusses legal and ethical views on stock gambling, and cites federal opinions deeming stock dealings as mere speculation and potentially unlawful.
Local social column lists Mrs Ralph Dunbar Miss Helen Dunbar and others visiting Columbia last weekend. Mentions trips to Hendersonville Hartsville Sumter and Augusta with many relatives and friends. Also notes Gold Star Mothers invited to government pilgrimages to European cemeteries starting next May and a speech on prohibition education in public schools.
Mexico opens a campaign offering general aid with a monthly stipend and funeral expenses. The notice highlights available support and eligibility details for applicants seeking assistance from the program.
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