Hoover proposes large public works fund for relief
President Hoover asks Congress to appropriate 100 to 150 million dollars for accelerated public works to create jobs. He urges a cabinet committee plan and notes total 12 month construction potential of 650.9 million dollars. Budget requests and wage relief measures follow, with emphasis on immigration, law enforcement, and tax policy.
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Edward W. Pickard
Congress
Hoover
Department of Agriculture
Congresa
Border Patrol
District of Columbia
Treasury
Senate
William N. Doak
Virginia
Labor
James J. Davis
George Otis Smith
Frank R. McWinch
The
Power Commission
Nye
Campaign Fund Investigation Committee
Davis-Brown
Pennsylvania
Jim Davis
Joe Grundy
Davis
Dwight W. Morrow
Prohibition
Industrial Alcohol
Bureau of Prohibition
Woodcock
Bingham
Goss
Connecticut
Secrets and schemes around a banking payoff
In a tense exchange, Pastano explains a web of deceit with Loring Hamilton, using notes and assets to threaten ruin. He reveals a planned landslide of consequences if loyalty fails, then tests Ernestine’s ability to secrecy and asks her to deliver twenty thousand dollars in cash within hours to an unseen recipient.
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Pastano
Ernestine
Ruby
Loring
Loring Hamilton
Goring Hamilton
Will
Bribe Plot Drives Ernestine Toward Will’s Fate
Ernestine confronts a bank director about paying twenty thousand dollars to derail Loring’s indictment. She reveals years of saving for Will’s future contradicting Pastano’s demand. Torn between Will’s happiness and Loring’s downfall, she races to warn Will as the scheme unfolds.
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Thia
Loring
Ernestine
Chinese leaders split on educational plans
The article outlines divisions among Chinese leaders over education reforms, sport promotion, folklore revival, and government campaigns against superstition. It notes limited sports adoption among youths, mission schools and YMCA influence, and calls for developing critical thinking to separate myth from belief in schools and public life.
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China
Japan
Mission Schools
Social Education Department
Ministry of Education
Common Fire Myths Debunk Lightning Fire Belief
Pathfinder Magazine argues the belief that lightning fires cannot be put out with water is unfounded. All fires share the same physical properties and are extinguishable by standard methods regardless of ignition source.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Ostrich Nest Reignites Game of Split Duty
In old world ostrich colonies, several females share a single nest. The male incubates at night while hens alternate daytime incubation. This division of hatching labor reflects cooperative breeding among the birds.
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Old World
A Hot Day Sparks Aquarium Chat About Water Life
Mrs Perch, Miss Bass, Mr Sun Fish, and Mia Perch discuss why creatures live out of water and others in it on a very hot day. Miss Bass explains schooling and travel in adoots, claiming fishes travel in adoots and learn by doing so. The group enjoys a lazy swim, admiration, and light humor about living environments.
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Miss Basa
Uva
Mrs. Perch
Miss Bass
Mr. Sun Fish
Young Miss Bags
Mra. Perch
Adoots
Mia
Lodgings for Lizards
Lizards are beautiful harmless reptiles and easy to keep with proper housing. Use a waterless indoor rectangular aquarium with a light shade. Place damp moss on half the bottom and sand on the other half, with stones for climbing and hiding.
Birds Roost Hyphen Joke From Primary Class
In a recent primary classroom a teacher drew Birds'-nesis on the board to show a hyphen and asked its purpose. A young pupil responded that the hyphen is for the birds to roost on, delivering a playful misinterpretation of punctuation.
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London
MacDonald
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Chicago
Nicholas Longworth
Taskha L. Oddie
Nevada
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Hyde
American Federation of Labor
Wiliam Green
New York
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Emergency Employment Committee
Ié Timmy
J. F. McKenny
King City
Herman Trelle
Wembley
Alberta
Herbert C. Watson
Tipton
Ind
Purdue
University of Illinois
Town State College
Collynne Clipper
F. W. Hubbell
Des Moines
Oklahoma A
University of Missouri
Eva Buel
Nebraska University
Cotland
Geneneest Agenta
Portugal
Lisbon
Republican-Democratic Party
Rome
Oura
Ermany
Europe
League of Nations
Polish Silesia
Curtius
League
France
Paris
Poland
Rhine
Germany
Tardieu
Tardien
Alfred Oustric
Burma
India
Rangoon
Mary Jones
Mother Jones
Washington
Vatea
Chapter
Margaret Weymouth Jackson
Bubba-Merrill Co
Wil
Lorlig
Lillian
Blaine
Sheridan Park
Slater
Mr. Pastano
Belmont Avenue
Robert
Har
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