Music questions spark debate on American identity
A survey among artists and orchestra leaders probes what defines American music with opinions from Ted Weems, Eric Sagerquist, and Bruce Kamman. Meanwhile discussions on highways, safety, and national debt outline future transport ideas and fiscal concerns.
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Ted Weems
Ted
Eric Sagerquist
Proram
Savoy
Life
Bruce Kamman
John Wanamaker
Boys
Profesor Kaltenmeyer
Kaltenmeyer
Safer building codes urged to curb deadly fires
A historical discussion notes the first minutes of a fire are crucial and urges modernized building codes for safe construction. It cites a clothing factory fire in an Eastern city where three workers perished and warns that outdated codes fail to address air conditioning and ventilation hazards.
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Fleming Ag
4-H Clubs Train Nation’s Future Farmers
Adult farmers face production and marketing issues while over a million farm youths join 4 H clubs. They gain practical agriculture lessons and organize tomorrow’s farms and co operatives. The movement marks a high point in farm youth history.
Bankruptcy that’s a compliment to Texas
A fragmentary text discusses last year’s nude shows in Texas and the failure of the Road to Rio as a successor, praising Texan tastes while noting societal discomfort with such entertainment. It reflects on views of nudity, law, and public morality in the Southwest.
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Seneen
Thether
Paris
Texas
Rio
Southwest
O K Theatres Offer Grand Granada Week Program Mix
The Granada theatre showcases a starred program headlined by Life Begins in College with the Ritz Bros, plus Necking Party with Charie McCartney and Ragar Bergin, and Romance in Celluloid featuring Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer highlights with stars such as Jeanette McDonald Norma Shearer Spencer Tracy Wallace Beery and Clark Gable. The road show arrives at the Granada Wednesday and Thursday.
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O. K
Granada Theatre
Ritz Bros
Charie McCartney
Ragar Bergin
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Madam X
Rosalie
Brimstone
Jeanette McDonald
Robert Taylor
Norma Shearer
Spencer Tracy
Wallace Beery
Wm. Powell
Oranada
Fragmented Dialect Tales From Everyday Life
The passage sketches slice of life vignettes with rural and urban dialect humor. Characters include Uncle Wash, Doctor Brown, Grandma, Scout Jim, Willie, and a new doorman at a Park Avenue building. The scenes mix miscommunication, social quirks, and light satire in vernacular dialogue.
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Park Avenue
Awakening Beyond Life in a Lone Star Dream
Fragmented reminiscences and anecdotes touch on death as awakening, religious reflections, poetry, and smalltown misadventures. Names like Frances Coffin Boas and Mrs Novotny appear among scattered notes from Edinburg and Fort Worth.
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DeaTar
Give Novotny
Edinburg
Frances Coffin Boas
Fort Worth
Apollo
Strange Superstitions by Edwin Finch
A fragment titled Strange Superstitions describes a man peering through his legs at a coffin with a ghost perched atop. The piece warns that the ghost may break the neck if a wish is made, and hints at a ritual involving placing a foot on the coffin.
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Edwin Finch
Mart
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