Economic Headlights and the Domestic Recovery Outlook
A report surveys business conditions with 23 percent of failed firms keeping no books. Retail failures show one fifth unbooked, one third poorly kept. Despite unrest abroad, domestic demand edges up as inventories shrink and government spending boosts durable goods, signaling slow but steady recovery.
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Cael
Tire
Greta
Hitler
Pedi Fferal Reserve Board
Bx Ponte Abowe
O DanIel slate blamed Jimmie Allred on press questions
Jimmie Allred avoids answering reporters on the Daniel slate. He smiles and jokes about being blamed, while Governor O Daniel dodges the question. The State Observer notes the pattern of evasive replies.
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Uat Odaniel
Jimmie Allred
Daniel
Westion
Daniel Slate
Miles
O'Daniel
State Observer
World’s Fair food for 250000 daily in 80 restaurants
A New York World’s Fair 1900 feature outlines seating for up to 250000 hungry visitors across 80 restaurants on the grounds. The piece notes employment trends with 10,004,000 still unemployed and hints at a cautious economic recovery into next year amid stock market chatter and policy concerns.
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New York
Authority Indiate
Stock Exchange
Radio networks prepare fall big show lineup
By Tom Fisdale plans for a busy season as Fibber McGee and Molly return to NBC on Sept 6 with a host of others like Burns and Allen and Eddie Cantor among the many rejoiners and new NBC and CBS offerings. Also noted is the North Beach Airport rehabilitation in New York readying for the World’s Fair 1889 with a premier sea and land terminal at the fairgrounds.
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Tom Fisdale
Fibber McGee and Molly
NBC
Tommy Riggs
Betty Lou
Burns and Allen
CBS
Eddie Cantor
al Jolson
Edward G. Robinson
Jack Armstrong
North Beach
United States
Wireless jokes and wedding quips on a noisy night
A humorous collage captures radio quips about ether waves to the moon and back, a confused timeline of leaving and returning home, a joke about furnishing a flat, and a stranger at a police station bluffing with the name William Shakespeare to dodge the alias Smith.
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Scott
Smith
William Shakespeare
Damaging Evides Evidence Quotation in Oath Testimony
Transcript fragment shows a witness acknowledging the plant’s reputation and asserting on oath that they have met the man in places the speaker would be ashamed to admit. The exchange highlights credibility concerns and potential impeaching detail for the jury.
Tick tale and odd items from a busy Texas page
A fragment recalls a wood tick embedded in a soldier’s arm and its surprising exit after pressure from a bitten lip. The El Paso item notes 2400 new seats under construction at Kidd Stadium at the College of Mines and Metallurgy. An antique chair story claims Louis XVI once owned the piece, prompting skeptical astonishment.
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MINES
EL Paso
Texas
College of Mines and Metallurgy
University of Texas
Kidd
Publi
Indy
Louis XVI
France
Bridge in Three Days Devised by Army Engineer
An army general asks an engineer how long to build a bridge across a river. The engineer estimates three days as draftsmen rush the drawings. Three days later the bridge is completed and ready, though the drawings remain unfinished.
Works Administration grant funds stadium seating expansion
A Works Administration grant of 15000 dollars supports concrete stadium seating capacity. Work is slated for completion early in November. The text notes medical posts and doctors are being established at 0 and 100 mile intervals in South Africa.
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Works Administration
South Africa
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