We Must Find Ways to Use Our Leisure
In a 1934 Globe editorial the rise of a shorter work week is discussed. The piece notes NRA debates and predicts more leisure time ahead, urging training in how to use free days, listing activities from gardening to golf and carpentry as examples. It argues for organized guidance to help workers fill extra time meaningfully.
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Globe
News-Globe
NRA
New Orleans
Damon Runyon
Round Table
Florida
Remembering William H Woodin The Treasury Secretary
The piece honors the late William H Woodin highlighting his unique blend of jaunty humor and calm under stress. It notes how his cheerful demeanor eased jitters during the bank crisis and credits him with stabilizing the finance flow by his example and leadership.
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William H. Woodin
Mr. Woodin
Lord Bacon And The New Deal
Glenn Frank cites a 1600 statement by Lord Bacon arguing that poverty fuels sedition and that spreading wealth through reform is essential. He says modern welfare echoes Bacon on trade, manufactures, prices, taxes, and broad distribution of riches.
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Lord Bacon
Glenn Frank
Donald Richberg
Bacon
Rome
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Judith Lane t JEANNE BOWMAN
Judith Dale battles to build the Rio Diablo dam using 5 million left by Big Tom Bevins as Morton Lamphere fights the Bevins heirs. Norman Dale leaves the firm and faces public scrutiny as Judith discovers new alliances and awaits outcomes on court action and Scathborne holdings.
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Judith Dale
Rio Diablo
Big Tom Bevins
Morton Lampere
Bevins
Judith
Delphy
Norman
Mrs
Clia
Dale, Lampere and Morrison
Norman Dale
Lamphere
Bologna
Judy-girl
Morton Lamprre
Mathile
Galveston
Lampere
Union
Frost
Scotchman
Lamperre
Hillendale
Cunard
State Commission
Austin
Scuthborne
Big Tom
Judy
Scathborne
del Mar
Lige
Doctor Morris Fishbein on Sleep and Relaxation
In a health column, Dr Morris Fishbein discusses modern stress from industry and finance, noting the futility of worry and the appeal of relaxation methods. He recalls Fletcherism and mentions Cone’s system of diverting attention by counting knots on a string to ease tension.
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Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
Hygeia the Health Magazine
Cone
Places Women in Two Types
A reflective comic sketch-like piece by O. O. McIntyre, recounting encounters with women as either silly or serious, noting personal judgments, social observations, and idiosyncratic anecdotes. It references Roy Howard and Jack, drinkers, writers, and cultural figures, concluding with a wry self-aware note on social mood and a copyright notice.
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Fannie Hurst
Dolores
Clarence Mackey
Vincent Lopez
Wilton Lackeye
Saved From Water Man Stricken Dead
William Shattuck, 65, a fireman aboard the S. S. Knickerbocker, died of a heart attack after being pulled from the Hudson River by two men who saved him from drowning following a fall overboard near Jersey City on May 7.
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Jersey City
N. J
Hudson River
William Shattuck
Shattuck
S. S. Knickerbocker
Judith Reflects On A Pretty House And Relief
A fragment from a 1934 text centers on Judith expressing relief about a pretty house. The line hints at an emotional moment and a forthcoming change or decision involving Judith.
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Judith
Jeanne Bowman
Mark Twain and a Crossword Style Quiz
A playful horizontal and vertical puzzle asks for many terms from love lake and automo bile to ghost terms and ancient gods. It references Mark Twain and a famous boy family character with scattered clues across languages and measurements.
Exciting Life of Peeper the Hyla at Smiling Pool
Peeper the Hyla, fearless before Jerry Muskrat, refuses to fear predators. Longlegs the heron lurks nearby while Peeper boasts that excitement is the spice of life. The tale follows their cautious dance with danger around the Smiling Pool.
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Peeper the Hyla
Jerry Muskrat
Jerry
Peeper
Difference Between Hare and Rabbit From Old Text
A reader asks differences between hares and rabbits noting hares are larger with longer ears and legs, and rabbits live in colonies in underground burrows with blind hairless young. other questions cover how a cat purrs and who founded the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers.
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Federtion of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Fragmentary Word Builder Rage Excerpt
A garbled OCR fragment shows a pedantic matron ranting I am a terrible rage I just saw my husband's friend full of suspicion by his silly reason did not supreme but I was sure his condition when I saw him and stand before a window display of women.
English novelist Reflects on Life and Past Roles
A famous English novelist, answering an audience request, recounts his life and the sorts of roles and societal expectations he has played in the past. He quips that if a strap were used by fathers more often, everyone would be more credit to their parents.
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Texas
Main
Norman
Lampere
Mathile
Mrs. Dale
Frost
Ernest Hemingway
Waldorf
Captain Blount Civil War Vet Dies in San Augustine
Captain Thomas W. Blount revered Civil War veteran and member of Gore Throckmorton’s Bloody Eleventh Legislature dies in San Augustine aged about 95. He counted General Sam Houston and Col. Sandy Horton among friends, survived by four children including Thomas W. Blount Jr. and Emma Vandenberg. Funeral held in San Augustine.
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San Augustine
Stephen Blount
St. Louis
Emma Vandenberg
Hot Spring
Thomas W., Jr
Blount
Billy Mink’s Risky Water Chase Through Timid Childhood
The narrator describes the dangers and lessons of life in the water world. Billy Mink dodges Water snake, Gartersnake, and Bullfrog threats while watching bigger cousins and clever Muskrat friends. Escape becomes the daily game as hatchlings grow and learn.
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Mr. Waters Snake
Mr. Blacksnake
T. W. Bure
Billy Mink
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