Amarillo Globe urges caution on municipal improvement law
The Globe notes Governor Ferguson vetoed a bill requiring a taxpayer vote on PWA financed city improvements, warns such a rule would curb water system extensions and downtown mains projects. It highlights a Texas wide recovery aim and Amarillo plans to hire 250 workers for five months under the city project.
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Ferguson
Amarillo
Texas Board
Washington
PWA
Texas
City Commission
Philippine independence debate returns to Congress
The Philippine independence issue returns as both houses reject the Hawes Cuttting act. Filipinos want a straight independence measure with no strings. The commentary notes a possible quick severance if Congress passes such a bill, fulfilling a long neglected pledge and signaling sunshine ahead.
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Congress
Maria, They're Still Cussing
Glenn Frank uses a boyhood tale to compare current strikes to historic cycles of prosperity and recession. He notes that strikes rise with better times, fall in downturns, and credits Section 7A of the NIRA for expanding labor organizing while warning strikes may not be desirable. He promises to discuss this further tomorrow.
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Maria
Glenn Frank
Missouri
Africa
Labor
NIRA
Copsright McClure Newspaper
Alleghany River Named by Early settlers joke origin
A humorous note explains how settlers attempting to pronounce the Indian tribal name on the Allegheny River led to the river and surrounding mountains being named Alleghany. The anecdote ties place names to colonial mispronunciation and local lore.
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Alleghany River
Pennsylvania
Outrageous Fortune dramatic nocturnal gambit
Nesta Riddell schemes in Packham to recover a share of the Van Berg emeralds by waking a memory lost man believed to be her husband. Caroline Russell taunts her as the plan unfolds in the moonlit house where danger and deceit mingle with a tense confrontation.
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Nesta Riddell
Alice Arden
Nesta
Jimmy Riddell
van Berg
Caroline
Jim Randal
Jimmy
Caroline Russell
Packham
Mr. Entwhistle
J. B. Lippincott Co
Middle age and the eye numbers a health talk
Dr Morris Fishbein explains presbyopia the natural aging of sight. He notes eyes reveal aging, with women and bookkeepers noticing blurred distance and near vision as the body cycles through years. The condition is not a disease but a gradual tissue change peaking around sixty.
Hollywood Stars Earn Big Salaries Amid Box Office Profits
In Hollywood on October 26, stars and executives defend high pay as fans fuel box office. The piece cites Janet Gaynor earning about 4500 a week, Greta Garbo 8750 weekly, Ruth Chatterton 7000, Wallace Beery 4000, Ernst Lubitsch 125000 per picture, MGM executives about 750000 yearly, with other salaries noted as part of the profit share.
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Hollywood
NRA
Janet Gaynor
Ruth Chatterton
Greta Garbo
Wallace Beery
Ernst Lubitsch
Louis Ever
MGM
United States
Jackie Cooper
Explorer puzzle answers and clues list
A long word puzzle listing across and down clues with numerals and hints. Entries include roles like explorer and terms such as water wheel payment demand blackbird above kind of bemp authoritative negative and other crossword style prompts.
Frank of the Ritz to Open Bar in New York
A feature on Frank Meier of Paris the Ritz plans to open The New York Ritz bar on Riverside Drive after a long Paris tenure. The piece sketches his famed Paris bars the white coat staff and strict hours and hints at American saleswoman arrival shaping the scene. It also mixes in vivid anecdotes and literary excerpts ending with a cliffhanger about Nesta’s upcoming trouble.
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New York
Frank
Ritz
Rue Cambon
France
Paris
Frank Meier
Neully
Wales
Prank
New York Ritz
Marcel Proust
Bruce Barton
Lardner
Rex Cole
Bobby Jones
Grantland Rice
Walter Chrysler, Jr
Frazier Hunt
Paradise Valley
Rupert Hughes
America
Arthur Somers Roche
Peggy Hoyt
Leon Gordon
Bedtime Stories excerpt with Peter Rabbit and others
A fragment from Thornton W. Burgess shows Peter Rabbit evading Blackie the Crow on the Green Meadows and enjoying a fine clover patch. The piece blends playful animal tale with a dated literary aside and ends noting copyright details from 1933.
Peter Begins Winter Stores From Clover and Friends
Peter samples a clover patch then follows Sammy Jay to new patches for his winter store while Bob White and others offer help. He grows farther from the Old Briar patch, enjoys the bounty, but plans to cut and carry home later. Mrs Peter watches with a smile as he seeks more food for storage.
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Lipperty
Peter Rabbit
Green Meadows
Briarpatch
Peter
Blacky
Sammy Jay
Sammy
Briar Patch
Briar
Bob White
Ace
T. W. Burgess
Tax on corn processing to aid farmers in postwar plan
Consumers will pay a tax of 28 cents a bushel on corn processed after November 4 to restore pre war purchasing power for growers. Secretary Wallace fixed the levy and the President approved it, launching a production control plan for corn and hogs costing up to 350 million dollars.
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Washington
Wallace
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