League and finance rail probe and world peace notes
The piece discusses an upcoming Senate Commerce Committee rail financing inquiry aided by a Treasury order under President Roosevelt to access tax and financial returns. It also weighs the League of Nations role in preventing wars, citing Corfu, Bulgaria in 1925, Leticia, and China’s Manchukuo as limits of the League. Ends with comments by W H Ankenbrand and Sidney R Kent on public policy and salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
Treasury Department
Roosevelt
League of Nations
Italy
Ethiopia
League
Europe
Corfu
Council of Allied Ambassadors
Bulgaria
Greece
Colombia
Peru
Leticia
China
Manchukuo
Japan
Paraguay
Bolivia
Chaco
Poland
Vilna
Lithuania
The Three Highways by Hoover and Wallace
The piece recalls Herbert Hoover's 1933 Lincoln Day remarks on three possible national economic paths. It outlines the highway of international cooperation, the highway of self contained isolation, and the feared third road of currency inflation and a depreciated dollar entering a world economic war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Frank
Henry A. Wallace
America
Herbert Hoover
National Republican Club
New York City
United States
Hoover
AAA
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Hollywood Turmoil Ends In Jo Darien Clash
Jo Darien confronts Peter Fragonet and his wife Edna in Hollywood over love and career. Edna warns Jo off, Fragonet proposes, and Jo asserts she wants no part of either. Jo plans to quit and fight for independence while Maisie Lester urges resilience amid looming publicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crest Lake Inn
Douglas Marsh
Crest Lake
Bret
Peter Fragonet
Lola Montez
Marsh
Hollywood
Fragonet
Silas Drann
Drann
Lola
Peter Frargonet
Europe
Peter
Prinxead
Edna Fragonet
Maisie
Darien
Miss Darien
Tye
Mrs Fragonet
Maisie Lester
Lolita
Atlas
Prago
Boleson
Fragonets Pictures
Saul
Dressed Brain Medicos in New York Observations
A columnist strolls through New York noting brain specialists and psychiatrists, listing Dr. Louis Berg and Dr. Emmanuel Josephson among others. The piece weaves celebrity mentions Oscar Hammerstein II and Arthur Hornblow with lilting humor about fashion, travel, and heat in Khartoum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. O. McIntyre
New York
Lexington Avenue
Louis Berg
Park Avenue
Emmanuel Josephson
Vesey Street
Oscar Hammerstein
Debonaire
Hollywood
San Francisco
Fisherman's Wharf
Italy
Arthur Hornblow
Sudan
Khartoum
General Gordon
Mrs Wood Duck Faces Nesting Trials and Quiet Dangers
In Thornton W Burgess Bedtime Stories a mother Wood Duck studies her hollow tree nest and her nine eggs. She worries about protection from Blacky the Crow and the long trek to the water once the ducklings hatch, revealing daily maternal anxieties and quiet forest hazards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Wood Duck
Green Forest
Mrs. Quack
Blacky the Crow
Blacky
Rascal
T. W. Burgess
Diabetes death rates rise while insurance exams stress urine sugar
Health Talk discusses diabetes as a growing cause of death and its link to life insurance exams. It notes higher mortality in older women, cites international comparisons, and includes an aside about alcohol use and parental anxieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
England
Canada
Sir Walter Langdon-Brown
Invention of Jacquard Loom Sparks Uproar in Lyon
The Jacquard loom, created by Joseph Marie Jacquard, faced violent backlash as operatives feared mass layoffs in Lyon’s silk weaving districts. The era’s industrial shifts prompted protests and factory breakdowns before governance restored order and honored the inventor with a pension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyon
France
Joseph Marie Jacquard
TOVAI
Jacqua
Courthouse Records List Property Transfers and Registrations
Courthouse records show a deed from D G Stewart and spouse to Mary B Burks for the west 50 feet of lot 1 in the Southside subdivision block 13. Also listed are car registrations for H H Corbin and Florence O H Wilks of Plymouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart
Mary B Burks
Southside
H H. Corbin
Plymouth
Florence O'Hara Wilks
Plymouth Oupe
American Statesman in the Philippine Islands Theme Puzzle
A puzzle listing clues for a crossword style grid on American statesmen and Philippine topics. Across and down entries include terms for deities, items, verbs, and ordinal numbers, with references to governance, crisis, and daily life in colonial contexts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine Islands
First American steam engineer Josiah Hornblower noted
In a reader quiz tailed by school pages the questions identify Josiah Hornblower as America's first steam engineer arriving in New York in September 1753 with the first steam engine. The Venus de Milo is located at the Louvre in Paris. The Virgin Islands of the United States are a group of mountainous islands in the West Indies purchased from Denmark in 1917 for twenty five million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Josiah Hornblower
New York
England
London
Louvre
Paris
Virgin Islands
United States
West Indies
Denmark
Word Builder Recalled Adventure Near Bear Den
Readable lines describe a night by a lake where the speaker, sensing temper and impatience, reflects on yesterday's answer. They almost encountered a bear's den after crossing the dune by the lake. The bright moon prompted adventure but lacking guns they turned back, deeming it prudent to head home.
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Amarillo
Tanas
Amarilla
Associated Pre&s
News and Business Department
Iva
Amarilo
News-Globe
Enerial Messenger
Texas
Oklahoma
the Globe
W. H. Ankenbrand
Rockford, Ill
Sidney R. Kent
William
Paguson
Havon
NEA
JO Darien
Bret Paul
Mintyre
Thornton W Burgess
Admiral Byrd
Times Square
Narragansett
al Bedell
Jean Dalrymple
Spokane
Joe Palmer
Gotham
Second Avenue
Cafe Royal
Auer
Lenin
Washington Street
Rembrandtesque
Kahlil Gibran
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Foch
Napoleon
Coolidge
Otis Skinner
George Buckley
Billy Seaman
Fanny Hurst
Honolulu
Carl van Vechten
Hungary
McNaught
Afany
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
Mygeia the Health Magazine
Ahah
Mosbed
Courthouse Records
American Statesman
The
Philippines
Bashan
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