Rising Industry Efficiency and Hay Fever Notes
Anaconda Standard discusses the 1925 business climate with a focus on rising efficiency in industry and commerce. It notes wage earners up 27 percent from 1914 to 1923 and output up at least 60 percent, driven by better management and technology. Hay fever season is highlighted with rising cases. New York clinics immunize about 9,000 patients using pollen immunotherapy, reducing symptoms for the season though not permanent.
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New York
Sun
Department of Commerce
America
Hoover
Aimee McPh
Ormiston
Carmel
Barrel in Politics Signals Senate Clash Over 1928
The piece argues Frank L. Smith may face challenges to his Illinois Senate seat while William B. Ware could be blocked in Pennsylvania. It previews next winter’s intense debate on the primary system, campaign costs, and party tactics as the country gears toward the 1928 campaign season. Senate factions blame each other for corruption, while cost concerns rise with postage, literature and state law differences shaping nomination expenses.
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Frank L. Smith
Illinois
Senate
William 8. Ware
Pennsylvania
Wadsworth
New York
Smith Brookhart
Brookhart
Linois
Visor caps under fire from optometrist chief critics
The Massachusetts Society of Optometrists warns visor caps risk photophobia and reduced eye function. Only light green or amber shades are advised. The piece notes the fashion link to Helen Wills and rails against red shades while praising US industrial esteem in a Hoover era Year Book reference.
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Los Angeles
Massachusetts Society of Optometrists
Helen Wills
United States
Swedish Prohibition Leader Carl Gustaf Ekman Becomes Prime Minister
Carl Gustaf Ekman, Sweden's new prime minister, also serves as minister of finance. An auditor and journalist by background, he rose from local business and education to political power, notable for a strict, uncompromising style and strong oratorical presence. He emerged amid prohibition reform debates and governance challenges.
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Carl Gustap Erman
Sweden
Carl Gustaf Bhan
Atmanlang
Ah Order of Good Templars
Ekman
Learn to alight before you fly says Mud Turtle tale
A moral fable retold with Joel Chandler Harris imagery, where Mud Turtle begs a Buzzard for a lift to the heights and crashes to earth. It warns that the descent is swift without training to alight, urging courage faith and love to rise again and test one’s own wings.
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Joel Chandler Harris
Chandler Harris
Ereera
Footiah
Mud Turtle
Turkey
Qugzard
Earth
Sly Turkey Buzzard
Duzaard
Noted Fall Sparks Reflection on Values and Risk
A reflective line discusses how a fall is disliked by many, yet need not be fatal, urging a sober reconsideration of value and risk in difficult times.
Horoscope predicts favorable day with rising influence for women
The Aug 6 1926 forecast says many efforts succeed. women will dominate public affairs, politics, and diplomacy. It foresees modest fashion, renewed public entertainment interest, and potential scrutiny of a former crown prince. Saturn hints at Washington tensions with President Coolidge amid shifting fortunes.
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Girin
Ness
Germany
Coolidge
Washington
Remembering Past: Lines From a Poem Echo Youth
A reflective excerpt credits poets for capturing youth’s emotions in verse. It recalls childhood scenes and familiar images such as roses violets lilies and a sunlit window while contrasting past ignorance with present awareness as the speaker reflects on growing older.
White Elephant Herald and the Snow White Heron
In a jungle scene the Great White Elephant grants good fortune to Peter while a snow white Heron arrives with news. The elephants and Rumbo sense envy and awe as the Heron lands and reports rare happenings and safe passage in the thicket.
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Peter- Bumso
Peter
Nownday
White Elephant
Rumbo
Neacta
Jirich
Ereen
Pater
Two Salesmen and a Stubborn Horse Tale
Two traveling salesmen search for Sunday relief in a small town by hiring a horse and buggy to fish. They struggle to reharness the horse and fix the bit, ending with one man sitting defeated in the road as they wait for a plan. The tale opens with humor and a vignette on shared friendship across faiths.
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Bill
Deaths by alcohol rise in Indiana during prohibition era
Indiana shows a doubling of alcohol related deaths in the first six months of this year compared with 1918 after Volstead Act enforcement. Health figures note peak rates in 1916 and a low in 1821, with prohibition initially lowering deaths but rising again from 1922 onward, including a three tenths of one percent jump the year after prohibition began.
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Indianapolis
Ine Alana
Union
State Board of Health
Tadiana
Bali Volcano Eruption Destroys Batoer Village
Datavia Bali Aug 5 The Batoer volcano on Bali Island erupts lava floods inundating the village of Batoer The residents escaped with warning and authorities report no casualties confirmed at this time
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Datavia
Java
Batoer
Bali
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Canada
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