A Nordic Myth Brags and the Nation’s Mix in Debate
In a combative, discursive style, High Dome Finnegan explains Nordic myths as a state of mind and tracks how Nordic bragging, race, and immigration shape American identity. He argues Nordics are thinning while others from Italy, Russia, and Slav regions multiply, altering the country’s demographics and politics.
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High Dome
Finnegan
Justice of the Peace
Europe
Jesus
Arkansas
Cesspool
Jack Dempsey
Edison
Ford
Burbank
Harvard
Dempsey
America
Pietro Ginsberg
North Carolina
Tennessee
Burray
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
England
Italy
Russia
Rome
Negun
China
Feller
Smith
Scotland
Ellis Island
New England
The Graveyard Shift by Tin Can Bill
A collage of quips and jokes on life, work, and social folly. The bits touch on vacations, marriages, foolery, misfires with firearms, and witty maxims about pride, opinion, and daily grit. Read as a period humor column with regional flavor and quick punchlines.
Prohibition Bill Proposed by Finnish Diet Members
Several members of the Finnish diet jointly introduced a bill to greatly revise the prohibition law, claimed to have failed in its purpose. The bill is likely to be rejected as most parties still uphold prohibition despite its alleged drawbacks.
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Pinland
Helsingfors
Miss Boswell A Delegate Chaperoned At 1895 Chicago Meet
When Helen Boswell was elected a New York delegate to the National League of Republican Clubs convention in Chicago in 1895, the idea was novel enough that she needed a chaperon for the meetings.
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Helen Boswell
New York
National League of Republican Clubs
Chicago
American films to be shown in Palermo cinemas
American moving pictures are to be shown in Palermo Sicily where Italian and French films have been exhibited in the 14 movie houses.
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Palermo
Sicily
Battery care urged as summer travels loom
Auto owners prepare for summer trips with 10 to 12 million motorists tinkering on vehicles yet neglect the storage battery hidden under seats. W Beery of Butte urges battery checks before vacations as the most overlooked car component. In Manila, the US Army reports 8 million pounds of rice hay bought for horses and mules with plans to contract 106 million pounds after July 1 to boost local hay production.
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W. Beery
Butte Willard Storage
Mr. Beery
Manila
United States Army
Philippines
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Saya I
TIN Can
BILL
Canary Islands
Mike
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Onder
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W. D. Martin
Buick
Mercury
Colorado
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Crescent Street
Symons
Reo
Butte Reo Company
Harrison and
Front Streets
Reo Motor Car Company
Lansing, Michigan
Conoco
THE
Continental Oil Company
Colorato Corporation
Coloredes Wyoming, Wow Identi Wrah, Iache and
Lisotans
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