Culture and commerce reshape education and leisure
The text mocks shifting American culture from refined ideals to business English and mass media. It contrasts past references to Boston and libraries with modern focus on radio, Ford, Wrigley, and flashy youth trends, noting a shift from purity to commerce in language and curricula. It cites Shaw and a critic Charles Gray Shaw to lampoon university culture as only bob-haired, not bald.
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Boston
Chicago
Wimerson
Professor Whitney
Henry Ford
Charles Gray Shaw
La Follette Bumps Wheeler to Nomination on Ticket
Senator La Follette finally prevailed on Senator Wheeler to accept the nomination after considering Brandeis and others. Wheeler, who opposed it, aligns with Walsh and Davis, while La Follette seeks cross party appeal and a western campaign push. The article hints at bold, shifting allegiances and an unprecedented western outreach in a turbulent national race.
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Senator la Follette
Justice Brandeis
United States Supreme Court
la Follette
Obj
Wisconsin
Wheeler
Lowden
Davis
Wall Street
Walsh
Bryan
Montana
Dawes
West
Science Explains Summer Slumps In Work And Sport
The article cites tests showing energy and error rates drop in hot weather. Dr. Donald A. Laird notes clerks and students show increased mistakes in summer, with declines linked to metabolism and temperature changes. It warns heat impairs concentration and urges adaptation rather than denial of summer effects.
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Donald A. Laird
Colgate University
Popular Science Monthly
Connecticut
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
West Point
Annapolis
College culture clash stirs at New York University
Dr Charles Gray Shaw, philosophy professor at New York University, told summer school teachers that culture remains valuable though unfashionable. He satire noted professors should not be punished for quietly bootlegging culture to students as education evolves from the three Rs to broader learning.
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Charles Gray Shaw
New York University
Dr. Shaw
Midsummer Campaign Quips and Circus Metaphors
The inter allied conference aims for harmony but doubts linger despite optimism. Bob La Follette keeps energy tight in summer campaigning. General Dawes resists damning praise, Leopold and Loeb likened to self styled experts short on alibis. La Follette touts a platform with limited virtues beyond pest cure and corn relief.
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Follette
The Lantern by Don Marquis and social critique
A fragmentary excerpt presents The Lantern by Don Marquis with scattered musings on uniform, taxes, public money, and politics. It juxtaposes tales of naval and social behavior with a general call for taxation and governance while touching on etiquette and moral expectations.
Narrowest New York Store Opens on Seventh Avenue
High rents squeeze New York housing and commerce with a shop on Seventh Avenue measuring just 18 inches wide priced at 16 dollars a month. Nearby, imperial airship plans point to Cardington as a future center for research and an earthbound colonial shed promises two airships. Peru mandates vast wood crop cultivation to offset future hacienda losses under government edict.
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New York
York
Loskamich
ORLD
Wmentherr Aururt
London
Cardington
Bedfordshire
The Giant Turtle and the Zoological Park Escape
An unnamed turtle narrator recalls life in the zoological park of Shalba where six turtles, including the giant turtle, lived behind an iron fence. They plotted to escape by undermining the pond wall, aided by a compassionate keeper, Eber Angshall, while Noah the keeper fed them and the narrator’s wife visited at night. The tale links rain, weather talk, and a guarded life of captivity to broader curiosity and survival.
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Hugh Lofting
Zoological Park OF
Noah
King's Park
Mashtuen
Helen
Turtle
Eber Angshall Epdak
Eber
Horoscope for July 20 1934 warns of sinister omens
The Sunday horoscope foresees a dark day with religious strife and Puritan prejudices resurging. It warns that wrong thinking and malicious propaganda will appear during the coming weeks and that occult interest will rise in a sinister sign. Death by accident or tragedy is foretold in public life within three months. West Africa may be affected by the partial solar eclipse. Birthdate auguries suggest travel and change, with caution advised in associations with the opposite sex and possible dangers for children born that day.
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West Africa
McCture
Graveyard Shift and a Troubled Night at the Store
A disjointed account describes a man entering a sporting goods store and asking about coats and an automobile. A salesman responds with terse words as a tense scene unfolds involving a neighbor and a confrontation. A bystander notes a racial remark during the exchange.
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JOUNE
Mike Hennessy
Noblis
Campaigner Interruption Sparks Caller Challenge
A campaigner faced repeated shouts of liar from a man in the crowd. After about twenty interruptions the speaker challenged the persistently disruptive person to identify himself, saying they would be pleased to make his acquaintance.
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Christian Register
Salmon runs surge in Alaska district as red fish flood rivers
Alaska observers report a heavy red salmon run with every canner in the district operating around the clock. In the first 10 days of January about 40,000 salmon were caught, with fishermen noting cycles of five years between large runs and claiming 1923 saw fewer fish overall.
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Mabrasn
Simon Plentiful
RDOVA
Alaska
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Science
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Harmony
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Leopold
Loeb
Don Marquis
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Ti Tinta
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