The Place Agriculture Holds Today in This Country
The piece argues that American agriculture has risen to a professional, independent standing within the nation. It credits expansion across the Alleghenies to the Rockies over 75 years with new farm wealth, industry, and social influence, stressing farm life as a touchstone of American citizenship and morality.
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Alleghenies
Rockies
America
Wildernesses Must Be Maintained For Human Society Needs
The piece argues that expanding human populations threaten wilderness and that maintaining park wildernesses requires constant vigilance and expense. It critiques park administrators as amateurs influenced by rigid theories, claiming their formal methods endanger the ideal of wilderness parks.
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Aderness Park
Your Materialism Is Superficial Your Nobility of Soul Fundamental
The speaker argues that America faces anxiety about its future but will overcome. He cites Walt Whitman on a spiritual, heroic American future and asserts greatness lies in the people and their steadfast homes not resources. He states America will conquer by peace, aid others, and maintain independence, with outcomes left for America to determine.
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America
Walt Whitman
Scrap a War Machine That Brings War Disasters in Peace
The piece urges abolition of submarines, noting nightly cables to Lloyds warn of sea perils and casualties. It argues for reviving Washington conference proposals and seeks European security through disarmament amid shifts after Locarno.
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Lloyd’s
Washington
Danger of Today Is From the Lawmaker Rather Than From the Lawbreaker
A critique warns that ill conceived legislation and reformers relying on authority threaten republic liberties. It notes early fears focused on law breakers, while modern democracy pursues standardization and power, risking American self government.
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Republic
Lord Farter
Protect Your Car This Winter With Proper Cooling System Care
The article explains simple, essential steps to prevent freezing damage in cold weather. It urges using antifreeze solutions in the radiator, recommends denatured alcohol with water, warns against calcium chloride, and covers radiator cleaning, hose checks, and precise water-alcohol ratios for varying temperatures.
Curbstone Bumping Destroys Truck Tires
An article explains curbstone contact often injures tires without visible damage. Rubber tires resist wear but can suffer internal ruptures from harsh bumps, especially on heavy pneumatic tires. Trucks backing to curbs risk severe tire blows above the bead due to combined weight and impact.
Proper Magneto Lubrication Simple Yet Often Forgotten
Proper magneto lubrication is essential for smooth operation. A drop or two at two to three points every fortnight keeps ball bearings moist, with oil dispensed by a felt pad. Two oil cups supply oil every 1,000 miles for cars and 500 miles for trucks, plus a small oiling point near the breaker frame.
Roads of Remembrance on Buckeye Highways
Poem fragment evokes crosses along Buckeye roads beside speedways marking fallen soldiers. Refrains of mourning mix with traffic and the cadence of distant wartime heroism as the author reflects on lives lost.
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Buckeye
F. Hodge
Cincinnati Automobile Club
Mongolia A land of past glories and nomad life
The article surveys Mongolia as a country with a storied past led by Genghiz Khan and Kublai Khan, its current sparse development, and the Mongols’ nomadic lifestyle. It notes resources like gold silver copper coal and timber, the lack of urban life, and the prominence of ponies, camels, monasteries, lamas, and traditional herding practices.
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Ongolia
Russia
China
Mongolia
Genghiz Khan
Kublai
Indo- China
Burma
Korea
Borneo
Suwatra
Peking
Timur the Lame
Tamerlane
Iran
Turan
Moscow
Sultan Baber
Texas
Nebraska
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