Shaving Mugs and Senate Feuds In Washington
A Capitol barber shop keeps old private mugs bearing senators names. Henry Ashurst buys a new mug. Carter Glass and Bob Owens quarrel, and the piece recalls their Virginia and Oklahoma ties. The piece also notes how printed speeches carry Not Printed at Government Expense notices and gives cost examples from Tom Heflin’s Alabama campaign.
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Washington
Senate
Capitol
Henry F. Ashurst
Arizona
Joseph E. Ransdell
Louisiana
Senator Ashurst
John J. McGrain
Carter Glass
Virginia
Bob Owens
Oklahoma
Texas
Congo
Government Printing Office
Congressional Record
Tom Heflin
Alabama
Scouting Needs Funds and Support in Athens
A letter urges Athens to sustain scouting as a path to better citizenship amid lack of community chest funds. Excerpts stress Scouts improve students and society, note Girl Scout rent needs and lack of church spaces for Boy Scouts, and call for local parental and civic backing to ensure a permanent program.
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Athens
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Mill Street
Eader
Girl Scouts
Ers
Rubber, a Nation's Need and Edison’s Vision
The piece emphasizes rubber as essential to daily life from infancy to industry and argues for American self sufficiency in rubber production. It cites Thomas Edison’s push for domestic raw rubber and notes rubber’s vast, expanding uses across household, automotive, and industrial sectors.
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Thomas Edison
United States
Japan
France
Edison
Neighborhood locational shifts hit drugstores at busy corners
The American Druggist notes druggists are shifting from the busiest town corners to outlying strategic sites. Traffic congestion and parking difficulties deter pedestrians, prompting a move toward location in quieter districts. The trend may extend to other merchants as neighborhood stores expand.
The Tariff and the Canal A Puzzling Congressional Issue
The tariff debate presents knotty challenges for Congress. A rising tariff on Canadian imports could trigger Canada to withhold cooperation on the St Lawrence ship canal project. Middling statesmen who back tariffs fear the canal's fate, while several lawmakers face unexpected complications before a decision is reached.
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Congress
Canada
Washington
St. Lawrence Ship Canal
Great
Middle West
New York Dreamers Chase Summer Cowboys and Ranch Life
In a breezy city diary, Gilbert Swan notes Manhattanites from bond traders to Wall Street clerks chasing "summer cowboys" and ranching jobs in Yellowstone country. The piece covers the influx of West wearers, Pony Express fame, and Hollywood cowboys heading to Europe, as eastern dreamers seek open plains and rodeo romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Montana
Yellowstone
Fifth Avenue
Wall Street
Bond
Newark
A. Association
Dead Man Lying by River Amid Wall Street Traffic
Report notes a dead man on the Brooklyn waterfront near Dock No. 28 of the Bridgeport Line with tarpaulin covering part of his body. A policeman covered him as authorities say the dead wagon will collect him later. The piece mentions a New York mailed bomb to Governor Roosevelt and an Indian Legislature blast.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Bridgeport
New York
Roosevelt
India
Deni
Etx
John 8
Imon
Yehaid
Health and Diet Advice by Dr McCoy Authors
Dr McCoy answers readers on health and diet in this column. Topics include encouraging self reliance in children, handling acne with light therapy and hot cold applications, preparing hominy without acids, and managing varicocele with ice treatment, fasting, and cold sitz baths.
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Fank McCoy
India’s plague and famine surge boost Hindu population warning
In a broad, polemical summary a committee head narrowly avoids harm from a bomb aimed at him while noting Br itain’s plagues and famine allegedly raise India’s population by 100 million. The piece criticizes imperial policy and cites Senator Hiram Johnson on international law and the League of Nations.
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India
Fragments on early steam navigation and education facts
The text lists questions and answers about the first steamboat above Fort Smith and the Arkansas River, early Democratic Republican figures, Harvard Yale Penn and Chicago scholarships, Alsop's birth, weights of edible meat, and the history of high schools with Horace Mann. It reflects a quiz-like catalog of historical notes and figures.
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Joan Adams
Arkansas
Jefferson
Madi
Fort Smith
H. BR
Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Harvard
Yale
University of Pennsylvania
Chicago University
Titanic Sails on Maiden Voyage and Sinks After Four Days
Seventeen years ago the Titanic began its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York amid cheering crowds. Four days later it sank off Newfoundland after striking an iceberg at 11:40 p m on April 14 1912. 2 340 aboard with 1 635 lost. Survivors numbered 706 rescued by the Carpathia.
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New York
Southampton
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Carpathia
Mfeboata
Crossword Puzzle Clue List Mixed with Fragments
A jumble of crossword clues and stray fragments from the day’s puzzle including definitions for dismissal, obstruction, ravine, roof age, center of an apple, fabric, songster, entrance, voter, worshiper, recoil, ocean station, tumor, artificial water channel and more with broken text remnants and coded notes.
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Ratiwey
Floradora Sextette lineup from the 1900 New York run
The Floradora girls who sang Tell Me Pretty Maiden at the Casino Theater in 1900 were Vaughn Tex Smith, Margaret Walker, Marie L Wilson, Majorie Relyea, Agnes Wayburn and Daisy Green.
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Wisconsin
Floradora
Casino Theater
New York
Vaughn Tex-Smith
Margaret Walker
Marie L. Wilson
Majorie Relyea
Agnes Wayburn
Daisy Green
Governor Cox Speech Highlights German Propaganda in Schools
Governor Cox testified before the General Assembly on German propaganda in public private and parochial schools. Taft arrives in Detroit on the way to Kalamazoo and cash issues force a stop at City Hall where Mayor James Couzens cashes a $50 check. From Feb 11 to Mar 1 twenty thousand seven hundred soldiers pass through Athens by troop trains served by Red Cross and local volunteers. The House judiciary committee kills the Ake bill on indeterminate sentence law parole. The government ends wartime trust restraint as Attorney General Palmer signals renewed pursuit after Corn Products Refining Co guilty finding under anti trust law.
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Cox
House of the General Assembly
William Howard Taft
Detroit
Kalamazoo
Taft
James Couzens
Athens
Red Cross Committee
Trust
Palmer
Corn Products Refining Company
Twenty Years Ago Local Events in Athens and Kentucky Pardons
Bart Foley died at his East State Street home after a paralysis stroke. D. C. Thomas, a noted figure in Oniok mining circles, became comet head of the United Coal Company. Thomas H. B. Jones was elected warden of the Ohio Penitentiary. F. R. Gross reported a well shot by Flagdake Company yielding 159 barrels. Former Governor W. S. Taylor and Former Secretary of State Finley received pardons before trial from Governor Willson of Kentucky in a long fugitive case.
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Bart Foley
East State Street
Foley
Athens
Glouster
Charles P. Kircher
D. c. Thomas
Oniok
Comet
United Coal Company
Northern Fuel
New England Coal Companies
Ohio
Thomas H. B. Jones
Irenton
Ohio Penitentiary
Board of Managers
Mr. Jones
O. B. Gould
Jackson County
F. R. Gross
Bremen
Flagdake Company
Mr. Gross
W. 8. Taylor
Finley
William Goebel
Indiana
Willson
Kentucky
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Lynchburg, Va
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Charles E. Mitchell
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Bishop Cannon
Pierre Leroux
Lal
Greater
New York City
Gilbert Swan Messenger
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Cahill
Cahil
Cheyenne
Hollywood
Europe
Yesteryear
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Buck Jones
Paris
Mix
Spain
Jones
Trovef
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Berlin
Barcelona
Way Points
Arthur Grisuank
King Features Incorporated
Towers
Hiram Johnson
League of Nations
Britain
British Empire
Mr. Hoover
United States Shipping Board
Leviathan
Joanna i Chapman
Germany
Fort
Alsop
A. Alsop
Samos
Jackson
University of Chicago
C. P
M. Mel
Philadelphia
Central High School
Boston
Horace Mann
Massachusetts Board of Education
Chem Department
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