Treasury Sees High Money Rates Persist Through Year End
Secretary Mellon and Governor Young discuss postwar finance as the treasury predicts money rates will stay high until year end. France’s balance shifts, debt payments loom, and plans unfold for the September 15 third Liberty loan. A short term certificate may be issued at about three eighths percent.
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Washington
Mellon
Young
Federal Reserve Board
Europe
Treasury
Federal Reserve
Great Britain
Italy
France
Caillaux
America
Melloff-Berenger
Thought for Today on childhood’s rainbow bridge
A quoted line reflects a season of childhood where the soul glides on a rainbow bridge of fancy over the walls and ditches of the earth. The imagery contrasts innocence with a grounded, earthly texture as a reflective musing.
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Richter
Remembering the Hocking River Swim Gangs and Dangers
A reflection on childhood swimming holes along the Hocking river memories of carefree summers. The narrator recalls the old creeks and mud filled waters and the fear that came with danger while noting many friends and neighbors did return safely.
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Hocking
New Road to New State Scenic Route Heads Through Athens
A new route along State Route 56 in Athens Meigs and Vinton counties will connect Court and Union streets in Athens and pass near Ash Cave Old Man's Cave and Laurelville. Grading is largely done with surfacing planned this season and dynamite may be used in Ash Cave region to widen the road for the influx of sightseers.
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Ohio No. 56
Hocking County Cave and Forest District
Court and
Union Streets
Athens
New Marshfield
Waterloo State Forest
Carbondale
Trace Run
New Plymouth
Coonville
Creole
Ash Cave
Laurelville
Circleville
Old Man’s Cave
Hocking County Forest Preserve
Athens County
Vinton County
Meigs
Vinton
The Rise of Thrillers and Their Pen Names
A columnist argues that popular authors today are often writing under assumed names and producing cheap thrillers for a wide audience. Twenty million readers follow these writers weekly, with prolific output aimed at youth and adults, as thriller magazines proliferate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Merriwell
Diamond Dick
Bertha Clay
E. D. E. N. Southworth
Jeanne Is Seeks Divorce From Ted Coy Stage Star
Stage actress Jeanne Is files for divorce from football player Ted Coy. The terse notice notes marital dissolution and the high odds of marrying football players.
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Jeanne
Ted Coy
Deer and Wolves in Pennsylvania Politics
Farmers complain of deer damage as deer numbers surge from about a thousand twenty years ago to a million while wolves are absent. Governor Smith and Mr. Raskob discuss campaign policies in New York as Herbert Hoover stays at the Capitol amid farm belt concerns. Republicans doubt Smith on farm policy will hold farmers in line.
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Pennsylvania
Smith
Raskob
Finance and Organization
New York
Herbert Hoover
Capitol
Lew Wallace
India
Constantinople
Texas papers mock Smith liquor business remark
Texas newspapers harshly criticize Governor Smith over his prohibition stance citing his remark that states might “go into the liquor business” as offensive and ill advised.
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Texas
Smith
New York Republican backs Smith citing prohibition zeal
August Hecksher of New York, a public spirited life long Republican with substantial wealth, will vote for Smith. He endorses Smith for his prohibition ideas.
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August Hecksher
New York
Smith
Wall Street Traders Push Stocks Higher in Early Session
Wall Street financiers watched the campaign with confidence as stocks surged again. Traders bought and sold 3,000,000 shares in the first four hours and approached 4,000,000 for the day, signaling strong market momentum.
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Wall Street
Bears suffer losses as market bets turn sour
A somber mood grips investors who shorted in the US market amid persistent bears. Analysts warn of further volatility while contrarian bets tempt renewed risk taking.
Prosperity Boom Seen As Industrial Production Booms
The dollar’s value has fallen to 60 cents versus 1914, yet real property values rise. The Department of Commerce notes new high records in production and consumption. First halves of 1927 and 1928 set records, with steel, electric, auto industries thriving, retail sales up, and savings increasing.
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Department of Commerce
In Japan Faith Choices Limited By Mikado Rule
The remark notes that Japanese religion allows many beliefs from Shinto to Christianity but forbids interference with the Mikado, highlighting state church separation concerns. It signals a policy climate where personal belief is free yet royal authority remains sacrosanct.
Japanese royal family descendant aims to rule nation
Aijiro Onisai leads a group claiming divine lineage with 178 followers. They assert descent from gods and demand governance, while authorities in Japan intervene only when needed.
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Aijiro Onisai
Japan
Laddie Sharp Swims Channel in 15 Hours 5 Minutes
English girl Laddie Sharp, 17, completed the channel crossing in 15 hours 5 minutes. She did not win the $5,000 prize for beating Gertrude Ederle’s 14 hour 31 minute record. Sharp employs a fast double scissors kick at 25 strokes a minute.
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Laddie Sharp
Gertrude Ederle
Laddie
Lindbergh Pilots Flight Tied to Major Bank Merger
The report states Lindbergh is flying from California to Chicago with passenger John J. Mitchell Jr as part of a billion dollar merger plan between Illinois Merchants Trust and Continental National Bank and Trust. The aviation link underscores the significance of the deal.
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Lindbergh
California
Chicago
John J. Mitchell, Jr
Illinois Merchants’ Trust Company
Continental National Bank and Trust
Coolidge Son Faces Boredom With Family Vacation Plans
John Coolidge, son of the President, shows evident boredom with his father's idea of a vacation. He finds no interest in eating, walking, reading, or sleeping, though those are the primary activities for youths after early years, and he will likely endure more of the same.
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John Coolidge
Coolidge
Health and Diet Advice from Dr Frank McCoy
Dr Frank McCoy, author of The Newest Way to Health, answers reader questions on starch use and meal combinations with non starch vegetables. He notes starch digestion starts in the mouth and warns against mixing starch, tomatoes, and meat. He gives sample meals and explains digestion in mouth and intestines, plus how improper food and gas pressure affect pulse readings.
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Frank McCoy
McCoy
B. C
Transient fame and lost fortunes in Broadway tales
Gilbert Swan notes how songs like She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage fade from memory while songwriter Arthur Lamb dies penniless. He also reveals operatives behind pen names, stage roles vs real persons, and actors reborn after renewed attention on Broadway and in New York theater.
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Gilbert Swan Messenger
New York
Greenwich Village
America
Arthur Lamb
Lamb
Answers to Questions By Frederick J. Haskin
A compiled Q and A on sports weights divorces weights and measures paper making and a pontoon bridge. It covers Jack Dempsey aircraft weights the Spirit of St Louis the Paris bureau and Sevres papyrus bamboo Chinese paper 105 BC and the Coblenz Ehrenbreitstein pontoon bridge.
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Frederick J. Haskin
Spirit of
United States
International Bureau of Weights
Paris
Sevres
Egypt
Asia Minor
Coblenz
Ehrenbreitsein
Ll. F
S&chiffebrucke
Ehrenbreit
Twenty Years Ago in Columbus and Nearby
The column recalls events from twenty years past including visits by Mrs. George Junod and daughter Rose to Columbus, travel by W. B. Lawrence to Magnetic Springs, a Nebraska Indian-Jacksonville game trip, and Ohio Medical association council meetings in Columbus. It also notes Allied advances from Ypres to Rheims, local visits to Buckeye Lake, and Cincinnati hospital trips.
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George Junod
Rose
Columbus
August 27 Chronicles: Long Island Defeat and Opera Fire
This date recalls the 1778 American defeat on Long Island, a Combahee River skirmish in 1782, Hannibal Hamlin born in 1809, and the 1892 Met Opera House fire in New York.
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Long Island
Combahee River
8. C
Hannibal Hamelin
Lincoln
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Fragmented Crossword Clues From Damaged Page
A jumble of crossword clues and garbled phrases appears from a scanned page. Readable items include hints like a bird, a monetary unit, and a few short words though many entries are incomplete or distorted.
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Sun Morni
Wow
Bush Publ
Chas
Robert Ward, Inc
Fifth Ave
South Wabash Avenue
David Lawrence
The
Athens Messenger
Philip Curtiss
Harper's Magazine
Arthur Brisbane
Mary Earl
Robert A. King
Manhattan
Paper Man
Russell Crouse
Edwin Pawley
Pawley
Broadway
T. A
Jack Dempsey
M. Johnson
Jacksonville
C. S. McDougall
Council of the
Ohio Medical Association
Hindenberg
Ypres
Rheims
Mrs. H. PD
Nice and Son
Harold
Buckeye Lake
Carl H. Beasley
Ann
Cincinnati
Mrs. Beasley
Carl Huntington Jr
Bethesda Hospital
New York City
Sst. Louis
Congress
Eugene Field
Trotty
Pinny
Daisy
Rosie
W. O's
Monetary Unit of
Asia
Laria
Nower
Consnon Froge
Eric
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