Widow takes seat doubts over wart of widows in Congress
Mrs. W. A. Oldfield, widow of Arkansas congressman W. A. Oldfield, faces the question of accepting a possible seat in the next Congress. She questions whether appointment to a deceased spouse’s seat honors merit or merely honors loyalty. She emphasizes home life and personal relations as her priority while noting she may handle West Point and Annapolis appointments.
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Allene Sumner Messenger
Washington
W. A. Oldfield
Arkansas
House
Arkansas State Central Committee
Oldfield
West Point
Annapolis
Grave Verses on Death and Memory
A compact reflection contrasts death with memory, citing Isaiah and Alexander Smith. The lines mourn burying love, as forgetfulness spreads like grass, and lament the inability to praise or hope in truth after death.
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Alexander Smith
Training youth in welfare work builds better citizens
Ohio University Y girls have long led welfare and Christmas charity in Hocking Valley towns like Athens and Logan. College women invest vacation hours to brighten children’s lives, educate young people about service, and connect with parents, creating mutual benefit and future community leaders.
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Ohio University
Hocking Valley
Athens
Logan
Order
Babson Urges Spiritual Training for Youth and Business
The text cites Roger W. Babson arguing that national prosperity hinges on spiritual growth matching material progress. It urges reverence, obedience, hard work, and character training from home and school, warning against scoffing teachers and the loss of moral foundations in public education.
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Roger W. Babson
United States
Babson
Better Houses Architecture and the Cost of Design
The piece argues most buyers avoid architects when costs exceed ten thousand dollars and only a few justify paying for design services as prices rise toward twenty thousand. It contends intelligent homeowners value architecture as it adds neighborhood and city identity, while poor design compromises the home’s value.
Architects Push Value Of Small House Design In Postwar Era
The American Institute of Architects notes home value rises from neighborhood and street quality, argues affordable houses can rival pricier ones, and urges broader use of good small house designs. Local architects collaborate on plans with complete drawings offered at cost to builders, highlighting postwar housing growth and reconstruction opportunities.
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American Institute of Architects
United States
Out on the Limb Our Gambling Craze Grave Alice Is Gone
The clipping notes a sensational scene tied to gambling excess and a missing or presumed grave incident involving a person named Alice. Details are fragmentary but imply a local public concern about gambling and a mysterious disappearance or death.
Wall Street Woes Escalate As Margin Bets Collapse
Arthur Brisbane laments a sad Wall Street day driven by foolish tips and gambler mindsets. Call money fell from twelve to nine percent, yet the vulnerable suffered. bankers warn the public that stock speculation fuels rate spikes and banks bear no blame.
Public interest and finance forces curb stock mania
True as Gospel, the public with its sudden wealth and stock gambling mania spurs high interest rates. Laws against usury reflect that view. Financiers and money market doctors must avert stampedes to safeguard business and their own safety.
Gambling Woes Ripple Through Business and Public Life
The narrative highlights how stock gambling harms enterprises by diverting capital and attention from work, eroding focused effort and potentially diminishing overall productivity. It frames gambling as a broader social damage beyond personal loss.
Young Man Quits After Side Hustle Fails
A young man earning 80 dollars weekly tires of his job after making about 1000 dollars in a side market venture. He looks with contempt on his regular work and his wage, signaling an abrupt end to his employment.
Wall Street aims to curb vice by making it costly
The quote posits that tightening financial stakes on gambling can deter vice. It argues that if the market adheres to disciplined risk, Wall Street can impose high costs on gambling activities, reducing their appeal and appeal to risk takers.
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Wall Street
Economic Value and Experience Say Prices Vary
The statement asserts that prices fluctuate around true value with some under and over pricing. It notes that people learn from personal experience and that children may misjudge danger at first glance.
Prosperity and labor clash in a shifting economy
An October review notes railroads raise receipts by 6.3 percent with only 0.3 percent extra expenses, urging sharing gains with workers. November auto output doubles, and year-to-date motor production surpasses last year by about one million units. The piece also recalls poetry and notes the death of Alice Mary Longfellow, 78, highlighting education and virtue, while Bethlehem Steel seeks 250 million from United States Steel over patent infringement amid a disrupted steel harmony dinner scene.
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Bethlehem Steel
United States Steel
Charles M. Schwab
Big Steel
Gary
Health and Diet Tips From Dr Frank McCoy Tribune Ad
Nutrition guidance and recipes from Dr Frank McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health. Instructions cover cabbage dishes celery apples and lettuce servings with suggested dressings and preparation steps.
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Frank McCoy
Cabbage Uses and Preservation in Winter Diets
Cabbage remains a global staple with a warm winter supply and rich vitamins. Cooked cabbage releases gases due to volatile sulphur compounds, so selection aims for young crisp heads with green outer leaves. Sauerkraut preserves cabbage through salt fermentation but must be washed to reduce saltiness. The article hints at several cabbage based recipes, including tomatoes stuffed with cabbage.
Question on wrinkle removal and treatments
A respondent warns against at home wrinkle removers. Trained cosmeticians use liquids or UV light sensations, with massage to improve circulation. Small wrinkles may improve, but large ones require facial surgery with often disappointing results.
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H. K
New York Tale of Miss Baker and a Flight to Falls
Dorothy Fannie Baker, 19, a former lady’s maid, arrives in New York with a polished look and money. A taxi to Niagara Falls follows a Waldorf visit, then back to the city where a Chicago query reveals a $2,100 disappearance. Baker admits taking some funds, possibly $3,100, while dream chases and city flying counts unfold amid 1927 aviation notes.
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New York
Dorothy Fannie Baker
Miss Baker
Walddorf
Niagara Falls
Falls
Chicago
John J. Brennan
America
This Date in American History Highlights
December 10 marks events including the start of a monthly postal system between New York and Boston in 1672. John Jay was elected president of Congress in 1778. Mississippi joined the Union in 1817 and West Virginia admission followed in 1862. Wyoming women gained voting and office rights in 1870.
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New York
Boston
John Jay
Congress
Mississippi
Union
West Virginia
Wyoming
Answers to Questions By Frederick J. Haskin
A compilation of Q A pairs covering topics from golf ball production to stamps and Native American tribes. It notes 156 million balls yearly, doll interest ages eight to nine, Jannings born in Brooklyn, 16 billion stamps annually costing about 1.6 million, tribes named rivers, no park airplane fields yet, and America’s first permanent theater on South Street Philadelphia in 1964.
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M. O
Brooklyn
N. Y
Germany
H. A
Penobscot
Kennebec
Androscrogin
Merrimac
Connecticut
Susque
Potomac
Rappahan
Roanoke
Savannah
America
South Street
Philadelphia
Vets Win Mercer County Victory by 227 Margin
Voters in Mercer County backed the vets by 227 votes in a decisive local election. Miss Julia Hood of Streator Illinois was honored at a gathering hosted by Prof and Mrs B O Skinner with Pi Beta Phi and Beta Theta Pi members.
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Mercer County
B. O. Skinner
Pi Beta Phi
Beta Theta Pi
Miss Julia Hood
Streator, Ill
Theater opens on John Street in a literary context
A theater on John Street is noted. The piece reviews a presidential poll by the Literary Digest with an estimated cost of not less than 950000 dollars. It also reports air mail loss at 810 pounds out of 1,945,252 pounds shipped, and cites answers on citizenship birth, abbreviations, and early Greek clay modeling.
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Literary Digest
America
Ww. Ss
Government Printing Office
K. B
Butades
Sicyon
B. C
United States
England
Puzzle Clue Frenzy Teases Six Letter Solutions
A jumble of six letter hints spans family links evergreen trees and misc terms. Readers chase word fits from clues about kin center wheel rustic ovens and adjectives while familiar names appear in stray fragments and garbled strings.
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