War clouds rise over Far East crisis analysis
The piece debates whether the Yangtze incident signals war with Japan and how the United States should respond. It weighs restraint versus retaliation, cautions against entanglement, and urges confidence in the President and State Department while noting the dangers of war and the influence of public opinion.
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Yangtse
China
Far East
Japan
United States
Spain
Ethiopia
South America
State Department
America
Oldtimer longs for five cent cigars of yesteryear
A Philadelphia resident laments the vanished era of cheap five cent cigars once common, while a separate note discusses Russia’s propaganda and the impact of rapid change on chess culture.
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Philadelphia
Washington With Raymond Clapper The SEC Shakeup
In Washington Raymond Clapper notes Roosevelt and Wall Street celebrate two SEC appointments. John W. Hanes, insider on the Stock Exchange, and Jerome Frank, a New Deal left winger, join the commission while NYSE President backs reformist A. A. Berle Jr. The piece casts the pairing as a symbolic end to a five year war between Wall Street and Roosevelt era reformers.
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Raymond Clapper
Washington
Roosevelt
Wall Street
Securities and Exchange Commission
New York Stock Exchange
High Finance
SEC
Stock Exchange
John W. Hanes
Exchange
W. ©. Douglas
New Deal
Jerome Frank
Frank
A. A. Berle, Jr
Roosevelt Brain Trust
Hanes
The
Jerry Frank
AAA
George Peek
Peek
Gay
Commission
Douglas
Dr. Frankfurter
Maritime Commission
Joseph P. Kennedy
England
White House
Kennedy
Jar
London
New York
Ambassadors and Allies Roil Washington on Fascism and Kennedy
Washington watchers debate Dodd’s looming Berlin exit and the push for a democratic stand against fascist powers. The piece notes Kennedy as Maritime Commission chair eyed for England, highlighting ties between US Britain and patience with Germany Italy and Japan.
Public Forum Letters Urge Broader Church Action
A column of signed letters critiques church decline in America and calls for broader democratic administration and active aid to humanity. F E Bolton of Albany reflects on aging traditions, cultural shifts, and the need to engage more fully with social welfare beyond Sunday rituals.
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the Messenger
Church of Today
America
Athens
School Days in a One Room District School
The writer recalls early district school life in a two desks per side one room building with a Franklin stove and a distant water fetch. A shared punishment seated him next to a girl, a memory described as one of the happiest days of school life.
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the Messenger
Lillian Bardin
Franklin
Bob
Lissa
Health Hints on Locomotor Ataxia and Venereal Disease
The article warns that locomotor ataxia can lead to paralysis of the nervous system affecting bladder control and may progress over years without treatment. It stresses immediate physician care and notes related nervous system infections from venereal disease, recommending repeated Wassermann tests and spinal fluid testing to arrest progression when caught early.
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Wassermann
Wasserman
Lost Cast of Characters in Cavern Search
Robert Barry and Melissa Lane resume a perilous underground ascent with Honey Bee Girl seething with jealousy as Hades Jones and the party hunt after a long absence. A reunion sparks tension and the pair plan their future while danger lingers above the cliff caverns.
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Robert Barry
Melissa Lane
Barry
Honey Bee Girl
Indiana
Hades Jones
Bob
Honey Bee
Melissa
Lissa
Mary Melissa
Miss Lane
We must remember to live for ourselves
A reflection urging women to balance family duties with self care. It argues that investing solely in others drains a woman’s strength and attractiveness and that being the person she is beyond wife and mother benefits herself, her husband, and her children.
Miners and operators near Christmas strike settlement
A widespread biU coal field stoppage was expected to be settled by Christmas as coal operators and miners union officials met in Washington with Secretary of Labor Davis. John L. Lewis was ill in a hotel during the talks. Nationalist forces seized Canton from radicals amid citywide unrest and a general strike.
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Biu
Minous
Davis
Washington
John L. Lewis
Army officer leads raid into Mexico with 20 regulars
Lieut Lawrence Shaffer of the U S Army stationed at Indio Texas led a party of 20 regulars across the border into Mexico to raid a town of outlaws, according to a letter to his parents Mr and Mrs A A Shaffer. In Athens County Christmas furloughs for Camp Sheridan soldiers were revoked plunging residents into gloom. A fire call to Pearley Gaskill’s home found no damage but water pressure was nearly absent. Columbus announced T R Biddle coal operator named chairman of the Athens County War Savings committee.
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Lawrence Shaffer
U. S. Army
Indio
Texas
Eighth Cavalry
Mexico
A. A. Shaffer
Athens County
Camp Sheridan
Ala
Pearley Gaskill
Columbus
Ohio War Savings Committee
T. R. Biddle
Athens
Church of Christ
Ida Hill
Ed Evans
Sunday Creek
Fritz Sams
Charles James
Crescent Ridge
Pocahontas Lodge
University Hospital
Clarence Grant
Millfield
Elsworth Dean
Norman
John Dean
Millfield Bible Class Annual Christmas Meeting Noted
Millfield, Ohio. The Faithful Circle Bible Class held its Christmas party and December business meeting at the president's home. Officers elected for the new year include President Eleanor Sharick and Avanelle Crabtree as vice president. The group voted a silver offering for a Cleveland orphanage, with other local club activities and hospital notices mentioned.
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Millfield
Faithful Circle Bible
Maxine Boudinot
Alice Theisen
Avanelle Crabtree
Cleveland
Eleanor Sharick
Garnet Blower
Millfield Pta
East Side
Ida Hill
Martha Bible
Church of Christ
Maggie Dean
Columbus
Ladies Aid Society
M. E. Church
Margaret Simpson
Gertrude Brown
Velma Wemmer
Charles Vincent
E. Gillespie
Oscar Simpson
Charles Simpson
B. W. Simpkins
Rebecca Tracy
Clarence Misner
Despondent Woman Jumps to Death From Detroit Superior Bridge
Miss Della Barrow, 31, a Cleveland mechano therapist, leaped 75 feet to her death from the Detroit Superior High Level Bridge amid illness despondency. Police said the act appeared self inflicted.
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Cleveland
Della Barrow
Detroit-Superior
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