A Thought For Today On Government Spending And Wisdom
An editorial comments on Ohio bill 188 requiring annual financial reports by local officials, noting the $250,000 cost, veto by Governor Donahey, and praising the Bureau of Inspection and Supervision. It argues taxpayers benefit from oversight and advises teaching youths resilience over luxury.
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Ohio
Eee
Buckeye
Donahey
Bureau of Inspection
Bureau of Inspection and Supervision
Indiana High School Strike Over Coach Dismissal
About 200 students at an Indiana high school marched and spoke out after the athletic coach was discharged. They demanded the coach be reinstated and warned they would not return to school. The piece mocks the strikers, calling for a woodshed session.
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Indiana
Sis
Guggenheim Fund Offers 150000 Prizes For Safe Aircraft
The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for Promotion of Aeronautics announces 150000 in prizes for a safe aircraft competition to push American aviation toward greater safety. It follows recent air tragedies highlighting ongoing risks and the need for continued development of safer flight technology.
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Daniel Guggenheim Fund For Promotion of Aeronautics
Noel Davis
Stanton Wooster
Guggenheim Fund
Luxury hides true grit in a 15 year old New Jersey boy
A wealthy New Jersey youth leaves home seeking work to escape riches and training at an elite school. His father offers to fund employment if he keeps in touch. The piece argues prosperity can hinder growth and suggests a balance of hardship aids development for all families.
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New Jersey
Ourildren
Russians in China Entice Sailors to Bolshevism
A fragment argues Bolshevik influence looms among sailors from American and British warships in China. It notes resistance to communist conversion, skepticism about Chinese affairs, and cites a Punch magazine quip about a sailor’s inquiry and a repetitive reply.
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China
Hundred Cities Flooded Along Lower Mississippi
One hundred cities and towns are flooded along the lower Mississippi with total flood damage estimated at two billion dollars. The speaker argues that less than half that sum, coupled with brains and engineering skill, could have prevented the disaster.
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Mississippi
Engineers propose nationwide canal plan for United States
The text argues that top American engineers including army specialists and Panama Canal builders should design a comprehensive plan for a national project and that the country must provide funding to implement it.
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United States
Panama Canal
de Lesseps
France
New Orleans Declares City Safe After Widespread Danger
Colonel Ewing of the New Orleans States cites General Jadwin and an experienced engineer to assert the city faces no remaining danger and is secure.
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New Orleans
Ewing
Jadwin
Colonel Ewing on artesian wells in lower Louisiana soil
A casual remark by Colonel Ewing notes men drilling for artesian wells in lower Louisiana pass through fifteen hundred feet of rich soil laid down by the Great River, a depth and quality surpassing that of Egypt.
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Colonel Ewing
Lower
Louisiana
Egypt
Capper Claims Wall Street Gold Stack
Senator Capper relates a weekly claim that a 4,000 ton reserve of pure gold lies beneath a small Wall Street building in New York City. He says the bars weigh 20 pounds each and are valued at $6,000, totaling eight hundred eighty thousand pounds of solid gold.
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Senator Capper
Wall Street
New York City
Comfort for New York if air fleet never comes
The text notes that even without an air fleet New York would have funds to load a ship and pay the price to save the city from destruction. It frames money as a safeguard against catastrophe and hints at a future defense capability.
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New York
De Pinedo Toasts Fueled by American Whisky
The Italian aviator De Pinedo mocked health toasts in water while tourists praised bootleg whisky as the current American wine, a comment reflecting the era’s drinking habits and cultural exchanges.
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de Pinedo
Europe
South America
North America
Teetotaler De Pinedo’s Flying Feat Amazes Prohibitionists
The critic notes De Pinedo, famed for never drinking water, can pilot a flying machine with great skill. The remark wonders how well he would perform if he abstained from alcohol.
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de Pinedo
Rockefeller Dime Gift to 1865 Sunday School Pupil
A historical note reports John D. Rockefeller gave a dime to a Sunday school pupil in 1865. The adage virtuous deeds bring rewards is implied by the snippet.
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John D. Rockefeller
Colonial Flags and Franklin’s Early Banner Traditions
The piece traces colonial flag origins ahead of Flag Day, noting New England honor flags from 1686 and the Grand Union flag as precursors to the Stars and Stripes. It highlights Franklin’s 1747 war‑time flag efforts and his women supporters who supplied 20 silk banners with varied devices and mottos.
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New England
James
J. R.— James Rex
New World
Cambridge
Benjamin Franklin
England
Spain
France
America
Broadway Personalities Mix in May Evening Observations
By the Way in New York notes a parade of social figures on Broadway including Sir Harry Lauder Ed Howe and Charles Journal. It mentions a dinner club with a $2 cover, a musicless dining spot, Senator Capper, Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings, and John Ringling recent art purchases in Manhattan.
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New York
Broadway
Harry Lauder
Sir Harry
Ed Howe
Kansas
Charles Journal
Charley
Senator Capper
Mid-West
Capper
New Yorker
Manhattan
Laurence Stallings
Anderson
Combine
Stallings
Hollywood
John Ringling
57Th Street
Ringling Brothers
John Fisk
Lippi
Petrarch
FP. T. Barnum
Stolen parish records target Winster Derbyshire church
Records of births marriages and deaths for 1690 years were stolen from the church at Winster Derbyshire. The loss affects vital records dating back many centuries and raises concerns over archival preservation.
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London
Winster
Derbyshire
Twenty Years Ago in Athens Local News Recap
Aged Athens items note a poultry association effort, postponed Ohio university Denison game due to wet field, booming property demand as families seek homes, a local option election set for May 83, 250 Athens County soldiers under new conscription, possible mobilization camp site, Baby week starts at the Armory, Circus day ends with six arrests.
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Athens
Armory
A Trip With the President by Rodney Dutcher
John Gooch secures permission and boards a train to New York while Calvin Coolidge travels, triggering a fully coordinated rail operation. The president travels with 20 plus correspondents and a small escort, with a dedicated observation car and a prepared crew ready to handle every detail from locomotives to telegraph technicians and security staff.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
John Gooch
New York
Calvin Coolidge
Mr. Coolidge
Doc Smithers
Key
White House
Chicago
Coolidge
United Press
Frank ‘Stearns
Answers and Questions From a 1920s Knowledge Quiz
A compilation of Q and A covering state progress, trans Atlantic radio telephone, torpedo counts to sink a battleship, patent years for fruit jars, U.S. Indian population in 1926, wildflower pick regulations by state, and the origin of the three mile limit defined at The Hague Peace conference in 1907.
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Hoover
North Carolina
United States
Harbor Distance Described From Vessel or Fort
The phrase notes the range measured as the length of a cannon shot from either a ship or a fort overlooking the harbor. It indicates proximity to the harbor and potential military vantage points along the coastline.
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Astor
Missouri
Rockies
Columbia River
Pacific Coast
The
Patoria
Youngest Reader post office burglar pleads guilty
The 11 year old defendant in Wheeling West Virginia admitted stealing from the Reader West Virginia post office to Judge W E Baker saying reading Jesse James novels inspired the crime in the A U S court.
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Wheeling
W. Va
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Athens Messenger
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Dailies
United Press Service
Fivery
Suminy
Robert E.ard, Inc
Fifth Ave
Southabash Avenue
Horace
Hether
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Atlantic
New York-Paris
Arthur Brisbane
Punch
Tegaoe
Frederick J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Legion
George M. Cohan
Holland
the Stars and Stripes
Franklin
George
By the Way
Old Broadway
Gilbert Swan
the Romance OF America
Northwestern Company
Écoureurs de Bois
Astoria
John Jacob Astor
Tonquin
Bessey
Braucher
Ohio university-Denison
Athens County
Apia
Accet
Bayer
Ackage
Tokio de Com
E. Pinkham
Vooel
Meaven
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