Immigration Law Reforms Proposed By Labor Department
The Labor Department’s immigration bureau prepares reports with proposals for Congress to improve future immigration management. Calls include more staff of aliens at ports, more women inspectors, a robust information bureau, better education for immigrants, and examinations in home countries to save time. Revisions aim to restrict arrivals based on prior statuses and to modernize laws with expert guidance and public input.
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Department of Labor
Congress
New York
Boston
Healing Pains and Shifting Prices in American Trade
The piece argues that price reductions signal healing in business activity and a stronger foreign trade outlook. It notes export growth, favorable but uneven exchange rates, and cautions that the recovery will be painful yet necessary for a durable market expansion.
Vote for the prettiest
Edith Moriarty argues that women's voting brings humor to politics and cites two jokes about beauty over brains. A campaign adviser urges selecting good-looking state committee members, while a male political figure mocks a capable female candidate for lacking personal style and attire.
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Edith EB. Moriarty
Night dugout encounter on the Argonne front
An Engineering captain scanning a dugout near the Argonne reveals two terrified American soldiers inside. They claim they are combat troops, not labor battalion men, and report they are helping fix the road. He orders them to return with their unit.
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Argonne
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Homemade Pinex Cough Remedy Promises Quick Relief
A DIY cough remedy using 2 1/2 ounces of Pinex pine extract mixed with sugar syrup or honey aims to ease severe coughs throat tickle and chest congestion. The ad claims fast soothing effects and offers a money back guarantee from The Pinex Co Wayne Ind.
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Pinex Co
Wayne, Ind
Reader Information Service Offer Promises Direct Answers
The Athens Messenger announces an information bureau run by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington for readers to request factual answers. It specifies no legal medical or financial advice and requires the question writer’s full name, address, and two cents for return postage.
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Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Diretor
Washington, D. C
The
Inquirer
Sunday Visitors from Athens and Nearby Towns
A list of guests visiting Mrs. C. B. Ballenger and Alice Cornell includes Mrs. Sarah Ballenger Mrs Emery Cooley Mr and Mrs Wilber Rogers and daughter of Athens Mr and Mrs Robert Patterson and family of Coolville Ridge Miss Faye Woolley and Bertine Woolley of Athens Golda Cornell Icel and Susie Oxley Mr John Rogers and Mr Harold Cornell and Gertrude Venices Velma Lenigar Lisp spent Sunday with Alice Cornell Also Miss Kate Mulligan of Shelby Ia visits Mrs C B Ballenger Charles Cranmer of Athens visited Prank Pugh Sylvia Lenigar a student at John Hancock High spent the weekend at home Plus Paris fire apparatus now equipped with radio telephones for headquarters communication.
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Sarah Ballenger
Emery Cooley
Wilber Rogers
Athens
Robert Patterson
Coolville Ridge
Misaes Faye
Bertine Woolley
Golda Cornell
Icel
Susie Oxley
John Rogers
Harold Cornell
Gertrude Venices
Velma Lenigar
Alice Cornell
Kate Mulligan
Shelby
C. B. Ballenger
Charles Cranmer
Prank Pugh
Sylvia Lenigar
John Hancock High School of
The Spur Of The Moment Father and a Twin Birth
A humorous poem contrasts a father’s pride and shock at news of a birth with the twins and the nurse’s calm news. It ends with a homey quip about wanting money rather than aid. The verse name drops Ebenezer Burr? Lehigh Burr.
Making Schoolbooks by Frederic J. Haskin in Cambridge
Bridge Massachusetts October article examines the nation’s leading schoolbook publisher in Cambridge near Harvard. The plant stores 2,000,000 books and runs around the clock to meet growing demand from Boston to California. It discusses costs, price stability, and the long lead time for research texts and geography and how publishers balance profit with the need for up-to-date educational material.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Bridge
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T Heads
Harvard University
Manyu Sencer
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Easons
Florida
California
Boston
Safety pins through the ages and great statues
Safety pins date to the 15th century BC with bone pins bent to resemble modern designs. The world’s largest statues are the Colossus of Nero at Rome about 120 feet, the Great Sphinx at Giza 68 feet, and the Statue of Liberty at 151 feet to the torch.
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Nero
Rome
Gizah
Egypt
Bureau of Standard
Angel Ridge School Progresses with Miss Lena Miller
Local residents report steady progress at Angel Ridge School under teacher Lena Miller. Several residents attended a bun supper at Bates school Saturday evening. Mrs. Thomas Lenigar visited friends and relatives in Nelsonville. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ballenger and
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Lena Miller
Bates School
Thomas Lenigar
Nelsonville
Clyde Ballenger
Danderine Hair Tonic Promises Livelier Thicker Hair
An old advertisement touts Danderine as a beauty tonic that refreshes the scalp and fights dandruff. It claims hair becomes fuller and more lustrous, with youthful brightness, after use. A 35 cent price is noted for the product.
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