Press Agents Are Educators in Publicity Hustle
Walter Ashington notes that press agents flood papers with free publicity and many items go unread. Highlights include reports from the American Automobile Association on roadside farming demand, gas-outages among drivers, tea imports, rail pageants, geographic trivia, quarantine notices, coke output, oil rock tracing, scrub cattle profitability, and delayed ads. Also mentions job exams, book sales pitches, deportation meetings, a film star reception, and party touts.
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Foy Rodaly Dutchle
Amercan Automobile Association
Department of the Interior
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Department of Agricultu
Shipping Board
Labor Day Reflections on American Labor and Its Path
An essay on Labor Day arguing American workers focus on concrete gains over abstract ideals. It contrasts American labor with European class tension, noting mass production, advertising, and prosperity shape a distinct order. The piece suggests a hopeful trajectory toward peaceful resolution of conflicts and a new labor order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Times
Iself
Europe
Capitalistic dictatorship claim stirs debate among labor
A fragmentary article cites Leon Trotsky on U S governance, arguing democracy veils a capitalist dictatorship. It surveys press, theater, jazz age figures, university prestige, and global politics with skeptical humor and broad cultural references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Trotzky
Russia
Brother Trotzky
Amencan Federation of Labor
Moscow
United States
Philadelphia
Suppressing the press in a capitalistic society
The text contrasts American press freedom with Soviet control, noting how Russia restricts paper and printing for adversaries, while praising a system that censors and curtails dissent. It questions if the U S could face similar constraints yet hints at possible resilience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Brother Trotzky
America
Menus and health Q&A from The Messenger Laclose
Frayed OCR shows a weekly diet plan for Sunday September 4 and a health Q&A section. It lists breakfasts lunches and dinners with menu items such as baked chicken veal, fish, soups, and desserts, plus gelatin preparations and a patient question about eye outer ring symptoms and nail growth with physician guidance.
Broadway’s show racket draws varied Liberty types
In New York and beyond a drift of hopefuls seeks Broadway work from city to farm hamlet. A Bloomington stiltsman and a Laredo pet vendor headline a string of odd talents while a Staten Island man offers “any offer” for dance suitability.
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Kew York
Nacety
Broadway
Liberty
Carrolton Ga
Bloomington
Laredo
Vale
Xea
At Liberty
Staten Island
Manhattan
Embezzlement Charged in Catholic Union Case
Augustine P. Lehmer, Ohio Catholic Union treasurer, is jailed in Mahoning County after arrest on a warrant from Clarence A. Schneider alleging embezzlement of fraternity funds totaling 1881.61 dollars. The charges stem from alleged misappropriation within the Catholic Union of Ohio.
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Youngstown
Augustine P.rLehmerd
Catholic Union of Ohio
Mahoning County
Clarence A Schneider
Catholic Union Executive Board
Answers to Questions Gyr Frederick J. Haskin
A compilation of Q and A covering triple headers in baseball, first appendix surgery by Handcock in 1838, first U S operation in 1886, Holland land values per acre, Dutch population density, a definition of dry ice, ostrich running dynamics, and local school notices about freshman calls and building renovations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C
W. E. McN
London
Handcock
United States
R "Hall
New York
Holland
Netherlands
Itia
Public Schools In Athens Open September 12
Public schools in Athens plan to open on Monday September 17 with pupil schedules for Athens High School completed and letters to be mailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Athens High School
Strawn Elected ABA President in Buffalo
Siilas H. Strawn of Chicago was unanimously elected president of the American Bar Association in Buffalo today, succeeding Charles S. Whitman of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Siilas H. Strawn
Chicago
American Bar Association
Charles S Whitman
New York
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Gary Wvemay
Bi Madeley
Bow. Bush
Chan Hass
Mancaiax Zaultor
Department of Agriculture
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
National Geographic Society
Bath
Rumania
Carpathian Mountains
Department of Commerce
Carlyle
Eay
Russa
Brother Trotsky
Barnum’s
White Elephant
Arthur Brisbane
Andow
Breitbart
Sandow
New Jersey
Iele
King George
Lord Osford
Asquith
England
Milton
Ruskan
Shakespeare
Herty Sinclair
Brock and Schree
Croydon
Iesland
Mulaliverew York
Frank McCoy
McCoy
Dr. McCoy
Sendal
Reider
Cook
Answeior
OL Esstan
By the Way
Gilbert Swan
Eifel
Paris
Count Belin
Bessey
Braucher
Zeppelin
Zappelin
Gyr
Frederick J. Haskin
E Harshman
Cena
John A. Stepp
Evans Landing
Ind
BUICK
Buick Motor Company
Flint
Michigan
G.M. A.C
Athens County Buick Co
Athens Pomeroy Nelsonville
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