Newspaper Circulation Rates and Contacts Listed
Des Moines Iowa Daily Press Association News Bureau details Frank Nye Jr manager and subscription rates by carrier and mail. Rates shown include options for Atlantic region Cass county Iowa outside areas and various time periods. Contact locations include Washington DC Eye Street and Shops Building.
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Des Moines
Iowa Daily Press Association
Frank Nye, Jr
405 Shops
Washington, D. C
Washington News Service
Eye Street
N. W
Atlantic
Cass
Iowa
Speech backs new federal crime against advocating overthrow
A Virginia representative introduces a bill making it a federal offense to advocate force to overthrow the government. The piece argues free speech should not cover calls for revolution and emphasizes constitutional, orderly change through lawful channels.
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House
Representative Smith
Virginia
United States
Editorial Briefs Reflecting War, Politics, and Economy
A collection of editorial notes comments on federal debt and taxes, war imagery, Mussolini as a war villain, General Smedley Butler’s death, and Republican campaign strategy. It critiques fiscal policy, calls for economy, notes newspaper trends, and discusses the war order and political platforms. The piece urges clear positive stands on war and economy to avoid defeat.
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Mussolini
Hitler
France
Republican Party
Taft Willkie Battle Roars at Democratic Convention
Philadelphia hosts a fractured GOP fight with Taft leading the first ballot tally and Willkie aiming for a second ballot surge. Dewey is sidelined by political blows, Vandenberg exits, while Bricker Pew Hoover and Martin loom as potential runners in a stalled convention. Hurley’s coup reshapes labor and Hoover allies.
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Taft
Willkie
Dewey
Vandenberg
Bluekrieg
Martin
White House
CIO
Lewis
Hoover
Hurley
Ken Simpson
New York
Senator Vandenberg
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Bricker
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Joe Pew
Herbert Hoover
Joe Martin
House
Alf Landon
John Quincy Adams
United States
Wall Street
West
Philadelphia
National Committee
William Howard Taft
Herbert Hyde
Platform Committee
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Doe Pew
Kenneth Simpson
Washington
Metropolitan
Walnut
John L. Lewis
Paris
GOP
Pat Hurley
Labor
John L
Sidney Hillman
Hillman
National Defense Committee
New York City Notes on Theater, Cabs, and Street Life
A diary-like column recalls The Players performance of Love for Love at Hudson Theatre with Otis Skinner and Cornelia Otis Skinner, plus Walter Hampden. The piece also notes Arizona memories, guest conversations, and evolving New York cab designs with driver ID cards, and a Cadillac hotel wreck aftermath.
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New York
Congreve
Hudson Theater
Memyere
Driscoll
Gramercy Park
Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Mr. Skinner
Kismet
Brandeis Theater
Omaha
Walter Hampden
Bobby Clark
Merry-Go-Round Goes to Philadelphia
During the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia the Merry-Go-Round team will split duties. Robert S. Allen will cover the convention daily while Drew Pearson stays in Washington to monitor international developments. The Washington and Philadelphia Merry-Go-Round will merge their coverage beginning today.
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Drew Pearson
Robert S. Allen
Philadelphia
Columnar
Washington
Today’s common error in word choice creates confusion
A guidance note discusses avoiding the phrase keep me posted when meaning informed. It highlights how precise wording matters in marine and fishing industries where rope usage dominates.
Salvaged bricks fuel city building boom in the Bronx
A trucking contractor will remove bricks as walls fall, cart them to dumps miles away, and salvage millions by scraping mortar. The bricks will be sold to apartment builders in the Bronx, with walls of thousands of houses built largely from salvaged material, except for face bricks.
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Broadway
Bronx
Daily Knowledge Test Challenge Questions
A reader test asks seven of ten items to answer, then turn to page seven for solutions. Questions cover California capitals, baseball etiquette, congressional amendments, last Democratic president before FDR, Earth-Sun distance, trade law with Germany, Portsmouth’s channel, mail class coupons, Kaiser Wilhelm II biography, and Mount Everest climbs.
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Sacramento
Los Angeles
San Francisco
California
House of Congress
U. S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Germany
United States
Portsmouth
England
English Channel
North Sea
Kaiser Wilhelm II
New Freezing Gadget Uses Aluminum Nest for Cooling
A heat transfer set uses three aluminum cans with a fluted inner can to boost cooling surface. The outer cans vary in size for different liquid capacities. Ice or refrigerant in the fluted can cools drinks without dilution, while ice cream is frozen by immersion and plunger action in the outer can.
New Guinea Tribes Guard Designs Like Primitive Patents
Each family in certain New Guinea tribes uses distinctive designs on houses, implements, canoes, and other items. The patterns are inherited and licensed rights are bought, creating a primitive patent like a registered trademark.
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New Guinea
Learn to Expect the Unexpected and Drive Safely
A compact public safety note urges caution on the roads. It emphasizes driving with care and being prepared for unforeseen conditions in all weather and traffic scenarios.
Backstage At The State House Interlude In Des Moines Iowa
Front page notes from Des Moines Iowa June 24 discuss President Roosevelt’s cabinet choices Knox and Stimson stirring Republican loyalties. Iowa Republicans argue Knox is too influential to be read out while Polk County urged seizing France’s fleet. The piece notes rising June safety emphasis traffic toll eight deaths in two weeks and pending appointments to state boards including parole and pharmacy examiners. It also covers Democratic views on Roosevelt’s retirement and a safety council executive’s roadside anecdote and hints at potential name change for unemployment commission.
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Des Moines
Roosevelt
Col
Frank Knox
Henry L. Stimson
Iowa
Knox
Polk County
United States
France
Board of Pharmacy Examiners
W. H. Tyler
Lenox Republican
Board of Control
Soldiers Home
Marshalltown
Milk
Frank Moorhead
Frederick J. Swift
Just Folks and Lamb Haven Rescue Scheme
Poem excerpt by Edgar A. Guest discusses life and death as a sage and questioner debate. The text shifts to Lamb Haven in northern California where Charles Clark runs an asylum of orphan lambs. He uses a courier ambulance system to move stranded lambs to an orphanage and then to the maternal department for feeding before selling them at maturity.
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Arizona
Captain Kidd
Arizona Sun
Daddy
Desert
Edgar A. Guest
Lamb Haven
Charles Clark
California
Clark
Swift
Onee
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Jim Milne
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Nell McDermott
Wichita
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Cedar Rapids
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