Bankers Favor Public Supervision and Strong Standards
The American Bankers Association advocates government supervision of banking, with national and state regulators ensuring safe operations. Banks remain private enterprises owned by stockholders, but must meet high standards, keep independence from politics, and allow depositors to evaluate credibility and safety.
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Rome C. Stephenson
American Bankers Association
Ankers
Hanka
Bankers’ Organizations
Washington
United States
Ilvusory Bank Deposit Guaranty Critic Says It Is Futile
A banker argues against any form of bank deposit guaranty law calling it a snare and delusion. He maintains such schemes encourage reckless banks and threaten overall solvency, urging competent supervision and restricted banks with adequate capital as the only honest safeguard for depositors.
Simple Principles for Effective Argument
Six principles outlined by Albert E Wiggam emphasize listening, avoiding interruption, avoiding dogmatic stance, asking questions, restating the opponent’s gist briefly, and staying on topic. He urges conscious, deliberate use and habit formation to benefit from these techniques.
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aAlbert E. Wiggam
Aver- Fcan
Horns of Moses traced to medieval painters
Medieval artists depicted Moses with horns as a symbol of strength. The Michelangelo statue in St. Pietro in Vincoli Rome shows Moses with horns to dramatize wrath, based on a mistranslation of Exodus 4:2 where shone skin was read as horns. Hebrew qaran means rays of light, qeren means horn, leading to the error.
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Moses
Hibiscus Figures in Hawaiian Scenic and Safety Use
The hibiscus, ubiquitous in Hawaii, appears in Honolulu where governor's office displays a large floral ball and daily bouquets tended by a long-term prisoner gardener. Red hibiscus grows wild and is used as a hunger alarm on streets and near highway work zones.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
Burns Musical Genius An for Borns in Celtic Legend
Grace Riys notes in the introduction to A Celtic Anthology that Burns was a born musician who absorbed floating Highland airs. He wandered lines of verse and ballad tags, weaving them into melodies that made the world fall in love with him.
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Burns
Grace Riys
Mark Twain Anecdote About Quiet Study Visit
An old anecdote recalls Mark Twain busy in his study as his daughter is told not to disturb him. When a caller asks for Mr. Clemens, the girl says he is in upstairs and cannot be seen.
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Mark Twain
Daddy
Mr. Clemens
Miss Proubly
Manny
Exchanse
What Woueld Happen
A humorous quote from Emporia Gazette features Bil Tomaine of the Spit and Arcsy club reflecting on parades and the moment an alarm signals a fire truck arriving, as he sits downtown pondering what might happen next. The piece reads as a whimsical aside on anticipation and everyday city life.
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Bil Tomaine
Spit and Arcsy Club
Ulike
Emporia Gazette
Language purists defend British spelling and Latin roots
A Collier's Weekly note argues English spelling should keep the Latin form with no U added in color and labor. It contrasts British and American practice, tracing the U’s origin to French influence in later periods.
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Collier
New American Tung Oil Industry Grows in Florida
The USDA after over two decades of study has created a budding US tung oil industry, with Florida at the forefront. Florida groves yield about 1800 pounds per acre, trees bearing profitably in four to five years, and the oil from Florida nuts is said to surpass Chinese tung oil.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Florida
China
Department of Agriculture
Cuba
Lifeboat Invention credited to English coach builder Lukin
The first lifeboat credited to English coach builder Lionel Lukin in 1786 used a cobble modified boat. A later boat at Flamborough kept watch from a castle watchtower signaling Holy Island. South Shields residents funded a model lifeboat, and Greathead built the first actual lifeboat named the Original.
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Lionel Lukin
Rramborough
Yorkshire
England
Archdeacon Sharp
Holy Island
Lukin
South Shields
Greathead Huile
Handball In Ireland Origin To Modern American Play
Handball began in Ireland about a millennium ago and is a national game there. The modern game split into one-wall and four-wall forms post 1900 with amateurs playing singles and doubles. Notable early figures include William Baggs of Tipperary and the Lawlor Casey match era in Cork and New York.
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Ireland
America
William Baggs
Tiperary
Lawlor- Casey Nutter
Gork
United States
Lawlor
Cork
Casey
New York
Wetll
Royal Succession Rules In Monarchies
The practice limits royal succession to direct offspring regardless of gender. A king’s widow does not inherit, nor does a queen’s husband. A reigning queen’s eldest child becomes sovereign, not her spouse. Catherine the Great’s succession followed this pattern.
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Netherlands
Catherine the Great
Peter Iiii
Belief Tested by Tall Tales at Dinner
A short sighted professor attends a fishing crowd and is confronted with exaggerated stories. He trips near a field and jokes to a scarecrow that no trout could be that long, reflecting disbelief in the tall tales.
Burns Museum at Tam O'Shanter Inn Highlights Ayr Heritage
In Ayr Scotland the Tam O'Shanter inn on High street is linked to poet Robert Burns. The original auld clay bisgin two-room cot built by Burns' father in 1757 is preserved as part of the Burns museum. The site sits amid fields tied to Burns family life and his song legacy.
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Bobby” Barne
Ayr
Scotland
Burns
High Street
Growth rays eyed as possible life stimulator says Low
British scientist Professor A M Low says growth rays or Mitogenic rays may stimulate growth in humans animals and plants though proof is lacking. He cites fermentation based theory and onion root experiments showing growth effects travel through air and persist with quartz between source and target water does not block the rays though thick glass or gelatin may.
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A. M. Low
London
The
United Press
Low
Armchale Science
Olive Symbolism in Ancient Temples and Scripture
Ancient texts describe olive wood used in Solomon's temple decorations and pillars, symbolizing prosperity and peace since Noah. Olive wood prized for strength and finish, with olive oil noted as the only oil named in sacred Scriptures, though mineral oil was known in the Holy Land.
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First Temple
Holy Land
Jordan Valley
Dyeing Living Trees for Sap Flow Study
Scientists have dyed living trees with various aniline dyes for over 40 years to trace sap movement. Attempts to commercialize the process focused on coloring birch beech and maple sapwood. Achieving even color throughout the wood proved difficult, leading to products like colored wooden buttons umbrella handles cigarette cases and candlesticks.
Goethe and Carlyle as Translators of Meister
William Lyon Phelps praises Carlyle for translating Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. He notes Carlyle translated the German novel when he had little spoken German and cites the translation as a testament to both men's genius and diligence.
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Goethe
William Meister
Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle
William Lyon Phelps
Helium Discovered by Early Scientists and Its Properties
Helium, an inert gas, was identified about twenty five years before its isolation in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is extremely light, escapes gravity continually, non inflammable and non explosive. It exists at about one part per million in air and does not react with other elements. It is produced by radium disintegration and occurs in rocks and minerals in small amounts.
Muckress Abbey Desolate Beauty Amid Ruin
The Fifteenth century Muckress Abbey founded by Donald McCarthy for Franciscan friars remains a desolate yet impressive ruin. Towers and east window are fairly preserved while interior monuments speak of McCarthy Moore’s death and entombment as moonlit lakes and shadowed mountains lend a solemn, Ireland’s sorrowful scene.
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Muckress Abbey
Muckress
Donald McCarthy
McCarthy Moore
Ireland
Berlin Professor claims brain intelligence injection method
Berlin physician Haberlandt describes a fluid extract from oxen and calves as a brain enhancer. He reports guinea pigs improved on tests and plans human trials with injections, aiming to reduce to a pill form for wider use.
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Berlin
Habertank
Haberlandt
Hille
Hahberlandt
English Gamblers Embrace Sweepstakes Across Nations
Englishmen widely wager on lotteries and sweepstakes despite official bans. The Irish Free State act legalizing sweepstakes spurs interest, with plans for Manchester November handicap and other major races to host multiple sweeps and potentially surpass Calcutta prize money.
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Iandon
England
Calcutta
Spain
Bright Lights Do Not Make an Immoral City
A North American Home Missions congress report argues city life appears more immoral only in appearance. Experts say selfishness greed and lack of responsibility define immorality, noting US urban share has risen from six cities with 8 million to over half the population in large cities.
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Washington
North American Home Missions Congress
United States
America
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Peat Beds Reveal Glacial Era Flora at Harvard Site
Excavations for Harvard University's new biological laboratory in Cambridge uncover peat layers containing well preserved tree remains and evidence of a freshwater pond deposit from the last glacial or interglacial period. Dr. Thomas Barbour notes black spruce and balsam fir-type roots in the peat.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Thomas Barbour
University Museum
Canadian
Regina
Deer attacks man as Buck reverses usual plan
In Maple Plain Minnesota Anton Pederson on his farm heard noises from the woods. He saw a charging buck chase him around a stump and escape behind it. Help from nearby farmhouses arrived as the deer pursued him briefly.
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Anton Pederson
Pederson
White collar beggars eat at idle hobo food depot in New York
Captain Hammill reports a shift in hunger as white collar workers join hobos at a food mission run by Father Di Taste. The Brooklyn area operation offers 11 am to 6 pm meals, with no food taken away, while merchants and volunteers debate aid fairness amid joblessness and depot cynicism.
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New York
Peer
Johan A. Hammill
Fifth Street
Hammilll
St Mark's Catholic Aiasion
Michael di Taste
Jersey
Dixie
Daniel Platt
Abamimid
Bowery
Welfare Council
Little White Hen Goes Hob o and Bum s Ride
Harvard Nebraska reports a stray little white hen fleeing the chicken yard mounts a freight train and arrives at Inland nine miles away joining a chicken colony of Mrs. Robert Seley. Trainmen guide the Hen to Seley who plans to feed her and later sell her to raise funds for a sense ticket for school basketball games.
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Harvard
Neb
Robert Seley
Robert
Colombia Mandates Eight Hour Workday for Officials
Bogota. President Enrique Olaya Herrera issues a decree banning government workers from reading newspapers or novels during work. All public employees must work eight hours daily with limited Saturday afternoon access only under special circumstances.
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Bogota
Colombia
Enrique Olaya Herrera
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