La Follette Jr Not a Republican Despite Wisconsin Senate Bid
The essay argues Robert M. La Follette Jr. is not a Republican though he seeks the party’s nomination and might win a senatorial seat in Wisconsin. It contends the La Follette machine and followers oppose the GOP, making his party alignment morally and ethically doubtful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert M. la Follette, Jr
Wisconsin
United States Senate
Mr. LaFollette
Washington
la Follette
Republican Party
Senator la Follette
Senate
Baby members across Congress mark youth in politics
The article notes that many congresses have a youngest member and that the label baby is applied to especially young lawmakers. It suggests recent years saw more youths elected to the House and that the term may serve as a timely description for the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House of Representatives
What We Were Doing What We Were Doing Twenty Years Ago Today
Mrs G W Atkinson and sister Miss Viola Peters returned from an extended trip to California. N R Bowman, Lynchburg citizen, died. W J Jenks and children left for Raleigh to make their home. Jenks had been promoted to superintendent of the Raleigh division of the Seaboard Air Line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Atkinson
Viola Peters
California
N. R. Bowman
Lynchburg
W. J. Jenks
Raleigh
N. C
Mr. Jenks
Aleigh Division
Seaboard Air Line
Baby Congressmen Through the Years
The piece notes Clarence J. McLeod of Detroit as the Sixty-sixth congress’s young member and predicts Samuel J. Montgomery of Oklahoma as the Sixty-ninth’s soon to be youngest. It argues training matters in public service and questions the value of older businessmen entering Congress late in life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence J. McLeod
Detroit
House
Samuel J. Montgomery
Oklahoma
Berely
Waahington
Representative McLeod
The
Daily Telegraph
Washington
Congress
You Were a Creature in Pigtails Once
A nostalgic poem recalls a girl with pigtails and freckles and a boy in knickers as a speaker longs to return to fearless childhood. The speaker fears the present, envies his former self, and asks the girl to pretend that childhood play continues. The poem ends with the line 4HTHPL MAE GLOVER.
Medical science conquers mass disease and urges yearly exams
Dr. Charles Mayo argues medicine has advanced greatly reducing epidemics and extending life from twenty to fifty eight years. He predicts further gains by 1950 or 1960 and endorses annual physical examinations for all. Emphasizes sanitation, education, and preventive care as essential. Warns about contaminated rural water and calls for attention to water quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Mayo
Mayo
City Water Board
State Health Department
Drought Triggers Health Warnings and Fire Risk Across State
State health department warns drought raises typhoid risk from polluted drinking water and urges boiling water. State game and fish commission warns extreme dryness creates severe forest fire danger. tourists and campers told to handle matches with extreme care as forest floors remain parched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Health Department
State Game and Fish Commission
West Virginia
Clarksburg
Surprising Outfits and Train Car Conversation
A farmer hides new clothes in his wagon to surprise his wife but the old clothes are thrown into a river and the disguise fails. A train car conversation features a polyglot professor bragging of languages. A young man hurries to a dance academy to learn the latest steps before they go out of date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude
United States
Scarlet fever its dangers and care guidelines
Public health guidance by Dr. Hugh 8. Cumming outlines scarlet fever as highly contagious with risks of pneumonia nephritis and heart inflammation. It stresses early signs rash and skin shedding, warns of deafness brain abscess in rare cases, and prescribes isolation sterilization and doctor supervision plus six weeks before school return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh 8. Cumming
United States Public Health Service
Watching The Parade Through A Modernized American Outlook
The piece extols rapid modernization across the United States from coast to coast, noting industrial growth, standardized education, and linguistic unity. It contrasts regional development from horseback to railroad to air travel and emphasizes a shared national culture amid vast geographic expansion.
Short Cuts From Exchanges Digest
A compilation of brief quotable lines from various papers. The items poke fun at tariffs hard coal shirt skirts and a joke about a trip abroad. Mention of President Coolidge and ancient irrigation works in the American Southwest accompany the snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
President Coolidge
Washington Post
Foreign service mechanics rival ambassadors in skill
The piece extols farm machinery specialists deployed abroad as elite field reps. It contrasts them with less capable diplomats, noting their linguistic fluency, broad country experience, and deep grasp of local life. It argues such hands-on, mobile experts outshine standard officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Stewart Ashington
GUNS AND RUBBER IN A BUSINESS AGE
A fragmented essay argues guns offer little real protection despite sensational claims. It links burglary fear to civic conduct and urges self reliance over weapon ownership. The piece then surveys rubber politics in the Philippines and the inescapable tie between nationalism, big business, and culture.
History of Carthage Unearthed by Coastal Excavations
On the Tunisian coast Count Byron De Provok and archeologists probe Carthage with water jets and sand sieves. They reveal Arab tombs, a Christian chapel, Roman cisterns, Phoenician tombs, coins and beads as layers of civilization emerge from the centuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Gulf
Tunis
Byron de Provok
Carthage
Count Protok
Father Delattre
Dido
B. C
Protok
Baal Ammon
Telegraphic ticklers and city chatter from Tom Sims
A collage of items from New York and across the U S includes a parade by the American Legion recalling wartime memories with wrist watches, forest fire quips, fall fashion musings, a shy joke about wages and kitchens, police violence in Chicago, Franco Russian money talk, and Arkansas bear vs. prohibition agent anecdote amid hat price gripes in St Louis.
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American Legion
New York
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Neo Daily Re RaRirn Printing CO
Fefield
W. Va
Ve. Rr
Associated Presa
J. A. Chambers
S. W. Moore
Mooreville
N. G. Moore
P. J. Dudley
Bride
Edith Ward
Mae Glover
Mr. Brown
Prof. Dusser
Great Britain
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom
Simon Legree
Great West
Lewiston
Ida
Rge
Germany
Omaha World-Herald
Ife
Iowa
Arrow
Parksburg
Baltimore Morning Sun
Spartanburg
Britain
Smilaz
Spain
Balkan States
North Africa
Russia
Prorok
Chester H. Rowell
Oakland
America
Malay Peninsula
Java
Ceylon
Philippines
Moving Pictures
Mirror
David Dietz
Rome
Ens
Tom Sims
Telegraph
Ticklers
Chicago
Bear
Arkansas
St. Louis
Bluefield Fair
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