Fragmented column notes on fashion and society norms
A jumble of observations on dress codes and social behavior runs through the column. Pa and Ma discuss dressing up, alimony clubs are mentioned, and various public figures, professors, and events are referenced in a scattershot fashion with playful asides about golf balls, moonlight experiments, and fashion contests. Several lines shift between humor and commentary on contemporary culture.
Civic responsibility runs through West Palm editorial
The West Palm Beach Times calls for civic responsibility and caution against harming local businesses and individuals. It urges keeping quiet on unverified damaging rumors, valuing good names, and supporting neighbors to strengthen the community and economy.
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Bradenton
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Compromise Farm Help Seen Aimed At Co operative Marketing
The piece examines a potential newMcNaryHaugen style farm relief bill in Congress. It suggests a cooperative marketing plan with government loan support while avoiding direct participation in farming. It warns legislation addresses marketing only not farming practices and stresses need for capable leadership and capital.
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Congress
McNary
Curtis-Crisp
Coolidge
Safety First pledge urged for railways and crossings
The Lakeland Ledger reports the president urging greater caution at grade crossings after 2,492 injuries last year. He calls for rewiring to warn motorists and trains, plus heightened care by drivers approaching crossings to curb tragedies.
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Chiazo
Lakeland Ledger
PRESENT DAY HEROES
The piece argues that American heroes are business leaders athletes and celebrities rather than thinkers artists or scientists. It cites Henry Ford Babe Ruth Gene Tunney Mary Pickford John D. Rockefeller Judge Gary Jesse Lasky John McGraw J. P. Morgan and others to illustrate the contrast and notes figures like Will Durant Sinclair Lewis R. A. Millikan Clarence Darrow H. L. Mencken Leopold Stockowski Rosa Ponselle as examples of cultural influence and achievement.
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Henry Ford
Babe Ruth
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Mary Pickford
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Jesse Lasky
John McGraw
J. P. Morgan
Will Durant
Sinclair Lewis
R. A. Millikan
America
H. L. Mencken
Leopold Stokowski
Rosa Ponselle
Love and Deceit at Colonel Spottswood’s Plantation
In a fragmented tale set around Sally Spottswood, Phineas Chillstone seduces and betrays her with forged urgency. Scipio the enslaved boy and various admirers complicate the plot as war upends relationships. Sally learns Phineas deceived Bruce Carrington, leaving Sally devastated decades later.
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Shail Spottswood
Erne Carlington
Sally
Phineas Chilistone
Lee
Scipio
Colonel Spottswood
Phineas Chillstone
Miss Sally
Sally Spottswood
Bruce Carrington
Bruce Carlington
Bruce
Anne
Phineas
Old Anne
Seen About New York by Gilbert Swan
A vivid collage of Manhattan scenes and characters in a Gilbert Swan column. The piece notes the Church of St Francis of Assisi amid skyscrapers, a tawdry print shop in a historic gateway, street vendors, office clerks, summer hints, and a Boston literary censorship tale. It references Natacha Rambova and James Oliver Ourwood, weaving urban vividness with fleeting gossip.
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New York
Manhattan
St. Francis of Assizi
Mammon
James Oliver Ourwood
Northwoods
Manattan
Everglades
Florida
Natacha Rambova
Valentine
Fifth Avenue
Boston
Bostonian
Poem Fragment About Rebirth and a Brighter Land
The excerpt portrays a renewal of age and faith as empires fade. It invokes imagery of Hellas awakening and rivers reshaping landscapes to herald a reborn realm with temples blossoming anew. The tone is elegiac and hopeful about a transformed world.
Four Years of Community Service in Bradenton
BITS OF BRADENTON HISTORY notes Ace Manatee River Kiwanis host to the Boy Scouts of Bradenton and Palmetto at the Country club with Palmetto Eastern Stars serving the luncheon. Vandals damage Purity Ice Cream at 109 Main, Kenneth McLeod of Ozone Barber Shop injured in a motorcycle overturn and hospitalized. L. S. Day becomes head of the fair association, replacing FE P Green Sr who served eight years. ONE YEAR AGO J J Nennally named district manager of Virginia Carolina Chemical local branch. A joint session of city congregations welcomes Rev Henry Lee of Covington new pastor of the Christian church. Poetic excerpt proceeds after local notes.
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Boy Scouts of
Bradenton
Palmetto
Palmetto Eastern Stars
Uncheon
J. J. Nennally
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Woman’s Club
Henry Lee
Covington
The
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Behind Closed Doors in Washington Dull Tele tapes
A humorous look at private talks among high officials and diplomats in Washington. It notes famous figures such as Borah Kellogg Teller and Kellogg with Tellez, plus a vivid anecdote of Knox shouting “You lie” to the Mexican ambassador. It ends with a London church library of 1000 volumes without staff.
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Borah
Coolidge
Kellogg
Teller
Commerce Hoover
J. Boomboom McWhorter
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Wheeler
W. G
Tellez
Philander C. Knox
Mexico
United States
State Department
Mexico City
Knox
Mexica
Telfer
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