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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1932
Page
4
Rates shown for City Dispatch by carrier and mail options include 1 month 50 cents 3 months 1.25 and 1 year 5. Daily Dispatch by mail outside city 3 months 1.00 1 year 4. Weekly Dispatch full year 1.50. The issue date is Wednesday May 11, 1932.
Susan Carey, a 19 year old secretary in Chicago, visits Ernest Heath at his lake coast home. Heath, ill with flu, contemplates youth and lost chances as Susan admires the garden and the promise of a life beyond her current city. The chapter ends with Heath pondering a possible renewal of life through his child.
A brief item notes an IA reference and a 932 designation attributed to NEA Service Inc, suggesting a syndicated or service line code. The fragmentary text indicates a service attribution rather than a full event or quote.
Ontario appoints a province wide board of control to manage six insolvent Canadian towns. The board includes municipal, bank, creditor, and provincial representatives with power to hire staff, negotiate with bondholders, and approve expenditures to restore finances.
Detroit cigar magnate Samuel T. Gilbert urges persistent advertising during hard times. He states advertising sustains sales and claims liquor is the biggest business in America, marketed widely. His remarks aim to reassure merchants facing low mood and reduced sales.
Harvard dean Wallace Brett Denham argues for a central thinking agency made up of government business and labor leaders to guide the economy. The columnist counters that the nation needs more individual thinking and citizen responsibility rather than centralized planning.
The National Traffic Safety Contest spans 12 months with over 400 municipalities in 43 states vying for the title Americas Safest City across seven population groups. January showed higher fatalities overall, though cities like Seattle Dallas Baltimore Boston Cincinnati Minneapolis posted declines. motorists are urged to practice safe driving and follow highway safety norms to improve the year.
In April business failures declined to 2816 from 2951 in March per R G Dunn. Mahoning Valley Steel Co Niles plant reopened to fill orders for sheet steel. New York state employment in Building Trades workers rose 9 percent per Frances Perkins. Tin plate mills production exceeded 50 percent capacity with higher demand from domestic and foreign sources. Hosiery output in March reached 4 521847 dozen pairs up from 4 356295 in February.
A collection of quotations from Fosdick Ford Meyer and Bankhead on themes of education aging sleep and marriage. The excerpts reflect views on defeating communism by faith in social ideals learning decay with age currency confidence rest and engagement timelines.
Brainerd area social notes show Leo Bisson assuming management of the Crow Wing store from Fanny Young who plans to depart for Grand Rapids for a new job. Local residents including Mr and Mrs Koering and Mrs Porter were seen shopping, visiting and traveling on errands around Brainerd Cassel St Mathias and nearby homes over the weekend.
The Bachelor Maids staged a May Pole party at Elk’s hall with about 100 couples. The grand march formed B and M initials led by Miss Maybelle Grewcox and Mr. Edgar E. Parks of St. Paul. Twi light waltz used only archway lights. Frappé table supervised by Miss Lillian Hoffman and Miss Lowey. Local notices include travels, visits, baseball trip to Staples, a birth announced for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kaupp, and cottage plans at Gull Lake.
The piece parodies science testing Lily Pons versus Heflin in a mock championship and jokes about law changes and alimony. It notes France tightening divorce laws and cites a quip about government work days. It ends with a quip about steel houses and bullet proof glass in Chicago.
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