Hoover's Senate tax clash and reform bids dominate session
President Hoover urged a sales tax and relief measures as the Senate passed its tax bill and balanced the budget with a gasoline tax and restored income tax rates. The chamber also backed a 10 percent government salary cut and veterans' funding reductions, while Garner pressed a $2.3 billion relief push and a revamped Reconstruction Finance program.
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Senate
Hoover—Von Papen
Hoover
Garner
Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury Mills
House
Glenn
Illinois
Senate Appropriations Committee
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Peaker Garner
House-Were
Treasury
Conference of Governors
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Seagull feat explains island roadkill mystery near Authiers Bridge
The Vineyard Gazette reports Capt. Chester Robinson explains seagulls drop shellfish from height to stun rats seen along the Edgar town to Oak Bluffs road near Authiers Bridge. Gulls use wind drift to target rodents, drawing shells from beach scallop remains as bait.
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Vineyard Gazette
the Gazette
Gazette
Vineyard
Edgartown
Oak Bluffs
Authiers Bridge
Chester Robinson
Gulls Reported Dropping Bombs on Fresh Meat
The Vineyard Gazette notes gulls descend and feast on fresh meat in the area. The report marks the first documented instance of bomb dropping gulls and suggests aviators may glean methods from these birds for future study.
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Vineyard
Vineyard Gazette
Belief in the Unicorn Through the Ages
The article traces a long standing belief in a one-horned wild animal across China, Japan, and ancient sources. It cites Ctesias describing horned beasts and notes no physical remains or eyewitnesses, yet the unicorn persists in folklore and heraldry, challenging attempts to equate it with the rhinoceros.
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China
Japan
Ctesias
India
Berlin cabinet marker’s wife loses shoes with life savings
A Berlin cabinet marker’s wife offered a beggar only her husband’s old shoes. The beggar sold them to a second-hand dealer who found 1500 marks in the shoes. The dealer learned the owner’s tale from a newspaper, handed over the shoes and money to police, who returned them to the rightful owner.
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Berlin
Humorless Count Keyserling Cites Laughing Change
The passage quotes Count Keyserling describing his rare humor as a safeguard for sanity in a mad world. He remarks at a luncheon that, nowadays, he only laughs rather than finding humor.
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Count Keyserling
William Gerhard
The
Saturday Review
Seven Officers for a Small New Jersey Town Watch Parade
The mayor observes seven police officers and three patrolmen on duty during a village inspection in New Jersey. The lineup includes the chief captain lieutenant three sergeants and a fingerprint expert as they observe the patrolmen.
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New Jersey
Leutenant
Supreme in Their Own Environment
A vivid portrayal of Australian aborigines as masters of survival and tracking in their homeland. The piece compares hunter knowledge and fire making to modern science, praising their ability to read ground marks and communicate by smoke signals and stick messages. It highlights endurance, adaptability, and a sophisticated, age old signaling system.
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VV Biting
Hoover
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Garfield
Interior
Roosevelt
White House
Borah
Henry W. Peabody
Woman's National Committee For Law Enforcement
Peoples
Congress
Bertrand H. Snell
New York
House
Snell
Crusaders
Republican Citizens* Committee
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
Japan
Makoto Saito
China
Manchuria
Manchukuo
Count Uchida
Manchoukuo
Siberia
United States
Russia
Soviet Russia
Australia
Gretna’s wartime munitions boom fades to ruins
Gretna in Scotland, once famed as a marriage town, grew into a major munitions center in World War I. It cost at least 45 million dollars to build and equip and produced 75 million dollars worth of cordite, but now the town shows a ruinous vista with crumbling roofs, deserted concert halls, cinemas, and a population drop from 6,000 to few remain.
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Herbert ‘Hoover
California
Joseph Scott
Los Angeles
Scott
England
University of Notre Dame
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ashington
Costigan
Colorado
J. Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
Washington Soldiers' Home
Lewis
Gretna
Scotland
Carpenter-Well Apprenticeship Dialogue Surfaces
A short exchange shows John asking about tool sharpening and the apprentice replying that all tools are ready except the saw with gaps not fully repaired. The dialogue captures a craftsman’s caution about completing a job before use.
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Carpenter
John
Judge a baby food by the babies it builds
The ad touts Eagle Brand as a reliable baby food for strong bones and healthy growth. It cites 75 years of use, three generations, and a recent clinical feeding test of 50 infants using X-rays, blood counts, and growth records to prove effectiveness.
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Eagle Brand
Gail Borden
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Edward W. Pickard
Einrich Bruening
Germany
von Hindenburg
Hitler
Reichstag
Franz von Papen
Washington
Karl Boy- Ed
Papen
Herr Bruening
E. Huff
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
Chicago Board of Trade
Department of Agriculture
Huff
Hyde
Grain Futures Commission
William JD. Mitchell
Robert P. Lamont
J. R. Garfield
Nicholas Iorga
Carol of
Romania
Nicholas Titulescu
London
Senator Lewis
M. Neely
West Virginia
Uncle Sam
M. M. Neely
Salto
Fellows Syrup
Bobbie Holcombe
Howell Mill Rd
Atlanta, Ga
Borden Company
Tua Borosn Company
Borden
Madison Avenue
Baby's Welfare
W. Gevekoth
Prospect St
New Rochelle
N. Y
Edson R. Tamblyn, Jr
Union St
Ridgewood
N.J
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