Better City Transportation and Public Works Plan
City considers improved transportation facilities and traffic regulations. Proposal includes soft water for Canton, abatement of smoke nuisance, expanded parks and playgrounds, and a sane program for street, highway, and school development in the county.
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Canton
Bible Thought for Today A Much Needed Prayer
A devotional prompt centers on Psalm 51 10 asking God to create a clean heart and renew a right spirit. It emphasizes personal repentance and spiritual renewal in daily life.
Lawson Wills Chicago Daily News to Charity Trust
Victor F. Lawson left the Chicago Daily News to continue under its present management and to benefit charitable and religious causes. The Merchants Loan and Trust Company holds the trust with power to manage and sell, ensuring the paper remains guided by Lawson’s policies while potentially passing to separate ownership in time. The piece argues bank trusteeships can effectively govern newspapers and cites the Cleveland Plain Dealer as an example.
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Chicago Daily News
America
Globe
Daily News
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Lawson
Cleveland Plains Dealer
Simple appeal of blood donors sparks community aid
A hospital story describes a young woman needing blood transfusions for a wasting disease. Her husband donates blood, and over fifty people volunteer to donate after a newspaper plea. Others offer to pay for transfusions if needed. eight or more transfusions may be required weekly.
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Paris
Prevost
Fragmented Thought on Human Sympathy and World Worries
A sample fragment argues that no city is too large or its people too buried to express sympathy when needed and questions worries about a world growing worse, noting a fence and imperfect expression in the rhetoric.
Judge Lyle Lashes Delinquent Lawyers Delays in Trials
Chicago jurist Judge John H. Lyle condemns lawyers who delay criminal trials through technicalities and urges the Chicago Bar Association to guard the public from such conduct. He warns that some attorneys lack character yet boast skill and urges reform within the profession to uphold dignity and justice.
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Chicago
John H. Lyle
Chicago Bar Association
Lyle
Tam
Buying At Home In A Catalogue World
A nostalgic editorial urges shoppers to compare local stores with mail order deals before buying remotely. It cites higher costs from shipping and delivery, easier returns locally, and a humorous tale of two women shopping in neighboring cities. It warns against overvaluing catalog promises and highlights practical wardrobe guidance from national retail groups.
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Demon City
Kleness
New York Diary Sketches On Travel Fashion and Attitudes
A diary style column recounts a New York scene with figures like Gershwin Zukor and Lewis at a lunch, describes hats and styles, travel sketches of Americans abroad, and notes on office manners and encounters with publishers and bankers, highlighting social tone and urban life.
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New York
Sam
Toal Gershwin
Acmed Abdullah
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Adolph Zukor
John Emerson
Uel Pepys
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Greenwich
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Fragmented musings mix politics and society in unsure tone
The passage surveys topics from postal education and congress rates to a New York mayoral race and vice presidential cloture. It threads through Prohibition, labor, fashion, transportation, and social habits with a drifting, aphoristic voice and scattered names.
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New York Times
Just Folks by Edgar A Guest
A narrative about parents opposing their son's marriage due to class differences. They debate whether love or status defines worth, noting objections from both families. The speaker reflects on slights, expectations, and the tension between affection and societal approval.
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Edgar A. Guest
Jests and Jingles by Jay Reminds Coal Blues
A humorous column jokes about coal supply for winter. It mocks miners and operators over soaring prices and strikes while noting the chill in homes as the season approaches. Santa would need a white suit to fit the coal crisis.
Seven Day Ban on Journalists Echoes France's New Law
Paris reports describe a new French law restricting journalists to six writing days per week, aligning print schedules with cafes and theaters opened seven days. Other items include Lino Bueno’s rock dwelling in Alcolea and Hungary's Tata theater ban affecting innkeepers.
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Paris
France
Budapest
Tata
Charles
Horthy
Hungary
Short Pickings from Various Papers
A collage of quips and wry sayings from newspapers. Observations span leadership, cooperation, and public life with humorous takes on divorce debt daylight saving and the impact of modern city noise.
Dandy fever and its dangers for troops and civilians
The article explains dengue or breakbone fever, its transmission by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and the four day infective window. It urges mosquito control, screens, and barriers to reduce spread, noting immunity is not long lasting and emphasizing public health measures.
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Philippines
Rio Grande
Silver, Hall and Hitchens
Paris Police Try Tachymeter Speed Checks
Paris motorists face new tachymeter tools used by police to measure speed over 200 meter runs. Ten devices are in use and officers whistle to trigger a stop as distance to pull over is calculated. The city warns of other hazards including night ambushes near Versailles and sudden level crossing dangers near Lille Nord.
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Paris
Versailles
Lille
Gorki Nearing Return to Novel on Russian Civil War
Maxim Gorki, who left Russia for Germany about two years ago, has nearly recovered from a long illness and plans a new novel on the Russian civil war. His son, an officer in the Foreign Legion, is currently fighting in Morocco.
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New York
Stern
Berlin
Maxim Gorki
Russia
Germany
Foreign Legion
Morocco
Wiscon sin primary looms as LaFollette heir rises
National newspapers weigh Wisconsin battle over young Bob LaFollette. Editors praise machine strengths while warning rivals may fracture the LaFollette influence if his bid falters. The contest is seen as a bellwether for 1926 races and Republican unity.
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