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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1929
Page
4
A fragment notes debate between voices who inveigh against the modern picture and a critic of 79, contrasting doom predictions with sharp critique. The line hints at cultural critique and divergent forecasts without specifying events or names.
New York report critiques the summer row on Long Island where gate crashers and social climbers mingle with wealthy hosts. The piece highlights cashless flirts, dowagers, and literary types amid a scene of polite pillage and fashionable vanity on the summer estates. It notes cautious caution toward crime and shows a tale of an unexpected successful marriage born from a chance flirtation.
Classifieds and office locations for The Canton Daily News include multiple city offices in New York Chicago San Francisco Washington St Louis and Kansas City along with subscription rates and payment terms. Carrier rates show 12 cents per week with daily and Sunday options and mail rates available on request.
A collage of opinion pieces and political notes spans religious quotes, moral questions, and governance critiques. It cites Governor Cooper on gambling and prohibition, congressional debates on tariffs and farming, traffic fatalities, and party dynamics around Hoover and the liberals, interwoven with anecdotes about counterfeiters and moonshine.
Wellesley College’s first graduating class of 1879 held a fiftieth reunion, recalling early debates on women’s higher education and campus life. Reminiscences contrast austere dress codes and outdoor exercise with modern norms, noting shifts from strict standards to social change and evolving health views.
A Milwaukee attorney argues that states may manufacture and distribute intoxicating liquor despite the eighteenth amendment. If Wisconsin wins, a dispensary option could replace prohibition in some states, though the Supreme Court ruling remains uncertain.
Senator Norris pushes an amendment to revive the debenture feature as part of the tariff bill. The plan would raise farm prices by government subsidies on surplus crops like corn, wheat, and cotton, challenging the notion of uniform tariff relief and risking broader price increases across industries.
The Holland tunnel linking New York and Jersey City, cost 48.4 million dollars and opened in 1927 amid doubts about returns. By 1929 officials project toll income above five million, with a total revenue of 7.57 million from 13.66 million vehicles since opening, averaging 24,188 cars daily.
A reader savages a concert program that replaced Grieg Gounod and Schubert with syncopated renditions, lamenting modern musical reform as turning great works into brass. The piece rails at changing tastes, references public figures, and jokes about cultural shifts and historical icons.
Edgar Guest expresses a cheerful defense of family quarrels over who rides shotgun with dad. The poem extols lively disputes as part of daily life, arguing that peace would bring loneliness and that such car battles are a valued, if contentious, order in the home.
The Rev. John Compton Ball of Metropolitan Baptist Church Washington D C offered a prayer in the house of representatives invoking God for wisdom in duties and praising the Star Spangled Banner. He prayed for youth to embody citizenship truth and sacrifice and for the nation and world to be united in peace.
Franklin Fletcher notes that more men are prosperous and honest than merely honest and prosperous. He argues honesty often follows prosperity rather than precedes it, while many strive to earn enough to do the right thing.
The column offers light observations on a singer named Kere linewski’s early success and playful jabs at public figures. It riffs on diplomacy with undiplomatic relatives and jokes about sun, telegraph services, and Lake Cable’s winter mood. Local street chatter ends the piece with humor.
A humorous exchange from Motor Magazine contrasts Ike’s Rolls-Royce joke with Abe’s Vauxhall gag about commuting. Separate quips appear from Lustige Blaetter noting a Berlin joke defining abuse of alcohol.
A Canton Daily News letter argues cats harm birds and farm life, urging fewer cats to protect natural insect control. It also supports prohibition, criticizing anti prohibition arguments and praising law obedience and penalties for violators. Canton June 15. M. Me.
Whalen of New York holds that policemen must not enter speakeasies, a stance critics say will only raise illicit venue profits. The remark reflects broader post prohibition attitudes.
The column uses dark humor and puns about hanging and death, weaving jests with phrases about personal crisis and courtroom figures. The piece riffs on crime, despair, and resilience, framed as light entertainment from a society page.
Two Minnesota prohibition inspectors fatally shot Henry Virkula a Big Falls merchant near Little Fork as he drove home with his wife and two children. The case mirrors prior killings tied to enforcement, highlighting dangers of arbitrary power in anti liquor patrols and fueling criticism of prohibition policy.
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