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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1929
Page
4
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A miscellany notes cotton, silk, and rayon growth in the US from 1923 to 1987, then shifts to Fort Dodge Iowa where John M. Schaupp ran for mayor on a platform for lower electric rates and the Fort Dodge Gas & Electric Co opposed him, violating town law and paying a fine. It also touches tariff effects on beans, and critiques public figures Hoover and judges, with cultural observations on reading speed and education.
Dr. Melville Herskovits, Northwestern University, plans a six week study trip this summer to the Surinam forests to study bush negro villages along the river route. The expedition will travel by rail into the interior and then by dugout canoe stopping at over sixty river settlements where villages are built above rapids for access.
The passage describes villages beyond farms with 12 to 100 houses and local leaders making laws with consensus. Natives practice polygamy with wives in separate huts, while lineage authority rests with the mother's eldest brother. Bush peoples are highly superstitious, hindering researchers. Researchers endure risk to study civilization’s formation and change.
Howard Siepen surveys the glider boom in Germany as aviation schools train thousands of boys in gliding. Clubs fly their own sailplanes, some carrying passengers, with flights reaching hours aloft amid rising currents and cloud suction. In the United States gliding grows with German instructors teaching in the east and new clubs forming, linking pilotage to the air age.
The New York World critiques Bishop James Cannon Jr of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for prioritizing political concerns over spiritual duties. It notes alleged Wall Street ties and argues church unity suffers when church leaders enter politics, warning history shows a church either turns to worldly power or returns to religious aims.
A reflective overview recounts the 1909 Payne Aldrich tariff episode with Taft's push for revision, split senate battles led by Norris and La Follette figures, and the political fallout. It includes anecdotes about donations, a pie tack finder award, sea telephony, and aging professors resisting retirement.
A New York column blends nightlife, theater, psychology, and street scenes on 86th Street and West Street. It notes beer with low alcohol, actors and vaudeville names, Broadway revues, gossip from readers, and curios about celebrities.
A wandering woodpecker seeks a home at town edge and finds a neat wooden house. A kindly man shows the place and the couple agree to move in after the man decorates and measures the chosen dwelling. The woodpecker and bluebirds are part of the tale as friends discuss the house.
William Lyon Phelps recalls William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago, detailing his tireless work ethic, genius for teaching, and ability to attract a stellar faculty. He notes Harper's impact on higher education, his early start, and lasting legacy despite a short life.
A Canton reader critiques city street repairs and ethics amid plans for asphalt resurfacing. He notes gaps between sidewalks and curbs, rising grass roots, and calls for better accommodations at voting booths and sidewalks. He also mentions local politics and tariff news from The Canton Daily News.
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