Ghost Towns Rise as Silver Remonetization Sparks Hope
The piece details a silver revival after President Roosevelt remonetized silver, reviving Western mining towns from Nevada to Colorado. It notes modest federal purchases, the enduring Central City and Tonopah, and a broader 16 to 1 coinage fight led by Senator Wheeler, while keeping a cautious view of optimistic local boomlet potential.
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NEA
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nevada
Tonopah
Mexico
Menico
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Congress
Democratic Party
Federal Reserve Bank
Tuberculosis patient offers to die for Reppin in Colorado case
Walter C. Dunham, ill with tuberculosis and supported by charity, asked Colorado Governor Johnson to let him die in place of 18 year old Walter Reppin, sentenced to death in the gas chamber. Reppin vows to appeal as Denver lawyers prepare post conviction steps.
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Denver
Walter C. Dunham
Walter Reppin
Colorado
Dunham
Colorado Springs
Johnson
Reppin
Community Chest of
Vincent Regan
Philp Hornbein
David Rosner
Rephin
Warden Best
Best
Plane Crash in English Channel Kills Ten
Brussels AP reports fog blamed for the Imperial Airways London bound plane Apolo crash near Ruysfelde Brussels area. Ten dead including eight Britons and five air station staff burned in rescue attempt. Bodies were badly charred making identification nearly impossible.
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Brussels
Imperial Airways
Ruysfelde
Bruges
Venezuelan breweries ordered to maintain daily beer output
Government decrees Venezuelan breweries must produce at least 1000 quarts of beer daily to prevent shortages, with exceptions only for machinery breakdowns. The policy aims to stabilize supplies across the country.
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Venezuela
All Nations To Experiment In 1934 To Speed Recovery
1934 promises world economic and political experiments as leaders seek to end stagnation. Roosevelt pushes a managed currency in the United States, Mussolini plans wage and price cuts in Italy, and other nations debate tariffs, disarmament, and league reforms.
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All Nations
United States
Roosevelt
Italy
Mussolini
Americas
Cordell Hull
Montevideo
Santiago
Chile
Europe
London
Geneva
League of Nations
Germany
Japan
Asms
Hitler
Maxim Litvinoff
Soviet Union
League
France
Litvinoff
Romes
Russia
CCC camps credited with drop in Green Bay reformatory commitments
Wisconsin board of control reports 188 fewer prisoners admitted to Green Bay reformatory in 1933 compared with 1932. The CCC camps are cited as pulling idle youths from communities, reducing commitments to the institution.
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Madison Wis
Civilian Conservation Corps
Wisconsin Board of Control
Reformatory
Green Bay
Argentine Stifles Last Remnants Of Brief Rebellion
In Buenos Aires on a weekend of relative calm the government announced a return toward normal life after troops crushed the final rebel outbreak. The state of siege remained in effect while sports events resumed and the capital returned to routine activity. The administration warned Radical Party leaders must face responsibility for the uprising.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Gr.p
Paso de Ins Libros
Government To Buy 234,500 More Hogs To Help The Needy
Washington will start purchasing 234500 hogs to feed the poor on January 3. Harry Hopkins announced the federal relief agency will buy about 15000 hogs daily for three weeks. Packing houses handle buying for the government surplus relief corporation as bids are sought for continued purchases at market prices nationwide.
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Washington
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Harry Lo Hopkins
Hopkins
Baby Joyce Lee Delights Christmas With 12 Grandparents
Joyce Lee, daughter of Mr and Mrs Gull Jackson of Lawson Missouri, enjoyed a festive Christmas as 12 grandparents celebrated. The extended family included great-great-grandmother, two great grandmothers, two great grandfathers, two grandmothers, two grandfathers, two step-grandmothers, and one step-grandfather.
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Lawson Mo
Joyce Lee
Gull Jackson
Joyce
Six Men Rob Central Brokerage in Rockford Cash Raid
Six masked gunmen robbed the Central Brokerage building in downtown Rockford taking about $5,000 in cash and jewelry from the firm and roughly 40 to 50 customers during the Saturday crime.
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Rockford
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Mae West and Three Little Pigs Garner 1933 Honors
Mae West rises to stardom in 1933 alongside Disney's Three Little Pigs. The year features lighter entertainment, color experiments, and bold musical films, with Roberts of Sally Rand and Ruby Keeler, plus top films like Gabriel Over the White House and She Done Him Wrong.
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Mae West
Walt Disney
Disney
Hollywood
One Picture Company
Sally Rand
Ruby Keeler
Forty-second Street
Henry VIII
Russia
United States
Gabriel
White House
Walter Huston
Karen Morley
Roosevelt
Diana Wynyard
Clive Brook
Margaret Sullavan
Berkeley Square
Leslie Howard
Heather Angel
Helen Hayes
Clark Gable
Marie Dressler
John
Lionel Barrymore
Jean Harlow
Billie Burke
Lee Trac
Edmund Lowe
Karen Morry
Wallace Beery
Phillips Holmes
Madge Evans
Louise Crosser Hale
Jean Hersholt
May Robson
Grant Mitchell
Elizabeth Patterson
Katharine Hepburn
Marlene McDietrich
Brian Anhearne
Will Rogers
Janet Gaynor
Massachusetts Deer Wait For Hunter To Dress
Massachusetts hunter Constable John B. Tupper hunted a week without sighting a deer. On his porch he saw four deer and changed into hunting attire. Return to the porch found the deer closer. Tupper shot a 190 pound buck at his back door.
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Massachusetts
North Wilbraham
Mass
UPI
John B. Tupper
Tupper
Beavers From Wisconsin Prompt Six Day Open Season
Wisconsin imports of fifty beavers to Pennsylvania about eighteen years ago led to a population boom. Pennsylvania declares a six day open trapping season to curb the overabundant beaver numbers.
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Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Two Frocks For The Matron From Anne Adams Pattern
Designers offer chic frocks for fuller figures with pattern 1538 featuring a crushed scarf neckline and waist shaping plus pattern 1624 with coat like lines and slim silhouette. Sizes 34 to 46 and 34 to 44 respectively, each pattern includes instructions and fabric needs. Send 15 cents per pattern to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department in New York.
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Anne Adams
Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department
One
Seventeenth Street
New
Experts Debate Gold Standard Policy Shifts in 1933
In 1933 the United States abandoned the gold standard after fifty four years, triggering a fierce debate between sound money and inflation camps led by Roosevelt policies. Prominent figures including Alfred E. Smith and Carter Glass voiced opposition. gold purchases sparked major controversy.
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G. A. Phillips
New York
United States
Hardy
Roosevelt
Amerca
George F. Warren
Corne!l University
Alfred E. Smith
O. M. W. Sprague
Secretary of the Treasury
Carter Glass
Virginia
Woodrow Wilson
Jurors Behaved Badly in Early Greenup Court Records
Greenup Kentucky AP report notes 1805 Greenup circuit court records showing grand jury charges and petit jurors often intoxicated, rendering them incapable of proper duty. Deputy Clerk Woodridge Spears highlights these historic lapses reflecting court conduct in pioneer days.
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Greenup. Ky
Kentucky
Woodridge Spears
Greenup
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