Subscription prices by mail in Iowa and nearby states
Rates show one year seven issues weekly subscription in Iowa at 500 dollars and 250 for six months. outside Iowa in Minnesota Missouri Nebraska South Dakota and others at 950 dollars for seven issues weekly. Rates vary by state and duration with per issue options and regional carriers listed for Central Rapids and Marion.
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MATL
Iowa
An Tien Ei Nais
Minnesota
Missour
Nebraska
South Maketa
Roosevelt on building society through friendships
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt emphasizes that the big society starts with individuals in their small circles forming friendly ties and inviting congenial people into their lives to cultivate real community.
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Franklin D Roosevelt
Government trims nonfederal public works demand
The piece notes Congress resisting new appropriations while Public Works Administrator Ickes says nonfederal projects are now approved and further federal public works spending is unlikely. It argues a shift from government to private spending as a guiding principle and hints at moving the Pacific fleet to the Atlantic to ease tensions with Japan.
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Congress
Teavier
Democratic Party
Ickes
Toea
PWA
Inc
Laggard
New Deal constitutional debate and labor reform notes
A terse editorial laments wartime constitution editing and links the New Deal push to abolish child labor. It recalls presidents with slim popular margins and suggests a climate favoring reform, while skeptical about state and federal power.
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Congress
Roasett
Senate Judiciary Committee
Purpose of existence and the race’s improvement
A dense discourse argues existence serves a divine plan toward mankind’s continual improvement. It stresses that true progress comes from reasoning and compassionate reform, not coercion, and that individuals who advance ideas for the common good act as instruments of their God.
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Beni
Gerase
Fragmented Senate Debates and Odd Interludes Cited
The record recalls a Senate session with interruptions about governmental economy and a humorous aside to an uncle in Whatzit county. It then shifts to liquor control talk, a fictional Manhattan slums sequence, and a broadcast style recap of proceedings. It ends with a quip about the half dollar losing popularity for pocket wear.
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Andrew Jackson
Blank County
Senate
Whatzitt County
Whatzit County
Fery
Des Moines
Mies Brown
Roy
Aur
Macgie
State House
Manhattan
Olaf
Hilda
General Assembly
New York Diary Fragments Touch Social Ties And Nightlife
A diary sketch from New York scenes includes talks with friends such as Harry Burton and Peggy Hoyt, shopping splurges for family, and a police pursuit on West Forty-ninth Street. It also notes anecdotes about actors, writers, and theater life, plus a canine firehouse mascot and cultural tidbits from the era.
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New York
Harry Burton
Grant Clarke
Peggy Hoyt
Aubrey Eads
West Forty-ninth Street
Sinclair Lewis
Mary
Ben Ali Haggin
Florence and Keats Speed
Helen Cusacks
Dr. Tyler
Italy
Gideon van Wyck
Lincoln environment debate and Depression era work culture note
A brief excerpt from a 1934 dialogue discusses whether Lincoln was shaped by heredity or environment, cites Ida Tarbell on heredity, and notes social shifts in birth rates and medical advances affecting Depression era employment. It mentions a Valentine party hosted by high school alumni with chaperones Mr. and Mrs. Des Lancey Butler.
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Lincoln
Lincolns
Ida Tarbell
Viola
Des Lancey Butler
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Good Housekeeping
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