Iowa towns urged to use new planning booklet
The state planning board releases a booklet to help Iowa communities establish local planning programs. It urges small towns to use the aid and argues larger cities like Cedar Rapids should revisit the 1931 plan, considering changes in population growth, transportation, land use, and park needs, with data possibly updated by the 1940 census.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Planning Board
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Plan Commission
Friends Help Hire Through Influential Networks
Psychologists report a New Jersey county study finds 70 percent of young people leaving relief projects for regular jobs learned of openings via friends or relatives, while 15 percent came from canvassing. The result stresses the value of competent, reliable friends who can influence employers and urges job seekers to actively search for work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
National Youth Administration
NYA
On His Own Initiative He Seeks Help From Friends
The remark notes a person acting alone yet relying on friends to locate him. It warns that if he continues to depend on others for discovery, he may soon discover that those friends will no longer assist him.
Indefensible Egg Toss Noted by New Jersey Grand Jury
A New Jersey grand jury concludes the egging of Norman Thomas at a Newark socialist meeting was a spontaneous protest not a premeditated plan. It condemns the action as a defiance of free speech yet finds no evidence of a targeted assault and notes the Bill of Rights protects spoken and printed word more than hurled eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Norman Thomas
Newark
Thomas
Transparent tobacco wrapper challenges cigarette design
A non smoking Hungarian playwright unveiled a tobacco cellulose wrapper that is 40 percent stronger than paper, twenty six times more flexible, and with one fiftieth the ash. Demonstrations were shown to U S manufacturers but outcomes remain uncertain. Smokers may resist a wrapper that looks less like a cigarette despite potential gains in by products reduction and cost parity with paper wrappers.
Corrigan’s Return Doubts Hover Over Rubber Band Risk
Officials monitor Corrigan as he may travel by boat rather than air, amid concerns about escape risk. At Southern University Stadium a new electric clock will debut next fall showing green for play and red for timeouts, though reliability remains in question.
Noted quotations on public life and personal opinion
A collage of quotations from public figures and a farmer, touching on prejudice, progress, morals, health, government, and freedom. Notable voices include Tomas Alberto Le Breton, Governor Frank Murphy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Vaino Hakkila, Thomas Parran, Harry D. Gideonse, Mary Pickford, Harry L. Hopkins, Douglas Corrigan, Herbert D. Boutall, Dr. G W Forster, W E aeons, John D M Hamilton, and Audrey Kargare.
Hopkins Talks Freely on Relief and Politics in Press Conference
Harry Hopkins, administrator of the Works Progress Administration, speaks bluntly about relief and politics in a Washington press conference. He defends WPA directors, dismisses the idea of press-attribution limits, and notes most relief recipients would vote for Roosevelt. He also dodges the question of a third term and stresses that WPA aid aims to relieve chronic poverty, not merely provide temporary work.
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Ashington
Harry Hopkins
Washington
Iowa
Otha Wearin
Grinnell
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Glenn) Frank
Republican Policy Committee
Bureacracy
Mahy
Morton Milford
Works Progress Administration
Milford
Missouri
WPA
Pendergast
Kansas City
St. Louis
Kentucky
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Poetic Garden Reflections on Faith and Love
A garden is a space where blooms of blue and pink carry noble thoughts beyond words. The poem contends beauty cannot express deep faith and that the garden becomes an outside room where people reveal heart’s desires in blossoms that time would hide.
Prisoners to dig rock pile for fines revival
The Gasette reports a revived ordinance by Mayor Redmond and Marshal Kozlovsky to put nonpayers to work in the Higley quarry, guarded by a street foreman-turned-special policeman, to macadam the city streets. Will Prickett returns from three years in South Africa via London and Paris, noting Spanish American War chatter abroad. G. F. Van Vechten and niece head to Chicago for a Great Lakes and St Lawrence tour, with stops at Montreal and Quebec en route to the Saguenay for fishing. Waubeek area storms damage crops, unroof Bowdish and Cunningham store, windmills toppled, and livestock killed. Pope block leased to F. M. Tull of Spokane for furniture, rugs, drapery retail and wholesale. Professor Hall’s quartet to tour northern Wisconsin resorts. John Kouri returns from Syria to Cedar Rapids. survived sinking of La Bourgogne after raft ordeal. A. T. Averill elected president of Iowa Land Company. W. H. Durin treasurer. George T. Hedges secretary. directors include E. E. Busby, Harry Hedges, G. M. Averill, S. G. Armstrong. J. B. Fink finds an eighty-grain pearl worth at least $80. Local markets listed for wheat, oats, corn, rye, hay, hens, eggs, hogs, steers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redmond
Marshal Kozlovsky
Higley
Clara Barton Birthplace Camp Dedicated at Oxford Mass
The Clara Barton birthplace in Oxford Massachusetts becomes a camp for diabetic girls with an administration building and six cabins for 65 girls. A bronze tablet honors Barton as sponsor Universalist church funds the project and the camp welcomes girls of all denominations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Mass
Clara Barton
American Red Cross
New
Railways Park Comfortable Carriages At Welsh Highlands Attractions
British railways place sleeping and eating coaches at Welsh village and Scottish Highlands stops to show travelers the country while enjoying Leek class comforts. These demo carriages offer travelers a glimpse of luxury travel as part of the expanding auto trailer rage and tourism push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Railways
Wales
Scottish Highlands
Great Britain
Sunnybank dogs and a boyhood cat graveyard memory
In a Sunnybank visit Terhune’s dogs charm readers and a Kansas farm boy recalls Powder and Paint the cats and a maple grove pet cemetery. The piece blends tribute to dogs with a family tale of vanished stones, a buried cat memorial, and a mother’s negotiation to spare the graves.
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Wichita
Moscow
Kansas
Van
Maple Grove
Corncrib
Dad
Shep
Supreme Court
Mother
John
Columbus
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Corrigan
Tomas Alberto le Breton
Paris
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Joseph P. Kennedy
England
Vaino Hakkila
United States
Jeff Davis
King of the
Thomas Parran
Harry D. Gideonse
Chicago University
Mary Pickford
Harry L. Hopkins
Douglas Corrigan
Transatlantic Flyer
Herbert D. Boutall
Massachusetts
New York
G. W. Forster
North Carolina State College
W. E. Aeons
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
John D. M. Hamilton
Audrey Kargare
Hollywood
ED Hadley
Gazette
Lincoln Memorial
Potomac River
Arlington Cemetery
Edgar 4. Coos
James J. Meuska
Will Prickett
South Africa
London
G. F. van Vechten
Chicago
M. W. Pinckney
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence River
Montreal
Quebec
Saguenay
Waubeek
Bowdish
Cunningham
NEW Business
F. M. Tull
Spokane
Wash
Pope Block
Third Avenue
Third Street
Professor Hall
Wisconsin
David Price
Will Chase
Dudley Pike
Fred Burgess
John Kouri
Syria
la Bourgogne
Iowa Land Officers
A. T. Averill
Iowa Land Company
W. H. Durin
George T. Hedges
E. E. Busby
Harry Hedges
G. M. Averill
S. G. Armstrong
J. B. Fink
Charles Driscoll
Albert P. Terhune
Sunnybank
Terhunes
Albert Payson Terhune
Terhune
Pat
Fair Ellen
Sandy
Gray Dawn
Terhune Collies
Pathfinder
Merebania Bank Building
Paramount Pharmacy
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