President May Sign Hatch Bill Amid Debate Over Rights
The President is expected to sign the Hatch bill prohibiting certain political activity by federal workers. He supports the bill's aims but worries some language may infringe constitutional rights. Critics say enforcement could curb liberties while still aiming to curb abuse of power by officials. The piece urges selecting public officials who prioritize honor over partisanship to reduce corruption.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Six Principles for a National Transportation Foundation
The Fortune round table outlines six core principles to guide U.S. transportation policy. They advocate equal treatment for all transport modes, simplified rates, cost reductions through consolidation, wage protections for workers, a temporary government transport committee, and a healthy economy as the prerequisite for a healthy transport system. The group rejects government ownership of railroads while warning against default-like government takeovers.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Round Table
Mountaineer craftsman frames beauty from black wood
A solitary mountain craftsman in a small town makes carved mantels and fine furniture from black oak walnut cherry and mahogany. He copies designs from the Metropolitan Museum and delays using air dried lumber five years. He rejects wealth and seeks only a living for his art, while a world of wealth prizes machine made goods. The piece contrasts his liberty, self respect and timeless skill with a consumer culture chasing easy money.
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New York
Blue Ridge Mountains
Metropolitan Museum
Sheraton
Adams
Phyfe
Round table discussion may lure private capital to railroads
The text suggests a forthcoming revival that could attract private capital to the railroad industry. It argues Congress should study the round table discussions before the next session confronts the ongoing railroad crisis.
Mars Signal Trial Fails to Link With Red Planet
A Mars radio experiment by the American Museum of Natural History failed to elicit any reply from inhabitants of Mars. The piece notes public longing for contact and laments the missed chance, with an eye toward a hoped-for future connection in seventeen years.
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Mars
American Museum of Natural History
Red Planet
New York Day by Day Spars Over Heat and Global Visitors
Charles Driscoll notes a quiet New York over a heat weekend. He chats with Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro, Brazilian army chief of staff, who calls New York unrivaled and marvels at its towers and architecture. Monteiro, 73, says he wants to roam the streets and absorb the city, while Driscoll highlights Burgess and John Kieran as notable figures.
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New York
Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro
Ambassador
Park Avenue
Grand Canyon
Weeks At Camp Give Lettie Newfound Confidence
Lettie, the middle child, spent the summer at camp and returned a changed girl with more personality and a new presence in her family. The piece contrasts her growth with her siblings' attention seeking and notes how library terraces reveal city sleepers and anxious solitude.
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Ettie
Lettie
Dear Miss Manners Advice on Reconciliation After a Breakup
A reader asks how to win back a boyfriend who left after she blamed him for dancing with another girl. The columnist suggests writing a brief apology note and inviting him to talk at her house. The reader is advised jealousy spoiled things and should learn from the experience.
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Miss Manners
H. S
Mind and work ethics from Albert Edward Wiggam
Albert Wiggam offers a science grounded view on moral questions and social structures. He argues jobless youths cannot blame schools for economic flaws and critiques schools for over or under preparing pupils while noting gender job dynamics and evolving workforce roles.
Wreck injures postal clerk and others in Cedar Rapids and bridge incident
Frank Listenwalter, a Cedar Rapids postal clerk, is among the seriously injured in Milwaukee train No. 1 wreck near Cambridge early today as the engine stayed on track but mail and baggage cars overturned. Also reported are travel plans for the Fricks and Passmores and a boy struck by a wagon in Fourteenth Avenue.
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Frank Listenwalter
Cedar Rapids
Cambridge
W. H. Frick
John Carey
Steamboat Springs
Colo
Ella
Edith Passmore
Yellowstone Park
Pacific Coast
George McNichols
Fourteenth Avenue
Local collisions and moves report from July 31 1929
Norma Robins injures foot after being struck by an automobile at First Avenue and First Street. Mrs Lillian Sheeley and daughter Maxine sail to San Diego to settle there. Dr Nelson Vance Russell named head of history at Coe College replacing Erik McKinley Eriksson who heads to USC. Mrs E W Brandel and daughter Bethyl Jean suffer injuries in a Colfax area crash. A new summer heat record reaches 98 degrees.
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Norma Robins
First Avenue
First Street
Lillian Sheeley
Maxine
San Diego
Calif
Nelson Vance Russell
University of California
Coe College
Erik McKinley Eriksson
University of Southern California
E. W. Brandel
Bethyl Jean
Colfax
Mercury
Healds Headed East for Monthlong Trip. Heat Hits 102
Mr and Mrs F A Heald departed yesterday for a month in New York and Pennsylvania. The day’s high reached 102, the season's top. Misses Helen Richards and Grace and Maud Brownell traveled to Colorado for vacation. Miss Hazel Brown left for Burley Idaho to visit Miss.
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F. A. Heald
New York
Pennsylvania
Mercury
Helen Richards
Grace
Maud Brownell
Colorado
Hazel Brown
Burley
Ida
Daily menus plan balanced family meals for five
The menus appearing daily in these columns are planned to serve a family of five two adults and three young children for about $12 a week. His or her shares the menus and recipes for each day will provide each member of the family with a well balanced diet adequate in calories, which make heat and energy, in protein which rebuilds and maintains tis sues, and in minerals and vitamins which regulate bodily tnctions.
Breakfast and Luncheon Menu Notes
Tuesday meals list items for breakfast and luncheon including orange juice oatmeal toast jelly coffee milk and toasted cheese sandwiches with cheese and bread and a Waldorf salad featuring apples and walnuts with quantities.
Costing a Day’s Meals in 1940s Cedar Rapids Menu
The menu lists Nut halves celery lettuce and doughnuts, coffee and dinner options. Braised shortribs mashed potatoes butter milk parsnips cabbage salad dessert wafers and tea appear with specified amounts and prices. A daily milk and butter allowance is noted with a marketing help line and Meta Given booklets address.
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Allen-Klapp-Frazier CO
Michigsan Ave
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Hubbard
Germany
Hitler
Ellis
John L. Lewis
George Clark
News Syndicate Co. Inc
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Patent Office
Gelett Burgess
Purple Cow
Minnesota
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San Francisco
Europe
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Burgess
John Kieran
New York Times
Miami
Brazil
Empire State Building
Wall Street
Babylon
Mary Manners
Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street
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Bunny
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N. F. Stump
Helen Stickley
Salt Lake City
Community Nutrition Service
Dial
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Sve
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Rapio
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Third Avenue
Third Street
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