Thought for Today on Happiness and Tariffs in 1929 West Virginia
The Charleston Gazette voices a public advisory on happiness, citing serving others as central. It condemns the 1929 tariff push as harmfully boosting costs and provoking international heat while echoing historic critique of special interests, referencing Louis Brandeis as a public-spirited counterpoint.
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Congress
Canada
Europe
Washington
House
Dingley
Ata
Boston
Louis Brandeis
Supreme Court
Farm relief voiced as Borah cites farmer’s costs
Senator Borah mapped farm distress noting four to five years of imports totaling about 2.5 billion dollars competing with American producers. He argued labor costs freight and land give foreign producers an edge, omitting interest rates and taxes as key handicaps. He urged relief for farmers in the extraordinary session.
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Borah
United States
Congress
The New Spirit Awakening a New World Order
An editorial extols a dawning mentality where wealth and poverty blur, machines lift drudgery, and high ideals rise. It celebrates universal access to transport, home ownership, radio, art, literature, affordable food, and improved finance. It envisions cooperative farming, scientific farming support, and widespread consumer abundance.
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Webater Echo
Dawn of a New Spirit in Society and Morals
A speech extols wealth and labor saving devices while urging balanced progress. It argues material abundance should yield cultivation of heart and spirit, warning against material luxury overrunning virtue. It calls for united optimism and attention to social problems in the path to national flourishing.
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Portune
Henry Clay on Temperance and Conciliatory Policy
The text recalls Henry Clay's views from seventy-five years past, praising temperance but warning against coercion. It notes his belief that sobriety supports free government and universal suffrage, emphasizing education and honesty as essential.
Accidents Rise On Open Highways And Tax Burdens
Aged clippings discuss fewer motor accidents on wet or congested streets versus open highways, citing Benja min G. Eynon on driver carelessness. It critiques growing taxes linked to more laws, agencies, and enforcement costs, urging government simplification. Also notes 1869 fashion costs, then modern simpler dressmaking, and a humorous medical spelling tale from Huntington papers.
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Marror
Benjamin G. Eynon
State Revenue Department
Pennsylvania
Casey
Conviction as True Fellowship, Wilson Quoted at Princeton
The Baptist Banner notes Woodrow Wilson's statement that the only genuine friendship in life is a community of conviction. It argues this wisdom applies to church members who favor creedless religion and urges adherence to scriptural doctrine for lasting fellowship. The piece condemns creedless communities and urges conviction-based unity.
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Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Niagara's Rear Echoes on Presidential Victory
Arthur Wrishane surveys a chaotic 1944 editorial spread on Niagara's political climate, energy policy, and urban life. The piece threads economic woes, power debates, and wartime anxieties through cultural commentary and speculative futures.
The Price of a Car vs Love and Duty
A reader asks Dorothy Dix about marrying for love versus the lure of a deluxe car. The columnist argues the risks of divorce for material perks, urging humility, responsibility, and the immutability of trust. Strong entities include Dorothy Dix and general moral counsel.
British Leader MacDonald Plans Naval Talks With Hoover
A Washington observer notes possible high level talks between J. Rites MacDonald and President Hoover aimed at reaching an accord on belligerent rights and neutral rules ahead of the 1931 arms limit conference. The piece discusses U K disarmament hopes, Reed and Borat proposals, and fears of a renewed naval race if no agreement is reached.
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London
Hoover-MacDonald
Semiter Burak
Reed
Mixsouri
Borat
Senate
Moreh Ulew
Sebatar Boral
Helliger
Sta
Xee
Yielt
Washington
Long Island society scene and its gate crashers
New York society notes lampoon the Long Island summer crowd as fashionable gate crashers and parasitic hangers-on. The column mocks idle rich, widow dowagers, and flashy luminaries, while praising well-born families and the era's fashionable entertainments on the shores. It also comments on crime slang and shifts to a tale of a spontaneous marriage born from flirtation.
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New York
Long Island
Barnarles
Tongue Coating and Health: Patient Advice Reprint
Readers discuss tongue coating and mouth care with tongue scraping and diet tips. A response clarifies papillae on the tongue and suggests open-mouth sleep and fruit intake, then covers varicose vein concerns about vibratory machines, noting no clot danger unless ulcers exist. An editor note explains article prompts and submission costs for Dr. Peters column.
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Peters
Easu
Dr. Peters
World and All By CNARLES 8 DRISCOLL
Censoring Dr William J O Shea head of New York City schools argues censorship fails and public taste should guide reading. He says good judgment cannot be taught by laws or guards and cites Boston as example where Dreiser is read despite bans.
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William J. O'Shea
City of
New York
Bac
Bastan
Dreiser
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