Business Men's Club backs plan for new Cincinnati depot
President E W Edwards announces a committee of club members will pursue a plan to provide a new union depot in Cincinnati. The move aims to mobilize civic pride and commercial expansion, criticizes inert financiers, and asserts the canal’s conversion and urban improvements as essential progress.
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E. W. Edwards
Business Men’s Club
Cincinnati
Edwards
Chamber of Commerce
What Is the Matter With Our Charities?
A political economist reports widespread charity red tape and slow relief. He cites Cincinnati cases where meals were withheld for hours and officials delayed aid. An Illinois legislative committee confirms systemic inefficiency amid calls for practical, immediate help for the needy.
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Cincinnati
City Department of Charities
Illinois
United Charities of Chicago
Seeing New York Highlights and City Gossip
Special to The Americas reports anecdotes from New York society and journalism. Harris Morton Lyon recalls freelancing struggles in early career while James Montgomery Flagg dines as Yale defeats Harvard on a crowded night. McCoombs interest and a wallflower dancing service feature in this bustling snapshot of 1920s city life.
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Americas
New York
Harris Morton Lyon
Texas
James Montgomery Flagg
Shanley
Harvard
Yale
James
Times Square
Good Roads Legislation Debated For Coming Congress Session
Special to The American. Washington, Nov. 28. Representative Dursey W Shackleford of Missouri chairs the new House Committee on Roads and forecasts road legislation at the coming regular session. The Smith Shackleford bill calls for 25 million dollars yearly with 5 million for non post road work and 20 million for post road highways, under state supervision with federal funds tightly conditioned. Secretary Houston lobbies for passage to boost farming and lower living costs.
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Washington
Dursey W., Shackleford
Missouri
House Committee On
Congress
House
Senate
Shackleford
Sharkieford
Mr. Shackleford
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Committee On Education and Labor
Smith-Shackleford
United States
Houston
What the Other Fellow Is Saying
A brief quip on men and dress from the London Opinion noting that while men desire little, real refinement is shown in attire when outdoors. It juxtaposes simple aims with Wotan’s imagined taste, signaling a satirical take on fashion culture.
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Wotan
London
Man Says This Isn't Any Arrest
A Washington Star clipping records a man in a domestic dispute reacting to police by hugging an officer and declaring this is a real arrest. The exchange shows tension between law enforcement and the man involved.
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Washington Star
Massachusetts minister visits Kentucky stalls amid moonshine lore
A Massachusetts minister on his first Kentucky trip spends a night in a mountain town where moonshine stills abound. He remarks that Kentucky is a fibulous state, to which a local replies there aren’t twenty five Bibles in the state.
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Massachusetts
Kentucky
The Big Shoe Store sign sparks clash in shop quarrel
A shoe store manager complains women won't visit. A salesman retorts the sign deters customers, quipping the sign reads The Big Shoe Store. The exchange underscores tensions over advertising and clientele in a humorous Lippincott's-esque vignette.
Lewis Cass Ledyard on a merkraker in New York
Lewis Cass Ledyard spoke in New York condemning a merkraker of a new type. He criticized the figure as consistently unreliable, likening the tale to the office boy whose master praised him yet proved forgetful when checked.
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Lewis Cass Ledyard
New York
New York Tribune
Story Snapshot From a Night Hearkening
A fragment from a women's issue page hints at a tale that startled the listener. The dialogue references Miss Muchbored and a whispered anecdote, framed as a vignette from Women's Home Companion.
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Staylate
Miss Muchbored
Women
Messenger Delivers Message to Financier After 20 Years
A self-made man revisits a great financier, recalling a message given to him twenty years earlier when he was a poor messenger boy. The financier recognizes him and asks for the outcome.
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Christian Register
Public pledge joke quoted in midcentury papers
The Chicago Tribune quotes a classroom exchange about a creature of the brute creation and marriage pledges with a cheeky reply from a child. The Boston Transcript notes the exchange as a humorous aside reflecting temperance era themes.
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Chicago Tribune
Talkative Barber Sparks Patient Swap in Baltimore News
A vivid Baltimore News scene shows a barber about to lather telling a patient to shut his mouth. The exchange highlights tension in a crowded barbershop setting as voices rise.
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Baltimore News
Tire Trouble Halts Trial Talk In Town
Dubkin teases Larrrimore about constant outings as the judge records a costly tire bill of eighty dollars last week, highlighting a petty dispute over car use.
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Dubkin
Larrimore
Judge
Investment tip folly revealed in Jones remark
A Baltimore American quote recalls Jones realizing he had been a fool to take Smith's investment tip, highlighting a sharp turn of events and self recrimination.
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Jones
Smith
Baltimore American
Big Talkers and Quiet Minds
A humorous verse sketch by Walt Mason contrasts the boastful neighbor who never stops talking about himself with the refined critic who discusses music drama and literature. The piece lightly satirizes self importance and social posturing in comic verse.
State Street in Chicago A Satirical Portrait of Its Length and Life
A humorous, sprawling portrait of State Street Chicago describing its length from the river to beyond the horizon, its status as a busy retail hub, landmarks like the Masonic Temple, and the diverse activity along the sidewalks. The piece exaggerates the street’s breadth, crowds, and perpetual bustle while wittily noting the challenges of navigating its vast, lively blocks.
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State Street
England
America
Chicago
Regal Street
Randolph
State
Loop
Masonic Temple
Earth
Free Legal Department Offers Public Legal Q A Answer Line
Cincinnati American prints a free legal advice column inviting concise questions signed for confidentiality. It explains bankruptcy trustees pay debts equally unless preferred claims exist and notes limits on debt collection, including wage garnishment and creditor rights.
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Free Legal Department
Cincinnat American
East Seventh Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mas Ibte
Letters From the People on Auto Traffic and Tomato Spared
A reader proposes extreme measures to reduce street conflicts with autos. Suggestions include restricting vehicle access around Fountain Square and a comical claim that pedestrians should carry ripe tomatoes to throw at chauffeurs to deter speeding, ending with an unfinished thought.
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the American
Fountain Square
Third
Seventh
Elm
Broadway
Park
P. Bel
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