Distance and romance among young workers in Des Moines
A Des Moines Tribune contributor analyzes how young, unskilled workers seek spouses near home while older men move farther to wed. The piece ponders whether transportation, income, and age widen the matrimonial horizon and questions if older men are more drawn to younger partners.
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Mitvéy
Geoffrey’s Aging Look Linked to Wife’s Youth Cost
In a penned quip, the speaker notes Geoffrey appears aged due to the high price of keeping his wife looking young. The joke hinges on vanity and social pressures surrounding appearance.
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Geoffrey
Crazy Water Crystals Offer Home Mineral Therapy
Advertises Crazy Water Crystals as a home mineral water treatment for rheumatic pains arthritis gout and related ailments. Claims Europe and America show relief from mineral waters and promotes a $1.50 box that makes weeks of mineral water with no additives from Crazy Water Co Mineral Wells Texas.
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Dinner at the remote academy opens with uneasy wait
Mrs Denver and Janet move into a quiet hillside academy with Mr Haskell in charge. The group notes silent scholars, old maps, and dim lights as they settle for a tense, solitary dinner while awaiting the unknown rules of their new duties.
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Mystery Enfolds Texas Academy Faculty Arrival
Jan ow教授 of English literature meets Arthur Flemling on a train en route to the Texas land Academy. They arrive with Mrs Dens r engaged as atron at the academy as Gordon Haskell proprietor and Wilton Payne psychology teacher complete the faculty. The station scene hints at a looming mystery surrounding the lonely school.
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Isaiah Contrasts False and True Worship Lesson
The lesson outlines Isaiah’s view of true worship versus hollow rites. It notes Israel's moral decline, God’s rejection of empty ceremonies, and the path to renewal through cleansing, repentance, and justice, ending with mercy for a remnant.
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Report to President cites 4.12 million rise in U S employment since taking office
The document led by Donald R. Richberg argues NRA codes expanded jobs and hours, noting 40 180 000 employed in June 1934 up 4 120 000 from March 1933 and 2 230 000 from June 1933. It highlights higher profits and fewer business failures as signs of recovery with 15 887 508 job applications and 6 051 523 placements observed in the year to June 1934.
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Third Degree on Russ Prisoners Charged
Moscow dispatches report that Russian prisoners in Manchukuo were beaten to extract confessions. Soviet reports say Chinese Eastern Railway workers were beaten and forced to sign sabotage statements under the direction of the far eastern red army. Japanese gendarmes allegedly assisted in the arrests, prompting concern over Japan’s involvement.
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National Hotel Strike Threat Looms Over 70000 Workers
Boston reports a national hotel workers strike threatened by John J. Kearney acting president of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance and the Bartenders' League of America. In a telegram to the hotel and restaurant code authority he warned 70000 workers would walk out if the day off was removed.
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23000 Stores Back Drive Against Food Profiteers
In a telegram to President Roosevelt F H Massman of Chicago president of the Association of Food and Grocery Chain Stores of America pledged the cooperation of 23000 stores to curb food profiteering. He praised the administration for protecting consumers from unwarranted price rises and said members will continue to aid the public through economical mass distribution.
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Oldest Native Texan Dies After 98 Years Under Five Flags
Temple Texas mourns Amanda Bry Ant Fetterly who lived 98 years and is lauded as the oldest native Texan. At her bier funeral services displayed the flags of France Mexico the Republic of Texas the Confederacy and the United States.
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Won't Surrender Blue Eagle in Dallas
The Pacific Ice and Cold Storage company in Dallas Texas refused to surrender its NRA Blue Eagle insignia to the Post Office department claiming noncompliance with the surrender order.
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Three Killed by Train Near Dunning Neb
A fatal train collision in Dunning Nebraska killed Joseph A Mattox aged fifty six and his two daughters Ellen thirty two and Mable fourteen when their automobile was struck by a freight train near Broken Bow.
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Formidable List of Eye Defects in Drivers Noted
Detroit Free Press outlines how normal eyesight varies in width of vision depth perception eye dominance and color vision. It says drivers can compensate for deficiencies by awareness and practice and cites Dr. Alvah R. Lauer of Iowa State College on the range of perceptual traits that affect driving safety.
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Alvah R. Lauer
Iowa State College
Detroit Free Press
Impatient Snail at London Museum Case
The director of a London Zoo aquarium recounts a tale of a large snail in a museum display. The creature, long-lived without food, detached from its label and explored the exhibit, breaking away from its card to wander the case.
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Nadinola Bleaching Cream Ad Promises Clear Skin
An advertisement touts Nadinola Bleaching Cream to erase freckles and blotchy skin, claiming rapid whitening and a radiant complexion with a money back guarantee. The copy cites immediate tonic effects and promotes ordering by mail from Paris Tennessee.
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To Each His Own Richness of Personality
A short aphorism attributes unique wealth of personality to every individual, noting a secret treasure built over a lifetime.
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