Pay Dirt and Progress in 1930s America
Column reprints thoughts on Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, comparing wartime and peacetime gains, and urging steadfast progress. It weighs dangers of war, booming business, and the need for enforced safety rules. A secondary feature offers reflections on personal growth and moral courage.
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Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Congress
Washington
Jefferson
Jackson
United States
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Franklin Roosevelt
Birmingham Age-Herald
Dinner in Melvin DeGraw Home Turns Sour
Mrs. Melvin DeGraw and her three children faced a bleak meal after police arrested the absent husband on a theft charge. The dispatch reports a penniless family at dinner, followed by the arrest.
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America
Melvin DeGraw
Highway Safety Rules Spark Debate Across Mississippi Papers
One year prior notes contrast Laurel Leader and Commercial Dispatch views on highway safety. The Leader lists rules to guide drivers while the Dispatch argues for a statewide highway patrol and stricter enforcement.
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Commercial Dispatch of
Columbus
Mississippi
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Commercial Dispatch
Center Point Club Hosts Holiday Party
The Center Point home demonstration club members gathered at Mrs. Wiley Turney’s home for a festive holiday party. Decorations featured a red and green color scheme and a trimmed Christmas tree. Betty Turney and Sonny Sh handed out gifts as members sang carols and played games before refreshments. Attendees included Mesdames Humphrey, Wind, Johnson, Bramslett, Morrow, McAnally, Lyle, Breed ing, Lovick, Sharpe, Sharpe, Edmonson, Wright, and Miss Bramlett, McAnall, Erin Wright, and Jackson.
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Mrs Isom Returns Home After Serious Illness in Athens
Mrs Donald B Isom a well known Athens woman was removed from Powers Hospital to her home after a very serious illness. For a while her condition was feared critical but she is now definitely on the road to recovery.
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Athens
Ala
Donald B. Isom
Powers Hospital
Treatment of Overweight For Helping Bad Posture
Dr Logan Clendening outlines a three part plan to correct abdominal overweight causing poor posture. A wide abdominal belt supports the diaphragm and prompts head up posture while reducing weight with diet and postural exercises to straighten the back and relieve breath strain.
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Logan Clendening
M. D
At the Turn of the Road and More Vintage Snippets
A mix of short scenes and quips, including a Pullman porter joke about brushing off, a boss line on leadership, a wedding tale among coworkers, a solemn reply about meeting a wife, a bath time domestic moment, and a note on panhandlers in New York City earning about 100000 dollars daily.
Dr Logandening offers seven Dr Clendening pamphlets
Readers may obtain seven pamphlets by sending 10 cents per pamphlet and a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logandening. titles include Indigestion and Constipation Infant Feeding Feminine Hygiene and Care of Hair and Skin.
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Clendening
Logandening
Pereh
Child Names and Ambitions Highlight Southern Dialogue
A visitor asks Aunt Mandy to name her children. Aunt Mandy says she named them by flowers, the youngest "Artificial" with the prettiest name. A neighbor asks Tommy about his future, and he aims to make people tremble at his name.
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Tommy
Pleasant Journey and Banter at the Barbershop
A collage of prose and dialogues moves from a reflective toast to a humorous barbershop exchange. The piece muses on life as a journey with varied companions and ends with a light anecdote about finishing tasks, the year turning, and a playful nod to relationships.
Hound chases raccoon through Cincinnati sewer chase
West End residents heard baying from a sewer for three hours before police found John Wagner and Myrion Fraley running between manholes trying to corral a hound chasing a raccoon. The dog finally surfaced with the raccoon a mile away.
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West End
Wiord
John Wagner
Myrion Fraley
Broadway gossip and society whispers spill across Wilcox page
Trade Mark column tabs insiders who question Paulette Goddard’s marriage status and list a flood of Broadway society rumors. It notes secret marriages, debs and show business weddings, plus fashion, premieres, and feuds involving Ziegfeld figures and Hollywood names with sharp satire and gossip.
Parole violator netted after leg stuck in mud
Police caught Charles J. Rogers a 27 year old African American parole violator from Elmira reformatory after his wooden leg became stuck in mud in an alley. He was identified by officers and arrested in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus
Charles J. Rogers
Rogers
Elmira
N. Y
One to Go San Francisco Cats Caretaker Conflict
Shirley Moore 57 left part of his 25000 estate to provide four pet cats with homes. He required a caretaker with no children in the household. Administrators worried an elderly widow with two grandchildren in residence could not fulfill the condition. Since Moore’s death three cats wandered away.
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San Francisco
Shirley Moore
Moore
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