Public warning on sweepstakes gambling across the nation
The piece reports Post Office Department warnings against large sweepstakes games with prizes near 2 million dollars and total subscriptions of 15 million. It notes prosecutions for lottery violations, calls for enforcement, and editorials criticizing gambling as economic waste. It cites Horace J. Donnelly and Arthur Brisbane urging caution against gambling.
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Post Office Department
The
Anniston Star
Selma Times-Journal
Times-Journal
United States
Horace J. Donnelly
Mexico
Senate
Arthur Brisbane
Decatur Charity Council Urges Preparedness for Winter
The Decatur charity council praises last winter’s aid to Decatur’s unfortunates and warns that another winter will come. Citizens are urged to stay ready for the next fund drive to keep the charity’s work going.
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Decatur
Decatur Community Singers Grow Growing Weekly Sings Attract Attendees
The Decatur Community Sing organization expands from a county-wide effort into a popular weekly event drawing hundreds. The Daily praises the group for spiritual uplift and community value, noting the singing’s role in Morgan County growth and newspaper support for future gatherings.
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Decatur Community Sing Organization
Decatur
Morgan County
Alabama to Adopt Income Tax, Says Editorial
The Montgomery Journal and The Daily foresee Alabama moving to an income tax. They note a Senate bloc blocked the measure, but the governor plans to push the proposal to voters, possibly in a special session. The editor argues the tax is fair and gradually replacing ad valorem taxes.
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Montgomery Journal
Alabama
Journal
Miller
House
Senate
Morgan County
the Daily
Stalin Works and Learns in Tumultuous Times
Arthur Brisbane reflects on Stalin's visible work and learning during unrest as doctors argue and a royal conversation unfolds. Impressions of 1930s politics fuel a measured commentary on leadership and crisis.
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Stalin
Harvard astronomers find a super-giant variable in Magellan Cloud
The article notes Harvard astronomers discovering a Milky Way far super-giant variable flashing 12 000 to 33 000 times brighter than the sun at about 90 000 light years away. It compares scales with Earth and the sun, then shifts to politics praising Stalin and Russia’s progress.
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Harvard University
Milky Way
Magellan
Major General Patterson Ends Hawaiian Surgeon Role
Major General Robert U. Patterson, successor to Merritte W. Ireland as surgeon general, has served as surgeon of the Hawaiian Department since August 1930 and now shifts to a broader field after overseas service from 1907 to 1918. This photo taken in Washington captures him.
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Robert W. Patterson
Merritte W. Ireland
U. S. Army
Washington
Jesus Teaches Greatness by Humble Child Analogy
The passage recounts Jesus receiving a child and declaring that one must become like children to enter the kingdom of heaven. He warns against offending “little ones” and speaks of humble greatness, citing St. Matthew 18 1 7.
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Jesus
Kingdom of Heaven
St. Mat
World Financiers Debate Global Wealth and Kings in London
An op-ed style column weighs 120 million and 150 million fortunes across Europe and Asia, contrasts Russia and China, and sketches a financial mood in Berlin and Wall Street. It notes King George and Mary marking 38 years of marriage at Holyrood and reflects on fading empires and a shifting throne landscape.
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Western
Asia
Russia
China
George
Mary
Czar
Austria
Spain
Germany
Portugal
Hazel Morrow Takes Two-Week Vacation From Tennessee Valley Bank
Miss Hazel Morrow of the Tennessee Valley Bank is on vacation for two weeks. A California redwood in Bull Creek Flat is claimed to be 363 feet tall, described as the tallest tree in the world.
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Hazel Morrow
The
Tennessee Valley Bank
Bull Creek Flat
California
Arctic
Lindbergh
Mussolini
Inquirer
Double Barreled Cannon Built by Confederate Soldier
A Civil War era double barreled cannon built by a Confederate soldier proved unsatisfactory and failed to meet expectations during testing.
International Moratorium Dominates Hoover Era Outlook
President Hoover’s moratorium offer shapes a long international phase in the 1932 campaign. Analysts foresee Hoover leveraging foreign affairs expertise for 16 to 18 months, while Owen D Young’s name rises as a leading Jeffersonian internationalist. Debates over debt, reparations, and Versailles revisions loom into 1932, with disarmament talks at Geneva and tariff concerns likely to surface.
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Germany
United States
France
Hoover
Berlin
Charles
Stewart Central Press
Washington, D. C
Lkely
Geneva
Necessity of Narcotics in Treatment Explained
The article argues medical use of narcotics is essential and disputes the idea doctors cause addiction. It notes a hundred thousand morphine doses daily in the U S and cites only 23 percent of addicts first received drugs from doctors, with most self treating or seeking thrill.
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United States
Quotable Quips and Wit From a Bygone Era
A collage of short wits and phrases pairs humor with social commentary. The snippets touch on love, marriage, politics, Prohibition, and everyday life, naming generic figures and cultural notions in a rapid, humorous stream.
Land of Vacation Dreams Poem By James Edward
A nostalgic poem invites a getaway along a romantic road to sylvan retreats. It depicts nature, streams, peaks, and a yearned land of vacation where cares are dropped and freedom and beauty prevail.
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James Edward
Romance
Sweet Land
Definitions of trade terms and detective wording
The excerpt defines 3 A DAY Fabrikoid as leather imitation for bags and upholstery and notes detective as a skilled exposer, plus plangent as a loud reverberating wave. It reads like a glossary entry from an old dictionary or periodical.
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Plangent
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