Secretary of State Picked as Honest Choice Amid Highway Plans
The piece notes Howell’s suitability for Secretary of State and his admission that he may not fish during vacation. It highlights Alabama’s northern section lacking first class road communication and the need for highway completion once funds are available, with Turner returning to Governor Milk s’s office after a gulf coast week.
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Turner
Gulf Coast
Governor Milks
Foks
Howell
North
Alabama
Highway Administration
Lottery Bill Returns After Committee Vote
A proposed constitutional amendment would reinstate a lottery after 36 years if backed by the legislature and ratified by voters. Critics call the return a backward step and warn persuading people to quit gambling is hard, noting the lingering “take 6¢ chance” mindset.
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Louisiana
Decatur Memoir on Anti-Malaria Campaign Shortfall
A Decatur editorial laments funding cuts to anti-malaria campaigns and mosquito control. It argues health spending protects the city block and stresses malaria defense as essential, not optional, noting money shortages hinder progress and urging continued effort.
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Decatur
Uncle Sam Says No Prohibition Era Bribe Probe
The passage describes government bribery schemes linked to bootlegger prosecutions and pre repeal liquor control. It notes agents soliciting bribes to convict bootleggers and the public’s wary reaction to such enforcement tactics. The wording reflects a newspaper critique of corruption tied to Prohibition policing.
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Uncle Sam
Federal funds continue for road building program approved
Federal appropriation keeps the United States road building program moving forward after the bill was signed by the president. The action ensures ongoing funding for infrastructure construction and maintenance nationwide.
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United States
Bonanza quartet to sing at Evergreen church Sunday
The Daily notes the Bonanza quartet will perform at an Evergreen church Sunday morning. The article credits the Louisville and Nashville Railroad for stopping its Pan-American train there, praising railway courtesy and comparing it to polished hotel service. It encourages summer train travel for a pleasant journey.
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the Daily
Bonanza Quartette
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Pan-American
City Must Maintain Big Bank Building and Park Projects
The city and civic clubs should plan and implement maintenance for two key centers to avoid wasting thousands of dollars and preserve valuable service. Delays threaten the investments and the park system and rehabilitation efforts, signaling poor business sense.
PWA loan optimism in Decatur amid legal clearance
Decatur residents and officials welcome an Associated Press report from Washington showing Alabama Supreme Court approval of PWA loan validity for a transmission line. They anticipate prompt consideration of Decatur and nearby Florence, Tuscumbia, and Sheffield applications, noting delays are not their fault as TVA power use awaits funding decisions.
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PWA
Decatur
Alabama At Preme
Carmichael
Florence
Tuscumbia
Sheffield
TVA Power
TVA
Europe Sizzled by Heat and Drought Report
Arthur Brisbane notes ongoing heat wave sweeping Europe causing drought conditions across multiple nations. He cites agricultural strain, energy demands, and potential economic impact while urging vigilance and adaptation by governments and citizens.
Era of Bills and Dictatorship Mixed With War News
The excerpt discusses Roosevelt’s perceived power while Congress is away, mentions crime and societal disarray, and notes weather effects on crops and wine markets. It hints at historical war messaging via a carrier pigeon and references to economic concerns and distant vintages.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Disturbance of Touch and Other Mixed Senses
The article reviews mixed sensory experiences such as touch where two points are felt, and cases from Dr Weir Mitchell describing mislocalized pain after injuries. It also covers reflex interactions like sneezing yawning and hiccuping and a young patient whose yawning turned into sneezing, then ceased after bromides.
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Weir Mitchell
New York Liquor Scene Shifts From Speakeasies to Hotels
In New York on June 21 O. O. McIntyre notes an overabundance of leftover speakeasy restaurants that fail to attract business while midtown bars private clubs and theatres suffer. Patrons now favor hotel dining rooms which offer better liquor and entertainment. Liquor stores face dry demand and big department stores push low prices. The city grows wary of bootleggers as clip joints decline amid clean-up efforts.
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New York
Junk dealer Zerboni linked to fatal shooting scene
Police report Dominick Zerboni of New York stood near as a shot rang out and Carmelo Scuderi collapsed with a chest wound. Zerboni feared involvement in a murder case after paying 1500 dollars to avoid drag and 500 dollars to cover the funeral of the deceased man.
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Dominick Zerboni
New York
Carmelo Scudderi
Zerboni
Dr Clendening Pamphlets Offered By Mail
Editor notes six pamphlets by Dr Logan Clendening are available by mail for 10 cents each plus a self addressed stamped envelope. Titles include Indigestion and Constipation. Reducing and Gaining. Infant Feeding. Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes. Feminine Hygiene. The Care of the Hair and Skin.
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Clendening
Logan Clendening
Lightning Strikes Home In Hartselle During Storm
Twelve years ago a daytime electrical storm shocked the Sharpe residence in Hartselle between 11 and 12 o'clock Tuesday. A bolt sent lightning through a phone line to the living room, damaging the telephone and scattering papers. Nearby hogs were stunned by the electricity. G Burch of Moulton visited Decatur yesterday.
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Hartselle
Cyde Sharpe
Sharpe
Subways Report Confirms Tomato Ketchup Ruse
Police say a subway incident involving a supposed dead man was staged. A crimson stain proved to be tomato ketchup, linked to a later racket yielding about 100000 dollars profit.
Roosevelt kinship shapes a distant family plan
In a six week window the Roosevelt family weighs a long trip to Texas. Father Elliott Roosevelt and his wife own the baby and expect the voyage to cover about fifteen hundred miles from Washington while awaiting possible plan changes.
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Texas
Washington
Elliott Roosevelt
High
Huntsville Visit Highlights Local Families
Mr and Mrs Fred Stewart and children of Moulton visited Wednesday. D dr and Lucian Bush are guests of their grandfather B F Coyle in Huntsville. Miss Lucile Mitchner plans to return to Memphis tomorrow after visiting Miss Helen Russell.
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Fred Stewart
Moulton
D.dr
Lucian Bush
B. F. Coyle
Huntsville
Lucile Mitchner
Memphis
Tenn
Helen Russell
Today’s Horoscope for Born on This Day
Persons born on this day are loving, kind, generous, and imaginative, noted for warm character traits. The brief column highlights favorable qualities and suggests embracing creativity and empathy in daily life.
River Gauges Fall as Tennessee River Drops to Four Feet
The Tennessee River continues to fall with the gauge reading at 7 a.m. here at four feet. Local officials monitor levels as weather conditions shift.
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Tennessee
Hervey Allen at New York Cocktail Party
The literary figure Hervey Allen impressed at his first New York cocktail party where a glossarian praised him as a simple but regal man. His novel Anthony Adverse nears half a million sales, ensuring a long rest before his next work. He resembles composer Vincent Youmans in appearance.
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Hervey Allen
New York
Canute
Anthony Adverse
Allen
Vincent Youmans
Lew Cody depicted as a principled but restless film figure
The reminiscence recalls Lew Cody as a stern yet decent film actor with French-Canadian roots, a medical and legal education, and a taste for dramatic living in Paris. He spoke flawless French and often spoke of facing death swiftly from a valvular heart condition.
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Lew Cody
Paris
Indiana’s Literary Belt Echoes in Noted Writers
A reflective note on Indiana’s celebrated authors including George Ade Booth Tarkington Meredith Nicholson Kin Hubbard James Whitcomb Riley General Lew Wallace and Albert Beveridge and the enduring cultural halo they cast over the state.
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Indiana
America
Inpw
George Ade
Booth Tarkington
Meredith Nicholson
Kin Hubbard
James Whitcomb Riley
General Lew Wallace
Albert J. Beveridge
Walter Winchell in on Broadway and Nice Guy anecdotes
A fragmentary collage notes Walter Winchell and a Hollywood gossip piece about a movie sheik seeking sympathy from a lover, with a side reference to Madame Curie era radium research and the Denver scientist Koenig who died from radium exposure while helping lower production costs.
Death by his own hand at Lady Panmore's ball
A guest at Lady Panmore's ball, Sir Dwight Hopeless, felt ill after a highball and left in a taxi. He drew a pistol from his pocket and ended his life, leaving regrets and disbelief among his friends.
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Dusty Rhodes
Dwight Hopeless
Henry Koenig Remembered by a Grieving Narrator
A speaker reflects on the death of Henry T. Koenig, noting his obscurity to most but personal significance to the narrator as prayers and memories surface after his passing.
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Henry T. Koenig
Henry Koenig
Hoosier tradition upheld by Aurora trio at St. Regis
A table at the St. Regis gathered Edwin C. Hill Elmer Davis and Frank B. Shutts all born and raised in Aurora Indiana doing their part to sustain the Hoosier tradition.
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St. Regis
Edwin C. Hill
Elmer Davis
Frank B. Shutts
Aurora
Ind
The Eternal Question portrait linked to Evelyn Thaw
Evelyn Thaw owns Gibson’s famous black and white study The Eternal Question once popular during the Thaw trial and on postcards worldwide. A bidder has offered up to 15000 for the original, with experts predicting rising value as it ages. The piece remains the sole lasting salvage from her Thaw era, and Thaw and Thaw rarely meet, last seen seven years ago on a Broadway corner near the Casino site.
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Evelyn Thaw
Gibson
Evelyn
Than
Pittsburger
Notable Hollywood Bits and Society Notes
Einstein never carries more than a dime. Clifton Webb may move to straight drama. John fortune grows via annuities. Mrs Roy Howard slows daughter Jane the Orient. Kent Cooper avoids trunks on world tours. Natalie Coe cited as season’s most beautiful bride. Joe Pennier keeps his wife in his dressing room per request.
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Einstein
Clifton Webb
John Ee Fortune
Roy Howard
Jane the Orient
Kent Cooper
Natalie Coe
Joe Pennier
McIntyre Stages Quiet Platform Prank With Dog
A humorous Albuquerque dispatch recalls McIntyre strolling the station platform with his dog wrapped in a Pullman blanket. He joked with the Indians, turning a plain moment into a lighthearted card.
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McIntyre
Albuquerque
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Woman Bets High in Galveston Gaming House
Jimmy Kern of the Yacht Club Boys recounted a Galveston gaming-house incident where a woman wagered her age on roulette. She bet on numbers 22 and 32, and number 32 won.
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Jimmy Kern
The
Yacht Club Boys
Galveston
Portrait of a Sultan and a Hollywood Visit
The Sultan of Johore had gold caps on his teeth for a California trip but removed them after realizing he was alone on the gold-tooth trend. He stayed a fortnight in Los Angeles as a foot doctor treated his gout and broke two bones in his garbos.
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Johore
Hollywood
California
Los Angeles
Phantom Gypsy comments on press agents and columns
The Phantom Gypsy muses that if all press agents were gone the press might end with a single column. The piece closes with an obituary note.
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Walter Winchell
Newsmen Behind the Headlines Highlighted by Winchell
Quote from Miller in Thomaston Ga Times notes many reporters write behind the headlines but Walter Winchell stands out for writing the news ahead of them.
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Thenes
Weddy
Mitch
Winchell
Miller
Thomaston, Ga
Operator One Seeks Confidential Chat Post
A speaker urges a private, nameless chat, insisting on secrecy and asserting memory loss of the assistant’s identity. The message emphasizes avoiding wasted time and dismisses disclosure of personal names.
Radio comic turns down Hollywood offer
Izzy Eliason notes a radio comedian declined a tempting move to Hollywood. His jokes, deemed too old, prevented the transfer and kept the performer in place.
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Izzy Eliason
Hollywood
Mischief List Rumors sparks in quirky column
A humorous jumble lists odd items linked to celebrities and slogans. Hints mention Joyce's dog collar moons, twin beds, Greta's kissproof routine, autographs ink, starch in collars, Elissa Landi, Johnny Weissmuller, Ben Bernie, and Dietrich's pants in a playful, gossip style item.
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H. H. Zuberhoff
Joyce
Greta
Elissa Landi
Johnny Weissmuller
Ben Bernie
Dietrich
Fat wife headlines spark divorce trial spark
The New York divorce trial headlines note a wife described as beautiful but fat and no longer attractive. An advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a 30 day weight loss remedy promising pounds shed and a money back guarantee.
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New York
Goldel
Adv
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