Prohibition and weather dominate midweek note
The week opens with warmer days then cooling trends forecast by the government. Various social updates include visits to Decatur, Birmingham, and Cincinnati, with travel plans to Oklahoma City and Carthage. A theater to show Pollyanna on Thanksgiving, and a Sunday service marking a pastor’s fourth anniversary. Washington reports the prohibition enforcement act is before President Wilson for signature.
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Decatur
Oklahoma City
Okla
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Wilson
Doak Opposes Sales at Below Cost of Articles
William N. Doak secretary of labor urges high ethics during the emergency and warns against selling below production costs. He says cut throat price cutting and promiscuous wage slashes hinder recovery. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey cites accident causes and advocates driver education to keep cars under control.
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Local terms pressure ad hoc tax on outsiders to aid town growth
The editorial argues against taxing outside concerns while exempting home institutions and urges public loyalty to buying locally. It cites two cases where merchants refused outside printing or clothing purchases, claiming local spending sustains payrolls, schools, churches, and jobs, and warns that unequal taxation harms Decatur's economy and employment.
Laval Birthplace of Venus in Idaho and France
Arthur Brisbane reports on Laval linked to many races and fine names across Idaho and France with a Venus birthplace concept. Copyright 1930 K Ring Features Syndicate inc.
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France
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White House dinner lets Laval charm Western reporters
At a formal White House dinner Premier Laval toured the reception room with President Hoover and Marshal Petain nearby. Observers noted Laval’s commanding presence and complex mix of French ancestry, titles, and diplomacy, while comparing him to historical figures and cycles of empire.
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How Blood Counts Are Done and What They Mean
Dr Logan Clendening explains blood counting methods and results. A finger or ear prick yields a tiny blood drop diluted with precise solutions to count red and white cells under a calibrated slide. Normal red cells run about five million per cubic millimeter, with white cells around five thousand, deviations signaling possible disease.
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Historian Hart on When Today’s Events Become History
Prof Albert Bushnell Hart, chosen as official historian for the George Washington Bicentennial, explains how quickly events turn to history. He notes two years as a practical minimum after an event, with ten years often needed to regard something as historic, and acknowledges new light can emerge later from diaries and state papers.
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Albert Bushnell Hart
America
Albert Story
George Washington
Union
World flight dreams heat up tariff debate
The piece recalls ancient landmarks and legends tied to a place while noting a tariff dispute. It then previews a forthcoming visit by Italo Balbo from Rome representing Mussolini with twenty four Italian sea planes on a world circumnavigation. Balbo, at thirty five, is Mussolini's air minister and a famed flyer.
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Dr Hubert Work a Former Interior Secretary and Gas Waste Note
A profile recalls Dr Hubert Work once chairman of the Republican National Committee and later secretary of the interior. Born July 3 1860 in Marion Center Pennsylvania he studied medicine and served as a WWI medical officer. The piece notes his Washington decline at 71 and cites a gas waste estimate for last year exceeding twice total U.S. manufactured gas.
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Republican National Committee
Washington
Will Hays
Fall
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Colorado
Puebla
United States
Autumnal Wealth and Wit in a Fragmented Verse
A collage of verse and quips on wealth, fathers, and fame, noting autumn imagery and humorous contrasts. The piece mixes humorous anecdotes about fathers, a jab at televized advertising, and casual maxims about speech and manners.
Prenuptial Thrills Fade Behind Dovelike Cops and Bills
A brief poem contrasts the sorrow of losing sweet prenuptial thrills with the practical burden of looming bills, hinting at early marital strain as financial pressures rise. The tone is mournful and observational, focusing on themes of love and obligation rather than explicit events.
Street Car Joke Exchange Between He And She
A light exchange turns on a street car pun with a man teasing a woman about the difference between a taxi and a street car. He suggests they ride the street car, prompting a playful retort. The dialogue captures casual urban banter.
Witty Exchange Over Slow Poison Drink Joke
A wife warns that the drink is poison while the husband jokes that slow poison suits him because he is in no hurry, delivering a dry humor moment.
Boy repeats triumph over cow picture in book
Edwin, four, owned a picture book showing a fierce cow chasing a boy. He studied it, hid the book, then reopened it and, tapping the image with a fist, declared with glee that the cow has not yet caught him.
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Edwin
None of your triangles in this case
A playful exchange voices marriage and money undercurrents. A mother explains alimony as a man’s cash surrender value to her young daughter, while a mistress questions Mrs Smith’s marriages. A new maid boasts previous weddings and hints at a fourth if fate allows.
Discoveries and Artifacts Across Time and Death
The passage cites Marie Curie as associated with radium, attributes the Sistine Madonna to Raphael, and mentions Cardinal Richelieu as a virtual ruler of France. It discusses wartime fear, economic optimism from Gates McGarrah and M. H. Sloan, and then observes aging, cancer, and population shifts noting Montaigne’s friend La Boetie and a France long past fifty.
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Montaigne
la Boetie
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