Economic Outlook After 1936 In Industrial Sectors
The year closed with mixed signals as production and sales reach highs not seen since the downturn, while unemployment remains a major hurdle. Utilities will spend over 530 million to expand capacity, autos show strong demand despite labor risks, and construction finally outpaced 1935 by half. Agriculture posts its best gross since 1929 despite drought, while employment remains a central challenge amid easy money debates and potential market excess.
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Electric Utilities
John L. Lewis
General Motors
America
STEEL
ICC
Security Exchange
REA
Alaska
Literary Digest
Mayflower Hotel
Washington
J. Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
Total Rural Life
Congress
Survey Shows Boys Gang Tendencies In Scouts
A Santa Barbara survey map shows boys drawn to Boy Scouts of America offerings, suggesting gang spirit may be redirected through organized scouting. The study highlights a geographic pattern of participation and interest in local scouting programs.
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Boy Scouts of America
Santa Barbara
Calif
Scouts Use Pins to Map 500 Homes Citywide
A Santa Barbara survey shows 500 Scouts across rich and poor neighborhoods, with many pairs of Scouts living on the same block. Scout Executive Calvin McCray notes friendship ties drive growth while social workers report juvenile delinquency cut by about 60 percent since Scouting began.
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Ted
Scout
Calvin McCray
Santa Barbara
Problems for 1937: work, industry, and world peace
The note argues 1937 must solve unemployment by boosting industry so every willing worker is needed. It calls for labor and capital cooperation, likening strife to two horses pulling apart. It warns nations must learn to live together or face biblical consequences.
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Cain and
Abel
Pan American Peace Conference 1936 highlights and Spain crisis
Editorial notes reflect on 1936 events with Buenos Aires Pan American Conference as the year’s key progress. It catalogs collective security, neutrality, nonintervention, and a declaration of peace principle, plus minor pacts on education, radio, and cooperation. It notes the Chaco dispute and League of Nations’ potential harmonizing role, while reporting on Franco’s Spain stalemate and mediation efforts.
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England
United States
Spain
Italy
Ethiopia
Buenos Aires
Western Hemisphere
Pan-American Union
Montevideo
Chaco
Bolivia
Paraguay
Geneva
League of Nations
Argentina
League
Cryptic bank messages hint at Basque mediation talks
A deciphered dispatch explains how banks quote cryptic phrases to signal military moves in Spain. Phrases like Grandfather and The baby refer to Government troops, while a line about a star suggests meteorologists claiming a new development. Basques may mediate as talks at odds with Franco advance.
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Madrid
Grandfather
Franco
France
del Vayo
Chiang Kai-Shek Policy Seen As Unified and Cautious
A Chinese insider argues Chiang Kai-Shek pursues a twofold policy to unify China and resist Japanese expansion without triggering a Sino-Japanese war. China has brought provinces under Nanking and curbed Communist power, while concessions to Japan aim to avoid stirring extremists. The informant notes current crises could tempt Japan to act, yet Chiang’s high prestige remains intact after recent gains in South China.
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Far East
Chiang-Kai-Shek
Chiang- Kai-Shek
Chiang
China
Nanking
Japan
South China
Rural electrification defies experts and expands reach
A patriotic defense of the Federal Rural Electrification Administration argues past warnings were biased and limited. It highlights rising rural electricity activity from 1935 to 1937, projected farm connections, and cost cuts in line construction, noting REA aims to electrify entire areas and boost farm incomes through modern energy use.
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REA
C. W. Kelley
Edison F Electric Institute
Kellog
Mr. Kellog
Farmers of
Electrical World
Maryland
Congress
New England
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Willits
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Texas
Harvey Couch
Arkansas
Couch
Pneumonia tops Maryland illness concerns warns health chief
Dr. R. H. Riley, director of Maryland Health, warns pneumonia spikes in fall and rises through spring, with deaths outpacing summer declines. He notes serum treatment helps certain types when given early, labs now yield rapid tests and courier specimen delivery is critical for rapid diagnosis and care.
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R. H. Riley
State Department of Health
Maryland
City
State Departments of Health
Baltimore City
State Department ‘of Health
Ridgely Residents Affected by Illnesses And Visits
Mrs. Julia Walls is quite sick and many town residents are confined to homes with severe colds. Visitors include Mrs. Mary Evans and Dr. Anna Evans of Lancaster who visited Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Stayer. Harriet Reed of Washington spent the weekend with Rev and Mrs O B Reed. Walter Moore and family visited W H Valliant in Bellevue. Alice Lane hosted Mr and Mrs Thomas McCloud of Philadelphia. Mr. Eaton of Queen Anne is ill at his son Edwin Eaton’s home in Ridgely. Mrs. Sadie Sleek suffers from bronchitis.
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Julia Walls
Mary Evans
Anna Evans
Lancaster
Franklin
Harriet Reed
Washington
O. B. Reed
Walter Moore
W. H. Valliant
Bellevue
Alice Lane
Thomas McCloud
Philadelphia
Mr. Eaton
Queen Anne
Edwin Eaton
Ridgely
Sadie Sleek
Goldsborough
Clarence W. Lister
University of Pennsylvania
Geo. W. Lister
Goldsboro
Automobile’ Club of Maryland
H. M. Rowe
H. A. Roe
Mason
Caroline
W. T. Hignatt
Senate
William F. Jackson
John Jones
House
Patrick W. Carey
Nettie Dean
Albert W. Sisk
J. Frank Ledman
Woodrow Wilson
Katherine Tharp Stitchbury
Denton
R. Frances Stitchbury
Easton
George Morgan Dean
Cambridge
Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church
Eugene R. Murphy
Rena Gannon
R. W. Bennett
William Warrington
Deen
Baltimore
Annapolis
Albert Satterfield
Wm. D. Satterfield
James
Osie Hubbard
Earle Cooper
Clayton Roe
Ed. Long
Ruth
Rebecca Satterfield
Lydia Wright
H. Grant Roe
R. L. Roe
Frank Wilson
Russell Anderson
Hiram C. Dudley
Wye Mills
Mary H. Lucas
Ambrose Lucas
W. J. D. Lucas
Dudley
Evelyn Rolph
Millington
Temple Jarrell
Wesley Jarrell
Maryland Agricultural College
Millitcent
Emily Dark
James Monroe Dean
Fot
John W. Munck
Ruth Boarman
Everett Pepper
Nannie Towers
Western High School
Thomas H. Davies
Pottsville
Emma Clark
J. Dukes Downes
Bridge Club
Mary George
Willow Grove
George A. Deakyne
Denton National Bank
Harvey L. Cooper
Charles W. Hobbs
Thomas B. Sparklin
Abraham R. Wright
William H. Deen
Thomas C. West
Ormond W. Downes
Harry S. Dailey
Thomas W. Jones
M. Bates Stephens
James H. Nichols
John L. Everngain
The
Peoples National Bank
Albert G. Towers
Joseph H. Bernard
Thomas L. Day
Henry T. Nuttle
Paul
Death of Mrs. Arria Garey in Denton
Mrs Arria V Garey widow of Owen C Garey died at her Denton home after a long illness on January 11. Funeral and burial were in Greensboro cemetery with Rev M S Andrews officiating. Born April 6 1866 near Greensboro she lived in the Garey Greenlee area before moving to Denton thirty years ago. Survived by brother Benjamin F Greenlee of Greensboro and grandson Paul H Roe of Denton.
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Arria V. Garey
Owen C. Garey
Denton
Greensboro
Benjamin F. Greenlee
Paul H. Roe
Holsinger
George S. Raleigh
Somers Blake
H. Clay Hobbs
Frank P. Covey
Peoples Bank
Goldsboro
Jas. Scotton
Main Street
Enoch George
Caroline
George
Oak Grove
Sadlersville
Methodist Episcopal Church
Eva M. Horsey
William G. Horsey
Dawson Orme George
University of Maryland
Octavia G. Russum
Judge Russum
J. Gibson Gantt
Christ P. E. Church
Mary E. Liden
William F. Liden
Eighth District
Ethel
Anna Ottinger
James Fiske
Landstreet
E. T. Orme
Aldersontown
Concord
John F. Russom
Hillsboro
Mary
Albert T. Cahall
J. W. Prettyman
Williston School
Pauline Cohee
Jay Kitchen
Clifford Towers
Mabel Kitchen
Earl Love
Mabel Street
Minnie Henry
James Newman
Kennard Willis
Naomi Coleman
Boonsboro School
David Snowden
Clarence Pentz
Hazel Phillips
Bessie Wooters
Eva Cole
Mildred Mitchell
Lola Morris
Nettie Butler
Mr and Mrs R Ellis Clark Host Bridge Supper
Mr and Mrs R Ellis Clark entertained with a bridge supper Thursday evening, hosting friends for an evening of cards and light refreshments in their home.
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Mrs. R. Ellis Clark
Blessed are the happiness makers Henry Ward Beecher
The quote attributed to Henry Ward Beecher proclaims that happiness arises from those who create joy for others. It frames joy as a deliberate act rather than a passive state, highlighting moral virtue in social conduct.
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Henry Ward Beecher
90-Year-Old Chester Woman Recounts Slavery Days
Margaret Holliday, 90, of 2930 West Third Street Chester Pa, recalls life under slavery before emancipation. She speaks of auctions family separations and old slaveholders with mixed kindness as relatives and cousins include Winfield Scott and John M Clayton. She settled in Chester in 1876, reads daily, but dislikes politics and smoking, and attends Mount Hope M E Church when possible.
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Margaret Holliday
West Third Street
Chester
Third Street
Bessie Taylor
Holliday
Whitleysburg
Del
South
William Scott
Winfield Scott
John M. Clayton
Dover
West End
Mary Johnson
Philadelphia
Bella Scott
Harrington
Joseph Holliday
Taylor
Margaret Birch
Boothwyn
Alice Ward
Frederica
Food chains mobilize to move bumper grapefruit crop
National Association of Food Chains launches a nationwide Producer-Consumer Grapefruit Sales Campaign to aid Florida Texas California and Arizona growers facing heavy losses from the 1936-37 bumper crop. Leading chains with 37 000 stores in 48 states will back extensive newspaper ads and merchandising efforts from January 14 to February 27.
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National Association of Food Chains
Florida
Texas
California
Arizona
National
John A. Logan
Washington
Logan
Salt River Valley
Lower
Rio Grande Valley
A. C. Barnhart
McAllen
Grapefruit Committee
J. J. Parrish
Titusville
W. J. Howey
Howey-in-the Hills
C. H. Walker
Avon Park
F. B. Holland
Mission
O. C. Aldrich
Edinburg
W. W. Pickrell
Phoenix
Daniel Grant
Somerton
Mark Anderson
Redlands
Denton Inauguration Observed and Local News Notes
Denton residents attended Governor Goldsborough's inauguration while reports cover deaths of Clarence Lister in Philadelphia and Dr Enoch George in Denton. Banking board elections, legislative appointments, and weddings add to a dense community page with weather records and local society notes.
Slats Diary Details Aims and Mischief Across a Week
Oliver N Warren compiles Slats diary style entries from Sunday to Saturday revealing a boy’s wishes for a gun and self reform. He frets about discipline from his father and Sandy, mentions school, a king dream related to Edward VIII, confusion over newspaper reports, and a dog hunting misadventure with Jake and Blisters ending in failure to catch rabets.
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Sandy
Otto
Enny
P. m
Edward the 8Th
Marrie
Jake
Blisters
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Barcelona
Lisbon
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