Dothan Eagle 1929 Front Page Fragment
The Dothan Eagle Syracuse likely front page fragment from August 16 1929 shows masthead notes and department credits. Obscure text references Associated Press dispatch use and policy on misstatements. Includes a Jefferson quote and city notice dated Friday afternoon August 16 1929 with San Francisco related clipping.
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Frost, Landis & Kohn Athinta
New York
Detroit
St. Louis
Chieas
Associated Press
Thomas Jefferson
Prohibition Leaders Question Beer Makers Role in Reform
A column recalls the pre Volstead fervor of Anti-Saloon League protests and notes Attorney General Willebrandt’s memoirs. It highlights her remarks on brewer conversions to legal uses after prohibition and her discussion of wort and beer production.
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Congress
Mabel Willebrandt
Atttorney-General
Department of Justice
Mabel
Refueling the family bus and its passengers
A reader weighs an exuberant front seat driving plan from The Christian Science Monitor editorial. The piece mocks talking machine road aids and suggests refueling cars on the move with a long hose while in motion. It also jokes about serving meals from running boards at crossroads to shave travel time.
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Christian Science Monstor
Ant
Automobiles Move Toward All Night Driving
A fragment from the Christian Science Monitor discusses self recharging, night travel, and the idea of motor cars running continuously with sleeping links for drivers. The text envisions scenery, ease, and contemplation in long tours, noting refueling and revival as growing necessities for motorists.
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Dty
Christian Science Monitor
Honest Advertising Warns of Dishonest Claims
A New York World summary cites Dr. Hugh Grant Rowell of Columbia University warning that new diseases are created to fit cure-all products. He notes fear and exaggerated claims fuel sick industries, urging magazines to rely on scientific guidance to curb fraud and stressing honesty yields higher profits.
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Hugh Grant Rowell
Columbia University
Rowell
Nations Move Toward Peace and Arbitration Rise
The Progressive Farmer notes a broad shift toward peace, citing Kellogg Pact hopes and public interest in antiwar works like All Quiet on the Western Front and Journey's End. It highlights Hoover, Ramsay MacDonald, and Ambassador Dawes driving a period toward arbitration and church support for peaceful dispute resolution.
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New York
Hoover
America
Ramsay McDonald
Great Britain
Ambassador Dawes
Winston Chuuchhill
Chichester
England
Churchhill
Parachutist Radioed Feats From 10000 Feet Descent
A parachute jumper leaped from an airplane at ten thousand feet and used a miniature transmitter to relay his sensations to a crowd below. He claimed to be enjoying the descent as his microphone captured the moment and broadcast it live.
Daredevil space message and garden hazard incidents
A fragmentary report notes a space daredevil's message and a gardener near Philadelphia dying from a ladder accident after claiming gardening is lifelong healthful. It contrasts a Asheville youth's fatal 12 foot dive with a scene of pool play and splashy stunts while noting rare accidents amid widespread recreation.
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Terra Firma
Paar
Philadelphia
Ashville
Bea
Birmingham News
Mer
Diver River
When Prohibition Believers Deny Wrongdoing
The Miami Herald notes that some self assured supporters of prohibition resist guilt claims as persecution by political enemies. It cites a North Carolina Anti Saloon League official and a prominent Washington bishop caught in financial misdeeds. Both deny fault, blaming bias and framing rather than accepting proven actions.
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North Carolina
Anti-Saloon League
Entitled to Distinction and Merit in Fortune Gain
A civic essay argues that fortune earned through merit deserves respect while inherited wealth breeds idle successors. It advocates “no work, no dinner,” urging societies to require earning status to prevent discontent in business and to curb exploitation by heirs and stamp collectors. The author, Howe, signs off proposing a public vote on the idea.
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Léa
Tam
Woodley estate in Washington linked to Key and Stimson
Washington Daybook reports Francis Scott Key’s name scratched on a window pane at Woodley, the Stimson residence. The estate, built by Phillip Barton Key, housed several presidents, diplomats, and notable figures, including Cleveland, Newlands, Phillips, and House. It notes Stimson and family splitting time between Woodley and Long Island, and Maryland Representative Hill’s three homes. Also compares Senate and House air systems as summer incentive for members.
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Herbert Plummer
Washington
Francis Scott Key
Stimson
Woodley
Phillip Barton Key
City of
United States
Cleveland
White House
Francis G. Newlands
Nevada
William Phillips
Canada
Hill
Hayne Ellis
United States Navy
Mas
George S. Patton, Jr
Long Island
Cohgreas
Senate
House
Agreement Over Commands Rules for Guiding Children
By Alice Judson Peale the piece argues breaking an agreement harms honor more than breaking a rule. It suggests aligning with a child's sense of fairness wins their better self, making them act rightly from conscience. Invite the child to agree that a regulation is fair, then enforce through mutual consent rather than punishment.
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Alice Judson Peale
Heath arraigned in federal case over agent Sandilands death
John M Heath appeared before U S Commissioner J Stanley Huard in Detroit on three charges linked to the death of federal prohibition agent Richard J Sandilands. He pled not guilty and was remanded to county jail in default of a $50,000 bond.
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Detroit
Mich
John M. Heath
United States
J. Stanleyy Huard
Richard J. Sandilands
Mr. Heath
Waxworks artist illuminates New Yorks bygone days plan
An artist, Dwight Franklin, a native New Yorker, is creating wax figures for a new Museum of the Gly of New York on Fifth Avenue. He models historic scenes from Peter Minuit buying Manhattan to the Revolutionary era and wants to capture later memories as well. Franklin, 41, relies on memory for many pieces and envisions a city sunset of landmarks, shoppers, and old mansions along Be nue with decaying stone sites and a returning tale of Martha Washington.
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Piel Square Garden
Anying
la Municipal
Dwight
Frankl
New Yorker
Rode
Ays
Ent Hudson
Timmy Waler
Franklin
Imodel
Historia Ed Lieaux
New Museum of the Gly
New York
Fifth Avenue
Peter Minuit
Manhattan
Nathan Hale
George Washing
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