Greater Than Fiction How Love Triangles Shape Modern Novels
The feature notes that modern novelists favor triangle plots with two lovers who often are not married, creating dramatic departures from conventional romance. A Midwestern professor’s wife elopes, he offers divorce, she returns, and the jilted husband dies by his own hand, illustrating life mirroring fiction in surprising twists.
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University
Middle-West
Dashift
Vicksburg Evening Post
Lost Manuscript Sparks Scene Of New York Night Life
D C McIntyre recalls Fannie Hurst’s missing manuscript haunting Manhattan. A plodding typist, a house to house search on Simpson Street in the Bronx, scattered pages found in a wash tub, and a vividly recalled cast of Broadway era figures. The piece blends literary crisis with colorful urban vignettes and a glimpse of theatrical and vaudeville life.
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New York
Fannie Hurat
Homseem
Simpson Street
Bronx
News Behind the News by Paul Mallon December Washington sketch
Paul Mallon surveys New Deal public opinion gauges amid mixed reactions to war profits limits and a NY public power push. He expects Roosevelt’s upcoming Congress message to be packed with meat and potential sharp stances on budget and social legislation. He also notes Federal Reserve tensions, FDIC overreach debate, and colorful White House anecdotes from Warm Springs and Treasury circles.
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Washington
Mechanicians
Congress
Roosevelt
Glasa
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FRB
FDIC
Deposit Insurance Corporation
Layrat
Jobless Outlook Despite Rising Business Activity
The Christmas trade slump fears linger as unemployment remains steady, with little sign of a large dip in jobless workers. The Federal Reserve Board notes steady industrial gains, especially in steel, textiles, and mobility, but the overall job market shows no quick solution.
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Federal Retire American Federation Ofserve Board
Federal Reserve Board
Roosevelt recovery act jobs and the wage outlook
The Baltimore sun notes that while the Recovery Act aimed to create decent living wages for most workers, many still cannot find regular employment at such wages. It warns against overemphasizing a bright business outlook given persistent unemployment.
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Mr. Roosevelt
NRA
Batimore Sun
Senator Vandenberg seeks career basis for postal service reforms
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan proposes a post office system insulated from politics. He targets James A. Farley and the postmaster general, advocating a career basis with limited political appointments. Supporters say protect clerks and carriers from political caprice while opponents fear patronage. Some action is anticipated as parties debate the plan.
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Ferley
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Perpetual motion headline in Dothan era notices
Twenty years ago in Dothan the local notices show theater listings at the Palace with a Vitagraph comedy Taken By Storm and the Heart Rebellious feature. Visitors and locals include Sam J. Hall of Geneva on business, T Edmondson of Malvern, Captain E F Tuttle of Gordon, and Wyman Matthews returning to Columbus after holidays. M Charry convened Benevolent Lodges. Mrs J T Trawick hosted guests from Abbeville and Chattanooga.
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Palace Theater
Vitagraph
Sam J. Hall
Geneva
Dothan
Batchelor's Buttons and Oddities From a Local Column
A quirky note set of phrases and lines from a humorous column. Topics include Batchelor's Buttons grown by W. C. Batchelor a car trip miracle and a light jab about Alabama football. The collection blends wry aphorisms with playful misdirections and whimsy.
Farmer and new hired hand mix mule tale
A farmer questions a new worker about shoeing a mule. The laborer mishears and confuses “shod” with “shot,” leading to a grim miscommunication as the mule has already been buried. Humorous rural exchange reported in a clipped dialogue.
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Boston Transcript
Flashes of LIFE and Local Notes from AP Column
Life items report a Des Moines housewife learning that Prohibition is over and beer sales are legal after a call to Phil Cavender of the police liquor squad. Other brief items note robins sighted in 1985 Chicago and Wisconsin, a St Louis incident of underage drinking misread as soda, and a Fayette County plea for funds to buy teeth from a prisoner.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Phil Cavender
Cavender
Chicago
Henry O. Sather
William Branfield
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Uniontown
Pat William Peril
Fayette County
Fayette
Western Penitentiary
Talks to Parents by Mrs. Brooks Peters Church
Mrs Brooks Peters argues that education extends beyond schooling and books. Curiosity drives learning, and parents and teachers should nurture it early to prevent it fading or misdirected. Reading should connect life and knowledge, not merely ornament intellect or pass time.
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Brooks Peters
House of Learning
How's Your Health Dr Ingo Goldstein on Sprains
Health column explains sprains may hide bone fractures and urges X rays from two angles for injuries beyond a twist. It describes three treatment aims: reduce swelling with a snug bandage, protect ligaments with strapping, and stabilize the joint to limit movement.
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Ingo Goldstein
Sundown Stories Tea Party Feud Between Quacker Siblings
Mary Graham Bonner recounts a comical scene in which Mrs Quacker and Mrs Quacko clash over taste and class during a brook tea. The exchange centers on refined hospitality and a sly jab at social pretensions as the two ducks spar over who hosts the best tea.
Article on sprains and joint rehabilitation methods
The text outlines steps for healing sprains including rest, elevation, and limiting joint use to reduce swelling. It emphasizes early controlled activity, massage and physical therapy as beneficial, noting massage should be gentle and not painful to aid recovery and prevent adhesions.
Britain to propose broad European security pact
London reports an authoritative source says Great Britain with France and Italy will propose a general security pact covering nearly all European nations soon after the Saar plebiscite. The convention would be submitted at Geneva. the plebiscite is set for January 13 and the League council meets two days earlier.
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Great Britain
France
Italy
Europe
Geneva
League of Nations
Council of the
Saar Basin
Dynamite Bomb Blows Coal Cars Off Track at Woodlawn
Ten empty coal cars on a CBQ train to the Southern Illinois field were blown from the rails by a dynamite bomb near Woodlawn Illinois early today paralyzing traffic in both directions. Conductor C A Schaeffer of Centralia suffered a bruised left hip as the only injury.
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Tillinois
C. A. Schaeffer
Centralia
Tea Etiquette Clash On The Pond
Mrs Quacke irs faced an insult as Quacker flung an acorn cup of water at her. She rose proudly and waddled away quacking, while a friend group remarking that they drink tea with guests and do not throw it.
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