Japan as seen through an American lens in 1930s prose
An observer contrasts modern Japan with its remnants, detailing Tokyo life from luxury depots and department stores to jingling radios and mixed fashion, while rural areas keep Perry era traditions. It notes Japanese attitudes, marriage norms, birth rates, and compulsory education, highlighting national pride and military service.
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Quaiza
Pittsburgh
Japan
Tokio
Yokohamia
Kobe
Kyoto
Eas
Emigrant Japanese Worker Seeks Warm Climates and Opportunity
The excerpt describes a Japanese emigrant preferring warmer places like the Flowery Kingdom over cold northern climates such as New England. It notes the higher standard of living appealing to him, his hard work, careful spending, and lingering pride over racial exclusion in America, suggesting lasting impacts on his choices and outlook.
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Japan
Commodore Perry
Ben
Islands
New England
Ares
America
Bedford’s Crowe Rises to National House Seat
Indiana legislator Conpreaman B Crowe of Bedford is profiled as a self made businessman and soon to be congressman. The article notes his quick rise from district chairman for six years to a national role after Democrats secured the ninth Indiana seat.
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Bedford
Ind
B. Crowe
Crowe
Indiana
Washington
Indianeland
Congrem Waaistrict
New AAAS President Elected At Convention In New Orleans
Dr. John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins Medical School Baltimore elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the convention in New Orleans.
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Schence Read
American Asociation For the Advancement of Science
Oriesna
John J. Abel
Johus Hopkins Medical School
Baltimore
Grasshopper Resistant Crops Backed for South Dakota Farms
South Dakota farmers weigh grasshopper resistance when planning farming in 1930s. State college agronomists advise partial shift to cane sorghum and sudan grass to bolster fodder during severe hopper years while noting risks of prussic acid in dry years and that corn cannot be fully replaced.
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Brookings
South Dakota
State College
Sudan
Sumjee
Pensions Load Little Austria
Vienna faces a heavy pension burden with 625000 Austrians receiving government or private pensions. The on payrolls show 108215 active workers while 115444 receive monthly pensions, nearly as many as workers. Railways and Vienna city government add thousands more to pension lists as postwar shifts sustain pension growth.
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Wade Werner
Vienna
Austria
Peyroll
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Rumania
Jugoslava
Italy
Pensioners with new jobs spark double earner debate
Thousands of pensioners not fully retired take on new work to bolster income. Some even hold two jobs while drawing pensions, fueling denunciations of the doppelverdiener concept by critics who seek more opportunities for the unemployed.
Care in cooking vegetables and mineral loss
Cooking cabbage onions and celery requires care as these vegetables tend to lose mineral content when heated. The note warns that extended cooking can deplete nutrients and suggests gentler methods to preserve minerals.
Largest meteorite found in Tanganyika region
A massive meteorite, possibly the largest ever found on Earth, was uncovered in Tanganyika in Africa last year. Estimates place its weight between 10 and 30 tons.
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Tanganyike
Africa
Pajama Fashion Sparks Schoolstandards Clash
In Manila Philippines two daughters of prominent figures Pauline Butte and Agnes Busch were sent home from Central Public School for wearing white pajamas. Principal Miss Elizabeth Flagg warned students that pajamas are not proper class attire as the education bureau rules require appropriate clothing. Boys hinted at shorts in response to the pajama trend among girls. Miss Butte is active in society and recently participated in a benefit show. A separate item notes Lake traffic gains a new lighthouse and fog signal station at the mouth of the St Marys River in Lake Huron.
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Manila
F. L—V
Pauline Butte
George C. Butte
Philippines
Agnes Busch
Central Public School
Elizabeth Flagg
Miss Flagg
Bureau of Education
Army
Navy
States
Miss Butte
Washington
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
St. Mary's River
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