Fragmented musings from a 1930s Forest Park page
This item compiles a collage of garbled newspaper humor and stray notices from Forest Park Illinois, featuring mistaken spellings, jokes about gossip tabloids, radio tracts, and stray regional opinions. It mentions radio, politics, fashion, food, schooling, and aviation as era color without a single cohesive news narrative.
Lindbergh heredity and character praised in tribute
A fragmentary column lauds Col Charles Lindbergh and his son Lindy, arguing heredity explains Lindbergh’s virtues. It traces the elder Lindbergh’s Minnesota farm upbringing, his career as a congressman and critic of the money trust, and lauds the family’s modesty, courage, and leadership as the source of Lindy’s celebrated claims to virtue.
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Charles Lindbergh
Lindy
Congressman Lindbergh
Sweden
Minnesota
Lemuel B. Parton
Chicago Daily News
Lindbergh
Ile
Federal Reserve Act
Money Trust
Pugo Commision
Corn Growers Promote Bold Farm Prosperity Plan
The Agricultural Sulate notes a new menace from pests and trade pressures threatening crops worth billions and raising production costs. It urges nationwide cooperation to drive core profits and notes a Baltimore Maryland corn and apple show as an annual event, with over 600 farmers planting improved corn and banks backing the effort.
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Bank
Baltimore
Maryland
Pink grafting method for dogwood color change
A note on changing dogwood color from white to pink by propagating the pink form. The technique requires grafting or budding the pink variety onto common white dogwood seedlings to produce pink offspring.
Deep Philosophy Collier's on simple writing for all minds
Collier's notes that the deepest philosophy comes from clear writing that even highbrows can grasp. The piece highlights how simplicity conveys complex ideas to a broad audience.
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Collier's
Lindbergh Legend and Harlem Avenue Sketch
A fanciful piece recalls the Lindbergh saga linked to Ottawa and River Forest, noting a local fascination with a future tablet near a restaurant. It surveys a section of Greater Harlem avenue south from Riverside Drive, describing a curving unopened stretch toward a wooded countryside and a canal drainage project that may someday bridge the waterway.
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Greater
Harlem Avenue
Riverside Drive
Setiita Tries
County Fine
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Chicago
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Princeton
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Turna Gui
By Edith Heileman
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Col
Charles Lindberg
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Parton
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Cindy
Washington
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Min- Faesota
Northwest
Ematate
Grove Lake Academy
Minneapelis
University, of Michigan
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Hiatir Serta
Wabath
Mississippi
Suliatts
American Denkers Association
Agh
Ohio
River Forest
Ottwa
Adent
Ottawa
Ogdets Avenue
Harlem
Europe
Twenty-second Street
River‘side Drive
City of
Uncle Rip van
Bell Telephone Company
Bell System
Universal Service
Roosevelt
Harlem Bakery
Phone Forest
Roosevelt Read
Harlow
John Zimmerman
Or Forest
J. Thoendel & G Son
Madibon
Madison ST
Ueed Wie
Traffic Department
Randolph
West Monroe Streat
Aurora and Elgin Railroad
Mesa
Advan
REX
Public Service Company OF Eroeekt Pene
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