World politics and budget fights dominate federal action
President Troover warns of credit danger as foreign raids on the dollar loom. The Senate debates a 1.1 billion revenue bill, rejects the sales tax, and adopts a relief-focused package funded by a gasoline tax, income tax tweaks, and electricity sales levies. Enacted economy measures include a ten percent salary cut for most federal workers and veterans’ aid savings, while Parker Garner pushes a broad relief plan and a revived reconstruction loan program.
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Garner
Nuance Committee
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Milla
Foree
House
Glenn
Witness
Senate Appropriations Committee
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Mighty world’s largest five organ complex in Europe
In Tasshu near the Danube stands the Castra Batava site housing Europe’s biggest organ system. Five organs with 208 registers, 16 105 pipes and five manuals share one main bench in a baroque cathedral setting. Large pipes dwarf tiny ones, motors drive each organ, and the instrument consumes vast air and wiring. daily summer noon concerts fill the vast nave.
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Tasshu
Danube
St. Stephen
Europe
Stelmmeyers
Octingen
Agaria
Tis S Tors
Boston
Transcript
Monarchy Drives Siam Into Modern State Under Mongkut
Elton R. James notes that King Mongkut laid modernizing moves in Siam by founding Western education for his son Chulalongkorn and later mandating schooling for all royal brothers. Chulalongkorn ascended at fifteen and, upon majority, required education for siblings, with further European study for royal family and officials shaping a modern administration.
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Mongkut
Siam
Chulalongkorn
Leonowens
Singapore
Europe
Elton R. James
Camper of Experience Talks About the Eats
A Field and Stream writer extols camp cooking as an artiste craft learned by practice. He offers rules for camp meals emphasizing single responsibility, quick discipline, and decisive action if a cook errs.
Reptile Traveler Joins Philadelphia Zoo Boa Constrictor Arrival
A young emperor boa constrictor arrived at the Philadelphia Zoo after a trip from tropical Brazil hidden in a bunch of bananas. A shopkeeper named Philip Braverman opened the fruit, startling the snake which slithered to the floor, prompting police to intervene and hand the reptile to Emerson Brown, the zoo director, who called it a rare specimen and noted such a voyage is unusual.
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Philadelphia
Brazil
Philip Braverman
Emerson Brown
Zoo
Brown
Woman’s artful rock garden attracts curious bid
A woman proud of her rock garden sees a teamster ask to buy the rocks for cheap. The man offers to haul them away, leaving the gardener amused but puzzled by the unsolicited disposal proposal.
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Rock Gardens
Flyers Bill Williams and Jack Knight Pioneering Air Mall Miles
Radio test of planes highlighted the vast mileage logged by Flyers Bill Williams and Jack Knight both credited with over a million air mall miles. The distance surpasses what an average locomotive engineer would cover in 12 or 13 years.
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Air Mall
Bill Williams
Jack Knight
His Preference How do you like your wife's new wireless set
A humorous aside in a 1920s column notes a wife’s wireless device provokes a blunt reply from her husband who jokes about turning it off and sparking a domestic reaction. The gag captures early radio era domestic humor and social tone.
Poets Say Fifty Rhymes Dread Recitation
A compact literary witticism notes Byron on poets claiming fifty rhymes and Jerrotd on fondness for ill luck, comic wordplay highlighting superstition and verse.
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Byron
Bait and Bon Mots From a Wary Reader
A jumble of quips and odd anecdotes outlines a curious scene as a Seattle man LeRoy Dunakey survives a bad crash and ends up marrying the seventeen year old who helped rescue him. The piece jabs at misspellings and slogans while noting a vehicle overturning and bursting into fumes amid blunt banter.
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LeRoy Dunakey
Seattle
Jage
Bluffing cliffs and ancient tree mark Ardmeanoch headland
Blair bequeathed to Scotland the southern headland known as the Burg. The Burg cliffs rise 1200 feet above the Atlantic and shelter sea life. They include notable caves such as the Mckin non cave and are famed for the MacCulloch tree, one of the oldest fossil trees.
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Scotland
A. Campbell Blair
Ardmeanoch
Burg
Kruschen Salts Weight Loss Claim From Boston Reader
A Boston reader, Mrs Florence Loftus, 32 years old and 5 ft 2 in, reports dropping from 165 to 127 pounds in four months using Kruschen Salts. She credits the daily half teaspoon dose with improved health and energy, advising against fatty foods and warning against imitations.
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Salta
Florence Loftus
Boston
Glaciers and Weather Wisdom in The Country of Glaciers
The passage notes over 140 glaciers across Oregon and Washington totaling about 90 000 acres. It adds playful reflections that anyone can be a weather prophet by daily sky sighting and that the loneliest man lacks someone to share his life story, ending with a note that easily learned things are forgotten except spelling and that nature never pretends.
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Einricm Broening
Germany
Bla
von Hindenburg
Hitler
Wazle
Reichstag
Rang von Papen
United States
Washington
Karl Boy
Agen
Catholic Bruning
Aywner
Vorniment
M. Neely
West Virginia
Uncle Sam
Oregg i
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Parker Garner
Whys and Means Committee
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Novolty
Russia
Huy
Parmera’ Na*tonal Grain Corporation
Chicago Board of Trade Becase
Department of Agriculture
Hyde
Grain Futures Commission
Dyde
William D. Mtitchell
Robert P. LaBont
Hoover
James R. Gardell
Ohio
Garfeld
Interior
Roosevelt
Resolutions Committee
White House
Garfield
Borah
Mra
Henry W. Peabody
Woman's National Committee For Law Enforcement
Voice of the People
Congress
Bertrand E. Snell
New York
Snell
Crusaders
Republican Citizens’ Committee Against
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
Erbort Hoover
California
Joseph Scott
Los Angeles
Scott
Dog-land
University of Notre Dame
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nicholas Iorga
Carol of
Romania
Nicholas ‘Titulescu
London
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Costigan
Colorado
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J. Madilton Lewis
Withass
Washington Soldiers' Home
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Pontish
Saito
Apan
Makoto Saito
China
Manchuria
Manchukuo
Count Uchida
South Manchurian Railroad
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Mindon Ig
Uchida
Japan
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Hailun
Soviet Russia
Siberia
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Century of Progress
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Maj O. Ti
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Dolly
Crossi
Jayne
D, Jayne & Son
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