Roosevelts banking plan reshapes currency system
The article outlines Roosevelt’s emergency banking measures enacted by Congress on inauguration day. It describes moving to a goldless federal reserve note system backed by U S bonds, expansion of currency, bank reopening, and the shift toward a unified banking network with stronger federal oversight while foreshadowing inflation concerns and political maneuvering in Congress. It notes key figures Woodin and treasury advisers and touches on international implications and other political shifts.
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Italy Advances in Educational Reform Under Mussolini
Howard Marraro notes in Current History that Maserat era reforms transformed Italy's education system. From a literate population of over 75 percent but lacking infrastructure, Italy cut illiteracy to 21 percent and built a modern school system. Mussolini links education to national greatness, calling Gentile's reforms the most fascist of all washcalt reforms.
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Italy
Howard I. Marraro
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Stay the Pain Cole Carbonsalve advertisement
An old newspaper ad touts Cole Carbonsalve promising quick healing without scars. It claims availability at all druggists and offers a mail order option for 3 cents to J. W. Cole Co, Rockford, Illinois.
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City Rules End Chickens and Umbrellas in Town Life
Public notice jokes about city restrictions on keeping animals and weather gear, urging cleanliness and health with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets to regulate liver bowels and stomach for residents.
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Dr. Pierce
Overdiluted The Ideal of Milk of Human Kindness
A concise critique argues that the phrase milk of human kindness has been overused and diluted by excessive use of the ideal. It examines how the expression, once a noble standard, now often normalization of bland benevolence.
Youthful Naturalist From Ozark Reads Birds At Thirteen
At age thirteen Guy Greenwell of Joplin Missouri is said to identify 750 birds and animals from pictures and explain their habits. A Golden Age writer notes his demand as a summer instructor for Boy Scout and M O A groups, answering about 98 percent of bird life questions learnedly. His father runs a poultry business, and the boy shows a natural-born enthusiasm for bird life in all its aspects.
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Saya
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