Gold standard a menace to prosperity in 1931 era
A Graettinger High School notes page, copied from Emmetsburg Democrat, recounts a historical essay on the gold standard and its hoarding by Wall Street. It notes the 1860 campaign figures, Lincoln vs Douglas, and recalls a Graettinger crowd hearing a Douglas son’s Republican speech decades earlier, with commentary on currency, the Civil War, and postwar money value.
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Emmetsburg
Democrat
Stephen A. Douglas
Chattanooga
Tenessee
George F. Milton
Chattanooga Daily News
Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Milton
South
Stephen Douglas
U. S
Lincoln
Breckenridge
Graettinger
W. J. Bryan
Wm. McKinley
Wall Street
Union
Wilson
Borah
Norris
LaFollette
Walsh
Montana
al Smith
Raskob
Shouse
McAdoo
School Notes and Student Activities Update
Roadlla Doerning notes the wrestling picture is hung over the bulletin board for all to see in the hall outside the assembly. Ernest Duus says the freshman class will present a program before high school pupils, the last this term. Irene Nelson reports senior class play rehearsals for The Family Upstairs, under Miss Kelly, with performances on May 19. Forest Petersen mentions Mr Stevenson assigned each student a 1400 word clue set.
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Myrtle Petersen
Roadlla Doerning
Ernest Duus
Irene Nelson
Miss Kelly
Forest Petersen
Stevenson
Two Meals Day Best for Stomach Trouble
An advertisement promotes Adlerika as a German doctor’s remedy to cleanse the stomach and bowels. It urges skipping one meal, drinking water with glycerin buckthorn bark and saline mix, and claims quick relief for nervousness sleep trouble gas. Sold by Frick Drug Store.
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Frick Drug Store
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