Cantigny parade of valor marks turning point in WWI memory
Twenty years ago American troops captured Cantigny fending off three counter attacks and inflicting heavy losses. French and British praise followed Pershing's men in their first major offensive. The piece notes Cantigny's lasting significance, likening it to Valley Forge Shiloh and Santiago, while also mentioning a later patent for an iron ing board breakfast table and a toaster combo.
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Cantigny
France
Pershing
Germany
Valley Forge
Shiloh
Santiago
Surprising Communist Party Convention Mix of Flags and Fame
A New York gathering claimed by some to be a Communist party convention opened with the Star-Spangled Banner and featured American flags, red white and blue decor, and roses. Speakers hinted at collaboration with major groups and warned Americans of upcoming dangers while pledging to defend the Constitution. The piece notes a perplexing, shifting atmosphere and questions the meaning of calm before the storm.
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Communist Party of the United States
New York
Chamber of Commerce
League For Decency
Browder
Jefferson
Paine
Lincoln
United States
Month of Weddings and the Mystery of Love
The piece muses on June as a favorite wedding month and the emotional peak of union. It ponders whether weddings alter life’s arc, viewing the rite as a climactic moment where couples glimpse a future of possible happiness and toil, amid questions about what lies ahead.
Young people urged to quest for marriage success
The text encourages newlywed couples facing life’s challenges to persevere with love, labor, and sacrifice. It mentions the Department of Agriculture recommending scarecrows with flash guns, lights, and noise-makers, while foreseeing possible distractions like crowns with blinders and rafactors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Boy bandits myth and a stray spark of crime
A columnist questions labeling all juvenile delinquents as boy bandits. Four New York youths arrested for burglary carved crosses on their arms after movies, then stole from a florist. The piece argues against stereotyping youths and notes an inventor’s claim that friction could be used as domestic fuel, joking about substitutes.
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New York
Gas masks and fashion spark society raid salons
A satirical column mocks gas mask chic in London society with raid salons, smell sorièes, and fashion shows. Prague shops sell gas mask fare as fashion, while a California factory fire and a stolen consulate sign in Philadelphia are noted alongside Denver thefts and a plutocrat toppled by revolution.
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London
Haut Monde
Prague
Editorial on federal interference in state elections
The piece argues that national party and federal administration figures openly backing state candidates, including Pepper in Florida and Gillette versus Tydings in Iowa, undermines states rights. It contends such meddling accelerates administration agendas, rewards backslapping letters, and risks backlash if favored candidates lose, noting broader impacts in Maryland and beyond.
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National Party Committee
James Roosevelt
Pepper
Florida
Wearin
Iowa
Hopkins
Gillette
Washington
Tydings
James
Congress
Towa
Maryland
Pulp Mills and Southern Forests Rise as Paper Boom
A Washington letter notes the South’s shift from timber for lumber to pulp mill wood, spurred by growing paper demand. It details bleachable pulps, new mills, capital investment, and the role of pine species in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and beyond, with economic and regional impacts outlined.
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Washington, D. C
South
United States
Southern Forests
Georgia
Southern Paper Mills
Canada
Scandinavian
Europe
Union of Soviet Social Republics
Japan
Mit
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
North America
Easoy
Industry wage act debate shows administrator must heed committee
The article analyzes how a government administrator cannot fix minimum wages for any industry without a recommendation from an industry committee or a newly appointed one. It notes the administrator can dismiss and replace committees, and discusses judicial review as a check on power. Exemptions include dairy processing, cotton ginning, sugar beet and vegetable processing, poultry and livestock dressing, local small newspapers, and farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Iakel
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
New York
Merslé-Tribune Syndicats
The Family Doctor Explains Arachnodactyly Facts
The article defines arachnodactyly or spider fingers, noting long fingers and toes, slender limbs, and underdeveloped muscles. It covers hereditary links, eye and ear associations, dental and foot deformities, heart abnormalities, and increased pneumonia risk, with emphasis on prebirth development errors and predisposing infections.
Reader QA on World Facts Told by National Cathedral Source
A transcription of a 1930s quiz column answers questions on subjects like the RCA building size, a Ham radio award given to Robert Tompkins Anderson, Bible distributions by the American Bible Society, Santa Anna’s marriages, poisonous snakes in the United States, Uruguay cutting diplomatic ties with Germany in 1917, and Anatole France’s muse Madame Armand de Caillavat.
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William Samuel Paley
Uruguay
Germany
G. W
Chamber of Deputies
Anatole France
Beecome
Madame Arman de Caillavat
Ufelong
Crainquebille
Qr Calliavat
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Mostne
Will & Camp
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Mall
California
Philadelphia
Denver
The
Baltimore Sun
Henblock
Roy L. Smith
D. B
M. FE
Loa Angeles
Haskin
Frederic J. Haskin
Justice Black
President Roosevelt
Supreme Court of the United States
Homer Saijut-Gandens
Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts
T. M. Girdler
Republic Steel Corporation
MAS
Ruth Alexander
Mershal Henri Petal
Mark Sullivan
DR. Morris Fishbein
Bdster, Jearme
American Medica Association
Herela
Healthy Magsain
National
Ums
Helena
Buren
RCA
Rockefeller Center
New York City
Amatuer
Bales
Ie American Bible Society
Oranization
Santa Anna
Ines Garcia
Vera Cruz
Maria Doloren Tosta
Meniteo City
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