Coolidge Future and the Use of Experience
Massachusetts friends urge Calvin Coolidge to run for the Senate next year. If elected, Alfred E. Smith may have sparked a plan to bring former presidents back into public life. The piece argues for constitutional changes to reuse trained public servants and questions the waste of experience in retirement.
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Riends
Calvin Coolidge
Massachusetts
Senate
Alfred E. Smith
Coolidge
Smith
United States Senate
Republic
Warren
Faflowetao
Alexander on paternalism in the south at Chapel Hill
Historian Will Alexander of Atlanta argues paternalism is temporary and can become permanent. He warns it can cloak exploitation and produce dependent citizenship, noting North Carolina should avoid subservience in capital and labor and politics.
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South
Chapel Hill
Will Alexander
Atlanta
Alexander
Gardner
North Carolina
Republic
Washington
Potomac
Mississippi
Uncle Sam
Training Citizens Beyond Keeping Order Threatens Liberty
The passage argues that extending state interests beyond defense and order requires training citizens to be self reliant. Kept citizens are not valuable and may become dangerous, as Dr. Alexander notes.
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Commonwealth
Alexander
South's Catholic Cabinet Member and Catholic Chief Justice
In 1928 a southern Catholic joined the presidents cabinet making him the regions sole representative in the official family. The piece notes Judge White of Louisiana as a long serving Catholic chief justice whose role dwarfs that of a four year presidency.
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South
United States Court
White
Louisiana
Narrowly Missed Military Academy Site Fight Revealed
An old Sumter discovery shows the South nearly secured West Point by a congressional vote decided by a single majority. The chosen site later became Great Falls in Virginia, now home to a hydroelectric plant after a 500 acre land transfer to Thomas Jefferson, with General Sumter's $200 deal.
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Sumter
National Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Great Falls
Not Altogether in the Hands of Sportsmen
The News and Observer disputes T. Gilbert Pearson and notes North Carolinians rely on wild duck hunting for livelihoods. It warns that exclusive rights by clubs via Torrens law threaten traditional duck hunting waters near Currituck and adjacent shores, with past legislative missteps by Governor Rufus A. Coughton and Pierce Hampton cited.
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News and Observer
T. Gilbert Pearson
Raleigh
Gilbert Pearson
National Committee On Wild Life
North Carolina
Currituck County
Rufus A. Coughton
House
Pierce Hampton
Currituck
Hunters and subsistence clash in new debate
The article argues that for some communities hunting remains a long standing livelihood, not just sport, urging consideration to preserve subsistence rights while addressing hunting policies.
Who Really Rules In Our Industrial Nation
Bruce Catton argues that leaders like Henry Ford wield ultimate power, raising wages for about 140 000 workers and adding roughly 20 million dollars yearly to the payroll, eclipsing Hoover in front-page influence. He notes Ford’s plants’ shutdowns ripple nation wide, with GM, U S Steel, GE and railroads similarly potent. The piece concludes that the industrialists effectively govern, for better or worse, in an industrial civilization.
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Bruce Catton
Henry Ford
Hoover
Congress
United States
Ford
Detroit
Middle-West
General Motors
U. S. Steel
General Electric
Mussolini Might Avoid War As Italy Faces Struggles At Home
The article argues Mussolini avoids war despite peace rhetoric. It notes Italy lacks food, gold, and raw materials and fears civil strife and treachery at home if war begins. It says he suppresses opponents with Black Shirts and aims to keep the peace.
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Hoover
MacDonald
Mussolini
Italy
Duce
Dumb enforcement of prohibition lowers the nation’s dry effort
A physician advised a man to fetch whisky for his sick wife. The man bought a pint at a Speakeasy to save a prescription and was arrested for transporting liquor. He was fined 210 dollars, an example of enforcing harsh penalties on routine carries, which harms prohibition goals.
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Iowa
Prohibition
Margin Stocks Tremble as Thermometer Rises
Observers note rising temperatures intensify anxiety among investors who bought stocks on margin, fearing further market strain. The piece discusses the link between heat and market nerves, implying possible selloffs in sensitive positions.
Caesar and Christmas raise streetwise reflections
A playful riff contrasts ancient Caesar crossing the Rubicon with modern urban rush hour scenes. The piece quietly notes how Christmas can touch fathers and families, inviting readers to see shared emotion in everyday, ordinary moments.
Fewer bathtubs than cars noted in rural quip
A terse remark compares bathtub numbers to automobiles in the United States and adds a wry note that Saturday night arrives only once a week. The lines blend fact and humorous observation without specific events or persons.
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United States
Probe urged into newsprint production costs
The American Newspaper Publishers Association called for an independent study of newsprint costs amid a proposed $5 per ton price rise. The report accuses a Canada led institute of forming a near monopoly with Ontario and Quebec mills, pooling output and fixing prices to curb competition. European talks and an anticipated February meeting in Quebec were noted.
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New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Hotel Pennsylvania
Newsprint Institute of Canada
Newsprint Institute
United States
Canadian Newsprint Company, Ltd
Ontario
Quebec
Bureau of Statistics
Ticon
Kerosene Cancer Care Trial Reported in Auckland
In Auckland, a Frankton resident diagnosed with cancer was treated with kerosene injections at the city hospital. The patient received a year of treatment, was discharged apparently cured, and a follow up found only a cavity where the growth once existed. Doctors say the procedure was painful but worthwhile.
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Auckland
N. Z
Frankton
Health Department
Twins Born to Princess Zenaida Cantacuzene
Mrs J C Hanbury Williams former princess Zenaida Cantacuzene and granddaughter of General Grant welcomed twin daughters in London on Friday.
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London
J. C. Hanbury Williams
Zenaida Cantacuzene
General Grant
Newspaper Institute Set For Chapel Hill With Key Address
The North Carolina Press Association will hold its sixth annual Newspaper Institute in Chapel Hill January 15 to 17. W C Dowd Jr says David Lawrence will deliver the keynote address on January 15, with sessions on accounting advertising circulation and editorial issues led by industry veterans. The program blends formal talks with informal discussions and recreational activities.
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Dowd
Raleigh
Institute
David Lawrence
Mr. Dowd
Lawrence
Press Association
Ernst and Ernst
W. Clement Moore
Wolf and Company
Philadelphia
Neal D. Ivey
Charles McDevitt
Ivey
N. W. Ayer and Co
Eastman-Scott
Winder Harris
Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Cocktail Dinners Shape London Theater Evenings
London social life adopts cocktail dinners as a pre theater ritual. Hostesses provide cocktails at seven with a buffet of caviar olives and tidbits to curb hunger before the 8 o clock curtain. An 11 o clock supper ends the evening after the performance.
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London
Sockey
Settling Judge Grimm Shifts Focus Out of Court
Judge George Grimm of DeLOIT Wisconsin earns the nickname the settling judge for his outsized role in settling suits before trial. Lawyers say his work outside the courtroom reduces trial time and eases court burden.
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Deloit
Wis
George Grimm
Germany Faces Months-Long Path to Tax Reform Resolution
Germany's tax reform problem is not expected to be settled for several months as lawmakers and ministries negotiate a framework. Officials indicate shaping policy will require patience and careful drafting before any final package is unveiled.
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Germany
Care for Babies Ears Avoid Inserting Objects
Dr Morris Fishbein advises letting a healthy baby’s ears be and cleaning only with cotton. If a cold or throat infection is present, secondary ear infection risks rise and a physician may drain the ear drum or prescribe boric acid washes. Discharging ears should not be blocked. absorb with cotton.
Retail Coffee Prices Cut By Largest Chain
The country’s biggest grocery chain announces a sharp reduction in coffee retail prices after a month of severe market decline. Over production and export controls in Brazil kept prices high, while London bankers supported surplus stocks. Recent money market shifts mean credits require self liquidation of coffee within a set period.
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Brazil
London
JF Vover
British
Malaya
Mr. Hoover
Bank Robbers Slain at First National Bank Ambush
Three bank robbers were fatally wounded when police ambushed them as they exited the First National Bank in Chakopeer Minnesota. Police fired from a concealed position using machine gun fire as the suspects fled at high speed.
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Chakopeer
Minn
First National Bank
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