Back to the land movement and youth employment concerns
Henry Ford at a Michigan boys agricultural camp champions a back to the land era as youth in farms and small towns show dissatisfaction. The piece links unemployment, rural decline, and need for farm reclamation, CC camps, and homesteading as Pennsylvania considers turning tax-delinquent lands into productive uses while critiquing campus ghost-writing and integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ford
Michigan
Indiana County
Civilian Conservation Corps
C. C. GC
Alaska
Pennsylvania
Teaching the Young Idea How to Lose a Degree
An interesting sidelight on adult morality, Robert Greenlees Pearson, about to graduate from the University of Kansas, is a top student but will fail to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa. This case prompts questions about standards and judgment in academic honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peatgon
Robert Greenlees Pearson
University of Kansas
Pearson
Phi Beta Kappa
Mrs. Roosevet
Pageant of the Years in a Vermont Barber Shop
A Vermont barber celebrates his 99th birthday, recalling years behind the chair since age 17. He notes social changes from barehanded to gloved baseball, shifting trouser cuffs, collar fashion, and hair styles, while watching from his chair as the Police Gazette gives way to modern periodicals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Police Gazette
Periodica
Post-Memorial Day War Preparations Overview
A large American newspaper presents a postwar week digest covering foreign oil access for battleships, exchange rate shifts from war rhetoric, defense spending abroad, merchant marine expansion as a naval aid, and extensive war scenario analysis. It lists fourteen general war review pieces, five foreign prep stories, four American war prep items, two current-war reports, two feared-war precursors, nine foreign prep images, seven American war game pictures, one war image, five war cartoons, and a letter to the editor on war.
The Citizenship Market and the National Fee Debate
Washington reports on a bill to cut naturalization fees from ten dollars amid expected revenue loss. The piece questions the value of citizenship and traces fee history from six to twenty dollars, noting historical price contrasts and a satirical flourish about choosing papers like a ballot or a birth certificate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mrs Roosevelt's Ladies of the Press Meet in Intimate Sessions
A 1938 feature describes Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt hosting women reporters in the White House Monroe Room, noting intimate, protective exchanges, strict decorum, and a blend of social itinerary and Work in the press conferences. It lists several prominent correspondents and details the room setup and conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Washington Press
Roosevelt
Capital News Corps
Mrs. Roosevelt
Monroe
Lowell
Longfellow
Crane
Hawthorne
Melville
Mark Twain
Winifred Mallon
New York Times
Ruby Black
la Democracia
Puerto Rico
Wisconsin
New York
Massachusetts
May Craig
Maine
Martha Strayer
The
Washington News
Mary Hornaday
Christian Science Monitor
White House
Captain Lock
Fine Arts Commission
Congress
Morrellville to Open as School Principal Appointment
Prof Edwin Bach, Indiana Normal graduate and long time Indiana schools teacher, has been elected principal of Morrellville Johnstown schools with a salary of 80 dollars per month. Thirteen other Indiana Normal graduates teach in Johnstown schools. City Superintendent J M Berkey also a Normal graduate. Also note camp Thomas incident with fifteen men from Blairsville ill after stewed tomatoes left overnight. cook reassigned. Teacher permanent certificate exams set for June 24 and 25 in the Third Ward building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue
Edwin %. Bach
Indiana
Morrellville
Johnstown
Indiana Normal
Johnstonn
Margaret Adair
Ruth Adair
Margaret Smith
Anna Sloan
Matte Smith
Clara Moorhead
Jean
Marriage and death notices from 1923 local pages
Invitations for the Wilmington Delaware wedding of Miss Dorothy Walker and Gilbert Smith Parnell are issued. Frank Lowry of Rochester Mills wed Miss La Rose Potter of Marchand Delaware. Annie Leydig Boucher widow of J Taylor Boucher of Indiana has died. Clark Boyer 28 dies from injuries at Indiana Hospital. Prominent Shelocta youth dies after accident at Dutch Run. Other deaths include Daniel O Miller Barnesboro and George Richey Seward.
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Frank Lowry
Rochester Mills
la Rose Potter
Marchand
Annie (Leydig) Boucher
J. Taylor Boucher
Indiana
Wilmington
Del
Dorothy Walker
Leon Walker
Gilbert Smith Parnell
J. E. Parnell
Clark Boyer
Dutch Run
Daniel O. Miller
Barnesboro
George Richey
Seward
Prison Auto Collision Near Florida Trip
Ten years ago on Thursday June 7 1928 a car carrying local officials returning from Florida with three county prisoners collided with a truck in heavy fog. No serious injuries were reported. Also note Consolidated Coal Company of Buller bought coal properties in Indiana County and a marriage between Alexander Swartz and Virginia Brown.
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Florida
Consolidated Coal Company of
Buller
Consolidated Coal & Coke Co
Indiana County
Alexander Swartz
Clymer
Virginia Brown
Indiana
Southern Cross
Pacific
Fijis
Australia
Altoona
Quotations on Social Issues and Leadership Errors
A mosaic of quotes from scholars and officials on social reform, liberty, traffic, and political action. Clara MacGowan, Alf Landon, Percy W. Pennsylvania, N. 8. Krusheff, and Sidney Smith are cited, reflecting debates on pace of progress, hunger, romance, and leadership accountability.
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Alf M. Landon
Absurdities and Oddities Across 1938 News Snippets
A collage of whimsical notes on expanding body parts, shrinking jaws, immortality, a closed pie plant in Los Angeles, diners opening egg plants, silk from soybeans in Japan, and playful quips about detectives, defamation suits, Gideon Bibles in Western New York hotels, and bearded gentlemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
New York
Gideon
NEA Service, Inc
Oddities in 1900s London Transport and British Flora
Oddities include more than 98 000 umbrellas left on London transport annually and merchants selling syrup covered crab apples on willow sticks as lollipops for children. Also mentions the Carolina rail bird misbelief and England’s newer trees replacing old ones since 1914.
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London Transport
England
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Hs Hstanlisiint
Indiana Printing and Publishing Co
Gadinns ‘Hoouing Gazette
Fe We. Ray
N. Dewitt Ray
Y. Dwight Ray
Uind
Pesseene Cly Wollterseev
Holttoe
Nce
Dally
Associated Frees
Newa
Queen Elizabeth
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
Johnson
Spain
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
National Safety Council
Pet
United States
Old London
William
Clara MacGowan
North
Western University
Percy W
Pennsylvania Highway Police
N. 8
Krusheff
Communist Party
Ukraine
Anoka
Sidney Smith
University of Manitoba
Japan
Cleveland
Sa LS
Electrolux
Uber Autor
Columbia Natural Gas Company
Carpenter & Nixon Ave
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