State highway wage revolt demands action by commission
The Indianapolis Times urged the Indiana state highway commission to act against a 20 cent an hour wage scale on State Road 54 from Elliston to Linton, citing workers paid as low as 20 cents with 15 cent water boys. The paper linked subletting to an Indiana firm and warned public opinion could strip commissioners of office if no action is taken. It condemned mob violence and lynching in the South, urging swift justice to curb such acts.
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State Highway Commission
Albert J. Wedeking
Times
Elliston
Linton
Chicago
Atlanta
South
Edison
the Times
Church and State Debate and a Murder Verdict in Atlanta
A debate on church involvement in politics features Bishop McConnell defending reform duties of churches within a democracy. The text notes the Kellogg pact support and warns against dirty politics. It also cites a Atlanta murder case where a white defendant was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of a Black student.
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Francis J. McConnell
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Institute of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
al Smith
Church
Atlanta
State
Witnesses Recalled in Mooney Billings Case Cast Doubt
The piece reviews discredited witnesses MacDonald and Miss Smith in the 1916 San Francisco bomb case. It argues their identifications were inconsistent and tainted by drugs or money. If their testimony is rejected, Mooney and Billings could win freedom after fourteen years.
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John MacDonald
Fstelle Smith
Frank Oxman
Governor Young
California Supreme Court
Mooney-Billings
Edeans
Crowley
San Francisco
MacDonald
Miss Smith
Mooney
Billings
Steuart
Market Streets
Miss
California
Mooney and Billings
Hoover Commission To Study Unemployment Farther
The article argues a new Hoover commission should focus on root causes of unemployment and solutions to keep workers employed, criticizing limited seeks for more data and urging a permanent federal bureau to address why millions are denied the right to work. Odette Myrtil quote contrasts American views on life as lousy or marvelous and on girls as awful or cute.
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Hoover
New Commission
Odette Myrtil
Tax relief and government reform urged amid global views
A discussion argues that income tax reductions help few and real relief requires cutting unproductive real estate and slashing government offices. It cites Aldrich and notes constitutional conventions could abolish wasteful posts, while criticizing political inertia and the costs of the state. The piece touches Ferguson in Texas, imperial Britain, naval aviation claims, and the Lindberghs amid a chaotic array of topics.
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Aldrich
Rhode Island
Fraunhofer the Father of Spectroscopy
The 1801 Munich house collapse spared a youth, Joseph Fraunhofer, whose reward from Elector Maximilian Joseph helped launch a career as a premier lens maker. His work revealed dark lines in spectra, later explained by Kirchhoff and Bunsen as clues to elements in the sun.
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Munich
Maximilian Joseph
Joseph Fraunhofer
Europe
Fraunhofer
Sir Isaac Newton
W. H. Wollaston
London
Wollaston
Newton
Raunhofer
Pasteur and the Rise of Medical Specialties
Dr. Morris Fishbein opens a series on medical advances tracing the shift from a general practitioner to highly specialized fields after Pasteur's 1880 discoveries. The article notes the birth of asepsis, germ theory, and the rise of blood studies and instrumentation, leading to at least sixteen recognized medical specialties.
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Morris Fishbein
America
American Medical Association
It Seems to Me by Heywood Bromefore Vacation
The writer announces a two week vacation with Joe Williams taking charge and thanks readers. He critiques Edison quiz questions and notes biases in the test, arguing for a pragmatic solution and a tabloid friendly ending featuring the society wife.
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Joe Williams
Farm Board Advises Acreage Reduction and Domestic Focus
Times readers report that Legge and the federal farm board urge wheat and cotton farmers to cut plantings and emphasis domestic needs. Europe should rely on South American and Canadian sources, boosting those markets and buying power for manufactured goods, including farm machinery.
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Times
Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
Europe
South America
Canada
Regen
South
Canadian
Mr. Stone
Farm Board
Columbus
Legge
Farragut Forces Entry Into Mobile Bay Civil War Battle
In August 1864 Admiral Farragut led a combined fleet of ironclads and wooden ships into Mobile Bay fighting through torpedoes and forts. The assault faced strong Confederate resistance including the ironclad ram Tennessee as the fleet pressed toward the harbor defenses.
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David G. Farragut
Bay of
Mobile
Gulf
Bay
Tennessee
Farragut
Ete
Prohibition Tariff Debates and MacDonald Perjury Reflections
The column argues that Republican rigidities on prohibition and protection hurt the party by 1930 linking them to national woes. It contrasts Democratic openness on reform with Republican missteps under past leadership blaming policy failures for current economic trouble. It also criticizes John MacDonald’s perjury in the Mooney Billings case, condemning leniency toward liars and praising justice.
Justice system’s odd loophole on a dog’s death sentence
A New Jersey court ruled a dog’s fate satisfied by removal to New York, citing law’s demand to kill or remove. The writer questions whether human cases could be resolved similarly and with the same ease for ordinary people.
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New Jersey
New York
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