Coolidge and Dawes Nominated by Republicans
The Indianapolis Times lauds the Republican convention renominating Calvin Coolidge for president and Charles Dawes for vice president. It declares the party reborn as conservative, praises Coolidge for shaping a clear conservative platform, and urges voters to favor conservatives while the Democrats face a choice between conservative and progressive paths.
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Republican Party
Calvin Coolidge
United States
Charles G. Dawes
Indianapolis Times
The
Times
President Coolidge
Cleveland
Coolidge
Democratic Party
Honeymoon Ends Over Billing Echo Profiteers Denounced
A sharp critique argues that the commission on life’s necessities is a profiteering front rather than a real organization. The piece notes President Coolidge’s father reportedly plowed during a convention, while contrasting weather between Vermont and Indiana.
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THE
Commission On the Necessaries of Life
Will Cressy Seeks Post After Convention
The piece follows Will Cressy planning a Washington visit to talk with Republican leaders about a political job while heading to New York for the Democratic convention. The narrator jokes about spoils and potential sinecures, mentioning a treasury post and a $60,000,000 farmer financing bill as context.
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Will Cressy
Washington
New York
Indianapolis
Cleveland
the Treasury
New York stores stock quirks and empty drug shelves
In New York, June 13, a trip through corner drug stores reveals they resemble general stores, stocking many items but rarely drugs. A clerk even questions Latin prescriptions. Hotels house women living aimlessly, with money and leisure turning into dangerous excess and hollow pursuits.
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Steve Hannagan
York
New York
I Am Amusing Thoughts on Public Life and Quiet Peculiar Seeds
The speaker jokes about public service and farming profits, imagining roles from secretary of agriculture to a crime sleuth. He muses on deficits, railroads and other non paying ventures, then pivots to seeds and lemons as a metaphor for production and failure while planning a trip to Washington en route to the Democratic convention.
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New Hampshire
Florida
Washington
Good Luck to the Bride and Groom from Friends
A nostalgic wedding toast expresses lasting friendship and well wishes for the couple. The note recalls shared griefs and joys, memories and secrets kept, and hopes that love and happiness accompany them in the years ahead. Copyright 1924 NEA Service Inc.
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NEA Service, Inc
Answers from The Times Washington Bureau
A reader asks about the Bill of 1800 and its proposed electoral count process. The Times provides brief historical notes on topics including Spitzbergen, Franklin MacVeagh, Fifi pronunciation, Ash Wednesday origins, Raleigh as a poet, orange tree rooting, and the meaning of Boscobel.
Quick Talks on Motors and Movies by Aron Sumner
A British law lord criticizes three modern inventions: the gramophone, moving pictures, and the motor car. The writer supports the benefits of affordable cars for laborers, noting that cars can equalize status for hired men and help farmers who lose land, while downplaying the car’s role in widening class divides. He cites experiences in Illinois and praises Henry for influences on society.
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Aron Sumner
America
England
Illinois
Henry
Whimsical Sayings From A Dallas Grocer Suit
In Dallas a grocer sues a girl for breach of promise while a parade of maxims rolls by. Jokes about spring and summer, hypocrites, open minds, and misused labor pepper the page as a collage of humorous quips and reflections on work life and travel.
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Dallas
Texas
Civilization key sought in Yucatan
In the Yucatan Maya ruins at Chichen-Itza Carnegie Institution archaeologists begin large scale digs to uncover a Maya Rosetta stone. The effort could rewrite history by proving ancient Maya interaction with Egypt and Asia 10 000 to 15 000 years ago. Historical theories range from Maya origins tied to mankind to Eden legends, with Dr William Gates predicting a major rewrite as inscriptions reveal international ancient contact.
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Chichen-Itza
Carnegie Institution
Tut-Ankhamen
American
Auguste le Plongeon
Yucatan Peninsula
Garden of Eden
Abel
Uxmal
Egypt
Atlantic
William Gates
Asia
Greece
Rome
Honduras
Guatemala
Dawn of Civilization in Fertile World Field
A concise remark on a vast ancient landscape describing it as one of the three truly fertile regions globally for studying early civilization, reflecting its enduring archaeological and scholarly importance.
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Earle. E. Martin
Roy W. Howard
Felix F. Bruner
WM. A. Mayburn
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
United Press
NEA Service
Scripps-Paine Service
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Indianapolis Times Publishing Co
Maryland St
Chauncey Depew
Vermont
Indiana
Edge
Uncle Sam
Michigan
New York Ave
Washington, D. C
Bulletin
Bill
By Will M. Cressy
George Storm
Hal Cochran
Buster
James Ross
Pennsylvania
Senate
Congress
Spitzbergen
Actic
Norway
Secretary of the Treasury
Taft
Franklin MacVeagh
Fifi
Fefe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Herbert Quick
Flivver
Tom Sims
South Africa
Siar Part
Gouwy LL
Bor
Paris
Yucatan
Alma Reed
NEA
HICHEN-IT@A
Walls of History
Maya
Lcrcs
P. Ut
J. Gauseponhl & Co
Washington St
Glacier National Park
Yellowstone National Park and
Denver
Mountain Park
Colorado
Richard A. Kurtz
Mgr. Foreign Dept
the Union Trust CO
E. Market St
Windsor
South Bend
Jewel
Jewelry Company
Lyric Theatre
Illinois St
Frohman
S. Meridian St
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