Technocash and the Nomenclature of Money
A playful verse imagines replacing dollars with units from science and power such as footpounds and joules. It muses on the awkwardness of new monetary terms and jokes that only crossword scholars would thrive as technotellers in a technocratic bank.
Greatest Woman The Baby and Other Oddities
A 1922 King Features column reflects on popular contests naming top American women leaders, household morality, and curious fare such as a South Carolina comet impact. It notes Beatrice Snipes's death sentence and her prison visit with her unborn child, a kitten rescue in Fort Myers, and a Colorado couple found dead. It ends with a joke on stamps funding road repair after a Cuban hurricane.
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National Council of Women
Mary Baker Eddy
Jane Addams
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas A. Edison
South Carolina
Beatrice Snipes
Cuba
Santa Cruz
King Features Syndicate, Inc
WNU
Prosperity near and far in a wary 1938 column
A reflective 1938 column laments slow business, unpaid debts, and political tax waste. It notes Ironwood's new post office, critiques government spending from Florida trips to a Washington garage, and urges real tax cuts and practical lake fishing improvements over endless surveys. The piece closes questioning sustained prosperity after years of promises.
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Ironwood
Washington
Oliver Company
Florida
Federal Park
Toorida
Wilbur
County Board of Supervisors
Gogebic County
State Conservation Commission
Gogebic
Lake
Beaton
Beaton’s Lake
Langford’s Lake
Thousand Island Lake
Clark Lake
State Fish Commission
County Conservation Committee
Jony
Hoover
Democratic House
Comstock
Stack
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Technocash
Arthur Brisbane
Fort Myers
Fla
Associated Press
Fire Department
Aurora
Colo
Starlite Cottage
Harold Crawford
Lillian Gould
Colorado
Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies
Association For the Advancement of Science
Earth
Andy Mellon
Agendieayn Company
Postoffice
Hurley