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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1938
Page
3
Youth and the low mood described for June births a new class of high school graduates. In one Ohio county 359 graduates show only 18 percent unemployment six months after vacation. Nearly half work in gainful occupations and about a third attend advanced schools, suggesting broader improvements for youth prospects.
Governor era style column notes Circuit Clerk Guy M Lone’s Columbia trip ended with a $3.50 parking fine after he refused to plead guilty. The piece contrasts leniency toward Columbians with Lone’s stiff treatment by Jefferson City police. It then pivots to Sedalia’s water plant history and a warning on municipal ownership costs.
Washington Daybook discusses why agencies like TVA form corporations to gain private enterprise flexibility while remaining under government oversight. The piece notes Congress retains power to revise charters, contrasts Navy land buys with TVA procurement, and recounts Willkie and Biddle moments during TVA investigations.
A compact historical note highlights late eighteenth century medical giants and breakthroughs. It names Voltaire Rousseau and the Encyclopedists shaping culture, and marks the era’s advances including the first US medical library,UPenn medical department, New York Medical Society, Harvard Medical School, Jenner’s smallpox vaccine inspiration, oxygen isolation, Lavoisier’s chemistry foundations, Mesmer’s magnetism, Vepee’s deaf sign language, Auenbrugger’s chest percussion, Planck’s contagion theory, White’s cleanliness to prevent childbed fever, and Jasser’s mastoid operation during the American Revolution.
A collage of short quotes from Helen Hulick Elsie Bauer Joseph Buerckel Elizabeth House John Seal and others. Figures referenced include Franklin D Roosevelt Martha Raye and ordinary citizens. The remarks touch on fashion censorship public spaces and political life through a strain of satirical and pointed commentary.
In the Panama Canal Zone the U S Army tightens defenses after arrests of four alleged Nazi spies. Maj Gen David L Stone orders stricter watch at key posts, discharging German Italian workers and clearing Japanese from Post Exchanges amid broader anti espionage actions.
Harold Snyder, 15, named in a wild near mile long driving spree, borrows a neighbor’s car without permission and wrecks it along with six other cars and two trucks. Police say he is a juvenile delinquent. No serious injuries reported.
Reports detail prowlers near 18 inch coast artillery at Fort Robbe on the Pacific side. One man wounded as both escaped. A dead letter reveals a plot to deliver a secret military document to a foreign government. Amid Nazi Italian propaganda flow, patrols tighten over the Canal zone with strict flying restrictions. The Army guards massive guns and the vast so called big ditch linking coasts to save the navy thousands of miles.
A fragment describes a window incident where police were awaited and a person faced a charge of malicious mischief. The text then shifts to a scientific note on lunar cycles noting a moon phase alignment and a brief, unrelated remark about milk provision in British schools for 2,500,000 children with payments or free access.
Mrs. C. C. Henderson of Lawrence Kansas credits KruGon with relief after forty years of constipation and digestive distress. She reports regulated stomach and bowels, reduced swelling in ankles and feet, and improved meal comfort. Sold by Brandenberger Drug Co. and nearby druggists.
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