Wall Street disapproval growth could curb debt tricks
A historical critique argues against sporadic attacks on individuals and urges focusing on Wall Street debt culture. It cites the United States and Foreign Securities Company and its $30 million capitalization, highlighting how bankers profit from bonds, stock, and misvaluations. The piece condemns street carnivals and urges municipal restraint.
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Wall Street
United States and Foreign Securities Company
Corporation
Ground floor fortune tale and stock market cautions
The piece recalls Horace Rackham's 1903 Ford investment turning into 12 million, illustrating rare big windfalls for small investors. It warns that stock gains require timing and money and cautions readers to avoid the market if lacking resources, then notes Attorney General Cummings threatening gold hoarder names.
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Horace H. Rackhem
Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
Harvard Degree For Fulton Market Former Governor
Former New York governor A. Smith received the Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University, despite his lack of formal education earlier, a choice seen as surprising yet earned. A Jefferson City gathering of the Ozark Improvement Association will meet at Capital City airport Thursday evening with leading Central Missouri citizens attending, highlighting Jefferson City as gateway to the lake region and potential improvements.
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Smith
Harvard
A. Smith
New York
Fulton
Governor Smith
Dr. Smith
Fulton Fish Market
Jefferson City
The
Ozark Inprovement Association
Capital City
Missouri
Lake Region
Ow City
White Slavers at Factory Door in Pennsylvania Sweatshop Probe
The Pennsylvania sweatshop inquiry resurfaces with testimony about vice ring operatives luring underpaid girls at factory doors with promises of easy money. Wages, starvation, and coercive trips to New York are cited, echoing Governor Pinchot’s wife protests and Roosevelt’s call for a living wage. Government action under industrial control aims to curb such abuses as public outrage grows.
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Pennsylvania
Vice Ring
Walt
Pinchot
New York City
Prsident Roosevelt
Milwaukee Journal
How to Keep Cool in Desert Heat From an Old-Timer
An elderly desert resident offers timeless tips for staying calm in extreme heat. He urges plenty of water and shade, light meals, and above all a serene mindset to blunt the thermometer by avoiding fuss and weather talk.
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California Desert
California
Wichita beer revolt tests Kansas dry laws
Wichita merchants defied state prohibitions by selling 3.2 beer as courts and officials clash. Prohibitionists rally led by Dr Homer L Gleckler while legal action and potential special session loom. Attys general Boynton says reports of widespread sales are exaggerated despite 100 plus merchants selling beer.
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Wichita
Kan
Homer L. Gleckler
The
Methodist Church
Gleckler
Kansas
Sedgwick
Roland Boynton
State Supreme Court
Nave
Topeera
Alf M. Landon
Heer
Rolang Boynton
Boynton
Hutchinson
Topeka
Rescue program salvages two million fish in southeast Missouri
Under Dr G B Herndon, chief of hatcheries, a large fish rescue drive begins in southeast Missouri. About 2 million game fish are expected to be saved from drying sloughs and pits as Black and St Francis rivers overflow. Poplar Bluff HQ. crews use seines to recover fish in Butler county and return them to rivers. Cloudcroft New Mexico claims highest golf course, 5900 feet above sea level.
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Poplar Bluff
G. B. Herndon
State Game and Fish Department
Herndon
Missouri
Black
St. Francis
de. Herndon
Black River
Butler County
117 WAR VETERANS TO MO EROSION CAMPS
The first contingent of Missouri World War Veterans totaling 117 will begin training at Fort Leavenworth today. In total 750 veterans will be assigned to four erosion camps at Lancaster Macon Memphis and Brookfield. The article also notes a whippet described as the fastest dog on legs capable of 200 yards in 10 to 12 seconds.
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Fort Leavenworth
Ess
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Lancaster
Macon
Memphis
Brookfield
Government Faces Danger of Losing Control in Price War
Washington on June 27 Up reports the Roosevelt administration faces a crucial test of industrial control aimed at holding prices within bounds. Officials urge gradual price rises while wages catch up, warning against rapid increases that could trigger a buyer’s strike and a new downturn. The policy seeks a higher price level to boost business turnover and relieve private debts, with emphasis on restoring jobs and consumer buying power.
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United Press
Washington
Roosevelt
London
Hugh Johnson
Charles J. Brand
Brand
Congress
Busines
Johnson
Piano tuner killed in Missouri car accident
Fred Coleman, 57, a St. Louis piano tuner, died in Poplar Bluff when his car skidded in heavy rain. He reportedly lost control as a door swung open, and the door closed, crushing his skull.
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Poplar Bluff
Jime
Fred Coleman
St. Louis
Organizers Target Chicago Union Five Gang Conflict
June 21 AP report states Henry Berger age 41, organizer for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was shot in the head and gravely hurt. His wife also wounded as two gunmen fled in a car. Police link the attack to an outlaw Teamsters faction possibly led by Murray Humphreys and “Three-Fingered” Jack White. Berger’s condition described as crucial by physicians.
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Chicago
Henry Berger
General Organiz
International Brothers of Teamsters
Berger
Las Police
Teamsters’ Union
Murray Humphreys
Jack White
Automobile
Missouri Pacific reports higher carloads than last year
St Louis June 27 AP Missouri Pacific lines announced they handled 29652 carloads of freight last week versus 25065 in the same week year ago. St Louis San Francisco Railway reported 1318 carloads last week compared with 122074 in the corresponding week of 1932 and 12074 in the prior year.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific Limes
St. Louis San Francisco
Janet Curtis suspects affair rocks Lancaster society
Janet Bigl, engaged to Rolf Carlyle, breaks off engagement after learning he flirted with Betty Kendall. Janet, a secretary at Every Home Magazine, befriends Jeff Crant after a purse snatching. Betty and Rolf marry, Janet moves in with Mrs Curtis, Betty’s mother, who is revealed to be Janet’s employer. Betty pressures Mrs Curtis as Janet grows close to Jeff and faces social scrutiny. Janet's loyalty strains as family secrets surface and she contemplates her future.
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Reginaere
Janet Bigl
Rolf Carlyle
Betty Ken
Dall
Janet
Bruce Hamilton
Rolf
Jeff Crant
Jef
Betty
Jeff
Hamilton
Curtis
Mrs. Curtis
Betty Kendall
Silver Bay
Megrest Farm
Betty Carlyle
van Bannister
Ridgeways
Bruce
Lancaster
Flore
Lucy
Fredarick
Janet Plans a New York Trip Amid Fall Weather
Janet, living with Mrs Curtis, weighs leaving Lancaster for a distant city. She inventories funds, studies fares, and visits stores and the railway station to plot a voyage. The plan shifts when a sudden call arrives, interrupting her preparations with alarming news.
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Janet
Mrs. Curtis
Hovse
York
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RS. Curtis
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