National debate on Townsend plan and soldiers bonus
Washington column notes that Congress faces a clash between Townsend old age pensions and immediate cash payments for World War I veterans. It explains the vast scale of bonus certificates, government loans, and the growing national debt, arguing that both options would raise debt and taxes, with past presidents uniformly opposing lump sum bonus payments.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Veterans Bureau
Treasury
United States Treasury
United States
Townsend Plan
Roosevelt era politics and New Deal party strategy
A Washington dispatch assesses Roosevelt era policies and New Deal finance, arguing public money funds relief while raising concerns about debt and waste. It analyzes campaign tactics, predicting Strong South and West support for Roosevelt, with Republicans portrayed as indecisive and slow to respond, hampering counter efforts.
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General Treasury
Townsend Ald
Congress
Roosevelt
Washington
West
Hoosevelt
Ins
Big Jim” Farley
Democratic National Committee
Theew York State Democratic Committee
East
New York
Farley
Republican National Committee
Middle West
Pacific Coast
Farles
Indifference Defects United States Mapping Effort
Charlottesville hearing cites only 25 percent of the nation adequately mapped and presses for a national mapping plan. Maj William Bowle warns lack of topographic data hampers engineering, flood control, hydroelectricity, highways, pipelines, resource exploration, and scientific research across 3,000,000 square miles. He blames indifference of stakeholders who would benefit from maps.
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Charlottesville
United States
National Academy of Science
William Bowle
Division of Geodesy
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Bowie
Weird Animals Lived On Montana Plains Long Ago
Washington report notes paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson of the American Museum of Natural History leads studies of ancient fauna from Montana plains. Smithsonian collections gathered by the late James W. Gidley already show over sixty species ranging from squirrel sized primate relatives to hear-dog like creatures, not ancestral to humans or dogs.
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Washington
Montana
George Gaylord Simpson
American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
James W. Gidley
Vaccines by Pill Talk At Bacteria Meeting
INDIANAPOLIS Vaccination by swallowing pills rather than injections was outlined by Dr Lloyd Arnold of the University of Michigan at a joint meeting of Indianapolis Michigan Ohio societies of bacteriology. He explained a bile pill taken before the vaccine pill fools the stomach into not releasing digestive acids that would ruin the vaccine. The vaccine is absorbed slowly from the pill through the lower digestive tract with no inflammation.
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Indianapolis
Lloyd Arnold
University of Milpois College of Medicine
Egypts He Men wore Make Up Curled Their Hair
New York report from The Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights 1500 B C Thebes finds showing middle class Egyptian life. Royal gifts private secretary Nefer Khenet tomb goods weapons games hair combs mirrors kohi makeup and eye darkening practices reveal social habits and family burials including ten relatives and poor relations.
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Egypt
New York
B. C
Thebes
Hatshepsut
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nefer-Khenet
Wil Ham ©. Hayes
Teels
Mr. Hagen
Boki
Lightning Struck lookout on Cedar Ridge tower tale
Al Moore, a Nez Perce National Forest lookout, was struck near a hundred foot steel tower on Quartz ridge. He felt a blinding flash with no sound and a cold sweat, later noting the tower withstood the hit while the ordeal left him with lingering nerves and goose pimples. The experience included buzzing metal, blue flame halos at the cabin corners, and advice to wear rubber soles and keep hands away from metal.
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States Forest Service
al Moore
Nezperce National Forest
Ajax
Steel Lookout Tower
Mr. Moore
Moore
Wild Wheat Found Near Noahs Mountain in Armenia
Wild wheat varieties have been discovered on the foothills of the Ararat region near Noahs Mountain. Armenian authorities designate the area a scientific reserve to protect the plants for studying wheat origins and for genetic work to improve frost and drought resistance.
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Moscow
Ararat
Armenia
Armenian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Lessons in History and Prophecy From Old Testament
A devotional outline for December 29 on mercy and providence, reviewing Israel’s exile and restoration through Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel Nehemiah Ezra and Malachi, with teaching methods and topic assignments for senior to adult classes, and a transition to studying the Gospel of Luke.
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Israel
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Daniel
Nehemiah
Ezra
Zerubbabel
Malachi
Jehovah
Temple
Belshazzar
Rand
Judah
Jerusalem
A Man Rich and Various Man Then Palace of Sight and Sound
A poetic line by Emerson describing a man rich in senses. It envisions the morning and night as parts of an unfathomable galaxy within the brain. It speaks of the geometry of the city of God in thought and love and moral realms in the heart.
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City of God
Emerson
Work Thank God and Sorrow Cure
A compact meditation contrasts toil as sorrow’s remedy and as a hostile force yet frames work as guidance and comfort from an enduring, reassuring presence. The piece presents toil as a paradoxical ally against grief, urging steady labor as a form of support.
United States Navy Owned 1419 000 000 Books in 1834
The record notes that in 1834 the United States Nhvaras owned 1419 000 000 books while the average citizen read nearly four books at a cost of 38 cents each.
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United States
Nhvaras
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Moody Hible Institute of Chicago
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Burma
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