Cox Nominated by Democrats at San Francisco Convention
The Ohio governor Cox won the Democratic nomination after a lengthy convention from June 28 to July 6 and the running mate was Franklin D. Roosevelt. The piece discusses platform leanings on Volstead enforcement and wine policy and notes Roosevelt’s acclamation as Cox’s VP choice. It also reflects on aging and longevity with historical figures as examples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cox
Ohio
San Francisco
McAdoo
Wilson
Bryan
Roosevelt
Borrowed Time Club Defies Age Myths in Seattle
A Seattle column argues for an active aging movement led by a group called the Borrowed Time Club. It defends living beyond seventy as earned by health habits and warns against retreat from public life. The piece stresses vitality, courage, and defiance of age-related decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
P.I
The Kept Press Debate and New Influencing Interests
The article argues radical papers are not the major kept press but notes new influential groups organized by class lines push for private advantage. It warns that some media outlets may be controlled by interests and that advertising standards shape leading journals. The piece questions national benefit if such groups grow larger.
Special interests push new privileges against the public
The Saturday Evening Post criticizes special legislation favoring a class at public expense. It argues that when new interests align to back laws benefiting many stockholders, the result resembles the old targeted privilege. The piece condemns privileged treatment as inherently vicious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saturday Evening Post
The Ham That Cost Too Much
A New York deli ham case ends with a $25 bill deemed excessive by a jury. The wealthy patron refused payment, the dealer lost in lower and appellate courts, and the supreme court added costs totaling $40. The episode signals potential anti profiteer impact on law.
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Spokesman-Review
Lever Act
A. Mitchell Palmer
New York
Appelate
Supreme Court of New York
Surplus Harvest Labor in Oklahoma Report
A Ponca City dispatch explains how high harvest wages pull workers from other jobs. Farmers hire few outside hands, using family labor to surplus the field. Wives and daughters operate tractors and self binders, reducing external employment and risking broader labor market effects.
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Ponca City
Okla
Oklahoma
Committee that should be in jail outrages reported
The Spokesman-Review recounts a nine member citizens committee at Pine Bluff Arkansas who seized the St Louis Yardmen's president and a St Louis Baptist minister, partially stripped them, whipped them with tree switches, and expelled them for merely addressing a labor gathering. The piece condemns this mob action as unlawful and dangerous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Blue
Ark
Citizens’ Committee
St. Louis
So-Eal“Committee
Not a War with United States Says Editor
The Oroville Gazette quips about the nation’s stance on war with the United States. Editor Cornelius of the Cashmere Record muses that easing into conflict is costly, while the Pine Bluff committee is referenced in passing.
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Cornelius
The
Cashmere Record
United States
North Dakota Primary Shifts After Nonpartisan League Loss
In the recent North Dakota primary election the nonpartisan league suffered a large vote reduction and defeated incumbent congressman Baer by about three thousand votes. Governor Frazier appears to be renominated by the League over independent candidate Langer by a narrow margin.
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North Dakota
League
Baer
Frazier
Langer
Editorialist ridicules Bryan in Beerless Leader remark
The Post-Intelligencer columnist derisively describes Bryan as fat bald and clothed in wrinkles. He says the candidate needs to quit political talk go to Nebraska farm fields and be rejuvenated. The critic mocks his thinking as hindered by excess adipose tissue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Post-Intelligencer
Bryan
Nebraska
Stanwood Tidings Satirizes Mayor Lien Absence
The Stanwood Tidings mocks Mayor Lien for a six month leave of absence with a vacation in the South. It notes irony in Nels Olson, named as successor, also seeking a vacation, prompting reader confusion over how a mayor can have a successor during absence.
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Stanwood
Lien
Nels Olson
Government statistics on tobacco soft drinks and cosmetics
The report notes apparent inconsistencies in government spending figures for cigarettes cigars soft drinks and cosmetics. It lists $800 million for cigarettes $510 million for cigars $350 million for soft drinks and $750 million for cosmetics with $400 million for toilet soaps and $300 million for furs, concluding that statistics for hard liquor are missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Elihu Root Endorses League of Nations in War on Wilson
Douglas County Press notes Elihu Root credits Woodrow Wilson for proposing a world court to settle disputes without arms. The piece labels Root as endorsing the league of nations and questions what the local senator will say in response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elihu Root
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
World Court of Justice
Douglas County Press
Gellatly Directs Campaign Flight Over Willapa Harbor
In South Bend on July Fourth 1930 John A. Gellatly Wenatchee Republican gubernatorial candidate piloted a seaplane over the city distributing campaign literature. He planned a future airplane tour with his son Lester a lieutenant pilot to gauge feasibility amid the Independence Day parade with Raymond and South Bend merchants and naval salutes.
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South Bend
Willapa Harbor
John A. Gellatly
Wenatchee
Gellatly
Lester
Raymond
Lad Saves Father Stricken in Well in Okanogan
In Okanogan on Saturday C C Parkman, a noted orchardist, was 30 feet underground when a plank ripped into the well from above and struck him, knocking him unconscious. His sixteen year old son climbed down by rope, secured his father, and pulled him to safety. Miss Holzlin of Cincinnati arrived for a visit with Mrs. Wm Cox.
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Okanogan
C. C. Parkman
Miss Holzlin
Cincinnati
Wm. M. Cox
The Old Fashioned Fourth Memories
A nostalgic inquiry into what happened to the old-fashioned Fourth of July picnic in the woods. The piece recalls crackers lemonade prize goods a merry-go-round horses buggies and the crowd’s simple festive rituals fading from memory. It laments the loss of traditional treats cigars and homemade fare.
Just a Matter of Preference
W O Bradbury recalls an office moment near Danville when a young woman asked him which he preferred a appareil or a quad. He calmly answered it is a matter of personal preference. The scene hints at a tense stairway moment and strained relations between two admirers.
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W. O. Bradbury
Danville
Bradbury
Brad
Lucy
Make Ready and Miscellany Across a Silent Era
A collage of light verse and quips on politics and media. Warren Harding is cited in a playful note about making ready at conventions. A brief jab at phonographs, a satirical line about profiteers, and a casual glimpse of publishing life wrap this vignette in a period newspaper voice.
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Warren Harding
Dad” Smith
Party Publishing Company
Franklin
Real Estate Transfers in Peshastin and Varney Add
C J Weiser transfers numerous lots in Peshastin Ideal Orchard tracts and surrounding blocks to Homer Gilbert for 8000 dollars. E H King transfers Lots 1 and 2 Block 1 Varney Addition so Leav. to George C Stall for 1 dollar.
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C. J. Weiser
Homer
Gilbert
E. H. King
George C. Stall
Life’s Sea Wind Sighs Stir the Sad Sailor
A fragment captures a seaside mood where a speaker named Joe reflects on sorrow tied to the ocean. The exchange mentions wind and froth over the bar as a metaphor for melancholy.
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O. A. Lee
Echo
Isaac Newton
Walter Savage Landor
John Wesley
Washington Irving
Washington
Browning
Tennyson
Victor Hugo
Voltaire
Pine Bluff “Committee
Oroville Gazette
SKY
Lad
T. C. McConnell
American Banker Association
Leavenworth State Bank
F. A. Sinclair
J. B. Adams
R. B. Field
R. F. Taylor
C. G. Cockburn
J. D. Ely
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