What are issues in the 1930 campaign platforms and choices
The piece examines how the Kansas City and Houston platforms for Hoover and Smith deal with issues like tariffs dry laws farm relief and religion. It notes conflicts between platform statements and candidate positions and argues that voters must judge by the candidates themselves rather than party platforms.
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Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
Houston
al Smith
Antis
McNary- Haugen
George N. Peek
New York
United States
Doce Day’s Chronicle From a Fragmented Note
Fragmentary OCR text offers a misleading glimpse with garbled phrases and no clear event. Readers encounter stray words like at the end of the day and happiness without coherent structure, leaving the core subject and context unreadable.
Clark County Fair Closes With Record Crowds and Pulling Contest
August community notes report the Clark county fair set records on Thursday and Saturday. Frank Kettering and the weather man are credited for the thirty-second annual event, with a horse and mule pulling contest drawing large crowds and Judge Thompson's noon address boosting attendance.
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Frank Kettering
Clark County
Kettering
Judge Thompson
Martinsville 4-H Pig Club earns record premiums at fair
Riley Sharp and companions excel in livestock contests. Sharp won 32 in premiums and three firsts in Poland China division. Harry Bennett placed well in Duroc classes. Mary Belle Bullard took two seconds and a third. Ira Brosman and Lloyd Finney led notable horse and mule pulls, with Brosman nearly breaking a state record and Finney's team setting a lighter class mark. University officials praised the pulls.
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Riley Sharp
Martinsville
Riley
Poland
China
Harry Bennett
Westfield Club
Mary Belle Bullard
Ira Brosman
Lloyd Finney
Brosman
Finney
University of Illinois
Farmers Aim for Better Balanced Profitable Production
Lee Chapman of Auburn praises cooperation for improved farming profits. Vern Pickens near Marshall built resilient crops despite a recent devastating hail. A diversified system yields cows, hogs, corn, oats, wheat, and clover. A Martinsville fair incident notes a gatekeeper error and a 50 cent payment.
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Vern Pickens
Marshall
Vern
Students Vern Stewart and Russell Myles Earn Springfield State Fair
Vern Stewart and Russell Myles of Marshall are chosen to attend the State Fair in Springfield after selection by B F Holscher county superintendent of schools.
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Vern Stewart
Russell Myles
Marshall
Springfield
B. F. Holscher
County
Overwork and the dangers of improper living
A narrator argues regular toil harms less than poor habits and stresses proper body care. He cites breakfast, sleep, and exercise routines, contrasts a sedentary lifestyle with a farmer who lived to eighty two, and blames modern habits for early death rather than overwork.
Daddy of All the Trees In Ceylon oldest tree reaches twenty second century
A historical notice reports the oldest tree believed to be in Ceylon and asserts its existence into the twenty second century, highlighting its ancient heritage and continued endurance.
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Ceylon
Ostrich Ida’s Stomach Yields Odd Hoard Inside
A London Zoo ostrich named Ida died and was found to have swallowed a curious mix of items. Inside Ida were four handkerchiefs three ploves a spool nails coins pieces of a comb a gold necklace fragment a brass key screws tivets bdd pencils a four inch wood piece and a three foot cord.
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Ida
London Zoo
Lamentations at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
The text notes various lamentations at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Prayers were arranged by R Samuel in the eighteenth century for use upon entering Jerusalem. A devout Jew tears his garment and recites specific verses from Jeremiah and Lamentations.
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Jerusalem
R. Samuel
Insect Chemistry Reported by German Scientist
Fragmentary note describes a German chemist attempting chemical analysis of insects. The text references a process involving covering specimens with powdered substance, copper oxide, and heat, but the details are garbled and unclear.
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Ant ‘Ng. Syst Lp
Cheerful John Moody on Prosperity and Language Ideas
John Moody predicts at least five more years of rising values and prosperity in America while dismissing old financial panic voices. He envisions a new era with global dialect studies on talking machines and urges English or Latin as a universal inter language. cautions against a crop dictator in Russia.
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John Moody
America
Moody
Barney Deboka
United States
New York
San Francisco
Europe
Osso
Egypt
Erasmus
Henry the Eighth
104 year old Lithuanian arrives to tour America
An aged Lithuanian man, 104, arrived to visit the United States. He joked about shunning a lifetime in one place, danced a jig for reporters, claimed to quit tobacco eight years ago, and said liquor never hurt anyone. He warned he might change his view if he samples brand drinks in this country.
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Lithuania
First Use of Gas in World War Recorded
The War department notes Germany first used gas in World War I on April 22, 1915 at 4 90 p m on the Belgian front between Bixschoote and Lange march north of Urrea.
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War Department
Germany
Belgnian
Bixschoote
Langemarch
Urrea
Wires and Lightning Impact on Lightning Strikes
The bureau of standards notes overhead wires at normal ground height do not affect stroke severity or the point of strike. Wires may receive a discharge that would otherwise strike other objects nearby, altering the surrounding area.
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Bureau of Standards
Naual
Odd Welcome for Seamen Hospital Visitor
An aged visitor arrived at a London seamen’s hospital with attendants. They burned his clothes shaved him bathed him and put him to bed with a sleeping draught. The next day he was found to have come to visit a friend.
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London
Great Religious Order The Knights lot
The Knights of Columbus founded by Rev M J McGivney in 1882 at St Marys parish New Haven Conn. It now has a membership of about ten thousand in the United States and its possessions Canada Newfoundland Mexico and Cuba.
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the Knights Lot. Columbus
M. J. McGivney
St. Mary’s Parish
New Haven
Conn
Win
United States
Canada
Newfoundland
Mexico
Cubs
Grocery Man Seeks Way to Fill Five Cent Bacon Order
A reputable grocer, taking a telephone order for five cents worth of bacon, asks a clerk how best to fulfill the unusual small request, illustrating a problem in exact change and pricing.
Prized Manuscript Exhibit On Old Ironsides Curated
An original manuscript of Old Ironsides is on display. The exhibit is located on the library's second floor in the Congress building and draws researchers and visitors to view the historic document.
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Old Ironsides
of. Congress
The Farmer’s Independence Drives His Craft
The farmer prefers being his own boss as the key to farming. He resents others deciding what to plant and what prices to seek. Profit alone would not sustain farming. ownership and control bring intense pleasure and purpose.
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Fred Buser
Lydia Guinnip
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W. W. Tarman
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James Dunn
Parker Davison
Sol Handy
Elder Lee
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Ben LeGore
Lee Chapman
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Spittler
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