Roosevelt Family Activities Stir Public Interest and Debate
The President's relatives engage in high profile roles and public commentary. Mrs Roosevelt backs aviation journalism urging greater airpower while cautioning readers that articles are private. James Roosevelt speaks at Mason City promoting NRA support and recovery program involvement.
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Roosevelt
Wresan
Chicago Herald
Swammer
Italy
Chicago
United States
Japan
France
England
Washington
James
NRA
Mason City
Ford Declines NRA Submission Signatory Standoff
Government presses for a signature from Henry Ford on an NRA submission. Ford refuses, arguing wages and hours already meet proclaimed limits. Washington faces a dilemma as authorities weigh possible penalties or boycott threats, while Ford asserts he already complies.
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Henry Ford
NRA
Ford
Washington
Prolonged Heat Sparks Corn Shortage Predictions
The hot weather and scant shower have begun to affect pastures and corn fields. An agricultural writer warns the nation may harvest its shortest corn crop in thirty years. Farmers anticipate tighter feeding and possible forced corn purchases to endure. They monitor weather and market effects, while speculators in hog and cattle markets draw less scrutiny.
Farm Prices Fall Behind Industrial Rise in the Nation
The city papers tout higher prices for factory goods and commodities but hogs stay below production costs. Beef cattle and dairy do not follow the rise, leaving farmers squeezed by factory figures and low farm values.
Fifty-Cent Dollar Near in The Manchester Press
The Manchester Press reports a fifty cent dollar looming as inflation could be decreed by Congress and possibly ordered by the President, while the move remains contingent on future actions and economic conditions.
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Manchester
Democratic Congress
Dollar Tinkerings Stir Uncertain Times in Congress
In the wake of Congress the times grow unstable as power brokers tinker with the dollar and provoke concern over fiscal policy and future stability across institutions.
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Congress
Perils of Coming Campaign in NRA Pledge Drive
The piece warns of a destined turn in the NRA pledge drive starting Monday, criticizing blacklists and boycotts as improper coercion. It cites Alfred E. Smith condemning threats and urges Admin Johnson to keep the campaign within lawful, voluntary bounds to avoid intimidation or violence.
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Chicago
NRA
Inet
Alfred E. Smith
National Industrial Recovery Act
Johnson
Publishers blamed for US book apathy and poor reader drive
Worcester Telegram notes Lincoln Schuster's claim that colleges discourage reading. He argues publishers share blame for commodifying books and mis advertising inferior titles, dulling readers' interest and raising skepticism toward future purchases.
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Worcester
Mass
United States
Lincoln Schuster
New York
Feuling Plans List for Democratic Officials’ Jobs
Gene Feuling, Iowa Democrats chairman, reportedly maintains a list of 100 daily recipients for official employment, with salaries around 36,500 a year. The Times-Republican notes possible creation of an official Democratic restaurant at New Hampton as satire.
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Marshalltown
Gene Feuling
Democrats
New Hampton
Bragging About It Its Motorist Efficiency Boost
A Detroit News remark from the motor car capital frames driving risk as a boast of mortal efficiency. The Minneapolis Journal paraphrases the claim that 450 million miles must be traveled to die in an American railroad accident highlighting contrast between car culture and rail danger.
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Minneapolis
The
Detroit News
Highway Patrol Needed for Public Road Safety
Cherokee Times argues for a formal highway patrol to protect travelers on public roads. It criticizes Towa for lagging behind and failing to begin this enforcement measure.
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Towa
Mother Needs a Code in Webster City Freeman Journal
A letter or editorial urges that mothers deserve a code of conduct as they labor long hours, often 12 to 15 daily including Sundays, and rarely strike or shirk. It highlights maternal diligence and calls for fair treatment.
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Webster City Freeman-Journal
A Cry From the Poor City and Its Suffering
A poetic excerpt by Mary Carolyn Davies discusses life in a strange city, perpetual poverty, and the sense that hunger grounds true freedom. The speaker reflects on personal exile from place and time and on the enduring ache of poverty as the core suffering.
Funny Exchanges From Answers London
A collection of humorous dialogue excerpts from Answers London includes a quip about why a husband calls his wife Honey and a porter consoling a passenger over missing trunks with a jest about the dressy place.
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Honey
Mr. Brown
London
Porter
Local History Told Through Monticello Octogenarians
The article profiles elderly Monticello residents and their families, detailing births, marriages, moves to Monticello, and long lives. It highlights Mrs Mary Hudson, Mrs Mary Jane Lavery McLees, and their descendants, noting years of birth, marriages, children, and surviving relatives.
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Monticello
Elderly Louisiana-born matriarch Kate Hall celebrated eightieth birthday
Mrs. Kate Hussey Hall, born August 9 1853 in Louisiana, marked her eightieth birthday near Monticello. She moved to California as a child, married Eugene Hall in 1871, lived on a Castle Grove farm, and later settled in Monticello with daughter Mrs. John Phelps. She has six children, thirteen grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
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Louisiana
Kate Hussey Hall
New Orleans
Georgetown
Calif
Lawrence
Elizabeth Hussey
Hussey
California
Stockton
Oakland
Kate Hussey
Eugene Hall
Iowa
Castle Grove
Hall
Monticello
Indiana-born Lazenia Barnhill Rodman a Monticello resident key life timeline
Lazenia Barnhill born October 7, 1848 in Marion Indiana moved to Jackson and Jones counties with parents then to Scotch Grove farm in 1877. She married Allen G. Rodman September 16 1896 at Scotch Grove and spent most of her life in Monticello from 1876 onward. Mr Rodman died June 18 1924 leaving a town famed for familiarity and broad local ties.
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Rodman
Marion County
Ind
Joseph
Drusilla Barnhill
Canton
Jackson County
Johnsontown
Lazenia
Millen
Scotch Grove
Ida Thompson
Jerome
Idaho
Luella Long
Bradeyville
Nelson Barnhil
Troy Mills
Loyal J. Barnhill
Elmo
Allen G. Rodman
Linn County
Monticello
Monticello’s Octogenarian Siblings and Families
Edmund Harwood born 1848 in Newark Ohio and Emma Harwood born 1853 in Zanesville are siblings living on South Maple in Monticello with their relatives. Emma married C C Conley in 1875 and they had ten children, six sons and four daughters, six still living. Mrs Conley has 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Edmund never married and lives with his sister Effie Reyner in Monticello.
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Monticello
Edmund Harwood
C. Conley
South Maple Street
Harwood
Effie Reyner
Edmund
Mary Alloway Harwood
Newark
Licking County
Ohio
Emma
Zanesville
Dubuque
Mr. Harwood
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakota
Illinois
Davenport
Sioux City
Canton
Marshalltown
Wyoming
Ozark
Onslow
Center Junction
Baldwin
Reyner
Custer
Dakotas
Emma Harwood
C. C. Conley
Conley
Frank
Sam
Chicago
Harry
Jackson
Minn
May Frostler
Holland
Carrie Monzrief
Frances Cowan Corbin 85 Lifelong Jones County Resident
Frances Cowan Corbin aged 85 born January 24 1848 near Cascade Washington township has spent her life in Jones county watching the area grow from a pioneer settlement to a thriving farm region. She married John B Corbin of Scotch Grove February 7 1883 and they moved to Monticello in 1895. They had son W E Corbin now living in Monticello and a grandchild. She resides in a North Sycamore street home near her birthplace.
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John McLees
Pearl
Earl
Anastasia
Mary Jane Lavery
Washington Township
Jones County
Iken
John
Mary Lavery
Philadelphia
Towa
Cascade
John B. Corbin
Lfe
Thomas
Margaret Cowan
Frances
John Cowan
Leclede
Frances Cowen
Scotch Grove
W. E. Corbin
Monticello
Corbins
Iowa Book News Notes Stong Strongs and Local Authors
Phil Stong reports strong sales and a second 10 000 printing for Stranger's Return as farm prices rise and crops shrink. Merle Estes Colby writes New Road while Ona M Rounds pens Rainbow's End about World War I, and Eriksson drafts American Constitutional History. Dr Jessie Taft authors The Dynamics of Therapy. Josephine Herbst gains acclaim with Pity Is Not Enough and plans a new novel in Mexico.
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Harcourt, Brace and Company
Drake University
Des Moines
New York
Stong
Indianola
Merle Estes Colby
New Road
Colby
Balearic Islands
Mediterranean Sea
France
Spain
Morton
Michigan
Martin
Merle Colby
Erik McKinley Eriksson
University of Southern California
Odebolt
Eriksson
Miss Rounds
San Froncisco
Women's Overseas Service League
Rainbow
Jessie Taft
Taft
Pennsylvania Children's Aid
Philadelphia
University of Chicago
Iowa
Josephine Herbst
Miss Herbst
Sioux City
Town
California
San Francisco
Germany
Italy
Lfe
John Herrmann
Lves
Pennsylvania
Mexico
Best Sellers List From Stores Across the Country
Readers encounter current top sellers including Anthony Adverse by Harvey Allen As the Earth Turns by Gladys Hasty Carroll Little Man What Now by Hans Fallada The Album by Mary Roberts Rinehart Wife for Sale by Kathleen Norris Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig British Agent by R H Bruce Lockhart The House of Exile by Nora Waln The Arches of the Years by Holliday Sutherland and 100000000 Guinea Pigs by Arthur Kallet and F J Schrink.
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Anthony Adverse
Harvey Allen
Gladys Hasty Carroll
Hans Fallada
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Kathleen Norris
Marie Antonette
Stefan Zweig
R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Nora Waln
Holliday Sutherland
Arthur Kallet
F. J. Schtink
Book clubs announce upcoming selections across groups
Literary Guild lists An American Omnibus edited by Carl Van Doren in August. Book of the Month Club features Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan in August. Scientific Book Club presents Psychology and the New Education by J C Pressey in July. Religious Book Club offers The Social Triumph of the Ancient Church by Shirley J Case in July. Catholic Book Club features The Church and Spiritualism by Herbert Thurston in July. Lutheran Book Club includes Personality and the Fact of Christ by H P Sloan in July.
Don’t Cut Salt From the Public Library Budget
A quotation urges keeping library funding intact as intellectual nourishment during hard times. It argues that public libraries, likened to salt, enrich life and understanding more than any other factor, and warns against trimming such essential services.
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Lfe
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Good Red Clover Seed cited as scarcer risk for farmers
R H Porter of Iowa State College warns that shifting U S crops toward soil building plants could make good medium red clover seed scarcer and pricier. He urges farmers to grow their own seed, destroy weeds before harvest, pull dodder and other weeds, and use mowing or hand-pulling to improve seed purity and germination. The Iowa State seed laboratory offers purity tests for a 25 cent fee.
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Iowa
United States
R. H. Porter
Iowa State College
Porter
Iowa State College Seed Laboratory
Wheat plans for farmers with no 1933 crop announced
Jones county farmers who grew wheat in prior years but planted none in 1933 may qualify for the government's wheat plan but only for 1934 and 1935. They must sign the contract this fall and reduce acreage for 1934 and 1935 by up to 20 percent of their 1930-32 average.
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Jones County
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Jones declares total disability after thumb loss
Jones claims his accident insurance covers 100 percent due to full incapacity from losing a thumb. The note questions his vocation and jokes that he is a professional hitchhiker, with a Foreign Service tone and an optimistic view toward the dalion digger.
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Foreign Service
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