The Question Driving Americans Mad
A humorous wartime column notes the public obsession with the question Do you think Roosevelt wants a third term The Elmer Twitchell Poll shows the leading questions people pose and the mounting tension over potential violence If violence rises the columnist suggests calm evasive replies while Hollywood chatter and reports from Adolf Hitler and Chamberlain pepper the piece with satirical asides The piece ends with a jab at insurance investigations and the old time salesmanship of insurance men
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Roosevelt
John Hamilton
al Smith
Nicholas Murray Butler
Greta Garbo
Jimmy
Hollywood
Banquet Toasts Prompt Banter During Dinner
The exchange jokes about why cocktails appear at banquets. One says drinks make speakers seem witty, the other suggests drinks fool the audience into believing speakers are witty.
Limited Experience
Dialogue between Harriet and Mabel on dating standards. Harriet questions if a man with one mistake should be refused, while Mabel argues a partner needs more experience than that.
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Harriet
Mabel
Let George Do It and the Spencerian Hand
A nostalgic survey of handwriting prowess and the Spencerian method tracing Platt Rogers Spencer to 19th century American penmanship. It links the rise of typewriters and altered writing styles to Spencer’s influence and notes Amelia Bloomer’s impact on fashion and women’s rights.
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Platt Rogers Spencer
Ohio
Spencer
Pretty Frocks for Your Lamp Shades
A vintage sewing feature explains transforming plain lamp shades using fabric skirts. It describes materials such as taffeta and net, sewing snaps for easy cleaning, trims like frills, ruchings, braids, ribbons, and a note on using a foundation frame or existing shade. It also promotes four booklets with home crafts and a free quilt block pattern set with a four-book order.
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Ruth Wyeth
Bedford Hills Offer Enclosed for Books and Quilt Patterns
A notice from Bedford Hills, New York urges enclosures of 10 cents for one book or 40 cents for four books and a set of quilt block patterns, and asks for name and address.
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Bedford Hills
New York
Tragic warning ad for story in May True Story Magazine
An advertisement urges readers to buy A Girl and My Husband in True Story Magazine. It cautions that tragedy will result and urges May sale.
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John
True Story Magazine
Adv
Strength of Love Quells All Dangers
A poetic line from The Song of Solomon compares love to a force stronger than death and water, claiming love cannot be quenched or drowned by floods.
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Song of
Solomon
Women Believe Trying Days With Dr Pierce’s Prescription
An advertisement urges women to use Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription over time to build physical resistance by improving nutritional assimilation.
Sorrows of Others Reflected in Saadi's Verse
A compact reflection on compassion as Saadi notes that those who suffer with others earn no merit from shallow pity but worthy care. The couplet invites readers to consider genuine empathy as a virtue beyond surface concern.
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Saadi
Constipation Relief That Also Pepsin-izes Stomach
Ad promotes Dr. Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin to relieve constipation and stomach discomfort. Claims Pepsin dissolves undigested protein in the stomach while laxative action wakes lazy bowels. Appeals to families and children to buy at druggists.
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Dr. Caldwell
Bae Dr. Caldwell
All His Country He Made All Countries Where He Came
The fragment quotes Dryden praising a figure who conferred homeland to every country he visited, describing a transformative global influence.
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Dryden
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Mey Phillips
Elmer Twitchell
Dorset
America
Twitchell
Marge
Queen Mary
Edna May Oliver
Tyrone Power
Adolf
Germany
Hitler
Mr. Chamberlain
United States
OUR Comic
Little
By C. M. Payne
Reeos
J. Millar Watt
Jenkers
Amelia Jenks
Dexter C. Bloomer
Smith
Smithereens
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Seneca Falls
N. Y
The
Lily
Bloomer
Amelia Bloomer
Mrs. Bloomer
George
Louis XII
France
George d'Amboise
Louis
Woethe
Union
Platt R. Spencer
George d’Amboise
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Cupples CO
ST. Louis
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