Mass production homes may bring low cost houses to workers
The piece surveys efforts toward factory built homes sold with lots at affordable prices. It notes only a few firms can deliver immediately and cites mass production lessons from auto manufacturing, arguing savings depend on adding refinements over time and that current prices still exceed conventional building costs.
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Thomas Marshall
United States
Willis Thornton
NEA
The
Journal
Thornton
America
Factory built houses seen as future savings for buyers
The article notes that cheap automobiles hint at a path to affordable housing. High ready built home prices deter large scale experimentation, leaving buyers scarce. Yet Thornton suggests factory built houses, improved by current progress, may soon rescue homeowners and the stagnant building trade.
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Thornton
Sermon on Hollywood
A former West Virginia choir singer, Julia Ann Graham, killed herself after chasing movie fame. Her note warns inexperienced girls about Hollywood's brutal demands and urges meditation before pursuing stardom. The piece describes the fight for success as overwhelming and deadly for untrained aspirants.
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Julia Ann Graham
West Virginia
Hollywood
Filmland
Comment and Opinion in Mason City Globe-Gazette
An editor remarks on a Mc Gregor woman claimed to have driven a million miles. The piece notes public curiosity about personal details and questions when she washed dishes or took the children along.
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Mason City Globe-Gazette
Marshalltown Times Republican
Explaining Bad Officials
A Webster City Freeman Journal quotation notes that bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. It adds that bad officials are also chosen when good citizens do not vote correctly.
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Webster City
The Meaning of Taxes
The Fairmont Sentinel notes that taxes force the family head to work about three months each year for the government without wages.
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America
Fairmont Sentinel
National Whirligig: Roosevelt's New Deal Gains and Fading Support
The piece notes Democratic leaders worry over mixed national polls on the New Deal. It cites farm area discontent and a broad split in opinion with 80 percent of conservative business leaders against, 70 percent of workers for, and 60 percent of farmers supporting the president. It discusses Norman Davis as a roving ambassador in Europe and how his intelligence influenced Roosevelt's naval policy and perceptions of Britain and Germany.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
Roosevelt
Norman Davis
Europe
Borah
House
Burns
Senate
Congress
Diplomatic worries over naval arms and potential global build up
The piece notes private concerns among peacemakers about Britain and Germany and a broader naval race that could shift power toward Japan and Russia. It warns that soaring expenditures mask deeper risks mirroring the run to world war as ships float and tempt nations. It also reports Harold Ickes' skepticism of tying relief work to poverty and Hopkins' relaxation of slum clearance requirements.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Europe
Mr. Davis
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Japan
Germany
United States
Ethiopia
Orient
Hitler
France
Italy
Nippon
Russia
Harold Ickes
Harry Hopkins
Mr. Ickes
Allotment Board
Mr. Hopkins
Ancient Capitals and French Telephone Myths
A collection of dated notes on Japan's capital relocations from Nara to Kyoto and later Tokyo, the origin of the French telephone from Robert G. Brown, and a strip of economic and social commentary including TVA funding and social security draft figures, with brief policy reflections and a copyright note.
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New York
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Minnesota Visitors at Lone Tree Home
A list of local residents hosting visitors and guests in Lone Tree includes Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Green of Moorhead Minnesota with relatives, Minnie Lutz of Chicago, the Dibble family, and other neighbors. Social visits span July events, dances, and a Y Book club picnic. Census figures note 13 920 600 foreign born in the United States.
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Lone Tree
Charles L. Green
Moorehead
Minn
G. E. Green
E. C. Green
Green
Minnie Lutz
Chicago
Robert Dibble
Dorothy
Robert, Jr
Dibble
Lucy Stonebarger
Sarah Whitlock
Nichols
Charles Nester
Randall
Muscatine
Oscar Green
Ralph Rohlwing
Oakdale
Joe Luther
William Smith
Merrill Smith
Lawrence Kral
Fisher’s Hall
Y Book Club
H. C. Buell
Della
Harris Buell
W. H. Wolford
Everett Neal
Will Posten
Elsie Smid
Mildred Posten
Perry Holdeman
Geraldine
Jack
Richard
Jack Musser
John
Jean Musser
United States
Relief and political notes span wartime debates and markets
The piece outlines relief program tensions with Ickes seeking skilled relief workers for major public works, a Tumulty reflection on Wilson and the League, and political maneuvers in New York linking LaGuardia Roosevelt Lehman and Tammany. It also covers market shifts from smaller exchanges to the New York board and curb trading pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Securities Commission
New York Stock Exchange
New York Curb Exchange
Curb
Securities Exchange Commis
Muscatine plans grant memorial day exercises
Fifty years ago today Muscatine prepared for grant memorial day ceremonies. Twenty five years ago today the Clover Leaf theatrical company performed in Muscatine. The town readied its fifth annual chautauqua. Ten years ago today the William Jennings Bryan funeral train left Dayton Tennessee for Washington. Roach and Musser faced Huttig in a local baseball league game.
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Muscatine
Clover Leaf Theatrical Company
William Jennings Bryan
Dayton
Tenn
Washington
Roach
Musser
Huttig
HORIZONTAL 1 Who is the sports star in the picture
A crossword style clue set lists across and down hints with many entries including a name linked to a sports star, a series of definitions and wordplay across multiple lines and numbers for a historical puzzle page.
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Supreme Court
Salvatore A. Cotillo
Miss Graham
Britain
Jutland
John Hix
Gemmei
Nara
Kwammu
Nagaoka
Kyoto
Yedo
Tokyo
Robert G. Brown
Bell
Ed That
Brown
Paris
Sion
Securities Exchange Commission
TVA
Linited
Nationalapitals
Burke
Weriwnghe Syndicate
Minnesota
Lone Tree Home
Secretary of Interior
Ickes
Joe
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Mr. Tumulty
Amy N. Stannard
Federal Parole Board
T. Webber Wilson
Virgin Islands
Pat Harrison
San Francisco
James McMullin
LaGuardia
New York City
Lehman
White House
Upstate
Tammany
Dick Croker
Tom Platt
Tiger
Roman Gar
Ich
Pauline Lord
George Clarke
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