Memorial Day Reflections On Duty And Democracy
Memorial Day honors the dead across American communities as veterans who served in 1861 to 1917 and later conflicts. The piece invokes Lincoln and Gettysburg to urge citizens to accept duties of citizenship, defend democratic rights, and strive for a new birth of freedom amid present-day threats.
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America
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Cuba
Continental Army
Veterans of Blue
Abraham Lincoln
National Cemetery
Gettysburg
Lincoln
A Duty at Hand: Quiet Primary Campaign Enters Final Hours
The article urges voters to participate in the upcoming primary, noting the calm campaign but stressing the importance of exercising the right to choose candidates for the November ballot. It emphasizes voter responsibility and preparation, with polling hours and locations clearly in view.
Chemurgy and politics in the 1930s stalled campaign themes
Washington column notes chemurgy as a Republican farm appeal offset by industrial interest, led by Henry Ford experiments with soybeans and Dearborn conferences. It covers Ickes Wallace turf fights, a correction over William H. Anderson, spoofing by Mrs Hamlin, and various political shifts in New York and Britain.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
AAA
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Aaa-Ers
Alonzo Taylor
Stanford University
Herbert Hoover
Prof. Taylor
New York
TVA
Andy Mellon
Aluminum Company of America
Wills in Sand and Other Oddities in War News
A compilation of offbeat historical notes and political commentary. It covers Bolivian soldiers writing wills in sand during guerilla warfare in the Gran Chaco, Captain Kidd’s life and fate, a Chester Creek bottle note tied to a birthday, and conservative views on the New Deal plus press critique.
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Paraguay
Gran Chaco
Green Hell
George Williams
Upland
Chester Creek
New Castle
George Wiliams
Leland Re
New Castle del
School board election of teachers and bids for paving district 28
AS YOU WERE items note a school board annual teacher election with many applicants per vacancy. Muscatine's George G. Glick earned top honors in military science freshman class at the University of Iowa. The Muscatine city council seeks bids for paving district 28 improvements. A decade ago the school board bought the Mall site for a new school and Huttig Manufacturing faced a major fire loss threatening the plant.
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George G. Glick
Muscatine
Fresman
University of Iowa
Huttig Manufacturing Company
Military Tomb
Puzzle style clues list with both horizontal and vertical entries referencing a tomb, war, and related terms across multiple numbered hints. The grid includes definitions for words like observant, itemized musical notes, elements, and regional references, forming a themed crossword style puzzle.
Aunt Het by Robert Quillen
Aunt Het voices a wry cartoonish take on thrift and luck in a rural scene. The narrator riffs on Jim believing he can snag free meat by buying inexpensive shells for a rabbit, highlighting stubborn misreads of value and fortune.
Poor Pa
A humorous vignette by Claud Callan depicting Jim's wife fussing so much that he pretends not to notice it. He jokes that the fuss is as unpredictable as an electric refrigerator coming on and then cutting off.
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Saloon League
Anderson
American Christian Alliance
Alliance
Jim
Publishers Syndicate
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Federal Reserve Board
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London
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Illinois
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Aluminum Company
Tennessee
Mellon Outfit
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Stanley Baldwin
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League of Nations
John Hix
U. S
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William Kidd
New York Harbor
West Indies
Sarah Cox
William III of
England
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Anthony Eden
New York Sun
New Deal
the Sun
James P. Warburg
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
France
Bolivie
New York's
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Great Salt Lakes
U.S. A
You and
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North Carolina
Mary Spickford
Robert Quillen
Claud Callan
George Clar
Rose Case
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