Home and Family Values Promote Civic Pride
A broad reflection on the home as a sacred center of happiness and moral education. It urges cheerful conduct, honest work, attentive parenting, civility, and the role of a local newspaper in supporting a strong, informed community.
Census Without Writing The Next Census By Machine
A Washington dispatch reports the next United States census will be taken without writing. Enumerators use punched cards carrying all prior questions. Cards are punched for each answer and fed to a machine that creates smaller cards and counts automatically.
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United States
Washington
Redfield
Census Bureau
Economy’s Sake Buy Advertised Goods
Advertising boosts sales at lower cost enabling lower prices for consumers. The note defends ads as a truthful driver of market efficiency. It argues that advertised goods reduce friction and increase purchasing power for shoppers.
The Real Adventure
A couple confronts an impending October pregnancy in a tense domestic scene. Rose reveals they will have a baby, prompting relief and a shift in power as the man asserts control over their life and future. Rose contemplates the change, haunted by unresolved struggles about shared life.
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Rose
Rose Darling
Randolph
The Door that Was to Open
Rose gains a momentary relief after a tense talk with Rodney and begins a six month glow. Frederica and Eleanor discuss Rose and Rodney while weighing how far Rose’s plan for a real union with Rodney might go, with fears of the husbands’ stubbornness and a looming confrontation.
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Portia
Rodney
Frederica
Eleanor Randolph
Rose
Eleanor
Jim
Harriet
Edith Welles
Lake
Barry Lake
Jane Lake
Prudential
Dan the Lakes
James Randolph
Interior chief urges turning water power into hydro plants
Secretary Lane of the Interior urges converting all available water power into hydro electric plants and asks Congress to pass a law to encourage development amid rising fuel costs.
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Lane
Interior Department
Congress
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Farmers’ Club
Henry Kitchell Webster
the Bobbs-Merrill Company
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