Roosevelt Focused on Tariff and Trade in Incoming Administration
The perspective piece argues President-elect Roosevelt will pursue tariff policy to revive national industry, noting depreciated currencies abroad reduce the tariff’s protective effect. It cites examples from England Japan and Czechoslovakia and warns that import competition endangers American workers without tariff reform and a revised schedule.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Overnor Roosevelt
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Roosevelt
England
United States
Saturday Evening Post
Japan
Czechoslovakia
Pennsylvania
Tariff Commission
Study of Criminal Class Origins at Columbia Institute
A 59-member team at Columbia University's Neurological Institute undertakes a long term study to identify factors that produce criminals. They seek the combined input of biologists neurologists anthropologists educators and other sciences to understand how heredity environment education and time shape the so called abnormal or anti social individual. The project is not quick but promises highly interesting results.
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Neurological Institute
Columbia University
Treating Enemies A Guide to Forgetting and Moving On
The piece argues that people differ greatly yet share common senses and urges recognizing enemies without violence. Citing D H Lawrence, it proposes forgetting enmities as a wiser path than clinging to hostility, asking if wisdom lies in letting grudges fade.
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Grand Canyon
Ocean
Earth
D. H. Lawrence
Once Overs ay J. J. MUNDY
Advice on mood and facial expressions encouraging the reader to avoid a grim line of thinking. It urges loosening tight jaw muscles and finding enjoyment in life, noting how a tense face signals dissatisfaction and deters positive perception.
Man's Glory and Destiny in Quiet Resolve
Poem reflects on reading destiny, facing uncertainty, and choosing truth with faith. It argues strength and wisdom rarely align and outcomes are judged by time. Even when outnumbered, one should cling to hope and persist to achieve eventual victory in God’s time.
Public Jokes and Quips From a September Snapshot
A collage of jokes and snippets notes everyday humor and social mood. Observations range from politics and Prohibition to gender norms, car theft quirks, and a lighthearted take on public figures, letters, and small-town life.
Constant Training and Streetcar Gags Stir Local Talk
A collection of quick quips about a Detroit girl bending pokers, skirt modesty, a fast writer husband, a Scot refusing spaghetti, and a Texas superintendent linking school quality to home life prompts police to consider home conditions.
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Detroit
Texas
The Man Who Is Always In Hard Luck Joke
The daughter responds she prefers cooking school to dancing school to better hold her future husband. The exchange reads like a quip about aspirations and domestic roles.
Unusual Plea From Store Chain President
The Norfolk Ledger Dispatch reported an odd plea by the president of a large food store chain on November 25. He urged all readers considering holding up a store to rethink their actions and seek help.
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Norfolk (Va
Penny to Monkey Ends Up With Father Organist
A brief countryside exchange notes a child asking if a penny given to a monkey reached its father, who then played the organ. The joke turns on the family’s amused response and the monkey’s charitable gesture in a humorous tale.
Japan's Financial Problems Seen as Check on War Bloc
Numerous U.S. newspapers warn that Japan’s weak finances hamper its military expansion. Editors cite rising defense spending, heavy debt, and limited tax income as threats to the yen and potential impact on Manchuria policy.
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Salt Lake Deseret News
Baron Goh
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Germany
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Lytton
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China
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League of Nations
United States
Tokio
Washington
Harriman on Harvey Logan and Union Pacific chiefs
A historical anecdote recounts E. H. Harriman hearing of Harvey Logan's jailbreak and alleged Wyoming threats. An informant notes two men responsible for Logan’s fate, the Union Pacific general superintendent and its president, both resigning in response.
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E. H. Harriman
Harvey Logan
Mr. Parks
Mr. Park
Union Pacific Railroad
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Park
Mr. Harriman
Bertie Proposes to Peggy as Gertie Becomes Bridesmaid
Bertie reveals Peggy has promised to marry him. Gertie confirms a month ago she was asked to be Peggy’s bridesmaid, signaling a social engagement in the circle.
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Bertie
Peggy
Gertie
Who Falls Forward When He Stumbles
A reflective aphorism asks who rises after stumbles who seeks reward from pain who sees possible improvement in hardship who uses enemies to his ends who trusts his own cause who admits fault while clinging to faith who smiles at issues not worth conflict
Press Comments On Near Beer And Other Timely Quips
A collage of quotes from major papers notes near beer gaining meaning after a decade, medical costs hit 3.65 billion yearly, a straw vote on football champions is suggested, Ford may leave the trenches by Christmas, farming myths with a thousand dollars, and a husband’s role in music as second fiddle.
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The
Toledo Blade
Re elected Rep Tinkham of Massachusetts silent speeches
Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts says he was re elected because he delivered no speeches. The San Antonio Express questions whether he can sell that idea to fellow members.
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Tinkham
Massachusetts
The
San Antonio Express
Painless alarm clocks and bagpipes teased in editorials
The Ashland Daily Independent riffs on turning clocks to play a closing hymn to wake people with humor. A Eureka Humboldt Times reader asks why bagpipes do not play popular tunes. The Pasadena Post jokes that Alexander the Great died from a pain in the neck, noting such visitations are usually annoying but not fatal.
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The
Ashland Daily Independent
Eureka Humboldt
Alexander the Great
Pasadena
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