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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1932
Page
4
The article argues ballyhoo at national conventions shapes candidate selection by appealing to emotion rather than reason. It contrasts expected Democratic calls for louder influence with Republican normalization and laments conventions turning into noisy public spectacles.
Chairman Payne reports 23,000,000 bushels distributed by the Red Cross since federal relief began. Forty million bushels shifted from the Farm Board to the Red Cross. enough wheat remains for summer but another winter demand requires equal supplies. Farm Board Chairman Stone criticizes uncompensated surrender, arguing it harms the stabilization fund and loan prospects. The gov ernment, after spending millions, should use wheat to feed people and reduce relief costs.
California officials urge fire safety as forests face destruction from careless campers motorists and discarded flames. The piece notes half a billion dollars in annual property losses and 10 000 deaths, urging individuals to reduce fire risks at home and work to protect natural assets.
A nostalgic musing celebrates the end of the school year with a youthful shout for summer freedom. It reflects on the joy of dismissal, the lure of idle days, and comic asides about school life and aging.
Marshall Maslin reflects on humans as buds unfolding daily from youth to adulthood. People, babies, pets, and even nations reveal inner growth as they progress, suggesting humanity as a young, learning species compared with a vast old Earth.
A walk along a stream combines nature scenes with a memory of Bryant's Thanatopsis. The speaker recalls school lessons while watching Cardinal song, trilliums, and sunlit banks, yet notes no catch in fishing. Copyright 1932 Edgar A. Guest.
The passage critiques attempts to influence behavior by moralizing high prices pushing inferior goods through advertising preserving church popularity, regressing progress by turning back time, pushing unwilling students to college, and rescuing girls from danger when they seek risk. It evaluates motives behind these strategies and their effectiveness.
A narrator recalls a laboring garden session turned sour as sunburn and misdirected work spawn poetic calamity. The speaker laments missing peach stones among sprouting onions and now searches for bovine bones buried there. Child laughter and a dog’s bones complicate the scene.
A seven year old's remark prompts adults to reflect on thinking. The piece notes busy birds disliking work and those who loot while on pay grow cross as changes affect daily life and routines.
A reflective column argues the link between generosity and faith, noting that true commitment appears as proof of affection for the church. It contends that giving molds interest, strengthens devotion, and aligns treasure with heart, while warning stinginess limits spiritual growth. The piece cites scripture and everyday examples to urge fuller surrender through sacrifice.
A collection of short lines and jokes about insomnia, a night watchman, door to door sales, aging cars, and political forecasts. It features quips on mosquitoes biting a leg, a buoy joke, and a bite from a graceful compliment as a substitute for complaints.
A mix of short, unrelated comic snippets and a fatal humorous anecdote about a man dying of fright after mixing his numbers. Mentions New York night clubs selling ham sandwiches, a joke about Noah's Ark, Evelyn Nesbit, and a cannibal chief quote.
A rotund man hires a chauffeur in Austin but finds no space in the car so he walks to work. A romantic young couple spent the last weekend rearranging the furniture in their air castle.
A stout woman at the zoo notes the lions get only a small piece of meat. A police attendant replies the meat is enough for the lion. The passage then hops through quips about grieving, double lives, graduates in black, and politics.
A fragment notes a phrase about many men bearing a school girl complexion on their sleeve as a sociocultural expression. The item lacks clear event or names, but signals a fashion or etiquette reference from a period newspaper.
A compilation presents the collective editorial stance from various newspapers in Nations on key subjects. Edited by the Consolidated Press Association, it aggregates perspectives on important policy debates and public issues surfaced in recent editorials.
News outlets across the nation scrutinize Mayor James J. Walker as testimony in the Hofstadter investigation reveals gifts and stock pools. Editors compare Governor Roosevelt standards, question Walker’s stewardship, and debate whether New York’s mayor should exemplify national leadership.
A nostalgic Abe Martin vignette recalls a girl who burst through a door, out of breath and annoyed at being foiled. It ends with a reflection that memories are sweet yet sometimes cheaper to forget as time passes.
A Virginia state health officer recounts in The Survey a farmer delivering vegetables to a public sanitarium. A patient salutes him and jokes that he used to be a farmer. The ex-farmer retorts that trying madness would beat farming.
A 1932 King Features Syndicate essay advises wives to avoid inviting a neighbor or friend's wife too often, to prevent jealousy and rumors. It notes potential harm to marriages when visits seem planned and urges kindness and prudence to maintain trust and avoid scandal.
A proverb warns pride leads to downfall while a haughty spirit precedes a fall. An absurd social error follows as an innocent burglar was shot after a woman mistook him for her husband in a misdirected confrontation.
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