All Of Us By Marshall Maslin
A 46 year old Joshua Coppersmith is arrested in New York for attempting to extort money from gullible people with a device called a telephon e that claims to transmit the human voice over wires. Experts say such a feat is impossible and of little value. Reading the quotation may curb intolerance or encourage overconfidence, while offering moral protection against narrow views.
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Joshua Coppersmith
New York
Organization of Labor
Roosevelt
Hands Across the Sea or Businuess in Allied Tone
An editorial critiques French American goodwill rhetoric around the Normandie voyage. It argues the launch is a commercial stunt to boost trans Atlantic passenger trade and questions sustained friendship, citing past financial tensions and war debt.
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France
United States
Court Unified in NRA Decision Despite Partisan Debates
The Supreme Court was unanimous on the NRA ruling, underscoring the distinct impact of a united bench amid liberal and conservative strands. Critics note divided opinions are inevitable, but the NRA decision elicited little dissent from the nine justices.
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High Court
NRA
Supreme Court
Once Overs By J. J. MUNDY
An advice piece urging readers to manage mood and emotional control. It notes moodiness grows from self neglect, warns that persistent despondency worsens outlook, and encourages replacing gloom with hopeful thoughts to avoid deeper dejection. No dates or places.
The June groom in Edgar A Guest’s Just Folks
A humorous verse about a nervous June groom at the altar. The bride arrives radiant while all eyes follow her, leaving the groom to cope with his own fussing and a missing stage moment. The poem playfully notes the groom is often the last to be noticed in weddings.
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Edgar A. Guest
Hints and Riddles Amid Odd Newspaper Snippets
A collage of quips and anecdotes from a late era page mentions a rumored "Jack the peeper" on the west side and suggests viewing from the north hill. It jokes about diplomacy, politics, romance, and civic life with sharp witticisms and stray lines about detectives, poets, and public figures.
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Jack the Peeper
Quickfire Quips on Society and Affairs of the Day
A collection of cynical bon mots and satirical observations about Wall Street fashion crime politics and social trends. The jokes touch on whipped cream of society shortcake Skull disease glass hotels and the politics of relief work with sharp jabs at government policies and Prohibition era debates.
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Smith
Cream of Society
Smythe
Wall Street
Life's Little Agonies and a Pittsburgh Divorce Tale
A playful Oriental newspaper notice mocks English style and reporting. A Pittsburgh woman seeks divorce claiming happiness vanished after her husband quit his job to gamble. A cynic quips that girls no longer blush due to having nothing left to blush about.
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Pittsburgh
Scouts 25th Anniversary A Call for Nationwide Scout Jubilee
The piece urges a nationwide celebration of the Boy Scouts 25th anniversary in Washington with a national gathering. It describes a temporary city of 30 000 people in August including facilities like electricity running water hospitals and studios to showcase scouting programs. The aim is to foster friendship exchange ideas observe methods and educate scouts as citizens.
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Roosevelt
America
Boy Scouts Ofubilee
Washington
United States
County clerk’s indiscretion cost public funds in Chicago coal venture
A former county clerk misused public funds totaling 250000 dollars to support a coal business in Chicago. The case highlights flawed oversight and raises questions about accountability and governance of public money.
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Chicago
Words of Wisdom Quote From Emerson
Emerson states that every mind may choose between truth and repose offering a timeless moral dichotomy about intellectual courage versus comfort. The line reflects a call to pursue rigorous understanding over easy rest.
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God
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanitary Drinking Cup Prompts Health Quip
A visiting doctor asks how Sambo and his family stay healthy. Sambo replies they share a sanitary drinking cup. A sixteenth century note mentions a 1666 tobacco planting holiday in Maryland Virginia and North Carolina. The text reflects self discipline as a prerequisite for governing others.
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Sambo
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Witty Clips on Food Folly and Harvard’s Roots
A playful column juggles jokes about deviled kidneys and pig feet while noting a Boston paper misstating Harvard as the oldest college. It riffs on memory, love, and work, reflecting on modern gears and the irony of routines like smoking.
Married Life and Humorous Foundlings From a Grass Roots Convention
A playful exchange opens with a young couple at dawn about waking for a sleeping baby. The dialogue pivots to how quickly an acquaintance becomes a friend once humor is shared, ending with a line about a recent grass roots convention.
Well Behaved Presidents and Temperate Leaders
The Wall Street Journal lauds President Coolidge as the most patient and temperate executive. It notes Lincoln also showed patience and cites Hays as another example of measured leadership.
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Wall Street Journal
Coolidge
Lincoln
Hays
1936 Ohio election may hinge on labor and money issue
Ohio is seen as a key 1936 battleground with Pennsylvania and Michigan. The contest centers on labor rights versus cheap money, a divide shaping unions, Roosevelt support, and a potential constitutional convention. Industrial tensions and farm price pressures loom as campaigns form around economic policy and price regulation.
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Leslie Eichel
Central Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Michigan
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
William McKinley
Father Coughlin
NRA
Couglin-silverites
Old Moses and Manna: A Note on Human Nature
The saying contrasts enduring human traits with shifting leadership. It suggests even legendary figures lose sway until a new, divinely provided incentive reawakens public allegiance. The line uses biblical imagery to comment on motivation and authority across time.
World and the Mud Puddles: Borrowers Lose Track of Funds
The Home Owners' Loan Corp reports about 2 million dollars received in loan repayments with no sender names or addresses. About 1.5 million is traced. 500 thousand cannot be traced, mostly loose bills in envelopes, sometimes without any letter. The piece notes carelessness as a cause of poverty.
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Home Owners’ Loan Corp
HOLC
Today Is The Day by Clark Kinnaird Central Press
A column entry recalls John Wesley born June 17 1703 in Epworth England and notes his founding of the Methodist Episcopal church after leaving the Anglican ministry. It mentions his vast travels and writings as well as biographical details about Wesley and related historical tidbits.
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Clark Kinnaird Central Press
John Wesley
Epworth
England
Methodist Episcopal Church
America
Rome
Samuel Wesley
Death of a Queen: Jhansi's Ranee Dies in Battle
June 17 1858 reports the Ranee of Jhansi leading troops against British invaders. The royal forces, with infantry and a regiment, held the capital against superior forces in a bold stand.
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Joan of Arc
Ranee
Jhansi
John Augustine Sutter Dies In Washington Penitentiary
The 77 year old Sutter died in a Washington penitentiary in a demented state. Once among the nation’s richest men, his fortune collapsed after the California gold discovery and the Sutter’s Mill strike.
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John Augustine Sutter
Washington
California
Notable Births Series Highlights Igor Stravinsky and Colleagues
Brief notes on notable nativities include Igor Stravinsky born in 1882, a classical composer who once wrote tunes for piano rolls. Carl Van Vechten born 1880, novelist of Blind Bow Boy, Archibald Henderson born 1877, U.S. educator, mathematician and biographer of G. Berz.
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Igor Stravinsky
Tolls
Carl van Vechten
Blind Bow Boy
Archibald Henderson
U. S
G. Ber
There Is or There Are Guide for Correct Usage
This note explains when to use there is followed by a singular noun or there are followed by plural nouns. It provides simple examples and clarifies common errors in English sentence structure.
Young Set Has Old Appetite At Tulsa Breakfast
In Tulsa, 1,000 high school students attended a breakfast labeled a get together. Reported food quantities include 20 pounds of butter, 30 pounds of sugar, 60 cans of condensed milk, 1,000 apples and oranges, 1,200 daily rolls, 125 pounds of bacon, 1,620 buns and 1,690 eggs.
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Tulsa
Okle
Fire Hits Arms and Cycle Works Plant in Fitchburg
Rioting rainlike flames pour from a potash tank on the second floor of the arms and cycle works factory in Fitchburg Massachusetts causing water like fire to shower down through the building and set the floor below alight.
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International News Service
Fitchburg
Mass
Arms and Cycle Works
Quote on past greatness and press coverage skew
A wry remark suggests that men of earlier eras did not differ in fact but appeared superior due to lack of press quotes. It reflects nostalgia for how media shapes perceptions of historical figures and achievements.
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