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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1937
Page
4
A new law signed by Governor Farle directs building sidewalks along dangerous state highway sections. Funds come from the motor license fund and the State Highway Department selects the areas to receive skirting paths. The measure aims to reduce pedestrian accidents by separating walkers from traffic.
Dr Harold W Dodds president of Princeton University spoke at Phillips Andover Academy commencement warning that statism promotes excessive government control and power. He said democracy erodes as authorities gain more authority and that statism risks autocracy and bureaucratic overemphasis in daily life.
About twenty graduates completing a nine month federal program under the National Institute of Public Affairs. The course offered practical work in federal agencies and optional classroom study, selecting students by leadership, interest in government and scholarship. Aimed at demystifying postreform government for citizens.
Careful computation shows American participation from April 6, 1917, to the Armistice on November 11, 1918 costing about $60 billion. American deaths reach 50,475 with 234,000 wounded. total wartime outlays through July 2, 1921 run to $926.25 billion, plus postwar lending and interest, veterans benefits, and dependents’ support.
Starling W. Childs donates 10,090,000 to Yale University for cancer research, underscoring humanitarian aims and the ongoing global effort to find a cure. The piece notes public education as vital, the need for continued funding, and skepticism about immediate breakthroughs, while condemning badinage about manners and policy.
A reviewer recounts Dorothy Waldo Phillips's Dear Mrs. Bender a humorous child perspective on parents. The excerpt quotes kids picturing adults at a Pocono hotel and in Upper Darby Pa including mothers seeking closeness to children, hotel social events and a presidential mail chief.
Marshall Maslin recalls Gus Arnheim the orchestra leader and radio favorite. He notes Arnheim’s quiet honesty in a 1930s interview about love and marriage, praising a rare public admission of affection and the warmth it adds to his music.
A jumble of wry quips and social musings on public life. Observations touch on wages, unemployment, taxes, and media reporting. A Kaiser image reference, Pecora’s dinner anecdote, and a New York East Side classroom joke mingle with political and everyday humor, all voiced in a dated newspaper voice.
A reader’s collage of humorous vignettes and stray thoughts on politics weddings and daily life. It mixes snatches about election talk mischief at a boxing event and odd observations on manners and aging with dialect humor and stray quips from reporters and editors.
Advice on curtain choices for Summer cottages and simple homes, recommending gingham for year round use in kitchens and playrooms. Guidance on suitable modernist pictures, noting they should reflect simplicity and may include works by Cranne, Marie Laurencin and John Bauer. Mentions Watkins Syndicate copyright and Miss Markel offering personal reader answers.
A reflective piece on nature and survival alongside a seaside walk near Nantucket Island. It contrasts the fittest surviving in nature with human moral struggles, recounts two Akron girls saving a caterpillar from ants, and muses on Teddy Roosevelt, Williar Taft, and Charlie Taft amid historical shifts and a Cleveland mediation board.
An London astrologer forecasts a future child of Edward and Wallis to be famous, amid musings on prophecies and fame. The piece critiques seers, notes that true greatness takes time, and hints the prophecy may lead to a dramatic turn in royal circles. Continued on Page Seven.
Hollywood star Rathbone cites personal obscurity as a goal. Dr. Milkan, a California physicist, urges voters to distrust experts and shun the soapbox, while director George C. predicts athletic women will surpass current beauty standards. Cornell’s Day warns rapid progress may disrupt social balance.
A fractured verse fragment hints at changing times and literary reflections from Edgar A Guest. The speaker questions modern sensitivities and the loss of past comforts as a new era arrives, noting strange behavior and shifting norms.
A fragmented column lists notable natives and figures from 1891 including Sidney Howard Dodsworth Buck Walsh and Richard Crooks. Mentions имени Martins Lithes, Patrick Henry, and a host of literary and historical references with scattered notes on constitutional history, ballooning, and early aviation predictions.
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