Interstate Commerce Commission Shapes Rail Rate Reform
The Interstate Commerce Commission faces a tough period guiding railroad rate changes amid demands for higher revenue and lower rates. It holds wide powers to set through routes, regulate classifications, and require consolidations, with plans for four major eastern systems.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Winstein
Congress
Commission
Transportation Act
United States
Western Newspaper Union
Mysterious West Forties Visit Ends In Missing Stranger
A taxi driver recalls a near crime near a speakeasy in West Forties where a quiet man met young performers, drank and paid cash but woke at dawn on a Seventies doorstep missing a diamond ring. Meanwhile a doctor notes trout in Beaverkill wary as season opens.
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Pennsylvania Station
West Forties
Beaverkill
Broadway
Bronx
Bell Syndicate
Harvard Crew Captain Attacks Clip Joint in New York
Thomas E Armstrong, Dallas youth and 1932 Harvard varsity crew captain, was dragged into a Hell's Kitchen clip joint and later escorted out by police. Four racketeers confessed, the proprietor looted of cash and jewelry, and the joint wrecked as three assailants await trial. A quiet man warned of Chicago connections.
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Harvard
Hell’s Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen
Thomas E. Armstrong
Dallas
Texas
Patrick McVeigh
Armstrong
Clip Joint
Fried Pies and Other Fried Cakes From Louisville
A 1933 Bell Syndicate feature by Edith M Barber offers fried pie pastry tips from Louisville with fruit fillings, hot fat frying advice, and a collection of fried treats. Recipes for fried pies crullers donuts and raised doughnuts accompany described serving ideas and safety cues. The piece includes an anecdote about a Bronx street scene and concludes with detailed preparation steps and temperatures.
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Louisville
Responding to Proposal Sparks Social Pressure
In a fragment from a social column a speaker confesses giving in to a marriage proposal after a reassuring arm around her. The exchange hints at romantic pressure and social expectations in a close circle.
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Fred
Largest Kodiak bear feeds on fish and mice
The poem describes a huge Kodiak bear that eats meat and especially fish. It notes the bear digs for mice, hunts along salmon streams, and can consume about a hundred pounds daily. The creature weighs nearly two thousand pounds and stands tall when upright. It digs a den in winter under the snow and dreams of next year’s salmon streams.
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F. Volland Company
WNU Service
My Neighbor Says HEN serving individual fruit salads
A 1933 WWNU Service feature offers kitchen tips for fruit salads and sandwiches. It suggests placing a frozen pear or peach at the center of each salad, using canned fruit in salt and ice, and slicing sandwiches with cutters for a decorative tray. It also advises wax removal from floors with benzine and fine steel wool.
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Associated Newspapers
WWNU
How It Started By Jean Newton
The essay traces the saying doing a good turn to its roots in the Paston Letters of 1472. It discusses how the phrase implies deliberate actions to advance a friend’s interests rather than casual help. It notes the long history of the idiom and its continued everyday use.
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Jean Newton
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Not a Chance Game Exchange Boosts Witty Banter
A playful exchange features sharp lines about luck and self worth with teasing challenge and flirtatious boast. The dialogue centers on who can outwit whom in playful verbal sparring.
Proving the Age of Heroes Has Not Passed
In 1900 a penniless mountaineer drove oxen 67 miles to plead for education at the University of South Carolina. The president granted opportunity and the boy became a renowned Southern surgeon, illustrating that heroes endure and orphans show us how to behave.
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Columbia
D. C
University of South Carolina
South
Archibald Rutledge J
American Magazine
Safe Woolen Washing Test and Care Tips
Guidance on testing new woolens for colorfastness before washing using lukewarm water. Instructions cover mild soap, gentle washing, avoiding soaking, thorough rinsing, careful wringing, and air drying. The ad also promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as original liver pills.
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Dr. Pierce
Classed With Pests
A sharp social remark notes that someone who assumes others are driven by base motives becomes hard to converse with. The statement critiques habitual suspicion and its impact on dialogue and goodwill.
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St. Louis
Denver
Fone
Vatican City
Pope Pius XI
Lights of New York
Chicago
New York
Edith M. Barber
American Animals
Alaska
David Nevers
A. F. Hegenberger
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
G. V. Holloman
S. E. Prudhomme
Hegenberger
L. F. Harman
F. H. Coleman
B. J. Minty
G. D. McAllister
Dodge
Detroit
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