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Newspaper
Panama City Pilot
Location
Panama City, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1940
Page
2
Governor Rivers proclaims a grand road-building program in Georgia while Florida falters with a 7-cent gas tax. Roads crumble, funds vanish on petty projects, and a $200 million need looms to complete a proper system. A harsh verdict on Florida's highway management and future prospects.
A guidance piece on voice control and relaxed speech from Alicia Hart. Advice stresses using a natural voice, avoiding tense nasal tones, keeping tongue position relaxed, and practicing yawning to open the throat. Emphasizes listening as foundational to clear enunciation and expressive speech.
Review of Gang Rule in New York by Craig Thompson and Allen Raymond. Excerpt describes district leaders marshaling underworld backing to sway elections in Prohibition era New York. Vivid tales of vote manipulation, dead voters, and double voting schemes in primary days and district clubhouses.
Hollywood panic grips studios as April 1 quota laws threaten foreign receipts. UK France and other nations may ban cash exports for American films, prompting budget cuts and more European production. Industry buzz includes Don Ameche retakes and Marlene Dietrich staying at $70,000 a picture, with Zanuck vacationing in Sun Valley planning rushed projects.
A compact Q and A on polite address forms for professors rabbis pastors ministers and mayors, plus envelope etiquette for a Protestant minister. It lists titles such as Dr, Rabbi, Father, Pastor, Mr. Dean, and Mr. Mayor with example usages. It also notes potential social friction in disputes over etiquette choices.
The article surveys long held beliefs linking birds and animals to doom. It notes crow and owl omens, Chaucer and Shakespeare references, and the idea that dogs and horses sense death. It explains there is no scientific basis, only acute sounds and human interpretation.
George Tucker recalls the boogie woogie rise from Rivertown dives to Carnegie Hall, naming Pine Top Smith Crippled Clarence and the Yancey brothers. Elliott Paul, a novelist, studies its patterns with Albert Ammons Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson, earning a rare white diploma from the boogie kings.
Dan and Marie share a tense luncheon as Lynda pressures marriage while Marie questions belonging between Varner's world and canalboat life. A dramatic morning ends with Marie deciding not to marry Dan, leaving his plans in flux as Lynda confronts the reality of their triangle.
A poem by C. A. Cornell portrays a blind girl in a church setting who learns to read God’s word by touch. Her sight fails and she struggles with Braille, pressing fingers to the page in a farewell kiss before finding God again through the cross.
Rothsville, Pa. Tax Collector Jacob G. Conrad said a house that no longer existed cheated him out of 100 percent collections. He noted the tax on a burned empty dwelling was not paid by the owner, who refused to tax the non existent property.
The article notes a landmark moment as boogie-woogie is published in sheet music for the first time, honoring Lewis, Johnson, and Ammons. It describes the music as a long blue smoky echo from river towns, suggesting New Orleans as a possible origin, with the present scene at No 2 Sheridan Sq.
A crossword style puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues. It includes terms for inventor of the telegraph and related words such as numbers, fruits, geographic terms, and body parts, with numerous cross-referenced clues across two orientations.
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