No New Taxes slogan shapes debate on budgets and loans
The Capitol debates extending nuisance taxes that raise about half a billion dollars and questions whether to continue cuts after the budget ceases to be a nightmare. Discussion covers auto equipment fees, telephone and telegraph charges, movie taxes, lubricants, matches, tires, electricity and cosmetics. Also notes social security investments, European debt policy, and Japan’s junk trade impact on American industry.
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Capitol
Congress
Washington
Ashington
Social Security Administration
Wall Street
Uncle Sam
France
Haly
Sloan
New York
Europe
United States
O. K
Finland
Sam
Francy
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Fulvio Suvich
Canvasser Olga Beats Odds at Dog House Sale
Olga McConble of Astoria recalls a April 1936 day when door knocking yielded mixed replies and a dangerous encounter. After a menacing dog and a terrifying owner, she still delivered a four dollar order and learned canvassing is risky yet potentially rewarding.
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Olga McConble
Astoria
N. Yu
Olga
Cinnamon in Ceremonies and Ancient Measurements
The article lists British measures such as a cord of wood 23 cubic feet and a hogshead of tobacco 2 to 18 hundredweight, plus various weights for cloves tea and meat. It also notes cinnamon use in Roman ceremonies for incense funerary rites, recounting Nero’s grand cinnamon fire for Poppaea and claims about vast spice imports burned.
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Britain
Nero
Poppaea
Twilight of Ex-Debutantes and Train Butcher Echoes
A lively column lampoons 1925 debutantes and royal intrigue over a possible marriage involving Mrs Simpson, noting the social fallout on ex debutantes. It then shifts to a nostalgic critique of railroad stations in Chicago and a wry take on Hungary’s dueling culture and political history.
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Santa, Monica
Calif
Mrs. Simpson
Chicago
Jerr
Harnest
Legend of the Augean Stables Tale
The legend tells of Augeas the Elis king who owned 3000 oxen whose stables had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleared them in a day by diverting the Alpheus river. Augeas refused to pay, war followed, Hercules triumphed and Augeas died.
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Augeas
Elis
Hercules
Alpheus
Seeing Happiness and Warnings on Character and Pride
A reflective piece discusses happiness as the gift of focusing on life’s good in high relief. It warns against approving those who always command, and notes that savage opinions breed hypocrisy. It links confidence to resisting doubt, warns that long answers deter questions, and cautions that pride sparks gossip and secret-keeping damage to conversation.
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Earle
George Hi Earle
Pennsylvania
Boies Penrose
Andrew Mellon
Theodore Roosevelt
Tichson
Harvard
Wyacht
Pala
Philadelphia
George Harle
Old Wooden Rocker Recall of Bygone Days
A nostalgic verse recalls a tall wooden rocker in a corner back parlor once central to family life. The speaker remembers grandma's tales, shared with a sister beside the rocking chair, as dusters drift and rooms quietened in days gone by.
Creomulsion Promise for Coughs and Chest Colds
A rheumatoid style endorsement claims Creomulsion cures lingering coughs from colds and chest bronchial irritation by soothing inflamed membranes and expelling phlegm. It urges readers that if other remedies fail, Creomulsion can restore health and deliver value.
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George Earle
Japan
U.S. A
Mikado
New England
State Department
Western Newspaper Union
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Terror
By Lloyd Ginnons
Thett
Stark Erery
Bellevue
Olga McComb
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Zima
Prince of Wales
David
Taene
Ladles
Bull Con
Budapest
Kentucky
Hungary
Rmine
Irvin
Cobb
Utah
Ben Lomond Ogden
Chauncey W
West
Gen
Dosa
Doan
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