Telegraphic Tales for Busy Readers
Important events of the last seven days reported by wire and prepared for the busy reader.
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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1923
Page
2
Important events of the last seven days reported by wire and prepared for the busy reader.
A telegram from the IWW international headquarters in New Ark calls off the strike of the Marine Transport Workers' branch at Los Angeles harbor. The long dispute ended after the message reached organizers, with crews expected to return to work and resume port operations.
Communist party takes over Gelsenkirchen police headquarters hoisting the red flag. Five killed and sixty-one wounded as civilians defend the building amid street battles. Firemen and a civilian self defense league clash with demonstrators after price-cut protests trigger chaotic violence.
A misfired imitation lightning bolt struck three electricians at Universal City while producing a magnesium glare device for a motion picture. They were rushed to hospital with second degree burns on hands and face.
Six persons died in a Texas and Pacific passenger train wreck between Cisco and Putnam, Abilene area, when two trains collided early Thursday. A porter, a netron porter, and four men were aboard the “blind” baggage car. an engineman was probably fatally injured and two or three others were hurt.
Spokane authorities print three hundred posters for display in grocery stores protesting sugar prices. Commissioner Ralph Hendericks of the department of public health authorized the effort.
The United Chamber of Commerce of Japan sends representations to the government urging a commercial agreement with Russia and subsidizing an improved vessel for Pacific trade.
Federal Judge Carpenter granted a preliminary injunction restraining ticket scalpers in Chicago from buying selling or advertising non transferable railroad tickets. The order targets five ticket brokers following a joint petition by 22 railroads.
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad told the Railroad Labor Board on Thursday it settled a wage dispute with eleven thousand eight hundred seventy members of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees. Details by the railroad were not provided.
The body of Joseph Kruse, missing since May 3 after drowning in the South Fork of the Snake River 50 miles east of Richy Idaho, along with his wife and Blanche Peterson, was found Thursday morning at the great feeder head gates 30 miles from the drowning site. Willard Moore, in charge of the gates, located the body with help from Rigby fishermen, and it was recovered from the stream.
A column offering readers to submit questions and requests for poems or songs. It lists submission rules, contact details for Helen Brooks in Salt Lake City, and notes songs received in the past week with thanks to contributors.
Two girls aged 16 and 17 seek guidance on dating movies kissing curfews and communications with suitors. The columnist advises against going out with boys alone at their age warns against monopolizing a girl's time and stresses discretion hair fashion and parental trust in letters while urging proper conduct and mutual respect.
A reader writes to Miss Brooks about quitting dances, improving schoolwork, and wanting a bicycle to buy with savings. Miss Brooks endorses focusing on studies, defers personal purchase, and suggests the mother knows what is best, asking for the reader to present all arguments for ownership.
A note from Velma in Heber City Utah says she cannot provide the songs requested. She agrees to search later and mail them to the addressed envelope if found.
A reader asks when babies begin to talk and which is the prettiest place in Idaho. The reply notes there is no age at which a child must talk or walk and that most begin saying words around one year old, though individual variation is large.
Olives are eaten with the fingers while asparagus peas and lettuce salad use a fork. When corn on the cob is served without holders, hold the ear in the right hand and eat as gracefully as possible. Rice is eaten with a fork. Notable living American poets include Henry Van Dyke Frank L. Stanton Edwin Markham and Robert Loveman. Noted fiction authors include Louis Joseph Vance Randall Parrish Harold MacGrath Samuel Blythe Irvin S Cobb Zana Grey Booth Tarkington Mary H Rinehart Kathleen Norris James Oliver Curwood Nina Wilcox Putnam.
The reader asks if it is proper to invite a boyfriend into the house for a second date and if a thirteen year old girl should go barefoot in summer. The response: it is proper to invite a social guest into the home. it is not proper for a girl of thirteen to go barefoot.
A reader requests guidance on where to find humorous religious or moral readings. The note mentions a book titled Peerless Recliter priced at 125 and asks for store addresses via a stamped return envelope. Replies indicate forwarding letters to several names without success and an appeal to provide a contact name.
A fifteen year old writes from Utah about beauty, powder, and being a “plain” woman. She asks about studies for girls and the meanings of Elma Josate and Jeusie. The columnist reassures and replies with guidance on English math home economics and art.
A text notes a normal child should command mother tongue by age three to five and may pause speech while learning to walk. It adds that a child benefits from siblings in advancing talking and walking. It also discusses Idaho's selection of a state flower and general variations in color and form in beauty.
A reader asks to publish the lyrics to a folk tune titled Tapa sung around a campfire. The message thanks Mickey and welcomes further sharing, noting the writer has never heard the song before.
A vintage audience column discusses beauty culture items on sale by Limbelle Stevenson and questions from readers about bobbed hair style and walking with an unfamiliar boy. The editor weighs whether bobbing remains fashionable and cautions on propriety based on age and context.
St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City invites applications for its organized training school for nurses. BL E Hale, Supt. of Hospital, coordinates the program and admission details.
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