Easy Street compared with Europe in postwar taxation
A consideration of how the United States enjoys a lighter tax burden and higher wages than Europe. The piece contrasts Britain’s proposed higher income tax with U.S. tax levels, notes European workers often cannot afford necessities, and observes American industry flourishing due to wage growth enabling consumption.
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United States
Easy Street
England
Europe
France
Germany
America
The Limit of Man Explores Radio Dreams and Limits
The article traces rapid radio progress from moving trains to broadcasting from them, noting CN Rail tests near Toronto as proof of unpredictable future advances. It cites Lt Soucek’s eight mile altitude attempt using oxygen tanks, illustrating a concrete limit to human progress within the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Canadian National Railway
Toronto
Soucek
The Quality of Mercy and a New York Benevolence Fund
A New York group, started by self-made individuals, has raised over 7000 dollars to aid magistrates in distributing mercy grants. The fund aims to expand, easing magistrates from personal charity duties and promoting kinder court outcomes. A bread thief case illustrates growing mercy with allowance and funds rather than harsh punishment.
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Shakespeare
New York
Legs
Chinese egg tale from Bingville lunch wagon
Uncle Si Tinklepaugh jokes about buried Chinese eggs kept for ten years then eaten. He saw some in a Bingville lunch wagon recently but they were dug up after about nine years.
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Si Tinklepaugh
Bingville
Brother of Mrs T B Walker Grows Fish and Frogs
Fresno Bee clipping from Three Rivers California details C L Taylor 62 owner of Tulare County fish farm near Kaweah River. The 1280 acre ranch hosts seven fish pools with trout, chappie, goldfish and bullfrogs fed by cottage cheese and crackers. Taylor plans channel catfish imports and licenses with help from state officials. Nearby elk Nanny deer lions pheasants ducks and orchard scenes enrich the canyon setting. References neighbors Ce celia Strife and Betty Strong.
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T. B. Walker
Register
San Joaquin Valley
Tulare County
C. L. Taylor
Kansas City
Kaweah
Taylor
Mountain District
Tayor
Mammoth
Sa. Joaquin
Mendota
California
Nanny
State Game Association
Simple life saving method could prevent drowning deaths
Drowning fatalities could be reduced if bystanders learned the prone pressure method of artificial respiration. The technique, easy to learn and applicable to asphyxiation or electric shock, is approved by the Red Cross and major agencies and taught by public utilities to their employees.
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Red Cross
Army
Navy
Bureau of Mines
American Gas Association
National Electric Light Association
Illinois Committee On Public Utility Information
Principles of Manual Resuscitation for Lifesaving Technique
Step by step guidance outlines patient positioning, hand placement, and rhythmic chest compressions to restore breathing. It emphasizes pace roughly twelve to fifteen compressions per minute with two second cycles, continuing until breathing returns or a physician arrives.
Be Prepared and Scouting Heritage Theme Promotes Boys
A motivational passage extols Boy Scouts values, blending patriotic ideals with ancestral tales from cave, Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, Viking, English and Pioneer boys. It emphasizes life lessons, self discovery, service, and the quest to do good turns while honoring American institutions and faith.
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Thoreau
Burroughs
van Dyke
Daniel Carter Beart
America
Colored population surge in state penal and charitable institutions
Director Rodney H Brandon of the department of public welfare reports a sharp rise in colored inmates and wards over the five years ending June 30 1929. The colored group grew 4.09 times faster than other groups with large increases in admissions to hospitals for the insane and especially to prisons and juvenile institutions.
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Rodney H. Brandon
Department of Public Welfare An
Conversation Fragments Between Bruce and Wallace
Wallace laments overindulgence from a month ago and a lingering champagne binge. Bruce jokes about paying the bill, noting it still has not been settled. The exchange hints at humor and social dining dynamics without a named event.
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Bruce
Wallace
Deborah a Brave Woman in Judges Era
Lesson text outlines Deborah’s leadership during Israel’s crisis under Jabin and Sisera. It highlights Deborah’s role as judge and prophetess, Barak’s hesitant partnership, Jael’s pivotal act, and the victory credited to divine intervention with emphasis on women’s influence in public life.
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Deborah
Israel
Barak
Sisera
Jabin
Jael
Consecration and the blend of joy and sorrow in duty
The quote argues that truly consecrated men perceive their calling as a divine idea and deep obedience. Output expresses that real expression of this calling comes not in pure joy or sorrow but in their inseparable blend.
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Philips Brooks
God’s Plan to Cleanse in Deep Waters
A fragment notes God’s plan to cleanse through trials that bring men into deep waters or destroy them, attributed to Aughey. The sentence reflects a religious meditation on judgment and mercy and the peril of spiritual peril in perilous waters.
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m.—Aughey
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Edward Smalley
A. P. Brownlow
State Fish and Game Commission
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Sequoia National Park
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Morro Rock
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Cecelia Strife
Betty Strong
Hollywood
Hamburg
BOY Scouts
P. B. Fitzwater
D. D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Canaan
Joshua
Samuel
Elf
Peopl
God
Ehud
Jobin
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