Mothers Day Urges Nationwide Drive to Cut Maternal Deaths
American Mothers by Elmo Scott Watson details Mother's Day origins, then warns the U S faces the highest maternity death rate among civilized nations. It advocates a national education campaign and expanded maternity care led by the Maternity Center Association to prevent thousands of deaths and infant losses through improved medical supervision and home care.
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Elmo Scott Watson
America
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Children’s Bureau
United States Department of Labor
John Sloane
Maternity Center Association
New York City
White House
Hoover
H. S. Cumming
United States Public Health Service
Grace Abbott
Italy
Denmark
Ralph W. Lobenstine
New
Carolyn Conant van Blarcom
Louis I. Dublin
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Netherlands
Hazel Corbin
Miss Corbin
Western Newspaper Union
J. Ernest Schiller
Philadelphia
Canada
Photographers’ Association of America
Joseph Gray Kitchell
Blanche Busby
Detroit
Our Mothers by Thomas Hornsby Ferril
A reflective verse on memory and youth bidding farewell to the past. The poem contrasts the presents fleeting vitality with fading portraits on the wall and the wish to live without changing a single day.
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Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Jesus and Zacchaeus Jericho encounter and conversion
Luke 19:1-10 lesson outlines Jesus passing Jericho seeking Zacchaeus and offering salvation. Zacchaeus persistence leads to conversion. he restitutes and follows Jesus. Jesus proclaims today salvation has come to this house and declares the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.
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Zacchaeus
Jericho
Israel
Joshua
Rahab
Heb
Christ
God
Abraham
Jesus Christ
Bible as anchor of liberties and future guide
Quote from U. S. Grant praising the Bible as the anchor of liberties and the source of civilization progress, urging people to keep its precepts on their hearts and live by them as a guide for the future.
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Grant
Afflictions promise to God’s children, not threat
A religious reflection cites John Mason noting that afflictions are not so much threats as promises to the children of God, implying spiritual resilience and trust in divine providence.
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Children of God
John Mason
Machines That Are Almost Human
A 1931 Western Newspaper Union piece describes three robotic watchmen guarding Washington water reservoirs. Each unit answers calls, measures water depth via floats, and relays readings through coded buzzer signals and tuning fork tones. Built by R J Wensley, the robots operate remotely and respond to misdirected calls by ending the connection.
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Washington
D. C
National Capital
War Department
Iron Watchman
R. J. Wensley
Western Newspaper Union
Turkish girl to teach Americans' gift for team play in Asia Minor
Gazine Ihsan, daughter of Smyrna's former governor, returns to Angora with a Wellesley masters in hygiene and physical instruction. She aims to train Turkish teachers to spread American team play methods across Anatolia and organize adult gymnastics for officials in Ankara.
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Asia Minor
Gazine Ihsan
Smyrna
Department of Hygiene and Physical Instruction
Wellesley College
Angora
Anatolia
Miss Ihsan
Turkey
America
Our Debt to Science Behind all present-day economic difficulties lies the ferment of scientific invention.
Collier's Weekly notes that modern hardship stems from rapid invention, arguing civilization was forged in laboratories and future well being hinges on continued research and scientific progress.
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Collier’s Weekly
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Anti Acid Relief
Indigestion heartburn and gas are treated with Phillips Milk of Magnesia. A spoonful in water neutralizes stomach acids, relieving symptoms in five minutes. Doctors endorse the product. available in 25c and 50c bottles at your drugstore with directions for use.
English and Spanish Equal Ties in Americas Census
A Caracas newspaper notes that English and Spanish use are nearly equal across the Americas. It cites a Central and South America census totaling 113,436,000, with Brazil 42.6 million, Mexico 16 million, Argentina 10.3 million, and 3 to 4 million each in Bolivia Chile Venezuela and other nations, underscoring parity between Anglo-Saxon and Spanish influence in the New World.
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Rio Grande
Brazil
North America
Central and
South America
Mexico
Argentina
Colombia
Peru
Bolivia
Chile
Venezuela
Ste
West Indies
New World
el Nueo Diario
Caracas
Spontaneous Soviet Amateur Theatre Movement Grows
A new amateur theater movement blooms in the Soviet Union with factory town performances and village club workers writing directing and acting plays. About 35 000 club theatres in cities and towns plus 30 000 in villages support troupes called Blue Blossers touring unions and peasant clubs with songs dances and sketches and some 8 767 motion picture display venues existed in spring 1928.
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Soviet Union
Prompt about choosing happier words.
The user asks why the assistant cannot use more positive language. It requests more uplifting phrasing in responses to make people happier.
Dog Howl Misread as Death Signal in Quiet Night
A dog’s mournful howl at night is explained as a sign that everyone is away from home rather than any omen of death, suggesting the sound reflects absence more than danger.
Tanlac Promises Relief From Indigestion and Gas
A classic ad touts Tanlac as a remedy for gas bloating indigestion and stomach pains claiming ten years of health restoration for thousands. It cites Mrs. Arvena Bowers of Topeka Kansas noting weight gain and relief after five years of distress and promises a money back guarantee if it fails.
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Arvena Bowers
Jackson St
Topeka
Kans
Taniac
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