Outstanding Twentieth Century Novels List by Ruth Melamed
Ruth Melamed of New York offers a suggestive list of thought provoking novels for serious readers. Not exhaustive, the selection includes Artherton’s The Conqueror Barbusse Under Fire Bojer Great Hunger Buck The Good Earth and many more with brief notes on each work’s focus and setting.
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Ruth Melamed
New York
Barbusse
Bojer
Buck
Cather
My Antonia
Churchill
St. Louis
Mississippi Valley
de la Roche
Jalna
Marie Chapdelaine
Hemingway
Kipling
Kim
Lewis
Babbitt
London
Priestly
Good Companions
England
Remarque
Reymont
Richardson
Ultima Thule
Rolvaag
South Dakota
Sedgwick
Stephens
Suckow
Bonney
Tarkington
Magnificent
Amgersons
Thompson
Editor's fur coat dream ends in price revolt verse
The editor, eager to own a fur coat, laments rising fur prices and bursts into a playful verse about a polar bear with a fur overcoat, noting how costs are inflated and savings vanish.
Kay Francis in May Stevens M D at Rivola Oskaloosa
Kay Francis is featured in the Warner Bros film May Stevens M D opening at Rivola Theatre in Oskaloosa on Saturday for three days. Lyle Talbot plays the leading male opposite Francis after a year of rising small parts in Warner Bros pictures. He began as a magician before acting and has appeared in Three on a Match and other titles.
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Kay Francis
May Stevens
M. D
Rivola
Oskaloosa
Lyle Talbot
Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros
Mary Stevens
M.D
Rivora ‘Theatre
Lyle
Sin Sing
Jimmy Dolan
Mary Stevens, M. D
The March of the Season in Iowa Schools
Five year old Bobby Jones and Josy greet the street as hundreds of Iowa children head to school. The piece urges custodians, teachers, and patrons to inspect water, toilets, ventilation, lighting and cleanliness, and to ensure health screenings and safe school environments. It also notes a wheat export pact and reactions from Frank Murphy and Premier Bennett.
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Bobby Jones
Josy
Mary Smith
Iowa
Bobby
Mary
Iowa State Department of Health
World Wheat Pact Sets price and export limits
A London conference produced a 22 nation wheat pact to restrict production, lift prices, and improve farmer living conditions. The four major exporters Australia Argentina Canada and the United States agree to cap exports at 560 million bushels for 1933 34 with a 15 percent production cut in 1934 35. Russia declined to accept full terms though its 1933 crop is small. Danubian nations Bulgaria Hungary Romania and Yugoslavia are noted in the talks.
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Via
United States
London
Liverpool
Germany
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
France
Great Britaan
Greece
Hungary
Irish Free State
Italy
Poland
Rumania
Spain
Sweden
Czechoslovakia
Switzerland
Russia
Yugoslavia
Estonia
Holland
Finland
Denmark
Turkey
Portugal
Lithuania
Canada
Nly
Australia
Argentina
Agriculture Department
Danubian
Romania
Yugosla
Science chemists chase synthetic rubber formula since 1835
Science chemists trace rubber analyses back to 1835 seeking a synthetic rubber formula. Prof W A Conrad of the United States Naval Academy thinks a lunar rocket trip could advance related research and ignite further discussion on spaceborne experiments.
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W. A. Conrad
United States Naval Academy
Moon
Inventions and curiosities flood a bustling era
A roundup of quirky advances and notes from the era includes an auto truck attachment to run on rails for about 50 dollars, Berlin's electric robot directing shoppers, a mechanical sandman for sleeplessness, a self playing violin using neon lights, and cheap paper offerings.
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Oklahoma
Frank Murphy
California
St Swithin’s Day Rain Legend Through English History
The piece recounts the St Swithin’s Day superstition and its claimed origins in England. It notes the legend of Swithin dying in 862 and a 40 day rain period during his exhumation and reburial in 1662, with mention of possible pagan links to rain.
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England
St. Swithin
Alfred the Great
Winchester
Chester
Oothers
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Chronicle
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South Side Square
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High Ave
Pella
Gezel Car Shop
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Broadway
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Abe den Adel
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AERCE
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Ruby Richerd
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FR. M. Roberts
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Legion
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Ican Legion
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R. C. Amidon
L College
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H. W. Pietenpol
Raformed
Xamor
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Basel
Second Reformed
Anthony Tysseling
Udell L. Hendricks
Insurance Agency
Kuyper
North Side
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John Liter
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Chevrolet Service
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