Political Consensus on Good Roads Across Presidential Field
Washington rallying behind a national good roads program as a unifying issue for all candidates. Governors, generals, and senators urge extensive federal highway rebuilding to boost production, commerce, and defense, with voices from Lowden Hoover Johnson Harding and others highlighting road as economic lifeline.
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Leonard Wood
Herbert Hoover
W. G. McAde
America
Bryan
Mitchell Palmer
H. Co. L
California
Hiram Johnson
Warren G. Harding
Miles Poindexter
Overalls Stunt Propels Wall Street Rumors to Paris
A Paris report claims an American overalls campaign is a large publicity stunt fueling stock gains and celebrity sightings. It cites Up shaw in a house appearance and Johnny Sorenson as the first overall millionaire who sold Newark Schenectady and Buffalo factories for massive profits.
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Washington
Paris
Upshaw
Georgia
Kansas
Jim” Brady
Johnny Sorensen
New York
Newark
N. J
Schenectady
N. Y
Buffalo
Claridge’s
America
Mr. Sorenson
Sorenson
Nations clash over alien horses in postwar racing
The English and Belman Jockey clubs bar alien enemy horses from racing and stud book registration, with the French Jockey Club likely to follow. US racing faces little German involvement, while Allied sportsmen depress German and Austro-Hungarian stud prospects.
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Merica
Belman
Jockey Clubs
Jockey Club
Jockey Club of America
United States
Post Offices To Take War Insurance Premiums If Bill Passes
Congress may approve a bill allowing veterans to pay war risk insurance premiums at local post offices. The measure, backed by the treasury and supported by Rep Sweet of Iowa, aims to reduce red tape by creating 14 regional offices and consolidating agencies in one building in each city. Temporary premium relief is proposed for hospital patients, vocational retraining participants, and those temporarily totally disabled.
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Congress
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Sweet
Iowa
Treasury Department
Bureau of War ‘Risk Insurance
United States
Bureau of Public Health Service
Federal Board of Vocational ‘Education
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Auto Signs Open Death Valley for Night Travel
Death valley once feared by Southwest travelers is now being prepared for safe day and night driving. The Automobile Club of Southern California signs sand tracks water holes and lateral routes to Palm Canyon guiding headlights and aiding night touring. Palm Canyon is to be designated a national monument by the government due to its ancient palms in orderly rows remarkable in this desert.
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Death Valley
Uncle Sam
Automobile Club of
California
Automobile Club
Death Valley District
Palm Canyon
Not All Due to Comedian
Speaker Sweet told Albany that newspaper space does not prove greatness. He shared a tale of a rich man hiring a comedian to entertain workers but the barn crowd laughed at Backchat until a plowman noted the pigs wandering in, shifting the joke’s focus.
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Sweet
New York State
Albany
Blue Jay Nesting Conflict Observed by Neighbor
A spring note describes blue jays nesting in a maple crotch near a study window. The female preferred a lower nesting site while the male favored a higher spot, leading to protests and relocation attempts before the female’s choice prevailed. The birds remained quiet through summer, then joined other jays in fall.
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Christian Science Monitor
Poor Father Haircut Debate Ends In Bald Joke
Marian aged eleven resists a hair bob and asks why mother trims hair. Mother argues frequent cutting helps hair grow thick for the future. Marian counters with her father’s baldness remark, turning the debate into a light family quip.
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Marian
Father
Dreaming of Flowers and Seasonal Meanings
The Chicago American notes that dreaming of picking flowers signals future fortune while in season brings pleasure and out of season indicates obstacles and possible failure. Wide blooms lessen hurdles, yellow forebodes pain, red warns of serious illness. being adorned with flowers suggests brief happiness and buying them brings good news.
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Chicago
No Imitations for Her At Local Picture House
A young physician takes his date to a cinema as ads flicker on the screen. He jokes about a photo making her happy, but she replies she wants real things and refuses imitations.
Pretty dresses for June bridesmaids and bridal frocks
An American fashion note describes a June bridesmaid dress in net and lace with an underslip, and a white wedding option using georgette voile crepe de chine net or organdy. It praises taffeta for bridesmaids and suggests accessories like fichus, ribbons, and floral embellishments.
Hats for Summer Wear from Illiners and Millinery Displays
Illiners and millinery departments unveil summer hats for all occasions. Notable pieces include a georgette and sipper straw semi dress hat with braided edging, a silk shirted sports hat, a tight rose silk arrangement, and a Milan crown georgette off the face style trimmed with a wing. A high crowned sailor with sipper straw completes the lineup.
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Illiners and
Milan
Saul Chosen King as Saul's Visitation at Mizpeh
Lesson presents why the people demanded a king, Samuel's response and God’s sovereignty, Saul's selection by lot, his modest reception, and his consolidation at Gilgal after repelling the Ammonites. It highlights Saul from Benjamin, his fitness and the people's mixed reaction, plus the Mizpeh and Gilgal moments.
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Saul
Sam
Samuel
Mizpeh
Benjamin
Ephraim
Judah
Israel
Lot
Gilgal
Growth and growth by God not man
The passage asserts that all fruits grow, whether in soil or soul, and that human effort can arrange circumstances and fulfill conditions but cannot cause true growth. Growth is accomplished by God, not by men.
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God
The Most Insignificant People Sneer at Others
Quote attributed to Hazlitt on insignificant people who sneer at others to elevate themselves.
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Hazlitt
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Nets
Bright Reporter
England
Belgium
Gereny
Austro-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Germany
Ard Patrick
Gabthe Moore
Government Insurance
Southwest
Born
P. B. Fitzwater
Moo Bible Institute of Chicago
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