Call for Chief Stover to clean up Prince Street district
A letter urges Chief Stover to enforce laws more visibly and widen city effort in Prince Street area. It praises traffic law vigilance and beer ordinance enforcement, notes sidewalks in the district are lively yet unsavory, and recommends focusing police attention to improve safety and attract businesses.
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Stover
Tover
Hallowe’en
Prince Strecta
Prince Street
Beckley
Tess Bright
Buldings
Chief Stoyer
Kang Teh’s Salt Gabelle Reflects Manchukuo’s Narrow Foundations
Reporters describe Kang Teh living in a modest five room salt gabelle house while the Japanese prepare a vast ambassadorial complex, highlighting the contrast with Pu Yi’s Forbidden City years earlier and signaling a limited start to a broader imperial project. The emperor’s private life and limited public access raise questions to which officials offer evasive replies.
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Kang Teh
Salt Gabelle
Manchukuo
Japan
Usinking
Forbidden City
Henry Pu Yi
Pu Yi
Cina
Hich
Tim
Kang Lehi Expansion Rumored to Move North of China
Reporters speculate that Kang Lehi plans to relocate his power base northward in China to begin broader imperial expansion. The article notes the ruler has spoken openly about future plans, though specifics remain unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Kang‘lehi
China
Big Jim Farley Poised for Move After 1932 Peak
The article assesses Jim Farley's career arc from New York athletic commission to postmaster general and national figure. It argues he may leave the cabinet after a forthcoming reshuffle and seek the New York governorship, aided by Governor Lehman and national party dynamics. It notes his popularity and potential friction with a future nominee.
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Big Shamus
Jim Farley
Big Jim
Shamus
New York State Athletic Commission
New York
Farley
Roosevelt
Varley
National Party
Albany
New York State
Lehman
Schechters Seek Another NRA Despite Past Loss
The Schechters, once ruined by an NRA ruling against their chicken business, declare they want another NRA. Joe Schechter tells a New York reporter after the election that the president is the finest gentleman, and the family voted sixteen votes. He even praises Roosevelt and says they would like to congratulate him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Schechter
New York
NRA
Roosevelt
Jacob Maged
Schechters
End of an Illusion in the Literary Digest Shakeup
A critical take on the 1936 Literary Digest straw poll overturning its famed accuracy. The piece notes other straw polls emerged and warns the Digest prestige is gone, with light satire on Prohibition, New Deal supporters, and a Charleston CCC shooting tip. An agoraphobe seeks a divorce after his wife’s views.
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Literary Digest
Digest
Boots and legends roam in Beckley gossip column
A cantankerous Beclley column recounts Mr. S W Gunnoe known as Willish and Windy with oversized boots at Beckley yesterday. It mingles tales of local figures and a Texan turkey price joke, plus birthdays for Primo Stella and Domenico Albanese with a Glen White party and musical interludes.
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S. W.gunnoe
Willish
Windy
Steco High School
Camp Raleigh
Beckley
Mr. Gunnee
Harvey “Pauley
Irving Maddy
O. D. Hall
Loth
Primo Stella
Domenico Albanese
Glen’ White
Albanese
Glen White
Prima
Guy Fallchini
Angelo Googan
Thor
Vulcan
Watch tariff cut sparks protest by U S jewelry makers
A group of jewelry manufacturers confronted the State Department over duties on certain foreign watches being cut in tariff concessions. They produced a photostatic copy of the list showing the wristwatch cut, while officials denied any final agreement. Hull will receive six dollars a day for Buenos Aires duties, a reduction from pre 1933 norms.
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Preston Grower Weeke
State Department
United
United States
Hull
Buenos Aires
Liquor Hidden in Church Found by Police
Augusta Georgia police charged a Black janitor with hiding an assortment of liquor in a church where he worked as custodian.
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Associated Press
Augusta
Weber College Dean Abandons Strict Rules for Coed Guidance
Weber College Dean Dugile Clark Otogden Utah says she will not enforce tight ja rules and will not spy on students. She favors open forums and talks by notable women and supervised study to ease parental concerns while granting coeds freedom after hours for school and church work.
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Glen Perrins
Dugile
Clark
Weber College
Ogden
Utah
Arda
Birla
Polly
Something About Hospitals In Hollywood
Screen Life in Hollywood recounts C Henry Gordon hospitalized with incipient pneumonia and reveals his wry reflections on hospital life. He notes the irritations of visitors and the odd comfort of nurses and stories from barbers, insisting there is indeed something about hospitals.
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Robbin Coonsollywood
C. Henry Gordon
St ‘Cely
Light Brigade
Surat-Khan
Wealee
C. Henry
Murray County Seeks Renaming to Roosevelt
A circulation drive in Murray County aims to rename the county Roosevelt after former president Theodore Roosevelt. County officials back the petition led by County Clerk John Henry Santiles, noting Murray County voted for the name change, while an amendment may be required and legislative action planned.
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Associated Press
Sulphur
Oklahoma
Murray County
Roosevelt
Murray
John Henry Santiles
S. H. Lattimore
Oklahoma City
Sandes
Streamlined Turkeys Hit Harrison County Farms for Holidays
Four thousand turkeys are undergoing a holiday finish on Harrison County farms. Birds swallow tablet feed to refine their finish replacing ground grain mixtures. The program has drawn many farmers to contract whole stocks for the season as sleeker birds become the norm.
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Associated Press
Cynthia
Harrison
Realignment Doubts After 1936 Debates and 1940 Hopes
After the 1936 elections Byron Price weighs whether party realignments will occur by 1940. He notes deep schisms within both major parties, questions how Roosevelt's coalition will hold, and whether new parties may emerge from liberal and conservative forces or figures like Townsend and Coughlin. He cautions readers to be skeptical and watchful.
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Roosevelt
Father
Democratic Party
Landon
Mr. Lemke
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Gentry
Washington
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