Influenza Week and Public Attitudes Spark Varied Passages
The column surveys public observances and social musings noting Influenza Week celebrations, seasonal housecleaning cycles, and cautious views on prosperity and credit. It wittily jests about gun ownership, pensions, drink driving, and dangers of modern life, ending with a Browning thought for daily reflection.
Marketing Bill Becomes Law Backed by Farm Groups
The national marketing bill, supported by Illinois county farm bureaus, the Illinois Agricultural Association, and the American Farm Bureau Federation, is now law after presidential signature and passage by both houses. It lets farmers associations form cooperative marketing organizations and protects producers and consumers. President Harding and Secretary Wallace endorsed cooperative marketing.
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National Co-Operative Marketing
Ulinois County Farm Bureaus
Iinois Agriculural Association
American Farm Bureau Federation
United States
Congress
Agriculture Bloc
Farmers’ Associations
Harding
U. S
Agriculture Wallace
Labor And The American Legion Statement From National Commander
National Commander Hanford MacNider declares the American Legion supports labor organizing rights and urges cooperation with unions. He cites AFL ties, union leadership, and joint efforts to prevent misrepresentation by agitators while stressing law and order and public safety. A Blue Island post hosted labor groups to review the Legion constitution, with reports circulated statewide.
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American Legion
Hanford MacNider
American Citizen
American Federation of Labor
Kansas City
American
Trades and Labor Assembly
United States
Uniformed
Blue Island Post No. 50
Legion
Switchmen’s Union of
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Blue Island Sun-Standard
Doctor Hums Through A Nashville Day Of Small Talk
A playful vignette captures a cynical doctor in Nashville asking a patient how they feel and noting lingering pains amid casual banter in a city daily life scene.
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Nashville
Poetic Reporter and Aims at Music In Punch Era
As It Sounded to Him Shirley Brooks a noted English journalist known for Punch writes about a concert with odd lyrical imagery though he lacks musical knowledge. The piece notes asthma can be triggered by hair fibers from pets and feathers proposing avoidance of sources like cats dogs and chicken feathers to prevent attacks.
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Shirley Brooks
Hackeray
Mark Lemon
Punch
London
Brooks
Clouds and Rain Over Sicily Coast
The scene describes clouds racing overhead and sharp rain drops that feel like spray. A ship dips and rises near the pinkish coast of Sicily as open sea rain arrives with long waves.
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Sicily
L. H. Lawrence
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