Inland waterways drive rapid Illinois program push
Edward W Pickard reports a Mississippi Valley association convention in St Louis urged speeded up inland waterways projects with a five year completion target and $100 million annual spending. War Secretary Hurley backed swift progress. Hoover seeks enforcement of state laws against gangs, not expansion of federal crime powers. Floods and gales hit Europe and Asia, with numerous deaths, rail and telegraph disruption, and economic strain.
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Yeoger
Goen
Poe Death Mystery Explored By Biographers
A Wheeler Syndicate piece recounts Edgar Allan Poe’s final years and death in 1849. It details wife Virginia’s death, Poe’s drift into dissipation, rumored drugging and voting, and the debate over whether illness or intoxication caused his end, noting enduring mystery and misinterpretation by biographers.
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Poe
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Richmond
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Peet
Baltimore
Havre de Grace
Iltimore
Jetters
America
Wheeler Syndicate
Pig Returns Home From Far Across the Country
In Gatesville North Carolina T E Cross sold a large black pig to a steamboat captain. The pig was carved to Murfreesboro and a week later returned muddy from a town forty miles away. Cross refunded the captain’s money for the homing pig.
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America
Gatesville
N. G
T. E. Cross
Cross
Murfreesboro
Teacher’s remark sparks question over honorable mention
In a school cleanup and campaign composition contest, a teacher explains how judges awarded an honorable mention to a boy. After a pause, one student asks if the boy gets to keep the honor, highlighting notions of prize ownership.
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Indianapolis News
Snowbound Christmas Show Delights Western Train Car
In a 1930 Western Newspaper Union story, travelers stranded by a blizzard on a day coach await a snowplow from Jackson. Bozo Boswell and Glim entertain with jokes and dialect sketches while Miss Hall performs a fairy tale. Passengers share sandwiches and cocoa as a makeshift Christmas party unfolds aboard.
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Seamus McManus
Detroit
Miss Mall
Mann
Yulou
Fhe Spangled Tree in Folger McKinsey’s Baltimore Poem
A nostalgic verse describes a mythical spangled tree seen at Christmas. The speaker recalls fairy land lore, December magic, and a hall decorated with moon and sun, candles and cake. The poem celebrates winter joy and living among festive, childlike wonder.
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