National Topics Interpreted by William Brackett
William Brackett analyzes Roosevelt's devalued dollar plan, arguing it shifts prices upward without extra wages, boosting farmers while hurting urban buyers. He explains the gold basis, treasury control, stabilization fund, and potential centralization of monetary power in Washington, warning of political risks and market effects.
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Washington
Congress
National
Roosevelt
America
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Federal Reserve System
Woodrow Wilson
Central Bank
Western
Union
Buster Bear and the Beech Nut Picnic
In a tale about October forest nuts, Buster Bear’s greed ruins a beech nut picnic. Animals gather for a share but his demand for all nuts leads to chases and empty hands while Peter Rabbit watches and laughter hints at a moral: greed robs everyone of plenty.
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Buster Bear
Buster
Lightfoot
Gobbler
Gobblers
Mrs. Grouse
Sammy Jay
Redhead
Chatterer
Red Squirrel
Happy Jack
Billy
Mrs. Possum
Peter Rabbit
Big Buster Bear
Hawthorne sketch relays grim Puritan life in old New England
The excerpt presents Nathaniel Hawthorne’s sketches of life in colonial New England with vivid scenes of condemned prisoners and the gallows at Gallows Hill. It contrasts modern optimism with harsher past depictions, urging readers to study the era through his narrative lens.
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Dorothy Talby
Prison Lane
New England
Nathanel Hawthorne
Old New England
John Proctor
Elizabeth
Gallows Hill
Witty Kitty by Nina Wilcox Putnam
A comic column notes that a wife used to tell her husband all events but now confides in him about things that never occurred. The piece carries typical light domestic humor from a Bell Syndicate service.
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Kitty
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Thursday Lecture Ends With Public Punishment Scene
The Good Old Days lecture described as a day of public shame shows a constable binding an idle man to the whipping post to receive corporal punishment. Since sunrise Daniel Airfield has stood on the steps of the building, witnessing the scene and the local Puritan era enforcement.
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Daniel Airfield
Ashtray Ensemble Sparks Curio Fashion Pick
A witty description praises a periwinkle blue ribbed crepe dinner ensemble named Ashtray. Its standout feature is oversized detachable buttons that double as ashtrays, boosting potential popularity for the wearer.
The Silvery Years And The Moon Of Our Love
A reflective poem about aging and love with imagery of silver hair and a silver moon. Includes a satiric quip from Irene about women and silence and notes a Pennsylvania sect that painted doors blue to signal marriageable daughters nearby.
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Pennsylvania
Do You Know Tyres of Daily Living in Hawthorne Sketches
A reflective piece on Hawthorne inspired sketches about daily living, noting Puritans’ harsh world and contrasting with past times. The author argues that past eras, despite glamor, offered fewer comforts for women, and appreciates present emancipation for all women, questioning a swap for any earlier era.
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Hawthorne
Bell “Syndicate
WNU
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William Brackett
By Thornton W. Burgess
W. Burgess
WNN Service
Benjamin Franklin
Heaven
John Smith
By Anne Campbell
Irene
Bel! Syndicate
Mabelle Petit
Boston
Center
Doris Pritchard
Marjorie Brooker
Mabelle
Beach Cabana Club
Miami Beach
Fla
Texas and Pacific
Wort Worth
Texarkana
Texas
Britain
Great Western Railway
Reading
Slough
Burlington Zephyr
Numa
Wnou Service
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