Editorial: Advertising schemes and political cautions
A county wide pitch to publish business write ups in The Arrow is rejected as graft and wasteful. The editor warns against canned promotional material and notes advertisers and newspapers profit from such schemes while critics cry foul. The column also discusses Andy Mellon’s treasury tenure and political blame shifting amid weather musings and balloon science notes.
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Arrow
Washington
Treasury
Andy Mellon
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Mellon
Rural Temper, Tariffs, and Hope in a Slumping Season
A farmer shares a pragmatic view amid economic gloom noting town complaints and high tariffs. He argues people overreact to conditions, urges steady effort and optimism, and highlights youth unemployment as a key pain point alongside rural hardship and price pressures.
Plant Care Tips From a Gardener’s Field Notes
Marion Bruce shares practical plant care guidance focusing on preventing damage from insects with Destroy a lead arsenate Bordeaux mixture and tobacco nicotine preparations for aphids. She notes delphiniums calendulas asters are vulnerable and stresses early treatment and in-ground worm removal for cutworms and grubs.
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Marion Bruce
Wheat prices and tariff talk cross many papers
The clashing editorials note Russia can undercut via forced labor wheat and the U S harvests excess stock. Other pieces mock Mellon and push tariff revision as Congress nears the next session. This reflects broad trade doubts and protectionist rhetoric.
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Marshalltown
Boston Transcript
Mellon
T” Lury
Castada Times
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