No Times Are Safe When Control Is Lost at Speed of Life
A columnist opines that air travel and driving risk life when control is lost, praising editor Frank R. Creglow’s death and noting shifts in sports and politics. It recalls Wayne Wheeler’s Prohibition work, cautions about worry, and surveys Iowa corn forecasts vs South Dakota, Indiana scandal, and local notes on roads, rates, and youth clubs.
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South, Dakota
Iowa
South Dakota
Indiana
K’s
McCray
Jackson
Stephenson
West Point of the air aviation academy proposal and other notes
Senator Walsh plans to push a bill creating a United States aviation academy equal to West Point and Annapolis. The piece also critiques canal development, immigration, hydrophobia cures, cleanliness as health, school hours, and science notes on matter and electricity, ending with translations of parchment manuscripts and views on early Christians.
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Senator Walsh
Massachusetts
West Point
United States Aviation Academy
Annapolis
Pompeii
B Picks Topicks By Thomas E Pickerill
Beyond the Alps lies Mussolini and humor about Ford. The column jokes on money, ambition, planes, dentists, and fame, linking witty quips to current affairs with a light satirical tone.
Hopi Rain Prayer Earns Cheering Chief Title
A playful quip notes the Hopi Indians prayed for rain and received it, joking the chief deserves the nickname Sitting Go-Getter as a lighthearted reflection of a drought ending rainfall.
Compliment and Cold Promises in a Fragmented Talk
A disjointed fragment notes how patent medicines parade testimonials to inflate value. It mocks busy men who start many things but finish few and suggests sympathy and advice fail when a cold persists. The piece hints at rheumatism as a claimed outcome of such sensational claims.
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Rolfe
J. J. Bruce
J. H. Lighter
MW Reenie Sheree Nan
Little Rock
Frank R. Creglow
The
Herald
Kelly
Tony
Wayne B. Wheeler
Wheeler
Anti-Satoon League
Congress
Smith Brookhart
City of
Washington
Brookhart
Ford
Ilinois
Lowden
Dawes
American Legion
France
Humboldt Republican
Humboldt
Palo Alto County
Pocahontas County
Aultman- Taylor
Avery
W.S. DeWolf Farm
Pilot Creek Threshing Co
W.S. DeWolf
Pres
Jas. Anderson
Secy
Mistaken Farm
Hoover
Eemnps
Budapest
Pasteur
England
Africa
Will C. Wood
California
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Thomas E. Pickerill
Alps
Mussolini
the State Savings Bank
Robert Bruce
James Bruce
Jos. McEwen
B. Kent, Chm
W. S. McEwen
Rolfe, Iowa
James Bruce Jos. McEwen
R. J. Kent
Rolfe Auto Company
Ford Sales and Service
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