Hearst Papers Advocate on National Reforms and Proposals
A Hearst papers statement outlines reforms including abolition of the electoral college, direct presidential election by national popular vote, end of lame duck sessions, immediate installation of president and Congress after elections, a national defense secretary, literacy drive, full federal funding for jobs and public works, canal and colonial acquisitions, selective naturalization, deportation of undesirables, simplified citizenship, altered Volstead act for wine and beer, and a 13 month year with weekend holidays plus shorter work weeks.
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Washington and
Jefferson
United States
Ceuale
Vhe
Congress
Ammay
National Defense
Edestion
Nicaragua
Baker's Plan to Change Treaty Authority Sparks Debate
Ohio’s Newton D. Baker urges ratification of treaties by a majority in Congress and seeks constitutional amendment ending two thirds Senate requirement. The article argues this would entangle the U.S. in foreign conflicts and misalign with the founders. Baker is labeled un-American and a pacifist seeking war powers, while the Constitution remains fixed.
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Newton D. Baker
Ohio
United States
Europe
Asia
Africa
Philadelphia
Baker
Congress
Senate
Mr. Baker
Jennergbet
President's aim to lift living conditions through nationwide jobs and homes plan
A historic editorial criticizes the president for prioritizing housing and employment as a national movement. It questions the logic of solving unemployment by building better homes and urges practical action to provide work and shelter for Americans.
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Bulla
Parks
United States
Listen World Adventure in People Not Places
Elsie Robinson argues that drama and adventure lie in everyday people not exotic places. Anyone can find beauty, nobility, and thrilling moments by watching ordinary passers by and engaging with the human pulse around them.
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Elsie Robinson
Fon
King Fens
Stare and Stripes: Wit on Life and Social Struggles
A clipped prose piece riffs on enemies and friends, escape from paying bills, and the lure of success. It touches on pride, prudence, and the soldier’s longing to outlive hardship while noting wary social climbing and chances at luck.
Remembering Early San Antonio Detectives and Their Struggles
A reminiscence recalls 1908 1805 San Antonio police detectives who rode boggles and earned 85 dollars per month for 12 to 14 hour shifts. They furnished their own huts fed horses and faced thefts and porch climbers as the era’s main crimes. One partner Bill Green, now deceased, is mentioned among the old force.
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San Antonoi
Bill Green
Dear Miss de Peyster Letter on manners and marital etiquette
A reader letter cites springtime romance myths and questions about clergy address, tea etiquette, child address forms, and signature practices. The columnist Mary Smith Johnson answers on signoffs the Reverend Brown and marital signatures, urging correct forms and polite manners in daily life.
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Miss de Peyster
Youre
Mia
Jelmuon
Mire
Henry Stina Jahnann
Mary Smith Johnson
Mira
Henry Johnson
Johu Brown
Reverend Brown
Doctor
Broadway's three sections show New York City contrasts
A reflective tour of Manhattan's Broadway describes three sections from Battery to Riverdale, noting Upper Broadway's mixed life of apartments and shops, midtown clubbing, and its dusk deco ration. It recalls personalities like Joseph Urban and John McCormack, and closes with a personal musing on yachting and a casual postscript.
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New York
Broadway
Sea Level
Battery
Riverdale
Twenty-third Street
Seventy-second
Great White Way
Upper Broadway
Notion
Suburbia
Tipper Broadway
Rialto
Liberty
Tower Broadway
Jonking
No Man's Land
Poverty and Tuberculosis by Royal S Copeland
Editorial urges economic improvements and adequate food, shelter, and living standards to curb tuberculosis. It links crowded housing, poverty, and malnutrition to spread and argues for government action to fund nutrition and housing so all Americans can combat the disease.
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Royal S. Copeland
America
Bisty
10 and 20 Years Ago From The San Antonio Light
A San Antonio Light clipping recalls a 1922 telegram about two Turkish mail letters with Russian stamps paid at the post office, plus a report on Julius H. Holmpreen hosting a “howe warming” at his new home and a large production titled Teas Under Six Things staged by Professor and Mrs. Z. I. Trill featuring 180 cast members, including a queenly appearance by Queen Jilin.
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L. Baylin
Bandees Avenue
Julius H. Holmpreen
Alamo Iron Work
ATRL
Phyen Tsat
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Harding
Tee
Hearst Papers
League of Nations
Asvantiires
DR. Jexyell
Amen
Leeven
Tnler
Hallser
Wil
Nuccesa
Frank Matthews
Helen Rowland
By Kathryn DE Peyster
Tual Row
Shaw
Eugene O'Neill
Lnril
Don Juan
Reverend Green
John ‘Brown
H. W. Green
Jessie
Witch Fort
Shix
Aun
de, Brown
Mrs. Brown
Jimmy
Murray HU
Joseph Urban
Urban
Atlantic
Austin
Sae
John McCormack
Bohemian Club
Candomia
Quartette
McCormack
Pat Rooney
Hs Father
Marion Brent
Grand Central
Versailles
Hudson
Hell Gate
Miss Benkheld
San Antonio
Lary Sulin
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