Wandering Musings From a City's Nightlife Reflections
A stream of social notes and literary jottings from New York covering diaries, theater figures, travel gear for flyers, snuff use among stage hands and old writers, and glimpses of famous names like Faulkner Pirandello and Barrie. The piece blends personal observations with cultural shorthand and fleeting events across cafés, avenues, and embassies of literature.
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New York
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Mead Bill Would Save Airmail
The Mead bill seeks to move air mail rate authority to the Interstate Commerce Commission. It would allow the commission to set rates based on findings, reversing last year’s harmful temporary measures. The measure has presidential and cabinet support and passed the House unanimously.
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Georgia
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Princeton Professors Flunk Test Across Disciplines
A group of Princeton professors tested themselves on an intelligence quiz. None scored perfectly and most flunked. Each excelled only in their own field while struggling outside it. The piece contrasts specialist expertise with broader lay understanding and mentions tasks seen as simple to laymen or women.
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Too Many Cooks in Charge Confuses National Needs
A terse statement from William Leary, treasurer of the Port of New York Authority, critiques how optimism and oversimplification distort policy. He notes the nation’s needs are crowded by conflicting voices and insists for clearer direction.
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William Leary
Port of New York Authority
Do or do not you Want to live in this life
A rallying cry urging action against social injustice. The speaker laments broken justice, poverty, and neglect, contrasting heroic pasts with a decaying present. It calls readers to resist apathy, demand change, and take responsibility for their country and fellow citizens.
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Carrot
Stary
Princeton Test Critique From an Innocent Bystander
A writer lambasts a Princeton professors’ true false intelligence test as pedantic, impractical, and detached from real understanding. He compares it to medieval scholastic trivia and favors hands on, experiential learning over compartmentalized knowledge.
San Antonio Elections See Only One Candidate Per Office
A 1925 reminiscence notes that for the first time since 1837 only one candidate filed for each city office in San Antonio. Mayoral and commissioner filings included Mayor John W Tobin and board members Frank H Bushich Ray Lambert Paul Brett Fine Phil Wright, with Fiesta complaints over parade routes. Fontain Maury Maverick named managing editor of the Texas Journal.
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Phil Wright
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San Antonio
Texas Journailat
University of Texas
Maverick
Austin American
Tularemia and Its Risk to Handlers of Wild Rabbits
Medical note discusses tularemia origins, transmission by blood sucking insects, and risk to hunters and handlers of wild rabbits and rodents. Describes symptoms, the short acute phase, delayed recovery, and possible lymph gland involvement. Mentions experimental vaccines and immunity after infection, with historical context from 1935 King Franz Syn.
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Foot and style fetters in Marry Go Round by Helen Rowland
A humorous essay critiques male obsession with women’s appearance and behavior. It lampoons foot, stocking, and figure concerns, noting many men fear visible flaws and prefer quiet femininity. The piece argues that women with ideas threaten men more than attractive looks.
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