Diary Notes From New York Party Scene and Pop Culture
A lively, mosaic diary recounts social chatter in New York and Long Island. Figures like Faith Baldwin, Raoul Whitfield, Elaie Arden, and Walter Trumpus appear among book gifts, theater chat, and humorous asides about artists and writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Faith Baldwin Abe
Alice Lambert
Brooklyn
Boston
Emily Vanderbilt
Raoul Whitfield
Elaie Arden
Bubs
Trina Goldberg
Great Neck
Arthur Hammerstein
Gene
Helen Buck
Bar! Anthony
John &. Medburys
May Allison Quirk
Leon Gordons
Shanghai
Out of the Mouths of Babes survey insights
A university survey of 370 American children aged 10 to 15 reveals mixed views on military strength and peace. Half oppose US leadership in arms reduction, one third value army uniforms, and many misdefine the Kellogg pact as breakfast. The piece notes children fared as well as researchers overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melcy
Barnard
West
United States
Kansas beer repeal miracle hinted as 3.2 law challenges dry power
A Kansas reform wave questions prohibition after federal approval of 3.2 beer, with Governor Landon hinting at a possible special session to address beer and whiskey issues. The Kansas Supreme Court leaves intoxication questions to judges or juries, signaling a potential shift in a fifty year dry era and prompting speculation about a repeal referendum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
Landon
Commonwealth
Carrie Nation
Wings of Mercy Dispatches From California Rescue Flight
A reporter describes an airplane ambulance mission to Los Algelos aiding a pool manager who broke his hip. In the Aleutians a four year old on Kodiak Island survived after a radio doctor directed care then a rescue flight to Anchorage despite a storm. The tale highlights early Arctic air medical rescues and remote patient care by radio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Corning
Los Algelos
Kodiak Island
Aleutian
Chian
Kodiak
Seattle
Anchorage
Alaska
Pilow Warey Blunt
Plage Ser
Marcy Arctic
Ayer
Listen World Listen Nira A New Cry For America
Elsie Robinson argues the word NIRA has become a national rallying cry linking workers and families. She frames it as a universal creed calling shared sacrifice, fair rules, and practical daily daily life under the New Deal recovery plan. The piece urges readers to embrace NIRA as a living, fighting motto for America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nira
National Industrial Recovery Administration
Jouder
America
Natal
Ubeery
Ntra
Earth
Paradise
10 and 20 Years Ago From the San Antonio Light
San Antonio area farmers report trouble planting this year due to army worms per F C Gembier of Route H outside the city. Also noted is a local Houston Street project progress and a 1914 Carnegie Library staff change with a planned Fredericksburg branch by Z Oppenheimer and company grocers and liquor dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
San Antonio
Bexar County
F.C. Gembier
Kate Devine
Carnegie
2. Oppenheimer and Company
Whaleenin Grocer
Predertekaburg
Hiameas
Tallond 4A
Alfalfa Bill Murray and Citroen Rise in Wartime Fame
A profile contrasts Oklahoma’s Alfalfa Bill Murray with ex governor and reformer ideals, recounting his boisterousFight era, hunting for fish ponds and sarcastic exchanges with fisheries officials. It then shifts to Andre Citroën, France’s industrial visionary, praised as Henry Ford’s American-minded ally who built a vast automobile network after World War I and elevated Citroën to national symbol status on Paris’s Eiffel Tower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles N. Haskell
Oklahoma
Homen
Haskell
Indian ‘Territory
Were
William Henry Murray
Murray
Bull Murray
United States Bureau At Fisheries
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
O'Malley
Fisheries Bureau
United States
Alfalfa Bill
Allalfa Bil
Washington
Texas
Bolivia
Wall Street
France
Sam
Bihces
Paris
Eiffel Tower
Henry Ford
Andre Citroen
America
Heny Ford
Mr. Ford
M. Citroen
M. Citrocon
Ubal
Mademoiselle
Arementieres
Citroen
Bir
Fran Ryo
Tne
Denatured marriage a new era of split lives
A humorous byline piece by Helen Rowland ridicules efforts to reinvent marriage. It lists endless varieties from traditional to 50 50 and even death do us part, then mocks a proposed denatured brand where spouses live apart in separate homes yet correspond as partners. The tone lampoons distant, impractical arrangements.
Electrical shock risk from faulty home wiring warned
A dated note warns readers about deadly electrical shock from defective or poorly insulated household devices. It stresses moisture increases danger, urges dry hands before handling appliances, and calls for repair or replacement of old wiring and outlets to prevent fatal accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senda
American Society of Safely Engineers
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Sveire
Tam
Highth Avenue
Mary DeBerk
Hilly
Canors
James Montgomery
Flagg
Jett Machamer
Jim Fingg
Atoop
Fourth Estate
Walter Trumbus
Jack London
Thingurme
Peter Arno Wually
Army
Mencken Wan Tiet
Arthur Qailer Couch
Mary Brown Warburton
Bud Keland
Ben Finney
Charlie McAdam
Dick Hyland
Adela Hogera
St. John's
Boon
James Gordon Bennett
W. R. Hester Jr
Sealyham
Neal Coward
George M. Cohan
George
Coban
McNaught Syndicate
Wings of Mercy
Elsie Robinson
Theattic
Houston
Iran
Edwin C. Hill
Chicago
Alfalfin Hill
Roosevelt
Crick
Alisha
Museum of
Helen Rowland
Crm
Somme
Weldonk
Royal
Copeland, M. PD
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