Sister Kenny Should Stay in United States to Help Paralysis Fight
The Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny, renowned for her infantile paralysis treatment, considers leaving the United States amid funding and professional hostility. The piece urges support, funding of the Sister Kenny Institute, and continued US-based work, arguing her methods are established, effective, and beneficial to American patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Kenny
United States
Sister Kenny
Canada
Kenny
Morris Fishbein
Journal
American Medical Association
Fishbein
Sister Kenny Institute
Minneapolis
Broadway Wit and World News: Patchwork of Gag Lines
A collage of playful jests and quips about politics and society appears, including Walter Winchell style asides, Broadway anecdotes, and editor’s missteps. It blends sly humor about FDR, Taft, and humorous misprints, with notices on performers like Sally Rand and Sally Bland, plus a note on respected columnists leaving the scene.
Faith as Food for the Soul in a Call to Help Children
A voiced appeal urges denying children basic needs while withholding faith. It argues that food and clothing alone do not sustain well being, insisting faith nourishes the soul, cures fear and hate, and heals the wounds left by hardship. The text frames faith as essential to self-respect and happiness for a child.
Black market in wartime shopping sparks traitor label
In a wartime column the author condemns black marketeers and their customers as traitors to the nation, arguing inflation and scarcity worsen the crisis. The piece cites nylon stockings, rail tickets, and gasoline as costly temptations fueled by illicit buyers and sellers, urging readers to reject such trade.
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Helen
Midas
Rowlandsh
Lien
Fean
Brad
The Child as the World’s Hope in Robinson’s Verse
By Elsie Robinson explores faith in youth as a remedy for world weariness. The poem urges belief in the child’s innocence to renew dreams, inspire noble rebellions, and carry on a divine pattern of living, warning that denying the child’s faith perishes dreams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clauty
Forgotten Virginia Patriot Mason Shaped Early American Rights
A tribute highlights George Mason 1725 1782 as Virginia progenitor of the Bill of Rights and the three power branches concept. Mason refused to sign the 1787 Constitution over slavery and state sovereignty concerns, warning against centralized power while noted as North America’s wealthiest man.
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Ohio
Virginia
United States
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
George Mazon
James Mon
the Lees
Patrick Henry
Randolphs
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Mason
America
George Mason
George Rothwell Brown
Hearst
Fairfax County
Brown
North America
Masonic figures and Mount Rushmore tribute debate
Benjamin DeCanterea notes as founders were wealthy capitalists and argues Mason deserves a Mount Rushmore head alongside Washington Jefferson and Lincoln. He critiques Roosevelt’s era and cites a 1892 Mason biography while accusing social reform aims of masking envy and demagogy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Careful Treatment Of Hand Infections Warned
A medical note from Dr. Nils L. Eckhoff emphasizes proper care for hand wounds to prevent serious infection and disability. It covers puncture wounds, tearing, subcuticular whitlows, and paronychia, outlining cautious cleansing, drainage when needed, and delaying tendon or nerve surgery until infection clears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nils L. Eckhoff
St London
Eckhott
King Peatures Syndicate, Inc
Those Texans By James Farber
Gall Borden, once Galveston port collector, pursued secret experiments on a land sea air machine named Sierraqueous. A test ride along the Moonlight beach drew a small crowd including Mayor John M. Allen. the craft briefly lurched to 3 or 4 miles an hour, spilling passengers but causing no serious injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gall Borden
Galveston
Ike
Borden
John M. Allen
Gantral Balea
The
Telegraph
Dik
Gether
Washington gridlock over food subsidies fuels political theater
In Washington the senate fight over Mr Roosevelt’s food subsidies ends with no lives lost and a stalling strategy. Farm bloc leaders push extensions while administration allies claim the issue is used as a bargaining tactic. Vetoes and replays loom as lawmakers weigh the broader wage and price controls amid a campaign year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Benster Bankhead
O Tb
Providedlite
Congress
Philip Murray
Mr. Roosevelt
Ban Aled
House
Farm Bloc
OPA
Rocese
Bill ‘Austin
Wadsworth
Kine Features Byndlait, Inc
Soviet Russia plot to form new UN aligned republics
A San Antonio Light column laments Russia's postwar moves and lists a proposed partition of Soviet Russia into autonomous republics and satellite states. It questions U.S. and British responses, citing Teheran and Stalin while warning of shifting alliances and future peace conference dynamics. The piece also critiques Roosevelt's foreign policy and envisions candidates and blocs shaping a postwar order.
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Soviet Russia
Russia
England
Germany
United States
Latvian Ssr
Lithuania
United Nations
Wanda Vassilevska
Tito
Otto von Bismarck
Czechoslovakia
Chiang Kai-Shek
Great Britain
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
India
Uncle Sam
Congress
Tex Hheran
Stalin
Red Army
Hiller
Hitler
Lapham guarded after telephony kidnap threat in Boston dispatch
Boston dispatch reports Mrs. Raymond W. Lapham once Madge Jarral, a 1922 Plesty princess from San Antonio, under police guard after a mysterious phone call authorities deem an attempted kidnapping. Miss M. Breckenridge, Texas civic leader, dies at Fern Ridge residence northeast of the city.
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Arope
Texadi Pally
Mexico
Tafly
Ennélay
Iy Antonios Drug
Catnigr
San Antonio
Texas
Boston
Raymond W. Lapham
Madge Jarral
M. Blemner Brackenridge
Mt Fer
Fern Ridge
Brackenridge
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Sally Bland
Sally Rand
Miss Bland
New York World-Telly
Heywood Broun
Bagh Johson
Raymund Clapper
Carl Brisson
John Barrymore
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Toy
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Broadway Mirror, Inc
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Mr. B
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Hay
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Colyum
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Waller
H. K
Elsie Robinson
By Benjamin DeCanterea
Dr. H.N
James Farber
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Messtime Commission
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