Deport Spies and Plotting Aliens Debated in Congress
President Roosevelt warns of a spy menace while Representative May and Senator Reynolds push anti spy measures. Calls for deportation of alien spies and tightening access to Panama Canal and military fortifications. Public debate frames foreigners as subversive threats amid war era tensions.
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Roosevelt
May
Georgia
House Military Committee
Thomas
New Jersey
Panama Canal
Military Committee
Senate
Wondring
Secretary of the Navy
Swanson
Reynolds
North Carolina
Congress
America
Predictions on Texas ad limits for dentists and candidates
A Texan weekly notes a new Texas law curbing dental adverts to professional cards only and forecasts a similar bill for political candidates. The author doubts public reception and predicts limited legislative impact, drawing a parallel to the dental advertising restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Hyeekly
Women Need Cooking and Sewing Skills, Not Relief Alone
Elsie Robinson laments poverty and hunger in America, arguing relief should teach women cooking and sewing while condemning a generation dependent on handouts. She recalls families in need, mothers unable to sew, and men unable to build, urging practical skills over aid-only solutions.
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America
Memory and city figures in a rambling stroll
A playful, fragmentary blend of celebrity names and cultural references. The author muses on memory like a colt being shod, imagines Norman Bel Geddes in turbans, and threads in Lois Long, Peter Arno, Lucien Lelong, Lily Pons, Jerome Kern, and others. The piece reads as a rapid, whimsical parade of personalities and city life with theatrical imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Norman-Bel Geddes
Ben Ali Haggin
Albert Fayson Terhune
Lois Long
Ant
Peter Arno
Francis Willams
Lucien Lelong
Lily Pons
Professor Quiz
Jack Whiting
Doug
Jerome Kern
Cobing Wright
Ann Groa
Vernor Ayres
Irent Hayes
Joan Crayford
Witte
Legion
Ed Wynn
Charles Hansaty
Prairie Fire
John L. Lewis
The Bowery Childs and a Dream of White Uniforms
The piece recalls the Childs eateries on the Bowery and their now vanished white uniform jugglers. It highlights Francis Alvertant, once a Chinatown boyhood resident turned Park Row copy boy, later a byline writer for the Evening Mail and a Madison Square Garden press event figure known for his cigars and puckish style.
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Hollywood
Francis Alvertant
Santa Ferras
Francis
Chinatown
Chick Conners
Prancia
Park Row
Evening ‘Mail
Grantland Rice
Rube Croidberg
Madison Square Garden
New York Society on the Edge of Old Aristocracy
In Manhattan the social order is shifting as the elite cling to form amid fading fortunes. Mrs Vine Cent Astor remains a central figure at grand dinners while younger set vie for influence, with many traditional aristocrats losing wealth but not social poise as curtains rise on a transformed social scene.
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Senate
House
Cnza
Manhattan
Stargold
Bbers
Messrs
Billingley
Kreind- Ter
Perons
Mya. AY
Trombley
Chris
Vien
R. Holmes
Vinecent Astor
Washington Square
Graham Phillips
Denis
McNaug
Mbers
Sould
Lear
Vergas
Brazil
Willie Troppe
Clinton Frank
Auguste Piccard
Maury Mavoick
Harry Hopkins
Bertrand Sneigh
Beckenia
Muntach
Maying
Gouls Adame
James Thurber
Rannie Hurat
Edna St. Vincet Milhy
Aomng
Presidant
Margaret Fishback
Sof
Burgess Meredith
Walh Disney
Dy Pranete
Paveiny Camitim
Featuras Syndleateny
Neurasthenia Explained as a Nervous Disorder
A historical overview defines neurastenia as a functional nervous system disorder. It notes exhaustion, irritability, memory loss, digestive issues, and weight loss across ages and social classes, with emphasis on overwork and emotional stress as common triggers.
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Chile
By Royal Copeland Diet and Health Guidance
By Royal Copeland emphasizes reforms in treatment focusing on rest and fresh air. It urges simple balanced diets with fruits vegetables cream butter eggs and milk and warns against patent medicines and sleeping powders. If needed a sedative may be prescribed by a doctor and medical advice should follow exact physician instructions.
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FeasSyot
Installation of officers by San Antonio Klwants club
The January luncheon at the Gantey hotel installed officers with Col. Herbert A. White as president, Werner N. Beckman as first vice president, and Col. 3. F. Crecelius as second vice president. Meanwhile Mayor G. M. Chambers received word from Rep. W. Frank James that a U.S. Air Corps diving school would be established here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
United States Air Corps
CG. M. Chambers
W. Frank James
Michigan
Wrole
Executive power and constitutional restraint across nations
A columnist analyzes moves to curb presidential power, citing Mexico's President Cardenas and Brazil's Vargas as examples. It argues strong legislatures help prevent dictatorship, praising early American checks and warning against concentrating authority amid economic pressures toward fascism.
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Congress
Laurie Cardenas
Mexico
Salvation path and Monroe Doctrine in potential South American upheaval
An analysis warns that European fascist influence and American allied dictatorships in about 20 South American countries could prompt a new question of relief and possibly revive the Monroe Doctrine. It discusses imperialist ventures, trade leverage, and the risk of a European territorial move triggering renewed U.S. intervention ideals.
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South America
Ant Tero
King Foxe
Names in the News Quiz From the Century Lost Page
A fragmented quiz tests recognition of famous figures. It lists stratosphere balloon researchers, papal counts, and public figures across politics film and literature, with options and partial attributions.
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Wanere
HS Reis Owe
Poni
Meares Eit
Hawa
Nelson Harding
Mana
Eunias
Elsie Robinson
Nouwse
Wacheaper
Velief
Ghia
Americen
Thals
King Feat
Syn
Bowery
Childs Places
Avenue Victorias
Royal
S. Copeland M. de
L. A. Light Files
Fort Sam Houston
Anjonie
Tomorcow
Jane Deeter
Cardenas
William Blake
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