Our Earth and Sun Compared to the Vast Cosmos
The piece emphasizes human smallness beside the sun at 98 million miles away and a Milky Way containing billions of suns. It notes Earth’s modest size and weight, mankind’s limited perspective, and eventual potential within the universe, contrasting a Bushman’s focus on ostrich with stock market preoccupations. The Milky Way’s scale and a 225 million year galactic orbit are highlighted, urging no despair about insignificance.
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Earth
Pike’s Peak
Scieive
Milky Way
Galactic Circle
New York
Letters From a Young Woman on Love and Duty in 1930s
A New York reader writes of wealth, social pressure, and a fear of missteps in love. She recalls past elopements avoided by fathers, a police romance, and a life later spent in Holland exile with a husband and two-year-old daughter. Copyright 1936 McNaught Lynd.
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Boorn
Holland
America
McNaught Lynd
Relief and corruption charges shake relief system in West Virginia
Senator Rush Holt derides federal relief administration in West Virginia as overtly political, alleging county bosses and committees control who gets aid. He cites inflated salaries and political use of relief funds, claiming engineers and other appointees funded by relief politics to sway outcomes. The Democratic senator argues the accusation targets New Deal politics and questions moral governance.
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United States
Rush D. Holt
West Virginia
Senate
Holt
Kanawha
Wells
American Liberty League
Joe Robinson
Yale
Sheep or Goats in Rural Resettlement Rejections
The Rural Resettlement Administration rejects families for city to country relocation on social criteria. Cases include foreign descent, preference for "highbrow" reading, a cross-eyed father, or dirty children. Critics deem the process arbitrary and unfair.
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Rural Resettlement Administration
RRA
Fergets
Washington
Lel
Man Becomes Visible Through Picture Display
The article notes how rendering a figure in the image makes the man more clearly seen. It discusses the visual prominence achieved by the framing and light, emphasizing the subject’s presence in the scene.
The Wine of Years and Youth's False Valuations
Elsie Robinson reflects on age and youth, arguing that society overrates youth and undervalues aging. She uses wine as a metaphor, describing youth as bubbles and age as mellow wine earned through experience, urgingAcceptance of growth beyond the broken myth of perpetual youth.
Diphtheria Immunization Urges Child Protection
A King Peas sponsored piece argues against diphtheria exposure, tracing the germ discovery in 1883 to Klebs and Loeffler and noting Van Hecke ting’s anti toxin. It promotes Schick testing and vaccination to prevent disease, citing New York declines in 1934 and urging parents to immunize before exposure.
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Royal $. Co
Klebs
Loeffler
van Hechting
Hete
New York
King Peas, Sym, Inc
Puzzling Phrases and Witty Sayings in Ssays
A quirky collection of aphorisms on marriage poker temper and judgment. The text riffs on gender relations and common foibles with humorous asides about honesty talk and losing interest. It reads like a light column of quick quips and social observations from a past era.
Elizabeth I as Queen Gloriana in a kingless age
The piece salutes Elizabeth I as England’s great queen shaping a global empire. It contrasts her with Catherine the Great and performative diplomacy, praising her independence, wit, and stubborn policy against religious zealots. The author views her reign as decisive for liberty and national survival.
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Elzabeth
Tor
England
Listoy
Bleeheth Tader
Henry
Egypt
Catherine the Great
Eligaveth
Matather
Catherine
France
Majestic theater planned for San Antonio
From the San Antonio Light files, March 7 1926 visiting Karl Hoblitzelle president Interstate Amusement Co announces a new Majestic theater to be built soon in San Antonio. March 7 1916 officers of the San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association are elected Frank A Winevich president B Ry Weir L F Birdsong vice presidents John I Clem Jr secretary BE H Labadlt treasurer. J F Klein reelected exalted ruler of the Elks here today.
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San Antonio
Karl Hoblitzelle
Interstate Amusement Company
Majestic
San Antonio Automobile Dealers’ Association
Frank A. Winevich
B. Ry Weir
L. F. Birdsong
John I. Clem Jr
H. Labadlt
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Derk
Tony
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Willian the Conqueror
Elizabeth II
Edward VIII
Duke of York
York
Glimbeth
Old
Elizabeth
Naribeth Palace
Gae
Invineite Patriotismanni Aran
Bess
Mary Stuart
Mary
Elizabeth of
Spain
Foaa
Syad,, Inc
J. F. Klein
The
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