Honest friendship and reforms in Hearst papers program
The document outlines a Hearst papers platform advocating universal two senators per state, abolition of the electoral college, direct national election of president and VP, national defense under a single secretary, a national education secretary to curb illiteracy, a federal sales and excise tax replacing income tax, a five billion dollar public works loan, expansion into Nicaragua and Caribbean acquisitions, selective immigration and deportation, reform of the Volstead Act for some alcohol, a thirteen month year with four weeks per month, and a five or six hour workday to create jobs.
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Washington and
Jefferson
United States Senate
Sessions
Congress
Army
Navy
All United
Secretary of National Defense
Education
Nicaraguscana
English West Indies
United States
Steagall bill eyed to guarantee all federal bank deposits
Congress urged to pass the Steagall measure creating a 517 million dollar federal guarantee fund for Federal Reserve member banks. Funds arise from franchise taxes, bank surpluses, and a 200 million dollar assessment, with a three member presidentially appointed board to liquidate failed banks and pay depositors. State banks could join by contributing after meeting double assessment, pushing toward a unified national banking system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Steagall
Federal Reserve
House
Committee On Banking and Currency
Federal Reserve Banks
Treasury
Reserve System
Secretary of the Treasury
Currency
Senate
Reserve
Federal Reserve System
United States
Government urges work back on the job amid rail loan support
The text argues for returning the unemployed to self supporting work, criticizing ineffective measures and praising a $27.5 million Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan to Pennsylvania Railroad for electrification between New York and Washington as socially useful. It calls for private employers to add payrolls and avoids bailing out bankers.
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Hearst
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Washington
Gilgamesh tablet found by Field Museum searchers
The Field Museum in Chicago reports Mesopotamian expeditions recovered a thousand year old tablet with fifty missing lines of the epic featuring Gilgamesh. The famous ruler reportedly reigned 126 years in early Babylonia and traveled widely during his life. He allegedly met Noah on a long journey and learned of the Flood, shaping Babylonia’s oldest adventure tale.
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Chicago
Field Museum
Mesopotamia
Babylonia
Noah
Priam
Alory
Listen World! A temperance letter on prohibition and drink
A reader letter by Mary F. Hoo argues prohibition created a hidden liquor trade and private purchases. She recalls pre prohibition norms, notes advice for legalizing and taxing alcohol, and urges public pricing and open sale to curb vice. The piece reflects wartime era temperance debates and personal tragedy from alcohol restrictions.
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Miss Robinson
Nover
Aquor
Mary F. Hoo
Ty King Pann
Xyn Tne
New York Notes on Sleepy Streets and Bright Characters
A dated vignettes collection in New York fashion, wandering thoughts on people and places. Mentions Ann Pennington and Cyril Hume, references to Ed Wynn and George McManus, and snapshots of Broadway life, street scenes, and passing chatter across FF streets and cab rides.
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New York
Ozark Tea Room
Ann Pennington
Arthur Klein
Cyril Hume
Ed Wynn
Jack Pulaski
Havre
Peggy Joyce
Barry Emerson Fosdick
Buffalo
N. Y
Faovy
George McManus
Tony Biddie
Kathleen
Richard Dix
Milton Sills
Robert Milton
Broadway Tabernacle
Callars
Cunard
Lenny Bergman
Walter Dean Goldbeck
Dan Gayre Grosbeck
Tsiam
Tony Wons
Fortyninth Street
Fifteenth Avenue
Marry-Go-Round By Helen Rowland
The Ingenious Female argues against the stereotype that women lack creativity and originality. It challenges the notion that no woman has written painted or invented anything original or immortal and that men have always done better.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Rowland
Call for Leadership In Finance and Society by Forbes
The piece argues bankers and financiers failed to lead during the 1928 29 boom and collapse. It credits government action and the Federal Reserve prosperity committees with stabilizing banks railroads and workers, while advocating decisive leadership and female empowerment as needed to avert chaos.
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B. C. Forbes
Napoleon
America
J. P. Morgan
Yesteryear
Federal Reserve Bank
Continent 2
Federal Reserve
Eight stat sneckiies seized in raid by deputy sheriff
A squad led by Deputy Sheriff Charles Pelere Jato confiscated eight stat sneckiies in a raid yesterday afternoon. Also noted a temporary restraining order suspending the city dimmey ordinance was granted by Judge R. B. Minor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stat Sneckiies
Charles Pelere Jato
R. B. Minor
E. A. DuBore
San Antonio Cottons Mills Company
Lone Star Cotton Bills
Fragmentary note on ko hack and back to the Botel
A garbled message describes using a ko hack when low, returning to the Botel, and mentions an amount of 25 dollars. The text reads as a casual, possibly encoded note with unclear intent and several misspellings. The distinctive terms are ko hack and Botel with a $25 reference.
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THE
Hearst Papers Advocate
Elsie Robinson
Wills FP
Sweatman
the Lambs
Willis
Wills
New Haven Hd
Halycon
Hoey and Evans
Hoss Evans
Roscoe Peacock
Hin
Evens
Eighth Avenue
Gaztr's
Chinatown
West Forty First
Trees
Cuba
Conyrent
Ross
Cyclone-Cellara
Renhevr
Madame Curle
George Elot
All & Woman
Tndala
Nimer
Aman
Courac
Coppell Ton KY King Kaew Ryn
Tor
San Antonio
Albert von Hoffman
John Berry
Voula
War Department
Fort Bar Houston
Third Cavalry
Fourteenth Cavalry
Port Clark
France
Snslon Anil
Ines
Yrake’e Borgnin
Banesamab
Baygata Lagement
Axdra Dow
Tasenieck
Jake
AM. Tate
Chip
Tale
AL Anthony
Martha
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