What Good Literature Owes Moving Pictures
Moving pictures awaken appreciation for good literature by vanquishing awe and showing that literary works contain flesh and blood characters. The screen clarifies ideas from Sabatini Ibanez and Hugo, revealing tangible thoughts and likenesses of ourselves, and invites audiences to explore the gardens of merit. The theater breaks down barriers surrounding fertile literary works.
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Sabatini
Ibanez
Hugo
Father as active parent not a star boarder in home
The piece argues fathers neglect duties toward children, urging active involvement beyond providing luxuries. It warns against leaving childrearing to mothers and stresses the father should become the son’s guide and a true partner, not a distant boarder.
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Iits
Junior
San Antonio Urges Fund Drive for Crippled Children Hospital
San Antonio appeals for funds to build a hospital for crippled children to restore health or relieve pain. Citizens are urged to see the city’s greatness by aiding humanitarian causes, with past drives showing strong local responses to help others.
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San Antonio
Antonio
Careless Joy Riders Endanger Lives on City Streets
A lurid stern warning notes the dangers of speeding, drunken driving, and illegal liquor. It recalls auto crashes, frightened bystanders, and the lifelike threat to families at railroad crossings, wet roads, and reckless drivers who may finally wreck themselves and others.
Rich Men On Exhibition
A satirical critique of income tax lists and wealthy individuals. The piece lampoons Rockefeller and others for wealth, questions public wealth visibility, privacy, and government intrusion, and imagines a society where honesty and liberty are measured in fractions and decimals. It ends by noting Gabriel trading his trumpet for an adding machine.
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Rockefeller
Gabriel
Twilight on the Sea Shore News Glory
Folly Derch of Sea shore News writes a bucolic scene describing twilight along the Atlantic coast. The piece paints the fading sun, purple and gold skies, and moonlit waves in a quiet reflective mood without reporting a specific event.
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Atlantic
8. C
Seashore News
Value of mental baths by W A McKeever
A guide urging parents and teachers to use a daily morning bath routine to boost mental clarity. It describes warm to cool water dashing, thorough massage, and light breakfast to stimulate blood flow to the brain, claiming improved alertness and mood. It compares effects to mental stimulation and warns of poor diet and sleep harming a bright child.
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Rubdown
Serid
Ye Towne Gossip The Sun Hidden Behind Gray Clouds
In a damp autumn moment the narrator endures a flat tire and waited in a gloomy room where a caged bird sings. The bird’s gold throat thrills the space, recalling sunlit outdoors and distant streams as the man descends to vote, and the speaker feels alive despite the delay.
Figures of Speech on the blue blood conceit
The piece explains blue blood as aristocratic boast of pure Spanish ancestry and blue veins, tracing the idea to Spain and contrasting it with mixed ancestry. It notes blue as a revered color symbolizing eternity and immortality, with “true blue” meaning faithful and dependable.
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Mue
King Feature Syn
Proper Eye Care By Royal S Copeland M D
Royal S Copeland M D United States Senator from New York discusses eye trauma first aid. He cautions against amateur removal of foreign bodies in the eye and advises seeking a doctor or physician for safe removal. He outlines steps when a physician is unavailable and emphasizes eye protection.
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Royal S. Copeland
United States
New York
New York City
Prince of Wales
Aegly
Methos
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Prison Broadcast Critique By Brano Lessing
A reader argues against using prison inmates for public radio shows noting such broadcasts exploit criminals and neither reform nor deter crime. The piece criticizes leniency and influence of appearance on justice, urging serious treatment over entertaining the guilty.
Wayside Wisdom on a Pitying Tale of a Mother
A 1924 King Feature Syndicate poem chronicles a poor woman with seven children, reflecting on her past romance, social decline, and enduring hardship. The speaker notes her faded beauty, nightly hopes, and the man’s neglectful behavior as she endures mounting misfortune.
Some Sap and Salt by Bert Moses
Fashion favors dies more than children. Juttle neglects cause great calamities. What is easier than finding something to quarrel about while others grow scared by it. Copy Part, 1924, Premier Syndicate, Ina.
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Bert Moses
Premier Syndicate
Ina
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King Feature Syn. Inc
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