Outworn System of Local and County Government
President Roosevelt urged Dutchess County residents to back modernization of local state and county government. He framed the outdated system as ox cart era, calls for replacing unresponsive town and county boards and state legislators to cut the rising costs burdening Americans across all 48 states. Roosevelt promoted nonpartisan reform as a national duty.
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Roosevelt
Dutchess County
New York
United States
Air Transport Code Criticized by Pilots and Experts
The proposed air transport code is deemed unfair to American pilots and dangerous for travelers. Pilots argue wages are too low and monthly work hours too high, while industry defenders cite cost pressures from federal navigation aid curtailments. Dr Ralph Green warned that failure to revise could cost lives and dollars.
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National Recovery Administration
Air Transport Industry
Department of Commerce
Ralph Green
Florida
Auto-Medical Association
Green
Hearst
Roosevelt
Depariment of Commerce
Aeronaution
Air Broneport
Listen World Love Essay by Elsie Robinson
A reflective essay questions the ideal of love as a guaranteed 100 percent and explores how love is shaped by personal character and motives. It argues love is not separate from life but a product of our actions and virtues, and invites readers to examine why they love and what they seek in return.
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Hove
PRI
McNaught
BenAvalé
Ten and Twenty Years Ago from the San Antonio Light
The column recalls events from September 5, 1923 and 1913. Funeral services for Fred W. Cook, chairman of the San Antonio Drug Co., death in Chicago hospital, to be held at 222 King William Street. City commission approves equipment purchase for automatte traffic oysters on Commerce Street between Main and Alamo. A plan to restore Incharar Romana plaza to Westcatt place is adopted. The street-name issue stalls discarding historic names. In 1913 indignant residents meet at 207 Drexel to discuss securing a school for 200 school-leave children and planning a Bon Antonio wide collaboration from various groups.
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Fred W. Cook
San Antonio Drug Company
Chicago Hospital
King William Street
Commerce Street
Main
Alamo Plaias
Fhelly
Incharar Romana Plaza
Westcatt. Place
Civers
Frasemere
Witte
Marlborough
Roosevelt
Drexel Avenue
State Liquor Control After Prohibition Repeal
James T Williams Jr argues repeal of the eighteenth amendment will end national prohibition. The twenty first amendment will likely be ratified this year with 36 states needed to repeal. States must prepare liquor control machinery within about four months, but only 10 states study plans while 38 delay. Federal role post repeal narrows to importing liquor restrictions, with Roosevelt urged to lead readiness to prevent return of liquor traffic.
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Union
Washington i
Massachusetts
New York
Connecticut
Delaware
Michigan
New Jersey
Ohio
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Missouri
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Etiquette guidance on sympathy calls after a funeral
In a reader’s question from two office girls, etiquette expert Kathryn de Peyster advises against informal home calls to the deceased’s home before a funeral and says sending flowers with a card was sufficient. She addresses questions about wedding guest greeting and whether the groom should face guests, noting the clergyman leads the ceremony and the couple then receives guests.
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Miss de Peystees
The Hospital Ward and a Tale of Actors
A San Antonio date opens the piece then shifts to New York hospital wards showing a little girl in a ward on the verge of walking when told she may never walk. The writer recalls encounters with Edna May Oliver Olga Nethersole and anecdotes from stage life and a drugstore window decline.
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New York
Edna May Oliver
George Arliss
Dida
Mrs. Fiske
Dayton
Ohio
Arliss
Punch
Marry Go Round by Helen Rowland
A satirical piece on male charm and female labor in romance. It contrasts men’s reliance on women, flirtations, and standards of beauty with social views on marriage, widowers, and a matron’s readiness. The essay notes how judgments hinge on appearance and life stage rather than character.
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Helen Rowland
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Hatlo
District of Columbia
Duchess County
the Union
Elsie Robinson
San Antonio
Bon Antonio
James T. Williams JR
Etiquette
Kathryn DE Peyster
San'antonio
Olga Nethersole
Hil-Biles
Bert
Chester
Boulty
Arthur Somers Roche
Roche
Tate
Madison Avenue
Mother Eye
Inve
Mme
Swlangagore
Gak
Sue
Elvi
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