The Cosmic Clock and Man’s Place in Progress
Physicists and astronomers say millions of years prepared earth for life while geology notes a further million before humans. The essay traces from chipped stone to written law, art, and science, the slow mechanical progress to a modern machine age, and asks how mankind should share the fruits of conquest. It warns of modern destructive excess and frames a new cosmic problem: the relation of man to distribution of wealth and resources.
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Lester F. Ward
Ward
Killing Little Babies and an Enduring Debt Trap
A harsh critique links urban tenement suffering to landlord greed and calls for housing justice. It contrasts harsh methods of killing with the slow harm of poverty and overcrowding while warning that denying justice to the poor fuels political danger and debt concerns.
Vote Today for Bonds and Tax Levy for Schools
Readers are urged to vote in the school election stressing bonds and the tax levy for better schools and growth needs. Call Elliott 4160 to confirm polling places and participation guidance.
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Elliott
Wanted Wife For Home And Good Wages In Illinois Town
A notice seeks a neat respectable white woman aged 26 to 40 with no children to cook and serve in a central Illinois city of 2,500. The home is new with modern labor saving devices. no washing, social privileges provided. Apply Z 79 care Pantagraph Bloomington Ill.
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Illinois
Care Pantagraph
Bloomington
Ill
Notable deaths on July 23 through history
The article recalls events tied to July 23 including the 1794 execution of Alexander Beauharnais and his earlier role as French Assembly president and reformer, his wife Josephine's imprisonment, and his later military and political career. It also notes Ulysses S. Grant's death on July 23, 1885 at Mount McGregor, New York.
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Bagdad
Tamerlane
Alexander Beauharnais
Unter Rochambeau
Beauharnais
Altho
National Assembly of
France
Josephine
Napoleon
Assembly
Rhine
Ulysses S. Grant
Mount McGregor
Saratoga
N. Y
The Light That Never Dims by Rev Charles Stelzle
A religious reflection compares mid day fireflies to God presence. The author argues God is always near yet unseen in prosperity. darkness reveals God as light and knowing Him leads to love and to a life free of darkness.
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Gardening tips on beans and seasonal flowers
The old gardener advises inspecting bean plants for brown spots signaling anthracnose and pulling affected specimens. He notes spraying with Bordeaux mixture helps little and suggests planting beans into July. For flowers, he recommends quick-blooming annuals such as sweet alyssum calendulas candytuft baby's breath and marigolds along with cosmos dahlias and gladiolus bulbs for late-season color.
Unique blending of condiments with mental melodies at Wheelwright program
The Appleton Wisconsin Post notes that Mr. Wheelwright Jr planned an event blending palate pleasing condiments with mental melodies. Attendees enjoyed a distinctive fusion of taste and music, a rare entertainment approach for the community.
The One Thing Needful by Dr Frank Crane
Crane argues for open exchange and free circulation of people ideas and goods as the cure for social ills. He urges international mixing distribution of work and open air truth, condemning provincialism and excessive government control.
Williams Denies Influencing War Risk Building Purchase
John Skelton Williams told the Senate Banking Committee he did not induce the treasury to buy the Winston Construction Co. site for the war risk insurance building. He admitted steering the proposal to William G. McAdoo, then secretary of the treasury, but denied a personal influence. He accused Congressman McFadden of a cowardly attack.
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Washington
McFadden
Pennsylvania
John Skelton Williams
Treasury Department
Winston Construction Co
Willams
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Government buys site and contracts for buildings
He stated that no recommendations were made. Later the government purchased the site from the Winston company for 1,000,000 dollars and awarded contracts for two buildings totaling over 3,000,000 dollars, according to Williams.
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Winston Company
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