Budget Strain Sparks Senate Budget Debate Led by Byrd
The Senate debated relief and the budget with Democrat Byrd of Virginia challenging spending increases. He highlighted a projected July 1 to June 30 fiscal year where ordinary and relief outlays would rise by about 600 million dollars, arguing deficits persist despite rising taxes and improving conditions.
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Eugene G. Grace
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Touch Wood Phrase and its Superstitious Origins
The article discusses the saying touch wood as a superstition, proposing it originated from touch wood or touch rood. It cites Cromwellian era changes and safety concerns as explanations for the shift from rood to wood, noting varied logical theories without a singular consensus.
Government purchases 1276 acres north of Sacramento for army camp
Col Grayson V Heidt in Sacramento finalizing technical details for the U S government purchase of 1276 acres at Ben Ali near Sacramento. Site of the army's new camp is expected to start during the near term.
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Sacramento
U. S
Ben Ali
Heiress Receives $150000 From Bonding Company
Ann Cooper Hewitt, San Francisco heiress, receives a check of about $150000 from the firm that bonded her mother as guardian of Ann's share in her late father's estate valued at $10 million. Meanwhile the mayhem trial of Drs. Tilton E. Tillman and Samuel for sterilizing a person is postponed until August 8, with the settlement not affecting the criminal case.
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Adder Haunts Inn Room. Hunter Ends Ghost Tale
In June 1930 Aurelius Menegus stayed in a haunted attic room of a San Vito inn with five white rats. A venomous Alpine adder lurked in the floor ventilator. the landlord killed the snake with a shotgun, the rats feasted, and the ghost legend was laid to rest.
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Giovanni Fioriani
Bridger's Yellowstone Tale Emerges From Remote Wyoming Woods
A solitary trapper in the early 1800s treks through a northern Indian country near the Teton range in Wyoming and discovers a valley where steam and boiling waters rise. Jim Bridger returns to tell of a wonderland beyond any prior dreams, earning a legendary reputation as an explorer and inventor.
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Platforms and personalities clash in a preconvention tone
Irvin S. Cobb surveys 1920s party platforms and leaders with irony, discussing Al Smith, Charles Mitchell, Hearst, Roosevelt, and the old guard. He critiques reform, reservation policies, and political theater while highlighting rural displacement and social change under varying administrations.
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Houston
al Smith
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Buddhist Legend in a Japanese Hot Spring Tale
An American narrator recalls a Japan trip tracing Buddhism’s spread from India to Korea and to Japan. He relays a myth of 53 monks who rest in a sacred tree beside a mammoth spring, as a dragon and hurricane intervene, leaving the tale open to belief.
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Weeney Spee
Earliest Mechanical Toy From Egypt Unearthed
The earliest known mechanical crematae are of Egyptian origin highlighting ancient automata.
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