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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1931
Page
3
Topics of Today reports President Hoover urging easier credit and a down payment plan to expand home ownership, comparing mortgages to purchases like radios and cars. He cites home loan discount bank ideas and notes that aspiration must be backed by saving and work. He also reflects on personal experience building a family home from savings.
Andre Maurois writes that despite language divergence America and England share Anglo-Saxon roots but are diverging slowly. He notes American youth adopt English habits of mind while language evolves independently. Douglass Woodruff’s Plato’s American Republic highlights the American craze for leisure as England’s influence grows.
Nebraska state home for dependent children will open bids for plumbing and heat contracts on the dormitory project. The general building contract was awarded November twentieth.
A Nebraska newspaper item reports Union Pacific will not hire married women and will dismiss employed wives. the rule exempts current married staff. Other notes include telegraph typewriter service proposals, bar exam results, university medical school bed capacity, Madden dam work in Panama Canal Zone, and bids for state institution supplies.
A short promotional note suggests a better gift value with a fine watch or a diamond from Lockwood's jewelry. It also promotes De Luxe tinted enlargements of photographs as Christmas gifts, with samples available at Sidney Drug Co. located at the corner drug store.
The World Telegram argues Congress should raise the postal savings deposit limit from 2500 to 5000. It notes rapid growth in depositors from 466,401 to 762,172 and total deposits from 175,271,868 to 345,887,460 between 1930 and 1931, highlighting $527,130,130 in deposits by October 31 and a 2 percent interest rate. The piece applauds the system as safe and stabilizing, with bankers now backing it despite early opposition.
The New York Evening Post reports a tawdry affair involving Senator James E. Watson of Indiana and Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania. During the 1929 sugar tariff debate Davis, then labor secretary, and Watson profited on paper from stock in Dahlberg Cane Sugar, without cash payment or interest, notes cancelable at Dahlberg’s will. Watson defends the arrangement as nonprofitable and Davis calls it ethical.
A reader complains about a senator who donated profits to charity calling the scene disgusting and lamenting the senate’s decline in ethics and behavior. The remark condemns the apparent generosity as improper.
Fragmentary reading notes indicate public esteem regards daily government actions as a real threat to the item’s standing. The text reflects concern over how routine governance affects perception and legitimacy.
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