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Newspaper
Sioux City Register
Location
Sioux City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1924
Page
4
New York state revenue authorities padlocked the city’s top nightclubs for a year claiming Volstead act violations. Patrons sought open yards and rooftops as other venues stay hidden, while memories of open states linger amid alleyway chatter and a casual talk about bootleggers and banks.
A compact reflection opening with scripture Job 22:1 and Shakespeare touching on choosing a good name over riches and the value of loving favor over gold. The fragment presents a moral tone and literary allusion without a clear news event or person.
A Prussian Geographical Institute expert foresees major gold mines worldwide closing in 30 to 40 years as profitability wanes and new finds dwindle. The piece explores gold as a scarce monetary symbol and contemplates a future shift to a scientifically based money system linked to human energy or labor.
A Georgia woman, Marion Colley, changes her half vote at the democratic convention, defeating the klan plank and shifting the party’s fate. The episode highlights gender roles and the rare moment a lone decision altered party history.
Marguerite Clark, former screen star and rival to Mary Pickford, writes that true happiness came when she left cinema life, married Harry P Williams in Louisiana, and settled to raise chickens dogs and flowers. She notes that happiness for a woman centers on motherhood and family, beyond pets and gardens.
The piece notes fifty years since John Heyl Vincent started the Chautauqua at Chautauqua New York and celebrates its expansion into a national network with speakers musicians and educators. It lauds the movement as a remarkable civilizational effort and highlights Sioux City’s Morning Side as poised for another event in 1925 The Register expresses pleasure at this upcoming installment.
The English, hit by wartime selling, owned about 20 billion in investments and shed a quarter of them. In a year they recovered 2 billion, and at the same pace another year and a half would restore much of their hold on foreign property. The wartime economic shift echoes in postwar healing.
In a dialog reflectively joking about Charles Lickman’s health regime the pair debate longevity and dieting. Abe Potash and Morris Perlmutter quiz how thin living might please life insurance firms while noting Lickman’s extreme avoidance of tea coffee pork and cigars.
Morris and Abe mock a life insurance doctor who judges health by corporate interests. They joke about doctors funded by packers and tobacco firms offering prescribed regimes from premium incentives, including cigars and meat diets, while lampooning the clash of industries and dubious medical advice.
In a sharp exchange, Morris mocks life insurance actuaries for pushing statistics about coffee use and death risk. He suggests the Coffee Roasters' association should publish data to counteract such claims, joking that coffee hounds may soon drink in restaurants from a thermos. Abe defends insurers’ aim to secure peace of mind through cover.
A compact meditation on winners and failures, citing Cecil Rhodes and Frank Munsey. The author asserts success comes from a winning mindset and bold actions, not immunity to failure, and recalls Grant’s tomb memory to stress inner resolve. People are winners in their hearts first.
A compact review notes how a weekend storm crowded the democratic convention from front pages, muting publicity for some candidates while helping secretive operators. It discusses independent and insurgent trends within GOP and Democratic camps, and the friction with regular party machinery. The piece hints at July regional meetings and the evolving role of publicity in elections.
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