Los Angeles Grows Beyond Its Movie Town Image
Boake Carter argues Los Angeles is becoming a mature, diverse city with strong industries beyond film. The piece highlights oil, seaport, clothing manufacturing, and a growing arts scene while defending the city’s values against outsiders’ Hollywood stereotypes. It notes Marion Davies charity work and a dramatic anecdote about an electrician saved by her intervention.
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Los Angeles
New York City
San Francisco
Hollywood
United States
Malibu Beach
Santa Barbara
Marion Davies
Miss Davies
Oregon’s Purge Shapes 1938 Senate Result and Tone
The piece reviews Rufus Holman’s Senate bid and Oregon’s political purge within the 1938 Democratic contests. It contrasts Clean Housers versus Machine-Oilers, notes Henry Hess’s primary win over Martin, and frames Oregon as a battleground for New Deal alignment versus conservative party building.
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New Jersey
Major Hague
New Deal
Ohio
Davey
Missouri
Pendergast Machine
Illinois
Kelley-Nash
Clean Housers
Machine-Oilers
Clean-Housers
Washington
Congress
Oregon
White House
Henry Hess
Martin
Nara Honeyman
Willis Mahoney
Notable figures and events in American history anniversaries
Anniversaries recount figures from Gilbert Stuart to Theodore Roosevelt and events from the founding of Oberlin to Rome’s flag lowering. Entries note births, deaths, and notable deeds across 1755 to 1917, including military leaders, scientists, and policy milestones.
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Oberlin Collegiate Institute
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rome
Theodore Roosevelt
van Pappen
Germany
Treasury
Birthday list of notable figures in 1900s Chicago area
Edward L Ryerson Jr of Chicago iron and steel maker and Chicago Council of Social Agencies director is 52. John Bassett Moore, Smyrna Delaware born legal authority is 78. Atwater Kent of Philadelphia radio inventor is 65. Dr Charles P Pabst of Brooklyn dermatologist is 51. George B Utley librarian at Newberry Library Chicago born Hartford Connecticut 62. New Yorker loves fine automobiles. Deetz Inc 728 W Broad St. TODAYS ANNIVERSARIES.
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Edward L. Ryerson, Jr
Chicago
Chicago Council of Social Agencies
John Bassett Moore
Smyrna
Del
A. Atwater Kent
Philadelphia
Burlington
Charles P. Pabst
Brooklyn
N. Y
George B. Utley
Newberry Library
Hartford
Conn
Smaller Industrial Units Fared Better in Hard Times
The piece cites Barton W. Murray noting medium and small industrial units outperformed large corporations during downturns. Smaller plants benefit from close supervision, flexible production, and direct customer contact, while big firms suffer from high overhead and remote decision making. Murray argues small firms can win by innovating and staying lean, potentially rising to join larger players.
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Barton W. Murray
NRA
Murray
Subalterns
Mr. Murray
Japan's Tojo says real war still to come
The article reports Lieutenant General Eiki Tojo, Japan's vice minister of war, warning that the real war is yet to come. He boasted of Japan’s ferocity in China as a curtain-raiser, while cautioning that America and Britain face a harsher future for insisting on old treaties and limited arms states.
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Japan
China
Eiki Tojo
Tokio
Soviet Russia
Russia
America
Great Britain
United States
Far East
Foresee A Brighter Christmas Trade Buoyed By High Spending
Christmas news across the nation is upbeat with merchants reporting spending near the peak of 1929 and 1930 levels and some regions 33 1 3 percent higher than last year. New England reports unprecedented tree demand, Vermont shipping over 1 200 000 trees while Maine and New Hampshire move large trees south. Despite optimism, many rely on the generosity of the better off to sustain the Christmas spirit.
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New England
Vermont
Maine
New Hampshire
Going To School By Bus
The United States uses a vast network of school buses, transporting about 4,000,000 students daily at roughly $18 per student annually, totaling about $72,000,000 yearly. The system dwarfs railroads and rivals New York’s subway and elevated crowding in scale. The piece contrasts pragmatic transport with cautions against false beliefs and emphasizes civilizational values.
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United States
New York
Commentator
United States Office of Education
Astrological Portrait of a Passionate Native
The native shows strong drive for comfort and status but balanced by a good heart. Expect intense sensual interests and potential risk if unchecked. Ambition appears linked to personal gain, yet ethical impulses remain evident.
Bible Readings and Call to Service From Church Sermon
The reading from St Matthew 25:14 21 speaks of loyalty to trust and the joy of service in God's Kingdom. It urges embracing church duties as Christ’s enlistment, teaching that obedience to the church calls for readiness for larger tasks and deeper fellowship with the Lord.
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Earth
Christ
Elyria Stocks Quoted Weekly by P R Smith & Co
Elyria Savings Bldg shows prices with bids and asks for Colson V T C Perry Fay and Ohio Electric Power. Debentures and preferred stocks listed with approximate values and ranges. Entries include Elyria Tele Comm and Thew Pfd among others with bid and ask indicators.
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P. R. Smith & Company
Elyria Savings
Colson V. T. C
Elyria Sav. B. Deb
Elyria Tele. Comm
Ohio Elec. Pwr
Perry Fay
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J. Clare
Publishers
Baltor
Ateen TV
Boy
Mal Dally
Elyria
Lorain
Foresan
John W. Cullen Company
Michigan Ave
Detroit
General Motors
Boake
Boake Carter
Portland
Ore
Portland Oregonian
Rufus Holman
Senate
Townsend
Holman
Portland Chamber of Commerce
Knights of Columbus
B'’na B'rith
U. S. Senate
KKK
Supreme Court
Charles A. Sprague
Frazier - Lemke
Chamber of Commerce
McNary
Rufus
Charles H. Martin
Jim Farley
Brain Trust
Farley
Roosevelt
Copyright Ledger Syndicate
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Sereng
Ambrose Everett Burnsides
Gilbert Stuart
Narragansett
R. I
Boston
Rebecca Hubbs
Burlington Co
N. J
George Brinton McClellan
Lincoln
Cleveland Abbe
Weather Bureau
Silen H. S. Richards
Mass
Institute of Technology
Dunstable
Newton D. Baker
Wilson
Martinsburg
W. Va
Cleveland
New Yorker
Deetz, Inc
W. Broad St
SUT Antiques
Naweeek
Sea
All Maken Fournaces Repatrea
Olmsted & Hoeffel
Water St
Suwanee River
Georgia
Stephen Foster
Florida
Schroll
Lorain County
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