No Longer a Luxury The Automobile Boom 1928
In 1928 the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce yearbook shows rapid growth in autos and wealth. From 1913 to 1927 the wholesale value of cars rose from 443,902,000 to 2,583,136,611 while U S savings deposits climbed to 26,090,902,000. Bank deposits, home ownership, and invested cash surged as millions gain employment in the automotive sector, underscoring cars as common possessions rather than luxury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pavey Family
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
United States
Snoney
America
President Coolidge Signs Bill for Mississippi Flood Control
President Coolidge on Tuesday signed the Jones Reid Mississippi flood control bill authorizing 525 million dollars in expenditure over ten years. The project, the largest since the Panama Canal, is hailed as a major victory for Coolidge, with observers praising his handling to avoid a veto. States incur no construction costs but must grant rights of way and floodway access, while the plan aims to save about a billion dollars overall.
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Coolidge
Panama Canal
Balontrol
What Will Happen After the McNary Haugen Veto
Washington scene explores farm leaders expectations after President Coolidge vetoes the McNary Haugen bill. Debate centers on three paths: override attempt, Debenture plan, or tariff-focused relief, with prospects dim unless Congress reconvenes or a summer session occurs.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Congress
House
Farm Bureau
Grange
South
Senate
Conference of Cooperative Associations
Washington
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Farmers National Grain Dealers Association
Sunlight therapy for health and growth at Rollier Institute
A column advocates natural sunlight as superior to artificial UV treatments for children and adults. It outlines gradual exposure steps, benefits for tuberculosis and other conditions, mentions a Porto Rico study with near elimination of rickets after sunlight, and notes practical guidelines for obtaining sun treatment through the newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rollier Institute
Swiss Alps
Porto Rico
Peters
Dr. Peters
Champion Hull Battle Anniversary and Silver Rocket Inventor
Today marks the sixty fifth anniversary of the Civil War battle at Champion Hull and the one hundredth birthday of Sir William Congreve inventor of the rocket. Detroit welcomes Bremen fliers arriving this afternoon from St. Louis as Harvard alumni gather in Philadelphia for the Associated Harvard Clubs annual meeting. The Amsterdam Olympic hockey championships open as a curtain raiser to summer athletic events.
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Hull
William Congreve
Detroit
Bremen
St. Louis
Harvard
Philadelphia
Amsterdam
World peace ideas from Dr Nicholas Murray Butler
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University born 1862 in Elizabeth New Jersey, urges practical steps toward international peace. He argues government obstacles hinder peace efforts, praises recent State Department actions after informal Senate talks, and calls for naval arms reduction and neutrality law revisions while supporting a definition of aggressive war and a clearer US stance.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Elizabeth
N. J
United States
Butler
Philosophy
The
University
Wicholas Auvtler
Department of State
Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate
Briand
France
Great Britain
Congress
Capper i
Swift justice for deputy shooter in Kansas field
ABE MARTIN reports a man who shot a deputy sheriff yesterday evening was tried and imprisoned before daylight. The suspect lived on a farm not his, and a note about a 2 cent stamp for a cure is tied to a claim for a valuable sovereign.
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Swift
Ike Lark
Yisterday
Yesterday and Today Anniversary Snapshot
A compact list recalls notable anniversaries and birthdays from history and today. Key items include the 1788 adoption of the Presbyterian Church in the United States constitution, Bologna’s 1849 surrender to Austria, the 1895 Newark event of the New Jersey Historical Society, the 1896 Rotterdam dockers’ strike, the 1903 death of operatic soprano Sybil Sanderson, and the 1926 Buenos Aires embassy bombing aftermath. Birthdays featured Breckinridge Long, John P. D. Finlayson, Emmett F. Branch, and Andrew H. Longino, with ages noted as of today.
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Presbyterian Church
United States
Bologna
New Jersey Historical Society
Newark
Rotterdam
Ledward Everett Hale
South Congregational Church
Boston
Sybil Sanderson
Paris
Sacramento
Calif
Carpathian Passes
U. S
Buenos Aires
Breckinridge Long
Washington
St. Louis
John PD. Finlayson
University of Tulsa
Thessalon
Ont
Emmett F. Branch
Indiana
Morgan Cunty
Ind
Andrew H. Longino
Misetasippi
Lawrence County
Miss
Mechanical Tutor Teaches Games by Phonograph Aid
A device allows learning any game by placing an arm over illustrated pictures and turning on power. A synchronising mechanism enables the phonograph to explain game points as each image appears, guiding foreign language and card game instruction.
Artificial Shannon load carved for power from river
An artificial load twelve miles long has been excavated from the River Shannon Ireland. It will flow over a new course and be trained over an artificial water fall to develop power.
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Shannon
Ireland
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Chronicle-Telegram
Audit Bureau of
Second Street
Elyria
Ohio
Lerala County Printing & Publishing Company
Eereneee
City
Lorain
Robert E Ward, Inc
Chicago
Wabash Ave
New York
Fifth Ave
General Motors
China
Russia
Mexico
League of Nations
Japan
By’ O. M. Kile
Olio
Hoover
Mid- West
Abe Martin
Ruth Snyder
Menry Judd Gray
Sing Sing
O’donnell Paint & Wall Paper Co
Elyria HarDwAre
West End Furniture
W. Broad
Mattreas
Eastern Heights
J. C. Crisp & CO
American Federation of Musicians
Glade Thomas
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