Labor Day Tribute to American Working Man and Industry
A Labor Day reflection celebrates the American worker's rise from humble beginnings to leadership in industry and invention. It highlights wages standards education paths and broad ownership across enterprises, noting the holiday’s role in exalting toil and the nation’s high standard of living.
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United States
America
Henry Ford
Charles M. Sehwah
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas A. Edison
Harvey Firestone
Wrights
Ocean travel up as rail fares fall with U S ports data
A Commerce Department report shows May to July European travel from American ports at 206000, up 21000 from last year. American ships carried 2000 more passengers, meeting 11.2 percent of total traffic with 7.0 percent of capacity. The gain hints at steadier business and longer vacations rather than restlessness.
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Commerce Roper
Europe
America
Color Therapy Claims Explain Ills and Cures
A report describes a color cure theory from the American Academy of Ophthalmologists claiming color glow affects health. Red light supposedly raises blood pressure while yellow blue green light eases stomach issues, and blue violet light relieves headaches, with researchers noting balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic systems as the mechanism.
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American Academy of
Oats Burned Under Soil Conservation Pact Near Chanute
Earl Smith, living six miles west of Chanute, burned two and a half acres of oats to comply with a soil conservation agreement. He faced crop losses and scarce feed as he was told the oats must be burned despite a potential payment of five to seven dollars per acre, with most funds in September. He had hoped to feed neighbors in need but was restricted by the program.
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Chanute
Mr. Smith
Smith
Eric
Kans
Ananda of
Siam
New York Day by Day fragments on letters and wit
A stream of literary and social witticisms from a New York Day by Day column dated Sept. 5, featuring musings on books, authors, and famous personalities. Vignettes touch on editors, publishers, and cultural figures including Isak Dinesen, Rebecca West, and Sherlock Holmes.
Anniversary and Today in History Unearthed
A compact digest lists 1835 to 1866 notable births and deaths of politicians and public figures, plus Today in History events from 1742 to 1935. It also includes brief horoscope style guidance hinting at personal conduct and prosperity.
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America
Williamsburg
Merchant of Venice
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
France
Germany
Russia
Japan
Portsmouth
N. H
Briand
United States of Europe
Blue Eagle
Samuel Leonard 62 Former Elyria Leader Dies
Funeral services were held yesterday for Samuel Leonard 62 longtime Elyria resident and executive of Western Automatic Machine Screw Company He served as Elyria Chamber of Commerce president in 1918 directed the National Bank of Elyria and held roles with the YMCA and hospital association Elyria schools opened with 2645 students an increase of 63 Graf ton coal yard fire destroyed James Finlayson yards and barns with heavy losses a volunteer firefighter overcome by smoke.
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Western Automatic Machine Screw Company
Sunda
Hilyria
Elyria
F. M. Shelton
Grafton
James Finlayson
Lorain County Teachers Back Federal Education Secretary Plan
The Lorain County Teachers Institute adopted resolutions endorsing the federal bill to create a Secretary of Education in the president's cabinet and expressing strong support for higher professional training standards in Ohio. More than 500 candidates filed petitions for local offices in Lorain County as filing closed. Fifty inspectors will visit Fyria on September 24 to inspect all commercial public and semi public buildings for Fire Prevention Week.
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Ohio
Lorain County
Fyria
Ohio Fire Prevention Association
T. O. Murphy Co
Oberlin
Elyria
September 6 Horoscope Highlights and Notables
Today’s native has a joyous nature and a calm obliging character with influential charm. Life shows fortune and a leaning toward music and poetry. Notables born include novelist Henry S. Canby of New York born in Wilmington Delaware 58 years ago and Peter Tl of Yugoslavia born 15 years ago.
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New York City
Boston
Katharine N. Burt
Wyoming
New York
Henry S. Canby
Wilmington
Del
Peter Tl
Yugoslavia
Centenarian Mason Keeps Attending Lodge For 64 Years
GALLIPOLIS Ohio Thomas Clark a Thurman resident aged 92 has kept a remarkable 64 year run of attending his Masonic lodge meetings without a miss He has served twice as lodge master and spent 11 years as postmaster plus 15 years as justice of the peace in his community. Fremont Ohio neighbors report a light flashing in an attic investigation reveals a firefly caught in a cobweb in the Power home Electrcians quote the odd finding. Fremont Ohio nine year old Dick Hilty son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Hilty comforted brother Ted after warning that lightning cannot hurt him when a storm struck their home the bolt hit the house.
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Public Schools Teach Driving in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report notes rapid progress in new highway safety courses for Pennsylvania public schools. Public Instruction Superintendent Lester K. Ade cites recent introduction to secondary curricula, with the Department of Public Instruction among 36 states offering driver safety education. Ade links youth risk, rising car casualties, and population shift to justify expanded instruction.
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Public Instruction
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Ada
Soviet Extols Virtues Of Soap
State Perfumery Trust will push soap through radio billboards stage and screen following food ad strategy. A Gorky Park skit shows a dirty boy washing a giraffe and cow, another features a boxer seeking a knockout after cologne. A film short has a freckled boy winning a girl with facial cream. Rural posters urge soap and tooth powder with a love verse. A traveling circus will showcase soap and powder amid slogans.
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Perfumery Trust
Gorky Park of Culture
Cologne
Pastor Umpire Hit by Foul Hat in Pasadena Ball Game
The Rev William H Roberts pastor of the California Presbyterian Synod umpired a ball game when a three bagger struck through his straw hat he held. Fellow ministers passed the hat for repairs and collected 4 for a new hat, later found to cost 150 four years ago. In Middletown Q physicians say baby Marcia Ann Howlin is one in a thousand born with two lower teeth.
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California Presbyterian Synod
Middletown
Marcia Ann Howlin
Marcia
Public sale planned for Hooker Station Methodist church
LANCASTER OH trustees announce a public sale of the 52 year old Hooker Station Methodist church, dedicated in 1888 and now discontinued by the synod. In other items from Ohio towns, a turtle bearing initials was presented to Charles Landrum, radio fans warned for nuisance, eleven rural Williams county schools closed under state law, Toledo police order 18 inch night sticks after street fights, and Findlay offers 332 acres for a state bird and game refuge near Blanchard Township.
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John Stitt
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William Stitt
Public debt and New Deal sales pitches in 1936
Alice Longworth notes the public appetite for deficit claims has waned as New Deal assurances claim deficits do not raise taxes. Treasury bankers resist further bonds amid banks already stocked with federal bonds, while the administration avoids revealing a saturation point before the election.
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New York
Treasury
Races Of World Growing Taller
London reports a study in the British Medical Journal showing humans are growing taller overall. Measurements from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Japan, and the United States indicate increased growth and weight. urban dwellers tend to be larger, with northern populations generally bigger than southern. Environmental factors, better hygiene, diet, and sports are cited as primary causes. The piece frames evolution as adaptation rather than continuous development.
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British Medical Journal
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Boy Explorers Organize Club in London
More than 100 boy pioneers formed a club in London to perpetuate memories and develop life long friendships. They are part of the Public Schools Exploring Society which has sent expeditions to Lapland Finland and unsurveyed Newfoundland. Surgeon-Commander G Murray Levick inspired the group and leads 120 boys on a Arctic Lapland venture.
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Public Schools
Exploring Society
Hay
Lapland
Finland
Newfoundland
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Captain Scott
Arctic
Shower baths for pigs at Emu Plains in Sydney
Cold shower baths have been installed in what are believed to be the most luxurious pig styes in the world at Emu Plains Sydney N S W. If the animals are kept cool in hot weather it has been found that they fatten better.
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N.S. W
Emu Plains
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