United States Resists Spanish Civil War Involvement
The United States reaffirms a policy of noninterference while urging neutrality in the Spanish civil war. William Phillips notes neutrality laws do not apply, but the U.S. will conform to long standing noninterference. Franco's forces receive German and Italian planes as Madrid braces for air attacks amid ongoing battles around San Sebastian and north of Madrid.
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Barnum Memorial Half Dollar Approved for Bridgeport Centennial
Henry Morgenthau and the national commission approved a commemorative half dollar design bearing Phineas T. Barnum’s likeness. The coin marks Bridgeport Connecticut’s centennial as a city and honors Barnum for his philanthropy and gifts to Bridgeport rather than his showman career.
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Roosevelt Relief Plan Signals New Federal Role
Washington describes President Roosevelt’s push using 22.7 million in Public Works Administration funds for direct state grants with a 45 55 cost split and a requirement of 100 percent relief labor. The plan aims at permanent improvements like schools and water systems and mirrors Republican relief principles while stressing merit based administration and local responsibility.
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Relief funds limit for small towns due to skilled labor shortages
The piece argues that fresh federal funds for public works will bypass many small communities because there are too few skilled workers to undertake sewage and water projects. It notes the risk of communities pressuring skilled labor into relief roles and discusses broader implications of the New Deal approach and current diplomacy featuring Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel.
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Roses Motif Bedspread Pattern 1214
Transfer pattern shows a rose motif sized 16 by 12 inches with two and two reverse sections. Includes stitch directions and material list. Send 15 cents for pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft 82 Eighth Ave New York with pattern number and return address.
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Howells Publishes Venetian Life in 1866
The excerpt describes William Dean Howells returning from Venice where he planned to publish a manuscript on Venetian life. The publisher joked about bringing it out, leading to the 1866 release Venetian Life and marking the start of Howells' successful literary career.
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Week's Supply of Postum Free
The Postum Company offers a full week’s supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for it, as advertised in another part of this paper.
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Postum Company
Foes of Peace and Human Strife in Daily Life
A reflective meditation on how greed ambition envy and selfishness disrupt peace and well being, urging restraint and virtue as safeguards for happiness and personal power.
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