Wet and Dry Debate Roils Congress in 1932
In the House leaders press a push to submit the prohibition question to voters while Beck Linthicum vow victory as wets gain 59 votes since December 1917. Debate over a billion dollar revenue bill and sales tax yields protests from labor and farmers and shifts in tax proposals shaping a volatile legislative week.
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Congress
House
Judiciary Committee
Beckethicum
Hadeen J. M. Beck
Garner
Beck and Linthicum
Beck
Republican Party
Hoover
Fred Britten
Illinois
Ways and Means
Organized Labor
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Labor
Fred Brenckman
National Grange
Senate
Dog Barking Blamed for Woman's Accidental Death
Augusta Maine a dog's barking in the early hours led Henry O Parmenter to shoot his wife Annie Parmenter believing a burglar was in the house The bullet hit her in the right shoulder and she died shortly after Police and medical officials investigated as Parmenter a former deputy sheriff explained he woke to the barking and fired after following the dog and seeing a light
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Augusta
Maine
Annie Dlerrin Parmenter
Henry O. Parmenter
Parmenter
R. L. McKay
H. C. Marden
Salvation Army Slang From Its 1932 Year Book
Salvation Army slang terms are defined, with phrases like Say Amen as Fire a volley and Grace Before Meat as a fundraising scheme. Other terms include Fishing for conversations, Fix Bayonets to raise hands, and Hallelujah Windup at Sunday close, plus Prisoners for converts and Company Meeting for Sunday classes.
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Salvation Army
London
Ex-Pastor Confesses to Chicken Theft Ring in Indiana
Columbus Indiana sheriff J W Foust says former pastor Har W Stitt 43 admitted joining a chicken theft gang. Stitt and two accomplices including Frank Kelley 63 are jailed after Stitt confessed to 24 thefts totaling 476 chickens from Bartholomew County farms and even his mother Mrs Eliza Stitt. He planned to repay owners.
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Columbus
Ind
W. Stitt
Here
J. W. Foust
Bartholomew County
Stitt
John Leo Stitt
Frank Kelley
Kelley
Eliza Stitt
Whale Swallows Anchor Off Cape May Tale
Cape May New Jersey reports Capt Esse Boles of the Sea Toy tells of a 90 foot whale swallowing their old anchor and dragging the boat through rough seas off Chincoteague Virginia. He says the compass spun backward and timbers heated during the ordeal.
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Cape May
N. J
Esse Boles
Sea Toy
Chiconteague, Va
Postal clerk jailed for opening letters to cover debts
Berlin H Kahn, twenty, a postal assistant, was sentenced to one year for opening letters to steal mail. He admitted taking a two cent stamp from one of eight letters while claiming he owed creditors about 1.75 dollars.
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Eastman
Ivar Kreuger
Swedish Match Trust
Europe
New York
Paris
Kreuger
Aul von Hindenbur
Adolf Hitler
von Hindenburg
Hitler
Ernest Thaelmann
Duesterberg
Winter
Berlin
H. Kahn
One Thumber Arrested in Bangor Under Hitchhiking Law
In Maine 816 people were arrested in the Bangor district for offenses this period. Only one offender was a hitchhiker known as a thumber, despite a state law forbidding hitch-hiking.
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Thumber
Bangor
Maine
Wilic
Kipling’s Stalky Life and Pet Marjorie in Scott’s Shadow
The article reflects on Rudyard Kipling’s schoolboy image in Stalky and Co. and cites G C Beresford and Lionel Dunsterville. It covers Kipling’s India birth, Westward Ho schooling, library access, and later fame, with critique from peers. It also recounts Sir Walter Scott’s Rebecca Gratz connection to Ivanhoe, Pet Marjorie Fleming’s life and letters, and a note on Mammy Trees seed protection in Arkansas and Louisiana.
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Gigadies
Stalky & Co
Rudyard Kipling
G. C. Beresford
Lionel C. Dunsterville
Kipling
India
United Services College
Westward Ho
England
Litte
Innstead
Stalky
The
College Chronicle
Pet Marjorie
Sir Walter Scott
Marjorie Fleming
Edinburgh
Marjorrie
Kircaldy
Scotland
Dictionary of National Biography
Marjorie Fileming
Marjorie
Scott
Waverly
Shakespeare
Maida
Mary Queen of Scots
Rebecca
Washington Irving
Rebecca Gratz
Mikve Israel
Spruce Street
Matilda Hoffman
Irving Oe
Matilda
Ivanhoe
Western Newspaper Union
Arkansas
Louisiana
United States Department of Agricultura
Indians in Army still serve from Ft Huachuca tepees
Twelve Indian scouts remain in United States military service at Ft Huachuca Arizona living in tepees echoing Apache patterns. They are still authorized by regulations though scout plane squadrons have largely replaced them. Their last active duty was with the Pershing expedition in 1916.
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U. S
United States
Ft. Huachuca
Ariz
Three Maids Hired With Start Dates Spaced This Month
The wife informs the husband she hired three maids this morning. Start dates are tomorrow the tenth and the fifteenth, arranged to begin as scheduled.
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Edward W. Pickard
George Eastman
Rochester
N. Y
Eastman Kodak Company
Philanthro
Rye etacEna
Chicago
Washington
Curtis
National Committee
Charles G. Dawes
Bertrand H. Snell
A. M. Harvey
George L. Hart
Charles Oliver
Welfare Island
William Gleason
Cliffside
Oliver
Philadelphia
al Capone
Ohio
France
Mississippi
Percy BE. Quin
L. Russell Buzey
College At
Wesson
Japan
China
Shanghai
Great Britain
Manchuria
Lytton Commission
League of Nations
Frank McCoy
Wu Teh-chen
Manchukuo
Henry Pu-yi
Tokyo
Heilungkiang
Ma Chan-shan
Pu-yin
Changchun
Fu-yu
Harbin
Geneva
Naval Commission
D. P. BR. Pound
Swanson
Sen. Swanson
Ostmaster
W.F. Brown
Special Economy Committee
House, of Representatives
Brown
Post Office Department
W. H. King
Geo, Eastman
Husband
Pet
Arget
Target
Mre
Own & Williamson ‘Tobacco Corp
Louisville, Kentucky
Ringo
Betty
Aves
Rinso
Cincinnati
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