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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1928
Page
4
The Arlington National Cemetery tomb design is chosen as a white marble shrine with Victory and Peace bas-reliefs. The writer questions why one dead soldier symbolizes all sacrifice, urges recognition of every ordinary life as a divine miracle, and suggests that sacred meaning surrounds us daily rather than in monuments.
A Canton Ohio middle aged businessman and a young wife with marital trouble become entangled. A letter leads to the woman shooting the man at his home. She later dies by suicide while en route to jail with her husband. The piece argues misery and loneliness can drive irrational, destructive acts and urges sympathy and charity.
A collage of curio items notes opportunities for golfers to write Broadway hits and hints Grover Whalen could become police commissioner. Rumor touches on Arnold Rothstein’s killer, holiday shopping advice, a New York man swallowing razor blades, unlikely authorial ambitions of restaurateurs, and Yukon reports of Indian trappers using aircraft to reach trap lines.
In Manhattan and New York City during the holiday season bells echo as banners announce dinners for 35,000 poor families. The piece contrasts festive charity displays with stark poverty, citing stories of Alice and Jimmy, a mother and child, and elderly women surviving on tiny incomes near Wall Street, urging awareness of daily hardship amid wealth.
The poem urges ambition tempered by steady effort, arguing that notable achievements follow diligent work on small duties. It cautions against seeking leadership or glory without proving oneself in everyday tasks.
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