Roosevelt Shifts Back to Domestic Focus Warns on Banking Bill
The Western Newspaper Union reports that the Roosevelt administration appears to prioritize domestic affairs over foreign issues, with a new banking bill sparking debate. Critics warn a centralized Washington control could threaten currency stability, while New Dealers defend reforms and warn of return to inflationary policy. The piece notes potential shifts of power within the Federal Reserve and calls attention to broader New Deal pressure on state utilities and lending agencies.
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St. Lawrence Waterway
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Fletcher
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
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New York
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Reconstruction Finance Tion
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Tulip Design Stamped Quilt Blocks Attract Crafters
A Home Craft Co notice advertises tulip stamped blocks No. 96-F for quilt projects. Twelve 18 inch blocks form a 76 by 97 inch quilt with a nine inch border and four inch sashing. Sets of six blocks offered for 75 cents postpaid. send 15 cents for a single block. Include SASE to Home Craft Co Dept D St Louis.
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Nineteenth and
St. Louis Avenue
St. Louis
Are we a tobacco smoking nation in the 1930s
Howard Florance analyzes tobacco use from 1914 through 1932, noting 1919 cigarette consumption doubled during World War I and per capita usage remains high after the Depression. He cites 40 cigars and 1,000 cigarettes per person in the prior year, plus three pounds of tobacco per capita, concluding high nationwide consumption.
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United States
Howard Florance
Girls of Dukhoborts Succumb to Lure of Modern Magazines
Reported at Piers Island prison in British Columbia that Dukhobortsi girls, once parading naked in Nelson, have begun reading magazines and viewing comics. Authorities placed the material to curb nudism. several days passed without effect before magazines began to disappear as girls imitate magazine depictions. They told the matron they do not intend to return to former customs.
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Victoria
Nelson
New York Times
Literary Digest
Tolstoy on Self-Control as Path to Good Life
Quoted Tolstoy asserts self control is essential to all goodness and a prerequisite for a good life. The text emphasizes that attainment of virtue begins with disciplined self mastery and moral action.
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Tolstoy
BAYER
Seashore anecdotes spark talk of summer costs
The fragment mentions humorous beach attire and a sunburn cost cited at over $300, attributed to a wife’s coat of sunburn and a remark on economy. Names Jerry and Rufus appear, with vague references to last summer and seaside scene.
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