Nation faces worst heat drought with hope for rain
News Review reports a continuing drought across the Midwest and Northwest with 3850+ heat fatalities, rising milk prices, falling meat prices, and a threefold relief plan for Dakotas and Plains farm families. Controller Wallace tours drought zones while labor unrest and Townsendite third-party movements shape political tensions. Farnsworth faces espionage charges over naval data sales to Japan. Optimism on 1936 business index grows as Ayers cites gains in steel and durable goods.
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Midwest
Northwest
Great Lakes
Hudson
United States
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Ohio
Drouth
Wallace
Attempt on King Edward VIII in London shocks world
Reported near Hyde Park an assassination attempt on King Edward VIII prompted alarm as a woman bystander wrestled a pistol from the would be assassin. In Madrid Jose Calvo Sotelo, a monarchist leader, was kidnapped and killed. Paris Bastille Day clashes closed the Champs Elysees with left and right wing factions clashing with police.
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Edward VIII
England
London
Hyde
Hyde Park
Madrid
Jose Calvo Sotello
AFL splits averted as leaders face trial for dual unionism
The American Federation of Labor moves to trial on August 3 against leaders led by John L. Lewis for alleged dual unionism. Earlier, the council voted to form a Committee for Industrial Unionization regrouping 12 unions.
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John “Li Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial
Henry Ford Sees Farm Animal Decline and New Food Mix
Henry Ford on his seventy third birthday predicted a shift away from farm animals as a primary food source. He argued grains and substitutes could provide cheaper, better food. The piece notes a new era in European diplomacy with a Germany Austria pact and Mussolini's role. It also covers political endorsements in the 1930s United States and farm relief discussions between London and Lowden.
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Henry Ford
Germany
Austria
Italy
Mussolini
Poland
Europe
Austria-Hungary
M. ‘London
Kansas
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
Topeka
Lowden
Governor London
Illinois
Landon
William Cabell Bruce
Maryland
Saya A
Roosevelt Leads Public Works Era with Long Island Bridge
President Roosevelt attends dedication ceremonies for the largest Public Works Administration project in the East. The four-span, 3.1 mile bridge links Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens and costs second only to the Golden Gate. He will captain the 50-foot schooner Sevanna on a Maine coast cruise with sons James, Franklin Jr., and John aboard, trailing the destroyer Potomac and the schooner Liberty carrying reporters.
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New York
Ruth Bryan Owen
Denmark
Boorge Rohde
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Interior Ickes
Gov
Lehman
Wagner
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York City
Public Works Administration
Manhattan
Bronx
Queens
Long Island
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
James
Franklin Jr
John
Maine
Campobello Island
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Potomac
Liberty
Prison Visit Teaches Lessons to Atlanta Youth
An Atlanta school teacher took twelve boys to a federal penitentiary for a moral lesson on sin and consequences. The tour guide showed the prisoners and facilities, ending at the exit gate. A student whispered that he planned to return to prison someday.
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Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary
Bill
Atlanta Constitution
Hobson’s Choice Origin Explained in Stable Tale
The term Hobson’s choice arose from an English stable owner Hobson who forced a renter to take the horse beside the stable door. The phrase now means a choice that seems personal but actually leaves no true alternative.
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Hobson
Tobias Hobson
Postum Free Week’s Supply Offer Advertised
The Postum Company offers a full week’s supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for it. The advertisement invites readers to request the complimentary week’s supply by mail.
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Postum Company
Hope Looks Upward In Final Moment
A brief archival snippet recalls John Knox’s dying gesture. As he lay dying, he was asked, Hast thou hope, and he raised a finger, pointing upward before his death, a moment captured for posterity.
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John Knox
Carlyle
Spirit of Kindness Inspires Hope Across a Cheerful Home
A Victorian quote by Van Dyke speaks to kindness as a sweetening force. It describes the ointment of good will settling even on the unaware, filling a house with fragrant morale and uplifting all who feel its influence.
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van Dyke
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Townsend
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Willis Mahoney
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Clevees
Tugwell
Dr. Townsend
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Hobson's Choice
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Tate
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Guited States Detter Products, Inc
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