May 23 1928 CP Het WLR ALA
Readable fragments note CP Het WLR in Alabama on May 23 1928 with sparse details. No clear event or outcome is provided in the available text.
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WLR
Ala
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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1925
Page
4
City faces end of era for old school site backers urge reuse
Local advocates warn the old school building may be shut, urging transfer to trustees or conversion into a municipal auditorium library and museum. They cite site suitability but flag limited space for outdoor activities and needed cultural facilities. The debate highlights education port and progress, pressuring Brandon to state his position on the extra session and Rogers’ plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geome
Scnodt Commissioners
Ger
Brandon
Rogers
Alabama
Sollie
Gasoline Tax Administration and Highway Revenues
The article argues a two cent per gallon gasoline tax to fund road improvements and maintenance. It suggests five hundred thousand gallons weekly, with revenue split between paving new permanent highways and sustaining regular hard surfaced roads. The piece advocates concentrated investment over scattered projects to maximize user benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eniough
Oil Company to Use Planes for Freight and Mail
The Standard Oil Company of Indiana plans to employ airplanes for mail, express, and freight service across fourteen states. Air transport is seen as faster and more economical, with all planes under construction for this purpose. The Ford example is cited as a recruit, and the piece predicts others will follow, arguing time saved equals money. It asks what the country might gain if Congress allowed such progress at Muscle Shoals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company
Inis
Ford
United States
Henry Ford
Congress
Sollie challenges governor on legislature bargaining rights
Representative Sollie rebukes Mr. Rogers state highway commission president for implying the governor may barter the legislature. Sollie’s reply asserts a principle against extra session actions not in the call and defends the legislature’s prerogative in decisions tied to Rogers Bal that the constitution protects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sollie
Rogers
State Highway Commission
Don
Highble
Rogers Bal
Legistes
Chicago plan yields teacher pay scale without uproar
The Chicago board of education authorized the superintendent to study salaries, inviting citizens and teachers to submit evidence. A committee of professors economists and experts weighed testimony and a new salary scale was adopted. The method is praised as a fact based alternative to reform upheaval.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
The Amundsen Flight Claim and Odd Jazz Following
The piece questions Captain Amundsen possibly circling the North Pole and urges caution before accepting initial reports, noting Cook’s recent fiasco as a warning. It then pivots to remark on an odd fact that jazz music has fans among otherwise mentally steady listeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amundsen
North Pole
Cook
Short Stories and Pranks in a Rugged Barroom Exchange
In a rough exchange a husband boasting of a big catch tensions with his wife who questions his claim. The dialogue reveals a playful yet sharp dynamic as the pair banter about a supposed fish and a “Dass Here” fight.
Dignified Visitor at Sunday School Joke
A light exchange about the Prodigal’s return shows the least pleased is the fat-headed calf in a London Opinion quip. Another bit from London Tit-Bits notes Miriam balking at eight hours work, with Mirabelle saying it was the boss’s idea.
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London Opinion
Miriam
Darling
Mirabelle
London
City girl jokes about ducks eggs found in harvest
A city girl marries a farmer and tells him she found four ducks eggs among the two dozen he brought in. He questions the claim and she explains she tested them in water and four floated, proving they are ducks eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Two Gentlemen Debate Wives Cooking Skills
A playful exchange in dialect between two Black men compares their wives cooking. One man boasts his wife bakes corn pone like angel food cake, while the other retorts that his wife’s beans make him want to hunt for a job. Oklahoma Boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Scrivener Story Delights Princeton Audience
Dr. Henry Van Dyke shared a humorous anecdote at a reception for his return to First Presbyterian Church of Princeton. The tale centers on a fellow writer in Bermuda whose neighbors roistered loudly, prompting a messenger to request quieter work on his important novel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry van Dyke
First Presbyterian Church
Princeton
Scrivener
Bermuda
Dr. van Dyke
St. George's
Roysterers
Schrivener
Detroit Free Press
Wise words on fools and love and luck
A string of aphorisms on fools, love, victory and poverty. It notes that popular fallacies outnumber facts and jokes about honesty and wages. It ends with a quip about a man catching his wife’s headache.
Mistah Buzzard And Peter Rabbit Keep A Secret
Thornton Burgess presents Mistah Buzzard and Peter Rabbit in a playful dialogue about a nest. Peter pressures Buzzard for the nest location while Buzzard humorously denies having one yet hints Mrs. Buzzard sits on eggs. The miscommunication leads to a harmless reveal of two eggs in the Green Forest.
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Mistah Buzzard
Peter Rabbit
Peter
Mrs. Buzzard
Ol Mistah Buzzard
Ol’ Mistah Buzzard
Rippling Rhymes By Walt Mason The Counselor
The piece presents Walt Mason advising youths to avoid tobacco highlighting its harms to heart nerves and health. It portrays a campy moral stance through rhymed verse and a playful exchange about smoking and fitting warnings.
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Walt Mason
Be lasco Horse Breaks Into Moonlit Country Bedroom
A Greenlawn man and a Sunset Park friend recall a night at a lakeside bungalow where a white horse wandered from outside, trampled furniture, and required coaxing back through the door, while two occupants fled amid hilarity and nerves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenlawn
Sunset Park
Imogene
Houseclean
Twenty-second Street
Broadway
Belasco
Horsie
Warped Protests Say Smokers Should Learn From Elders
A wary elder voice urges youths to quit smoking tobacco. The speaker argues youngsters cannot grasp why a smoker would ban the weed they enjoy. He cautions that the habit harms health and urges wiser choices for the next generation.
Uncommon Sense Reflections On Arctic Adventure And Progress
John Blake muses on Stefansson Arctic exploits and the peril they endure. He links polar exploration to Columbus and Wright brothers, arguing adventure drives civilization and future resource discovery. He praises brave souls who seek the old life of Vikings and cavemen.
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Stefansson
Arctic
Columbus
America
Wright Brothers
Langley
Final warning over mail mishandling at night trains
Buffalo Kansas daily protests repeated mail misdelivery with confetti tossed by the night mail clerk. The letter warns a future poem about the weather if the issue continues.
Quotation on Sleep and the Unknown
A Louisville Courier Journal note quotes Einstein calling offers a name for the unknown. The remark suggests that clever insults fail to inspire any flight of imagination in the average reader or listener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Einstein
Ofrer
Louisville Courier-Journal
Scientists Hear Iron Atoms Move in Magnet Stimulated Bar
A playful note from the Omaha Bee claims scientists report atoms of iron moving in pig iron when magnetized amid jokes about jazz influence. The quip highlights science and culture collide in a humorous wire-service style item.
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Earth
Omaha Bee
Secretary Kellogg Humanizes State Department Comment
Editorial cartoon style remark questions Kellogg’s claim of humanizing the state department and notes skepticism about passports remaining in use. The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger quotes a provocative opinion about government policy and civil travel.
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Kellogg
State Department
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger
Mussolini Absorbs Ministers in Expanded Cabinet
The Springfield Republican notes Mussolini has absorbed the ministers of the army the navy and the air force alongside foreign affairs and remains a driving force in Italian governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caecers
Mussolini
Army
Pringfield
Country Summer Dream Sparks City Girl Wish
Zetta Carey finds country life at Meadow Lark Farm transformative as she befriends Mildred Bemis. Mildred confesses unhappiness with country living and dreams of city work, hoping to join Terry & Aldrich as a salesgirl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zetta Carey
Opal Johnson
Marsanawich
Opal
Zetta
Meadow Lark Farm
Applegate
Terry & Aldrich
Lizzie
Uncle Ben
Benjamin Bemis
Mrs. Bemis
Town
Mildred Bemis
Mildred
Rorie
Mary
Dred
Cales
Terry & Aldrich’s
Ollie Denied Job After Boss Rejects Bad Temper
A story recalls Ollie, linked to a dining with the boss and three colleagues, who loses a ride over a meter dispute and ends up late to a dinner. Despite potential, the boss refuses the hire citing temperament, suggesting a spanking might have curbed the boyish ire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ollie
Olie
The Germ Fiend Griselda We Women By Betty Brainerd
Griselda, a high school memory of a girl with extreme germaphobia, fears microbes everywhere. She obsesses over sterilization unseen dangers, boiling water, supervising food, and avoiding restrooms and dental tools. Her behavior alarms her family yet reveals a relentless dread of infection.
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Griselda
Chopping Ice Noiselessly Health Hint for Sore Throats
A mother wakes at night to soothe her crying daughter with a sore throat using a large block of ice. She snaps a piece with a hat pin, cooling the throat without waking others. The column advises making a canvas ice bag and keeping broken ice ready for quiet, effective relief.
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Maurice Ketten
Cabaret DE Padla
Bedtime
By Thornton
Ol’ Mistah
Buzzard
Jay
Sephi Ae
Uncommon Sense
John Blake
Buffalo
We Women
Betty Brainerd
Germ Fiend
M. Jessie Leitch
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