Berlin Opens Olympics With Flame Trek And Parade
Berlin hosts the opening ceremonies as a runner carries the flame from Greece into the stadium before Hitler. Nations march past a cheering crowd as Americans dodge the salute, while Owens breaks the 100 meter heat record and Stephens shatters world marks in the women’s sprints. Japan wins bid to host 1940 with a subsidy offer. Finns push for Spartan simplicity.
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Berlin
Greece
United States
Jesse Owens
Ohio State
Johnson
California
Owens
Metcalfe
Chicago
Helen ‘Stephens
Missouri
Tokio
Finland
South America
British Empire
Japan
Far East
Zioncheck to not seek re election from Seattle congressman
Marion A Zioncheck of Seattle Washington announces he will not run again citing his mother's ill health. He says he wants to become Americas forgotten man as he shifts to private law practice.
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Zioncheck
Congress
Washington
Marion A. Zioncheck
Seattle
Wash
America
New PWA program funds big state projects nationwide
The federal public works administration opens a program totaling 22,742,034 with 352 projects across 37 states. The New York courthouse project tops at 4,936,000 with an average grant of 64,323 dollars. A 2,142,000 dollar loan helps communities cover their 65 percent share. Projects must start by Oct 1, 1936 peak by year end and finish by Oct 1, 1937. Colonel Knox Frank Knox receives Republican vice presidential nomination in Chicago amid large crowds and a radio audience. He attacks the New Deal, accusing it of economic mismanagement and government overreach, arguing it harms business and leads to tax increases. Government crop report notes drought and heat injuring the corn crop across major producing states, with some rains improving conditions in central and eastern regions.
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PWA
Public Works Administration
Roosevelt
New York City
Ickes
Frank Knox
Chicago
Col
Steiner
Oregon
Republican Party
John Hamilton
Knox
Stadium
Landon
Congress
America
Sowing and Reaping in Galatians 6 Be not deceived
Lesson for August 16 summarizes Galatians 6 1 10 focusing on sowing and reaping in moral life. It outlines attitudes toward others and self humility self judgment and self reliance while stressing eternal law God is not mocked what a man sows he will reap and ends with a call to consistent Christian conduct toward all people and especially believers.
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Satan
Lacking Imagination Quote on Imagination and Telescopes
A Beecher quotation notes that a soul without imagination is like an observatory without a telescope. It emphasizes imagination as essential to perception and discovery in scientific and intellectual life.
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Henry Ward Beecher
The Guilty Conscience Whirlpool Quote
A reflection on guilt likened to a whirlpool pulling in all that would otherwise pass by, attributed to Fulley.
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Fulley
Don’t Trouble Trouble Roe and the Reflections on Fear
A fragmentary excerpt quotes Franklin about not worrying about possible trouble. It reflects a calm, philosophical stance urging resilience, with an emphasis on living in the present rather than fearing distant outcomes.
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Roe
Franklin
Silk Linen and Novelty Fabrics Dress Design Pattern Ad
A vintage sewing pattern ad promotes silk linen novelty crepe dotted swiss and printed silks for a slim trendy dress. It highlights wider shoulders, a paned bodice, kick pleats, a turn down collar, and easy, quick assembly. Includes Pattern No. B for sizes 14 through 42 with yardage estimates and 18 cent price for the Summer Pattern Book.
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Buber
le Horwedus
Barbata
Barbara Bell
Mae
W. Adams St
Chicago
Bell Syndicata
Grape Nuts Ad Promises Prizes With Dizzy Dean Winnery
Readers are invited to study an in-paper Grape Nuts advertisement in a separate column to learn how to join the Dizzy Dean Winnery contest and win valuable free prizes.
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Dizzy Dean
Addy
Doing Times Trying Times
Fragmented text reflects uncertain era with tired phrasing and unclear subject. No clear person, place, or event identified beyond general mood of strain and weariness. Source lacks concrete details to summarize a specific event or notice.
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Western Newspaper Union
William Green
Lewis
Col. Roosevelt
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
Puerto
Ernor
Rico and
Gov! Philippines
Puerto Rico
Edro Albizu Campos
Nationalist Party
San Juan
R. A. Cooper
E. Francis Riggs
Insular Police
Europe
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
France
Belgium
League of Nations Assembly
Geneva
Spanish Republic
Francisco Franco
Spain
Madrid
Valencia
Alicante
Huelva
Seville
San Sebastian
Morocco
Campobello Island
New Brunswick
Mr. Roosevelt
Campobello
Quebec
Lord Tweedsmuir
Canada
Hyde Park
Democratic Party
James A. Farrey
Wallace
Chester Davis
Adolf Hitler
Gen
Franco
Drouth
Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Aly
Harold J. Lundquist
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Musil
Janet Elgin
Carl, Engle
Bonnyman
Kentucky
Adel Hie
National Tile
Long Bidg
Manses City
Quaker State
Quaker State Oil Refining Co
Oil City
Quaker State Motor Oil
Peteones
Cuticura
Malden
Mass
Foor
Ross
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