Hoover confronts Senate in rare public address on budget
President Hoover read a Senate address warning of fiscal danger and urged a sales tax as Congress moved through a controversial budget debate. The chamber approved a deficit plan totaling about 1.12 billion dollars, with a gasoline tax and electricity sales levy to balance the budget, amid but amid broad opposition to other proposed taxes.
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Hoover
Senate
Persen
Garner
Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury Mills
House
Genere Ie Worth Especie
Glenn
Maois
Jriting
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Garfield
Interior
Roosevelt
Resolutions Committee
White House
Borah
Renry W. Peabody
Woman's National Committee For Law Enforcement
Congress
Bertrand B. Snell
New York
Snell
Republican Citizens’ Committee
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
Five Organs Join In Mighty Volume At Passau Cathedral
Report on the giant five organ setup in St Stephen's Cathedral Passau Bavaria highlighting Steinmeyer build, 208 registers five manuals 10105 pipes and the single main bench with a forest of pipes. Notes the echo organ and vast bass pipes large scale details and maintenance via multiple motors and long wire networks.
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Passau
Danube
Stephen
Europe
Steinmeyers
Oatfingen
Tve
Boston Transcript
Siamese Monarch Converts Country Into Modern State under Mongkut
The article recalls King Mongkut of Siam and his grandson Chulalongkorn, who reigned for forty years and modernized Siamese governance. It notes education reforms for royal brothers, English and Siamese schooling, and later sending royals and officials to Europe to build a modern administration led by donors in foreign affairs.
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Mongkut
Siam
Chulalongkorn
Leenowerts
Blngapore
Bangkok
Europe
Ildon
Camper’s Rules for Camp Kitchen From Field and Stream
A Field and Stream piece notes cooking as an art learned by practice and experience. The camper lauds single leadership in meal prep and outlines stark rules such as one person cooking, no conferences, and severe punishment for mistakes, ending abruptly.
Reptile Traveler Brings Boa Constrictor To City Zoo
A boa constrictor arrived in Philadelphia after a banana bunch journey from tropical Brazil. The snake caused a panic when a trust store operator, Philip Braverman, opened the fruit and police captured it. Emerson Brown, director of the zoo, labeled the specimen rare and noted such a trip had not been seen before.
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Boo
Philadelphia
Brazil
Philip Braverman
Emerson Brown
Zoo
Brown
Woman asks teamster to haul away rock garden
A woman proud of her rock garden is interrupted as a teamster offers to haul away the rocks for a cheap price. The scene shows her satisfaction with the finished work as the curbside request interrupts her contemplation.
Million-Mile Air Mail Flyers Highlight Test Flight
A radio test of planes showcased mileage by air mail veterans Slyera Bi Williams and Jack Knight, each exceeding a million air miles. The feats imply a locomotive engineer would need 12 to 18 years to match such distance.
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Slyera
Bi Willams
Jack Knight
Husband snaps at wife's new wireless set in quarrel
In a domestic row, a husband snaps that he dislikes his wife's new wireless device, quipping that it is "curned off" as tension rises over household tech. The exchange highlights a contemporary friction over evolving home electronics.
Poets and their Hetty Rhymes Quote by Byron
A brief literary line notes Byron's quip that when poets claim Hetty rhymes are ready they may deliver them too, hinting at public recitation.
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Hetty
Byron
Fonds of Ill Luck and a Quip on Luck
A brief quip notes that some people are fond of misluck, ruinously chasing fortune mid journey, attributed to Jerrold.
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Jerrold
Lucky Accident Brings Unlikely Bride After Car Fire
LeRoy Duvatey of Sentrie survived a serious traffic accident when a car overturned and burned. He credits a seventeen year old girl who helped pull him from the wreck and later married her. The tale blends humor and improbability about affections formed in crisis.
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LeRoy Duvatey
Sentrie
Bequest Shapes Ardmeanoch Burg in Scotland
Blair bequeaths southern Ardmeanoch headland known as the Burg to Scotland. The Burg cliffs rise 1200 feet above the Atlantic, hosting caves including Mackin non cave once visited by Doctor Tohngon. Also visible is the famed MacCulloch tree, an ancient fossil survivor.
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Scotland
A. Campbell Blair
Ardmeanoch
Burg
Tohngon
Burg Fa Alao
She Reduced 38 Pounds The Safe Way
A Boston woman, 32, 5 ft 2 in, reduced from 165 to 127 pounds in four months using Kruschen Salts. She reports improved health and energy, noting laziness if doses stop. The ad urges daily half teaspoon in hot water and advising avoiding fatty foods. The copy ends with a jokey line about a plumber misplacing tools.
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Kroschen Salta
Florence Loftus
Boston
Des Moines
Glaciers Count in Oregon and Washington Reach 90,000 Acres
The region hosts over 440 glaciers spanning about 90 000 acres. The piece reflects on weather wisdom and storytelling, noting anyone can be a weather prophet if two thirds of the sky is visible daily. It also offers aphorisms on memory, life, and nature.
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Iitni
Rome
Oregon
Washington
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Binrich Bruening
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Frang You Papen
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Geruanis
Berlin
Russia
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Grain Futures Commission
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California
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Los Angeles
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England
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London
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Colorado
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Illess
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APAN
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Manchukuo
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Uchida
Japan
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Siberian
Hailun
Tsvestia
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West Virginia
Neely
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