Ballyhoo Days Are Gone and Radio Politics Rise
In a nostalgic column, Earl Godwin Ashington laments faded old time political rallies and torchlight parades, contrasting them with radio era campaigning. He notes Roosevelt era tactics, Farley’s dual roles, civil service debates, and the rise of baby bonds as popular savings.
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Earl Godwin Ashington
America
Ballyjoo
Roosevelt
Farley
Jim
National Council of Business
Civil Service
Jobay
Wilson
Congress
Elgil
Postmastershing
Elvil
Elysi
Works Progress Adminisration
Harry Hopkins’ Relief Outfit
Guam
Samoa
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Alaska
United States
Illinois
New York
Washington, D. C
Treasury
Midwest
United States Savings
Western Newspaper Union
One Big Shot Convicted In Brisbanes Weekly
Arthur Brisbane column surveys a string of bold political and criminal events from 1930s America and Europe. It highlights Luciano’s 62 counts and possible long sentences, tech advances, Mussolini’s conquest, nature’s tempests, religious tensions, and calls for protectionism and nationalist pride.
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Dewey
Supreme Court
McCook
New York City
Charles
Lucky
Luciano
Tropical Medicine From India
A brief note traces tropical medicine to 1600 when the East India Company sent doctors to the tropics, marking an early organized medical presence in colonial India and shaping subsequent global travel and disease care.
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India
East India Company
Tropics
Jamalca Island Hosts Vast Orchid Collection
An Island named Jamalca reportedly features about 8,000 flowering plant varieties and 200 orchid species. The claim highlights Jamalca as a center of botanical diversity with extensive plant life and cultivated orchids.
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Jamalca
Rhodes The Dreamer Of Rhodesia And Its Pioneering Spirit
National Geographe Society profiles Cecil John Rhodes in a 1870s Kimberley context and surveys Rhodesia as a male driven pioneer society. It highlights Rhodes’s ambitions, colonial policy, land sale schemes, and the masculine frontier culture, ending with a meditation on Rhodesia as an English oak planted by his vision and the Matopo hills burial shrine.
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Hillston
Harding
Congress
Senate
Wilson
Ohio Gang
Will H. Hays
Post Office Department
Woodrow Whitson
Roosevelt
United States
Land Office
National Geographe Society
Washington, D. C
WNU
Pionher
Ithodesia
Matopo
Rhodes
Kimberley
Natal
Colossus
Cecl
John Rhodes
Lve
Rhodesias
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Atlanta
Rhodesia
Department of Agriculture
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
England
Salisbury
Umtali
Lttle
Umtalf
Matopo Hills
Remus
Bulawayo
Rodin
Searching for crooked or straight paths
A reflective note echoes a quotation attributed to John Ruskin about perception. It states that those who seek crooked things will notice crookedness, while those seeking straightness will see straightness.
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John Ruskin
Tea Towels Bring Gayety to Kitchen Pattern
Advertisement for cross stitch tea towel patterns titled seven motifs for each day of the week. Encourages embossing cheerful designs, with bandana and apron imagery. Provides pattern 5547 details, material needs, stitch illustrations, and a request for 15 cents and sender address to Household Arts Dept., Sewing Circle, 259 West Fourteenth Street, New York.
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Household Arts Dept
West Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Change in Earth Gravity Reported by Soviet Academy
The Soviet Academy of Sciences states a Caucasus expedition found clear signs of a change in Earth's gravity caused by very slow secular alterations in gravity. It attributes these shifts to gigantic catastrophes and deep underground mass movements, per the Hayden Planetarium Bulletin.
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Earth
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Caucasus
Hayden Planetarium Bulletin
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Constantine
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Kansas
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Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Sir Samuel Hoare
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League of Nations
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France
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Palestine
Jures Syndicate
Ois
Bete Ap
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Pettis ‘County
Wm. H. Carl
South Ohio
Sedalla
Roper Seng
Magnesi
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Magnesia
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