Commercial Club gains support in Troy plan
Friday remarks in the Highland Journal praise the newly organized Troy Commercial Club for scaling up community goals and coordinating with Collinsville St Jacob and Highland. It notes potential improvements, suburban line extensions, and warns against free publicity abuses while highlighting national Thanksgiving on the horizon and the country's wartime respite.
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Be Thankful for Work and Fellowship Ahead
A reflective note praising the value of work, thankfulness, and fellowship. It emphasizes gratitude for a strong heart, ample opportunity, and the benefit of labor, while contrasting with those who fear or dislike work due to lack of its comforts.
Home Town Building Brains and the War on Youth
A New York Medical Journal view argues mental strain from brain overdevelopment fuels social turmoil and proposes play and recreation as healing. P. P. Claxton urges schools to embrace physical culture to prevent a mollycoddle generation and warns rural towns face depopulation as youth seek cities.
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Rough Farming Land Tales Stir Town Humor
Three men discuss farming rough land in a town tale. No. 1 recalls a hilly farm with a pole to keep a lister steady and a potato field rolling to a cellar trough. No. 2 adds corn planted with a shotgun. No. 3 recounts Nebraska farming, buying Rocky Mountain goats tied by their tails to graze steeps.
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West Pocket Essays and Eating in the World
George Fitch presents essays on thrift and humor including yolk preservation tips and reflections on eating as a sport and necessity. He contrasts lavish appetites with frugality, cites wartime hunger, and offers miscellany on history, daily learnings, and light verse.
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Edwardsville papers debate county expenditures committee
The Edwardsville Dispatch questions whether the Madison County Board will appoint an impartial committee of businessmen to review the report on county spending. The Edwardsville Intelligencer quips that a young man’s independence may rely on his father’s support, while a Highland Leader proverb cites a smiling face as a shop’s key.
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Peterman Agency Reports From St Louis Papers
Daniel Peterman reports on local happenings across St Louis outlets including the Post-Dispatch Globe-Daz, Republic and Times of Star noting community events, business openings, and public notices with terse summaries and names of key organizations.
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