The Municipal Housing Act Upheld by State Supreme Court
The Arizona Supreme Court upholds the Municipal Housing Act passed by the fourteenth legislature. A Phoenix resident challenged its validity, with the decision framing the law as a tool to protect health, morals, and safety for low income residents in substandard housing areas. The piece discusses poverty, racial demographics, and the state’s obligation to improve housing and conditions for all.
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Phoenix
High Court
Supreme Court
Southwest
Home Dedication Service Echoes Across Nations and Generations
The article recalls a 14 year old home dedication at Professor H Augustine Smith’s Newton Highlands home. It links the simple service to global reach from China and India to Canada and the United States, noting his aim to keep homes havens from disintegration and his warning against commercialization.
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Christian Science Monitor
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Mississippi River
Westbrook Pegler Reminisces On Harder Car Life
The writer contrasts past and present driving hardships, recalling lighting cigarettes with a dash lighting system, shifting gears from a floor lever, hand signal duties, and bending to old appliances like wash wringers. He laments today’s ease and argues character is the nation’s need.
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Pinocchio
Quotations on Beauty and the Sense of the Divine
A collection of brief reflections on beauty from Bovee Socrates Harriet Beecher Stowe and Emerson. Notes urge seeking beauty in people skies flowers and daily life as a sign of divine goodness and blessing.
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Socrates
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Emerson
Noble youth refuses wine at Washington statesman's table
The tale recalls a poor youth who, urged to drink wine at a Washington statesman's table, refuses the glass with moral courage. He accepts rye whiskey if offered, demonstrating restraint in social pressure while maintaining dignity and resolve.
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Washington
Statesman
Automatic Show and Local Signals From Arizona Mountains
A report notes an Alberto Ramirez entertainment show tonight and tomorrow along with a public show of a miniature exhibit. Indians in the Tucson area observe signal fires from mountain points this week while a Troy woman hints at peril to her husband amid national defense concerns and looming war mobilization debates.
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National
Edison
Ameri
Perkins Favors Dimock Exit Over Divorce Rumors
Madame Secretary Perkins plans to lose her top aide Marshall E. Dimock as he seeks a divorce. Dimock, Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, will return to teaching at the University of Chicago after reportedly marrying Mrs. Warren Jay Vinton, ex secretary to Vinton who filed for divorce in Reno on April 23.
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Perkins
Marshall E. Dimock
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U. S. Housing Authority
Reno
Vinton
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Why We Get Blah Moods and How to Cope
Elsie Robinson explains that blah moods are natural as humans, a sign the brain’s newer thinking and feeling functions momentarily strike. The piece argues such periods are common, not a flaw, and urges using good thoughts and feelings when possible while accepting rest from mental effort.
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Elsie Robinson
Travelers and Farmers Urged to Watch Fire on Highways
Travelers and others on the highways and farmers to keep a look out. However bright these fires are, they are not cheerful sights.
Quiet On Potomac Is In Arlington
A witty political survey by Arthur Bugs Baer on Congress and the White House. It lampoons legislative quirks and the era’s governance through sharp caricature, referencing battles over lawmaking and the peculiarities of Washington life.
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United Feature Syndicate
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Bugs” Baer
White House
Pithy May 8 Snapshots From History
A set of brief quips dated May 8 across years 1935 1930 1925 and 1920. These remarks touch on political bills prohibition responses urban safety and playful commentary on golf weather and governance. The items reflect archival humor and social commentary from the era.
Security rests Largely in Prayer and Geography
A compact aphorism distribution notes that security hinges on faith and location, reflecting a worldview emphasizing spiritual and geographic factors as defense.
The General's Elm
A retired general and his wife spent months choosing an Arlington plot. They admired a large elm on the site until officials removed it for blight. A matching replacement elm was transplanted by foresters to restore the cemetery view for the couple.
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Arlington
Virginia Hills
Gene
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