May Day Festival and local news from Babson Park
Babson Park notes May Day festival plans at Babson Park school with Maypole winding and a program of recitations and refreshments featuring Georgia Deming. D'Orsay Palmer seeks divorce and $300,000 from husband’s parents. Sebring high school band blocked from Charlotte contest due to flu. Webber College closes for the year May 11 with graduation by Doyle E. Carlton. Many tourists and college girls depart for northern homes, leaving locals lonely until fall.
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Lake
Caloosa
Georgia
D’orsay Palmer
Sarasota
Road Side
Sebring, Florida
Charlotte
North Carolina
Webber College
Doyle E. Carlton
State of
Florida
Babson Park Packing Plant re-elects directors at annual stockholders meeting
At the Babson Park Co operative Packing Plant annual stockholders meeting on Tuesday afternoon the directors H E Fairchild Max Waldron Mrs Wilkins Joe Haskins and Geo A Nichols were reelected. The plant, owned by growers, employs many locals about ten months yearly and plans to handle about 175000 boxes of citrus this season. It is linked with the Co operative Canning Plant in Leake Wales, aiding disposal of fruit to markets and cannery. The plant cost about 85000 and processes fruit for juice and canned products for shipment.
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Babson Park Co-operative Packing Plant
H. E. Fairchild
Max Waldron
Wilkins Joe Haskins
Geo. A. Nichols
Co-operative Canning
Leake Wales
Babson Park Packing Plant
V.R
Ted Thatcher Joins a Worlds of Adolescent Plans
Doris and Joey discuss the arrival of Ted Thatcher a fourteen year old boy who promises social leverage at school and in their friend group Doris eyes the possibilities while Joey adores the idea and both overlook wider consequences Ted's entry stirs status games and budding crushes among the girls and boys in their circle
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Joey
Doris
Ted Thatcher
Ted
Joy For Morons Murals in New York Subways
Murals may be painted in New York subway stations. The plan anticipates all faces shown clean shaven to respect readers who prefer to draw mustaches.
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New York
American independence spirit through self-made opportunity
A speaker argues that the American spirit remains vibrant as youths prove self reliance by building from entry jobs to ownership, citing a university graduate in oil and a taxi entrepreneur. He says opportunity exists but carries risk, criticizing calls for security and Social Security as false guarantees and urging personal initiative to restore national prosperity.
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Washington
Path to Happiness and Independence in a Free Society
The author rejects utopian schemes for social perfection based on force and welfare from state plans. He cautions that welfare erodes individual rights and promotes dependence, praising independence as the path to happiness and warning that repeated appeals to government risks widespread regimented living. He argues Americans should resist coercive reforms and maintain personal liberty.
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Europe
Germany
Italy
Russia
America
United States
Jowa Mothers Demand Baby Care Literature
Towa mothers show rising demand for baby care literature from the maternal and child health division of the Town state department of health. From 1935 to 1938 requests tripled, with 60,080 pieces distributed in the latest year, while supply lags but is expected to meet need during Child Health Week in May.
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Towa
Towa State Department
of Health
Des Moines
Beauty Through the Ages and a Farmer Editor’s Warning
A reflection on beauty standards shows diverse practices from ancient Egypt to modern cultures, noting cosmetics’ long history and a doctor’s trial that finds soap and water as effective as costly creams. An editor in Fairbury, Nebraska warns of Hitler’s aggression affecting landowners and tax burdens.
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Fairbury, Nebraska
Hitler
Drive Carefully on Dry Roads Says Driver Safety Ad
The message warns drivers not to assume dry roads prevent accidents. It notes most crashes do not occur on wet or icy surfaces and stresses continued caution on dry pavement. Emphasizes that surface condition alone does not guarantee safety.
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Iowa
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Henry George
St. Augustine
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Aurelius
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Shelley
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