Arctic Tragedy Fails to Stir Readership Despite Global Drama
The Arctic crash of the dirigible with General Umberto Nobile and Amundsen presumed dead captivates explorers but fails to engage the general public. The piece argues distance, unfamiliarity, and heat wave despair hinder reader empathy, contrasting with the Floyd Collins cave rescue craze and urging a vicarious viewpoint to spark interest.
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Arctic
Floyd Collins
Kentucky
North Pole
Iey
Amundgen
Nobile
Greenland
Esquimaux
Hell
Candy consumption remains a leading Pennsylvania industry
A recent department of commerce bulletin notes candy is a major Pennsylvania industry. It reports per capita consumption as the average amount eaten by each person, highlighting the scale of candy intake in the state.
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Pennsylvania
Department of Commerce
Candy Consumption in 1926 Across States and Exports Rise
The article notes per capita candy intake in 1926, highlighting higher rates in Moyads and Montana compared to the state average. It cites 1.393 billion pounds of candy sold nationwide valued at 342 million dollars, chocolate covered bars rising to 291 million pounds. Exports reached 3 million dollars, up ten percent from 1925.
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Moyads
Montana
Commonwealths
United States
Washington hosts party campaigns in the heat of 1928
Washington becomes the campaign hub as both major parties set up headquarter spaces in the Barr Building and the National Press Club, with Doc Work and Hubert Work guiding party operations. Observers predict heated, mud-filled races with a sizeable November vote and a lively capital scene despite summer dullness.
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Washington
New York
Chicago
Manhattan
Republican
Barr Building
Seventeenth Street
Farragut Square
Hubert Work
National Committee
Doc Work
Doe
McKinley
al Smith
Doc
Kansas City
Houston
One Bee and a Girl in Truth and Trust
A compact verse notes breath and bloom of the year and wealth of a mine in a single gem, a pearl core, sea shade and shine, ending with the brightest truth and purest trust found in the kiss of one girl.
Just Folks Adventure and the Thrill of Growth
A reflective piece argues adventure exists in daily toil. It links gardeners battling pests and soil to epic feats, noting the thrill of bringing a single bloom to life. The text pairs common horticulture with courage, claiming triumphs come from steady effort.
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Ahpis
Peter's Adventures from the Monkey and the Parrot
Bobolink peers from under his wing as parrots and monkeys trade taunts in a coconut grove. The parrots boast, the monkeys threaten, and Sonny Bunny joins the fun with silly faces while Peter laughs.
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Peter's Adventures
Florence Vincent
the Monkey and
the Parrot
Bobolink
Xotecoanut Grove
Cocoanut Grove
Cocomnut Grove
Sonny-Bunny
Peter
Living and Loving by Mrs Virginia Lee
Advice column about teasing and relationships among youths. Readers ask how to handle teasing at home, choosing friends, and dating boundaries. Provides guidance to set boundaries, evaluate behavior, and act respectfully while considering circumstances and consent.
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Mrs
Virginia Lee
One Minute Pulpit Passage Quoted From Isaiah
A brief quoted Bible verse appears with the line Look unto me and be ye saved from Isaiah chapter fourteen verses 22 to 23. The text emphasizes monotheism and universal acknowledgment of God with a call to all ends of the earth to bow and swear.
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God
Isaiah
Diary of a New Yorker exposes rich heir’s costly whims
Otto H. Kahn backs son Roger who funds a jazz band a nightclub and a musical show, incurring multi hundred thousand dollar losses. Roger buys private planes and maintains a racing track while speaking with London by trans Atlantic radiophone. New York officials probe ambulance chasers as fake accident rings spread nationwide.
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New York
Otto H. Kahn
Kahn, Loeb & Company
Roger
Kahn
Junior
Father Kahn
Son
United States
Junior Kahn
London
Reducing tips and patient letters from Dr Lulu Hunt Peters
A reader recounts weight loss progress from 280 pounds and outlines a plan to reach normal weight. Dr Peters advises dietary changes and fat reduction, including cooking with minimal fat, serving fruit, and limiting bread and butter, to cut 400 to 500 calories daily and encourage partner cooperation. A note on low blood pressure follows with guidance and mention of tomorrow's correspondence answers.
Guardsmen prepare for Mt Gretna encampment
Retrospective notes that Guardsmen affiliated with Company I reported to the State Armory to entrain for the guard encampment at Mt Gretna. Also, Rev Lee D Smith, son of Rev A B Smith, will occupy his father's pulpit Sunday evening at Grace Methodist Episcopal church.
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Company I
State Armory
Mt. Gretna
Lee D. Smith
A. B. Smith
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
Rotary club hears former Warren M C A leader
On July 11 1925 Harry E Dodge former general secretary of the Warren M C A spoke to the Rotary club in Fall River Mass More than 200 Penn Furnace and Iron Co employees attended a Saturday picnic at Oak View Park with a baseball game as a feature
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Harry E. Dodge
Fall River
Mass
The
Warren ¥. M. C. A
Rotary Club Today
Penn Furnace and Iron Company
Oakview Park
Taft visits Warren. Ishimura speaks at United Brethren
Harrisburg official W S Taft, assistant director of field service for the state department of public instruction, was in Warren yesterday. Henry Ishimura, a Lebanon Valley College student, spoke at the United Brethren church Sunday evening.
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W. S. Taft
Harrisburg
State Department of Public Instruction
Warren
Henry Ishimura
Lebanon Valley College
United Brethren Church
Fourteen Warren county guardsmen join Company I roster
July 11 1327 reports fourteen Warren county boys enlisted in Company I of the National Guard local unit, bringing the roster to 74 men. Trinity Memorial church choir members will sing at a great song service at the Temple of Music in Conneaut Lake next Sunday. A Greenwich Village revival turned a planned comedy into a crowd pleaser, and the company is moving to a theater near Broadway as producers plan a tour for wives in the hinterland.
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Warren County
National Guard
Trinity Memorial Church
Temple of Music
Conneaut Lake
Greenwich Village
Broadway
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KD. Wetmere
Henry H. Bassett
BG. Chapel
Henry H. Bas
RG. Chapal
R. W. Cousins
Fred C. Eston
A. B. Johnson
J. B. Moore
J. R. van Cleve
E. D. Wetmere
William B. Wright
Frank R. Ford
Howard L. Schulthala
Devine-Wallis Corporation
Newpot City
National
Olsea Mail
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
David A. Reed
Edward Martin
Charles A. Waters
Supreme Court
William D. Porter
Congress
T. C. Cochran
Assembly
A. W. Mumford
Charles P. Stewart
National Press Club
Fourteenth and
F Streets
Democratic Committee
John W. Davis
Republican Committee
Sy Adgaha
Euut
Mme
New Yorker
James J. Walker
Cheerie
Ooen
Jimmy
Ganga
Lulu Hunt
Dimner
Alwaysd
Lulu Hunt Peters
Warren Tribune
Mr. L
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