Traffic light debate and road-safety push grows
Readers write about the new traffic light praising its function and urging more signals while a few oppose it. A borough committee will study the matter as DeVere Nirberger proposes a large route sign near the triangle of Second and Pennsylvania Avenues to help tourists. Monty McTure of the Motor Club plans to boost member recruitment as the club campaigns for better roads and motorist rights.
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Tribune
DeVere Nirberger
Second
Pennsylvania Avenues
Kirberger
Motor Club
Solid South may swing to Republicans this year
Pottsville Journal reports Senator Robinson warns the South becomes a political battleground. Republicans claim several Southern states may vote Republican as a rebuke to Democratic leadership and the Houston convention. Analysts question if Republicans can capitalize on this shift amid party divisions.
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Robinson
Pottsville Journal
Mason-Dixon Line
Houston
Hoover Supporters Seek Record Fortunes in 1928 Race
Campaign managers aim to mobilize a larger share of the electorate for Herbert Hoover than Calvin Coolidge received in 1924, signaling a push for a nationwide showing that could shape the Republican ticket's prospects and finance.
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Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Washington wartime rivalries clash in g h g jargon
In a vivid Washington dispatch dated July 24 the piece riffs on World War I era g h g slang to describe rival political figures Herbert Hoover Alfred Smith and their backers. It portrays Moses Reed Work and Raskob as daring, reckless operators whose high command could be obliterated by a single misstep while caution and rhetoric shape campaign clashes.
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High Command
Herbert Hoover
Alfred Smith
Dea
Smith
Jim Reed
Missouri
Moses
Reed
Senator Reed
al Smith
Hubert Work
Smith Headquarters
Portrait of a Boy Amid a Pirate Dreamscape
A boy recalls harsh whipping and a quiet bed while a hallucinatory voyage unfolds. Moonlight spills across a cave, stars blaze, and gaudy pirates hoard treasure as crimson light splashes the white sands and a skull and bones chest looms above a gunpowder note.
Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest
A light verse tracing a suitor’s courting history through gifts over twenty years. He recalls roses ribbons books and opera glasses as tokens of love culminating in marriage and ends with a playful line inviting his beloved to name any sorrow and he will deliver it tomorrow.
Bobolink Defeats Spider In Morning Showdown
In a vivid woodland tale Bobolink spots a spider threatening a young bird. The brave bobolink dives onto the spider, kills it with a swift beak strike, then taunts friends with the morning’s bold act. The episode ends with a note about Sparkie Tail and a neighbor choice.
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Bobolink
Sparkle Tsu
Diary Of A New Yorker On Auto Theft Rings And A Fearless Woman
A New York dispatch outlines how auto theft is a organized business linked to bootlegging, with 27 police specialists battling thefts that shift with high demand models. It notes culprits use cars seized from booze runs, fake theft reports, and river abandonments to collect insurance, while a separate vignette recounts Jim Crossley Batt and a travel anecdote about Most Fearless Woman in the World.
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America
Ford
Jim Crossley-Batt
Living and Loving By Mrs Virginia Lee
A column by Mrs Virginia Lee discusses love and virtue, arguing personality over morality in attracting affection. Readers submit letters about love, with Mrs Lee advising a balanced path between desire and self respect while honoring parental guidance and personal age.
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Mrs, Virginia Lee
Political quote and press blurbs remark on Hoover and countryside
A fragmentary exchange notes that a man who “didn't know anything about politics” praised Hoover, while a Boston Herald correspondent remarks the Massachusetts countryside is brighter. The text also mentions gasoline pumps and a reference to a Democrat and Chronicle.
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Jerbert
Hoover
Detroit Free Press
Massachusetts
The
Boston Herald
Atoenester Democrat and Chronich
Diet and Health Answers to Correspondents
Dear Doctor responds to a dieter’s plea about past failed attempts, noting new methods that avoid deprivation while reducing fat. The writer claims the system feeds the body properly, preserves willpower, and envisions a slimmer figure as motivation, ending with a playful verse about transformation.
Reducing and Gaining Weight Instructions and Breast Size Discussion
A Warren Tribune health column addresses dieting to cut hunger on a 1200 calorie plan and offers pamphlets on reducing and gaining weight. It covers breast size questions, noting natural asymmetry, rare glandular issues, and advising gradual weight loss, sun exposure, sleep, and medical consultation if enlargement seems abnormal. Tomorrow topic teased as Ringworm.
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Lulu Hunt Peters
The
Warren Tribune
Local Man Injured After Automobile Collision at Starbrick
Fred Kafferlin of Warren was seriously injured shortly after nine o clock this morning when struck by a car at Starbrick. Seventy seven officers and Company I, encamped at Mt Gretna, are packing belongings to break camp tomorrow.
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Fred Kafferlin
Warren
Starbrick
Mt. Gretna
Fund Drive Planned for Educational Building at Fairgrounds
A fund is to be raised next Wednesday and Thursday to erect an educational building at the Fairgrounds. The structure will remain property of the borough and county teachers, controlled through the superintendents. Golfers from Warren Conewango Valley Country Club drove to Off City this morning to play the local representative team this afternoon.
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Fairgrounds
Warren Conewango Valley Country Club
Rainbow trout caught by Sam Chiodo near Conemaugh
A rainbow trout weighing 1 pound 7 ounces and over fifteen inches was caught by Sam Chiodo of Warren while fishing Saturday in the Conenango. John Thomson of Canton Street resumed duties as assistant secretary of the YMCA after a month's absence. A taxi incident ended with the driver withholding a purse and refusing a reward.
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Warren
Conenango
John Thomson
Canton Street
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