Radio and Politics in the Presidential Campaign
The Philadelphia Public Ledger argues radio will separate hokum from politics as networks reach millions in the upcoming conventions. By linking about 100 stations and using shortwave, broadcasting will test campaign technique, reduce front porch reliance, and force candidates to adapt to sound and pacing while facing mass entertainment competition.
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Hokum and Bank
Philadelphia Public Ledger
The
Ledger
Pittsburgh
Calvin Coolidge
John W. Davis
Kansas City
Houston
United States
South America
Europe
Asia
Australia
New Zealand
Madison Square Garden
Radio campaigning shifts pace for upheaved voting year
Politicians plan to exploit radio more than ever to mobilize voters. Campaigns adapt tactics to the airwaves, seeking effective messages and reach in a year defined by loud political contention.
Five Day Week Debate and Monday as a Loss
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch argues that a five day work week might spread work and reduce unemployment, but cautions it could make returning to work twice as hard. It notes Monday is a total loss and questions if Tuesday can be spared, suggesting Wednesday would be needed to regain productivity.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Washington
Midnight Belfry Flower Poem by Frank Dempster Sherman
The poem dwells on a moonlit belfry tower and a ghostly flower in the night. It mentions a chime quavering over the town and twelve petals wafted from the flower of Time. Frank Dempster Sherman signs the verse.
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Frank Dempster Sherman
What's What in Washington by Charles P. Stewart
Washington columnist Charles P. Stewart critiques national conventions as costly, wasteful events that yield no real returns. He laments endless political maneuvering, hotel and rail costs, and public disillusion while warning voters against trusting politicians and independent tickets.
Just Folks
The poem Reflects on the wheel of fortune and how chance can lift a person to wealth or ruin others yet emphasizes that wealth alone cannot shape character. It asserts more than luck is needed to become a gentleman and live with refinement.
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Jack
Peter's Adventures in a World of Odd Birds
Florence Vincent recounts Bobolink's tale of a near encounter with an ostrich who declares himself the largest strongest bird, misidentified by the narrators as a horse or giraffe, and asserts his eminent status as Tam Ostrich in a curious adventure.
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Bobolink
Wife
Peter
Ostrich
Wifie
Governor Smith Reclassified From Truck Man to Drayman in Encyclopedia
A New York City born governor, Alfred E. Smith, is portrayed as a farmer in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Proof corrections swap the words truck man for market gardener and then for drayman, reflecting revised descriptors of his ventures in the truck business.
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New York City
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Encyclopedia Britannica
Governor Smith
Drayman
Continental Phrase Origins in War Slang
The article discusses the origin of the phrase not worth a continental. It notes Continental Congress currency devaluations, Boston flour pricing, and Samuel Adams buying costly attire. Richard Grant White suggests the term may derive from Continentalers or Continentals, later losing the possessive and the word damn. Washington’s era is cited regarding provisioning costs as illustrative context.
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Continental Congress
Boston
Samuel Adams
Washington
Richard Grant White
One Minute Pulpit Verses On Knowledge And Mercy
A devotional fragment presents biblical lines urging pursuit of knowledge with silver like value and treasuring wisdom. It pairs Proverbial guidance on fearing the Lord and knowing God with Psalmic pleas for mercy and refuge under divine protection during calamities.
The Bowery and Brooklyn Docks Shape New York Shadow
In 1920s New York, the docks by Brooklyn Bridge emerge as the city’s toughest death zone where rival gangs clash. The piece recalls historic killings from Broadway to the Bowery, notes police rowdiness at the Paramount, and mentions a raid exposing a robber gang HQ. It ends with Variety noting stock burlesque revival efforts failing at Royale.
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New York
Broadway
Houston
Bleecker Streets
37Th St
Tenth Avenue
Hell’s Kitchen
39Th Street
Milligan Alley
Bowery
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan
Ed McGuire
Bill Lovett
Dovks
Lovett
McGuire
R Ocoil
Paramount
Y.M. G
the Royale
the Bowery
Variety
Wall Street Quotes Highlight Political Battle Lines
A compact archival note cites a Detroit Free Press line on bulls and bears and lambs with donkeys, paired with a Dallas News remark about Democrats and leadership, signaling contemporary tensions and public discourse on markets and politics.
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Wall Street
Detroit Free Press
Diet and Health Brush on Nervous Disorders and Calcium
Gault reports 18 patients with nervous disorders showed uniform improvement after six months of calcium administration. Within 24 to 48 hours they felt well, anxiety receded, fatigue lifted, appetite improved, headaches eased, and sleep improved. The piece notes calcium helps balance inorganic body chemistry and iron metabolism, plus sources of calcium in foods. It cautions medical supervision and promotes milk as a calcium source. It also recounts a separate case of a girl with appendicitis treated with ice and a mineral oil medicine, discussing mineral oil drawbacks and vitamin absorption concerns. It closes with requests for pamphlets and a teaser: Tomorrow: Some Terms Explained.
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Gault
Warren High School class graduates 111 students
The Warren High School graduating class for the year comprises 111 members, announced today by P. W. M. Pressel, assistant superintendent. Robert G. Young of Russell will become assistant principal of Warren High next year under a plan from Superintendent Merle Deardorff.
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Warren High School
P. W. M. Pressel
Robert G. Young
Russell
Merle Deardorff
Warren survey notes forest loss after porkey fire
On June 4 1925 Mr West of the state Chamber of Commerce service bureau in Harrisburg reports an industrial and mercantile survey of Warren. A fire that began yesterday devastated over seven hundred acres of forest land in the Porkey section.
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Warren
West
Service Bureau
The
State Chamber of Commerce of
Harrisburg
Porkey
Exhibition of long distance golf elenting thrills Tribune Circle crowd
A large crowd gathered at Tribune Circle in 1926 to witness an exhibition of long distance golf elenting by enthusiasts. Meanwhile, game-keepers from western Pennsylvania convened for a meeting and picnic at the Kalbfus game preserve and refuge above Clarendon.
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Tribune Circle
Western
Pennsylvania
Kalbfus Game Preserve
Clarendon
Russell Knowlton graduates from Bliss Electrical School
June 4, 1927 Russell Knowlton of Warren was graduated last evening from the Bliss Electrical school in Washington D C Mrs Jean Lott and Miss Edith McCalmont of the Ring Around a Rosy shop left today by motor for Naverton Ohio
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Russell Knowlton
Warren Boy
Bliss Electrical School
Washington, D.C
Jean Lott
Edith McCalmont
Naverton
Ohio
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Clark Kinnaird
Dallas News
Lulu Sant Peters
Lulu Hunt Peters
Warren Tribune
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