Senator Fess Delivers Notable Kansas City Farewell Address
President Coolidge era remarks highlight Senator Simeon Fess of Ohio. The keynote speech, delivered Tuesday afternoon in Kansas City, is praised as a direct, influential address that may stand among the finest political passages in recent American history. It is printed on page nine for study by readers interested in economic, political, and social history since the Civil War.
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Simeon Fess
Ohio
Senator Fess
Kansas City
Nomination prospects and past first-ballot picks
The piece weighs Republican prospects for the 1930s nomination with Herbert Hoover as a likely front-runner though viewed skeptically by some. It surveys potential contenders like Hoover Lowden Dawes Curtis Borah and Coolidge, and weighs historical patterns of first-ballot nominations and outcomes from 1856 onward with numerous examples.
Harding Dark Horse Reemerges as Hoover Gains Momentum
The article recalls 1916 and 1920 party conventions with Wilson and Harding as pivotal figures. It notes Roosevelt’s split of the Republican vote, Hughes’ defeat on the Chicago ballot, and the late swing to Harding as a dark horse. It then contrasts Hoover’s stronger delegate support with Leonard Wood’s earlier momentum and the current deadlock.
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Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Bull Moose
Progressive Party
Charles Evans Hughes
Chicago
Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Coolidge
Cleveland
Leonard Wood
Harding
Hoover
Wood
Commencement Song Of The Elder Poet To Alma Mater
An old blind singer recalls a Great One who seeks strength from Earth during strife. The elder poet’s song praises Alma Mater as annual reunions bring stalwart sons back from daily life to renew their strength in familiar arms.
Power industry issue looms in campaign at Kansas City
Kansas City June 12 The power industry faces potential political exposure at the Houston convention and in the presidential race. Republicans at Kansas City fear Democrats may find the issue unsafe to pursue, given the dispersed ownership and stock distribution among modest investors. Strong concerns over how dividend politics could backfire on candidates.
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Kansas City
Houston
Journey's End Poem by Edgar A. Guest
Poem laments a life of pain and loss as the speaker pleads for death to end suffering. The verse reflects on fatigue, vanished hope, and the desire for peaceful slumber, contrasting sorrow with the notion that peace may finally come with death.
Llama Loses His Nerve In Wild South African Meadow
Oliver Ostrich and Bobolinks narrate a tense moment as a large brown four legged creature with yellow eyes and a long tail emerges from a thicket. The group fears danger but the Llama remains rattled while the animal assesses them, showing a tense standoff in an untamed meadow setting.
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Oliver
Thic Old Meadow
South Africa
Sienna
Oliver Ostrich
Living and Loving Advice From Mrs Virginia Lee
A reader asks how to help a man who left a partner while courting another. Mrs. Lee urges the caller to stay out of marital affairs, urging him to seek a divorce through proper channels and to remain true to her own current partner. She cautions against interfering with others and notes she cannot answer all letters quickly.
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Nell
Diary notes on New Yorkers and Coney Island amusements
A June diary piece muses on anonymity for Lindbergh Chaney Lloyd and a mobbing Times Square moment. It critiques Coney Island as a commercial playground with lost children, modern bathing suits, and a wild German American performer amid postwar changes and social quirks.
Worm eggs in tablets vs weight loss claim questioned
A New York health department record shows capsules sold as weight reducers contained tapeworm heads. A husband submitted the capsule for analysis. his wife had been buying them for 50 cents each and told to take one weekly with promises of weight loss. The head of a tapeworm is very small.
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New York Health Department
Eight Young Women Graduate From Warren State Hospital Training
A ceremony Thursday evening saw eight young women complete the four year training school course at Warren State hospital. Supervisors Albert E. Johnson True Peterson and Nels Hansen from Elk township met Warren County commissioners in a conference today.
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Warren State Hospital
Albert E. Johnson
True Peterson
Nels Hansen
Elk Township
Warren County
Cornerstone Laying Planned for First Baptist Church
On Sunday afternoon June 21 the cornerstone of the First Baptist Church will be laid with a service led by Pastor Rev. Stoddard. Earlier this morning a heavy truck driven by Mike Getto collided with an Overland sedan at the Carver street and Madicon avenue intersection.
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First Baptist Church
Rev. Stoddard
Mike Getto
Carver Street
Madicon Avenue
County Land Sale Draws About a Hundred Attendees
County Treasurer Addison White presided over a morning land sale at the courthouse with roughly one hundred people in attendance. A boy, Donald Ristaw, age 10, narrowly escaped drowning last evening after being in bathing near the Glade Run bridge.
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Addison White
Court House
Donald Ristaw
Glade Run Bridge
Tapeworms and health tips echo in Warren column
The column notes John C. Ziegler in Warren for health division business and honors A. H. Sigworth and Frank R. Mount at a recent United Commercial Travelers convention at Conneaut Lake. It then discusses dubious worm remedies once marketed in Los Angeles, cautions about dangerous reducing medicines with thyroid, and advises safe methods to manage overweight with diet and exercise while offering pamphlets in exchange for a small postage fee. The piece ends with reader questions about excessive underarm perspiration and practical responses.
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A. H. Sigworth
Frank R. Mount
United Commercial Travelers
Conneaut Lake
Los Angeles
One Minute Pulpit on Seed Growing Faith
A brief sermon-like reflection compares the kingdom of God to a farmer sowing seeds. The speaker notes the cycle from blade to ear to full corn as night and day work yields growth, with the earth bringing forth fruit of itself and the divine timing known to God.
Dr Lulu Hunt Peters sends pamphlet request ad for perspiration cure
A reader is urged to mail ten cents and a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Lulu Hunt Peters at the Wave ren Tribune for pamphlets on reducing and gaining weight. The letter praises weight control methods, mentions 2,000,000 pores and a skin cleansing routine with aluminum chloride and formalin solution, and asks for instructions and orders.
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Lulu Hunt Peters
The
Waveren Tribune
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