Airship versus airplane in postwar travel debate
An editorial argues about integrating dirigibles like Graf Zeppelin with airplanes. Conservatives seek distinct roles for each, predicting long routes for airships and short hops for planes. Navy orders for larger dirigibles may spark a new U.S. industry, with Los Angeles and blimps in service once two larger airships are built.
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Atlantic
Europe
Pittsburgh
Los Angeles
Miami
New Orleans
America
Navy Department
Germany
A Week From Today Silent Vote Shapes Presidential Outcome
An editorial discusses the looming election next Tuesday November 6 noting voters will decide the campaign and the silent vote may become vocal. It highlights unpredictability in districts, Democratic party hopes in Republican strongholds and Republican claims in the Solid Democratic South, with citizens keeping counsel despite public demonstrations.
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Exchange
Radio changes how voters hear both sides in campaign
The piece notes the radio's impact on politics, letting voters hear Hoover and Smith and other speakers directly. It argues that the public now evaluates candidates with cooler calculation, as personalities and showy tactics blend into measured scrutiny.
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Hoover
Smith
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Massachusetts Avenue
Charlie Dawes
Dawes as Presidential Hope Falls Flat in 1920s Drift
Washington observers recall Charles G. Dawes as a once touted presidential possibility whose prospects collapsed after Kansas City. The piece argues Dawes never truly became a genuine front runner, functioning mainly as an unsuccessful vice presidential candidate with an illusory boom that soon vanished.
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Dawes
Herb
Manhattan
General Dawes
Charles G. Dawes
Kansas City
Charlie Curtis
Frank C. Lowden
Frank Lowden
Frank
Charlie
Washington
The Earl of Rochester Poem Fragment in Constance Verse
A damaged excerpt shows Amynias dying and Phillis urged to feel pity as the speaker vows steadfast love and inevitable pain. The passage frames a feigned indifference and the promise of revenge through unpitied sighs and tears, culminating in the claim that a faithful heart cannot break in vain.
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Phillis
Amynias
Earl of Rochester
Just Folks and The Little Things by Edgar A Guest
This fragment from Edgar A Guest reflects on how trivial, petty worries drive regret and harm friendships. It contrasts small quarrels and slights with the idea that letting such matters fester only fosters unhappiness, urging readers to forgive, laugh, and move past minor grievances.
Peter's Adventures A Country That's Cruel to a Stranger
In this tale set in Australia a bird narrator describes vast plains and unseen dangers while recalling a family split and a mistaken path. The scene blends wonder and peril as the lone bird seeks its flock and learns the land's wide unfamiliarity.
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Australia
Living and Loving from Mrs. Virginia Lee column
A reader asks about petting and boundaries in dating and Mrs. Lee weighs the risks of kissing and handholding. She notes that even mild affection can dull a girl's bloom and invites parents to guide courtships, while addressing another letter about writing to a visiting boyfriend and parental consent.
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Mrs. Lee
New York Faces Beggar Plague and Skyscraper Winds
The Diary of a New Yorker reports New York City grappling with a beggar problem that spurs a Board of Trade appeal while Mayor Jimmy Walker clashes with federal enforcement. Prohibition administrator Maurice Campbell cites clubs’ cleanup, and former Queens official Maurice Connelly serves jail time for sewer-contract fraud. Noting Chicago’s 75 story tower plans, expert Napoleon Pickard explains wind pressure and engineering advances.
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Jimmy Walker
Wroth
Maurice Campbell
New York
Maurice BE. Connelly
Queens
New York Penitentiary
Welfare Island
Woolworth
Florida
Napoleon Pickard
Chicago
Pickard
Diet and Health Questions on Temperature and Body Size
Reader asks about a persistent afternoon fever of 99 degrees and how normal temps vary daily. Dr Peters explains normal range 98 to 99, highest 4–6 pm, and lowest around 3 am. suggests lifestyle or diet changes if symptoms arise and notes slight overage in weight for height. Also addresses concerns about thick ankles from organ practice, clarifying tendons and lack of muscle enlargement. Encourages yearly physicals and balanced diet.
Warren Hi Y Club Dinner Draws Sixty Members
Social meeting and dinner of the Warren Hi Y club drew over sixty members on Wednesday night. One hundred eighty four hunting licenses were issued Wednesday at the office of County Treasurer White. Several Warren residents attended the Child Welfare conference held at Erie yesterday.
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Warren Hi-Y Club
White
Warren
Erie
Election Day ballots and jury panel announced
Ballots and supplies for Election Day are being distributed to outlying precincts. Sixteen women are drawn for the December traverse jury. Six additional state highway patrolmen will direct traffic on Halloween. Superintendent P W Pressel of Warren High will lead a Life Study club discussion. The Morning World notes Will Rogers’ influence on readers through a quip by St John Ervine about Rogers and domestic politics.
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Traverse
Hallowe’en
P. W. M. Pressel
Warren High
Life Study Club
St. John Ervine
Morning World
England
Alexander Woollcott
Will Rogers
Crite
Weeping Under Sad Music Marks Nervousness
The text argues that crying at sad music or plays does not prove over-emotionality unless extreme. It suggests such tendency may reflect a weakened nervous system from inheritance or hygiene breaches and advises library books on nervousness for help.
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BR. W. Cousins
Fred C. Eaton
A E. Johnson
J. R. van Cleve
William H. Wright
Frank R. Ford
Howard L. Schultheis
Devine-Wallis Corporation
New York City
National Advertising
Sears
Republican
Charles Curtis
United States
David A. Reed
Edward Martin
Charles A. Waters
Supreme Court
William D. Porter
Congress
T. C. Cochran
Assembly
A. W. Mumford
Charles P. Stewart
Just Folks
Edgar A. Guest
Peter's Adventures
Florexce Vincent
Golden-Collar
Susan Straw-Neck
Mrs
Virginia Lee
Pet
Reader
Vie
King Fasaree Sy
New Yorker
Clare Rinnaird
Board of Trade
United States Weather Bureau
Lulu Bunt Peters
Lulu Hunt Peters
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J. H. Shannon
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