Lost Honolulu Fliers Face Peril As Search Continues
Two Honolulu planes have landed while two remain unaccounted for as government search efforts persist for the missing fliers. The article notes the peril of a sea landing or drifting at sea with fuel running out and mentions missing Flint Michigan flyer Mildred Doran among the missing.
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Honolulu
Igat
Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Coast
Hawaiian
New York
Paris
Pacific
Filer
Flint
Michigan
Mildred Doran
The Driving Fool and The Road Hog in Verse
A vivid piece by Erwin Greer warns of reckless drivers as the driving fool. It contrasts farm hogs with the two legged hog on the road and imagines a Sunday memorial for driving fools with spare parts for such occasions.
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Erwin Greer
Daily English Word Lesson Prompts and Usage Notes
A dated English lesson column introduces misused words, pronunciation quirks, and a daily word. It discusses jury disposition and pronunciation mistakes, lists spelling pitfalls like Missouri and the number five, and defines RESPONSIVE as inclined to respond, urging greater responsiveness in questions.
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Missouri
Sermon Notes Mention Joy-Riders and Gas Spark
A fragment lists an offertory hymn about a gas spark and a sermon about joy-riders who toil not but spin. It includes an organ postlude titled Crossing the Grade Crossing and references the Yeoman Shield.
Rock of Ages Hymn In Slow Penetrating Mood
An excerpt from Heart Throbs Vol. 1 presents a female voice singing Rock of Ages with growing weariness. The lines reflect a life of sorrow and faith as the hymn accompanies a coffin lid and aging observer, ending with the refrain Let me hide myself in Thee and a note on the World Syndicate Co publication.
Toll of Carelessness
Davenport Times calls for action after noting 127,017 American deaths from automobile accidents in eight years. It argues drivers must accept responsibility, support fitness tests for licenses, and promote a nationwide campaign to reduce auto fatalities, especially as car usage and road access rise.
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Davenport
America
Canada
Gulf
Smile City and the joyful roads to friendship
A brief travelogue hints at a utopian town of smiles called Jolly Grin and Try It Again where law is happiness and citizens welcome visitors. The piece blends verse with clipped quotes on golf, aviation progress, and big Texas ranches as light alongside domestic cheer.
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Smiles
Gene Tunney and the tease of fifteen minutes a day
The piece jokes that Tunney should read up on his fifteen minutes of fame and hints the press will soon hype his literary side. It playfully wonders if he will recall the line silence is golden and riffs on a Kalamazoo flapper who wrecked a car just to test parking rules.
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Gene Tuney
Mr. Tunney
Jack Sharkey
Kalamazoo
I owe him for two suits and an overcoat
A dialog from an old comic scene features a woman scathingly dismissing her partner as an intellectual monstrosity while a man riffs on future presidents and industry leaders blaming their success on their spouses. A joking dog quips about the train cutting his tail.
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Joe
Third time’s the charm poem apology notice
The writer jokes about past theater outcomes as they attempt a fourth poem in the rock of ages venture and apologize for mispromising the earlier performance. They invite others to share a poem.
Remembering Doc Chilcote and his soft maple joke
Town residents recall Dr. Chilcote who once lived where the Jane A. Chilcote library now stands. He famously quipped after a dark street fall that the head wound was lucky because it was a soft maple, avoiding a fatal crack.
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Doc” Chilcote
Jane A. Chilcote
American tourist boasts of silent, fast car in England
A witty exchange unfolds as an American boasts his car is 80 quiet smooth and fast in England while a British listener questions its presence. A dentist cheekily disarms him as the crowd reacts with quips about crickets, holes in doughnuts, and fresh-air fiends.
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England
Our Own Bed Time Story by Dick McCleery
A simple tale about a mama skunk and papa skunk with two babies walking in the woods. They meet a cross grizzly bear. The mama skunk proposes spraying, the bear flees and the skunks stay safe.
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Mama Skunk
Papa Skunk
Quippy Mottoes Spark Muse on Vanity and Vices
A playful collection critiques female vanity and habit of crying over failures. It riffs on luxury as a strawberry rash in August and notes a paragrapher’s self-sabotage while implying persistence despite flaws.
Rubio Community Notes and Augustines Reunion Report
Local column from Rubio Iowa dated Aug 17 recounts pleasant rains and hopeful corn prospects. It lists visits to Richland and Washington, birthday party, church group events, a Clint Richards dance, and various household tasks. The 12th annual Augustine reunion at Sunset Park in Washington drew 61 members and 10 visitors with officers elected for 1928.
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Rubio
Jacob Rudolph
Arthur Lambert
Arthur Stoutner
Keota
Elias Rudolph
Ollie
van Gabby
L. B. Luithly
Kathleen Jay
A. T. Augustine
West Chester
A. J. Augustine
Cedar Rapids
L. Augustine
Delta
Sunset Park
Washington
Friend's Church
William Snider
Levi Barnes
Richland
Eliza Horning
Sam Singleton
Barnes
Henry Barnes
Mary Wilson
William Brinning
Wilson
Virginia Kracaw
Josephine Brinning
Wellston
Lauren Luithly
Marie Luithly
McNeese and Hotle
Sun
Community Notes From Park and Surrounding Areas
Residents report church cleaning by the Ladies Aid on Monday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Jne Simmering and their children visited northeast of Washington, called at Lacy Cooks and John Waggoners, and the men fished while the Simmerings stayed with Locy Cooks through Sunday.
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Jay
Hilda
Muscatine
Lloyd Kracaw
Brinning
Edgar McClery
Rachel Long
Arthur Lambert
Set Park
Jne
Washington
Lacy Cook's
John Waggoners
J. A. Luithly
Locy Cook’s
Elephanta Caves Near Bombay A Sacred Island
The Elephanta caves near Bombay are a sacred temple complex on an island. Portuguese explorers named the site from a colossal elephant sculpture, with subterranean temples carved from solid rock and natural rock columns supporting the roofs.
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Bombay
India
Elephanta
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