Thought Tuesday Proverbs From Todavy 1934
Egotism is the anesthetic which nature gives us to deaden the pain of being a fool. True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. Lord Mansfield. Its the men behind who snake the man ahead. Merle Crowell. Unless the job means more than the pay it will never pay more. H. Bertram Lewis. One's eyes are placed in front because it is important to look ahead. Cultivate foresight. The Anode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Schofield
Lord Mansfield
Merle Crowell
H. Bertram Lewis
Make Life Harder for criminals and Congress action
A historical editorial argues Congress should strengthen federal laws to fight crime. It asserts federal authority is morally ahead of city governments and urges using federal power to crack down on gang activity in urban centers. The piece envisions swift action against gang centers with minimal red tape.
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Congress
Uncle Sam
United States
Grinnell
Iowa
Congregational Church Conference of Iowa
Kroest
Kirst Methodist Church
Evanston
Gates
Charles Burton
General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches
New York City
Conferehos
They Swindle the Widows and the Life Insurance Trap
An article notes that widows who inherit husbands life insurance often fall to swindlers. Promoters prey on mourning widows, quickly exhausting the funds within months during the widow’s period of need.
Widow swindled out of life insurance funds recovered
Bankers and life insurance men warn of raids on widows urged to invest policy proceeds in risky securities. An Insurance Field case shows a widow swindled twenty years ago had her money recovered by her former agent who tracked down the company with the district attorney’s help and reclaimed every cent.
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Bankers
Life Insurance Imen
United States
Improving Train Service Ahead of Today’s Rails
The article notes rapid railway progress with lighter cars and lower centers of gravity. It cites from Atlantic seaboard to Pacific trips at about 76 hours now, with plans to halve that time. Union Pacific and B Q lines lead in new lightweight designs and safer, faster travel. Public sentiment shifts to give railways relief after long restraints.
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Chicago
Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific
Union Pacific
The World in a Light Globe
A light globe reveals a global supply chain with antimony from Mexico and thoria from Brazil. The lamp embodies minerals such as niters silica cobalt nickel bismuth tin manganese potash sodium carbonate arsenic from many regions, illustrating how electricity uses resources from around the world.
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Globe
Mexico
Brazil
Chile
New Caledonia
Australia
Malay Peninsula
India
Russia
East Africa
Greenland
Merry Christmas Pop
A Christmas story from Stanley High describes a long line of gift givers who run short of presents. An elderly man reaches the end with one gift left, and a young man, realizing the need, gives his own long awaited package to the old man. The pastor notes their sacrifice and the day ends with prayers and blessings.
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Stanley
Pop
By The Way Colmn Bites Back At Pictorial Plan
The writer laments readers and editor reactions while noting the Journal’s new pictorial supplement due tomorrow. The By-the-way column filibusters with a comic edge and disbelief at plans.
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Journal
Human Body Elements as Feats of Value
Ripley lists body elements with practical equivalents: sulphur for fleas and lime for coop whitewash, rat for six bars of soap, iron for six g or peginy nails, phosphorus for twenty boxes of matches, sugar for ten cups of coffee, potassium to explode a toy cannon. Total value stated as 87 cents.
Poetic Echoes and Comic Snippets Across The Bowery
A collage of verse about eyes and church, comic Beecher mishearings in a Bowery restaurant, military letter humor, and neighborhood quips about money and marriage. Separate anecdotes blend poetry and polite sarcasm in a late era miscellany.
Ghost writer award up to $10,000 in suit against Cutten
John R. Mauff a former Chicago Board of Trade official was awarded 10 000 dollars in a 50 000 ghost writer suit against Arthur W Cutten the millionaire grain and stock speculator. Mauff claimed Cutten hired him to write speeches and articles in a ghost campaign to influence Board of Trade rules and the federal grain futures act.
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John R. Mauff
Cabove
Chicago Board of Trade
Arthur W. Cutten
Mauff
Cutten
Board of Trade
Iowa Horse Show At Ames Promotes Stallion Breeding
A horse program at Iowa State College in Ames features tomorrow's demonstrations in pavilion No. 2, showing hitch equipment and driving methods. Experts from Iowa discuss stallion care and registration laws, with Lb. C. Auberge and Dr. Co. Covault among speakers.
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Ames
Iowa
Towa State College
Soane
Pavilion No. 2
Lb. C. Auberge
State Secretry of Agriculture
Co. Covaull
Iowa State
Local Notes and Humor Mix in Sunday Page
A scrambled mix of community notes and a humorous exchange about a colored soldier includes a hospital visit to Mero Sehmitter, a Steinbeck garage gathering honoring couples, and a dated joke about a general and a soldier. The mood shifts from social updates to light wartime humor and reprintable bits.
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Rubio Mes
Sehmitter
Jon Deon
Mero Sehmitter
Steinbeck
Social greetings and health notes from local families
A weekend gathering finds Mrs. Nellie Seearey and Mrs. B Johnson visiting Mrs L T Hanan with Mr and Mrs J W Lindauer and child Robert joining Mrs Olive Sanderson of Pairfield at the C B Morgan home. Mrs. Morgan shows improvement after Iowa City operations while Charlie Dickinson receives visitors at Washington hospital. Sunday guests also include Ira Bowersox and family, Elizabeth Payne, G K Morgan, and L B Hanan.
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Nellie Seearey
B. Johnson
Lt. Hanan
J. W. Lindauerson Robert
Olive Salderson
Pairfield
C. 8. Morgan
Morgan
Iowa City
Coo Morgan
Mr. and
Ira Bowersox
Elizabeth Payne
Mes
Kk. Morgan
L .B. Hanan
Kingfish Levinsky Eyes Heavyweight Path Through Garden Matchups
The colorful Kingfish Levinsky moves toward a headline sparring sequence as promoter clashes curb plans. He may face Charlo Massera at Merhoon Square Garden then Walter Neusel before a potential shot at Carnera, with Loughran looming as Miami challenger.
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Merhoon Square Garden
Massera
Walter Neusel
Meester Levinsky
Carera
Levinsky
Fistiana
Pete Reilly
Carnera
Thomas Loughran
Signor Carnera
Miami
King Benteres Syndicate
Tae
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New York
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Todavy
Merry Christmas, Pop
Joe Palooka
Ham Fisher
Seattle
Mister Bigg
Moose Ty
Omaha
ST. Louis
Brad
Hte
By the
Way
Tian
Ripley
Chicken Coop
IRON
Cannon
Camelot
Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Bowery
Dr. Beecher
Denny Mar
Ried
Jen
Ali Neber
Charlie Dickinson
The
NEW Deal Projects
the King and the Crown
Burnley
Carneras
King Levinsky
Primos Crown
Windy City
Charlo Massera
Pittsburgh
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