Poetry reflections on American art and diverse life
Rebecca West argues America confines artists to Anglo-Saxon themes, missing vivid life scenes. The poem delenates bright patterns seen in crowds from Hungarians to laborers, echoing Whitman in subject and scope. The speaker recalls asking about happiness and finds it in a Des Plaines River Sunday gathering of Hungarians with family, beer, and music.
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Rebecca West
America
Carl Sandburg
Pietro Giovannitti
Desplaines River
I Am an American Recitations Highlight City Program
Youth program in an American city featured children performing patriotic pieces. A girl with Revolutionary ancestry delivered I am an American praising forefathers and national heritage. A Polish‑descent performer, Leocvadea Drozd, also recited I am an American with lines reflecting immigrant roots.
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Sons of the Revolution
Boston Harbor
Warren
Washington
Valley Forge
America
Met
Leocvadea Drozd
Russia
Poland
Daily Lessons In English Word Usage
A compact reader note on common word usage mistakes and pronunciation. It highlights misused phrases such as cannot seem to understand problems and mispronounces federal. It defines fantastic as odd whimsical unreal or imaginary and encourages vocabulary growth with a daily word.
From Siberian Mining to the American Dream
The speaker recalls ancestors harmed by tsarist oppression and knouts, then embraces America as the land of opportunity. He vows lifelong loyalty to the flag and to striving for freedom, contrasting U S prosperity with Europe and Russia and urging gratitude for shared liberty.
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Siberia
America
Promised Land
Europe
Russia
Weighing Forces for Stability in the Business World
Weber Hoover argues that lasting stability is forming in the global economy. He cites the Federal Reserve’s role in preventing panics, higher corporate working capital, reduced reliance on bank loans, and improved government and private data as a guide to safer production and distribution.
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Federal Reserve System
Midwest Review
Lowden for President a Practical Farmer and Leader
The speaker commends Lowden as a capable candidate with business training and farm sense. He highlights Illinois governorship success, tariff support, and belief in including farmers in the American System, while opposing drastic industrial tearing.
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Lowden Lowden
Illinois
Corn Belt
Pershing Boom in Republican Presidential Prospects
The Chicago Evening Post suggests General John J. Pershing could join the Republican presidential field after strong showings at a farm bureau gathering. It notes Pershing's popularity among veterans, his informal launch of a potential campaign, and alliances with Vice President Dawes and former Gov. Lowden. The piece likens their possible coalition to Dumas’s Three Musketeers.
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Chicago Evening Post
Republican Party
John J. Pershing
Pershing
American Farm Bureauu Federation
Altho
Roche
Gen. Pershing
Dawes
Lowden
Dumas
Gasoline Shortage Forecast for Year 2000
The note predicts a gasoline shortage by the year 2000 asserting cars will be so dense on roads they cannot move, rendering the shortage moot.
First all-Pullman Pioneer linked to Lincoln era
The Pioneer, the first all-Pullman built car, carried President Lincoln's widow and children to Illinois in 1865. The piece also notes Roosevelt’s call for community service and mentions a porcupine cork poison warning bottle, and traces weather bureaus back to their origins in the United States and England.
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Lincoln
Ilinois
Theodore Roosevelt
Weather Wonders: A Teasing Winter Warmth Conversation
In a playful aside the author muses about admitting a thought despite weather jinx. The passage reflects on the superstition that speaking a forecastor admission brings rain or snow and notes surprisingly pleasant winter weather thus far.
Spoiling a Jane Filmer Social Dilemma
A teen named Jane Filmer is discussed by a boy and his pale friend Joe about pursuing a kiss. The boy recounts walking to school with Jane three times carrying her books and buying ice cream sodas twice. Joe advises the boy that he has done enough for Jane and should not kiss her.
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Jane Filmer
Joe
Tive
Capper
Country Kate Sent Us Some More Country Kate
A brief domestic anecdote shows a bride lamenting her husband’s nightly absences to her mother. The mother recalls her own long trials, joking that her husband never left home. A passerby asks what she would do if a millionaire, and a humorous reply mentions a longer pick handle for back strain.
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George
Country Katie and the Divorce Under the Spotlight
By Special Delivery a witty commentary notes a man seeking divorce after his wife rummages his pockets. The humor targets domestic fault lines while referencing the American Legion Weekly quote and COUNTRY KATIE as framing.
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The
American Legion Weekly
Country
Prankster Burglar Deterred by Prison Sighting
A burglar en route to a robbery diverted after spotting Sus ing prison. The sight sobered him and he turned away before completing the crime. Experts deem he will not become a skilled thief.
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Susing
Hank
California judge orders alimony after divorce
A California judge orders a woman to pay alimony to her ex husband. The article hints at social norms in nuptial topics and includes a tangential note about a groom’s photo in society news. It mentions banking as seen by women and a bank teller asking how a woman’s bank book became unreadable.
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California
Sam Day
Washington
Triangle Talk Returns on Back Page at Triangle Auto Supply Co
A brief note announces Triangle Talk will appear on the back page from now on at Triangle Auto Supply Co. The item indicates a replacement or relocation of a regular feature with minimal details.
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Triangle Talk
Triangle Auto” Supply Co
Havre
Washington
Bank complaints cited as customers threaten withdrawals
The article quotes customers frustrated by errors in account balances and overdrawn notices. One patron vows to withdraw funds immediately citing rude treatment, while another mentions corrections in a ledger book. The Laundry Owners' Association of the United States projects a billion dollar loss by 1493.
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Laundry Owners’ Association of the
United States
Poultry Show Highlights at Wellman Institute Sale
GlendaIe reports from the Wellman Institute opening with Roy Watkins and W C Molison assisting in mating pens for the hatchery season. Poultry entries rivaled with a record Leghorn cock selling for 7 dollars and hens laying up to 300 eggs. The Progress Incubator demo and Grow Brooder drew attention along with grain and hay entries and Farm Bureau textile displays. John O'Brien's sale followed with corn at 87 cents.
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Glendale
Allison Maas
Charlie Wylie
L. S. Mocier
Roy Watkins
Record Poultry Dloc
W. C. Molison
Wellman Institute
Watkins
Farm Bureau
John O'Brien
Young America Briley Correspondent Notes Local Happenings
In Young America Mrs. Frank Pringle and Ben Briley visited Miss Jessie Phillips at the hospital. Clarence Jackson was seriously hurt during timber work when a sapling struck him. Jessie Phillips returned home after an operation and other residents visited, attended events, or assisted at homes and farms.
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Frank Pringle
Ben Briley
Jessie Phillips
Charles Barthelow
Charles Davis
Haskins
Lou Rhodebeck
Claude Rhodebeck
Jessie Philips
Charles Cherry
John Cherry
Eckels
Rayburn
J. N. Philips
J. N. Phillips
Far Bureau
City Hall
Elmer Cher Cherry
Fox Theatre
Livering Havery
Jolt Passion
Nebraska Governor Endorses Lowden at Illinois Abides
Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska spoke at the Illinois agricultural association convention in Rock Island urging a re passage of the McNary Haugen bill. He argued farmers face losses and need better prices rather than more loans, claiming agricultural investment declined about 20 percent since 1920 while industry prospered.
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Rock Island
Ill
Frank O. Lowden
Adam McMullen
Nebraska
Illinois Agricultural Association
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Franklin
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Army Signal Corps
Department of Agriculure
Meteorological Society of London
Kate
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Webster
Hill
Thomas Gerdes
Young America
Mrs
Strong
Kid Broke
Hampshire
Peter Schutler
Concord
W. D. Stafford
D. F. Macon
Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid
J . Duffy
Riverside
Jersey
China
Rhode Island
Fordson
John Deere
H. P. Fairbanks- Morse
Ford
Chevrolet
J. F. Duffy
Bert E. Booth
W. A. Anderson
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