The Take Off in Early Long Distance Flights
The article recounts Neville Acosta Byrd and Balchen’s tense Roosevelt Field take off with 15 000 pounds aboard. They barely cleared a ditch after accelerating to seventy mph, then rose to safety as Acosta finally eased the craft upward. It underscores why Lindbergh’s launch was as critical as any leg of early transatlantic flight.
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Daily Lessons in English Word Study Compunction
A compact note on correct usage and pronunciation. It highlights common missteps such as well-posted versus well-informed and sol es versus sole. It defines compunction as self-reproach for wrongdoing and offers example usage.
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Take Off Counts in Flight Safety and Glide Range
The passage argues aviation safety hinges on takeoff power and proper harmony with surroundings. It notes higher altitude gives greater glide range, while a dead engine near ground is fatal, yet at higher elevations a soft, controlled descent may still find a safe landing spot.
Main Street pulsing heart across village and town
A poem by Margaret E Sangster celebrates Main Street as the living core of any place. It vows that its value lies not in grand design but in daily passage and shared humanity, from crowded avenues to quiet sidewalks.
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Margaret E. Sangster
Shaff Urges Special Session on State Bond Issue
The Marshalltown Times-Republican reports Senator Shaff of Clinton County backs a special legislative session to push a state bond referendum for roads. Voters in 41 counties have approved road bonds, signaling pressure for state funding and a likely pro bond majority in the next legislature.
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Marshalltown
Coolidge Plans Farm Relief Conference Says Dispatches
The Atlantic News Telegraph notes President Coolidge keeps his own counsel on politics and 1928 aims. He allegedly plans a farm relief conference independent of politicians, ignoring public clamor and press chatter.
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Atlantic News-Telegraph
Calvin Coolidge
General Wood Speaks Plainly on Philippine Situation
Davenport Democrat notes General Wood, a man of action, says what he means about the Philippine situation and believes his latest statements will carry weight with the average American reader.
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Davenport
Airports Waterloo Tribune Urges Early Airport Acquisition
The Waterloo Tribune urges cities to prioritize acquiring landing fields now to secure a stake in future aviation growth. Those without airfields risk being passed by as groundwork and early momentum determine success.
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Waterloo Tribune
Copper stills used as radio aerials by Blue Ridge mountaineers
A press report notes Blue Ridge mountaineers repurposed copper stills as radio aerials. A judge urges Southern broadcasters to cooperate by airing the song Coming Through the Rye to defuse tension.
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Blue Ridge
Poultry Shipped by Vixon Resident Noted in Bryant
Noted Bryan Texas report states Prange of Vixon transacted business in Bryant Tuesday while shipping breeding poultry to other parts of the state. Mr and Mrs Franze are acclaimed for never hearing a complaint from any bird they have shipped out.
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Mother Shipton Prophecy Echoes Through Time
A damaged fragment presents Mother Shipton’s 1488 prophecy lines about carriages without horses and wonders to come. The piece notes most lines fulfilled by now and hints at mystery remaining, with a final odd line about the year nineteen thirty.
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Jules Verne
Edward Bellamy
Mother Shipton
England
Banana Slide Catching On As Paris Dance Pivot
An item from The Virginian notes the Banana Slide as a substitute for the Charleston and Black Bottom among Paris dancing masters. The piece suggests the new dance may suit better, hinting at mixed reactions to Ruth’s exploits and rival pitchers.
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Davenport Democrat
Paris
College Humor story clip highlights rhetoric sacrifice
A brief excerpt from a July College Humor piece notes fiction writers forsake rules for effect. The scene describes a mother entering in short sleeves with pale skin and fluffy white hair.
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A. KE
Juror Absentminded Flight Sparks Courtroom Moment
During closing arguments juror Mr Dugan rose and tried to leave the jury box but was stopped and brought back. He explained he would vote with the opposing side when the lawyer on that side finished his speech and that he left because he was confused by the current argument and did not like its direction.
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Irvin S. Cobb
Defense
The Boobs Never Learn
Personal ad from the London Times reveals a terse plea about trust and an implied relationship hurt in a fragmentary notice style. The brief text reflects a sharp, candid tone in a dated newspaper fragment.
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London Times
Sore toe slows boy in street conversation
A near sighted man asks if the youth is a messenger. The boy retorts that his slow walk is due to a sore toe, showing quick wit and a sharp reply in the street scene.
Wordplay and punchlines from a playful era
A humorous collage of flirtatious verse a quip about garters and a Paris police joke. The items include a lover’s punning note by C J Le and a punch line about a man tearing buttons with a laundry twist. A cartoonish lampoon ends with a gasless car jab.
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Paris
Bank embezzler arrested after $235000 loss
He had embezzled more than $235,000 of the bank's money. He was immediately placed under arrest and removed the county jail in Clarion this morning. A small boy is about one half appetite and one half noise.
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Clarion
Fort Dodge
NEW BOOKS AT CHILCOTE LIBRARY FOR YOUNG READERS
A list of recommended children's reading compiled by Helen Cowles and LeCroh featuring classics and nursery titles. Notable entries include Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit, The Jungle Book, Treasure Island, Little Women, A Child's Garden of Verses, and Shakespeare plays. Books are available at Chilcote Library.
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Helen Cowles
LeCroh
A. A. Milne
Leslie Brooke
S.C. Bryant
Flora J. Cooke
John Martin
Annie W. McCullough
Brownie
D. M. Craik
Charlie and His
Hill and Maxwell
Hiawatha
Eugene Field
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
J. Fenimore Cooper
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair
W. M. Thackery
Rudyard Kipling
Sir Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson
Hendrik van Loon
Aesope
Shakespear
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Benjamin Franklin
Fabre
Little Women
Louisa M. al
Harvest help and hail damage report from local correspondents
Verdi F J Lozoger reports Joe Kolosik and son assist Chas Longer with harvest. O K Clapper helps Geo Clapper harvest. Accie Clapper of Keota reports roof destroyed by hail and will need re shingling. Clarence Randall loses two horses to lightning. Hail splits leaves and damages crops.
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Joe ‘Kolosi¢k
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Chas
O. K. Clapper
Geo. Clapper
Accie Clapper
Keota
Clarence Randall
Taxi Taxi at Fox Theatre Captures Hollywood Boulevards Fame
Universal Jewel Taxi Taxi! now playing at Fox Theatre uses Hollywood boulevards as exterior scenes. Melville Brown directs with Edward Everett Horton in the featured role alongside Marion Nixon Burr McIntosh and others in prominent parts.
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Fox Theatre
Michael Allen
Elinor Glyn
Los Angeles
Melville Brown
Hollywood Boulevard
Fifth Avenue
New York
San Francisco
Edward Everett Horton
Marion Nixon
Burr MclIntosh
Drugstore ad seeking repayment for wife’s departure
A druggist, after his wife ran away with another man, placed a local notice offering to supply liniments bandages amicable healing salves absorbent cotton iodine sleeping powders and crutches at rock bottom prices to the party who relieved him of his wife.
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Jones
English Visitor Admires Local Slavs Phrase
An English traveler returning to London from here notes with amusement a local saying. He recalls friends asking if a man wants to pun and comments on the cleverness of the phrase heard at the yab jisc now.
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London
The Rich Man The lamp burns low and dim refrain
A fragment reflects a rich man with car, estate, and cigar who jeers at fate and travels through a long day. The speaker notes poverty’s pinch unseen by the rich man while noticing a lamp that burns low and dim.
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Tate
Fate
Fourth of July plan fades in town chatter
Abe Martin muses how whisky sellers funded old Fourth of July celebrations and notes the anniversary lacks significance now. He asks if Lindy will win a prize for beating the Stillmans on the front page record.
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Stillmans
Eureka community notes and visits around town
Eureka correspondent details a busy week with Mr. Wolfer buying a Chevrolet from White Way garage, Mr. Hilleman visiting for insurance, and multiple gatherings. Families entertain, moves occur, school board meeting wraps up the year's business, and Rev Minear plans a July event as Cedar Rapids summer classes and church services are noted. Farmers plow, cut oats, and prepare hay as the season advances.
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Eureka
Joe Wolfer
White Way
Hilleman
Wayland
New York Life Insurance Company
Louis Fetes
W. R. Davison
D. G. Beenblossom
C. P. Grosseup
Walter Nicholson
J. J. Benda
Jake Snyder
Marie Snyder
Cedar Rapids
Gray
Will Powell
Rock Island
Paul Minear
Wm. Hesseltines
Will Longer
Weather Helps Crop Prospects Amid Mixed Oats and Corn
The report notes oats showing improvement and corn improving, aided by beneficial rain. The rain provided a significant boost to the crops, aiding growth and overall condition.
Sioux City Girl Drowned While Swimming
Elaine Cole a 17 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Austin Cole of Sioux City was drowned Sunday afternoon in the Big Sioux river six miles from Stone Park while swimming. She had been warned earlier that she could not swim and waded out only a few feet before disappearing. Her body was recovered almost immediately but rescue attempts failed.
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Sioux City
Elaine Cole
Austin Cole
Big Sioux River
Stone Park
Copernicus Founder of Modern Astronomy Born in Prussia 1478
The article notes Nicolaus Copernicus born in Prussia in 1478 as the founder of modern astronomy. It cites his celebrated treatise explaining his heliocentric system, first published in 1543, which revolutionized astronomy.
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Prussia
How Much Do You Know Addresses Forms of Address
Questions on forms of address for royalty presidents governors and other officials. Includes how to address a king queen queen consort prince duke duke of york and the wife of an earl and how to address cabinet members supreme court justices and cardinals and bishops.
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