Health Costs in Small American Cities Revealed
A 1924 survey by the American Child Health Association led by Herbert Hoover details per capita health spending in 86 U.S. cities with 40 000 to 70 000 residents. It finds average spending 42 cents per person, with wide gaps, and calls for trained full time health staff, standardized practices, and stronger public health education including nurses in every city.
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American Child Health Association
Herbert Hoover
United States
Department of Health
Departments of Health
Child Health Bulletin
ABE MARTIN Skeptical on Wyomin' Letter About Casualties
Abe Martin remarks on a letter from his nephew in Wyomin' claiming thirty five people were killed on a beautiful Sunday. He notes home weeks are popular but argues the country needs more modern home weeks.
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason Just Folks
A poem contrasts famed figures with humble common folk. It portrays that true greatness lies in modesty and everyday humanity, observing how celebrated individuals often veil vanity while ordinary people endure joy and sorrow with quiet dignity.
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Smith
Brown
Jones
Hall of Fame
By the Way Reflections and Oddities Medley
A collage of witty quotes and anecdotes ranges from a movie theater sighting in Iowa to tall tales in New York, with jokes about weathering gloom, women’s clubs, and daily life. It also laments a hoosier’s forgotten fame, a funeral scene, and a prairie farmer’s near-miss, ending on a grim quip about dying while getting ready to live.
Business Is Business Gary Indiana Born In 1907
Gary Indiana narrative recounts a city of tents and shacks with vivid scenes from its early history. The piece frames commerce and daily life amid a stark, evolving urban landscape generated by industrial growth.
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Gary
Indiana
Wnd
California Production Speech Supports Dad Hero
A fragment praises a father as a hero and credits him with essential support, noting but also implying he should take his fair share. The text reads as a rough, informal script excerpt from a production remark.
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California
Humorous Exchange At Wooden Wedding Scene
A husband jokes about time passing while helping at a wooden wedding. The wife replies that he has not deceived her, though she knows he tried hard. An intimate acquaintance plays Queen Isabella in a small school play.
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Heaves
Isabella
Costume talk and royal hose hint at forgotten history
In a fragmentary reminiscence a speaker recalls a costume moment with a child asking if Queen Isabella rolled her hose. The line hints at a larger historical thread likely lost to posterity.
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Isabella
Breathes Attends Clinton Church Seeking Work
In Clinton, a new attendee named Breathes tells the pastor he is at church to find strength for hard labor whitewashing a chicken coop and building a fence around a watermelon patch. The exchange highlights work as a social motive.
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Clinton
Erastus
Churcnh
Breathes
Weeds and Crops Told by Tenants of Tillage Hope
A terse line notes that tens would better suppress weeds if they kept down other crops as effectively as they do their weed control. The fragment hints at tillage practices and hoped improvements without detailing names or dates.
Language as Inherited Habit and Social Imitation
A reflection on language learning through imitation versus pride in originality. The author notes children acquire speech and literacy by copying those around them while claiming authenticity.
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Evening Journal
Washington
Iowa
East Main Street
THE
Associated Press
Abe Martin
Walt Mason
Turkey
BY the
Way
New York
Hencs
Queens
Tim Englehart
Tim
Tlis
Terry Hut
Ridge
Pops
Junior
Ant
Rayson
Charley King
Che Id
Liccett & Myers Tosacco Co
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