Uruguay’s centenary sparks bold reforms and growth
The article highlights Uruguay celebrating its 100th anniversary, detailing reforms that capped presidential terms, spurred liberal constitutional changes, and spurred economic growth. It notes doubling exports, vast cattle output, increased purchasing power, and Montivedeo’s city development and university strength amid immigration from Europe. It mentions American investment rising to 77 million dollars by 1912.
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Europe
Review of Reviews
Uruguay
New England
Montivedeo
University of Montvedeo
Gibbons
North America
Spain
Italy
Daily English Lesson Words of Misuse and Pride
This feature lists common usage errors such as most of them versus they most all came to the party and mispronunciations like Akron Ohio. It also defines bravado as boastful behavior and urges building vocabulary one word at a time.
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Uruguay
Holland
Switzerland
Belgium
Denmark
Europe
Akron
Ohio
Prize for Plan to Make the Eighteenth Amendment Effective
A $25,000 prize is offered for the best practical plan to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. Submissions must be typewritten, under 2000 words, and received before December 1 at the Prize Committee on Eighteenth Amendment, Room 2401 Fisk Building, New York City. The prize will be awarded and paid on December 25.
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New York City
W. C. Durant
West 57Th Street
United States
Mr. Durant
Washington
Fisk Building
Would the Drink Habit Help Me To Become a Good Merchant
Bruce Hanna argues that drinking hinders education and business success. The essay stresses thrift cleanliness and sobriety for merchants and cites a tale of a young man guided by Russell Sage to quit drinking smoking and gambling to become a successful businessman.
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Bruce Hanna
Crawfordsville
Russel Sage
Mr. Sage
Sage
Blue Sky Over Washington Inspires September Poem Image
The sky appears unusually blue as if a large blue bowl covers Washington. The courthouse steeple, with its white clock hands, stands tall against the vivid scene, prompting thoughts of September in poetic terms.
Rural Ruby Finds Some Good
A humorous exchange features a tailor and his customer about money. The tailor explains he never asks for payment, then tests the gentleman’s status by waiting to see if he pays. A separate quip shows a British tourist seeking oysters and considering bribery with the warden.
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America
Son at College Writings Prompt Fatherly Exchange
A college son writes to his father about no man and no fun. the father replies in equal rhymes. The piece features playful verse exchanges showing campus life and parental banter with ornate wordplay.
Silliness of the season echoes in dance marathons and feats
The Louisville Herald-Post reflects on heat waves and a parade of silly stunts from dance marathons to milk drinking and foot races. It notes the New York 471 hour marathon and other odd contests, contrasting them with legendary feats like Pheidippides and a stilts trek from Providence to Boston.
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Louisville
New York
North Atlantic
Irkutsk
Riga
Danzig
Budapest
Board of Health
C. C. Pyle
Madison Square Garden
Pheidippedes
Marathon
Athens
Texas
Providence
Boston
Louisville Herald-Post
Argument for Women Judges Delivers Provocative Snare Claim
A judge decries equal rights as a snare while arguing for women judges, suggesting a husband could claim alimony by crossing his legs and exposing garters to sway a verdict. The eyebrow raising remark frames a debate on gender roles in the judiciary.
Sticking to It in Japan Gum Gaining Foothold
A Boston Transcript exchange notes American chewing gum has gained a foothold in Japan. It praises the gum’s persistence while calling its foothold unpopular in this country.
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Japan
Boston Transcript
Painter Julian Elting Noted With Dated Society Names
A New Julian Elting described as painter and paper-hanger appears among society references including the Duchess of Somerset and Madame Jacques Balsan formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt of New York in a Atlanta Journal note.
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Julian Elting
Duchess of Somerset
Jacques Balsan
Duchess of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
New York
Atlanta Journal
Comedienne Mary Irwin Celebrates 66th Birthday
Mary Irwin, famed American comedienne, marks her sixty sixth birthday at her Clayton area summer home, continuing a longtime personal tradition reported by the Watertown New York paper.
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Pat Mary Irwin
Clayton
Watertown
N. Y
Faithful to old friends in charity quip exchange
A light exchange between Mrs. Smythe and Mr. Smith about charitable clothing drives and recycling of cast-off garments. Mr. Smith humorously says he hangs the clothes, goes to bed, and wears them again in the morning.
Big Lake Minnewanka catch reported near Banff
In Banff Alberta A Seymour general tourist agent for the Canadian Rockies was captured at Lake Minnewanka by George Andrews a local resident. The fish weighed thirty five pounds.
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Banff
Alberta
Seymour
Canadian Rockies
Lake Minnewanka
George Andrews
Atlanta Constitution
Rainbow's End: Two Attorneys Meet on the Street
Two lawyers converse on the street with one noting rotten business. The pessimist reports chasing an ambulance for twelve miles and finding a lawyer inside it, a grim quip from American Legion Monthly.
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American Legion Monthly
Love for a waitress sparks playful praise in print
Andrew Hays expresses affection for a waitress in a light hearted Florida Times-Union item noting her fetching demeanor and friendly service.
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Andrew Hays
Florida Times-Union
Phantom night fog on the railroad in Hell Box verse
A poem rich with railroad imagery and stormy travel scenes. The speaker rides through rain and blackness aboard a locomotive, describing sparks, whistles, and a roaming, fevered pace. The city editor’s clipping adds humorous quips about chickens and clever lines.
The Artilleryman Poem Excerpt on Steam and Night
An archaic verse voice speaks of swift miles on rails and gleaming head lights. The speaker revels in steam powered motion and night travel through rain and sleet, celebrating stock steel and wheat as pirate plunder.
Goodbye to the Bride and Groom Bid Farewell
A fragmented OCR snippet notes a farewell to a couple at a wedding event with colloquial lines about leaving and greetings. The text is sparse and lacks clear names, places, dates, or outcomes.
McIntyre recalls dog at Chicago hotel clash
In Chicago a visitor recounts taking a dog to a hotel that bans animals. He notes spotting a famous Broadway gambler, a vampiric actress, and a man who owes him $11 amid Funeral attendance talk. He praises his dog as well behaved as time tightens with Hoover and Smith.
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O O. O. McIntyre
Chicago
Women Drinking More in Des Moines in 1928
Drunkenness among women rose 20 percent in Des Moines during the first seven months of 1928 the polio records show. Most affected were over the flapper age.
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Des Moines
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