Russian Besprezorni Children Destitute and Threaten State
Miss Janet Mackay reports 650000 homeless besprezorni children in Russia as a serious social problem. Street orphans became fixated on crime after famine and war, with opium and alcohol abuse common. Soviet efforts include sanatorium schools and farm colonies, but personnel trained in social welfare are scarce. Visiting nurses are seen as essential to reduce high child mortality and improve mother and child care.
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Russia
Europe
Janet Mackay
New Haven
Bespregrorni
Moscow
Department of Health
Health chiefs seek more nurses to meet local demand
Yoeman Shield argues for rapid nurse graduation and expanded technical schools to supply nurses for hospitals, district nursing in villages, and government needs, noting America’s lead in technical education versus Russia as a constructive, far reaching gift.
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America
Russia
Washingon Folks in Los Angeles Sightseeing and Travel Observations
A Washington visitor tours Los Angeles with Antho Vansickle and Clifford Lewis, visiting Washington friends, noting California life, fig trees, and a desert ship automobile. The piece also reflects on travel by bus and rail, and reports on local residents including the Vansickles at 205 South Palm Drive Beverly Hills and Stanely Miller’s printing plant.
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San Diego
Antho Vansickle
Los Angeles
Washington
Tom Mix
Vansickle
Yellow House
Clifford Lewis
Clair C. Lewis
Grace Elder Lewis
Claude Terry
Terry
Anne Burrell
John
Helen
Washington County
Iowa
Earl Lewis
Kerr
Stanley Miller
North Larchmont Boulevard
Stanley
Eve
Garden of Eden
Desert
Sahara
Cleopatra
Cleo
Salt Lake City
Brigham Young
Artemus Ward
Utah
Young
Daily Lessons in English Word Usage
Word study guides urge careful pronunciation spelling and usage. Today's entry defines denunciation as the act of denouncing or arraignment with example of a bitter denunciation of atheism.
Show me a paved road home amid Iowa mud and rails
The piece mocks weather talk and foul roads for coal dealers and motorists. It notes Iowa mud as a coming tradition and recounts a speaker in Atlantic declaring the saturation point for cars is a myth after a beltway delay and a skid into a ditch.
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Heaven
Atlantic
Genius fails to inspire new pen and platform mishap
A conductor assists a passenger who drops a cane on a station platform. The man jokes about lumbago and suspender misfit while JT’s Scottish purchase is blamed. The text laments the need for a fountain pen that won’t run dry when writing a check.
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Scotland
Sister claims power and garage Ford test
A sister declares that everything she says goes and is invited to prove it in the garage by saying Ford. An editor, twenty years in the business, retires with $50,000 from industry, thrift, and an uncle’s $49,900 bequest.
Indignant Son Sees Father in Dempsey Tunney Fight Plan
Young Kermit Spera is angry his father was not asked to participate in the Dempsey Tunney bout. He believes his dad has the build to knock Dempsey out in four rounds and argues the potential earnings would be substantial.
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Kermit Spera
Dempsey
Kermit
Traffic Cop Query After Ether Faint tale
A humorous quote frames a nurse and surgeon exchange about an opera tion. The dialogue pivots on love, car trouble, and a college graduate’s ascent, finishing with a line about coast to coast travel in a light, wry mood.
The hat and pie joke at the restaurant
A hat falls from a peg onto a whipped cream covered pie and the owner asks for a replacement. The waiter offers a new hat or another piece of pie. A Washington Post quip contrasts lilies and onions in a light moment.
Amusements After Midnight at Fox Theatre
Norma Shearer stars in a human drama of poverty to wealth set in night club trappings. The story follows a cigarette girl and a thief whose romance ends with reform and happiness. Lawrence Gray co stars with Gwen Lee in a tale of life as it is.
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Norma Shearer
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Fox Theatre
Star Inn
Monta Bell
Lawrence Gray
Miss Shearer
Gwen Lee
Eastern Democrats Unite on Smith Divided Republicans
In a United Press survey of eastern states north of the Potomac, Gov. Smith of New York leads Democrats with prospects for a majority of convention delegates in nine of eleven states. Republicans are divided with Coolidge largely sidelined, Hughes favored in New York, and Hoover gaining support in several states including New England.
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Smith
Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Gov. Smith
New York
Potomac
United Press Bureaus
Coolidge
State Hughes
Commerce Hoover
Maine
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Vermont
Rhode Island
Hampshire
Connecticut
New Jersey
Delaware
Vance McCormick
Democratic National Committee
Maryland
Ritchie
New England
William M. Butler
Mr. Coolidge
Charles H
Lowden
Illinois
Hughes
John 8. Fisher
Treasury
Mellon
Altho
Fisher
East
Hoover
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Washington, Iowa
Elder, Shannon & CO
Bruce Cowden
Publishers News
East Main Street
Bible Thought
Armenia
Washington Folks
Boomerang
Mark
Will Maupin
Henry
Mary
California
The
Washington “Post
Abe Martin
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
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