The Fourth of July Pride and Founding Tribute
The piece celebrates Independence Day as the national birthday of the United States. It recalls Jeffersonian and Webster references, notes the deep patriotic fervor across cities and homes, and affirms The Washington Post as an independent, non official organ while honoring the nation’s founders and leaders.
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London
United States of America
Congress
Daniel Webster
Faneuil Hall
John Adams
Independence Hall
United States
Webster
Free
Republic
Washington
Lincoln
Coast to Coast in One Day Mail Service
A reflection on the U S government air mail shrinking transcontinental travel from months with early prairie schooners to four days with rail, down to about one day now. The text notes living memories of horse and ox journeys and compares past long trips with the current promise of East and West coasts being closer than colonial Philadelphia and Washington.
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Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Pony Express
Philadelphia
Washington
San Francisco
Washington Safety Council Faces Funding Shortfall
The executive committee of the Washington Safety Council says lack of financial and moral support from the public has forced the group to discontinue work. In its short existence the council has achieved notable safety improvements and members have devoted themselves to safety problems.
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Washington
The
Safety Council
Washington Safety Council
Deflecting Accidents Through Public Safety Campaigns
The passage emphasizes that safety efforts lower accident figures through street markers, crossing education, safe driving schools, and other programs. It argues the agency provides valuable service and should not fail due to insufficient financial and moral backing.
Democratic impotence at Madison Square Garden
The article denounces the Democratic national convention for its two-thirds rule and perceived cowardice in platform creation and leadership. It claims delegates were coerced, outlines attacks on the party’s stance toward the Ku Klux Klan and the league of nations, and urges faithful Democrats to rally for the nominees while restoring party prestige. It also notes Alaska eagle extermination policy and ends with debate over the Channel Tunnel proposal.
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United States
McAdoo
Smith
Democratic Party
Ku Klux Klan
League of Nations
Woodrow
Madison Square Garden
United Democracy
Royal Democrats
Wilbur J. Carr Promoted to Assistant Secretary of State
Wilbur J. Carr, longtime Director of the Consular Service, has been elevated to Assistant Secretary of State under the new Foreign Service law. After 32 years in the State Department his steady rise is praised by Secretary of State Hughes for merit and service.
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Foreign Service
Wilbur J. Carr
Consular Service
State Department
Carr
Hughes
Outlawed American Eagle Faces Bounty in National Domain
In a dated editorial tone, the piece praises the eagle as a symbol of American patriotism while lamenting real policy that bans and offers rewards for its destruction in its strongest habitats. It contrasts reverence with legal punishment and notes a decline in eagle sightings across states.
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The
Free
England
Paris Olympics Fencing Row Over Fifth Touch Sparks Protest
The Paris Olympic fencing clash between France and Italy ends with M. Gaudin earning the decisive fifth touch, triggering Italian protest and a ring-side exit while chants blame fascisti. Historic rivalries highlight the classic versus exuberant Italian schools of fencing.
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Paris
M. Lucien Gaudin
Signor Boni
M. Gaudin
Fourth of July Reflections and Civic Education
The piece links patriotic celebration with President Coolidge's birthday and noted political nominating events. It surveys American reverence for the Revolution founders, argues schooling in politics fosters both civics and critique, and laments demagoguery, faction selfishness, and the education of the public in political tricks.
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Republic
President Coolidge
Gen. Grant
Coolidge
Dauntless airmen push on after injury in world flight
Commander Smith of America’s around the world flying squadron bore a fractured rib from a Calcutta crash yet continued the flight. The piece lauds aviators for risking peril and hardship as dauntless pioneers of a new era, deserving moral and material support.
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Smith
America
Flying Squadron
Calcutta
American Illiterates and the Public School Promise
The piece argues the United States harbors nearly five million illiterates, about five percent of adults, including two-thirds native born, a grave threat to democracy. It decries reliance on high flown pedagogical theories while neglecting basic literacy in the electorate.
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United States
Republic
Liger Hybrid Exhibited At London Zoo From India
An adult male liger, a lion tiger hybrid bred in Nawanagar India, is shown at London Zoo. The three year old hybrid, sired by an African lion and a tigress, is healthy, active, and tame. Its tawny body bears faint stripe markings, more visible on the legs, with a white under part and light shading. Hybrids are common in large carnivores but not known in the wild.
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Nawanagar
India
London Zoo
the Times
Confiscation in Mexico sparks British Mexican dispute
Prime Minister Macdonald cited a June telegram on Mrs Rosalie Evans in Mexico describing a critical state as agrarians attacked her roof while she defended herself with servants. The Evans farm was seized under two grounds agrarian national purposes and communal lands with no satisfactory compensation offered.
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Mexico
Rosalie Evans
Macdonald
House of Commons
Evans
Cummiins
Ministry of War
Meaningless plank in Democratic platform confounds readers
The Baltimore Sun notes vagaries in the Democratic platform adopted at New York. It questions a claim to adjust railroad rates to favor bulky basic commodities while taxing higher priced manufactured goods. The Sun says the plank means little and many will be puzzled by its promise.
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New York
Baltimore Sun
Dem
Magna Charta Day Celebrated at Runymede
June 22 marked Magna Charta Day at Runymede the historic site of the 1215 charter. J H Whitley and Lord Lincolnshire spoke urging reverence for the field where King John sealed the charter limiting royal prerogative and securing liberty in taxation law and justice.
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Runymede
J. H. Whitley
House of Commons
Lord Lincolnshire
Whitley
John
England
Letters to the Editor on District Lines and Animal Rescue
A set of letters discusses restoring District of Columbia boundaries to include adjacent Virginia land and urges federal oversight from Washington. Another letter praises the Washington Animal Rescue League for rescuing nearly 13,000 animals, placing 369 dogs, and offering a free ambulance. it calls for public support and donations.
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Palomar
Washington
Virginia
Congress
Sam
McConvey
the Post
Washington Animal Rescue League
League
Pew
Animal Rescue League
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