Autumn color and travel tales in a life of service
The essay sketches autumn scenery with Stockbridge Mountain and vivid trees, then profiles Harry Hopkins as a selfless relief leader guiding $500,000,000 in aid. It notes warming earth theories, mammoth remains in thawing tundra, and rapid flight shrinking the globe through air travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockbridge Mountain
Grand Canyon
Bay of Naples
Harry Hopkins
Grinnell College
Iowa
Association For Improving the Condition of
Board of Child Welfare
Red Cross Flood Relief
New York Tuberculosis and Health Association
New York Relief Administration
Arctic Ocean
Siberia
Ohio River
Siberian Tundra
Arctic
The Week in Washington on liquor repeal and taxes
A column analyzes repeal effects on federal liquor policy, tax rates, smuggling, purity rules, and Webb Kenyon implications. It notes possible low domestic and import taxes, enforcement costs, and ongoing prohibition legacies. It cites Coast Guard funding and a Rockefeller study, with historical references to whiskey and Taft regulations. Also includes sympathy resolutions from Boone Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
United States
Ohio River
Uncle Sam
England
Scotland
Ireland
Canada
Coast Guard
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Taft
Department of Agriculture
Boone Baptist Church
Hill Hagaman
Boone
Brotherhood of the Boone Baptist Church
Wake Forest tale of a rooster stealing record
Jim Lewis a 53 year old Black man who helped wreck Wake Forest College buildings claimed he holds a record for stealing chickens. He described stealing a White Leghorn rooster from merchant Z W Peed four times and selling it back each time, joking that Peed should not prosecute a fool who lets a thief reuse the same rooster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wake Forest
Jim Lewis
Wake Forest College
Z. W. Peed
Jim
Mr. Peed
Rhode Island
Merchant Peed
Joan Powers
Peed
National Commander plans to extend home demonstrations
Leaders will reach unorganized farm women next season with elementary and advanced demonstrations. Mrs McKimmon and college specialists will lead sessions. county agents will free up work to aid more women. A November conference at the college will inventory 1933 work and plan for expanding services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State
Collee Agricultural Extension Service
Jane S. McKimmon
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Frank Parker Stockbridge
New York
California
San Diego
Kansas City
Chicago
Walter Pitkin
Innes Taylor
Whitehorse
Yukon
Alaska
Admiral Byrd
Antarctic
South Pole
Negro
Cove Creek
Future Farmers of America
Joe Bingham
Fred Earp
Dottie Glenn
David Horton
Paul Fox
Lester Deal
American Weekly
Baltimore American
Newsboy
Newsdealer
Edward Hayes
Decatur
American Legion
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Raleigh
Queen of the West
West
North Carolina
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