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Anne
Peter Onl
Waterloo
Iowa
Associated Press
United Press International
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Prea Asars Rpaatr Sverstgny
Sea
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Story
Brooks & Finley, Representatives
Forest Week Highlights Timber Waste and Conservation
Population growth and higher lumber use threaten timber reserves with the eastern half of the country at risk in 25 to 30 years and the western supply exhausted in 35 to 40. Campaigns across the U S and Canada reveal that a single tree releases about 500 barrels of water in a season, underscoring forests’ link to rainfall. Iowa State College partners in a conservation short course at Ames and a Town Conservation association meeting at Dolliver Memorial park near Fort Dodge will promote forest week goals.
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United States
Canada
Iowa State College
Ames
Conservation Association
You Can’t Tell by Looks in a Newspaper Office
A visitor observes the bustling newspaper office. He learns the roles of a crime reporter, a humorist, an editor, and the office boy, while the calm boss runs everything. The scene ends with the idea that appearances mislead about a person’s abilities.
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Per‘gon
Waltz Revival Hinted Against Jazz Blues Clash
In Berlin Johann Strauss predicts a comeback for the waltz as critics note a potential return to grace and romance amid the rise of blues and jazz. Observers debate whether his old fashioned style can win amid modern tastes, with musicians and bands facing a public contest and mixed reception.
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Johann Strauss
Berlin
Strauss
Ignorance Leads to U.S. Currency Mistake in Chicago
Alfred Jones of Chicago paid a $15 board bill with allegedly WWSA notes, claiming a typographical error. Police questioned him after the landlady reported the currency as suspicious, illustrating how ignorance can trigger legal trouble and enforcement actions.
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Alfred Jones
Chicago
Alfred
Sam
Laryngo spasm and breath holding in infants and children
Describes laryngo spasm in tetany and rickets related to calcium metabolism, with a crowing breath noise, possible loss of consciousness, and risks. Also covers enlarged thymus causing similar spells, X ray findings, and Schafer artificial respiration method with a call for Boy Scouts to demonstrate.
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Euga
Schafer
Safe permanent hair removal and blood pressure questions
Reader asks if a safe permanent method exists for facial hair removal. Answer: only safe method is electrolysis, performed by a physician. beware unqualified practitioners. Another reader asks about high blood pressure during change of life. response notes health education and invites stamped envelopes for personal health letters from Dr. Brady.
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Brady
William Brady
The Unknown Man by Glenn Frank Theme Essay
An essay on anonymous greatness argues that most civilization’s gifts come from unknown individuals. Papini notes many life‑changing achievements arise from unseen contributors, from invention to poetry, writing, religion, art, agriculture, and revolutions, shaping humanity without fame.
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Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
McClure
Giovanni Papini
Jesus
Papini
Cesa
Ufe
North
Earth
Father Captures Hit-and-Run Driver After Child Injury
A Webster City father chased down and overpowered a 19 year old driver after his daughter was hit and left lying. The car’s operator Charles Adams was handed to police. the child suffered a serious pelvic fracture. The father urged strict penalties for hit-and-run drivers.
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Webster City
Questionnaires on What's Wrong With the Home
A Chicago minister circulated a questionnaire to 275 youths asking for home life issues. A boy blamed his mother's inability to keep a secret, another described the home as a courtroom, and a third criticized premarital behavior. The piece argues parental respect shapes children.
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Otumwa Courier
Chicago
Unleavened Egomania and Dry Facts Mixed in Hatter Style
A playful excerpt from Atlantic Monthly mocks massed egotism by mixing half tongue in cheek humor with dry factual prose. It lampoons personalized taste and creative excess, urging a mold stamped with self image and a thyme garnish.
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Atlantic Monthly
Anykody
The Sociery Flea Circus on West Forty-Second Street
A New York press feature details a long running West Forty second Street attraction dubbed The Society Flea Circus a mock museum of human oddities. It describes entries like Hettie the armless writer, a bearded lady and a bevy of other curios, with upstairs and downstairs attractions, prices, and a mix of showmanship and pseudo science. The piece surveys the eerie ecosystem of freak shows, their attendants and contracts, and notes geographic origins of many exhibits.
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New York
West Forty-second Street
Rialta
Tom Thurnbish
Woolworthian
Hettie
Borneo
Sylvia
Chester
Max
Gwendolyn
Abe Martin on a farmer and wayward wives
Abe Martin reflects on a sturdy old farmer who married repeatedly as a warning. He mocks children who learn nothing from their mothers, suggesting blame shifts away from upbringing to the knee itself.
Uncle Wiggily Seeks Return Home After Helping Boppy and Um
Uncle Wiggily tells Boppy and Um he must return to his bunga low with Nurse Jane and forty seven little bunnies. The wooden couple express sorrow but acknowledge they have learned to unscramble Wogglejigs, thanks to his guidance, and he plans one last adventure before May.
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Boppy
Uncle
Jane
Uncle Wiggily
Dazie
Wumple
Jook
Wiggily Helps Wogglejigs Find Head and School
Uncle Wiggily searches for the missing head of Dazie Wogglejig after the Wogeglejigs dash to school. A robin reveals Dazie’s head in its nest, where she had hidden it to prank Rumple. Dazie returns head first to class as adventures unfold in the hollow stump world.
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Boppy
Dazie
Mazie
Uncle Waighly
Bunny Rabbit
Uncle Wiggily
Wumple
Red Dumple
Bumpie
Mr. Longears
Dingly Dell
Hollow Stump
Dingly
Wiggily
Dazie Wogglejix
Uriele Wiggily
Gray Phantom Nabbed by Gage House Murder Plot
The Gray Phantom navigates newsroom intrigue as Slossdick hires him to break a murder story, while Granger warns of danger and Granger himself reveals ties to the Duke’s gang. The Phantom seeks Helen Hardwick and meets Granger in a sealed Pell Street room to press for truth.
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Granger
Slossdick
War Horse
Gage House
Pinto
Fessenden
Mike
Helen Hardwick
Speaking Pictures in New York City Uncle Ray Corner
Dear Boys and Girls I write about John Barrymore and the Vitaphone talkie program at a cinema watching Mary Lewis sing popular songs and respond to viewers. The piece imagines future talking pictures replacing silent films and another Hoover moving image by radio showing distant voices and faces. The writer predicts radio pic ture telephone and distant chats will soon be common and entertaining.
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New York City
John Barrymore
Mary Lewis
Virginny
Mary
Secretary Hoover
Washington
New York
Hoover
Supreme Needs of Tayne Herald
In Tayne Nebraska the Herald calls for two essential items of the hour noiseless gum and odorless onions reflecting a humorous local plea for practical comforts.
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Tayne
Neb
Herald
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Q&A Column Intro
The note introduces Burroughs Nature Club Notes from 1927 and invites readers to send questions on nature subjects to the Nature Notes Department of the paper with answers appearing in the column. It sets a general-interest, reader-engagement tone.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Co
Nature Notes
Answers from Tomorrow's Nature Notes feature
Tomorrow's Nature Notes presents answers to reader questions. It covers methods for keeping a pigeon vote clean, identifies the most deadly mushroom, and explains bass spawning timing and protections. It also includes prev Qs on osprey gripping prey, Asia lions, and sow bug garden pests with practical remedies.
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Asia
Persia
Mesopotamia
India
Samson
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