Expanding Audiences and Magnavox Questioned Use
A column discusses the Magnavox system enabling Gov Kendall to address Newton from Des Moines and envisions broad audio preaching to distant audiences. It weighs advantages of larger reach against loss of face to face contact and notes potential weather or furnace failure scenarios. It also ponders broader telecom use in church services and public discourse.
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Gov. Kendall
Des Moines
Newton
Mies
Kendall
State House
Aliso
Magnavox
London Pact Prelude Hunter’s Dream Of Politics
Fragmentary notice reflects early forecasting tone about international politics in London urging focus on the Anglo-Japanese pact discussions led by Lloyd George and colonial premiers, hinting at broader global stakes.
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London
Lloyd George
Mighty Sweet to Live poem by Frank L. Stanton
Fragmentary verse with rhythms of a road journey. The speaker weighs loneliness, trouble, and hope, asserting that despite thorny roads and shared struggles the world is improving and near heaven. Several lines reference time, tide, belief, and better days ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank L. Stanton
Health Talks and Heat Effects Across Climates
Discussion on heat related mortality and indirect deaths from heart, kidney, liver diseases during hot spells. Advice for vulnerable individuals, typhoid inoculation for travelers, and health tips for students, tourists, and motorists. Mentions of Summer health propaganda and inquiries to Dr. Huber. Also notes Muscatine’s rackless trolley trial and a reflection on balance of emotions.
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Tropics
Calcutta
Friend Wife By Roe Fulkerson
A casual afternoon conversation reveals Imogene recalling Myrtle Adams and her wedding. Myrtle, described as shy beside Adams’s imposing figure, faces his cave man tactics, yet goes through with marriage amid bluster and fear, leaving him humbled at the altar and Myrtle triumphant.
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Andrew
Imogene
Adams
Myrtle
Gentileman
New York
Afterthougts And Proverb Echoes In Aged Editor Recall
The editor of fifty years ago would note that Waterloo’s current baseball affliction has broadened its reach, while a reverse- speaking route hints at a bygone era. Reports mention motor loads of beer and alleged whisky carted to a Waukegan jail with cautious wording. A Harvard professor critiques classical education while questioning Latin and Greek value. An Indiana town, Koelreuteria paniculata, flushes golden blossoms along a street, a rare tree noted for its name. Heat waves lack relief per the weather bureau. Victory Village at St. Cloud in France honors maimed WWI soldiers, created after Paris displacement by landlords.
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Waukegan
Indiana
St. Cloud
France
Paris
Appointment of a qualified man of office in this country
The text laments the rarity of appointing a truly qualified official and fears a hidden catch behind such unusual governance moves. It hints at longstanding distrust and superstition about officeholders and the consequences for public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Barleycorm
Nature notes answers and questions on wildlife
Tomorrow's Nature Notes answers readers questions about calis origin of tiny particles in wood and plants, pin headed or round tailed grouse in Saskatchewan, and why hens have a cheek end buster. It also covers how some snakes eat warm blooded prey, albinism in robins and sparrows, silk worm history from China to Europe, and the codified tale of silkworm introduction via Constantinople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
Canada
North America
China
Constantinople
Europe
ASIN
URS
Murder mystery in Paddington pawnshop tale unfolds
Andrew Lauriston, a writer, is suspected of murdering a pawnbroker after a mysterious Spanish manuscript appears at the shop. Police link two rings in Lauriston’s possession to the crime and a poisoned victim, Parslett, adds a new twist. Purdie and Mrs. Goldmark probe shopkeepers, a royal diary, and a wealthy MP Levendale to trace the killer amid a web of suspects.
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Andrew Lauriston
Lauriston
Parslett
Purdie
Melky Rubinstein
Melky
Praed Street
Zillah Wildrose
Zillah
Daniel
Cabinet Council
Spencer Levendale
Mrs. Goldmark
Correct English Comparatives and Sentence Corrections
Iron is more useful than gold but not as precious. I have heard someone read more correctly than he. Read more fluently than he. She is more beautiful than her sister but not as friendly. He is not as well educated as his brother. Dora is as young as Daisy or younger.
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Tron
Reac
Dora
Daisy
Brain Tests by Sam Loyd
The article presents a lawn tennis knockout contest scenario where 16 players eliminate each other until the champion faces the previous year’s winner. It asks the chances of any one player becoming champion if all contestants are equally strong, and ends with a wordplay puzzle yielding AESOP as the answer.
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W. H Hartman CO
John C
Miter
A.W. Peterson
Gen'l Mer
Carrier
Sail
Waterlon
Iowa
Associated Press
Uss
Audit Bureau of Advertising
Rte
Watts
Washington, D. C
Woodward Blag
Dougherty
New York
Philadelphia
Chisago
San Francisco
Offtess
Story
Brooks & Finner
Rep's
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