Waterless Evening Courier Ad Rates and Policies
The Waterless Evening Courier lists subscription prices for city and long distance mail, notes daily publication with Sunday exclusion, and describes advertising rules, office locations, and ownership. It outlines rates, endorsements, and rights of the newspaper, including bulk wire services and policy on fraud and public interest.
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Poor Show At National Republican Convention In Kansas City
The Kansas City Republican convention drew sharp criticism as a spectacle with little excitement. Observers Henry M. Hyde and H. L. Mencken called it the worst ever, noting apathy and dullness despite the eventual nomination of an able man, contrasting with the 1920 convention.
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Kansas City
Henry M. Hyde
H. L. Mencken
The Rise of Chewing Gum and Its Public Fame
A historical note traces chewing gum from chicle base to mass market. Thomas Adams introduced gum after meeting a Mexican general, adding flavoring and distributing free samples to ignite demand. By his death the industry reached about 45 million dollars annually, spreading from America to England and beyond.
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Wrigley Tower
Thomas Adams
Adams
America
Old
England
Bright College Years Reflections on Romance and Life
A columnist muses on college romance and its outcome, noting that choosing a lasting partner matters beyond campus life. It contrasts undergraduate gaiety with postgrad responsibility, and jokes on Europe’s druggist trust, Al Smith support, Greece gold imports, and the inheritance tax implications.
The Scourge of Cancer and Public Health Advice
Dr. William Brady discusses cancer as a major civilization scourge, noting varying mortality rates and debated heredity, contagion, and transplantability. He cites inflammation links and common cancer sites, then answers reader questions on topics including whooping cough and personal health inquiries.
City Statesmanship by Glenn Frank in City Leadership
Glenn Frank argues city leadership offers prime chance to shape policy with close ties to facts. He asserts local government requires concrete programs over rhetoric and that small cities enable citizens to evaluate leaders by results, not words.
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United States
Nless
New York By Day on Opium Rumors and Broadway Plays
In New York on June 16 rumors spread about poppy and opium use among the city’s elite amid skyscraper settings. Reports note 20,000 pipe users in greater NYC, with debutantes in sanitariums and nightlife figures linked to the habit.
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New -York
Broadway
Underworld
New York
Uncle Wiggily and the Three Stories TV Adventure
Jackie Bow Wow, the puppy, runs from his kennel to Uncle Wiggily's hollow stump bungalow for adventure. Peetle questions the plan as the pair discuss travel and peculiar napkin etiquette.
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Uncle Wiggily
Hollow Stump
Peetie
Uncle Wiggily’s Adventuring Pup Duo
In a playful exchange Mr Longears asks how the boys are and Jackie boasts smarter ideas while Peelie and Jenti question his self confidence. Jackie recalls Uncle Wiggily and the puzzle he solved by guessing pictures of four tree grown things acorns apples bark and leaves.
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Uncle Wiggily
Jackie
Peelie
Paris
Adventuring With Uncle Wiggily and the Hollow Stump Pupils
Jackie and Peetie join Uncle Wiggily for a Saturday outing to the hollow stump bungalow. They learn plant names, dodge mosquitoes with pennyroyal, and sit for three stories to be guessed from sand drawings.
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Jackie
Hollow Stump
Peetie
Uncle Wiggily
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Rabbit
Uncle Wiggily and the sand picture tales
In a playful scene Jackie and Peetle clap at pictured sand figures as a bunny uncle narrates three stories. The narrator invites recognition of the characters and hints at more adventures involving a sugar spoon, molasses, a police dog, a roller skate and a butter knife with Uncle Wiggily and a little bird.
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Jackie
Peetle
Uncle Wiggily
Little Bird
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Questions and Answers
Burroughs Nature Club Notes answers reader questions on snakes tortoises otters woodpeckers and trees. It explains natural grafting accidental and continuous wood growth from intertwined branches and contrasts otter types and English woodpeckers with North American species.
Boots and Boots: A Park Boy’s Quiet Struggle
A park encounter with a thin, undernourished bootblack of about ten reveals a boy forced to earn at dawn, carrying a heavy toolbox and facing polite rebuffs. The narrative contrasts his quiet dignity with a world hurried by its own cares, and questions public kindness toward service workers and the needy.
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Fat God
Jrun
Wild Boars Then and Now in Ancient Times
Uncle Ray discusses the lineage of domestic pigs from wild boars, noting ancient references by Homer and early human hunting. He describes boar tusks, size, social groups, habitat, diet, and danger posed when provoked, including historical encounters in India and Europe.
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Europe
India
Uncle Ray Monday
Bird World
Public Morality in Politics Says Enlightenment Needed
Arthur T Hadley argues in Yale Review that new developments in business and politics have complicated public duty. He notes kinder relations but also clashes between self, constituents, and the commonwealth. He warns against guided idealism and calls for enlightenment in public morality.
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Arthur T. Hadley
Yale Review
Commonwealth
America
Bolshevist Gold and Mussolini Hat Controversy
A Baltimore Sun report debunks a Bolshevist gold scare claiming about 140000 dollars salted into London by two bank clerks to influence communists, while a New Orleans Times-Picayune piece mocks Mussolini’s Italy for requiring university youth to wear straw hats, arguing Americans would reject compulsory headwear laws.
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London
Willan Joynson-Hicks
New Orleans
Times-Picayupe
Mussolini
Florence
Uniae
Congress
New Castle Woman Spends Summer in Valparaiso
A New Castle woman travels to Valparaiso Prior to her husband serving a sentence in Youngstown She explains the summer plan amid local gossip and a controversial photo incident reflecting public judgment and social norms.
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Newcastle
Valparaiso
Youngstown
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