Lindbergh beacon to crown Palmolive building in Chicago
A 2,000,000 candle power Lindbergh light will bloom atop Chicago's Palmolive building donated by Elmer Sperry. The beacon cost 100000 and may let street lights be turned off at night. The article notes the light's brightness could outshine noon sun and questions urban darkness.
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Chicago
Memphis
Omaha
Twin Cities
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Loop
Michigan Avenue
Lindbergh
Palmolive
Elmer Sperry
Brooklyn
America
Mr. Sperry
Windy City
Expense accounts debate echoes through Tennessee legislature
The Knoxville Express notes the late legislature's expense account law despite constitutional limits. It suggests repeat use, possibly boosting official pay by 500 dollars in coming sessions. Gov Hammill signaled either belief in the law or a wish to avoid unpopularity with lawmakers. The piece questions the broad reading of compensation and cites court opinions, while noting doubtful court challenges and taxpayer resigned mutterings.
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Knoxville Express
Hammill
General Assembly
Tennessee
North Dakota
Supreme Court
Washington
Assembly
The Tariff Bill Debated in Public and Press
The reader notes receipt of House Document No 15 a 366 page tariff comparison with H R 2667 describing its aims to raise revenue regulate commerce aid industries and protect labor The writer dismisses unread length skepticism and urges consultation of the massive text for informed opinion while offering to let any reader inspect the work at the office.
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Committee On Ways and Means
House
Vol
Scarface Al Capone Sentenced in Philadelphia Trial
The Philadelphia magistrate arraigned Al Capone on a concealed weapons charge and set bail at 35,000. Capone was indicted by the grand jury. the trial jury finished in 44 minutes. The judge found him guilty and sentenced him to one year in jail, marking his first prison term.
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al Capone
Chicago
Philadelphia
Scarface al
Scarface
America
Alphonse Capone
Capone Held On Gun Charge In Plan To Keep Him Off Streets
The article describes Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia actions against Scarface Al Capone. Officials seek to jail him on a concealed weapon charge, using it as a lever to curb his activities with a plan to rearrest him if he resumes violence or arms himself.
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Chicago
Miami
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Scarface
Capone
Nervous breakdown not a universal fate says Dr Brady
In this Health Service column Dr Brady argues that nervous breakdown is not an inevitable result of work anxiety or responsibility. He admits ignorance about exact definitions of nervous conditions and notes that real nervous system disease does not always make people more excitable. He emphasizes caution against overdiagnosing neuroses and urges readers to seek solid medical evaluation.
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Brady
As & Mic
Webster
Roger, Bartlett
Smith
Cassel
MacCricken and Sandison
Brammar
Deevish
William Brady
Questions and Answers Toss the Cream and Sugar Please
A reader asks if a child should stop adding cream and sugar to cereal. Answers defend sugar as needed for active growth, caution about health fads, and advise practical nutrition while noting the column’s general limits.
Welfare and Waltzing Mice by Glenn Frank
An essay on the tension between practical industry needs and university research. It argues that democracies must fund broad scholarly inquiry to enable future innovations, warning that industry profits threaten to drain universities of their top researchers and curtail fundamental science.
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Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin and Riitory of the Century
McecClite
Dante Hall
The
Realist
House of Canunens
Ministry of Agriculture
Unive
Mst Brillant Research Mich
Selomneshry
Mital
Iowa Keeps Pressing Tax Equality Across Generations
Des Moines report outlines long history of Iowa tax reform efforts from 1892 to the Forty‑first General Assembly. It notes tax commissions, budgets, and public concerns about fair burden sharing, with quotes from B L Hogue on transparency and taxpayer costs.
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Courier
Des Moines
Fortythird- General Assembly
State Law Library
Legislative Tax Commission
Twenty-fourth General Assembly
Commission of Four
Charles EB. Whiting
Whiting
Charles H. Clark
Cedar Rapids
EB. C. Lane
Guthrie Genter
August Post
Moulton
Iowa Tax Revision Association
Frank G. Pierce
Iowa Taxpayers League
M. H. Cohen
Charles WW. Vass
Davenport
Garner
B. F. Stonebreaker
Rockwell City
J. H. McConologue
Mason City
Ripley
McConologue
State Board of Control
van Alstine
Thirty-ninth General
State Budget Department
Board of Assessment and Review
H. S. van Alstine
Gilmore City
Charles M. Dutcher
Iowa
M. Smith
Winterset
Milton
Pitt
Crescent
E. Narey
Spirit Lake
T. E. Moon
Inwood
Arthur Springer
Wapello
James Peters
Perry
B. L. Hogue
Forty-first General Assembly
Word Grouping Brain Test From Evening Post
A word association brain test appears in the Evening Post content with groups of words and key terms. Readers are asked to mark words with similar meaning within each group as a time-limited exercise.
Abe Martin Spars With Canned Salmon Mystery
Odd local quarrel arises over a tiny discovered diamond amid canned salmon. Teli Binkley, 50, comments that youth is brief and jokes about parties and circuses in a tangential, rumor-filled exchange.
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Teli Binkley
Nightly street crimes and cab racket loom in uptown New York
A New York report traces seven unconfirmed black jackings in a three week span along a Park Avenue to Fifth Avenue taxi route. Witnesses describe a knockout technique used by a flirtatious hotel-contacted suspect, while a detective mentors a staged encounter with a supposed innocent girl. The piece also highlights cabaret performers Ruby Seeler and Claire Luce, nightclub life, and local business chatter about drink profits and crowd patterns.
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New York
Fark Avenue
Upper Fifth Avenue
Park Avenue
Black Jack
Harsh Words Fly as British Election Battle Heats Up
London May 21 Harsh words fly as Britain's general election nears on May 30 with leaders from Lloyd George to Ramsay MacDonald trading barbs. Conservatives retaliate while by elections shift seats toward the Liberal and Hoeral parties.
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London
Winston Gchtrehill
Ramsay MacDonald
Labor Party
David Linyd Cheorge
Liberal Party
Lord Melchett
Lloyd George
Lioyd George
House of Commons
Philip Cunliffe-Lister
Oxford University
E.G. Grenfell
City of London
W. Joynson-Hicks
Tunbridge Wells
Mr. Lloyd George
Chamberlain
Bradford
Baldwin
Worcester
Lord Birkenhead
Liverpool
Ernest Benn
Abernhemn
David Lloyd George
Lord Melchell
Winston Churchill
Vigilant U S Money Mint Guards Bills As They Are Printed
Washington reports detail the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s tight controls to track and verify every dollar in circulation. Thousands ensure notes and paper supply tally exactly, with stringent checks before any division leaves the building.
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Derrert
Washington, D. C
Sam
Bureau of Engraving
United States Treasury
Manny
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury Department
the Treasury
United States
Peopla
Debenture plan for cotton and wheat exports outlined
The Buffalo Evening News outlines a hypothetical export debenture, valuing cotton at 10,000,000 bales and wheat at 100,000,000 bushels annually. Debentures would total 121 million dollars, issued to exporters to pay duties on imports, with discounts and costs cutting into farmers’ proceeds. It notes government oversight concerns and skeptical views from Ohio State Journal.
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Evening News
United States Treasury
Alidi
United States
Suger
St de Senators
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