Ame waTyaiun Gaily SP Karcages Vol 10 No 121
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Eerep
Waterloo
Associated Press
United Press International News
Jones Reid flood control bill signed by president
The Jones Reid flood control bill, signed by President Coolidge after changes, requires an initial appropriation around 25 million dollars, with a total authorization of 225 million. Major General Jadwin cites about 25,000,900 as a target, while start points and phases remain undetermined between Cape Girardeau and the Gulf. The plan follows army engineers design with a three-man planning board, and states must provide rights of way and maintenance. the federal government bears no flood damages.
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Jones-Reid
Coolidge
Jadwin
Army Engineers
Cape Girardeau
Gulf of Mexico
The
Mississippi River Commission
Shooting fuels protest over prohibition agent incident
Western New York residents protested after a prohibition agent fired at an automobilist who failed to halt, injuring him and sparking a mass meeting with Buffalo and Niagara Falls mayors in attendance. The incident prompted treasury warnings on use of firearms and renewed debate over prohibition enforcement and civil rights.
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New York State
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Treasury Department
The New Intellectual Baldness Irony in Hair and Brains
A retired Iowa editor notes that hairiness once linked to brains. British scientists question the link, saying thyroid secretions and brain feeding differ by individual. The piece mocks the idea that hair equals intellect and celebrates a bald pride in light of science.
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British Association For the Advancement of Science
Iowa
Admiral Bob Evans
Admiral Bob
Science
Golden anniversary marks Elmer Taylor editorship
Last week the Ivaer Star-Clipper celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of editor Elmer Taylor with a souvenir edition a community banquet and rites. The Star-Clipper grew from a four page paper in 1878 to a respected weekly under his guidance. He and his two sons and Mrs Taylor led the paper with her pioneering women’s department as the town and state acknowledge this milestone.
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Taylor
Star-Clipper
Nress of
Iowa
Personal Health Service by Dr William Brady in 1920s column
A humorous yet critical column by Dr William Brady questions soap marketing claims and public hygiene myths. It lampoons the soap industry, discusses skin function, safe use of deodorants, and advises on exercise, cleaning leather, and infant skull soft spots with direct reader Q A style notes.
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Soap
Hut
Dr. Brady
Wilkes Brady
New York by Bay By O. O. McINTYRE
A column on Broadway at night contrasts hustling after dark with the day’s slow buzz. It describes theatergoers, diners, and musicians, notes taxi-cab evolution, and recounts Cobb named for Paducah’s hotel while a dissenting blue smock is rejected. The piece ends with a sly jab at a southern caption calling the author a typical New Yorker.
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New York
Broadway
White Way
Paducah
Irvin Cobb
Cobb
Missouri
Canyon
Oregon
Texas
A Textbook for Tories by Glenn Frank
Glenn Frank, UW president and former Century editor, lauds Zechariah Chafee Jr for The Inquiring Mind a vigorous defense of tolerance and free intellectual sport for conservatives and liberals alike. The review praises restraint on sedition laws and urges letting truth pursuit guide opinion.
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Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
Copyright
the McClure
Zechariah Chafee, Jr
Tories
Lessing
William Lloyd Garrison
Ramaliel
Towa Presidential Primary Debate Recalled
Hampton Chronicle recalls past views on a presidential primary in Towa and notes the state once lacked such a primary during Roosevelt era. The piece mentions low voter turnout compared with caucus days and cites taxpayer expense as a point of discussion.
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Towa
Hampton Chronicle
Roosevelt
Jawa
Uncle Wiggily and the Fire Fighting Kennel Incident
In a Uncle Wiggily tale Jackie shouts Fire as Bow Wow chases his tail near a burning kennel. Mrs Bow Wow mourns the blaze while Mr Whitewash the Bear suggests ice and a stick puzzle to douse the flames. A cake of ice melts into water and the fire is put out before the home is damaged.
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Jackie
Bow Wow
Mrs. Bow Wow
Mr. Whitewash
Uncle
Mr. Longears
White Bear
Mick
Mr. Whitewast
Mr. Bow Wow
Uncle Wiggily
Bob Cat
Boo Cat
Mr. Bob Cat
Joy Street and a New York romance cliffhanger
A serialized tale follows Gay Hilton, 20, private secretary in a Chicago firm, as she moves to New York. She lands modeling work after a murder headline shocks her, navigates flirtations with Crosley Webb and Flick Barry, and faces Webb’s jealous control. Webb proclaims love. Gay’s cynicism deepens as she weighs independence against manipulation. The cliffhanger asks what Gay will do next.
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Gay Hilton
Howard Weston
Junor
Hy. & H. Manufacturing Co
Weston
New York
Gay
Samuel J. Howells
Gus
Crosley Webb
Wall Street
Floyd Barry
Young Barry
Flick
Riverside Drive
Young
Barry
Flick Barry
Seventy-first Street
Webb
Despot
Jert
Jimmel
Notorious
Uncle Wiggily puzzle tale meets Bob Cat clash in woods
A fragmented Uncle Wiggily story shows the Bat Chap challenging a rabbit with a sunless looking glass puzzle. A Bob Cat and a dog peer in as the scene hints at more in the next installment about Uncle Wiggily and Bobbie's racket. In a separate note, Rock Island Argus muses that Texas could split into up to five states, altering Senate balance if ever exercised.
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Uncle Wiggily
Bobbie
Rock Island
Texas
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Questions and Answers
A nature club column from 1928 answers reader questions on animals that breathe both in and out of water, cedar waxwings wing tips, toad migration, and shells. It also covers Bermuda grass control on a baseball diamond and basic radioactivity facts.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Jughton Mifflin Co
Nature Notes
Clever Animals in Australia Build Protective Mounds
Uncle Ray describes mound birds in Australia that construct large nests of leaves covered with dirt sand or pebbles to shelter eggs buried beneath. Birds raise sand with scratching to form mounds some five feet high while eggs exceed three inches long with thin shells. People sometimes collect these eggs as food and risk bites from mosquitoes and sandflies during digs.
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Australia
Knocker’s Bay
Abe Martin Tells of a Seattle Bride and Honeymoon
Abe Martin reports on a Seattle girl who recently married a former maharajah of Indore. The piece notes a Hindoo honeymoon and a baby on the way. It mentions the McNary Haugen bill passing the house and a Farmer Duke Bentley ordering a second car.
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Seattle
Indore
Eymoon
McNary-Haugen
Bill Hagn
Duke Bentley
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Audit Bureau of Circulations
Philadelphia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Story
Brooks & Finley, Representatives
William Brady, M. D
Nat'l Newspaper
O. O. McIntyre
Madison Avenue
America
Ghafee
F. W. Maitland
Henry Sidgwick
Camden
Cllys
Howard R. Garis
S&e
Wroeml
Lindbergh
Huenefeld
Ee Reed
Joy Street
Claire Pomeroy Copriczut
John F. Dile
Verona
EHC
Uncle Ray’s
Wage Ray
Gophera
Abe Martin
Laurel
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