Waterloo paper outlines new entertainment merger plans
The Waterloo Evening Courier reports on a major merger linking Radio Corporation of America, Photophone, National Broadcasting, and a major film booking network with GE and Westinghouse. It highlights aims to produce talking pictures, broadcast via radio, and future television, placing diverse entertainment under shared management. The piece notes the public policy stance and industry impact, framing a forward look at evolving media technology.
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New York
Radio Corporation of America
Kulth- 4lbee-Orpheum
Film Booking Office Motion Picture
Radio Corporation
R. ©. A. Photophone, Inc
National Broadcasting Company
BR. C. A
General Electric Company
Westinghouse Electris and Manufacturing Company
Theodore Roosevelt A Nation's Enduring Regard For A Great Man
A retrospective tribute to Theodore Roosevelt tracing his Manhattan birth career from New York legislator to civil service commissioner police commissioner of New York City assistant secretary of the navy Rough Rider colonel governor vice president and president. It highlights his versatility industry and public service as well as his private life and the famed Letters to His Children.
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America
Manhattan
New York City
Lincoln
Herbert Hoover
Alfred E. Smith
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Island
New Yorker
Nakuta
The
Rough Riders
Harvard
Theodore
New York
Navy
United States
Giving Away a Million at Turnover of Garment Firm
Oscar F. Grab founder of O F Grab & Co announces he will turn over his $1,000,000 garment operation to his employees on January 1, a move reflecting his belief in worker rights and collective bargaining. An immigrant from Austria who rose from soda jerker to magnate, Grab credits labor with his success and plans to relinquish control to those who aided his rise.
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Nash
O. F. Grab & Co
Oscar F. Grab
Austria
New York
Lower East Side
Running the body in school becomes a public issue
A southern school teacher asks for 75 copies of the second Brady Sym phony to guide daily calisthenics for 75 girls. The piece argues that classroom or non dressing drills fall short without gym facilities, proposing walking as a healthier alternative and urging a formal physical education track in curricula rather than ad hoc exercises. It notes that true curricular space should allow running and other activities, not just sitting study.
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Meade Oene
Illiterate Culture by Glenn Frank Analysis of Reading Habits
President of the University of Wisconsin Glenn Frank argues Americans risk “volume madness” in reading. Citing Maria Moravsky in The North American Review, he says too much reading leads to intellectual obesity, mental indigestion, and wasted ideas. He warns that constant reading without thought weakens thinking and productivity.
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Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
McClure Newspaper
United States
North American Review
Maria Moravsky
America
Broadway at Night and Other Tales of New York
A late October New York feature mixes Broadway glow with social notes on servants, Reno divorces, and odd urban vignettes. It laments Broadway’s dazzling night life while detailing reform chatter, new business ideas, and quirky anecdotes about city life and characters like Uncle Wiggily and Leaf Hoppers.
Uncle Wiggily and the Leaf Hopper Tale
Uncle Wiggily opens his hollow stump bungalow door to Lootie the Jezi Hopper a bug girl who lost her brother and imagines a giant Leaf Hopper on the rabbit's porch Lootie asks for courage and a song as Ang ele Wigelly vows to help despite having lost his glasses
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Uncle Wiggly
Hopper
Loodle
al Unele Wigglly
Lootle
Iosce
Lootie
Dowile
Uncle Wiggily
Loode
Tucle
Baby Bunty
Uncle
Mr. Longears
Wiggily
Jezi
Bug
Doodie
Ang Ele Wigelly
Fun on the front steps with Uncle Wigelly
The scene shows Uncle Wigelly on the front steps near a doorway with benches on either side for visitors. Lootle Gen suddenly jumps onto a bench and exclaims loudly about spotting a giant Leal, creating a lively interruption in the moment.
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Uncle Wigelly
The Pedestrian on Top of Moving Vehicles Idea
A piece criticizes New York City authorities for a failed plan, imagining pedestrians walking atop moving street cars to ease congestion. It jokes about training pedestrians for this dangerous sport and mentions the mayor's plan committee, suggesting Bellevue is the wrong target for blame.
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New York Times
Bellevue
Broadway
Eliza
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Questions and Answers
A 1928 Burroughs Nature Club Notes column invites readers to submit questions on nature subjects with answers promised in the next issue. It includes previously answered items on topics such as bird lifespans, wisdom teeth evolution, and bat wing development, framed in a general informational tone characteristic of a local nature column.
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Tara
Nature Moles
Reading Bibles of World Literature By Public Education Bureau
The U S Bureau of Education ranks Homer Dante Shakespeare and Goethe as literary bibles revealing enduring, universal human concerns. It argues Whitman failed to create a true American Bible and defends classic works for timeless insight, while noting Don Quixote’s epochal life view. The piece contemplates reading priorities and the value of enduring classics.
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Alonso
Sage of Aragon
United States Bureau of Education
Llad
Bureau
Goethe
Lfe
Lst
Walt Whitman
Fang
Whitman
BLUE MURDER FLASHES OF VENGEANCE IN ITALY CASE
World War veteran Alan Dighton moves from a secret service post to chase The Lizard, a crime ring leader, who wields a sun gun that vaporizes victims leaving blue powder. Amid wreckage near a hillside, Dighton finds Greta alive and uncovers The Lizard's hidden path, while rumors of a brutal lab linger.
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Alan Dighton
Ivan Taverner
Ulisurd
Dighton
Mafalda Pasquali
Ahlberg
Greta Haye
Taverner
Jancee
Iitter Unh
Italy
Greta
Rue Des Acacias
Daudot
Mme,Laroche
Dante
Villa Sabino
Lisard
Grete
Grein
Riddles and Letters Enthrall Uncle Ray Corner Friends
Readers of Uncle Ray's Corner respond with a burst of letters and riddles from grownups and youngsters. Mrs. CG M Shriver sent 25 riddles with solutions, sparking reader delight as teachers and pupils start days with riddles. A request for Forty Good Riddles and Answers invites replies with stamped self-addressed envelopes.
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CG. M, Shriver
Uncle Ray
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