Settling Up Accounts Across Nations and Currencies
In balancing international books, payments may be made in gold or in kind. The article notes Germany’s Dawes Plan payments, with over 44 percent of year two in goods. It discusses the risk of reduced home demand and unemployment if in-kind payments rise, and contemplates France receiving German reparations in goods rather than money.
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United States
France
Germany
Parker Gilbert
Enal
America
Calmer View of Loryda on Florida Boom and Real Growth
A discussion notes that Florida’s land boom was steady rather than sudden and that Prosperity has room to grow in wintering and agriculture. It cites a National City Bank study comparing Florida’s 1900 1920 growth with the nation’s gains in population railroad mileage farm property crops and manufactured products. It warns that fictitious values fueled the rush and collapse but argues Florida will increasingly shape the economy and society once air castles are razed.
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Natonal City Bank of
New York
Florida
United States
Peninsulx
Rewarding Children: Blanton Discuss Rewards and Discipline
Dr and Mrs Smiley Blanton of Minneapolis argue in Hygeia that rewarding children for necessary tasks like picking up toys dressing themselves and eating healthfully is harmless. They advocate a balanced approach using praise rewards and punishment while stressing duties and fairness.
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Smiley Blanton
Minneapolis
Hygeia
Bytes
Fermaine coiffures cut labor with asymmetric style
The Detroit News notes a new feramine hairstyle featuring a kafy tongue on one side and short on the other. It’s presented as vented by a careless barber, suggesting fashionable design that wastes no effort, yielding zero per cent less labor.
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Detroit News
Sugar between halves boosts or slows athletic play
A health column discusses sugar as a fuel for athletes noting glycogen in blood and how a cup of tea or orange juice can help mid event. It covers training table variety and cautions on tobacco and alcohol, then answers reader questions on constipation sciatica and digestion with brief medical guidance.
The Poison of Cocksureness by Glenn Frank
Glenn Frank argues for suspended judgment across religion and politics, citing Confucius on reserving judgment. He contrasts certainty with wisdom and notes the danger of dogmatic views in public life, urging cautious consideration of facts before speaking or acting.
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Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Bulwer-Lytton
Corksure
Enorance
Confucius
Life on Fifth Avenue Parade of Odd Characters in 1928 New York
New York on September 7 reports Fifth Avenue and Broadway alive with a constant parade of eccentric figures. Beggars, derelicts, a mugging pugilist shadow boxer, yodeling hatless man, card sellers, bird feeders, and a drug addict all populate the streets. The Times Square area shows theater galleries losing glamour and noisy gallery crowds fading, replaced by quieter observation and cinema culture.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
F Broadway
Moe
All Seasons
Iris Search
Central Park
The
Waldorf
Times Square
Nonin
Uncle Wiggily Teaches School Opens Busy Term
Uncle Wiggily wakes to a bustling scene as the first day of school after vacation approaches. He and Mrs. Longears prepare forty seven little funnies for a fresh term amid morning rush and chatter in their hollow stump bungalow.
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Tooter
Scooter
Jangle
Jingle
Buster
Custer
Uncle Wiggilsy
Bungalow
Mr. Longears
Bunny Gentleman Seeks Help as Bunny Children Cause Fuss
Uncle Wiksily and the bunny group prepare forty seven youngsters for school as Lady Mouse Teacher falls ill. Baby Bunty visits the bungalow while janitor rat reports mischief and a missing teacher, prompting concern over discipline and care.
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Jake
Jane Pasay Z
Mrs. Longears
An Fey
Baby Bunty
Uncle Wiksily
Molon
lUinele
Uncle Wiggily Teaches Lollypop Lesson at School
Uncle Wiggily, acting as substitute teacher, calms unruly students at Hotton Stump School. He leads them to a candy shop to learn what lollypops are made of, then returns to class as the Lady Mouse Teacher arrives late due to a broken jitney.
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Uncle Wiggily
Hotton Stump
Jackie Gow Wow
Jackie
Jollie
Bunny
Lulu
Re “Dearmei
Uncle
Wiggily
Tam
Wiszguty
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Offer Questions and Answers
A 1936 Burroughs Nature Club column invites readers to send general questions to the Nature Notes Department. It includes quizzed topics on animal behavior and plant life, discusses nesting, vegetation’s role in air quality, and urges readers to plant a bush yearly to help the environment.
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Azure
Nature Notes
Heart of Katie O’Doone excerpts and interludes
Synopsis from Leroy Scott novel fragment follows Katie O’Doone daughter of a drunkard mother, as she leaves a tenement for York and Philadelphia shows. Lily Spencer reenters as a dancer, forms a roommate bond, and confronts men like Peter Romain and Billy Gordon while Katie worries over family, romance, and ambition.
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Katie O’doone
Leroy Scott
Mary Regan
Katle O'Doone
Liv Spencer
Blg Gerson
Mme. Ravenal
Billy Gordon
O'Doone
Billy
Lily
Katie
Ian
Katie O'Doone
New York
Atic Q'Deane
Philadelphia
Anic
Ioo Tong
Jame
Kate O'Doane
Tiy
Mitzi Malone
Peter Romain
Fernham
Peter
Antt
Splendid
Lily Spencer
Misa
Katie O'Doong
Poe
Mick
Crook
Will
Lowi
Ivenet
Invention of Writing From Picture Signs to Alphabet
A classroom discussion traces early writing from pictographs in Sumer and Egypt to alphabetic systems. It notes that ancient scribes used pictures of animals and humans on bark and stone, with signs evolving to represent sounds, and highlights differences in symbols for sun water and rain. It mentions the transition to alphabetic writing and the use of signs for sounds rather than pure pictures.
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Egypt
Ort Sumer
Kabylanie
Sumer
Arabian Desert
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