Real life contrasts in America and municipal quahaug farming
A columnist contrasts optimistic small town life with grim urban crime tales, notes Barnstable Cape Cod’s municipal quahaug farm turning a profit, critiques a proposed national lottery for veterans pensions, and shares lessons on using talents to find fitting work.
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America
New York
Europe
United States
Jim Connor
Herald
Seymour
Indiana
Jim
Dillinger
Sinclair Lewis
New England
Barnstable
Cape Cod
Preachers Column urges eggs for Buckner Orphan's Home
The Baptist Church calls members to bring eggs Monday to Mangrum's store for the Buckner Orphan's Home, noting about 700 orphans to help. The piece praises Rotary Club and parish efforts, mentions a revival plan with Webb and Dennis, and urges farm families to attend Sunday services and Mother’s Day goals.
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Jim Montgomery
Rotary Club
Presbyterian
Whitewright Rotary Club
Texas Society For
Allen Short
Sun
Short
Allen
Rotary
Webb
Dennis
Sunday Slogan Set for Whitewright Church
The church plans a slogan "One thousand in Sunday school Mother's Day" to reach a goal by May 13th. The pastor will preach at 11 o clock and 7 45 o clock with subjects "Whats In a Name" and "A Love That Will Not Let Us Go."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Christian Church
Whitewright
Water as Medicine and Hydration Tips
A 19th century reprint cites Dr. Ghislain-Houzel advising abundant glasses of water between meals to promote kidney function. He discusses warm and hot water aiding stomach cleansing, suggests a hot morning drink with lemon, and notes water therapy may lessen stomach discomfort and influence digestion.
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Dr. Ghislain-Houzel
Paris
Water drinking as preventive habit once urged
A Literary Digest note praises water drinking to ward off infections. A doctor attending a baffling boy’s illness promises medicine that will "give him fits" and boasts he is the best in the state at curing fits.
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Tisbo
Joe
Literary Digest
Question and answer about age of a person born in 1897
A classroom exchange frames age calculation. The teacher asks how old someone born in 1897 would be now, and a pupil probes whether gender affects the answer.
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Vincenzo Tisbo
East Side
Joe Tarentino
Washington
Kenney
New Jersey
Veterans Administration
Dan
Percival
G. C. Ivins
the Baptist Church
Purina Chicken
Vance Dairy Feed
North Texas Seed Co
Pascal Farley
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Gulf Refining Company
Lee Daniels
Holland “Tunnel
Daniels
Holland 4 Tunnel
Cowboy
Bow-Wright
Reeves
Yrink
N.C. Hill
Gulf
Gulf Refining CO
Irgh, PA
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