Music in the Schools Advocates Universal Musical Education
A polemic urging music as a vital part of public schooling. It argues music develops taste, discipline, and social ideals, defends democracy in art, promotes leisure, and links listening and appreciation to lifelong cultural growth across nations, epochs, and communities.
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Germany
Volksschule
Democritus
Aesclepiades
David
Saul
St. Vitus
America
Goethe
Thoreau
Local Notes and Quirks From Hogwallow News
Hogwallow residents discuss a new tent family near Gander Creek swamp named dogs Cash Shep Molly Ponto Prince Roger and Lily. Washington Hocks resents an advert urging tooth soap use for 26 years without teeth. Atlas Peck notes towns chase million dollar loans to hire another horse. Bear-hunter reunion at Musket Ridge last week. Jim Alley joins with a humorous bid for honorary membership.
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Sim Flinders
Gander Creek
Sim
Cash
Shep
Molly
Ponto
Prince
Roger
Lily
Washington Hocks
Atlas Peck
Musket Ridge
Jim Alley
Reflecting on Music's Deep Transformative Power
The passage argues that a refined listener expands taste through experience and tunes the soul to eternal realities. Genuine music elevates spirit, deepens inner qualities, and leaves one changed after hearing noble melodies.
Wheat acreage cuts totaling 7.5 million yards announced
The Farm Administration reported 573,723 wheat acreage reduction contracts cutting about 7,500,000 acres of wheat production this year. More contracts are being signed with May 10 closure. Wheat adjustment payments total $66,232,457 in 818,387 checks to date. Oklahoma shows 28,883 contracts and Texas 14,192.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Texas
Iowa Faces Severe Water Shortage Across Regions
A large section of Iowa endures a worsening water shortage as two dry years deplete wells on hundreds of farms and strain small town supplies. Residents haul water from neighbors as summer approaches.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Patent Office Posts First Profit Since 1922
United States Patent Office will operate at a profit for the first time since 1922, says Commissioner Conway P. Coe in a Michigan Patent Law Association remarks. He cites a surge in patent applications for beer, wine, and whisky trademarks, noting 1037 alcoholic trademark registrations since last April.
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Detroit
United States Patent Office
Conway P. Coe
Michigan Patent Law Association
Coe
Address change request to save mailing costs for Sun
The notice urges readers to inform The Sun of any address changes to prevent misdelivery. It explains Uncle Sam returns misaddressed copies at 2 cents each and asks readers to notify a week in advance to avoid missing issues and save postage.
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The
Sun
Uncle Sam
Feared Father Kills Four Children in Romania
Joseph Szabo, a jobless carpenter, hacked to death his children aged 2, 3, 5 and 6 with an ax and then slit his throat as he feared inherited impulse to steal from their mother Julia Szabo, who serves a six months sentence after saying she stole to feed starving babies.
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Arad
Romania
Joseph Szabo
Szabo
Julia Szabo
Hailstorm insurance charge contested by chamber
The South Texas Chamber of Commerce filed suit in Travis County District Court to void a Texas Insurance Commission order that added a hailstorm insurance charge to windstorm policies. The petition says the schedule is discriminatory toward areas with worse hail records, though the commission overruled objections.
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Austin
South Texas Chamber of Commerce
Travis County
Texas Insurance Commission
Insurance Commission
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Mrs. George German
Longfellow
T. W. Ayres & Son
Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
Patent Office
the Sun
Roberts CO
Lux
W. T. Sears
T. E. Sears
R. K. McMurry
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
MGR. OF
Sherman
Sam Rayburn
Frank Reece
Virgil Evans
R. B
Bob) Caraway
J. C
Carl) Allred
J. H
Jim) Waggoner
P. Janway J. L. Cantrell
S. B
Ben) Vaughan
Tom Brice
Harold Doss
Mark Montgomery
K. C
Michigan
Kimbell
Gladiola
Smith’s
Acron
Youkon
LaFrance
Home Run
Wapco
Nicholson
Furniture Bargains
Hoosier
R. R. Waldo
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