Barleycorn Edges Ahead in Local Option Elections
Washington report shows local option results from sixteen states with hard liquor approved in 1,116 communities and rejected in 1,054. Wine and beer approved in 649 communities, opposed in 524. Statewide votes cited include Arkansas Izard County for wine and beer, Florida Polk County against liquor, Maine towns split on liquor stores, Maryland Queen Anne’s County for package sales, New Jersey Marlboro Sunday sales, Ohio mixed results, and North Dakota approving hard liquor after Dec. 3. California Ohio Oklahoma Texas and others also weighed liquor controls and licenses.
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Washington
John Barleycorn
Arkansas
Izard
Florida
Polk
Illinois
Chicago
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Queen Anne’s
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Grand Island
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Garfield
North Dakota
California
State Board of Equalization
Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Oklahoma
Local Market Prices Snapshot
Readable fragments show a sequence of money values including 2.00 2.75 1.75 2.25 2.00 1.90 2.05 3.05 and a second line 8.55 2.35 2.55. The text resembles a price listing or market tickers with multiple entries but lacks complete context or item labels.
Chinese Wife Takes Husband to School
In Chungking, Szechuen, Mrs Wong age 17 leads her 14 year old husband into a local school. The American superintendent reports the couple’s bold move with the wife declaring the husband lazy and unworthy. School authorities require written permission for his release from lessons, as Mrs Wong enforces education for a better marriage.
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Chungking
China
Szechuen
Not So Hot Sivantes Farm Weather Reverses Crops
In China Mongolia farming is hampered by long freezing seasons. July is the only warm month. frosts extend late and begin early. This year frosts hit early in August and damaged crops that would have yielded a harvest.
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Sivantes
China
Mongolia
Memories in the Silent Past by Nora E. Looney
Poem reflecting on vanished years and memories of home and love. The speaker acknowledges sorrow and hope as seasons pass, urging work, march, trust, prayer, and hope to endure. A sacred peace hints at dawn beyond life’s trials as memories guide the spirit.
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March
Nora E. Looney
Night Rates Professor in Chemistry Class
A light classroom exchange features freshman Green fumbling with a joke about nitrates. The chemistry professor prompts a factual prompt about nitrates while the student parries with a pun on day and night rates.
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Mr. Green
Green
El Paso and Llano Estacado in Texas history clash
Historians note Texas’s long past with El Paso del Norte and the Staked Plains. Coronado’s 1542 march marked Panhandle entry with Palo Duro’s cliffs, while Cavalcade of Texas at the Centennial Exhibition dramatized four centuries of Texan growth. El Paso guards the gateway north as Llano Estacado yields wealth.
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Lone Star State
el Paso del Norte
el Paso
Coronado
Panhandle
Tejas
Palo Duro Canyon
Llano Estacado
Texas
el Turco
Oragon
Palo Duro
Lone Star
Hospitals Sell Yearly Service in Western New York
A group hospital plan in Buffalo provides 21 days of hospitalization for 7.20 a year. Eight Buffalo hospitals plus one in Lackawanna and two in Niagara Falls formed the Hospital Service Corporation of Western New York after a state charter. The plan also offers 13.20 for employed subscriber and spouse and 17.40 for spouse and all children under 16. Subscribers may pay monthly. physician and surgeon services are not included.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Lackawanna
Niagara Falls
Hospital Service Corporation of
New York
Queer sock remark echoes witty exchange
A brief exchange features Pat remarking on a pair of mismatched socks, one red and one green. Pat replies that another similar pair exists at home, signaling a lighthearted, humorous tone.
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American Fruit Growe
Boys’ Life
Cappers’ Farmer
Child Life Maecazine
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Doge World Etude Music Magazine
Fact Digest
Field & Stream Flower Grower
Hunter-Trader-Trapper Hunting & Fishing
Llterary Digest
McCall’s Magazine
Market Growers’ Journal
National Sportsman New Biography
Opportunity Magazine
Outdoor Life Outdoors
Parents’ Magazine
Pathfinder
Popular Mechanics
Popular Science Reader's Digest
Real Detective
Redbook Magaz
Review of Reviews
Screenland
Pesvensinnt
Craft
Silver Screen
World Digest
Eading
America
J. A. Yeager
Conoco
Lucy
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