Youth Walks 7 200 Miles for Education and Honors
Rexford Wayne Lingard, 18, of Barrington New Hampshire, walked 7200 miles over four years while attending Austin Cate Academy. He kept farm chores before class and returned each night on foot, earning honors in agriculture physics and American history and playing on school sports teams.
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Barrington
N. H
Rexford Wayne Lingard
New Hampshire
Lingard
Austin Cate Academy
Centre Stafford
Giving the Doctor a Chance
Dearborn Independent urges Americans to seek early physician care to prevent infections and disease. It argues healthy people should have periodic checkups, criticize reluctance to pay for care, and warns illness rises as winter nears.
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Dearborn
American syndicate bids for Dead Sea salts concession
An American syndicate bids for a concession to extract salts from the Dead Sea, highlighting the challenge of landing marines near the inland sea to protect American lives and property per the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Dead Sea
Louisville Courier-Journal
HOGWALLOW NEWS: Local quirks and oddities in town chatter
A jumble of gossip items from HOGWALLOW discussing Miss Peachie Sims with a stock dealer near Thunderation, Cricket Hicks’s weight, a dog fight at Rye Straw store, Sile Kilden’s watch swap plans, a Tickville circus fortune tale, the Excelsior Fiddling Band offer, and Issac Helwanger’s cheeky view of citizenship plus a note on typewriter ribbons for 75 cents.
Meredith Urges New Dry Candidate After McAdoo Exit
Edwin T. Meredith former Secretary of Agriculture urged dry progressives to pick a new leader within thirty days after William G. McAdoo withdrew from the presidential race. He named Newton D. Baker Thomas J. Walsh Cordell Hull and Joseph T. Robinson as possible successors and argued Walsh’s selection would show religion is not a real issue in the party.
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New York
Democratic Party
William G. McAdoo
Edwin T. Meredith
McAdoo
Alfred E. Smith
Meredith
Newton D. Baker
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Walsh
Women’s Dress Standards Through the Ages Cited
A Columbus Dispatch comment notes a clothing trade journal claiming women are now better dressed than ever, though the statement may be exaggerated.
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Columbus Dispatch
Wordplay on nails price ends in a weeklong delay
A customer tries to outsmart a lumber dealer by using mail order terms. The dealer refuses credit, forces cash, and adds postage and money order costs. The customer finally pays, but the total ends up higher and the nails take a week longer to reach him. The Knot Hole, Typewriter ribbons at Sun office.
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Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
Flim Dillard
Rye Straw
Sile Kilden
Tickville
Slim Pickens
Excelsior Fiddling
Luke Mathewson
Issac Helwanger
Sun
City Property
S. H. Montgomery Son
Insurance and Loans
Thrift
First National Bank
Sun Office
Mangrum Brothers
Planters Gin Co
J. M. Sturdivant
Imperiandau
F. O. B. Flint
Michigin
Bob Sears
Some Star Gas Company
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