Political ticket listing for Garner Glass Robertson
The notice presents a political slate with John N. Garner for Vice-President Carter Glass for U S Senate and A Willis Robertson for the House of Representatives. It lists National Advertising Representatives Tenney Woodward & Company across major cities.
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Tenney, Woodward & Company, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
John N. Garner
A. Willis Robertson
House of Representatives
Great and True God Described as Rock and Truth
A devotional quotation cites Deuteronomy 32 3 4 praising God as rock perfect just and right proclaiming his works and ways as truthful without iniquity
In The Right Direction on Trade and Manners
The piece argues against aggression on sidewalks and in lines and condemns tariff policy shifts. It praises Secretary Cordell Hull for reciprocal trade treaties while criticizing the 1930 Hawley Smoot Act. It frames nationalism versus internationalism and calls for courteous conduct and economic openness as essential.
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Wallace
America
Congress
Cordell Hull
Senate
Hull
Are You A Gentleman The Michigan Motor News Questions
The Michigan Motor News poses questions about honesty and conduct to readers. It challenges whether individuals, including sportsmen, live up to high standards in actions beyond legal limits like fishing or hunting. The piece prompts self reflection on gentlemanly behavior.
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Fredericksburg
Free Lance Star
The
Michigan Motor News
Recreation boom shapes American leisure in 1930s
A National Recreation Association report notes swims and skating popular, swimming pools and beaches doubling since 1925 to 1935, recreation centers rising to 1790, and picnics and hiking remaining strong with 347000 participants and 76000 hikers respectively.
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National Recreation Association
Hard Case for the Governor
Richmond Times Dispatch reports Governor Peery faced a difficult decision after the electric chair executed Thomas Cole Hart, an ex sailor sentenced for robbery and prison guard killing. The governor declined to commute to life, weighing pleas from Hart’s mother and brother amid Virginia’s ongoing pardon burden.
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State Penitentiary
Thomas Cole Hart
Scott County
Finis
Peery
Hart
Virginia
Will Rogers Humorous Story at Will Rogers Hollywood Office
A visitor watches a manuscript hauler at an office where writers send in scripts for talkies. The pile grows fast and the hauler jokes he does not read them, just moves the loads to be reviewed later. The scene captures light backstage humor in early Hollywood.
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TY Hollywood
Brother
American News Features, Inc
Auto Journal
Home town paper advertising pays through community trust
Businessmen in small towns rely on the local paper as a community bond. Subscriptions bind readers to neighbors, making ads trusted and effective. The mutual confidence between advertiser and reader is the key to successful local advertising, as the paper remains a shared meeting ground.
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Lunenburg Press
Hollywood firm offers Haile Selassie a job speculation
A Hollywood company offers Haile Selassie a job while The Albany Knickerbocker Press laments his troubles. The Washington Evening Star reports Al Smith strolling on the promenade and a reportedly declined ride with John Hamilton’s band wagon, with vague implications about future movement.
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Haile Selassie
Jean Harlow
Albany Knickerbocker Press
al Smith
John Hamilton
Infantile paralysis rises in Virginia reports
One year ago infantile paralysis is gaining rapidly in Virginia according to reports. Fifty friends hold a stag party for James R. Snider and James D. Shockey who are soon to marry. Edith Maxwell is held in Wise county for her father’s death. William S. Yates, a B and O brakeman, suffers a badly crushed leg after a fall from a shifting freight car. Anti Nazi demonstrators tear a German flag from the S S Bremen in New York.
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Virginia
James R. Snider
James D. Shockey
Edith Maxwell
Wise County
William 8. Yates
S. S. Bremen
New York
Answer Bureau Q and A Highlights From The Evening Star
A reader seeks facts from The Evening Star Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Haskin. Questions cover veterans bonds Europe trains daylight savings and more with concise answers like Europe trains run faster than US lines, John D. Rockefeller Jr. gifts exceed 167 million, and 1906 San Francisco population about 360000 with 250000 homeless.
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Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Business Improves Despite Election Year Turbulence
Washington column notes mixed forces in 1930s economy with veterans bonus spending, relief, and agriculture subsidies. It reports rising real estate, construction, manufacturing, and stock markets while unemployment lingers. Big business claims improvement but remains wary of New Deal impact.
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Washington, D. C
Five Years Ago Fatal Crash Near Potter's Hill
Five years ago Ronnie Lonas and Clark Snapp died from injuries after a car failed to round a turn at Potter's Hill on the Gainesboro Pike. C J Slonaker and Theopilus French were seriously injured in the same incident.
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Ronnie Lonas
Clark Snapp
C. J. Slonaker
Theopilus French
Potter's Hill
Gainesboro Pike
Valley Pike
Shenandoah Couunty
Edinburg
Woodstock
Maurertown
Helen Hahn
Two Weddings Highlight Local Social News
Ten years ago Miss Effie Buzella Henry married Hinton W. Jackson. Alfred D. Rinker of Stephens City wed Miss Mary Katherine Godlove of Lebanon Church. Other items note a tropical storm sinking an Italian steamer off Florida and the Back Creek supervisor F Dick Good passing away. Front Royal Pike completion announced.
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Effie Buzella Henry
Hinton W. Jackson
Florida
Front Royal Pike
F. Dick Good
Back Creek
Alfred D. Rinker
Stephens City
Mary Katherine Godlove
Lebanon Church
Beulah Binford Implicates Richmond Police in Beattie Murder Case
Twenty five years ago Beulah Binford left her life to Richmond police in the Henry C. Beattie Jr. murder investigation. The report notes other local items: Heflin to address Fishers Hill picnic on August 5, Elks buy the Market and Water streets post office for 7000, Valley Turnpike to be re rocked for 92 miles, H F Byrd buys 90 acres near Rosemont orchard, and plans to plant five thousand apple trees.
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Beulah Binford
Richmond
Henry C. Beattie, Jr
Thomas J. Heflin
Alabama
Fishers Hill
Elks
Valley Turnpike
H. F. Byrd
Thomas D. Gold
Rosemont Orchard
Byrd
Rees
Historic New York and Atlantic Cable Milestones
Historic notes record New York ratifying the Constitution on July 26 1788 and the second Atlantic cable laid on July 27 186d. These entries mark pivotal communications and constitutional milestones in early American history.
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New York
Youre Telling Me a Column by William Ritt
A collection of humorous observations and quips on travel wars farms and social habits. The column touches on vacation choices war reportage living conditions in foreign towns and the quirks of human behavior with a light satirical tone.
Lily Be Galant wp By MAR E BL ZARD Chapter 3
Joan grapples with love and loyalty as Julian accepts a tragedy in his romance. Donald presses for marriage while Joan questions her feelings and contemplates Sheila True as the woman Julian loves. The production of Julian's play looms as Sheila plans to wed Pierre Durand.
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Lily
Mar
Joan
Julian
Donald
Linda
Mr. Newberry
Mr. Sloane
Olympus
New York
Sheila
Pierre Durand
Fish Lasses Conway: Unhooked Carp Entangled in Line
In Wacca maw river anglers C J W Hewitt and his son report landing a 14 pound carp after lassoing it. The fish appeared not hooked but snagged by a fin in the line amid a day of extreme heat and a public bathing scene.
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Conway
J. W. Hewitt
Waccamaw River
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