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Peerrhetiana
Devine-Tenney Corp
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Sttebureh
Des Moines
Atlanta
Notable Courier Feature Quotation From an Editorial
A clipped AP note and a Proverbs quote appear in the page margins. The text contains an attribution block to the Associated Press and a trust guidance line from Proverbs, serving as a parchment style filler rather than a report on events.
Uplifters Expand Under Tugwell Resettlement Plan
Associated Press reports Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell leads a cultural uplift campaign tied to the resettlement administration with 225 million dollars to move and resettle urban and rural populations. Adrian Dornbush heads the effort with a plan to tailor programs to communities and elevate taste through a new skills division.
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Associated Press
Rexford Guy Tugwell
United States
Adrian Dornbush
Dornbush
Westerns shaped modern cinema despite child oriented myths
The Charlottesville Daily Progress notes Westerns are primitive films with little dialogue or character depth but argue they sparked adult cinema. It cites Across the Plains (1910) by Thomas Ince with the 101 Ranch Show, and Edwin S Porter’s The Great Train Robbery (1903) whose real hold up inspired future chases.
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Charlottesville
Edwin 8. Porter
New Ree
Westerns shapen early cinema and its drama
The piece credits G. M. Anderson for doubling to fit Westerns to horses and notes the genre shifted films from episodic to narrative stories. It argues Westerns revealed drama in landscape and movement, accelerating film form and influencing later classics like The Thin Man and Alias Bulldog Drummond.
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G. M. Anderson
Mr. Minot
O'Malley
Mounted
Bulldog Drummond
Pork Production Affects Future Prices in 1936 37
The Alexandria Gazette reports that pork production restrictions will ease next year boosting per capita pork to about 62 pounds from 47. This rise aims to lower retail prices and reduce surpluses, with A B Montgomery of the Consumers' Council urging a program to increase hog output in 1936-37 for a healthier market, considering weather and federal control impacts.
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Alexandria Gazette
Montgomery
Consumers’ Council
Powdered vegetables may enter daily meals
A San Francisco paper read before the American Chemical Society reports dehydration of vegetables like spinach and lettuce. The study finds sliced or powdered produce keeps well and preserves flavor and nutrients, with salts better absorbed and potential emulsion benefits for stomach or intestinal irritation.
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Cumberland
American Chemical Society
San Francisco
University of California
Solar Trouble Exchange Sparks Sunspot Theory
Dr Maurice Faure of Nice proposes sunspots drive disasters in politics war and weather. He links worldwide crises including Abyssinian tensions German standoff and American strikes to periods of intense solar disturbance and suggests World War era cycles align with sunspot activity.
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Maurice Faure
Institute For Solar Studies
Nice
France
Sunspots Stir Up Terrestrial Weather Theories
The passage argues sunspots are fiery gas swirls driving atmospheric storms and offers a theory seen as convenient and self-affirming for explaining human mishaps. It emphasizes the appeal of a simple causal explanation.
Youthful Public Speakers at Yale Reopen Course
Yale students restart a public speaking class once cut as an economy measure. The professor donates time, Yale News funds travel and mimeographing, and the class meets in a fraternity house. The revival follows the formation of the Political Union and the Social Problems Clubs.
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Yale
Yale News
General Mitchell calls Japan the United States' top threat
A one year old report quotes Brig. Gen. William Mitchell declaring Japan the most dangerous enemy to the United States in a statement to federal aeronautical officials. The era notes Hauptmann charges to be resolved within a week and mentions a Red Cross district meeting in Winchester. Shenandoah Valley apples begin abroad shipment from Baltimore. Mrs. T Russell Cather hosts Shawnee Garden Club members.
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William Mitchell
Japan
United States
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
American Red Cross
Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
Baltimore
T. Russell Cather
Red Cross drive lead gains five years ago
Five years ago H B McCormic agreed to head the Winchester Frederick Chapter Red Cross annual fund drive. Bishop James Cannon says he does not know details of charges to be heard by the church on a clergy complaint from four members. Shenandoah Valley Academy starts football season with Harpers Ferry High at home. Mrs H D Puller is re elected District Nurse Association president. Dorothy Johnson treated after motor accident.
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H. B. McCormic
Winchester-Frederick
American Red Cross
James Cannon
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Harpers Ferry High School
H. D. Puller
Dedication set for Lu ray Baptist church
Ten years ago the new Lu ray Baptist church, built for 65,000 dollars with room for 900, will be dedicated next Sunday. Progeny of Sun Briar, Kilmer stud, earns 180,000 dollars to set a new record. Handley defeats Blue Streaks 19 to 0 to open local football season. Naomi Conklyn marries Icar McCluskey in Charlestown. Representative T. W. Harrison in Riverton auto crash recovery reported.
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New Baptist
Luray
Sun Briar
Willis Sharpe Kilmer
Court Manor
New York
Handley
Harrisonburg
Naomi Conklyn
Icar McCluskey
Charlestown
W. A
Uncle Tom's Cabin staged before 1100 at local auditorium
Twenty five years ago a crowd of about 1 100 attended the presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the auditorium. An excursion on the Pennsylvania to Niagara Falls advertised with a round trip fare of 11 dollars 60 cents. Philip Williams of Woodstock admitted to the bar there. Frank Jackson drew renovation plans for the Taylor Hotel for Shirley Carter. Nemo comments on women's sphere and cigarettes.
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A&a
Nemo
Pennsylvania
Niagara Falls
Philip Williams
Woodstock
Frank Jackson
Taylor Hotel
Shirley Carter
ISCHOOL DAYS THE LITTLE Pye 1
Questions and answers list facts: Horace Greeley quote on duty today and futu re to God and blood circulation discovery by William Harvey. It notes Joel Chandler Harris as a Georgia native author of colored folklore tales and forty volumes.
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Horace Greeley
William Harvey
Joel Chandler Harris
Georgia
Rainfall Totals and Averages From Winchester Survey
The report lists rain totals for the past 24 hours ending 8 a m with none recorded. October to date shows 25 inches and year to date 28.90 inches. It cites the 22 year average at Winchester Research Laboratory as 34.61 inches with monthly averages ranging from 1.94 inches in February to 3.88 inches in May.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Gusher Fire Sparks In Bronx Digging Mishap
Workmen drilling an artesian well in the Bronx struck a live oil gusher that burst into flame. Observers questioned the source of the blaze with one visitor from Oklahoma suggesting gasoline seepage. The owners sent samples to a chemist for analysis.
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New York
van Artesian
Bronx
Jerome McNulty
Oklahoma
Diet ruling places three year old with mother
Philadelphia court decides 3 year old Bambina Diet Elaine Donio will live with her mother after finding the father’s home diet included spaghetti peppers whisky and coffee.
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Philadelphia
Elaine Donio
Wadena Man Named Minnesota Pancake King
Emil Lidenk rans wins Minnesota pancake crown by eating 20 pancakes in 13 minutes. Ed Hedstrom finishes runner up with 18 pancakes before dropping out at the 13 minute mark.
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Wadena
Minn
Emil Lidenkrans
Minnesota
Ed Hedstrom
Roosevelt’s plan to pull Uncle Sam out of the red
In Washington Roosevelt relies on a team of experts to explain his taxless plan to end the funding crisis. The president’s summary sounds convincing to the public though experts warn that mathematics can prove many things that may be incorrect in practice.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Sam
The
Red
Sources of Revenue and Townsend Plan Debate
Roosevelt supports no new taxes unless processing taxation proves unconstitutional. The piece weighs whether processing taxes will raise consumer prices and if abolishing them would shift costs onto consumers. It also surveys Republican views on Roosevelt’s politics and the Townsend plan’s potential spread in the U S and Canada, citing Howard A Zerbe and voter commitments to Townsend.
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Roosevelt
United States Supreme Court
United States
Social Credit
Canada
Mississippi River
Mansfield
Howard A. Zerbe
Congress
Senate
Mr. Zerbe
Housewife Price Strain Tangles Tax Burden Debate
The piece notes housewives groaning under rising prices after a meat strike in Detroit. It questions how tax levels for husbands could rise if prices are cut and hints at unseen officials or experts in accounting calculations shaping policy.
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Detroit
Railroads face debt drag despite record holiday travel
Christmas travel may set records as the railroads announce the lowest transcontinental rates in years. The lines contend they are not in bad business, but their heavy past debt hampers current operations. If freed from that burden, railroads could post strong earnings and potentially cut freight rates.
Ruth Cubitt Crowned Nudist Queen at San Diego Exposition
Ruth Cubitt, a blond from Indiana, was chosen as Queen Zoe to rule the nudist colony at the Pacific International Exposition in San Diego. She won a hard fought election to fill the vacated throne, though she is shown modestly clothed here.
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Ruth Cubitt
Zoe
San Diego
Cal
Miss Cubitt
Indiana
Romance and scandal unfold at a birthday party
On her 24th birthday Carol Kennedy, inheriting a fortune, leaves Connecticut for New York to pursue happiness. At Tony’s she meets Gary Crandall, a playboy, who probes her past and dreams. He promises to reveal how to become a fascinating woman as their affair begins in a smoky club.
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Carol Kennedy
Connecticut
New York
Carol
Kathy Prentice
Owen Craig
Owen
Isobel Bronson
Isobel
Gary Crandal
Gary
Mr. Crandall
Dr Sheldon predicts Italian defeat over Ethiopia venture
Dr Charles M Sheldon, noted crusader for world peace, said he is convinced Premier Mussolini's colonial venture in Ethiopia will spell defeat for Italy. He added friends in Italy warn beneath patriotic display there is unrest and a belief Italy is on a wrong course.
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Topeka
Eas
Charles M. Sheldon
World Peace
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Italy
Council Meeting Set For Tonight
A deferred regular session of the Common Council has been scheduled for tonight. The agenda details are not provided in the readable text.
Tentative meeting to discuss armory site funds
Due to a lack of quorum the regular session was postponed last Tuesday. Officials agreed to meet tonight at 7 39 in order to take up the business, including the ordinance to provide funds and a site for an armory and other pending matters.
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