Memorial to Gorgas Rises as Canal's Enduring Monument
The Red Cross Courier highlights William Crawford Gorgas as a lasting memorial through his work in eradicating yellow fever in Havana and the Panama Canal Zone. His campaigns reduced disease and made the canal possible, earning him a permanent place in history as a medical hero.
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The
Red Cross Courier
William Crawford Gorgas
Gorgas
Panama Canal
Havana
Panama Canal Zone
Uncle Sam
Health Department
Canal
Beacons Mark Airway Routes From Canada to Mexico
The Richfield Oil company builds 8,000,000 candle power steel tower beacons about every 50 miles along the Pacific highway aiding night flight. Visible 50 miles in clear weather and through fog, the private program aims to make air travel safer for amateurs and mail pilots, though costly for local communities in several states.
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Richfield Oil Company
Pacific Highway
Canada
Mexico
Airways
Ocean air lines near future for transcontinental flights
Goodyear Zeppelin plans several commercial dirigibles as navy craft grow. An official visits Hawaii to discuss Los Angeles to Honolulu service and talks with New York financiers on New York to Europe routes. Graf Zeppelin flight boosts belief in safe, practical ocean air travel.
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Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation
Akron
Navy
Hawaii
Los Angeles
Collapse of the Drama Warned By Jane Cowl
Actress Jane Cowl predicts the American drama is dying due to high costs and weak touring. She urges wealthy philanthropy or subsidies to sustain spoken theater, saying only a subsidized theater can avert the collapse within a decade.
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Albuquerque Journal
Jane Cowl
Miss Cowl
Ametiee
Discourage the Hitch Hiker Opinion Piece
A Las Vegas Optic article argues motorists should deter hitch hikers along New Mexico roads. It warns highway hobos lure curiosity while risking violence, cites crimes by riders, and urges laws to discourage begging and police action to close highways to solicitants.
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Las Vegas
N. M. Optic
Teehan
New Mexico
Willebrandt and women roles in Hoover era politics
A critical reminiscence on Mabel Walker Willebrandt and the limited advancement of women in the Hoover era. The piece contrasts Willebrandt's public profile with the quiet retention of men in high posts, noting officials like General Lincoln C. Andrews and questioning why women remain underrepresented in government roles.
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WY Ashengton
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
James Francis Burke
Republican National Committee
al Smith
Republican Party
Willebrandt
Hoover
Congress
Mabel Willebrandt
Lincoln C. Andrews
Andrews
Prohibition
Bush
Last word stocks and a goat price in Africa
A fragment lists phrases about new stock terms as the last word and the idea of a touristic quick insight. It notes a stock market flyer, a goat and cow price for a wife in Africa, and hints at profiteering probes with a cryptic last name Zzyzz in a New York directory.
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New York
Zzyzz
Hoover weighs Senate focus on tariff bill and nominations
Washington reports the Hoover administration plans to push the tariff bill through the Senate before December and may withhold nonessential nominations. The farm board names will be sent next week, with potential Senate questioning on wheat policy. Diplomatic appointments face delays, including Walter Edge as ambassador to France, due to tariff bill priorities amid Republican resistance.
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Hoover
Farm’ Board
Senate
Brookhart
Iowa
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
France
Edge
Sargon 20 Years Earlier Restores Health, Reader Testimony
A user shares that Sargon improved overall health after twenty years of poor condition. He reports relief from gas pains backaches and dysentery after starting Sargon and sleeping well again. He believes the remedy would have saved years of suffering.
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Sargon
Wright Authors New Volume On Papagos Legends
Harold Bell Wright, famed American novelist, releases Long Ago Told about Papago legends and folklore. The book covers beginnings, desert origins, butterfly and cactus tales as told by Papago storytellers with illustrations by Katherine Kitt. Sargon editions available at Central Drug Company in Winslow.
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Barbara Warkt
Harold Bell Wright
America
BD. Appleton and Company
Arizona
Papagos
Wright
Ags
Oris L. Arnold
Sap Grees
Ir Winslow
The
Central Drug Company
Spinach Refusal Sparks Odd Exchange
A quirky exchange notes Refusal of Spinach Codpiece-Nutleigh, who resists a offered cigar with a Seinfeld like banter. Crabflake comments on possible tobacco craving while the odd dialogue unfolds in a humorous tone.
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Nutleigh
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Navajo County
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Boston Transcript
Farers
Rodney Dutcher
NEA
N&s
Servids, BC
Washington
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