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...have been reading in this hear magazeen time you sint me that my old friend george curry is dead (April 25). I wish you wood write them a letter and fix it up in nice and proper language and tell them he aint dead no more than you or me. It was some other old timer in Hillsboro that died. One of them there newspaper fellers called the sheriff at Hillsboro by long distance and the sheriff could not here good and this hear newspaper feller thought he said George was dead. Anyways he aint. He's alive...
Washington's Senator Jones early this month approached President Hoover on a world conference to fix the monetary value of silver. The President was interested. But the State Department was understood to have sounded out France and Britain, found them both unresponsive...
Birth Control Shelved, To the satisfaction of every opponent of Birth Control, notably Episcopal Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins, who keeps snakes in his bathtub and graces every meal with a verse from his ponderous Bible?Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee was in an exasperating fix last week. After several years' effort Mrs. Sanger had persuaded the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Judiciary subcommittee of the Senate to consider duplicate bills which would permit physicians, hospitals & clinics complete freedom to learn about contraceptives. Fortnight ago the House committee ?at the insistence...
...self at the end of day, There's one other thing, since I've come to think Bill was always willing to take a drink. If the job was tough, be it hot or cold, You could get it done if Bill was told. He'd fix the fence, or skin a cow, Or ride a bronc, and EVEN PLOW, Or do anything, if you told him how. Like many men in the oldtime West, On any job, he did his best. He left a blank that's hard to fill For there'll never...
...Stout "SkyCar" does not yet fill the skies. No model of it was visible at last fortnight's national air show in Detroit. But Designer Stout hopes "to fix it so that a man can take a couple of lessons on Friday and fly his plane home on Monday." The commercial "plane that will support itself in the air, financially as well as mechanically," will be developed within two years. The private plane, he snorts, has been a "flop...