DailyTimeCapsule brief
August 29, 1930
August 29, 1930 does not read like one neat chapter. It has Miniature Golf Owners Fight Public Courses for Baltimore, Goodyear Cuts Salaries, Ilex Wins Race Fo Sanfander, With Yacht Jolie Brine Second sharing the page, which gives the day a messy, useful pulse: Culture, Money, News, Crime & Courts, all happening at once.
Key developments
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August 29, 1930's archive note points to Fight with Miniature Golf Owners' Assn of Md looms over contemplated operation of miniature links in pub pks. The fun is in the pressure behind the notice: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument.
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August 29, 1930's archive note points to Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co cuts sales and office employes' salaries. The fun is in the pressure behind the notice: The money story is not abstract; it touches wages, banks, prices, relief, and the early-Depression question of who absorbs the shock.
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August 29, 1930's archive note points to Jolie Brise second. The fun is in the pressure behind the notice: The item is small on its own, but it gives the date texture: a real notice, a real institution, and a real public record.