Railroads Face Decline as Diversion Hits Revenues Across Nation
A draft look at transportation needs notes freight loss from rail to rivals reducing railroad revenues by about 1.0 billion dollars annually. It attributes a third of the decline to regulation and cites unemployment of roughly 350,000 workers and a 500 million dollar annual payroll drop. Includes local notes on Sprague Missouri moving town facilities and contrasts railway staffing and operations such as the Oahu Railway and Southern Pacific track improvements.
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Sprague
Kansas City, Fort Scott
New Deal Criticism Grows as Liberty League Forms
The American Liberty League launches a national campaign to recruit property owners to judge the New Deal. Led by Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis, James W. Wadsworth, and Nathan L. Miller, the group aims to defend the Constitution and curb radicalism while fostering work and property rights.
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Washington
American Liberty League
Roosevelt
Peter
Paul
Alfred E. Smith
John W. Davis
Hoover
Coolidge
James W. Wadsworth
Nathan L. Miller
New York
Jouett Shouse
League
Congress
Mahes
United States
Shouse
Smith
Davis
Wadsworth
Miller
Irenee du Pont
Velt
Nazis Deny 150 Arrests Related to Vote
Berlin reports the government admitting 150 arrests since the elections but denying they were for voting no to Hitler. Officials said the detainees were Communists charged with treasonable acts. Foreign reports of Catholic and Jewish arrests were denied.
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Berlin
Nein
New Yorker Injured in Galveston Incident
Henry Kennedy forty six, a New Yorker from Tonawanda, N Y, lay in critical condition after an incident in Galveston on August 23, with details supplied by U P dispatches.
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Galveston
U.P
Henry Kennedy
Tonawanda, N. Y
Rural heirs dispute ends with charity to church
An elderly North Texas farmer plans to deed his farm to his son but is thwarted by family tensions. After he destroys the deed and rejects control, he declares the farm and wealth will eventually go to the Methodist Church where he and his wife worshipped.
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Texas
Will
Songs of
Hospital Treats Driver After Lamarque Car Crash
A patient arrived at a local hospital today with a fractured skull after a head on collision near Lamarque last night. He and another occupant were air transported to medical care following the automobile accident.
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Lamarque
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Southern Pacific
Pennsylvania Railroad
Southwest
Oahu
Honolulu
Marvin Patterson
Wichita Falls
Falls
Milholland
NEW Deal
Chicago
the Lansing
Lansing
North Dearborn Street
Whitehall
A. R. Bennett
Japan
Tokyo
Araroam
Schilling
Borden’s
Borden
Bordens
T. Gordon Wilson
Schulte United
Blackburn
Carter
UBS Carter
C. M. Co
New Fall
Chambray
Penney
Panhandle
Ladies
ANC
Ama
Illo, Texas
J.C. Penney Co. Inc
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