City approves yearlong supplies contracts and streetwork
The City Commission approved a one year contract for gasoline oil and grease with Thompson Lemons Grain Company and Phillips Petroleum for city oil. A white way petition on East Tenth Avenue received quick approval with work orders authorized. An ordinance for 9509.64 in ten year warrants was introduced for the Burnet Park water system.
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Phillips Petroleum Company
Thompson- Lemons Grain Company
White Way
East Tenth Avenue
Williams Street
Buneet Park
BN Stanley
Bill Durham
San Jacinto
Oliver Rake
Amarillo
Park Department
Oliver Eakle
Southwestern Public Service Company
Cost of movie work in 1929 rises in U S trade data
The 1929 cost of work by U S motion picture producers reached 180,264,319 dollars, up 34.66 percent from 1927. Theatrical negatives numbered 2,545 with a value of 118,692,733 dollars, including sound 244 worth 94,186,010. dialogue 689 at 667,719. and silent 1,510 at 16,787.
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Washington, Dan
Brophy Aims Pacific Hop From Shanghai to Manila
Gen Brophy head of Le Gale aviation will fly from Huangdao to Manila next Sunday to test a Shanghai to Manila air route via Foochow and Canton. Flying the Phoenix, he seeks to prove regular commercial air service feasible. He previously ran a Phoenix flying school and taught in the Mexican air force.
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United Press
Shanghal
Brophy
le Gale Company
Pacific
Manila
Shanghai
Foochow
Canton
Phoenix
Hunagjao
Ariz
Sesqui centennial budget set at $625000 for Yorktown
Williamsburg Virginia January 14 a complete budget of 625000 for the Sesqui centennial at Yorktown in October 1931 to commemorate Cornwallis surrender to George Washington has been reported to the executive committee of the Yorktown Leaquicentennial Association Inc Virginia contributes 52500 and ex governors of Virginia and governors of 47 other states will be honorary trustees of the association
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Williamsburg
Yorktown
Corn- Wallis
George Washington
Yorktown Leaquicentennial Association, Inc
Virginia
States
The
Sesquicentennial Association
Paris street named Waterloo changes French wish
Paris hears that a street previously named Waterloo is to be renamed after resistance to the historic name. The news comes amid debates in Paris on street nomenclature and national memory.
Battle Victory Street Named After Waterloo Hero
After Waterloo France was defeated a public committee urged the city to name a street for a French victory. The proposed "Sassage Waterloo" would honor an Imperial Army veteran who wished the city to receive the tribute though the street lies in a bleak district.
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Waterloo
France
Marne
Canada Claims First Full Census
Ottawa announces that Canada conducted the world’s first complete census. A. J. Pelletier of the Canadian Bureau of Statistics cites research challenging an American denial and asserts Canada’s census completeness.
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Canada
United Press
Ottawa
A. J. Pelletier
Canadian Bureau of Statistics
Amer
First Canadian Census Claim Rests On Door To Door Count
Historian Pelletier notes Canada seeks credit for the first complete census begun April 5 and finished November 15, 1666. The record, compiled by door to door enumeration, covers 154 manuscript pages in the French Archives at Paris. The total population recorded was 3 215.
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Ican
Canada
Pelletier
Paris
History of Old Iowa College Revived at Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant Iowa January 14 The Palimpsest magazine revisits the history of Iowa Wesleyan College the oldest higher education institution west of the Mississippi The article notes that James Harlan former interior secretary and his sister the wife of Robert T Lincoln graduated from the college It also mentions the P E O Sisterhood began there the college with four buildings describes its early days and notable alumni
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Mount Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mississippi
the Palimpsest
James Harlan
Interior
Robert T. Lincoln
Iowa Wesleyan
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