RFC Announces Large Profits Amid 1934 Recovery Signals
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation reported a net profit of 21.78 million dollars for the year to June 30 1934 and noted 3.0 billion dollars in annual business. Railroads repaid 37.72 million while RFC disbursed 898.21 million in repayments and 3.0628 billion in disbursements across loans stock purchases and relief.
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Washington
U.P
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jesse H. Jones
RFC
Treasury
Jones
Note of Peace Precedes Oklahoma Man's Suicide in Sherman
W. J. Long aged 60 from Oklahoma City wrote friends that he was at peace with God then shot himself in his Sherman hotel room. He had recently moved to Oklahoma City to enter the insurance business. He left two $1,000 life policies naming R. L. Wagner and Mrs. Lena Bailey as beneficiaries and asked them to pay his debts totaling $221.
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Sherman
Hex
W. J. Long
Oklahoma City
Long
James D Meedows
Lena Bailey
Sosciusko
Miss
R. L. Wagner
Wagner
Bailey
Life as the theme in Christian Science Sunday services
The Sunday lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ Scientist centers on life. The Golden Text from John 5 26 declares life in the Son as given by the Father. Key citations urge loving and obeying God for life as the long days' length.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Treasury report shows July 18 balance and year figures
The Treasury reports July 18 receipts 83.16 million dollars expenditures 82.57 million dollars leaving a balance of 2.57 million. Customs receipts for the month were 10.89 million. For the fiscal year since July 1 receipts total 150.43 million and expenditures 307.07 million including 129.61 million in emergency spending. gold assets amount to 7.897 billion.
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Treasury
Washington
The
Moonlight and Sand Men Digging Reveal Racketeer Deaths
In Brooklyn a passerby finds the buried body of Willie Shapiro, third of brothers once running a slot machine racket. Police say Willie was beaten and strangled while his brothers Meyer and Irving were shot earlier, part of Brooklyn rackets tied to dice games and Coney Island domination dating to 1931.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Sidney Weiss
Willie Shapiro
Willie
Meyer
Irving
Shapiro
Coney Island
East New York
Ohio Woman Florence Allen Blazes Trail for Female Judges
Columbus July 20 1924 judge Florence Allen a pioneer in Ohio law and the federal judiciary stands as the first woman to hold major posts. As an assistant prosecutor court of common pleas judge and Ohio supreme court justice she broke barriers and now serves on the United States circuit court of appeals for Michigan Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee. She emphasizes facts over emotion in suffrage leadership and, while praising Shakespeare, she favors concise law based opinions with occasional classical quotes.
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California
Ora
Germany
Ohio
Chicago
New York
Cleveland
Circuit Court of Appeals
Michigan
Kentucky
Tennessee
Florence Allen
Fatherland Poem Hidden in Quiet Library Scene
A reader browses bookcases and discovers a small volume titled Patris by Florence Allen, framed by thoughts on Xenophon and Plato. She notes the work is poetry and previews Shakespeare, revealing a literary moment amid classical references.
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Xenophon
Jefferson
Madison
Lincoln
Plato
Adeimantus
Socrates
Patris
Florence Allen
Shakespeare
Quartet Will Sing For Sunday School
The Khiva Patrol Quartet led by Lester Aldridge will entertain the T. Newton Hill Bible Class at the First Christian Church new unit 717 Taylor Street Sunday at 9 40 AM. All Masons and Eastern Star ladies are invited as guests for the morning program.
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Khiva Patrol
George Hammock
Elmer Lewis
G. B. Hamilton
James Bowen
Lester Aldridge
T. Newton Hill
First Christian Church
Taylor Street
Eastern Star
Forest Fires Ravage New England Across Several States
A massive wildfire, starting yesterday on Moosiamoo Mountain near Lake Dunmore Vermont, burns about a mile square of woodland and threatens Battell Forest owned by Middlebury College. Fires extend to Cape Cod areas including Poczésset Masphee Bourne and Falmouth, with North Andover reporting about 1000 acres of swamp and woodland ablaze.
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Moosiamoo Mountain
Lake Dunmore
Vermont
Battell Forest
Middlebury College
Cape Cod
Massachusetts
Poczésset
Masphee
Bourne
Falmouth
North Andover
Mass
Boxford
First Sunday School Class Opens New Building
The men’s class feels honored to be the first to meet in the new building. Class singing continues with C. F. Faton leading. Dr. R. C. Snodgrass will speak.
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C. F. Faton
R. C. Snodgrass
Portable Short Wave Aids Fire Fighters
In Michigan portable short wave radios aid fire fighting with two sets tested by the State Conservation Department. One base station served the burning area ten miles from a telephone, another at Pike's Peak fire tower 23 miles away. The system directed field operations and relief crews, aiding control of a fire that burned 7 200 acres. portable sets approved as standard equipment.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Alcona County
State Conservation Department
Pike's Peak
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Borden’s Lime
Borden’s
New England
Boston
Pire
CCC
Blue’s Pharmacy
Sixth and
Tyler
Alfred F. Blue
Sa Rae
Liccerr & Myers Tosacco Co
Liscert & Mruss Tosacco
Poe
Amarillo, Texas
Chesterfield
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