Ideal City Will House Boulder Dam Workers
Government engineers plan a model city near Boulder Dam to house 4000 to 5000 workers for a decade. Boulder City site chosen for soil, access to railroad and road, cool climate, and potential as a civic design showcase with prohibition clauses in leases.
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Ideal City
Boulder Dam
United Press
Washington
West
Mammoth Dam
Boulder Lake
Las Vegas
Nevada
Elwood Mead
S. R. de Boer
Denver
Walker R. Young
Mead
de Boer
Young
Boulder City
Interior Department
Courthouse Records and Vehicle Registrations Listed
Courthouse records show transfers including G. C. Odom to Fancher Upshaw for Lot 5 Block 13 Roberts Place at 535 dollars and Ida M. Martin to R. P. Kirby for part blocks in University Heights at 600 dollars. Vehicle registrations list Ansley Amarilla Laundry Walter Irvin Inec Ford Sedan and several registrations for Walter Irvin Inc and Culcum Motor Co Dodge and Ford models.
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G. C. Odom
Fancher Upshaw
Roberts Place
Ida M. Martin
R. P. Kirby
North
University Heights
W. Y. Reid
J. Roger Wilson
Hughes
Ansley
Amarilla Laundry
Walter Irvin
Inec
Ford
Jewell W. Hill
Walter Irvin, Inc
Amarilla Lumber Co
Toney Chisum
Graham
Gustavo Rodriguez
Art
Cullum Motor Co
Dodge
T. W. Stanley
Tulsa
Dr. Geo
M. Cultra
Polk
Interior plans spring 1931 project for showplace locale
Interior Department officials plan a spring 1931 project to develop a showplace site, signaling a major push for a prominent national venue and civic improvement in the new year.
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Interior Department
Woman Owns First Village Post Office in River Forest
In River Forest Illinois Miss Mary Murphy possesses the village's first post office a portable cabinet with eight private lock boxes a large center drawer for special delivery mail and two bottom drawers for magazines and newspapers used during the Civil War era it was housed in a box car on the Northwestern railroad siding with station agent Hank Flowers serving during the conflict.
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United Press
River Forest
Mary Murphy
Northwestern Railroad
Hank Flowers
Northwestern
Local contractor fleet seen at multiple sites on city streets
Toney Chisum and Miles Bivins are listed with a Packard sedan and Ford trucks for T. A. Allen Construction Co at 500 Central Bidg and 415 E Fourth. Reppert Lumber Co. operates a Chevrolet light delivery truck at 2911 W Sixth and a Ford truck appears elsewhere.
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Toney Chisum
Packard
Miles Bivins
Bivins
Ford
T. A. Allen Construction Co
Central
Fred E. Cornelius
Chevrolet
Reppert Lumber Co
Ford Truck
Illinois Oldest Post Office Passed to Murphy Family
Postmaster notes no mail deliveries in those years and residents picked up mail at the box car. When a postoffice building was erected, Miss Murphy's father served as station agent for the Northwestern railroad and the portable postoffice was turned over to him. Since then Illinois' unusual post office has been in the Murphy family.
Man Hangs Self as Joke on Wife in Mandan
Edward Loran, known as a practical joker, was found hanging in his Mandan basement with the noose about a quarter inch off the floor. Funeral arrangements were underway as authorities investigated the death. Separately, Argentina holds nearly 60 percent of South America’s automobile market.
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Associated Press
Mandan
N. D
Edward Loran
Ted
Edward
Ted Loran
Argentina
South America
Flashes of Life and Oddities in Worlds News
New York records show Grace Van Dusen Martell keeping one cat after a magistrate orders disbandment of a basement orchestra due to neighbor complaints. Brussels notes King Albert jokes over dipping bread in coffee. Rear Admiral Fiske sketches a plan to shrink Dr. Eliot's five foot shelf to three inches to cut pages and reduce eye strain.
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Associated Press
New York
Grace van Dusen Martell
Upper West Side
Ne- Geo
Bradley A. Fiske
Charles W. Eliot
East Orange restricts Sunday theatre access for townspeople
In East Orange a local ruling limits Sunday movie viewings, with residents seeking permission while surrounding towns are similarly cautious. Across New York, a program invites 60 plus year olds to study, and opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink is to coach about 40 hopeful singers. A Bermuda proposal discusses travel by horse, carriage, or bicycle for preliminary Canada-bound work by men.
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New York
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Hamilton
Bermuda
Canada
Blind man wins Stevens Point Assembly nomination
John Kostuck, blind since birth, wins the Republican nomination for the state assembly in Stevens Point district. Kostuck, a graduate of the state school for the blind, studied at the University of Wisconsin and taught in a Virginia school in Staunton.
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Stevens Point
Wis
John Kostuck
Kostuck
University of Wiscon
Staunton
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WOMAN
First Village Post Office
Brussels
Albert
Alps
East Orange
N. J
Orange
Nyal
Nydenta
Coe
Crean
Melba
Bollowanc Fox
Seri Ier Reas i
Texas Brouth
O’coats
Ma Tailoring CO
6Th and Polk
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