Scenic Imperial Valley and Maine tourism drive
Imperial Valley shines as a prehistoric wonderland with coral beds, ancient shoreline indicators, and giant sandstone formations described in a National Republic feature. The piece highlights mud volcanoes near the Salton Sea and fossil tracks, while Maine launches rotogravure pamphlets to promote a 150000 copy tourism drive with outdoor activities and a catalog of attractions.
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America
Imperial Valley
California
The
National Republic
Ernest McGaffey
Nature
Salton Sea
Coachilla Basin
Chocolate
Palyo Verde
Fish Creek
Coyote Mountains
State
Mexico
Coyote and
Fish Mountains
Kane Springs
Imperial County
Maine Leads Nation in Pulp and Paper Output
Maine remains the leading pulp and paper state with thirty establishments reporting last year sales of $50,278,482 for their products, underscoring the industry's prominence in the state’s economy.
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Maine
Union
Bowker and locals feature in Meadowbrook notes
Phippsburg and Bath residents fill a community notes page. J K Bowker moves home from Bath Memorial hospital after a month, slowly improving, with greetings from Center Sunday school children. Dromore grange hosts Pomona degree. a 4 H club forms Mountain Laurel. bottle-in-a-boat tale ends with letter from Provincetown. St Patrick's Day party for village Sunday school plans at Parker Head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. K. Bowker
Bath Memorial Hospital
Gardiner Rogers
Mr. Bowker
Meadowbrook
Bowker
Children of the Center Sunday School
Carrie Little
Sally
Bath
New Meadows River
Annie Bowker
Concord
N. H
Harry Bowker
Jay K. Bowker
Harvey Moore
Gardiner
Frank P. Leavitt
Minnie Woodman
Bertha Nickerson
Harold Atwood
Lois Woodman
Frank Higgins
Soldiers
Lena Oliver
Edward Thomas, Jr
Portsmouth
Portsmouth High School
Messe High
Dromore Grange
Lisbon Falls
Dromore Grange Hall
Aletha Campbell
James L. Morse
Carol McCourt
Eugene Bowker
Martha Beals
Donald Hart
Frances Libby
Bertha Doughty
Lester
Robert 2Als
George C. Beals
Meadowbrook Road
Kennebec
Marion Gasper
Provincetown
Cape
Parker Head
Lynette Caverly
George C. Bealst
Missing Auburn boy found with Portland relatives
Har old Hiscock 11, son of Adelbert and Mrs Hiscock of 122 Spring Street Auburn, was missing since Sunday. Police traced him to an aunt's home in Portland after notifying Portland Lewiston and State police. He had hoped to join a Cub scouts radio broadcast and apparently hitchhiked to Portland despite missing the church group's ride. Old Orchard Beach is noted as a long smooth stretch on the North Atlantic coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Hiscock
Adelbert Hiscock
Spring Street
Auburn
Portland
State
Lewiston
Court Street Baptist Church
William Pitts
Hiscock
Comparing fascist and communist ways and means
The article argues fascism and communism share totalitarian features, with both regimes suppressing free speech and personal liberty. It notes leaders often come from revolutionary socialist or demagogic backgrounds, and frames both as class-rule systems driven by rival yet similar ideologies and tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter S. Steele
National Republic
Joseph Stalin
Mussolini
Rome
Hitler
Bowdoin College Notes Pace Of Campus Events
Interfraternity sing for the Wass cup set for Wednesday at 8 15 in Memorial hall. Prof Thomas Reed Powell of Harvard will speak Thursday at 8 15 in Moulton Union under the Political Forum on From Thirteen to Forty Eight. Final showing of Memorable Motion Pictures Saturday at 6 45 in Memorial hall featuring The Unholy Three silent and the 1938 Bowl Games with a small admission charge. Student Faculty tea Sunday afternoon March 20 in Moulton Union lounge. George Van Santvoord Hotchkiss headmaster to speak at chapel. Current Walker Art exhibits include Contemporary Oils from Grace Horne galleries Boston and etchings by Ernest Roth. Vocational day March 22. Prof Gunnar Asplund Stockholm Institute of Technology will speak on Our Ancestors Art of Building and Ours in Moulton Union at 8 15. Prof Albert Abrahamson to speak Vocational Prospects After College in Moulton Union at 7 15 Tuesday March 23. Alfred Brinkler Portland to give organ recital March 23 in chapel at 8 15.
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Memorial Hall
Thomas Reed Powell
Harvard University
Moulton Union
George van Santvoord
Hotchkiss School
Walker Art Building
Grace Horne Galleries
Boston
Ernest Roth
Gunnar Asplund
Stockholm Institute of Technology
Sweden
Albert Abrahamson
Alfred Brinkler
Portland
Brookline teens arraigned after gun threat incident
Frank E. Dugan, 17, of Brookline Massachusetts, was arraigned in East Corinth municipal court on breaking and entering and assault and battery after allegedly threatening Selectman Leon F. Tiplady with a shotgun. Companion Raymond Brookings, 16, pled guilty to breaking and entering. Dugan denied the gun threat, was found guilty on the other count and jailed 30 days with $1,000 bail. Brookings was sent to the state school for boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon F. Tiplady
East Corinth
Frank E. Dugan
Brookline
Mass
Raymond Brookings
Dugan
Brookings
Birthday party honors Moses Chandler at Popham Beach
In Popham Beach the village library hosted a surprise birthday party for Moses Chandler with a decorated cake and 60 candles. Guests traded gifts and enjoyed ice cream and cakes while games including beano entertained attendees. Several locals and visitors were listed as party guests and town residents, with updates on travel and local happenings surrounding the event. The weekend storm reduced riverbank damage and prompted two weeks of school vacation for Popham students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses Chandler
Chandler
Arlene Perkins
Herbert Sprague
Raymond Larrabee
Frank Scott
Lef
Madelyn Sprague
Delora
Muriel Huntley
Marion Bridges
Freda Greenlaw
Nina Larrabee
Paulie Morong
Seaman Drake
Stanley
Norman Perkins
Eva Dobbin
Jonesport
Fred Osgood
Ethel Luke
East Boothbay
Napoleon Fickett
Pond Island
Bath
Shirley Morong
Bobby
Jerry
Behthouse
Osgood
Lester Oliver
Coast Guard
Pauline Morong
Elmer Thayer
Lisbon Falls
Marguerite McNulty
David Drake
Sanley Perkins
Walter Newdick
Clarence Schofield
Seguin Island
Llewellyn J. Oliver
Kennebec
Popham
Ellison Moody
Gilbert Head
Seaman E. Drake
Carol
David
Mr. Drake
Capt
Edgar N. Drake
Birchwood
Georgetown
Long Island
Nathaniel Perkins
Edgar L. Drake
Kennebec River Station
Walter Sprague
Portland Marine Hospital
Sprague
Laura Harding
Ernest Oliver
Walter Williams
West Georgetown
Edward McNut
Kennebe
Bay Point
Larry's Rocks
Clarence Perkins
Virginia
Arlene
Normar
Lewiston
Meeses Chandler
Erma Huntley
Christopher Marr
Driver Hurt as Train Strikes Car at Graphic Street Crossing
Dr Joseph Villa 45 suffered serious injuries when his car was struck by a Portland bound express at the Graphic street crossing of the Canadian National Railway in South Paris. He was hurled about 25 feet, thrown clear, and taken to Norway hospital with abrasions shock and possible concussion. Witness Mrs Lily Verrill alerted Deputy Sheriff husband, Carl D Poss of Portland was engineer. Villa, a Hartford native, had moved from St Johnsbury VT months after the murder of Dr James G Littlefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Villa
Graphic Street
Canadian National Railway
Paris
Portland
Villa
Norway Hospital
Tiv
Liiney Verrill
Verrii
Dr. Villa
Carl D. Poss
James G. Littlefield
World rich gold mines in South Africa claim top status
Harvard professor explains Witwatersrand as the world’s greatest gold field. He notes output surging over the past two years, Witwatersrand’s vast ore tonnage, population impact, and its role in global gold valuation and Fort Knox holdings.
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Witwatersrand
South Africa
Johannesburg
Cairo
Mesabi Range
United States
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Prize speaking and spelling prize funds approved
The Board of Education voted to use funds from Edward C Plum mer to buy textbooks for Morse High School debate and spelling contest pupils. An auditorium repair fund loan of 1 36792 was approved. Judge Dunton absent as Towle resigns Maine police chief Towle. Healy to be paid 3500 yearly as successor.
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Educatot
Monoan
Edward C. Plummer
Bath
United States Shipping Board
Morse H.gh
Morse High School Activities Association
Judge Dunton
Wilbur H. Towle
Maine
Lewis O. Barrows
Executive Council
Towle
John W. Healy
Healy
Barrows
Bay Point residents host, visit and note local events
Bay Point community reports dinners with Capt. Drake, Mrs. Warren and Edna Coolidge, illness among residents, and a death of Arthur Brown from Wellesley Hills. Cecil Stevens visits, a Popham Beach fog iridescence scene, and a Bay Point rat problem. Substantial social calls include Louise Howard and Penny Pinkham family notes. Local travel includes Maurice Burns heading to Damariscotta for a month and Stephen Etnier with wife Gilbert Head cruising the Mediterranean. Capt. Edgar L. Drake remains ill.
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Leeman Drake
Carol
David
Capt. Drake
Edna M. Coolidge
Birchwood
Edgar Warren
Arthur Brown
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Kennebec Point
Cecil Stevens
Five Islands
Dunlop
Bay Point
Warren
Maurice Burns
Wiliam Adams
Adams
Willis
Herman A. Spinney
Clarence Butters
Popham Beach
Edgar L. Drake
Stephen Etnier
Gilbert Head
Mediterranean Sea
Squaw club meets with Morse and Coggeshall
Winnegance group met Thursday night with Mrs. Walter Morse and will meet again Thursday with Mrs. Ormond Coggeshall. Mr and Mrs. Charles E Hewett Jr entertained the pitch club Saturday night. The club will meet next Saturday with Mr and Mrs. Frank Lemont. Refreshments were served.
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Squaw Club
Walter Morse
Ormond Coggeshall
Charles E. Hewett, Jr
Frank Lemont
Lower
Washington Street
Canadian folklife art at McArthur library astonishes visitors
At the McArthur library this week the pictures of Canadian folklife on display have greatly surprised many visitors. One man called the paintings a revelation noting how similar many household items in Canada were to those in old time England. Several works, painted in Quebec, could describe York county as it was about 75 years ago.
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McArthur
England
Quebec
York County
Amount of game killed last year in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Game Commission reports a record deer take for 1937 with 24,894 male deer killed, up from 24,706 in 1931. Bear kills rose to 544, small game rose overall though quail and grouse declined, pheasants jumped over 100,000, rabbits topped two million, squirrels nearly doubled, wild turkeys reached about 4,100, and woodcock rose to 30,000 amid a slight uptick in waterfowl.
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Maine
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Commonwealth
Nicholas Biddle
Bruin
Biddle
Tuna School Near Portland Excites Gulf Fishermen
Old timers recall a school of tuna off Portland sending excitement through fishermen who say they have never seen horse mackerel so early in the year in the Gulf of Maine.
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Portland
Gulf of Maine
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America’s Scenic
Maine Development Commission
Rotogravure
Commission
Development Commission
Phippsburg
Old Orchard Beach
North Atlantic
James Herbert
New York University
New York City
Edgar Brock
Manhattan College
Glenn Cunningham
Central Press
Bowdoin College Notes
Donald H. McLaughlin
Harvard
Lowell Institute
Board of Education
Central Presse
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