Brigham Young and Utahs Desert Pioneer Era
Edward Emerine Wil recounts Brigham Young guiding Mormon pioneers to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847. He describes vision, labor in building temples, irrigation, and Utahs growth from desert to thriving state, noting demographics and centennial celebrations.
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Ola Jim Bridger
Green River
Great American
Teader
Salt Lake Valley
Brigham Young
Vermont
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Mormon Church
Joseph Smith
Nauvoo, TV
Deseret
Mormon Tabernacle
Utah
Italy
Greece
Experts Needed to Set Impartial Budget Figure
Washington column argues for independent fiscal experts to draft a credible budget figure. It notes congressional wrangling, Taft McMahon exchange, and hopes for a neutral staff to provide informed guidance beyond partisan bickering. It also reflects on postwar cultural policy and music in Germany.
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WNU Service
Eye Street
N. W
Washington, D. C
Washington
Congress
Bureau of the Budget
Congressional
House
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Taft
McMahon
Kodaly
America
Democracy
Polisies
Dover
Salt Lake and Flats Shine for Tourists and Speed Aficionados
Great Salt Lake in Utah draws visitors to its beaches where swimmers float due to high salinity while the Bonneville salt flats host speed records. Ab Jenkins, former Salt Lake City mayor and famed race driver, favors the flats for cooling tires and notes mirages across the level whiteness.
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Utah
Great Salt Lake
Bonneville
Bonnetville
Ab Jenkins
Salt Lake City
Rade
Fancy meeting 50 mink coats in four minutes
Baukhage reports a French visitor in New York marveling at a cache of luxurious fur and paying top dollar. An Illinois cat adds a quirky squeal to a yarn about exchange fantasies and a Jersey cow comment notes resilience under Nazi occupation despite German control.
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New York
Pancy
Let Me Tell Your Fortune Booklet Offer
An advertisement promotes a Weekly Newspaper Service booklet titled Let Me Tell Your Fortune offering nine card reading methods plus other tricks. Readers are invited to send 25 cents to receive the booklet at 243 W 17th St, New York.
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New York
N.Y
Frisco Oakland Bridge Employs 264 Staff
The San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge has 264 employees required by its eight mile span and heavy traffic. The bridge maintains its own police and fire departments and includes 29 mechanics dedicated to servicing disabled cars, which average 43 a day.
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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
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Suuther
Stites
Edward Emerine
Win
Salt Lake
Moroni
Bingham
Manna
Tooele
Garrick
Provo
Geneva Steel Plant
D&e
Moron Shrine
Herbert B. Maw
Ogden
Latter Day Saints
Backhage
State Department
Bing Crosby
Stephen Foster
Nuernberg
Amenea
Zoltan Kodaly
Germany
Goebbels
Federation
Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Baukhage
Salt Lake and Flats
Illinois
Island
Jersey
Fray Goring
qGcob Party
Frisco-Oakland Bridge
Dora Mee Oun Ac
Caldwell
Caldwell Senna
McKesson Laboratories
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