Bottle cast on sea drifts 4550 miles for science
The U S Bureau of Fisheries says a bottle released off the Georges Bank in April 1931 reached Hammerfest Norway after 683 days and 4550 miles. The find sets a new record for science drift tests to study currents and fish movement. The finder received twenty five cents and a treasury check.
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Scotland
Shetland Islands
France
Bermuda
Bahama Islands
Bureau
Trapper Proves $8 Monthly Can Support Five Months
Louis Hansen, a Jackson Hole trapper, proves survival on about $8 a month by living five months in a Granite Creek cabin. He supplemented scarce provisions with self supplied elk meat, remaining in isolation for 150 days.
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Jackson
Wyo
Louis Hansen
Hansen
Granite Creek
Scouts Of Troop 20 Visit Iowa Theater
Boy Scouts of Troop 20 sponsored by The Gazette visited the Iowa theater for the stage and screen program Saturday afternoon. Assistant Scoutmaster Don ald McCulloch led the group to enjoy impersonations acrobatics rapid skating comedy and melodies. The lads praised Manager L M Garman for his courtesy and laughed at Alison Skip worths latest screen comedy.
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Troop 20
the Gazette
Iowa Theater Management
Iowa
Donald McCulloch
Alison Skipworth
L. M. Garman
Warnings Of Air Raids Heard In Italian Senate
Rome AP reports General Giuseppi Cattaneo urged Italy to brace for air raids and stock bomb refuges, gas masks, and bomb-proofing in major cities. War Minister General Pietro Gazzera suggested civilians should evacuate large cities in wartime.
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Italy
Giuseppi Cattaneo
Senate
Pietro Gazzera
French Critics Decry Vulgar Money In New Coins
Paris AP report notes an association of French writers on art condemns the vulgarity of the new silver ten and twenty franc coins and the 1000 franc bank note, urging government consultation with an authoritative body before issuing currency.
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Paris
Wis
Six Months Free Rent for Genoa Newlyweds
Geneva Italy AP reports Genoa introduces a marriage incentive plan to boost births during depression. Half the rent of young couples who wed this year will be paid by the city treasury. Upon the first birth the city pays a full month’s rent. The groom needs only present the marriage certificate countersigned by the wedding celebrant.
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Geneva
Italy
Soviet Trade Prospects for U S in Russia
Moscow reports growing emphasis on American chance to fill vacated Soviet trade space as Germany withdraws under Nazi leadership. For Industrialization urges trusts to consider imports link, while Soviet press denounces Hitler and notes halted German orders. Anglo Russian strains and Metropolitan-Vickers arrests color cautious Soviet approach to U S relations.
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America
Russia
Germany
Hitler
Metropolitan-Vickers
Washington
Nervous Czech Police Face Hitler Rumor Incident
In Brno Czechoslovakia a peasant from Opava shouted Mel Huetla as his hat blew away at a train station. Police charged him with attempting to start a political disturbance but he said he only spoke his dialect for my hat. He caught the next train.
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Brno
Czechoslovakia
Opava
Patron Shot At Waiter Then Robbed Cab Driver
In Kansas City a would be customer fired at waiter J R Brookshire after he reached for water. The assailant fled, abducted a taxicab driver, and robbed him of 4 75 dollars. A separate bill to ban Latin teaching in South Carolina schools was defeated.
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Kansas City
J. R. Brookshire
Brookshire
South Carolina
Validity Of Iowa Bank Law Upheld By District Judge
Judge O J Henderson in Webster City upheld Senate File 111 the emergency state bank stabilization law allowing the state banking superintendent to take over banks without receivership. The ruling in W H Lees versus Security State Savings Bank confirms the law passed by the recent general assembly and its temporary control powers.
Answers to Questions by Frederic J. Haskin
A review of various trivia queries covers baseball pitches the spit ball and curved ball attribution to Stricklett and Cummings, presidential salaries, legalized betting in multiple states, currency portraits, thunderstorm safety, ethylene ripening effects on tomatoes, Tennyson on Browning, Lee's Civil War commission, Dick Whittington's cat tale, the International Polar Year, Siam's revolution and constitution, monthly bill delivery legality, Cinque Ports origins, Mercator projection, gold dollar history, and Segovia aqueduct construction.
Saturday Hog Prices Show Weak Market Tone in Chicago
Heavy weekly receipts kept hog prices soft across major markets. Chicago sales were sporadic with bids 10c lower than Friday, while overall week prices held steady to 10c lower than last week. Cattle and sheep also rose modestly in Chicago and Cleveland, with mixed changes in other cities as receipts totaled large.
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Cleveland
Pittsburgh
East Buffalo
East St. Louis
Cincinnati
Chicago Livestock Market Report Highlights Cattle Sheep and Hogs
Receipts exceed 100 head for cattle with mixed price shifts across weights and classes. Fat cows and yearlings rise while heavy steer demand remains active and vealers show higher bids. Sheep and lamb values trend up with best wooled lambs near the top, hogs mostly steady to down, with bundled direct sales softer than Friday. Iowa hog receipts and interior market show uneven prices by weight and type with steady to lower tendencies.
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U. & Dept
Local Porkers Unchanged in Steady Hog Market
The local hog market remained steady with no changes in any grades on Saturday. Top price holds at 3.30 dollars per hundredweight, according to Sinclair Hog Market. Prime hogs range across several weight bands with varying prices and liberal premiums paid for quality and condition. sheep markets list choice lambs at 3.50 to 4.00 dollars per hundredweight with other grades priced accordingly.
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Iowa Loan Co
Richards College Pharmacy
Abov General
Drew's Eport
2D St. SE
van Coing
Sioux City
Kenwood
Ladies Spring
M Scheer
Granby
16Th Ave
Colorado History Question Sparks Jefferson Debate
A reader asks whether the State of Colorado was ever called Jefferson. The reply notes no official name Jefferson for the state, though a delegation once sought the territory name in Washington but failed.
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Jefferson
Washington,d. C
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Markets Chicago Produce Chicago AP Poultry and Butter
Live receipts weak with lows offered for hens and leghorns. Turkey and duck prices reflect light demand while broilers and colored varieties show modest gains. Potatoes on track with good U S shipments and dull new stock. Butter and eggs receipts strong with steady prices and unchanged levels.
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Chicago
U. S
Wisconsin
Idaho
Bliss Arama
Texas
Wheat price surge driven by speculative buying in Chicago
Wheat jumped six and a half cents as speculative buying dominated Chicago markets on a day of inflation fears. September wheat hit 73 5/8 cents, December at 74 7/8, with corn and oats also rising while hog prices lagged. The Roosevelt farm bill influence and 1909–14 price targets framed trading as grain pits buzzed with volatility.
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Senate
New York
Roosevelt
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