Science needs newspapers to teach public facts and democracy
A symposium urged adopting scientific methods taught by newspapers as essential to democracy. The American Institute awarded Dr. Merriam a gold medal and fellowships to Dr. Howe and Howard Blakeslee for promoting science, accuracy, and public understanding through news.
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New York
American Institute
Howard W Blakeslee
Associated Press
United States
John C. Merriam
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Harrison E Howe
Blakeshe
Institute
Merriam
Howe
Blakeslee
Robert A. Millikan
Marriage Licenses for Waterson and Central Cay Couples
Leonard C Cauin and Wend line Helen Gutknecht of Waterson receive a marriage license. Theodore Roborts and Flyg beth Richardsen of Central Cay also obtain a license.
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Leonard C Cauin
Wendline Helen Gutknecht
Waterson
Theodore Roborts
Flygbeth Richardsen
Central Cay
Home cough remedy promises quick relief and savings
An advertisement touts a do it yourself cough syrup using two cups sugar one cup water and Pinex from a drugstore to yield four times the commercial dose. It claims soothing membranes loosens phlegm eases breathing and aids sleep with a money back guarantee.
Alienation suit filed against former Senator Dill in Ohio
Margie Heaton Dill sues former Senator C. C. Dill and Grace Dill for 25000 in Mount Vernon Ohio alleging alienation of affections. Papers were removed after filing. Wendell Dill, her husband and senator’s nephew, reportedly worked in Washington while she was in Fredericktown.
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Mount Vernon
Ohio
Margie Heaton Dill
U.S
C. C Dill
Washington
Grace Dill
Fredericktown
Barton A. Blair
Margie Dill
C. C. Dill
Wendell Dill
Sub-Zero Cold Wave Impacts Midwest Travel and Death Toll
Cold snap grips the Midwest with sub-zero temperatures causing deep drifts paralyzing rail and auto travel. State highway crews clear Linn county roads while many rural schools close. more than fifty deaths attributed to the cold wave north of the coldest winters on record with widespread flooding retarded in Alabama and Georgia.
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Cedar Rapids
Amness
Tate Wedie Das
Vawe
Renne Berg
Eho Co Escinick
Berg
Marth
Midwest
Rockies
Appalachians
Reces
Alabama
Georgia
Chicago
New Taxes Loom To Pay Relief Costs
Congressional and White House discussions reveal plans for new taxes to fund relief and farm program costs. Doughton indicates potential substitute levies to finance farm aid totaling about 450 to 500 million dollars and hints at broader revenue measures as relief funds require liquidation.
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Senate
Treasury
Justice Department
US Supreme Court
Rice Millers
AAA
House
Federal Reserve Banks
White House
Secretary of
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Interior
Harold L Ickes
PWA
Rexford G Tugwell
Rural Reservement Administration
Daniel W Bell
Lale T Alverson
Emergency Council
Aubrey Willams
Youth Administration
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Doughton
Roosevelt
Coughton
Becomes Mother Of 4th Set Of Twins
In Chehalis Washington a 30 year old mother gave birth to her fourth pair of twins a boy and a girl weighing nine and eleven pounds at birth The King family of Glenoma now has nine living children and three who died The couple husband Aaron and wife live on a small farm with King a former service man collecting a pension
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Chehalis
Wash
Dionne
Aaron King
Glenoma
Here
King
Grave Digger Dies After Heart Attack In New York Cemetery
In Buffalo, John Vogelsang, a grave digger, told a friend he might dig the next grave for himself. He suddenly collapsed in a newly dug grave, suffering a heart attack.
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Buffalo
John Vogelsang
Vogelsang
Livestock Killed by Train Near Lisbon
Special to The Gazette reports Charles Finley of Lisbon lost four head of livestock as cattle and horses wandered onto the right of way. A cow died Tuesday morning and three horses perished Wednesday morning after straying from nearby pastures.
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Lisbon
Charles Finley
Bonus for World War I veterans in Congress tops $100000
Washington AP reports that 13 senators and more than 100 representatives will receive bonus certificates totaling over 100000, with many planning to use the funds for education, farming, or family needs. Some veterans lack certificates due to service length or rank.
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Washington
House
Congress
Senator Minton
Inc
Truman
Benson
Gibson
Schwellenbach
Wash
Duffy
Wis
Hayden
Ariz
Adams
Cole
Thomas
Utah
Russell
Farmers to pursue profit through tech gains not nostrums
L. F. Livingston, president of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, told the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers that farmers will move toward lasting profit by relying on their own skills and engineered improvements rather than political cures or a crowd of experimenters. He warned farmers have been postwar guinea pigs on a national lab table and urged technically driven change led by agricultural engineers.
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Jackson
Miss
INS
L. F. Livingston
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Association of Southern Agricultural Workers
Livingston
National Laboratory
E. I du Pont de Nemours and Company
17 Face Trial For Butter, Egg Racket
New York federal indictments charge 17 defendants including the local 202 Teamsters union with a butter and egg trucking racket. The scheme allegedly forced drivers to unload at a central terminal and use union trucks, with claimed violence and destroyed shipments. Sources say the operation cost consumers over 300 thousand dollars annually and shipments came from multiple states.
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New York
Local 202
Teamsters’ Union
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Minos
Indiana
Iowa
Utah
Missouri
Tennessee
Man’s Earth Weight Versus Jupiter Gravity
A person weighing 130 pounds on Earth would weigh about 377 pounds on Jupiter, illustrating Jupiter’s stronger gravity compared with Earth.
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Earth
Jupiter
General Strike Ends in Pekin Illinois After Settlement
Pekin Illinois ends general strike after talks between the unions and the American Federation of Labor affiliates. The trades assembly vows to push for Chief Donahue's removal over alleged bias. Mediators' victory attributed to a Peoria meeting with officials and workers. Rupp shooting cited as a factor in settlement.
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Associated Press
Martin Durkin
Illinois State Department of Labor
Henry Horner
Pekin
American Federation of Labor
Trades Assembly
Harry Donahue
Frank S. Mahoncey
Victor S. Darche
Harry D. de Ber
Peace Committee
Peoria
L. E. Bjork
National Labor Relations Board
Clarence Rupp
Jones County Cattlemen Banquet Set for Feb 12
Anamosa reports the Jones county beef cattlemen hold a second annual banquet at Oxford Junction on Feb 12 at 6 30 p m Rex Beresford Ames extension animal husbandry specialist will discuss Outlook for the Beef Cattle Industry Officers and directors of the association to be elected for 1936
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Jones County
Oxford Junction
Rex Beresford
Ames Extension Animal Husbandry
Creamery Officers Named in Waterville Creamery Board
Officers for 1936 of the Farmers Cooperative Creamery company of Waterville Alla makee county were elected. S H Kolsrud is president H Ask is vice president C V Nelson is treasurer E H Bakkuma is secretary Other directors include James Carlson Carl Sanderson and Bernard Roese.
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Waukon
Farmers Co-operative Creamery Company
Waterville
Allamakee County
S. H. Kolsrud
H. Ask
C. V. Nelson
E. H. Bakkuma
James Carlson
Carl Sanderson
Bernard Roese
Eldest Son of Former Spanish King Near Death
The Count of Covadonga, eldest son of ex King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria, lay near death in Havana from a malignant tumor. Papal Nuncio Monsignor Jorge Caruana gave extreme unction at 7:30 p.m. The former Prince of Asturias had long been unable to operate due to hemophilia, a hereditary blood disease.
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Havana
Count of
Covadonga
Alfonso XIII
Victoria
Spain
Jorge Caruana
Prince of Asturias
Dr Earl Roadman New President at Morningside College
Trustees of Morningside College elected Dr Earl A Roadman of Mitchell South Dakota as president. He has led Dakota Wesleyan University for seven years and will assume duties soon, succeeding Dr Robert E O'Brian who resigned November 12.
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Sioux City
Morningside College
Earl A. Roadman
Mitchell
S. D
Roadman
Dakota Wesleyan University
Robert E. O’brian
Stanwood Tipton Branch Line Opens After Snow Drift
The Stanwood Tipton branch of the North Western railroad resumed with a snow plow and crew clearing drifts after ten days of blockage. Regular service expected Friday if more snow does not close the line again. Coal and merchandise blocked since the shutdown were moved to Tipton. The piece notes three women pilots holding transport licenses working with the department of commerce to assist communities with roof airmarking.
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the Gazette
Stanwood
Tipton
North Western Railroad
Department of Commerce
Administration of Farm Plan Outlined
The proposal describes a two year federal subsidiary plan with state boards and county associations. It would survey farms to set county intensive crop acreage limits, then establish performance standards. Grants would be awarded to farmers meeting standards, replacing contract based AAA payments.
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AAA
United States
World Hikers Reach Santiniketan After 6000 Mile Journey
Two German travelers Herr Berndt and Herr Brunette arrived at Santiniketan after hitch-hiking across twelve countries. They began in Germany with 50 marks and crossed Czechoslovakia Austria Hungary Yugoslavia Turkey Greece Egypt Syria Iraq Iran and India. They aim to return to Germany by next October.
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Calcutta
Ins
Herr Berndt
Herr Brunette
Santiniketan
Here
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Hungary
Jugoslavia
Turkey
Greece
Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Iran
India
Robbery hits singer Ethel Shutta in Chicago
Chicago police report three gunmen stopped singer Ethel Shutta, wife of George Olson, en route to a performance and forced $8,000 diamond and $500 sapphire rings and a $3,000 mink coat from her along with fearing a kidnapping.
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Chicago
Ethel Shutta
George Olson
Miss Shutta
Senators Hold Up ICC Nominations
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee held over for further consideration the nominations of Clyde B. Aitchison of Oregon and Claude R. Porter of Iowa to six year terms on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Committee
Clyde B. Aitchison
Oregon
Claude R. Porter
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Mercury
Northwest
United Press
Craemer’s
First Avenue
Pekin, Ill
Jones County Cattlemen
Earl Roadman
Cedar Rapids Gas CO
Third Street
ICC
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