Flying Saucer auto tours Iowa for local celebrations
The Perkins Salvage Company of Britt Iowa builds a curious flying saucer car from a Model T motor and a Model T rear end with Model A front wheels. The craft seven by eight feet and requires no drive shaft. Robert Rollin Perkins and Peter Sluick led the project for the family business.
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Perkins Salvage Company
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Perkins Brothers
Robert and
Rollin
Inlaw
Peter Sluick
Saucer like car built from salvage piles by brothers
Vernon Perkins sits at the wheel of a homemade Saucer with long metal hose connections and winged exhaust outlets. The brothers expect a rough 50 miles per hour, admitting the old Model T engine is loud and smoky as exhaust jets. All parts come from salvage piles and welding dominates the build.
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Vernon Perkins
Record Student Enrollment Seen in Nation’s Schools
The Office of Education estimates a record 32,903,000 students will be enrolled this fall. Elementary schools will enroll 23,686,000 pupils, about 1,000,000 more than last year, while colleges will have about 2,700,000 students, down about 50,000.
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Washington
Office of Education
Lakes in the Seven Devils mountains of Idaho numbered
The Seven Devils range in Idaho contains at least thirty two lakes scattered across interconnected basins. Local observers note varied elevations and shoreline features, with many remaining remote and difficult to access.
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Seven Devils Mountains
Idaho
Death Toll of Long Holiday Hits 511 Across Nation
Associated Press reports 511 people died in violent accidents over the Labor Day weekend, 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday, including 359 highway deaths and 65 drownings. Utica plane crash and a Milwaukee train wreck were among the worst incidents. New York, Texas, California, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Illinois saw the largest tolls. Connecticut and Maine reported no highway fatalities.
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National Safety Council
Utica
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New York
Texas
California
Virginia
Wisconsin
Illinois
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Etree Maine
South Daota
Busman's Holiday Opens Letter Carriers Meet
More than 2,500 delegates to the letter carriers convention began a seven day gathering with a two mile parade on foot in Seattle.
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Seattle
Letter Carriers
Oils on Waters Give Mosquito Sore Throat
In Chicago AP report mosquitoes die of sore throats when oils are spread on stagnant water containing skeeter larvae, a method intended to curb breeding. The note explains the oil treatment as a preventative measure against mosquito populations.
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Chicago
Oils of larvae prove deadly to pests say chemist
Dr. H. H. Stage of the U. S. Department of Agriculture told the American Chemical Society that pest larvae die not from suffocation but from volatile oils in their oils. He said these vapors penetrate the tracheal tissue and poison the larvae, with greater volatility increasing lethality.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
American Chemical Society
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