Surveyors Report Major Changes In Southeast Coast
Lt Comdr John Bowie heads a nine man field party surveying the Southeast coast from Norfolk to the Mexican border to update navigation charts last revised in 1936. They travel 3000 miles in a 68 foot cruiser, noting depth changes, buoy shifts, new landmarks, and hazards.
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Mobile
America
U.S
South
Bowie
Atlantic Coast
Florida
Gulf Coast
Tampa
Fla
New Orleans
Mississappi
Baton Rouge la
Livestock Prices and Trade Mixed Across Chicago Markets
USDA Chicago livestock report shows salable hogs about 1 000 head with 25 50 lower butcher bids and sows down 1.00. cattle receipts reduced with slaughter steers steady to 50 higher, but heavy weights weaker. Heifers strong, cows 1.00-1.50 higher, bulls 50-74 lower. vealers up 1.00. Top prices include 2.25 for three lots of 1037-1257 lb fed steers. high weights reach 32.0 for high-choice materials.
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Chicago
USDA
Colorado
Wheat futures slip after Western Kansas rain forecast
Chicago Board of Trade futures moved lower as a rain forecast for Western Kansas spurred selling in wheat. Early gains vanished with wheat down 2 1 4 to 3 1 4, corn and oats mostly steady to lower, soybeans down 2 to 3 cents. May prices: wheat 242 14 to 3-4, corn 2.19 2-4, oats 1.99 5-8 to 1-2, soybeans 396.
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Chicago
Kansas
Board of Trade
Directors To Meet At Enterprise C Chamber Office
The Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors will meet at the Chamber Office at 7 p m Monday. A picnic supper will be served before the regular meeting. Cards have been mailed to members asking for the three most important activities for the coming year.
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Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Chamber of Conmerce
Chamber of Commercce
Board of Directors
Young Cop Helpers Gang Up On Suspect
In Monessen Pennsylvania police credit a youth league for aiding capture of a tool thief. Stanley Szewczyk, linked to a theft of a 150 box of tools, was pursued by about 60 youths after four boys spotted him fleeing. They cornered him until officers arrived.
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Stanley Sveney2k
League
Szewezyn
Foom
Szewczyk
Dog In Stroller Receives Rabies Vaccination
In Shelby County a dog unable to walk was brought in a tab stroller for rabies vaccination during a county inoculation drive. A woman explained the dog wouldn’t walk, so she tracked him in the stroller with his guardian nearby.
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Shelby County
Robert FL Harpst
Celine
Overhead Passenger Cars Proposed for City Traffic
Overhead passenger cars suspended from a single track are proposed to relieve street traffic congestion in large cities. The idea envisions elevated or monorail style lines to move crowds efficiently without occupying street lanes.
Edison as Newsboy Cashes In with Battle Bulletin Plan
Edison details how as a Civil War era newsboy he boosted sales on the Grand Trunk line by warning stations ahead of battle bulletins. He leveraged station agents and telegraphers, buying papers for a thousand copies and then raising prices along the route to Port Huron. The tale links his early business acumen to a note on weather prediction improvements via seismograph data.
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New York
Thomas A. Edison
Philosophical Library
Edison
Grand Trunk Railroad
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Seitz
Mr. Story
Mount Clemens
Port Huron
Skeleton Held A Clue To Ancient Indians
Near Boulder City Nevada an 850 year old burial site was found along with a near perfectly preserved skeleton from about 1100 A D Dr Gordon Baldwin National Park Service archeologist led the dig 15 miles below Hoover Dam at a sand terrace rich in arrow heads pottery fragments and campfire ashes The Patayan people who inhabited the region from 700 to 1200 AD built simple shelters farmed corn beans and cotton and had vanished before European explorers arrived in the 16th century The discovery is hoped to shed light on their fate and history
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Boulder City
Nev
Hoover Dam
Gordon Baldwin
National Park Service
Colorado
Davis Dam
Baldwin
What Happened to Them Remains Unclear
A fragmentary report questions the fate or status of individuals mentioned, offering few concrete details and leaving the outcome unresolved.
Dead Spot Where Gravity Balances Between Earth and Sun
A point about 160000 miles above Earth lies in the sunward direction where gravitational pulls of Earth and Sun cancel. At this balance point neither body dominates, creating a neutral region with no weight.
Forget-me-not Once Called Scorpion-grass Remedy
The forget-me-not was formerly named scorpion-grass and was believed to cure scorpion bites.
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Blocomb
Slocomb
Anne Martha Spence
Samantha
Jimmy Pitt Silavent
Charles
Siby] Zorn
Mavis Seay
Ellen Ward
Judy Spivey
Dorothy M. Bozetman
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Fay
Texas
Appliance CO
E. Troy St
Chicago Grain
Enterprise C
of C
Ceva
Tamothy Bay
Monessen
Police Midget Athletic League
Rie Era
Dixie
Barnham’s van Service
Dothan
Ala
Westinghouse
John J. Clark
Trafford
Dr. Baldwin
Office Supply Company
N. Foster Pho
Dothan, Ala
W. D. Malone
WDIG
Democratic Party
Truman
Gessner T. McCorvey
Tom Abernathy
Robert B. Albritton
Edmund Blair
Ben Bloodworth
Verde Elmore
Walter C. Givhan
Norman W. Harris
John A. Lusk, Jr
A. M. Simmons
Horace C. Wilkinson
White Supremacy Protective Committee
Alabama
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