Ford Project Civilizing Agent Hails Fordlandia Work
Major Lester Baker cabled from the Amazon praising Fordlandia as a civilizing influence. He noted 1800 workers housed in modern buildings, hospitals, a radio link to Para, a vegetable farm, cattle range, roads, wharves, power boats, and rapid plantation clearance averaging one hundred acres weekly.
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Rio Janeiro
Ford
Tapajos River
Lester Baker
Amazon Valley
Baker
E. Oxholm
Brazil
Fordlandia
United States
C. Beaton
Para
Birth Rate Pushes Sofia Toward Population Peak
Bulgaria leads Europe in population growth with 192% birth statistics, recording 325 000 births, 18 per thousand deaths, and an annual increase of 15 000. Officials warn migration may be necessary as land and jobs fail to absorb the growing six million population.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Europe
Statistical Office
Film Magnate Hart ley Clark Leads Sex Film Firm
Chicago based Hart ley Clark, newly named head of the Sex Film company, has long been active in cinema, projector manufacturing, and industry leadership. His interests include collecting old clocks worldwide and using film to educate impoverished and isolated communities.
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Chicago
Bnexs
Hartley Clark
Sex Film Corporation
Clark Whelly
United States
Il Ag
Fox Films
Chicago Civic Theater
Clark
Michigan University
Clarke
Dew Movie
Oll
May Grow Rubber Trees In The U S
U S experiments to grow rubber trees may succeed using plants native to southern Madagascar. About 25 young trees over a year old flourished under the Bureau of Plant Industry in Bard, California, San Diego, and near Miami Florida. The Madagascar specimens survived natural climate conditions, reaching up to 24 feet in height and nearly nine inches in stem diameter.
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U. S
Washington
United States
Madagascar
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Bard
Cal
San Diego
Miama
Fla
Bishop Perry Vitae Highlighted by Outdoors and Arts
The Most Rev James DeWolf Perry bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church is noted for climbing the Victoria glacier in 1901 and his love of tennis outdoor life, art and biographical works. He summers at Princeton Massachusetts near Mount Wachusett and travels for church duties.
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Protestant Episcopal Church
James DeWolf Perry
Victoria Glacier
Lake Louise
Albert
Mount Wachusett
Princeton
Mass
Bishop Perry
Perry
Stockholm
World Conference On Faith and Order
Lausanne
Switzerland
Interret
Yale
Sugar Bowl May Move Southward
The Senate pushes for Cuba sugar duty while Florida Everglades prompt talk of a new world sugar bowl. Agriculture notes vast muck soil south of Lake Okeechobee ready for cane, with potential 2 million tons yearly, threatening U S imports. A new cane harvester by G Muench claims 20 tons per hour, slashing labor costs and possibly reshaping the sugar industry.
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Frank J. Wellers
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Everglades
Florida
Department of Agriculture
Lake Okeechobee
Southern
P.O. J
Lousiana
Cuba
Senate
America
G. Muench
St. Paul
Minn
Muench
Wales And Brother Are To Share Digs
Sunningdale England Prince George and the Prince of Wales will share Fort Belvedere living arrangements after the elder prince returns from hunting in Africa The brotherly bond has grown as Prince George plans retirement from the Foreign Office due to ill health and doctors urge country life for him
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Sunningdale
England
Prince George
Prince of Wales
Foreign Office
Navy
Fort Belvedere
Correct plan first step in heating
Proper planning and installation are essential for heating. The text cites University of Illinois standards and a National Warm Air Heating Association code. Torrid Zone dealers install to these formulas and a Lenox Furnace warranty covers parts for ten years, with typical life around 21 years.
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University of Illinois
National
Warm Air Heating Association
Lennox, Furnace Company
New Furnace Company
Syracuse
Marshalltowa
Iowa
Toronto
Canada
EA. Pugsley
Prince George among royal sons showcased in royal suite
Article describes Prince George as the best looking of King George’s four sons with deep-set eyes and slender figure. It notes his dancing skill, music interest, reading habit, and collection of first editions, while mentioning a special suite reserved for him on the first floor. It includes various unrelated civic notices and legal proceedings from Beadle County South Dakota.
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Prince
George
City to bid six inch water main on 1st Street S W
A motion moved by Tobin and seconded by Young was carried unanimously to authorize the City Auditor to advertise for bids for the construction of a six inch water main on 1st Street S W from Vermont Avenue west to the alley between Virginia and Delaware avenues. Payment to be made from city funds.
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Hannim
Young
D. O. Roof
John Niblo
Model Steam-Laundry Co
Kin Mfg. Co
Jones
Chevrolet Co
Tobin
Young J
1St Street
S. W
Vermont Avenue
Virginia Avenue
Delaware Avenue
West Park Development bids deadline set for May 6 1930
The West Park Development Association set a bid receipt deadline of May 6 1930 during a meeting motion. The record notes the meeting proceeded with procedural adjournments and approvals.
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West Park Development Ass’n
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Ford Project
Amazon District
Worcoorereestestriveres. DE
A. A. Wollmann
Huron Dental Clinic
Olympia Gandy Kitchen
HL A. Johnson
Appaintarmat A Conerere Ng
Sugar Bowl
Wales
Brother
Lennox
Wisconsin 3. W
Peet
Abel
B.B. McClaskey
Anna Foley
EL Schumacher
Nttorneys
Betitio Torneys
Huron
Board of City Commissioners
Fred Kludt
Christena Hudt
Mortgagors
South Dakota
Office of the Register of Deeds
Beadle County
Hange
Dexter Gitchen Hunt
Ward
Sai
Spratt
Ra. M. F. Walt
City Auditor
State of
Ard Ward
Sane
D. Roberts
Mortramee
Advic
Roll
Hannum
Medbery
Uate
Beaie
John T. Breen
Mary Breen
Josephine Ga
Catherine Arthur Hoffman
Robert Hoffman
Helen Hoffman
Breen Hoffman
James Breen
Little Flowers
Turton
Lew
Mathie- N.W
Public Service
N.W
Burch Power
Gao
Engle
Warble Hardware Co
Standard Oil
E. M. Lothrop
Heidrick and Brewer
Joss Ayres
Mallory
Cravenette
F Koepp & Co
Hart Schaffner G
Mars Clothes
Dabo
Ites Cote
Ba Combral Tel
Rhones Ft
Noe Publi Co
Kiel Bers
Fischer Printing Co
Huth
Armand
M. F. Walt
Cadvie
Kellogg's
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Kolko
Studebaker
Erskine
Seady
Lanchester
Dinneen Motor Co
Fourth Street
Faulkton Implement Co
C. L. Cumming Motor Co
Zene
Lebanon
Miller
S. D
Redfield
S.D
Jilder
Dieaslake Ed
Davison
Struck Motor Co
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