State Asks Bids On Highway Jobs
State highway commission invites bids on several large road projects totaling about 610000 dollars. Work includes base course oil surfacing and seal coats on routes across Brown Lawrence Pennington and other counties with resurfacing, grading, and bridge work planned along U S routes 12 85 18 55 25 and 22 in multiple counties including Deadwood Tripp Gettysburg Scotland and Clear Lake areas.
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Scotland
Hutchinson
Bon Homme
U.S
Tripp
Olivet
Grading
Potter
Northern State Drops Freshman Initiation Tradition
Northern State Teachers College will stop upperclassmen paddling freshmen and placing placards. Freshmen girls will dress normally and be welcomed as adults. A new orientation program and get acquainted parties aim to foster goodwill and ease college life.
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Assedeen
Northern State Teachers College
Orville Westby
W. H. Culp
Northern
Quilt Auction by Carpenter M E Aid Division Event
At a hall gathering on Saturday evening Carpenter M E Aid held a sale by its division. Mrs Leslie Boyd bought a red and white applique quilt embroidered with 250 names, raising $35 from the sale. A 1906 quilt in the same pattern and colors was also shown, tied to local pioneer Mrs Anna Opsahl of Long Beach California.
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M. E. Aid Carpenter
Ision
Leslie Boyd
Selc
Anna Opsahl
Long Beach
Calif
Birthday party honors Dolores Gross at Yale event
Mrs. P Gross hosted a Monday evening birthday party in Yale for her daughter Dolores who turned 16. Guests played games, and lunch was served from a table centered by a large birthday cake with many gifts for the honoree.
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YALE
Tree windbreak thrives on Alcester farm care
At Alcester three miles southwest, a 15 foot growth on the McKellips farm shows robust development after three years of timely cultivation. Ralph Hansen and Frank Rockwell of extension staff credit clean cultivation before August 15 and weed retention afterward to protect against winter injury. The planting includes lilac, Russian olive, ash, American elm, Chinese elm, cottonwood, mulberry, and walnut, established with help from Alcester Soil Conservation CCC workers.
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Alcester
Ralph E. Hansen
Brookings
Frank Rockwell
Extension Forester
Mr. Hansen
Alcester Soil Conservation
CCC
Charles Newberg
Mr. McKellips
Willkie Inconsistent Charges Watwood At Rally
Arthur Watwood Democrat for Congress in South Dakota challenged Wendell Willkie at a Whitewood rally, saying Willkie seeks the championship of inconsistency by later praising the New Deal after criticizing debates with Roosevelt. A. L. Putnam backed Lewis W. Bicknell for governor as the Democratic choice.
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Whitewood
Arthur Watwood
Congress
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Warwood
Willie
Willkie
A. L. Putnam
Lewis W. Bicknell
Bicknell
South Dakota
Labor Shortage Reverberates Across South Dakota History
WPA researchers uncover 1903 Sioux Falls water project funding tied to a labor drought. Planners faced rising costs and a need to import workers while reports note wage shifts and persistent job scarcity in 1920s Black Hills and Rapid City areas. Times have changed.
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Mitchell
Sioux Falls
South
Ald
South Dakota Writers’ Project
Wall Lake
Argus
Want
Sioux Falls Man Hospitals After Fight
Bruce Cochran aged 34 was hospitalized Wednesday night in Sioux Falls with a fractured nose and facial cuts after a confrontation with William Mayhue 21 a Negro porter. Mayhue is jailed on an assault investigation charge amid conflicting accounts from Ruthus Fitch a college student who supports Mayhue.
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Sioux Falls
Bruce Cochran
William
Stony) Mayhue
Mayhue
Cochran
Ruthus Fitch
Farewell gathering honors Mrs Elmer Johnson at Lutheran party
About 25 women gathered at Mrs. Tillman Wicks home to honor Mrs. Elmer Johnson who is moving to Willow Lake. The Ladies Aid sponsored the event with Mrs Johnson as president. A large mirror was given as a parting gift and lunch was served.
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Tillman Wicks
Elmer Johnson
Claude Wickard to Speak At North Dakota Farm Picnic
Claude Wickard newly appointed secretary of agriculture will be the principal speaker at the annual North Dakota farm picnic at Wahpeton on Sunday Aug 25 Attendees include farmers from North Dakota South Dakota and Minnesota The announcement notes Wickard will assume acting duties on Sept 5 after Henry A Wallace resigns and outlines Wickard's career from Purdue to Indiana senate and his roles in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the north central division.
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North Dakota
Wahpeton
Claude Wickard
South Dakota
Wickard
AAA
North Central
SAA
Carrol County
Indiana
Purdue University
Purdue
Indiana Extension Service
Indiana Senate
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Chalek Leaves Alpena for San Francisco Air Corps Duty
William D Chalek of Chicago after a week in Alpena departed Tuesday evening for San Francisco to serve as a lieutenant in the U S Air Corps.
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Air Corps Alpena
William D. Chalek
Chicago
San Francisco
U.S. Air Corps
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