Dustless Highways Urged to Recapture Tourism Revenue
The Greater South Dakota Association’s Highway and Tourist committee pushes a dustless statewide road across South Dakota to attract Yellowstone visitors and boost tax-supported highway funding. Subcommittees study funding and legal steps while reports go to the GSDA board. State figures show Yellowstone tourist business up 66.6 percent, while SD dust roads deter travelers.
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South Dakota
Greater South Dakota Association
Yellowstone National Park
GSDA
E. K. Hurst
Sioux Falls
Horace Meyers
Pierre
Bert Meisseman
Rapid City
Feneral Committee
GSD Board of
Perry F. Loucks
Watertown
Chambers Kellar
Goad
Harry Atwater
Sturgis
Yellowstone Park
North Dakota
Yellowstone
Wyoming
Highway Ane
Gsda Board of Directors
Northwestern Public Service unveils new residential lighting rate
Northwestern Public Service Company announced a new rate schedule to simplify charges by consolidating six residential rates into a single rate regardless of home size. Officials said the change aims to remove the room rate while keeping the one cent water heating rate for electric ranges unchanged, and it will reduce annual revenue by about 347000 though volume and costs may offset impact.
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Northwestern Public Service Company
Weather Summary for Huron and Viclnitr
Weather update notes a cold front moving through Dakota tonight and Friday with warmer conditions arriving elsewhere. Forecast calls for milder temperatures tonight into Friday across the region with varying winds and no precipitation reported in the readable text.
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Huron
Viclnitr
Anita Louise lists ideal husband traits for screen star
Blondy Anita Louise at 19 says marriage can fit her career if the husband is carefully chosen. She names Leslie Howard Donald Woods Gene Raymond Pat O'Brien Paul Muni Gary Cooper and Nelson Eddy as ideal man qualities reflecting sensitivity charm humor humanity intelligence ruggedness and voice.
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Anita Louise
Screen
Hollywood
Blondy
Anita
Leslie Howard
Donald Woods
Gene Raymond
Pat O'Brien
Paul Muni
Gary Cooper
Nelson Ede Dy
Farm prices soar to 1930 peak in Chicago markets
High July prices reflect drought damage across crops with wheat corn eggs lard butter rye and potatoes reaching new peak levels. Secretary Wallace warns rainfall needed to avert 1936 corn shortfall while no immediate food shortage is seen though retail costs rise. Eggs rise to 27 cents a dozen for October delivery as traders note wide mid summer price swings. US holdings in eggs sit about 1.45 million cases below last year.
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Chicago
Wallace
Mercantile Exchange
Department of Agricature
Unsolved Fires Across Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations
Governor Berry reports fires on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations remain unsolved after intensive state efforts. Investigators center on Mission and Rosebud with planners to question Indians and whites, joined by B D Mintener and Lawrence Dimsdale. Todd County ranchers seek WPA aid for fire breaks.
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Pierre
Rosebud
Pine Ridge
Berry
Justler Debarement
John Doe Hewrings
Todd
B.D. Mintener
Justice Department
Lawrence “Dimsdale
Todd County
WPA
Coughlin to Address Mass Meeting in Riverview Park
Rev Charles E Coughlin founder of the National Union for Social Justice will address a mass meeting at Riverview Park in Chicago on September 6 it was announced today by James J Upington state chairman for the union in Chicago The announcement adds a notable political event in the city this fall.
Wallace Denies Drought Will Create Great Desert
Secretary Wallace dismissed the idea that dry years would turn the Erimm belt into a desert. He urged keeping an open mind about moisture recovery, noted potential drought legislation, and warned the corn belt to expect possible low yields without rains. Prices and dairy forecasts rose as drought persisted.
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Washington
Erimm
Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Farnsworth Pleads Innocent In Naval Espionage Case
Former Navy officer John Farnsworth pleads innocent in federal court in Washington to charges of delivering and attempting to deliver a confidential naval publication to a Japanese agent in August 1934. He awaits trial before a federal jury in October, with attorney William Leahy noting likely inability to post bonds of 1040 dollars.
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Farnsworth
Washington
John
District of Columbia
Oscar Luhring
Wiliam E. Leahy
Lord Sempill Flies to Melbourne On Second Attempt
Lord Sempill departed from London for Melbourne on a second attempt to reach Australia. The 10:30 a.m. takeoff from Hanworth was backed by three companions. A prior July 10試 attempt ended in Vienna due to mechanical trouble forcing a return.
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Lord Sempill
Melbourne
London
Hanworth
Australia
Mechanica
Vienna
Forest Dedicated to Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
Robbinsville North Carolina July 30 veterans and friends gathered to dedicate a 90 acre forest of young growth as the Joyce Kilmer memorial forest near Kilmer Creek. The poet who wrote Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make a tree died 18 years ago on the battlefields of France.
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Joyce Kilmer
Robbbinsville
N. C
Tere
Gay
France
Wild Canary Moves In With House Pet
In Thatcher Arizona a wild canary chose a domestic life. Mrs Grant Bingham let a wild bird enter the home and it eventually shared the cage with her pet canary after she opened the window and left the door ajar.
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Wild Canary
Watertown Team Withdraws From State Tourney
Watertown junior baseball pulls out of the state tournament after officials uncover a forged birth certificate for star pitcher Herbert Larson. Webster will advance to face the Pierre regional winner in the opening game. Larson was deemed too old for junior league play under league age rules.
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Aberdeen
Watertown
Herbert Larson
Tomty Jones
American Legion
Webster
Pierre
Larson
Forage Crops Urged for Wind Protection in SD
Pierre July 30 C A Russell state agriculture secretary urged farmers to plant forage crops for feed and wind protection. He noted rains moistened soils to sprout proso millet canal or sorghum crops and warned many fields are denuded by grasshoppers increasing dust storm risk unless forage crops are planted.
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Pierre
C. A. Russell
State Aetretery of Agriculture
Russell
South Dakota
Denver area rail bridges washed out by cloudburst
A cloudburst hammered the region with Bijou Creek floods washing out three bridge sections near Deertail Colorado and flooding the Arianzas River. The Denver to Kansas City line faced detours while the Denver Rio Grande Western main line between Pueblo and Salt Lake was washed out near Canon City.
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Denver
Union ‘Pacific
Denver-Kansas City
North Platte
Neb
Deertail
Colo
Denver & Rio ‘Grande
Pueblo
Salt Lake
Canon City
Arianzas
Execution by Woman Sheriff Delayed in Kentucky
Federal court action halted the first planned execution by Florence Thompson the Davis County sheriff at Owensboro Kentucky. Judge Hamilton granted a temporary habeas corpus stay delaying Rainey Beathen 22 negro ex convict for the June assault charge against Mia Edwards 70 awaiting a permanent writ hearing next Wednesday.
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Louisville
Han
Jeast
Florénce Thompson
Davis County
Wood’ Hamilitan
Owensboro
Kyi
Rainey Beathen
Negra
T ‘Amault-Alaylog
Elza Edwards
Knox Notification to Complete GOP Statement of Aims
Chicago July 30 Col Frank Knox former rough rider and Chicago publisher to accept the Republican vice presidential nomination in ceremonies at the Chicago Stadium. About 50 000 on site and millions of radio listeners expected as Steiner notifies Knox the party’s choice and Landon responds to Thomas on workers rights to organize without coercion.
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Chicago
Landon
Robert M. Yoder
Associated Press
Col
Frank Knox
Rough Rider
Sims
Lando
Topeka
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Chauncey McCormick
Cleveland
Steiner
Knox Edward A. Hayes
Decatur
Ill
American Legion
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Hayes
Col. Knox
Hamilton
Frederick Steiner
Oregon
Thomas
Philippine Bandits Begin Long Prison Terms
Captain Kulas Encallado, once called Terror of the Sierra Madre, started a 00 year term in Bilibid prison. He went with 47 gang members whose total sentences reached 1404 years for brigandage robberies and murder of 12. Twenty eight others were acquitted or freed.
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Philippine
Manila
Kulas Encallado
Sierra Madre Mountains
Bilibld
Encallado-Asedilio
Russian Aviators Plan Arctic Flight From Los Angeles
Russia's Levanesky and Levcchenko, termed by some as a Lindbergh pair, will depart Los Angeles Sunday noon for a round trip toward Moscow. They will make one day hops to San Francisco Seattle Juneau Fairbanks and Nome en route and hope to begin the Arctic circle flight by August 9 reaching Moscow about a week later.
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Los Angeles
Russia
V Lindbergh
Sigismunds Levanesky
Levcchenko
Los Angeles Harbor
Moscow
San Francisco
Seattle
Juneau
Fairbanks
Nome
Arctic
Trene McLaughlin Defends Dogs Amid Chicago Quarantine
Irene Castle McLaughlin, calling herself champion of all dogs, opposes Chicago rabies quarantine actions. She claims no rabies in her Orphans of the Storm refuge and decries 400 pets killed in gas chambers while police could shoot stray dogs on sight. She warns orders may push a tyrannical city dog ordinance.
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Chicago
Pi—Birs
Irene Castle McLaughlin
Arliost
Cook County
McLoughlin
Cincinnati shuts out Phillies in opener of doubleheader
In Philadelphia Cincinnati pitchers held the Phillies to zero as Riggs homered during a four run sixth inning rally. The game ended 4 0 with Cincinnati securing the early lead in the twin bill.
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Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Hatlonan
Phillies
Phils
Riggs
Forest Fire Rages In Little Rockies Evacuations Join Rescue
A forest fire in the Little Rockies near Malta Montana forced evacuations of the San dusky and St Pauls Indian Mission and nearby mining camps. Airplanes and vehicles ferried women and children from Mission Canyon and the mining town as crews battled a six mile front with nine planes and about a thousand workers assisting. Buildings at Old August mine burned while Little Bow mine remained surrounded but safe structures were saved.
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Malta
Mont
Aire
Little Rockies
Here
Mission Canyon
Sandusky
St.Paul’s
Catholic
Misqoula
Insurgents Claim Madrid Surrounded As Revolt Spreads
Insurgents report Madrid under threat as loyalist columns push toward Zaragoza and Valencia. A rebel radio claims Valencia fell while the government says the city remains under leftist control. Foreign diplomats consider Francoist moves as Britain probes asset seizures and Barcelona tensions rise.
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Associated Press
Mar Na
Spain
Zaragoza
Remnanis
Modeld
Valencia
Quincy
Iitended
Seville
Paris
France
Guadalaaa
Madrid
Avila
Seravia
Leon Blum
Foreign Affairs Committee
Pronce
Cuatra Vientos
Cordoba
Granada
Ford Motor Company
Barcelona
Bayonne
Pamalona
Pergignan
Barcelonia
Did You Know item from Wessington veteran and family
Did You Know reveals Clifford Peterson formerly of Wessington and Logan Iowa born December 23 with a birth date misprint noted. It mentions twin sons born on the last December 25 and credits The Evonitta Huronite column paying 25 cents for accepted items.
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Clifford Peterson
Wessington, Ton
Logan
Iowa
Evonitta Huronite
Huronite
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Fto
Bereutt
Charles D. Read
Knox
Trene McLaughlin
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Tacoma
Clifford A.’ Osborne
Laverne Marks
Clintonville
Wis
Wisconsin
Graive
Robert Bernstein
Marks
Soi
Virgilio Cnabsneling
Burgos
Ning
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