Beadle County Farmers Get WPA Jobs to Weather Drought
Beadle County farmers amid long drought receive federal aid easing hardship. Seven WPA projects launch cash income via jobs near homes for about 1,500 farmers, plus subsistence grants. City of Huron also gains projects for sewer work and airport construction with 150 workers, and 65 women employed in WPA sewing rooms across the county.
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Beadle County
South Dakars
HM. J. Hanson
Peadle County
WPA
Watertown
City of
Huron
Market Road
WW. W. Howes
Stony Rundam
Coal Loading Record Set on Lake Erie
H M Griges of the Coal and Ore Exchange announced an all time Great Lakes record for the week ending July 27 with Lake Erie port vessels loading 1,599,280 tons of bituminous coal. The exchange cites a season total of 19,495,703 tons, surpassing any prior season by more than 1.5 million tons.
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Cleveland
H. M. Griges
Coal and Ore Exchange
Great Lakes
Lake Erie
Thesesson
Griggs
Art Jarret Plans Berlin Departure to Join Wife
Art Jarrett, an orchestra teacher and singer, traveled aboard the Queen Mary to meet his wife Eléanor Holm Jarrett, the swimming champion dropped from the Olympic team for drinking champagne. He expects to join her in Berlin next Tuesday amid her Olympic trouble.
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New York
Art Jarrett
Europa
Eléanor Holm Jarrett
Jarrett
Eleanor
Berlin
Mussolini Celebrates Birthday Quietly Amid Recovery News
Rome reports Premier Mussolini aged 53 marked his birthday without fanfare as Italian papers ignored the event following his youth slogan. He attended office duties, then privately celebrated with family. The Mussolini child Anna Maria, seven, shows recovery from a severe paralysis but faces long convalescence.
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Rome
Mussolini
Palazzo ‘Venezia
Anna Maria
Tips to Save Moisture in Semi Arid Gardens
Beadle County agent Leonard L Ladd promotes dust mulch with a crusted soil surface to slow evaporation. He urges shallow cultivation to break crust, keep dust mulch, and reduce moisture loss, using an iron rake after each rain for hand cultivated gardens. Fur farming noted as a key Canadian industry.
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Leonard L Ladd
Beadle County
Ladd
Drought Advice for South Dakota Seeks Crop Adaptations
A 1894 drought discussion notes South Dakota’s low rainfall averaging 15 to 20 inches in western counties and warns against farming as in the Ohio valley. Experts urge shifting to drought-resilient crops and livestock feed to weather 7,000 years of climate patterns, noting no permanent weather change.
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South Dakota
Horde
South
Louisiana
Beadle County
Rocky Mountains
Limost
Climate change in South Dakota myth or reality
Editor notes reprint of 1934 interview with M E Hovde, then South Dakota weather chief, arguing the state’s climate has not permanently changed. He cites unlikely drastic shifts in sun heat, elevation, earth’s position, or axis and says current conditions over the last century are essentially constant.
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United States
M. E. Hovde
State Weather Bureau
Huron
South Dakota
M. EB
Hovde
Federal
South Dakota Weather Bureau Office
Skirts Shorter and Sleek Lines Dominate Fall Fashion
New York reports fall fashion features a lean silhouette with smaller waists and broader shoulders. Rich colors such as black rust greens and browns lead the palette along with furs and tailored street wear previews from Louise Barnes Gallagher's salon.
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New York
Louise Barnes Gallagher
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5. Viess- Wiatsky
Astronomical Institute of Moscow
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Il Duce
L. L. Ladd
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Bolivia
James
C. R. Stewart
F. N. Stewart
Dakota Division
C. & N. W. Railroad
Huron,s
Mary Elizabeth Plusimer
Associated Press
Empire
Dave
the Cooking
Jack’s Market
Lampe’s Market
RED Owl Store
Dramsdahl .Groc
Q. P. Skaggs
Skezas Bros. Groc
Council Oak
Ole’s Grocery
Northside Groc
Square Deal Groc
Standard Oil Service
Standard
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Co
Ina
C.L. Bailey
Mgr
Huron Division
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