Forestry Camp Roosevelt Brings Hope to Unemployed Men
A day at Camp Roosevelt near Luray Virginia shows 200 men from cities and farms settling into a new life under the conservation program. Capt Lea Donovan notes simple routines, moderate work, and growing spirit as tents go up, firewood is chopped, and a sense of home forms amid soggy ground and camp smoke.
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Sigrid Arne
Associated Press
Camp Roosevelt
Luyoy
Roosevelt
Luray
Massanutten Mountain
Daniel Boone
Frank Marshall
Maryland
Lea Donovan
Ft Washington
Donovan
Barney Taylor
Texas
Rural Pupils Get Big Thrill From Ride On Elevator
Beadle county rural school children visit the Marvin Hughitt hotel in Huron as part of a distinctive curriculum ride. About 90 percent had never used an elevator before the tour, with thrills noted on the ascent to the seventh floor and rooftop view. Bell boy John Sherlock notes girls scream or giggle while boys lean out to watch street life below.
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Beadle County
Beadle County Rural School
Marvin Hughitt
Huron
John Davis
John Sherlock
Songbird in the Camp and Penny Diets of Soldiers
An account from Virginia frontiers notes 18 year old John Talbot among a unit under Sergi H B Nesbit. The camp endures rough living with pine boughs for flooring and improvised towel racks. Men eat on 33 cents a day with meals of eggs potatoes beef tea bacon beans and ice cream. A rookie writes home about sending pay and enjoying three meals daily.
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John Talbot
Virginia
Sergi
H .B. Nesbit
Taylor
Pennsylvania
Hit-and-run bicycle crash reported in San Francisco
Mrs Adele Raffetto reports a cyclist was struck by a boy on a bicycle who fled the scene at high speed. The incident occurred in San Francisco on May 1 as the rider was traveling at least twenty miles per hour.
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San Francisco
Adele Raffetto
You Can Have A Lovely Skin With MELLO GLO Powder
An advertisement promotes MELLO GLO face powder as long lasting and pore minimizing. It claims a new French process yields a pure formula suitable for delicate skin with a pleasant fragrance. Available at The Fair Store and Corner Drug Tax Free for 50c and 1.00.
Beadle Allotted 42 Forest Jobs Examinations Here
Beadle county officials announce 42 men chosen from about 160 applicants to report for physical examinations for government reforestation corps. Examinations led by an army doctor will be held in the Tams building with seven alternates named. From six counties 167 men will be accepted in the first call for 450 South Dakotans to report at Fort Meade for training.
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Beadle
Clyde R. Smith
Pierte
Tams
Wikert
Cas
South Dakota
Kingsbury
Miner, Spink, Beadle, Clark
Hand
Associated Press
Pierre
Miner
South
States plan to augment draft quota and camps
The article notes the state will lift its quota to meet needs and establish recruiting offices in Aberdeen Watertown Mitchell Pierre and Rapid City. The relief director heads to Rapid City to confer with federal supervisors of the Black Hills and Harney national forests. Details of camps and projects are to be discussed, thirteen camps planned in two national forests.
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Bhiry
Aberdeen
Watertown
Indians To Get Forest Camps On Reservations
President Roosevelt approved 72 forest work camps on western and southern reservations to employ about 1440 American Indians for six months. Indian service will supervise, with the army handling other camps, and no prior army conditioning. Locations include Standing Rock Cheyenne River Pine Ridge and Rosebud in South Dakota.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Roosevelt
Robert Fechner
Emergency Conservation Program
Indian Service
Army
Fechner
Interior Department
South Dakota
Standing Rock
Cheyenne River
Pine Ridge
Rosebud
John Howard Payne wrote Home Sweet Home in Paris in 1822
The composer John Howard Payne created the famed song Home Sweet Home during a Paris stay in 1822. The work became iconic in American music, linking Payne’s name with a landmark melody from his European sojourn.
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John Howard Payne
Paris
Roosevelt Farm Bill Shapes Senate Mindset
Herbert Plummer details Senator Ellison Smith's cautious handling of President Roosevelt's drastic farm bill, likening it to a sandwich with good top and bottom but a poor interior. Smith avoids public opposition, while Republicans like Mel Ton and Ogden Mills warn against inflation and fail to block the bill in this special session.
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Herbert Plummer
Washington
Ellison D. Smith
South Carolina
Senate
Smith
Agriculture Committee
Roosevelt
Senator Fess
Regi
Yellow Springs
Ohi
Fess
Congress
Capitol Hill
Andy
Mel Ton
Ogden Mills
Train ride ends in crash near Galesburg
Irene Quinn, 21, rode a train along the right of way in Galesburg, Illinois, and her automobile was demolished after a collision with the cow catcher. She escaped with minor scratches when she was thrown off to the side.
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Galesburg
III
Irene Quinn
Beadle county Sunday School elects officers for year
Beadle county Sunday school association reelected all officers at the annual convention in Wolsex. J H Humphrey of Huron will serve another year as president, with Fanny B Mills, Marian Stout, Frank Payne and others retained in their posts. Cavour M E Sunday school sent the largest delegation. Parallel sessions featured Dean H A Hill and Rev Alfred Trenerry.
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Wolsex
Beadle County Sunday School Association
J. H. Humphrey
Huron
Fanny B. Mills
Wolsey
Marian Stout
Cavour
Frank Payne
Hitchcock
Young Peoples’ Division
George Bell
Susie Thompson
Broadland
M. Lund
Temperance
C. W. Habicht
C. Starr
Cavour M. E
Huron M. E
Richland
Hitchcock M. E
Huron Presbyterian
Yale
Wessington
Bonilla
H. A. Hill
Huron College
Alfred Trenerry
Grace Episcopal Church
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Eilers’ Furriers
ERS Incorporated
I. S. Association
H. H. Humphrey
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