Waterways program urged for faster national progress
The Missiles Valley association in St Louis urged rapid inland waterway development to complete authorized projects in five years at an estimated $100,000,000 yearly. Secretary Hurley supported speeding the Missouri and Ohio systems, with a winter start funded by a $22,500,000 deficiency appropriation. President Hoover's backing aimed to connect the Great Lakes with the Mississippi, boosting 9,000 miles of water transport.
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Missiles!pp! Valley Association
St. Louis
Uurley
War Department
Congress
Hoover
Hurley
Tlinots
Mississippi
Iillust
Jollet
Lytle
Brown
Ensera
Missouri
Sioux City
Ohio
St. Lawrence
Lawrence
Chicago
Philanthropist Mak Ephtein Supports Chicago Art Gallery
A narrator recalls Mak Ephtein, noted philanthropist and arts patron, donating $1,000,000 to a Chicago university art gallery. In a Blackstone diner, he critiques novelists who borrow Freud’s ideas, then shares a humorous anecdote about a woman with a large mirror on a trolley, prompting quips about unpredictability.
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Mak. Ephtein
Chicago University
the Blackstone
Airplane Used to Plant Hawaiian Forest Drive
Hawaiian foresters planted 208 050 trees in the territory's forest reserves last year per a report to the United States Department of Agriculture. Forty-seven tree varieties were grown including ash and oaks, with California coast redwood at 23 392. Over 623 800 additional trees were distributed from the commission nurseries to private lands under a cooperative US Forest Service agreement. An eroded area was sown with tree seeds by airplane, dispersing 1 689 pounds from 2 000 feet.
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Hawaiian Commission of Agriculture and Forestry
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
United States Forest Service
United States
Camellia Flowers Spread from Historic Southern Gardens
The camellia, related to the tea plant, thrived in old-time southern gardens and some of the first American plantings are said to still grow near Charleston, D. C. The flower is linked to a monk named Kamel or Kamellus who inspired its name.
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South
America
Charleston
D. C
Kamel
Kamellus
Poor Hunting on the Beach Tone Hidden in Dialogue
A fragmentary dialog contrasts concern for a person with the broader, harsher environment. The speaker reassures another that the subject is not unique, while acknowledging the wider difficulty of the situation on the “beach” and its stones.
May Employ Radio to Link British Colonies
The Imperial conference in London considered building a radio broadcasting station capable of reaching all British colonies and dominions. The plan aims to weld the empire closer together and transform relations among its integral parts through a powerful air service.
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Great Britain
London
Empire Adjustments Mirrors Family Ties Across Distances
A Pasadena Star-News reflection likens the empire to a family, where members remain connected through regular contact despite being distant, preserving the old homestead as a central anchor.
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Pasadena
Chinook Trail Named In New Hampshire For Byrd Sled Dog
The famous sled dog Chinook, native to New Hampshire and famed for his role on the Byrd expedition, is honored with the designation of the Tamworth to Wonalancet road as Chinook trail. The piece notes the public figure’s stoic temperament and the notion that a statesman doubts his own emotions.
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Chinook
New Hampshire
Tamworth
Wonalancet
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