Federal aid paving planned for University avenue project
City council weighs resolutions to appropriate 17000 toward paving University avenue from Westacott to Columbia Road with federal aid covering half the cost. Property owners along the street pledge 30 percent while the city seeks county cooperation. Bids to be sought for other paving and sidewalk work, and a Little Giant show license grants 10 percent gross to the city.
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University Avenue
Westacott Street
Columbia Road
Kelsey
Skidmore Avenue
Third Street
Meridian Road
Northern Packing Co
Board of County Commissioners
Aon New Oovert
Cottnwood Street
Seventh Street
Great Northern
Bruce Avenue
Fourths
Little Giant
Savings banks for children use hand grenades
Children in Grand Forks and across the nation will receive genuine hand grenades as savings banks under a national Preparedness campaign. Each child who shows a savings stamp earned during summer will get an air bank, a grenade without fuse or charge, distributed through schools to encourage saving.
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Grand Forks
Treasury Department
Commercial Club
Giant Vickers Vimy Rolls Biplane Prepares for Transatlantic Hop
The Vickers Vimy Rolls biplane, entrant in the London Daily Mail 50000 dollar trans Atlantic flight, is assembled in Newfoundland and ready to depart. Pilot Captain J Alcock and navigator Lieutenant Arthur W Brown head an 866 gallon fuel setup for an estimated 2440 mile flight.
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St. John’s N. F
London Daily Mail
Newfoundland
J. Alcock
Arthur W. Brown
Dandelion Crop Boom Draws Lawn Care Debate in Grand Forks
Grand Forks property owners fear a yellow peril as dandelions surge this season. Agriculturalists find chemical controls unreliable. iron sulphate only tops the weed. A handheld or mechanical extractor removes roots, the sure method for pristine lawns.
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Grand Forks
Willard Explains How to Rid Fields of Cut Worms
County agent Rex E. Willard explains cutworms ravaging Grand Forks and surrounding counties. He details the pest life cycle and presents a poison bran bait method using bran, paris green, citrus, molasses, and water, plus plowing grass land next season. Cautions include avoiding poultry exposure to the bait.
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Willard
Grand Forks
Rex E. Willard
All a Mistake to Be Presented by Y’s Club Handle
Remidy June 3 announces under Mrs C Brown the girls of the Presbyterian church Y’s club will stage All a Mistake in June. The act features strong city talent and promises an excellent production.
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Remidy
5. C. Brown
The
Presbyterian Church
Sugar king editor Lindelle takes Cuban refinery post
A. H. Lindelle, formerly editor of the Normanden in this city, becomes Senor Administrador of the Campania Azuncarera de Bayote, a $3,000,000 sugar refining company in Bayote Cuba. He left Grand Forks broke after a bank failure, then worked as a laborer and sugar grower. Now earning about $100,000 yearly, he remains an American citizen with a family home in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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A. H. Lindelle
The
Normanden
Campania Azuncarera de Bayote
Bayote
Cubah
Santiago
Lindelle
Grand Forks
Cuba
St. Petersburg
Florida
Local Masons Back From Larimore Meet
Some 30 members of Acacia Lodge No. 4 A F and A M returned late Monday from Larimore where they attended a district Masonic meeting formed to honor men returned from army service. Included in the Grand Forks delegation was the lodge glee club which took a prominent part in the program. The third degree was conferred on a large class of candidates and was followed by a banquet and smoker.
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Acacia Lodge No. 4
A. F
A. M
Larimore
Grand Forks
Lodge Glee Club
Tax stamps must be cancelled warns Internal Revenue
Washington June 3 laxness in stamp cancellation prompts strict enforcement by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Uncanceled stamps used in drug store purchases trigger warnings with a $100 fine for noncompliance. Aberdeen South Dakota June 3 school teachers from sixteen counties open the Teachers Institute with Governor Norbeck praising wartime efforts and urging Americanization.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bureau
Aberdeen
South Dakota
Teachers’ Institute
Andregs
Peter Norbeck
Norbeck
L. B. Hanna
North Dakota
Institute
A. E. Winehip
Boston
The
Journal of Education
Hyer
Bint
Breidford Opens New Advertising Agency at Fargo
George S. Breidford, recently resigned as advertising manager of a local daily, plans to start an advertising agency in Fargo. He just returned from a eastern trip where he met national advertisers. The agency will launch June 15 and will serve North Dakota newspapers only.
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George S. Breidford
Fargo
Breidford
Mr. Breidford
North Dakota
The
Tribune
Edinburg
Parrot Talks Dutch Denies City Property
Boise officials secured an option on a talking parrot for a city park display. The owner brought the bird to a city council meeting where it spoke Dutch with a German accent and talked itself out of city ownership.
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Boise
Idaho
Herald
Wife Corrects Husband in Dapper Debate at Cabin
In Grand Forks a well off garage man is mocked by his wife for dressing poorly. A tramp, teased by the wife, challenges the couple with crude remarks and suggests moving on to another cabin. The husband, unfazed, continues his routine after a terse exchange.
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Grand Forks
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