Washington Letter Rents Rise Amid Capitol Housing Shortage
Washington correspondent Rodney Dutcher reports rents in the capital are 21 percent higher than national averages with seasonal boosts of 10 to 20 percent as housing stock shrinks. He notes federal pay cuts, doubled-up households, and a surge of emergency workers, plus a plan for a new Federal Agricultural Corporation to secure feed sources.
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Pills
Johnson
Ickes
Rodney Dutcher
Enterprise
Washington Correspondent
Washington
Senator Park Trammell
Florida
FAC
Federal Agricultural Corporation
George Bigelow Pillsbury
Army Engineers
East Chop
Mass
Boy Scouts
A. F. of L
NIRA
Enterprise Washington
Organized Labor
A .F. of S. Executive Council
Bill Green
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
International Ladies' Garment Workers
United Textile Workers
Amalgamated Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
John
Added To North Carolina State College Faculty
A note lists Dr. J. G. Estes joining North Carolina State College as associate professor in the mathematics department. He earned a 1924 A D from Texas Christian University with math major, chemistry and physics minor, an M S from Illinois in 1927, and a Ph D from MIT in 1988. He previously taught at the cited institutions and was on MIT’s mathematics staff before accepting State College position.
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J. G. Estes
North Carolina State College
Estes
Texas Christian University
University of Illinois
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1859 Letter From Omaha Teaches Pike's Peak Gold Rush Hardships
A letter from John Millikan, written in 1859 from Omaha City to his parents, recounts the winter trek to Pike's Peak, the wagon train, desert sickness that claimed his brother, rough plains travel, and friendliness of plains Indigenous peoples. The note traces early frontier travel conditions and hopes for news from home.
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Pike’s Peak
Omaha City
John Millikan
Samuel C
Mary Millikan
Trinity
Pike's Peak
Elwood Blair
High Point
Route Four
Blair
Emily Blair
Alf
John
Nebraska Territory
Nebraska
North Carolina
Missouri River
N. T
Ali
Flashes of Variety Tops Broadhurst Bill Friday and Saturday
The Broadhurst theatre presents Flashes of Variety with Jean Oxford the Personality Girl and Shorty Quits Candler plus Mary Lyn Renaude performing Cuban Rhumba. The film for Friday and Saturday is Charlie Chan in London starring Warner Oland as the Chinese detective. He races to solve a murder with sixty five hours left to prove the innocence of a man facing execution.
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Broadhurst
Mary Layne
Jean Oxford
Shorty
Candler
Marylyn Renaude
Charlie Chan
London
Warner Oland
Charlie
Oland
Sherlock Holmes
Chan
Fox
Eugene Forde
Warnes Oland
Drue Leyton
Raymond Milland
Douglas Walton
Earl Derr Biggers
China
Miss Marker
Paramount
Rialto
Alexander Hall
Adolphe Menjou
Dorothy Dell
Chas. Bickford
Shirley Temple
Merry Frinks
Warner Bros
The
Happy Family
Alfred E. Green
Aline MacMahon
Guy Kibbee
Allen Jenkins
Hugh Herbert
Gene Markey
Kathryn Scola
Only Yesterday At Carolina Wednesday
A fragmentary note discusses love and gender roles, contrasting enduring affection with a forgotten partner. The writer, John Millikan, signs as a son and mentions being away but wishes prosperity, addressing an intimate dilemma and social expectation.
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John Millikan
Movie Week Guide Chooses Family Friendly Pictures
Seven organizations join theatres to review films for parents selecting entertainment for children. Peck's Bad Boy and Defense Rests headline with family matinees and adult appeal. Little Miss Marker and Merry Frinks suit families, with Charlie Chan in London and other titles for adults and youths.
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the Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society of New England Women
The
General Federation of Women's Clubs
California Congress of Parents and Teachers
National Council of Jewish Women
Woman's University Club of Los Angeles
United Church Brotherhood
Columbia
Broadhurst
Lambert Hillyer
Jack Holt
Jean Arthur
Nat Pendleton
Arthur Hohl
Only Yesterday at Carolina Theatre Aims for Tragic Love Tale
Universal drama Only Yesterday stars Margaret Sullavan and John Boles with Bill Burke and Reginald Denny. A wartime romance yields a child and a proud unwed mother who waits in sorrow for recognition from her soldier father, offering a tale of sacrifice and endurance.
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John M. Stahl
Universal
Carolina Theatre
Margaret Sullavan
John Boles
Bille Burke
Reginald Denny
Nagel Agency Plans Open Office Here To Transport Payrolls
The Nagel National Protective Agency of Baltimore surveys the city to locate a bureau for payroll transport and local protection services. The move signals an expansion attempt to handle payroll shipments and related security needs locally.
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Nagel Agency
The
Nagel National Protective Agency of
Baltimore
Armored truck service eyes payroll and bank deposits
A. E. Pocklington, vice-president, announces an armored transport agency to haul payrolls and deposits for local plants. The High Point branch will be led by Gable High, ex state police, with trucks that carry rifles, machine guns, tear gas and full bonding and insurance coverage for all money moved.
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A. E. Pocklington
Gable High
Dime With Fasces and Mercury First Issued in 1916
The United States dime featuring the fasces on one side and a Mercury figure on the other was first issued in 1916.
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United States
Evaporation of Vast Water Volume in Great Britain
English scientists report that about 142 million to unspecified large amounts of water evaporate from the surface of Great Britain, highlighting a major atmospheric and hydrological process.
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Great Britain
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Margaret Doane Fayerweather
Douglas
Jeanette C. Nolan
J. B. Lippincott Company
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Raymond L. Ditmars
Helene Carter
Lippincotts
Arthur H. Lawson
Macmillan
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Sally
Oxford University Press
Royal Mimkin
Alice Gal
Fleming Crew
Brian Reed
Dorothy M. Fisk
Oxford
Timothy
Bernard and
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Lois Lenski
Gulator
William
Schwartzall
Europe
Luther. Burbank
Burbank
Carolina
Motion Picture Guide
New York
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