Hoover budget boosts 1932 public works total
President Hoover proposed an $83.4 million increase in federal public works for 1932, setting total outlays at about $402.5 million. Major items include $61.8 million for public buildings and $125 million for highway construction, with the War and Interior Departments funding flood control, canals, and national projects. The plan also adds coast guard academy funding and new Washington building sites.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Department of Agriculture
War Department
Panama Canal
Mississippi River
Sacramento River
Alaska
Treasury
Public
Coast Suard Academy
Navy
Department of Justice
Nrob
Boulder Dam
Interior Department
Boulder Canyon
National Parks
Department of Commerce
Supreme Court
District of
Colombia
Legislative
Senate
Pleasant Hill Community News Notes Family Visits
In Pleasant Hill the Taaks and Tipton families hosted gatherings and trips. Mr Taske traveled to Jefferson City for medical care while Mrs Taake and daughter returned to St Louis. Gemeinhardt and Vaughan families visited relatives near Russellville and Kansas City. A goose and duck dinner united several neighbors, and local youths attended dances and a shooting match at Millbrook.
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B. F. Vaughan
Frank Enloe
Ray
James
Ira Sullens
Bobby
F.B. Bond
Florence
Kansas City
Margaret Scheperle
Mc Girk
J. J. Heinrichs
Monay
Emma Ott
Ruby Gemeinhardt
Emes
Ott
Lohman
A. A. Blochberger
Millbrook
Earl Shikles
I Yames Shikles
Enon
Fire near Trenton destroys Comstock Motor building
A blaze in Trenton Missouri at the five points center area destroyed the Comstock Motor Company building. Damage to the structure estimated between 10 000 and 15 000 dollars with 5 000 to 7 000 more for cars and accessories. Firemen fought the four hour blaze as roofs collapsed. Mr and Mrs Paul Comstock their daughter and a friend escaped death after awakening to smoke and flames.
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Trenton
Comstock Motor Company
Grundy County Lumber Company
John Rose
Harvester Co to Present Scholarships on McCormick Anniversary
International Harvester Company will award 100 scholarships of 3500 each for study in any U S college of agriculture to outstanding 4-H Club members next year. Vice-president Cyrus H McCormick Jr announced the gift to mark Cyrus Hall McCormick’s invention anniversary. Scholarships allocated by region and 1400 club members at the 1930 congress toured the Harvester plant and heard Alexander Legge speak.
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Chicago
College of Agriculture
United States
International Harvester Company
Cyrus WifeCormick, Jr
Cyrus Hall McCormick
Middlewestern
Middlewestern States and 14 To Far Western
Harvester
Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
The
Harvester Company
Cantor Sells New York Property To Move To Hollywood
Eddie Cantor announces sale of all New York realty holdings including his Great Neck house dubbed The Cantor home for girls and 100000 square feet of lots plus a Brooklyn apartment, saying retirement from Broadway eight months ago led to a shift to talking pictures. Also notes four American cardinals: OConnell Dougherty Hayes Mundelein.
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New York
Zadie Cantor
Hollywood
Great Neck
Long Island
Cantor
White House
Grand Central Station
Madison Square Garden
Brooklyn
Broadway
United States
O'Connell, Dougherty
Hayes
Mundelein
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Davis Davis Davis campaign funds probe reaches high figure
Senate campaign funds committee chaired by Nye reports total expenditures of 641274 for the Davis Brown Pennsylvania primary. 251 county treasurers failed to report expenses under the $50 threshold, with 193000 cited in Newberry case as Senate condemns campaign spending.
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Washington
Nye
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Pennsylvania
Davis
Francis Shunk Brown
Davis- Brown
Samuel Vauclain
Secrettary of State For
Jacay
Senate
Black
Alabama
Newberry
Michigan
Death of physician ruled accidental in Barnett case
The coroner's verdict in the Edward Barnett case, a University City Schools physician, states death was due to natural causes from chronic heart disease. Autopsy found no strangulation or injuries. body was found with head in a wardrobe trunk drawer.
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ST. Louis
Der
Louis P. Barnett
University City Public Schools
Z. L. Darriere
Barnett
Eggs Price Crash Hits Chicago Market
Abnormally high fresh egg receipts caused a sharp price tumble in Chicago with immediate delivery down to 7 cents a dozen wholesale. Receipts reached 5,944 cases, far above last year, while December refrigerator stock fell to 16 7 8 cents and January delivery to 16 5 8 cents, setting a new record low.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Young Brothers Sentenced to Six Years for Mail Fraud
William H. and Fred K. Young, former St. Louis promoters, were convict No. 37829 and 37880 at Leavenworth Kansas, each sentenced to six years for mail fraud tied to losses exceeding two million dollars by W. H. Young and Bros Inc. They arrived at the federal penitentiary yesterday and begin with quarantine and a simple breakfast. With good behavior they may seek parole after two years, after serving one third of their terms.
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Leavenworth, Kas
William HH
Fred Co. Young
St. Louis
Federal
W. H. Young and Bros. Inc
Wealthy publisher Courtland H. Young found dead in apartment
New York AP report says Courtland H. Young 54, publisher of Young's Magazine and author of Breezy Stories and Yellow Book, was found dead in his West Fifty fifth Street apartment from smoke inhalation after a fire swept the living room. Born in New Orleans in 1876, he moved to New York many years ago. The incident ends years of involvement in publishing and a noted career in periodicals.
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New Orleans
New York
Courtland H. Young
West Fifty- Fifth Street
Mr. Young
Young
Film Czar and Bride On Honeymoon Faced Court Scrutiny
The film czar and his bride endured intermittent court involvement during their honeymoon period. In December 1928 he won a divorce in Paterson New Jersey from Dorothea R Campbell then 26. Earlier, in 1923 he was sued for separation after alleged debauches and spousal abuse, and in 1924 he faced an arrest for disorderly conduct over a failed attempt to take their daughter, though the charge was dismissed.
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Paterson
N. J
Dorothea R. Campbell
Conferees on Muscle Shoals fail to agree
Senate and House conferees on Muscle Shoals legislation cannot reach a compromise. Senate members rejected House offers for private operation and moved toward reporting a disagreement and sending the senate bill for government operation to the House for a vote. Chairman McNary announced the report of disagreement as the House contingent members held off final approval.
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Washington
House
Senate
Muscle Shoals
McNary
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Will Hays
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Jes F. Statesman
United Sic
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