Enterprising Quad Cities officials seek relief funds
Mayors and Chamber of Commerce secretaries from Rock Island and Moline travel to Washington with Frank Walker to push for seven million dollars for an intercepting sewer and combined projects and five hundred thousand dollars for Moline airport conditioning. They aim to place about four thousand unemployed workers, signaling strong local effort to tap public works funds and speed job creation.
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Chamber of Commerce
Rock Island
Moline
Washington
Quadelty
Frank Walker
Clearing House For
Mississippi River
la Crosse
Campus Communists Spark May Day Demonstration
A small group of noisy campus communists at Madison staged a May Day protest in the Memorial Union drawing 150 of about 8,000 students. They drew first page attention in Chicago and Milwaukee papers as they chanted the Internationale. Legislators voted another $2,000 for campus investigations, prolonging the spotlight on the demonstrators.
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Eople
Madison
Senate
Memorial Union
Chifavo
Milwaukee
Sheivik
Shey
Honor Circle at Central High to Honor Members Saturday
Te Honor Circle members receive the top La Crosse Central High School recognition for scholarship, activity, vigilence, and attendance at a Saturday banquet. Since its founding more than ten years ago, each class has built a high standard leading to a Circle certificate and diploma upon graduation.
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la Crosse Central High School
Circle
Central High School
La Crosse Circle honors reflect high standards in youth
The article lauds Circle alumni in La Crosse for their relentless pursuit of merit, work, and character. It notes about a third have joined local service, with many others taking civic roles elsewhere, sustaining the circle’s high school ideals amid hard times.
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Circle
la Crosse
Alaska Farm Migrations Signal New Argonauts in 1930s News
A San Francisco dispatch reports the St Mahiel and North Star will carry over a thousand Midwest farmers to the Matanuska Valley near Anchorage as part of Federal Relief to resettle drought families. Alaska’s vast Seward to Fairbanks lands promise fertile farming potential, with imports of agricultural aid and historic notes on prior failed Washington sponsored efforts. The piece contrasts past search for gold with a newer quest for cropped gold, potatoes among them, amid government rail and steamship losses and federal spending in the 1930 census era. A joke study by a professor on humor is also mentioned with the line Prepare yourself Graham.
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United States
San Francisco
Army
St. Mahiel
Department of Interior
North Star
Anchorage
Alaska
Federal Relief Administration
Midwest
Matanuska Valley
Seward
Fairbanks
Aroostook
Maine
Washington
What Others Think The Chamber Speaks Out Chicago Journal
The Chamber backs Roosevelt early in his term, then opposes heavy taxes and New Deal controls. It rejects federalizing the Fed, wants NRA expiry, and seeks limited farm and trade measures. The piece ponders whether Roosevelt will press reform at the expense of recovery and suggests a cautious path forward.
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United States
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Roosevelt
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Senate
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Hill
New York Theatre Talk and Wall Street Night Scene
A 1935 McNaught Syndicate column surveys Broadway figures actors and designers including Frank Storrs C D Williams Peter de Ciardona and Elizabeth Arden, notes on The Petrified Forest production costs and reception, Wall Street decay visuals, Baer Dempsey El Morocco scenes, and a comic struggling caricaturist performance.
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C. D. Williams
Ireland
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Mdivani
Amos Pinchot
Lowell Sherman
Broadway
Christopher Morley
John Golden
George White
Jimmy Walker
Jim Fiage
Sherwood Anderson
Hugh Johnson
Belloe Lowndes
Katherine Brush
Bruce Barton
George Gershwin
Tia
Osgood Perkins
Elizabeth Arden
F. G. Cooper
New Yorker
Major Bowes
T Am
Max Baer
Baer
Jack Dempsey
el Morocco
Dempsey
Winsor McKay
Rube Goldberg
Harry Bershfield
O. Soglow
Clare Briggs
Balcony
McNaught Syndicate
National Music Week concert by state university band
A local celebration feature for National Music Week includes a concert by the student concert band from the state university. Roy Vollmar has returned from Phoenix after months away. The Central high school library highlights progress with 130 new books added in the past year. Tenants recall exams and honors from decades past and local job terms are noted.
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State University
Roy Vollmar
Pinestreet
Phoenix
Arizona
Central High Schol
Esther Wiggert
Roger Lueck
Florence Young
City
Frank R. Schwalbe
Fred Dana
Washington, D. C
Onzleska
Dr. McFarlin
Galesville
la Crosse Hospital
Herbert Carlton
NRA extension debate signals new constitutional showdown
Lawmakers clash over a proposed NRA extension and a key clause exempting wholly intra state businesses. Senator Walsh argues the plan risks favored treatment for internal commerce, while supporters press for broader federal reach to regulate employer employee relations amid looming June 16 deadline and ongoing congressional resistance.
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Washington
David Walsh
Massachusetts
NBA
NRA
Walsh
Supreme Court of the United States
Wagner
New York
Supreme Court
Walsh and
Barkley
Harrison-Clark
National Industrial Recovery Act
Borah
Idaho
Burns
House
Senate
Muuch
Congress
Senator Walsh
Barre Mills Church to Mark 25th Anniversary
Barre Mills Lutheran Church plans an elaborate ceremony on May 19 to celebrate its twenty fifth anniversary. The event will include a formal program and community observances in Barre City.
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Bar Ab
Letters of the Duncan Corporation Stir Office Drama
Nona Campagni, a secretary in the Duncan Corporation office, faces pressure from Miss Wells over preparing mass sales letters. A potential mentor, a visiting man, offers dictation help, prompting tension and a dramatic reveal as Mr Duncan intervenes to reorganize tasks and support Nona.
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Nona Campagni
Duncan Corporation
Ietters
Wwe
Nona
Miss Wells
Dickson Commercial Distributors
Spokane
Miss Wella
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