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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1929
Page
3
An old kitchen page lists a turmeric based dinner plan with molded rice and salmon sauce, cucumber salad, and pickled onions. It provides quantities for rice, salmon sauce, and pickles, plus steps to bake, blend, and can the preserves. The grain rice is noted to rinse to avoid stickiness.
The United States prepares for a census starting April 1 to count over 120 million people in 30 days. About 100,000 census takers will doorbell and interview households, under William M. Steuart. The piece details population growth, questions to be asked, and the evolution of census methods from 1790 to 1860.
The article outlines $40 million total cost for the 1930 census with about 100000 field workers earning roughly $10.5 million and 7000 Washington staffers to compile data. It notes 500 supervisors paid $2000 plus population based bonuses, plus stenographers and clerks, all aided by early mechanical tabulation with punched cards.
Deming Seymour reports on Madison Avenue flower shops courting hotel guests and Park Avenue residents, noting three chrysanthemums for five dollars and a cactus tub. He reflects on changing service, describing telegraph offices in midtown with English drawing-room ambiance, and recounts anecdotes of a Bowery childhood and a patient bead store owner who helps a limousine patron with tortoise shell buttons.
Barratt and Clout unveil a sixteen foot neon sign for the Northern Club, claiming it is the city’s largest. The sign will flash The then Northern Club and the firm also plans signs for Beckley’s La Salle and the Oak Hotel.
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