Vote School Bonds and City Trees in Las Vegas
A 1929 Las Vegas column urges residents to vote on school bonds, arguing the bonds are needed to house children and noting prior approval. It highlights shade trees boosting property value and discusses growing importance of airways, including a planned radio beacon to guide pilots and enhance night landings.
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Board of Education
Las Vegas
Vegas
Department of Commerce
United States
Fifth Street Improvement Movement Afoot
Property owners on Fifth Street north of Stewart seek widening and a northward connection to the Arrowhead highway. They urge addressing encroachments and rerouting through the old ranch before winter, hoping to boost Fifth Street values. The piece then shifts to literary and geopolitical musings on wartime imagination and the risks of a Russia China conflict.
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Fifth Street
Stewart
Ole Ranch
Roosevelt 1932 bid hinted as trusts loom large
RADNEY DUTCHER notes three years before the 1932 election that Roosevelt may run on a trust busting platform. He observes big business mergers grow, creating near monopoly in utilities and essential goods, while anti trust policy remains unclear and regulators wary of rapid consolidation.
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Radney Dutcher
NEA
Washington
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Henry Ford
Ford
Hollywood's Film Show Reveals booster James Hall
Hollywood reporter James Hall aka James Brown reflects on false Hollywood myths. He notes visitors expect street crowds and daily camera sights but finds Hollywood resembles a normal business district where actors stay largely unseen. Hall plans new roles in This Is Heaven and Smiling Trish Eyes to relaunch his screen career.
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James Brown
Hollywood
James Hall
Hall
Picure
Arabyse
Heaven
Trish
Water Company Granted Permit for Grandview Addition
The Grandview Water company received a permit to install water piping and supply water for the Grandview addition. A board meeting delayed by needed permit condition alterations approved fire hydrants to be installed, one per block. The Pioneer Title Insurance and Trust Company was granted a permit to build a portico or arcade.
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Grandview Water Company
Grandview Addition
Board of City Commissioners
Pioneer Title Insurance and ‘Trust Company
Oil Capital Plans Grand Canyon Gold Placer Project
Musgrove of Kingman Arizona leads Boulder Dam Associates to develop Colorado River placer grounds near Grand Canyon with hydraulic and dredge plans. Operators project vast gold yields per yard, backed by strong water flow and high gravel gold content. Musgrove’s energy and persistence aim to move the project to production soon. The Colorado River placers are long known for gold, requiring capital and engineering to unlock profits as a major development proceeds amid local construction and county board activity.
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Musgrove
Kingman
Arizona
Boulder Dam Associates, Incorporated
Peopl
Las Vegas
Colorado River
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Boulder Dam Associates
Weighty New Yorker Vignettes on Haberdashery and Gossip
From Sig Klein’s fat-man haberdashery to edited haberdashery processes, the piece notes shops catering to robust builds, long collars, and precise fittings. It also recounts a Newark mendicant mail scam, a Park Avenue party mishap, and a Times Say update on witty repartee.
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Deming
Seymour
New York
Third Avenue
Sig Klein
Nevada Mining Boom Linked to Boulder Canyon Dam
The Nevada outlook describes how Boulder Canyon dam could transform the state turning deserts into manufacturing hubs near Las Vegas as power from the dam arrives in six to seven years. It notes mineral wealth, potential new towns, and a shift in southern Nevada’s economic prominence, with historic mining booms echoed by renewed finds near Carrara and other deserts. Texas fertilizer sales rise about 55,900 tons year over year.
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Nevada
Boulder Canyon
Las Vegas
Carrara
Nevada Mining Press
Texas
New Buildings Moved to Camp of Golden Ace
Golden Ace buys most buildings from Leadville dining camp and moves them to Carrara properties. Nine truckloads of materials and over 30 000 feet of lumber have been shifted to support the mine plant. A cinnabar ore find over two percent boosts the mine’s prospects, with assays up to 182 dollars per ton. George Lindsay reported the Las Vegas visit and ore samples are displayed at Pursell Martin brokerage in the stock exchange building.
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Leadville
Golden Ace Company
Golden Ace
Carrara
H. H. Purser
Purser
Las Vegas
George Lindsay
Pursell-Martin Company
Stock Exchange
Apologies of Dry Squad In Convent May Get Em Fired
LOS ANGELES July 19. Reorganization of the prohibition detail of the district attorney office was forecast today. District Attorney Baron Fitts will ask for the resignation of at least four, and perhaps six, of the men who participated in the raid on a Catholic convent. The dismissals will not affect Captain Clyde Plummer, head of the department, who was not present at the early morning call. The raid was staged June 13 on a tip from a Belvidere constable, where the convent is located.
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Los Angeles
U.R
Baron Fitts
Perips
Clyde Plummer
Department
Belvidere
Estelle Taylor Undergoes Tonsil Surgery in Hollywood
Hollywood reports screen actress Estelle Taylor underwent tonsil removal in an operation yesterday connected with the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Doctors said she was doing very well. Mexican refugee nuns were startled when officers knocked loudly. no answer prompted a breach, followed by apologies to church leaders.
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Hollywood
Estelle Taylor
Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe
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LAS Vegas Age
Charles P. Squires
AGE
Fremont Street
Associated Press
United Press Association
LAS Vegas Airways
WA Hood Gibbons
Liberty Magazine
Mr. Gibbons
Soviet Russia
China
Germany
Russia
The
Cty
Ashington
Hollywood Boulevard
Lupe Velez
Jack Dempsey
Holi 1
Holly
Screenland
Lieve
Chamber of Commerce
Clara Bow
Water Company
Oil Capital
Judge Musgrove
Lo Angeles Capital
Fourth Street
Fremont
Board of Commissioners
New Yorker
Pst
Eds
Newark
Hudson
Park Avenue
Newport
Las Vegas Stock Exchange
Angeles
Curb and Exchange
Calif Bk
Mer Nat'l Bk
A_Invest
Barnsdall “A
McMillan Pet
Oceanic
Gilmore Richfield
Rio Grande
TB Union Oil
Douglas Air
Emsco Dr
Av Corp del
Bach Air
Bk Am Cal
Bu Bandini Continental
Exeter
Italo Pet Com
Fokker Air
Lockheed Il
Trns Am Corp
Tri Con Air
Kolster Radio
Continental
Republic Pet Board
Las Vegas Exchange
Associated Metals
Italo American Mines
Virginia
Monarch
Pursell
Pursel-Martin CO
First National Securities Corporation
Las Vegas, Nevada
Boulder Dam
Delkin
P. O
Las Vegas, Nev
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