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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1931
Page
3
A reflective piece on parental sacrifice and the rising costs of a child’s upbringing. It urges that children should not sense debt but feel an obligation to seize opportunities, becoming good, happy, and successful individuals. It emphasizes fair, supportive guidance over resentment.
New York actor William Gillette, famed for Sherlock Holmes, still uses a motorcycle for his personal transport at age 79 after adapting his stage portrayal to radio. He remains active, continuing to travel by bike despite advanced age.
The piece notes a shift from gangster films to American hoodlum glory ideas with Reno divorce plots and Wheeler and Woolsey burlesque. It highlights box office trends toward juvenile stories, explains cocoa mud effects for a newsdealer scene, and recalls early serial fears while mentioning Falwina Booth and Harry Carey in a Trader Horn season.
police seek burglars who used a moving van to pull up to residences and cart away heavy kitchen cabinets. two housewives reported thefts amid the spree on June 5.
Alexander R. George profiles William Nuckles Doak, longtime railroad labor figure and first US secretary of labor, now urging industry chiefs to honor Hoover era wage pledges. Doak, with 27 years as a Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen leader, weighs the dangers of unemployment and the need to maintain wage levels amid economic strain.
President Hoover announced plans to increase government employment by 150000 by September, on top of 1,556,900 total construction workers, with 900000 in regular employment. Licenses were issued for Pasture and the Blue Heam resorts near Boulder Dam highway to operate roulette crop and twenty one games under county supervision led by the sheriff and county commission.
In Holland Michigan on June 5 1939 James Verano 49 was sentenced by Justice Fr Parsons to 30 days in jail for slapping his wife. Verano requested 60 additional days but his plea was denied.
Moscow June 5 The state planning commission formed a committee of fifty nine to draft a second five year plan aimed at completing reconstruction of Russia after the current industrialization program ends.
WTIC and WEAF announce plans to radio the Yale Harvard regatta from New London on June 19. Names Bryant Sabin Roy Blanche Ivens from Riverside and Pasadena appear in broadcast-related listings with several other locals mentioned.
A June Sunday meal plan outlines a breakfast of pineapple ham and egg omelet waffles with honey coffee and a dinner of chicken legs mashed potatoes gravy creamed peas and bread with cookies and pie. It also details a veal and pork skewer recipe with flour salt paprika and a baking method, plus a banana dessert and a minced ham sandwich filling.
Rev T A E Davey canon of Liverpool cathedral predicts that Russia style social and industrial readjustments will occur in England within five to ten years and then in America. He says England will enfranchise the masses and that prewar radical theories are now seriously considered. He cites the 1926 England rail strike as rising working class solidarity likely to cross the Atlantic.
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