Rail Splinters by John H. Lightfoot
Local notes cover workers at Union Pacific and related rail jobs. Nesbits plan a northern Utah short vacation. J P Johnson builds a cottage on north Seventh street while Frank Cragin visits Las Vegas. Lackey takes two weeks off in California. McShane returns to Las Vegas for a Master Mechanic post. Jackson travels to Kansas and back with Mrs. Jackson. Jimmie Jones returns from Texas after his sister's death. Delafio Wengert in Las Vegas, a Union Pacific brakeman on Train 22. Van Horn and Whitti car visit Boulder City with Al Stone. Mr. and Mrs. Olive return from Pocatello trip.
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FE. F. Lackey
Master Mechanic's Office
California
Delafio Wengert
Las Vegas
Delano
Union Pacific
John W. Horden
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Vancouver
New York
Chicago Banks Weather Run Ends After Citywide Runs
Chicago bankers announced they had weathered a frenzied series of runs on outlying banks. About twenty seven institutions closed doors temporarily risking roughly two hundred thousand accounts and possibly one hundred million dollars in deposits. The runs began after public confidence faltered when small banks linked to a merged bank closed.
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Chicago
Fourth
Sttbank
First National
John Bain
Nevada Native Daughters Form Society in Reno
Nevada's Native Daughters formed in Reno to preserve Nevada’s mining and resource history and to perpetuate the state’s territorial days. Originated as an auxiliary to the Nevadans, now with over 200 members. Mrs Gussie M. Rose is president. Plans advance for a permanent home to preserve records and serve as a club house.
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Reno
Nevada
Zane Grey Abandons World Cruise Over Yacht Mutiny
Pasadena dispatch reports novelist Zane Grey plans to quit a South Seas world cruise aboard his yacht due to crew mutiny threats as the vessel heads for Tahiti.
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Pasadena
Zane Grey
South Seas
Tahiti
Famed pilot Lindberghs' voyage to orient planned in secrecy
A quiet family conference reveals Col Charles A Lindbergh and wife plan a westerly Pacific to Orient flight in the Lockheed Sirius. Mrs Lindbergh to navigate. trip likened to pioneering efforts of early airmen with weather likely favorable yet harboring foggy shores in places.
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Oscar Leiding
Associated Press
Washington
Fame
Paris
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Pacific
Orient
Dwight Morrow
New Jersey
United States
Seattle
Lindberghs
Weather Bureau
Public wedding planned at Airdome Follies theater
A Las Vegas couple Raymond Barnes and Eleanor Alice Myers will be married on the stage of the Airdome Follies theater tomorrow night. The ceremony will be part of the program as per theater management.
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Las Vegas
Raymond Barnes
Eleanor Alice Myers
Airdome Follies Theater
PLAN PARK TOUR WITH BRACKEN AND FRAZIER
Mrs. Walter R. Bracken who has been in Los Angeles will return to Las Vegas today. Next week she will travel with Miss Maude Frazier on a tour through Yellowstone and Glacier national parks. Frazier returns to Las Vegas in August while Bracken visits the coast for several weeks afterward.
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Walter R. Bracken
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Rail presidents seek 15 percent freight rate boost
In New York on June 11, the presidents of Eastern Southern and Western railroads unanimously voted to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15 percent increase in freight rates. They cited declining revenues as the justification for the hike.
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New York
Eastern Southern and Western Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dugouts Completed at Hawthorne Mine Depot
Twenty of the thirty dugouts for the mine filling plant at the naval munitions depots are finished and three railroad spurs totaling 1000 feet have been laid. Two large boilers for the magazine area have arrived and will be installed soon.
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Hawthorne
Naval Munitions
John Liba Convicted for Assault by Judge Ryan
John Liba was found guilty of assault and sentenced to ten days in county jail plus a $15 fine in justice court by Judge Frank M. Ryan. Non payment triggers an extra day in jail for every $2 of the fine.
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John Liba
Justice Court
Frank M. Ryan
New Sewage Plant to Open by July First
A new sewage disposal plant will be in operation here by July 1. The city council recently authorized payment of the final 15 percent due contractors on the project.
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Sarah Margaretta
George W. Henry
Las Vgas
Henry
Eleanor Seibert
Las Vgas High School
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John H. Lightfoot
William Nesbit
Utah
Mr. Nesbit
J. P. Johnson
North Seventh Street
Frank Cragin
Mr. Cragin
E. W. Cragin
Bob McShane
Wilcox
McShane
Ivan Jackson
Kansas
Mrs. Jackson
Jimmie Jones
Texas
Ww. F. van Horn
Nephi Whitticar
Boulder City
YACHT
Las Vegas Transportation & Taxi Co
Fremont St
Trans-Pacific
Oriental Flight
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
North Pacific
Boulder Dam
Las Hospital
Taylor
Ferguson-Balcom
Clarence Wadsworth
Caliente
Helen Chubbock
Tom Williams
Bert
Beatty
J. Burns
B. B. May
Wesley May
Atlantic
Central
South America
Lindbergh
Bergh
Airdome
Virginia George
Boulder
B. A. Stevens
Towa
S. Bush
Homer Pirtle
Detroit, Mich
Rye and
Cere Tonopahan
E. Marks
Hollywood
Formance
Cy Perkins
Cncdance
Lind- Washinton Naval Conference
Bex F
Las Vegas Age
Airdome Follies Theatre
First_& Carson
Alaska
Victoria Gardner
G. R. Gardner
Alaska Education
Unalaska
Lorenz Lake Park
Myrtle Huddleston
Catalina Channel
Lorenzi
Delray
Florida
Bronx
N. Y
Coney Island
France
Rockaway Beach
San Francisco
Wife Beater
EL Portal
Nest Theatre
Awnivic
Mally Cooled
Skippy
Jackie Cooper
Mitel Green
Robert Coogan
Enid Bennett
Helen Jerome Eddy
Paramount Sound News
Hilke Plumbing Shop
J. H. Umbaugh
Twin Falls
Idaho
H. M. Delkin Jewelry Store
Herbert M. Dixon
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