Nebraska Unicameral: First Steps in Lincoln January Fifth
Nebraska’s new one house legislature will convene on January fifth in the state capital. Forty three members will occupy the 100 seat house chamber while the senate hall serves as a committee room. The body, nonpartisan by election, includes 22 Democrats and 21 Republicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
American ‘Poitical Science
Nebraska
John P. Senning
George W. Norris
Senate
Ennie
Dr. Senning
State University
Georgia
Vermont
Pennsylvania
Capitol
Norris
Lenning
Senning
Cars Collide at Nineteenth and Vermont Streets
A Model T Ford driven by Edgar Bratton of Effingham and a 1936 Ford V eight driven by George Jones collided at the intersection of Nineteenth and Vermont streets at six o'clock last night. Bratton traveled north on Vermont while Jones went west on Nineteenth. Jones's car suffered heavy front-end damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Bratton
Effingham
George Jones
Louisiana Street
Nineteenth
Vermont Streets
Bratton
Vermont Street
Jones
Nineteenth Street
Last Fire of 1936 Seen at Barnes Home
The fire department answered its last alarm of 1936 last night at 1:55. Fire started from overheated wooden joists under a fireplace at Mrs. Kathryn Barnes home, 1129 Vermont Street. Damage was slight.
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Kathryn Barnes
Vermont Street
Jones
Business Closes 1936 With Dividend Shower
New York reports a year marked by federal reforms in money machinery trade and industry. The corporate surplus levy spurred a surge of extra dividends and worker bonuses as firms eyed tax cuts and social security shifts. Firms revisited holding structures and pension plans amid NRA and Robinson-Patman law scrutiny and rising prices.
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New York
Washington
Robinson-Patman
Helmsmen
Supreme Court
NRA
Federal Trade Commission
Utility Holding Company
Flashy Life Items Include Lost Terrier Reward and Odd News
A picaresque collage of briefs: Mrs. James H. Watson of Dobbs Ferry offers 2000 circulars for her missing Scotch terrier Tam-o-Shanter as her cat refuses to eat. Cambridge notes Cambridge’s watch night service, its 175th anniversary, and a historic echo of Washington’s era. Clathe reports a long-running marriage record and Buddy Rogers’ engagement. Tubbock records City Commissioner A. J. Richardson canceling $900 debts as a New Year’s present. Chicago recounts a Leap Year misadventure with a man who leapt from a third story window but faced only a disorderly conduct charge. Martinez introduces a new ban on drunken driving: six months’ banishment for A. B. Wilson.
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New York
James H. Watson
Dobbs Ferry
Scotty
Chicago
Shakespeare Avenue
Edward Thomas
Edward
Salmon Elevators Planned To Help Columbia River Run
The U S bureau of fisheries proposes elevators and fish ladders at Bonneville Dam to guide up to 10,000,000 salmon a day around the dam as 90 percent of the run aimed for spawning above the river. A canal, lock, screen, and ladder system will assist fish over the 60 foot barrier while baby salmon face spillways or turbine intakes and possible ski slide chutes if needed. Counts will track upstream salmon by species to gauge success.
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Columbia River
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
Bonneville
Portland
Ore
Wasa
Elmer Higgins
Bureau
Idaho
Washington
Canada
Bureau of Fisheries
Fradford Island
Higgins
Federal Official Dies in Washington
Washington reports the death of Daniel W. MacCormack commissioner of immigration and naturalization from peritonitis after an operation two weeks earlier. He left the presidency of the Piduciary Trust Co of New York to join the immigration post in 1903 and after four months in office reorganized the agencies into a single service.
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Washington
Jan
Daniel W. MacCormack
MacCormack
Piduciary Trust Company of
New York
Perkins
Spuds and Wheat Made Good Crops in 1936 Douglas County
Despite severe drought and grasshoppers, Douglas county farmers in 1936 saw good wheat and potato yields around Lawrence. Potatoes paid well, with early harvests marketed ahead of schedule. wheat yields reached up to 50 bushels per acre in valleys and 23 in uplands, while oats hit 74. Spring canning crops were strong. spinach and peas were plentiful for Columbus Food Company, though pumpkins and sweet corn failed to harvest. Feed storage was a knotty problem, prompting silos and shocks, with fall rains easing shortages and drouth freight rates aiding shipments. New Year’s Vespers set for First Methodist church with student participants and an address on renewed opportunity.
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Altho
Douglas County
Lawrence
Dame Fortune
Columbus Food Corporation
Kaw Valley
Garden Peas
Columbus Company
Lawrence Territory
Drouth
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Walter H. Jurgensen
Jurgensen
Cambridge
Mass
Christchurch
George and
Martha Washington
George
Clathe
Kan
Bert Rogers
Mary Pickford
Buddy Rogers
Tubbock
Tex
A. J. Richardson
Richardson
Martinez
Calif
A. B. Wilson
Granada
Yana
Direcc
Edmund Lowe
Elissa
the Great
Liegfeld
U. S
the Family Theatre
Patee
James Oliver Curwood
Kermit Maynard
Betty Lloyd
Jack Holt
Nome
Evelyn Venable
Bellamy Perry
Douglass Dumbrille
D. Rost Lederman
Columbia
Claudette Colbert
Fred Mac Murray
Col
Jim
First Methodist Church
George Sparling
John Baldwin
Billy Hunzicker
Ruth Wiedemann
Maxine Patterson
Maige Jones
Clarence Hoffman
F. Sawhill
Glen Kiefer
Rabert A. Hunt
the Palace of Entertainment
Dickinson
Shanghai
BPL
Rolie
Young
Faye al Cees Eee
Paramount
Riment
Adolph Zuker
Jack Benny
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Mary Boland
Lena
Gary Gooper
Claudette Colbart de la Arthur
Fred MacMurray “the Plainsman” “Maid OF
Salem
Gladys Swanhout
Fread MacMurrey “Champagne Waltz
Carole Lombard
Fred MacMurray
Gary Cooper
Squls AT Sea
Bing Crosby
Bob Burns
Marthe Raye
Waikiki
Patarroum Productio
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