Cool air and rain bring relief across hot belt
Associated Press reports cool air and rain offer temporary relief to the hot and dry weather across the union’s belt. Temperatures fell from about 89 to 71 in New York City as a cold front moved in, with 10 degree drops in Idlewild airport. Rainfall surged in Missouri Kansas and Nebraska while New Jersey and New England saw cooler conditions but limited rain. Strong thunderstorms hit Minnesota Iowa Illinois Wisconsin Kansas Missouri and Nebraska with 4.11 inches in six hours at Rio Missouri and 3.54 inches at Concordia Kansas. Omaha streets flooded asphalt buckled and traffic halted in Council Bluffs Iowa. Weather to turn warmer and more humid tomorrow.
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Hudson Bay
Midwest
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
New York
Idlewild
Queens
New Jersey
New England
Rts
Minnesota
Iowa
Illinois
Isconsin
Weather Bureau
Rio
Concordia
Kans
Omaha
Council Bluffs
East
Frost Damages Hit Idaho and Oregon Crops
Cold spell crushed crops across Idaho and central Oregon with frost blamed for damaged wheat in central Oregon and blackened potato and pea vines. Eastern Idaho saw frost nipping crops while Fairfield and Island Park measured 24 above. Meanwhile temperatures soared to the 90s in the Midwest, South and East, with a top 108 at Presidio, Texas.
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Idaho
Oregon
Fairfield and
Island Park
Midwest
Presidio
Tex
Cottonseed price support added to farm bill amendment
Washington June 28 Amid pressure from Representatives Abernethy and Cathings a farm legislation measure was amended to include a cottonseed price support base. They said the change, if kept in the bill, would grant agricultural department authority to set a cottonseed support price, aligning it with other commodities and signaling a potential base up to about 67.50 per ton.
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Washington
Abernethy
D-Miss
Cathings
D-Ark
House Agriculture Committee
Department of Agriculture
Catcings
Secretary of Agriculture
SORE HEADS HEAD INJURIES RISE WITH MECHANICAL TRANSPORT
The encyclopedia Britannica notes a rising count of head injuries linked to the growth of mechanical transportation, highlighting the era's safety concerns and medical observations.
Marsh Island Offered for Lease on Louisiana Coast
Baton Rouge June 28 The state mineral board offered Marsh Island on Iberia parish coast and other state lands in nine parishes for oil leasing. Bids open July 28. About 750 acres on Marsh Island, a wildlife preserve run with Russell Sage Foundation, to be leased under regulations limiting explorations for six months yearly. Previous lease in 1944 to Superior Oil over $500000 bonus and 1/5 royalty. state reclaimed mineral rights in 1947. Tracts include Iberia parish school board lands and joint state foundation mineral rights. tidelands excluded after federal action. Properties listed in Caddo Jefferson Davis La Fourche Plaquemines Terrebonne St. Mary Iberia Calcasieu and Catahoula parishes.
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State Mineral Board
Marsh Island
Iberia Parish
Russell Sage Foundation
C. J. Bonnecarrere
The
Mineral Board
Bonnecarrere
Superior Oil Company
Russell Sage
State
Foundation
United States
Louisiana
Caddo
Jefferson Davis
Lafourche
Plaquemines
Terrebonne
St. Mary
Iberia
Calcasieu
Catahoula
Warren Bride En Route Home From California
Governor Fuller Warren of Florida and his 20 year old bride flew through Dallas on the way to Florida after their Los Angeles wedding. The couple will honeymoon near Pensacola before he resumes duties. Warren joked about traveling under a false name and proved the tickets in his own name. American farmers boosted crop production about 33 percent during World War I.
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Fuller Warren
Florida
California
Texas
American Airlines
Rio Grande Valley
Warren
Houston
al Smith
Los Angeles
Delta
Pensacola
Fla
Fort Walton
A. M. Cradick
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McCormick & Co
Baltimore
Spain
Wales
Paqui Sernandeg
Camina Burgoy
Llangollen
Household Supply Co
Ouachita National Bank
St. John
Baton Rouge, la
Buckingham Palace
Bride
America
Sincolye
Kellogg-Jackson Motors, Inc
Grand St
Monroe, la
Lincoln
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