Food prices show mixed moves in 1934 retail survey
A government bulletin reports that from Jan 15 to Feb 15, 1934, seven of fifteen major food items rose while four fell. Eggs potatoes sugar and milk declined, with declines around 5 to 6 percent, while several meats and fats posted gains across major cities.
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Washington
United Water Bureau of Labor Statistics
United States
Eree
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Dallas
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Beattie
Kansas
Marconi Witness Quizzed On Purely Technical Lines
Frank L. Waterman expert on patents and wireless telegraphy testified for Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America in a Brooklyn federal trial against National Electric Signaling Company. He was cross examined by F. W. Winter along technical lines with no new points raised. The case will proceed tomorrow.
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Frank L. Waterman
William Marconi
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America
National Electric Signaling Company of
Pittsburgh
Weeter
United States District Court
Brooklyn
F. W. Winter
Winter
Centenary of Beecher Observed at Litchfield Conn
In Litchfield Connecticut on June 21 1920 the Beecher family home marked the 100th birthday of Rev Dr Henry Ward Beecher. Orator for the day was Dr Newell Dwight Hillis, with Gen Horatio King recalling the famed preacher. The parsonage and elm tree were flag dressed and many Beecher acquaintances gathered at the Litchfield Club for lawn exercises.
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Litchfield
Conn
Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Newell Dwight Hillis
Plymouth Church
Brooks
Horatio King
Congregational Church
Lyman Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Litchfield Club
Hotels to Fight Confidence Men on Broadway
A Broadway hotel guest reports being shadowed by a barber and two men conspiring to alert prowlers. Managers vow to crack down on this longtime ruse where groups shadow strangers, lure them to restaurants, and watch hotel entrances for easy targets.
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Broadway
New York
Neigood
Greeley
Oatericaen
Alaska
Y W C A Summer School Opens With Free Evening Entertainments
Miss Sarah Wells of the Central Branch announces a free Summer School for young women at 8 15 P M tomorrow at 7 East Fifteenth Street. The program features monologues dramatic recitals and music by Mrs Minnie Marshall Smith and the Lotus Glee Club with Mrs R B Carlisle in charge. The 28 year old program offers weekly evening sessions including concerts recitals and monologues Monday nights song service and Bible study Tuesday gymnastics folk dancing and games Wednesday flower making Thursday fancy work shirtwaist making and millinery Friday elocution and gymnastics.
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Sarah
Queens Sunday School Parade in Long Island City
Between two and three thousand children from ten Sunday schools joined the first Sunday school parade held in Long Island City yesterday afternoon. The march along Crescent Street was viewed from Trinity Methodist Church by Bishop Luther B Wilson Borough President Maurice Pscae County Judge Burt Jumbre y Rev F H Wright Rev T B Ford Frederick Gndall Queens Nassau Sunday School Union president Mrs John Dayton Queens Nassau Woman's Christian Emperance Union L C L Smith and James 8 Burroughs.
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Queens
Long Island City
Trinity Methodist Church
Crescent Street
Astoria
Luther B. Wilson
The
Methodist Church
Maurice Pscae Pg
Burt J.umbrey
F. H. Wright
T. B. Ford
Frederick G.ndall
Queens- Nassau Sunday School Union
John Dayton
Queens-Nassau Woman's Christian Emperance Union
L. C. L. Smith
James 8. Burroughs
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