City Purchases Garbage Trucks for New Work
Frederick city voters at a special meeting approved the purchase of two low lift garbage trucks from Elgin Corporation at 1,400 each and one Reache cab from Clyde M. Roney for 1,000 plus a GMC chassis from Melvin M. Engle for 966. Total equipment cost is about 4,966, fitting the budget. The plan includes a larger eight cubic yard body and a two driver crew to increase efficiency in downtown pickups.
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Elgin Corporation
Oshkosh
Wis
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Clyde M. Roney
GMC
Melvin M. Engle
Elgin
City Hall
Hagerstown
J. H. Snelder
Insider
Clyde M. Bones
Kaufman Carage Company
International Rick Motor Company
Ford
Staley Motor
Frederick discusses garbage truck chassis bids and meters
The city considers ten and a half capacity chassis and cabs from Oshkosh GMC and Rep, plans to drive trucks to Oshkosh to save freight, and aims to start own collection next month. Budget sets 11541 for next year with expected reductions after purchase, while hearings on parking meters are scheduled with multiple firms seeking input.
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F. O. B. Oshkosh
Oshkosh
Rep
GMC
Qgshkosh
Charles Is
Masser
City of
Driver Cleared in Taneytown Fatality Inquest
An inquest in Westminster under Judge Sherman Flanagan exonerated William J. Towles II of 1801 North Appleton Street Baltimore in the death of 75 year old Miss Rosie Miller. Miller died September 7 at Maryland General Hospital after being struck September 1 on Main Street Taneytown while crossing. The State Police investigation by Officer R F Lewis supported the finding.
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Sherman Flanagan
Westminster
Rosie Miller
Linden Avenue
Baltimore
William J. Towles
Appleton Street
Miler
Taneytown
Miss Miller
Oliva Klinefeller
Main Street
Maryland General Hospital
Carroll County
R. F. Lewis
State Police
Amend Constitution or Landon Suggestion Harshly Debated
Alf M. Landon declared in Colorado Springs that it is not democracy to remove the judiciary by carpet bagging methods and urged amending the constitution if the people will it. He warned that President Hoover's court reform plan needs common ground on a fundamental issue.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Alf M. Landon
Phi Delta Phi
Americans Ordered to Evacuate Chinese Seacoast Cities
United States authorities urged evacuation of Americans in major Chinese seaports amid Japanese air and naval attacks along the coast. Amb. Nelson T. Johnson ordered Swatow consulate closed and Americans evacuated. Amoy and Foochow also closed. hundreds urged to leave Tsingtao as hostilities loom.
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United States
China
Japan
Nelson T. Johnson
Nanking
Swatow
Kwangtung Province
Johnson
Amoy
Foochow
Fusien
Tsingtao
Shangtung Province
Night of Shanghai raids ignites fires in Yangtze district
Shelters were sought below decks to escape shrapnel as fighting raged on the v shaped Shanghai front along the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers. Great fires burned in the Yangtzepoo district after a lone Chinese bombing plane raid.
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Shanghai
Whangpoo
Yangtze
Yangtzepoo
International Settlement
White Eggs From Dark Nesting Birds
The article notes that most birds nesting in dark places lay white eggs. It highlights that egg color is linked to nesting habitat and not to predation or brightness of the environment.
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