Official Banners of U S Government Departments
National Geographic notes the origins and design details of flags for the President and vice president, plus cabinet posts. It traces the navy war flag since 1865, the war department banner of 1897, and subsequent department flags for labor commerce interior post office and state justice and treasury, with designers and color schemes.
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of Striculture
National Geographic Society
Gideon Welles
Secretary of the Navy
Welles
Secretary of War
Adjutant General's Office
United States
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Commerce
Commerce
Department of Labor
William B. Wilson
Department
Franklin K. Lane
the Interior
Gilbert Grosvenor
Interior
Will
Secretary of State
Navy Department
The
Attorney General
A. E. Dubois
Quartermaster General
William D. Mitchell
Department of Justice
Secretary of the Treasury
National Geographic Magazine
Household Care And Cleaning Tips From A 20th Century Column
Public guidance from Associated Newspapers via WNU Service covers shoe care by air drying shoes on trees and sparing cleanser, garden pruning to remove withered blossoms, and kitchen hygiene for pans. It adds tips on beating popover batter, adding milk gradually, and using soda with hot water to scour pots and lids.
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Associated Newspapers
WNU
Light at Even Tide by Leonard A Barrett
Light at Even Tide explores aging beyond calendar years, arguing age is defined by spirit and heartbeat, not the clock. It reflects on how arterial health and alert spirit shape youth, noting many artists and writers made their best work young or late.
Surrealist Phantom on Aging and Experience
Essay argues aging brings value through experience and maturity. It urges older individuals to stay dynamic, curious, and engaged, resisting a static mindset. The piece champions continued ambition, learning, and the peaceful, victorious sunset of a life filled with purpose.
Laundry tips to save labor and prevent color bleed
Practical advice for home laundries covers sorting to avoid color transfer and cold-water soaking for handkerchiefs. It stresses targeted stain pretreatment, careful ironing of sheets, and folding methods. Hazard prevention includes fire safety, fire escapes, preventing slips, bathtubs, and avoiding barefoot walking to reduce injuries.
Deaths Slow Invasion and Enduring Light at Dusk
A meditation on death as a patient endurance, finding life’s greatest blessing in light seen in ambient shadows as time nears its end. The piece frames death as a gradual, slow arrival with a hopeful note on illumination at the close.
Nebraska Farm Income Rises in First Five Months of 1936
Farm income in Nebraska for January to May 1936 reached 100,138,000 with benefits bringing the total to 105,197,000. Crop sales produced 19,101,000 while livestock and products added 81,037,000. benefits added 5,059,000. National totals show 2,508,805,000 for the period, up from 2,394,794,000 in 1935 and 1,974,039,600 in 1934.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
A. K. Anderson
U. S
Nebraska grand assessment to top two billion as 1936 rise shown
Preliminary figures from 51 of Nebraska’s 93 counties indicate the grand assessment roll will reach at least 2,065,000,000 this year, up from 1,? billion in 1935. Tangible property gains 1.7 percent, real estate 6 percent, and railroads up 2.4 million dollars, about 1.6 percent higher than last year.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
W. H. Smith
State Board of Equalization
United Producers plan two deep tests in Nebraska sands
United Producers' corporation plans two deep tests of seven possible producing sands at Chadron and Harrison as stockholder refineries back oil output. The Chadron well progresses at 75 to 19 feet daily, with a spudding slated near Harrison on the Ante lope structure.
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Chadron
Harrison
United Producers’ Corporation
James L. Durst
William Hewett
Ainsworth
John T. Coffee, Jr
Crawford
H. C. Wells
Hotprings
S. D
Gale M. Lewis
Rapid City
J. E. Hughes
Alliance
Marcus J. Cain
United Producers
Nebraska
S. J. Palmer
Palmer
United Producers- Huber-Morgan
Loans On Farms Show Rise In Nebraska 1935
Government farm loan policy boosted values and loan totals in Nebraska in 1935 despite fewer farm mortgage filings. State Auditor Ayres reports a drop of about 12 000 filings from 1934 but an over 88 million dollar increase in total loans and an approximate eighty percent rise in appraised values, even as encumbrances fell by forty percent.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Fred C. Ayres
State racing board sends 275 checks to county fairs
J B Rossiter of Walt Hill, chairman of the state racing commission, said checks for 275 were sent to every qualified county fair from Ak-Sar-Ben tax revenue. The state took in 15 cents from each paid Air races admission and a 200 daily license fee, with the funds divided among fairs to promote 4H club work.
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Omaha
J. B. Rossiter
Walthill
State Racing Commission
Annual reunion for 355th Infantry in Kearney set
The 355th Infantry Association will hold its annual reunion in Kearney on September 20 and 21 per announcement by Chas W. Hill. Frank B. O'Connell, chief state conservation officer, said Nebraska will seek the same Oct 20 to Nov 21 dates for the 1936 waterfowl season as last year per the Nebraska game commission and U S Biological Survey.
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355Th Infantry Association
Kearney
Chas W. Hill
Frank B. O'Connell
Nebraska Game Commission
U. S. Biological Survey
Nebraskans in CCC Paid Over Three Million Dollars
Lincoln reports that Nebraskans in the civilian conservation corps have received 3 121 000 dollars from April 1933 to May 1936. More than 16 900 Nebraskans joined CCC work in soil conservation reforestation and related tasks. The program, though reduced, still operates 24 camps with about 3 960 CCC men.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Lincoln
Milk price raise affects Omaha Council Bluffs dairies
The Nebraska Iowa Milk Association announced a roughly 25 percent rise in prices paid to farmers serving the Omaha Council Bluffs milk market after a meeting of officials and distributors. Retail milk rose from 10 to 11 cents per quart prior to the meeting, with breuth conditions cited as the cause.
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Omaha Council Bluffs
Otto Pfeiffer
Elkhorn, Neb
Nebraska-Iowa Milk Association
Pfeiffer
Breuth
Ward lauds farm debt adjustment work in Gage and Box Butte
Cal A Ward of the regional resettlement administration said last month in Gage county ten farm debt cases were adjusted with debt down from 13054 to 5710 dollars. In Box Butte eight cases were adjusted reducing indebtedness from 88050 to 26720 dollars. Ward credited voluntary committees with averting hundreds of foreclosures through agreed settlements.
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Cal A. Ward
Regional Resettlement Administration
Gage
Box Butte
Gage County
Box Butte County
Ward
Apple Orchards in Nebraska Resist Drought
Nebraska apple orchards show stronger resilience than some crops amid drought conditions. Growers report steady fruit development and continued harvest plans despite ongoing water stress and heat.
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Nebraska
Counties Approve 23790 Old Age Aid Applications
The state assistance committee reported 23790 applications approved by counties and on file as of July 11, with 21401 total approvals already granted by the committee.
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State Assistance Committee
Water storage seen sufficient to prevent crop loss in region
Acting Reclamation Commissioner John C. Page said the North Platte federal reclamation project in Nebraska shows a low water supply but storage should be enough to prevent serious crop loss. The Belle Fourche project in South Dakota also runs low with only 7 to 10 acre feet available for the entire area.
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John C. Page
Nebraska
North Platte
Belle Fourche
South Dakota
Judge Coffey Calls for Preventive Industrial Safety Measures
Presiding Judge Coffey of the Nebraska workmen's compensation court warns that industrial accidents drain national vitality. He cites findings showing most incidents are avoidable with preventive measures and says the initiative must come from employers working with employees.
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Coffey
Nebraska Workmen’s Compensation Court
Altho
Nebraska Wheat and Corn Crop Estimates From July 15
A. V. Nordquist, assistant statistician, reports Nebraska’s July 15 crop estimates. Winter wheat at 44.07 million bushels, up 25 percent from 1935 but 21 percent below the five year average. Corn at 179.60 million bushels, above 1935’s 106.63 million but below the five year average of 223.84 million. Spring wheat estimated at 1.692 million bushels.
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A. V. Nordquist
Nebraska
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NU Service
Leonard A. Barrett
Surrealist
London
Re Frousehole
Ron Walker
Bell Syndicate
Western Newspaper Union
Museum of the City of
New York
Martin Lindsay
Greenland
Arctic
A. E. Anderson
State News
State Board of Control
PWA
Geneva Training School For Girls
Walter Hager
Hager
Geneva Institution
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