Ambitious Tony Taft Struggles for Newsroom Breakthrough
Tony Taft, twenty three, moves from drab San Francisco flat to a bustling newsroom seeking a society reporting job. She clashes with editor Bellamy yet grows closer to Ruth Bellamy and Bess Cutter while navigating romance with Larry Bellamy and a wavering social life amid staff dynamics.
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Antoinette Taft
San Francisco
Brenda
Cliff
Bruce
Meg
Lawrence Bellamy
Journal of Comerce
Uch
Barney Kerr
Tony
Bess Cutter
Witch
Bess
Fitch
Barney
Cutter
Piedmont
Patterson
Ruth
Larry Bellamy
Bellamy
Entangled Scoop Triggers Turmoil At City Desk
Tony, a savvy gossip columnist, risks her career when she leaks a confidential shift in coverage. The front page merger story sparks a media maelstrom as Ruth Bellamy and Larry scramble to contain fallout and locate the leak behind the Port er and Scott engagement splash.
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Tony
Trank
Bess
Mr. ¥Itch
Mr. Fitch
Mr. Greenwood
Greeny
Fitch
Greenwood
Market Street
Larry
City Hall
Brenda
Patricia Page Porter
Lee Carolan Scott
Hillsborough
Antoinette Taft
Clifford
Antoinette
Cliff
Bruce
Ruth Bellamy
Minni
Examiner
Ruth
Los Antonios
Journal
Kate Oliver
The
Chronicle
Ann Wilde
Elise Mooney
Scotts
Porters
Ann
Pixley
Moran
Bellamy
Tony’s longing shadows a wedding affair in the newsroom
After a wedding Tony walks downtown while Greeny faces a tough choice over using a Journal reveal. Joe Burke mocks the exposure as editors press the story, leaving Tony conflicted and withdrawn as colleagues press their pleas.
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Tony
Greeny
Joe Burke
Joe
Van
Spike
Buck Moore
Buck
Greenwood
Nebraska Weather Data From 1935 Report
Lincoln data show 1935 state average precipitation 22.74 inches, 27th driest in 60 years. Records include 112°F highs at Newport, 33°F below zero in Gordon, 53.9°F mean at Franklin, and Falls City 39.88 inches rain. Noted extremes cover snowfall, sunny and rainy day counts across multiple towns.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
U. S. Weather Bureau
Bureau
Chadron
Harrison
Falls City
Bridgeport
Hyannis
Alma
Benkelman
Lexington
David City
Blair
Taxes Lower Than Neighbors in Lincoln Nebraska
A tax agent for a major company operating in seven states says Nebraska has the second lowest property tax among the seven. He notes that total taxes are lower here because other states levy income and other special taxes. The report compares rural property taxes per $100 valuation outside towns and includes sub-divisional levies.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
State to begin final AAA payments to farmers
W. H. Brokaw announced Nebraskan county offices must prepare final compliance certificates for about 1 000 wheat contract signers and 90 000 corn hog signers to disperse nearly 14 million dollars. Washington wired that the government will pay in full all contracts fulfilled before AAA's nullification. About 11 million goes to corn hog signers and 3 million to wheat signers.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
W. H. Brokaw
AAA
Brokaw
Washington
Supreme Court
Wallace
C. W. Warburton
National Agricultural Extension Director
Nine road project bids approved by Lincoln Federal
State Engineer A. C. Tilley announced bids were awarded for nine projects from the January 30 letting. Awards included Fairbury-Beatrice grading and culverts, Bridgeport-Broadwater grading culverts bridge, Quawson-north grading culverts, McCook-Maywood grading culverts, Trenton-south grading, Stamford-Orleans grading culverts, Marsland-south grading culverts, and Pierce-Wayne sand gravel.
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Lincoln
A. C. Tilley
Fairbury-Beatrice
Bridgeport-Broadwater
Quawson-north
McCook-Maywood
Trenton-south
Stamford-Orleans
Marsland-south
Pierce-Wayne
Livestock Totals Rise While Horses Mules Cattle Fall
The agriculture department reports fewer horses, mules, cattle and sheep on farms while hog numbers rise. The total value of all farm livestock on January 1, 1936 reached $4,885,302,900, up 50 percent from the previous year.
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Agriculture Department
State aid expands Nebraska pension funds for 11 counties
Irl D. Tolen, state assistance director, asked the state assistance committee to release an extra 15386 dollars in state old age pension funds to 11 Nebraska counties for February pensions. No federal funds are included though the state recently received an initial federal allotment of 347130 dollars for pensions between now and March 31.
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Irl D. Tolen
State Assistance Committee
Nebraska
Nebraska WPA payrolls show first half of January output
Nebraska WPA workers totaled 21 499 with earnings of 381 796 during the first half of January. State WPA Administrator D F Felton said bitter midwinter weather limited hours to 1 131 808 with 35 095 hours logged as time lost. He noted projects closed on many days but most workers made up time before payroll.
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Nebraska
Works Progress Administration
WPA
D. F. Felton
Early crop damage reported in Nebraska from cold wave
First reports show Nebraska peach crop destroyed by prolonged cold with annual yield around 60 000 to 70 000 bushels valued at about one dollar per bushel. Apples and cherries largely spared while wheat damage remains uncertain with officials predicting heavy abandonment in the western panhandle and snow protection in the east.
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Nebraska
Er. H. Hoppert
University of Nebraska
Hoppert
A. E. Anderson
Federal
Panhandle
Anderson
Walthill votes reject school bonds by margin
Walthill voters narrowly defeat a 10,000 dollar school bond proposition for a new school. WPA funds totaling 8,200 dollars had been promised. More ballots favored the bonds than opposed, but the required 60 percent was missing by about four votes. Exact tally unavailable.
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Walthill
North Platte Airport Booklet Aids WPA Funding Request
Ed C Kelso secretary of the North Platte Chamber of Commerce completed a booklet detailing the municipal airport. It includes pictures location weather data and reasons for establishing the air base to accompany the Works Progress Administration funding application.
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Ed. C. Kelso
North Platte
Arbor Day oak planted on capitol grounds honors J Sterling Morton
Congressman Karl Stefan of the buildings and grounds committee proposes a Capitol ceremony in Washington to plant an oak in honor of J Sterling Morton founder of Arbor Day. Other Nebraska representatives in Congress will participate.
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Capitol
Washington
J. Sterling Morton
Arbor Day
Karl Stefan
Nebraska
Congress
Nebraska to Issue Child Aid Program Forms In Weeks
Governor Cochran forecast mailing of application blanks to activate the children s aid program under the Nebraska social security acts. The plan includes aid for dependent and crippled children and child welfare, with a census under way. Destitute mothers would receive up to 18 dollars monthly for one child and 12 dollars for each additional child.
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Nebraska Social Security Acts
R. L. Cochran
Corn Harvest Shrinks by Over Ten Million Acres in 1934
Census Bureau reports a loss of more than 10,000,000 acres in the 1934 corn harvest versus 1929 as part of the 1935 farm census. The corn belt shows larger declines, with four states totaling about 13,000,000 acres and Nebraska alone down by about 5,000,000 acres.
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Census Bureau
Nebraska
Our Intellectual Powers Increase With Affection
A quotation from Emerson about how affection unlocks thoughts a scholar cannot marshal alone. The piece notes that writing a letter to a friend triggers a flood of gentle, well chosen thoughts and expressions.
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Emerson
Postum Free Week Supply Offer in Adv Page
The Postum Company offers a full week’s supply of Postum free to anyone who writes for the health drink. The ad invites readers to request by mail, promising a complete week’s allocation to participants.
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Postum Company
Destination Interest Grows With Middle Age
A saying notes that it is not until middle age that a man shows real interest in his destination. The quote implies a shift in focus from immediate concerns to long term goals as life progresses.
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Lawrence Bellamy
Examiner
Journal
Greenwood
Journal of Commerce and Business
Van
Market Street
Tony
Frances
Russ
Barney Kerr
Piedmont
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