Nebraska uses 908000 cords of wood for fuel
University of Nebraska forester Clayton Watkins reports about 237000 Nebraska families used wood for fuel this winter. Each family used at least four cords, totaling 908000 cords worth over 1.8 million dollars at roughly one dollar per cord. Wood cutting spread across eastern Nebraska, often for jobless relief, with soil erosion risk and plans to replant.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Clayton Watkins
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture Extension Forester
Watkins
Elkhorn Valley
College Extension Service
Nebraska College of Agriculture
Nebraska Experiment Station
College of Agriculture
Nebraska State Fair Financials in the Red for 1931
Lincoln reports the Nebraska state fair showing a deficit around 100000 while Perry Reed notes the fair is better off than state operated fairs in other states. Over 32 years the legislature appropriated 651097343. premiums and improvements totaled 2005619. Building value stands at 1646035 with annual receipts averaging 62613 versus 34292 in appropriations. Deficit peak occurred in 1931. last year’s shortfall was 21257. Other states’ deficits: Iowa 67383 Minnesota 78109 Ohio 68638. Minnesota and Ohio are state run.
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Lincoln
Perry Reed
State Fair Board
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Minois
Ohio
Wild Mustang Bands Once In West Omaha and Nebraska
Wild horses once thrived in western Nebraska during the 1870s with large bands roaming the sands and plains. Traders led by figures like Wild Horse Jerry McGahan hunted them for export to eastern states earning ten to forty dollars per head. Many animals showed Arabian or racing blood and ranch saddle mares sometimes appeared among the wild bands.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Jerry McGahan
Iowa
Jerry
South
Free College For Jobless Opens At Midland College
The unemployed and those unable to continue education may enroll in a free time people's college at Midland College starting immediately. Afternoon and evening courses, mostly regular college or high school classes, will be offered with most instructors volunteering their services. The program applies to persons not currently enrolled at Midland College or Fremont High School.
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Midland Fremont
Midland College
Fremont High School
Norfolk Construction Advances Reported At Year End
City officials report Norfolk improved with three quarters of a million dollars in projects over the past year. Work included the post office, telephone services, hospital, and three school buildings. Mrs. Charlotte Gilliard marked her 100th birthday at Lewellen, born March 6, 1833 in New York, and was hailed as Nebraska’s oldest American-born mother by the State Federation of Woman’s Clubs.
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Norfolk
Charlotte Gilliard
Nebraska
J. A. Marshall
Lewellen
New York State
State Federation of Woman's Clubs
Nebraska Postoffice Clerks Elect 16th Convention Officers
Eugene Tarr of Gothenburg was elected president of the Nebraska Federation of Postoffice clerks at the 16th annual convention in Lincoln. Wayne Swartz of Fairbury was chosen first vice president Dan Leith of Kearney second vice president John Adams of Hastings third vice president and L R Fitch of Lincoln was secretary treasurer.
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Eugene Tarr
Gothenburg
Nebraska Federation of Postoffice Clerks
Lincoln
Wayne Swartz
Fairbury
Dan Leith
Kearney
John Adams
Hastings
L. R. Fitch
State Rail Commission Considers Emergency Sand Gravel Rates
The state railway commission announced plans for a statewide emergency rate on sand and gravel shipments after granting lower rates due to truck competition for over a year. Railroad and gravel company representatives attended a recent conference on the issue.
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State Railway Commission
Lincoln highway paving from Shelton to Omaha planned
Warm weather is awaited to begin the 15 mile paving project between Alda and Shelton west of Grand Island. Division Engineer William Baumann reports the contractor will start soon. When finished the highway will extend from Shelton to Omaha. west of Shelton the road is paved except for small gaps toward North Platte.
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Alda
Shelton
Grand Island
William Baumann
Omaha
North Platte
Nebr Holstein herd tests yield heavy fat and milk marks
N. P. Hengerwald Rose Ormsby a 3 year old Holstein at the University of Nebraska North Platte substation completed a yearly test with 684.4 pounds of fat and 18 984.3 pounds of 3 6 per cent milk. Twelve other Holsteins in the herd are on test. In the last 30 days each topped the 40 pound fat mark.
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N. P. Hengerwald Rose Ormsby
University of Nebraska
North Platte
Holstein- Friedian Association of America
Nebraska Divorce Trends Decline Says Public Health Chief
State health director Dr. P. H. Bartholomew cites Nebraska records showing separations fell to 1454 in 1932 from 1531 in 1931 and 1635 in 1930. Annulments rose from 29 in 1931 to 46 in 1932, still below the 1930 total of 72. The ratio of divorces to marriages remained over one to eleven despite rising marriage numbers.
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P. H. Bartholomew
Nebraska
City votes on municipal electric plant proposal at Kearney
Over 900 residents sign a petition urging a vote on April 4 to authorize a municipal electric light and power plant funded from net earnings rather than new taxes. The draft ordinance also supports municipally owned water works. The plan is framed as financially viable through earnings from the plant and water utilities.
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Kearney
Nebraska farmer Oregon? Jacob Sass grows giant corn
On his Omaha area farm Jacob Sass pursues genetical planting methods for corn. He claims to have added inches to the world's longest ear and aims for an 18 inch ear crop by 1963. He has seen ears reach 15 inches thus far.
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Omaha
Jacob Sass
Sass
Nebraska
Georgia Celebrates 200th Anniversary in Savannah
Georgia marks its 200th anniversary with a three cent stamp honoring Gen James Oglethorpe. A National Geographic bulletin notes Georgia as the largest state east of the Mississippi and highlights Savannah as a historic port and industrial hub with monuments to Greene Pulaski and Jasper.
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Georgia
Post Office Department
James Edward Oglethorpe
Savannah
National Geographic Society
Ralph A. Graves
Mississippi
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Liverpool
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Gold Miner Wins a Bartered Bride
In Buckley Washington eight een-year-old girl Helen Narolski offered to marry any white man who paid her mother two thousand dollars. An Alaska gold miner widower twenty years her senior will marry her after she reads hundreds of marriage offers. He flies to the U S to claim his bride. She plans a light pink dress with ostrich feathers.
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Buckley
Wash
Alaska
Helen Narolski
United States
Miss Narolski
Deer Killed After Hunter Sees Odd Cow in Barnyard
James Berger, returning from a failed deer hunt in Barnyard Cochranton Pennsylvania, was told by his children of a strange looking cow. He went to the barn with his rifle and shot a fine buck.
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Cochranton
James Berger
Berger
Atom Energy Waves Confirm Neutron Existence
Dr. M A Tuve and colleagues at Carnegie Institute show that matter is bundles of energy waves using a Van de Graaff generator to smash atoms. They report creation of helium from lithium and other elements and confirm neutron existence while describing high voltage nuclear experiments.
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New York
M. A. Tuve
L. M. Hafstad
O. Dahl
Department of Territorial Magnetism
Carnegie Institute
Washington
American Association For the Advancement of Science
van de Graaff
Tuve
Egypt Cuts Into American Cotton Trade Markets
Cairo reports Egypts long fibered cotton is taking share from the United States in Europe as Ahmed Abdel Wahab Pasha negotiates with manufacturers. Egyptians offer easier payments and bartering to counter exchange restrictions and price competition amid sagging US cotton profits.
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Cairo
Egypt
United States
Europe
Ahmed Abdel Waham Pasha
Ahmed Abdel Wahab
Hen party idea helps Kansas farms after henhouse thefts
In Richmond Kansas a new rural social function named a hen party forms after repeated henhouse robberies. Neighbors respond to thefts by bringing two chickens each to the Stevenson farm. The hen house once robbed now thrives again helping the Stevensons with egg income.
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Richmond
Kan
Kansas
Mertie Stevenson
Stevenson
Brick Buys a Kimono for Mumsy on a Wishful Night
Brick, a paperboy, longs to give his mother a blue chiffon velvet peignoir he believes she must own. After earning fifty dollars from a street-smart actor, he buys a gleaming blue kimono for Mumsy, and a new bike arrives as a birthday surprise, matching his dream of making her smile.
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Brick
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Mumsy
Jerry
Angel
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Jersome Bonner
Sonny
State Street
State Street Theater
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Rick Chandler
Star of
New Moon
Two Brooklyn Teachers Fear Fire Escape Hunt In Alberta Hotel
In western Canada a pair of Brooklyn teachers on sabbatical visits an old Alberta hotel. One woman, anxious about fires, misidentifies a corridor exit and flees after a naked man in a towel shouts about a fire. The incident unfolds as a humorous travel moment.
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Canada
Alberta
Washington Labor
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