Nebraska Next to Last? State Tops Tax Eater in 1932
Lincoln reports from Ted Landae in the Omaha Bee News that Nebraska spent 25.6 million in state outlays for 1932, while the total tax take reached nearly 50 million. The article contrasts the fiscal pie with a circle diagram, noting the state consumes roughly one third to one quarter of the tax pie, far more than cities and counties. It cites sources: state auditor, state tax commissioner, and discussions of auto licenses, gasoline taxes, and federal contributions. Names referenced include Ted Landae and Nebraska officials.
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Lincoln
Ted Landale
Omaha Bee- News
Nebraska
Capitol
State
New York
Detroit
Chicago
U. S
State of
Reduced Car and Truck License Fees by 1933 Law
Governor Bryan signed two bills setting auto license fees at 3 dollars for cars under 2800 pounds and 5 dollars for heavier cars. Commercial truck fees start at 8 dollars for one ton and rise to 100 dollars for five tons, plus 20 dollars per ton over five. Trailer fees are 75 percent of truck fees, motorcycles 2 dollars, and ambulances and hearses 8 dollars.
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Lincoln
Sesson
Bryan
Solons
Nebraska Bond Debt Reduced in Lincoln February
State Auditor Price reports no new public bond issues in Nebraska in February as $124,846 in obligations were paid off or canceled. Sutton city issued a $24,000 refunding bonds batch to replace an existing issue, continuing a trend from January where bond retirements far outpaced new issues by about ten to one.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Office of
State Auditor
Sutton
Waterfowl Restriction Near Shelton Plus Wauneta School Addition
Migratory ducks and geese feed along the Platte River south of Shelton though shooting is prohibited this season. Wauneta boards open bids March 20 for an 82 by 60 foot two story high school addition with basement to replace fire damage, designed by J. P. Helleberg of Kearney at an estimated cost of 35 thousand dollars.
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Platte River
Shelton
Board of Education
Wauneta
J. P. Helleberg
Kearney
Nebraska highway map update shows improved surfacing
The 1933 official map of Nebraska highways, by the public works bureau, shows gains in hard surfacing and greatly increased gravel surfaced mileage compared with the 1931 edition. A pheasant poacher seeks forgiveness from the Game Commission. Frank O Connell grants forgiveness.
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Nebraska Highway System
Department of Public Works
Bureau of Roads and Bridges
Nimrod
Nebraska
State Game, Forestation and Parks Commission
Carl Zimmerman
Waukesha
Wis
Game Commission
Frank O'Connell
O’connell
Ancient Civilization Found Near Agate Nebraska Feet
Evidence near the Agate fossil beds north of Scottsbluff suggests a civilization far older than known history. Dr. Harold Cook, owner of the Agate ranch, notes remains indicate a people living as early as 25 000 B C. Smithsonian and Harvard researchers study the site with new findings emerging regularly.
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Agate
Neb
Scottsbluff
Harold Cook
Agate Ranch
Smithsonian Institution
Harvard University
Nebraska Holstein cows set national dairy records
The University of Nebraska bred 13 of 52 Holstein cows to produce over 100000 pounds of milk each in their lifetimes. Notable cows include Quality Lincoln with 174833 pounds of milk and 5982.1 pounds of butter fat, and LaVertex Quantity with 163440.8 pounds of milk and 6089.6 pounds of fat.
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Nebraska
University of Nebraska
United States
Lincoln
Record 4-H baby beef club enrollment tops prior years in Nebraska
Enrollment in Nebraska 4-H baby beef clubs appears to set a new all time high with 1,551 rural youth enrolled. Officials feared a drop due to cash outlays and fair uncertainties, but continued club organization suggests the 1933 figure will exceed past years. Total 4-H enrollment reaches 5,724 with growing home economics and pig clubs.
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Nebraska
Agricultural College
Nebraska exports drop in first nine months of 1932
Commerce department figures show Nebraska merchandise exports valued at 2,447,287 during the first nine months of 1932, down from 4,911,493 in the same period in 1931. Lard sausage casings and oleo oil also fell in volume and value against 1931.
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Nebraska
Commerce Department
Holdrege Considers Sunday Amusement Ordinance Change
Holdrege voters will decide at the April 4 spring election whether to approve a new ordinance restricting Sunday amusements. The proposal bans Sunday movies golf and swimming inside city limits while the council has accepted a petition with 266 signers supporting the change.
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Holdrege
Science Handicaps Modern Mutineers
A National Geographic bulletin recounts mutinies through centuries from the Dutch battleship De Zeven Provinciën in Sumatra to the Bounty. It notes modern fleet mutinies faced with force, and contrasts romantic 18th century mutinies with earlier organized revolts.
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Washington
de Zeven Provincien
Kutaraja
Sumatra
Indian Ocean
National Geographic Society
Scapa Flow
Portia Unmerciful Driver Complains in Texas County
Herman H. Ochs of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce reports a Chicago motorist was fined 15.25 dollars by a justice of peace’s daughter who held court roadside in his absence. Ochs says the incident harmed the man and may deter visitors to the county.
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San Antonio
Herman H. Ochs
Ochs
Mutiny on the Bounty and Pitcairn Island Founding
A Boston captain found Pitcairn Island in 1800s, home to nine Bounty mutineers and twelve women with six Polynesian men. The Bounty was burned in 1789 to hide the refuge, and Adamstown grew as the settlement named for John Adams the last survivor. Bligh’s voyage to Timor saved his crew, while Pandora pursued mutineers.
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Russia
Potemkin
Black Sea
Ochakov
Black Sea Squadron
Odessa
High Seas
Cook
South Seas
England
Cape Horn
Pacific
Patagonia
South America
Straits of Magellan
Brazil
William Bligh
Bounty
Tahiti
West Indies
Bligh
Timor
Pandora
Boston
Pitcairn Island
South Pacific
Adamstown
John Adams
This Farmer Has No. 13 With Him Constantly
Noblesville Indiana Perry Wheeler a Hamilton county farmer is described as unlucky with the number 13. He celebrates his forty third birthday on Friday the 13th and has lived a life marked by thirteen related details from family size schooling and a university start to an army ID tag to a thirteen acre farm and a recent auto accident with thirteen teeth knocked out.
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Noblesville
Ind
Perry Wheeler
Hamilton County
Valparaiso University
Vermont
Glacier Park Model to Be Seen at World's Fair
A Glacier National Park and Grand Teton model from Glacier Park Montana will be shown at the Century of Progress fair in Chicago this summer as part of the national park service display. The centerpiece is a Mount Rainier model nine feet high and twenty feet wide framed by live Mount Rainier trees with an interactive blizzard button for visitors.
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Glacier Park
Mont
Glacier National Park
Grand Teton Range of Mountains
Chicago
National Park Service
Mount Rainier
Washington
Mount Rainier Park
From immigrant to economics graduate assistant at Ohio State
Leslie Lovass arrived in the United States 11 years ago unable to read or write English. He now serves as a graduate assistant in economics and is an honor student at Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Leslie Lovass
Ohio State University
Ex-Kaiser Relative Begs for Help as Luxembourg Waiter
Alexander Zoubkoff, once brother in law of the former Kaiser Wilhelm, lives in Luxembourg in poverty and anonymity. Penniless and jobless, he works briefly as a waiter and dishwasher while seeking permission to travel under a Nansen passport. He hopes to publish memoirs and hold talks but will not name his royal former spouse.
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Paris
Alexander Zoubkoff
Kaiser Wilhelm
Luxembourg
League of Nations
Zoubkoff
Victoria
Moselle
Holland
Wilhelm
Europe
Cherry Pie Champion Crowned in National Contest
Marie Corcoran Brooder of Lake Leelanau Michigan wins the 1933 national cherry pie baking title from a field of more than a thousand contestants. A Michigan State College graduate in her twenties, she takes the championship in a nationwide contest.
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Marie Corcoran Brooder
Lake Leelanau, Mich
United States
Brooder
Michigan State College
Kreuger Yacht Motor To Chase Smugglers
The expensive engine from Ivar Kreuger s yacht Maybach was bought by Finnish coast guard for about one tenth its original price after his death. It will be fitted to a speedboat to chase liquor smugglers off Hensingfors Finland.
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Hensingfors
Finland
Ivar Kreuger
Kreuger
Maybach
Virginia's oldest citizen dies at 126 in Amherst County
Aunt Lucy Rose, a Black woman reportedly Virginia's oldest resident, died in her Amherst County shack. She left two sons aged ninety-five and ninety, and was about 126 years old at death.
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Lynchburg
Lucy Rose
Virginia
Amherst County
Lavish Shirring and Tucking Highlight 1933 Fashion Revival
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas notes a Paris influenced revival of shirring tucking and braiding in late 1930s costumes. She describes allover shirring on jackets and dresses in gray string shades with tailored blouses options, plus ultra sophisticated tucked black chiffon frocks with white organdy accents and milan hats.
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Yore
Paris
Milan
Western Newspaper Union
Flexible millinery trends in 18th century style hats
The era allows broad hat choices from brims to toques with many styles in fashion. Berets, wide capelines, Turkish fezzes, and high-back tricorne toques appear, each touted as new and correct by fashion authorities.
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Ballibuntl
Women Demand Fancy Striped Suitings This Spring
Women increasingly purchase striped suitings for tailored spring outfits surprising men’s wear houses. Hairline flannels and pin head checks with plain companions sell well alongside mannish oxfords and gray ensembles. Worsted twill, in a tan tone, is promoted as a key mannish wool for tailored styles.
Milliners Emphasize Colorful Ribbon Trims in Hats
Milliners stress colorful ribbon trimmings in hats with crude combos like yellow green black or orange green and Davy. Talbot pairs pale gray with turquoise for a high crowned directoire sailor. Tiny crin horsehair veils and tortoise shell motifs appear among the smart millinery trimmings.
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Talbot
Directoire
Ultra chic lines redefine modern fashion
The piece describes a cherry colored fashion item with fingertip length, full sleeves lined for a sleek look, and a close set buttoning. It notes a collarless neck and crinoline style, highlighting its broad shoulders and high favor among leaders as a sign of contemporary dress.
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