Nebraska Fire Loss Near Two Million in Nebraskas Fire Toll
Nebraska reports nearly two million dollars in fire losses for the year with 55 deaths and 200 plus injuries. The state fire marshal notes 3500 fires, major causes include kerosene and gasoline incidents, chimney sparks, and overheating stoves. Fire damage affected homes, stores, barns, granaries, and vehicles across many towns, with Schuyler suffering a 197 thousand dollar elevator fire.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Butcher
Fairbury
Omaha
McCook
Gering
Wahoo
Superior
Chadron
Falls City
Sidney
Blair
Wymore
Grand, Island
Scottsbluff
Hastings
Alliance
North Platte
Columbus
York
Crete
Beatrice
Norfolk
Holdrege
Broken Bow
Nebraska City
Lexington
Auburn
Aurora
South Sioux City
Kearney
Seward
Plattsmouth
Fremont
Schuyler
Nebraska Relief Funded Study Program Helps 1600 Nebraskans
More than 1600 Nebraskans unable to afford college completed studies from animal husbandry to mathematics in a federal relief funded program. Participants aged 15 to 54 supplemented education through University of Nebraska correspondence courses, with about half women and a fifth having some college.
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Lincoln
University of Nebraskas
Nebraska Highway Jobs Surge Under Federal Program
About 3,560 men are at work on Nebraska highway projects as the federal 7.8 million dollar road building plan accelerates. Weather aids progress with grading and paving, while dry conditions slow only some grading work. Projects span Tekamah to Blair and Lincoln region, with 70 percent complete viaduct north of Plattsmouth and traffic-light electrical work in Lincoln.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Tekamah
Neligh
Decatur
Dakota City
Homer
Niobrara
Verdigre
Elgin
Cummingsville
Ponca
Willis
Norfolk
Meadow Grove
East Central
Emerald
Milford
Blair
Plattsmouth
Nebraska Aid Fund Allocations For May Reported
Nebraska receives May aid funds totaling 592.57 from the National Relief Administration Hopk ins. Federal Agent Rowland Haynes reports Washington telegrams show a request of 626,500 to cover May needs, with possible approval of a reduced amount. April allotment was 500,000 with 200,000 carried forward.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Hopkins
Rowland Haynes
Washington
Haynes
Lexington voters back water bonds and brick plant revival
Lexington citizens approved 37 thousand in water system bonds with 14 thousand grant from government. Columbus brick works, idle three years, reopened under Mayor Julius S Nichols and will hire 17 workers with expected brick output near 2 million if operations stay steady. Falls City orchard firm Weaver and Towle plants 4000 apple trees on 100 acres with first bearing this year after light frost damage noted by foreman A. E. Ray.
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Lexington
Columbus
Julius S. Nichols
Nichols
Weaver & Towle Orchard Company
Falls City
A. E. Ray
Sugar beet planters work by night to beat processor delays
With powerful lights on their machines farmers harvest under cover of night to finish this year's crop. Long lines of trucks queued at the factory for beet seed as crews push to offset delays in settling contracts with the processors.
Driest April in Nebraska Since 1910 Ends With Heat Wave
April 1934 closes dry as Lincoln records a seasonal high of 87 degrees, surpassing the previous 85 degree mark from April 10. Moisture remains only about one third of normal for the first four months of the year, while wind remains strong.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Mrs. Mary McKnight Celebrates 100th Birthday in Nebraska
Mrs. Mary McKnight marked her centennial with an open house at her Trenton home. She lives with son Lyle McKnight and daughter Mrs. J J Little, and many old friends greeted her. Born in Pennsylvania, she moved to Hitchcock county, Nebraska in 1880 after arriving with her husband in 1879.
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Mary McKnight
Trenton
Lyle McKnight
J. J. Little
Meteor Fireball Sightings Spark Debate Across States
Dr. H. H. Nininger of the Colorado Museum of Natural History reports that after weeks of interviews with observers, two fireballs from the February 12 triple meteor likely fell near Fremont and Wahoo, Nebraska, while the third crossed the Nebraska line into Iowa. The event began near the Canadian border in Montana and was seen across multiple southern and eastern states.
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H. H. Nininger
Colorado Museum of Natural History
Fremont
Wahoo
Nebraska
Iowa
Canadian
Montana
Nebraskans Celebrate Long Marriages March 1934
March anniversaries in Nebraska totaled 14 as part of 321 marriages over the first quarter in 1934 per Henry A. Brainerd of the Nebraska Press association. The oldest couple were J. K. Oswald and wife of Aurora with 64 years married, while John Merrell and wife of Red Cloud marked 57 years on the same farm they married to begin their union.
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Henry A. Brainerd
Nebraska Press Association
J. K. Oswald
Aurora
John Merrell
Red Cloud
Nebraska army reserve officers to hold Fort Crook camp
Reserve officers from Nebraska will attend the annual combined contact camp and department convention at Fort Crook on May 18 to 20. The event provides voluntary field training in tactics with seven hours credit per day, no government funds, and officers pay registration. A smoke screen on the Platte river is noted as a past feature. broadcasts on national defense progress precede the event. The closing day includes chapel services and pistol matches.
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Platte River
Nebraska
Army Reserve
Fort Crook
Omaha
Nebraska Capitol Admired by African Visitors on Tour
Mr and Mrs S H Pellissier of Bloemfontein Orange Free State are touring America to study education and social service. The couple impressed by the capitol and Nebraska University extension system plan a two day stay in Lincoln.
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Nebraska Capitol
Africa
S. H. Pellissier
Bloemfontein
Orange Free State
Pellissiers
America
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
May Day Reflections Across Europe and U S Labor Mood
The piece notes Europe’s May Day chaos with Paris security measures and strikes in Spain while the United States remains cautious. It contrasts dictatorship with organized obedience in Germany Italy Turkey and Russia and says the dictator idea may spread as global troubles persist.
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Europe
Chicago
New York
Paris
Spain
Cuba
United States
Italy
Germany
Turkey
Russia
Hitler
Government targets bootlegging with 2500 agents in crackdown
The article notes bootlegging as a serious wartime issue as 2500 agents battle organized distilleries. Figures from Joseph H. Choate Jr. show bootleggers now produce more whisky than legal consumption, with large multi story stills and first quarter 1934 seizures implying annual capacity of 68 million gallons, costing hundreds of millions to the government.
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Josephh. Choate, Jr
Federal Alcohol Control
Government Announces 300 Million for Home Building Effort
The government has 300 million dollars of new money for building new homes and modernizing old ones. The move is expected to reduce unemployment and lift spirits as the housing stock is renewed.
Pardoned outlaw attends revival joins church in Macon
Georgia governor Talmadge pardons Leland Harvey, a famed jailbreaker, after advising him to sin no more. Harvey attends Rev. Wade H. House's revival in Macon and joins the church, prompting police to joke about Salvation Army uniforms and reforming criminals.
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Leland Harvey
Georgia
Talmadge
Wade H. House
Macon
Salvation Army
Dillinger
Subistence Homestead Faces Shorter Name Debate
The brain trust once used the term subsistence homestead to describe a farm where a man and family could live. Now the phrase confounds some readers and a simpler label is sought to replace it. Suggestions are requested.
Emma Goldman Leaves for Toronto After U S Visa Expires
Emma Goldman departs for Toronto noting her 90 day U S visit permit has expired. She criticizes the New Deal as an artificial suspend of capitalism and suggests some capitalists would welcome a longer stay.
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Emma Goldman
Russia
Toronto
United States
Albatross of Troubled Seas Weighs on Society
The piece laments a collective mood amid financial strain and political tension. It questions the source of trouble—Wall Street, technocracy, war, or overproduction—yet notes no clear culprit and urges steady navigation through the gloom with rare hopeful voices.
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Wall Street
Birth rate falls in Scotland prompts polygamy talk
Scotland faces a troubling decline in births with W H Phillips warning of a potential half population drop. Officials blame widespread birth control information, while some respectable voices even suggest polygamy as a remedy, a move described as alarming by registrars head.
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Scotland
W. H. Phillips
Association of Registrars
King Features Syndicate
Ing Wnu
New York First Night Flickers With Theatergoer Tales
A crowded New York first night unfolds with restless patrons and vivid theater chatter. Observers note a mix of guests including a Grand Prix attendee and George Jean Nathan arriving as backstage antics and seat confusions spark humor and tension.
Whirlwind Herbie Swope Enters Stage Runway
A lively curtain rises for Herbert Bayard Swope known as Whirlwind Herbie as the English scene unfolds. The Dervisher of the Runways evokes old Eton days with a playful line about Appleby and the Georgian fireplace sets a dramatic backdrop.
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Herbert Bayard Swope
Herbie
Appleby
Public Auction Sparks Nostalgic Finds and Playful Grievances
After a lighthearted auction moment someone returns home with two old rockers and a high boy. Everett’s noted to have lost his girl again. A humorous misseeing in a pew leads to a playful jab about a lady tripping in the aisle. Remarks drift to a whistling fellow and a crossing play. Lights fade on an intermission.
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the Atlantic Monthly
Everett
Theatre Oddities and Props Mentioned in A Simple Scene
A narrator notes a turner arounder in a fit of waving while a wood feeler stays quiet perhaps due to a splinter. The speaker recalls a hat bought in rue Carmartin for 200 francs and mentions his wife holding it. A request to add hat holders to several props is voiced, ending with leaving the theatre flat on its proscenium.
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New York
Turner
Southampton
St. Moritz
Paris
George
Alice
George Jean Nathan
Rue Carmartin
Turner Arounder
Notable Names and Roles in Jazz and Media History
Vic Myers serves as lieutenant governor of Washington while John F. Dore, Seattle mayor, once reported for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Valentino Williams imitates a drunken Berlin cabby. Arthur Johnson and Sam Coslow wrote tunes for Murder at the Vanities. Harriet is a novel about a famous 1877 murder. Frank Butler leads the Hal Roach scenario department. Rex O Malley runs a printing shop in Westport.
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Vic Myers
Washington
John F. Dore
Seattle
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Valentine Williams
Berlin
Arthur Johson
Sam Coslow
Vanities
Harriet
Doubleday Doran
Harriet Staunton
Penge
Frank Butler
Hal Roach
Rex O'Malley
Westport
L. L
McNaught Syndicate
Lee
Misadventure on a Mountain Drive with Old Friends
An anecdote from Beverly Hills recounts a horseback mule ride up mountain lanes with O. O. McIntire Iryn Cobb and others. The hack brake failed causing mules to leap and a perilous descent while passengers laughed and held on. The narrator notes a failed plot of land and plans for a new brake.
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Beverly Hills
O. McIntire
Iryn Cobb
Will Hayes
Bill Hayes
Odd
Irvin
Billie Burke Zeigfeld
O. O
Paducah
Kentucky
Galopolis
Ohio
Cobb
Chamber of Commerce
Hunter
Pikes Peak
Pacific
Catalina Island
McIntire
Casey Jones Rogers
Buddy Sterling
Bill
Buddy
Rogers
Zeigfeld
Hayes
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Dustless Library Uses Cart Mounted Suction Device
A Washington library equips a cart mounted suction unit to roll between shelves removing dust from book spines and tops, aiming to keep volumes clean without heavy labor. The system allows quick dust removal across racks.
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Washington
Labor Pushes 30 Hour Week To Curb Unemployment
William Green of the American Federation of Labor calls for a forced 30 hour work week as 10,000,000 workers remain jobless. He argues industrial codes and wage raises fail to absorb displaced workers, while industry leaders oppose further wage hikes and shorter hours.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Roosevelt
Johnson
Durable Goods Industries Committee
National Recovery Administrator
Philippine Sclons Accept Liberty Bill
Manila reports the Philippine legislature in a special session approved a resolution accepting self government under the Tydings McDuffie plan. The measure, signed March 31 by President Roosevelt, sets independence after a transition with a Filipino chief executive beginning in 1945.
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Manila
P. I
Manila Bay
Philippine
Tydings-McDuff
Philippines
Roosevelt
Wealthy landowner A. W. Hyde found dead at home
In Long Beach California the body of wealthy landowner A. W. Hyde was found hanging in an upstairs room. He had been missing since February and police are investigating a possible murder with no note found.
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Long Beach
Calif
A. W. Hyde
Hyde
Roosevelt Greets Mikado on 33rd Birthday
President Roosevelt sent birthday greetings to Emperor Hirohito of Japan on the anniversary of his birth. Hirohito, born in Tokyo in 1901, is noted in the message as the imperial majesty.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Emperor Hirohito
Japan
Tokyo
Man Lifts Weights at 85 Then Dies in Monett
In Monett Missouri Joseph Juvenal aged eighty five lifted weights to demonstrate fitness for high school students. He collapsed and died two hours later from a heart attack.
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Monett
Joseph Juvenal
Sanders Elected Baron Rogue to Sixth District Seat
La J. Y. Sanders Jr. wins a general election for the Sixth district with about 9 000 votes to become congressman.
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Baron Rogue
J. Y. Sanders, Jr
Congress
La Folletteites May Start Own Party
Wisconsin Supreme Court clears path for a new party by La Folletteites and radicals, ruling the birth statutes interpretation by Secretary of State Dammann was unsound. Delegates anticipate formal creation at a May 15 state convention with U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette expected to attend.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Wisconsin
High Court
la Folletteites
Supreme Court
House Bills Income Tax Boost in Revenue Bill
The House adopted the conference report on a 417 million tax revision bill amid Republican objections that the compromise adds 159 million in new revenues beyond the original draft. The vote was 2352 to 109, clearing the way for final congressional action. The proposal broadens taxes on higher incomes, with the Couzens 10 percent income tax amendment voted down 167 to 45.
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Washington
House
Couzens Senate
Michigan Votes No on Public Works Bonds
Detroit voters rejected a proposal to bond the state for 37,874,458 dollars to fund highway construction and institutional building improvements. The statewide referendum drew an emphatic no from taxpayers.
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Michigan
Detroit
Mich
W C Procter Dies in Cincinnati at 72
William Cooper Procter soap manufacturer and philanthropist died of pneumonia at Holmes Hospital in Cincinnati. He was seventy two.
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W. C. Procter
Cincinnati
Ohio
William Cooper Procter
Holmes Hospital
Man Dies Fighting Brush Fire on Coloma Farm
Edward M. Kelly sixty four fell into flames during a brush fire on his Coloma farm in Kalamazoo Michigan Overcome by a heart attack he collapsed and his widow found his charred body in the blaze
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Coloma
Edward M. Kelly
Authoress Dies After Falling From Hospital Window
New York report says Mrs. Charlotte Living Stone a 35 year old writer leaped from a Harbor hospital ninth floor window while under treatment for an arm fracture. Authorities are investigating the death.
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New York
Charlotte Living Stone
Harbor Hospital
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