Farm price forecast and fair exhibit plan for 1933
Nebraska farmers face stagnant or falling prices for 30 days with wheat steady to rising only slightly, corn weak, fat cattle weak, butter steady, hog prices seasonally weak, and higher eggs. The report cites large corn and hog supplies, open Great Lakes navigation, and potential gains only if Argentine and Australian crops lag. Finish model exhibit for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair is noted.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
The
College of Agriculture
Harold Hedges
Canada
Great Lakes
Australia
Hedges
Beets Growers to Get Extra 27 500 for Last Year
Great Western Sugar Company states net returns from October 1 1931 to September 30 1932 total 3 347 dollars per 100 pounds in the district. About 700 Nebraska and Wheatland Colorado growers with beets testing 17.2 percent sugar or higher will receive 1 to 53 cents more per ton. Half of the crop has been harvested, with sugar content below the 20 year average due to early frost and recent moisture.
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United States
Nebraska
Omaha
Scottsbluffs
Colorado
Great Western Sugar Company
Nebraska and Wheatland
Colo
Finish Model of State Exhibit for Nebraska at the Chicago Fair
A Lincoln model symbolizing Nebraska agriculture as the basis of prosperity is prepared for George Jackson state fair board secretary. Jackson sketched ideas with an artist to present to the legislature when seeking January appropriation. The flat relief map shows crops moving to a factory with trucks and trains carrying processor products, plus farm machinery and state development sketches.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
George Jackson
State Fair Board
Jackson
Penitentiary Reaches Population Peak As East Cell Block Advances
Lincoln H. S. Thorpe, chairman of the state board of control, reports the state prison has a new population peak with 849 inmates. Construction on the east cell block continues and should not be ready for occupation before Thanksgiving. Once finished, dangerous criminals will move there to allow roof repairs on the west unit.
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State
Lincoln
H. S. Thorpe
State Board of Control
State normal schools seek same budget as last year
Lincoln Nebraska state normal schools filed biennial budget requests with the tax commissioner. They did not seek increases despite hiring more instructors due to a 15 to 42 percent rise in enrollment. Chadron led in enrollment growth per the board of education report.
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Lincoln—Nebraska
State Normal Schools
Tax Commissioner
Fred W. Andersen
Board of Education For State Normal Schools
Chadron
Mercolized Wax Keeps Skin Young
A description of Joan of Arc’s banner displayed at Rheims cathedral. The flag was designed by a member of her Scottish bodyguard, Hamish Polworth, who later became a monk and died at Dunfermline Abbey. Reproductions were given to the Rheims archbishop by Scottish and English supporters of France.
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Joan of Arcs
Rhelms Cathedral
Army Officers Lose Soft Positions in Washington
Washington report shows War department orders from Gen. Douglas MacArthur ousting officers from social posts and reassigning them to drill-fields units. Reductions target 12 000 officer corps with 893 slated for special duty, while Congress pursues further cuts to 10 000.
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Washington
War Department
Douglas MacArthur
Hugh A. Drum
Spe
National
Ross Collins
Miss
House
Congress
War Department General Staff
Chiefs of Arms and Services
Third Corps
Judge Advocate General’s Office
Adjutant General’s Office
Inspector General’s Office
Quartermaster General’s
Surgeon General’s
Chief of Finance
Engineers
Ordnance
Signal Officer
Chemical Warfare Service
Military Bureau
Cavalry
Field Artillery
Coast Artilery
Infantry
Air Corps
Chief Bureau of Insular Affairs
Chaplains
Army
Twenty-Eight Inches Is Life Margin in Head-on Crash
Penn State physicist H L Yeagley analyzes a head on collision at 30 mph to show a 28 inch difference between driver safety and passenger fatality. He explains the car’s stopping distance and how front seat passengers risk severe injury even when the driver survives.
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State College
H. L. Yeagley
Pennsylvania State College
Nittany Mountain
Mr. Yeagley
Ohio State Captain L Hinchman Named team Leader
Ohio State University selects Lewis Hinchman of Columbus as captain for the football squad this year, with Hinchman playing a key role for the Buckeyes.
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Ohio State
Lewis Hinchman
Ohio State University
Columbus
Ohio
Tennessee man owns 227 year old Bible volume
Knoxville resident G. Ingle has acquired a calf bound book dating to 1705. The volume titled The Figures or Types of the Old Testament explains New Testament concepts through sermons by Samuel Mather, once pastor in Dublin. It was printed in London by Nath. Hillier.
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Tennessee
Knoxille
Tenn
Ingle
Christ
Samuel Mather
Dublin
London
Home Tips for Cooking and Cleaning Traditions
Add salt to coffee during heating to improve flavor. Roll fish in cornmeal to prevent sticking. A water pan with bread in the oven yields larger loaves and crisper crusts. Grease and heat muffin pans before batter for lighter muffins. Lemon juice helps cream set faster. Make raspberry preserves by crushing berries with sugar and sealing hot. Ammonia brightens colored silks in brief soak. Use rochelle salts solution to frost glass panes. soap cleans scratches.
Portrait Sold for 15 Hidden Rembrandt Masterpiece
The Rembrandt portrait of Marten Looten, once sold for 15 as a copy, is now valued at 200000 after Amsterdam expert Doctor Kat deciphered an inscription by Rembrandt praising Looten’s friendship. The find reclassifies the work as an original and assigns it an immense value.
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The
Hague
Rembrandt
Marten Looten
Looten
Doctor Kat
Amsterdam
Record Mount Hood climber Mark Weygandt’s 585 ascents
Since 1903 Mark Weygandt has climbed Mt. Hood the summit exactly 585 times marking a remarkable endurance record for ambitious mountaineers.
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Mt. Hood
Ore
Mark Weygandt
Apeing Fowl Imitation by Penguins Surprises Explorers
Penguins, Antarctic water birds, mimic human actions with no fear when first seen. They usually lay a single egg, which the bird hatches by holding between its thighs, as reported by explorers in 1932.
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Western Newspaper Union
Ignorance Across Ages And Cultures
In a 1932 Western Newspaper Union column Thomas Arkle Clark defends the idea of ignorance as relative. He recalls Mary's remark about a friend's basic knowledge of life and recounts personal lessons from Segovia and early travel. He notes his own past ignorance of railways cities oceans and mountains.
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Mary
Bnthel
Christ
Tilden
Segovia
Caesar
Western Newspaper Union
Old Macpheriah Cemetery in Yeadon Abandoned
The Macpheriah cemetery near Yeadon PA, established before 1800 by Philadelphians, lies neglected with over a thousand sunken mounds and hundreds of unmarked graves. Only an 1819 legible marker remains as a remnant of the site.
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Yeadon
Macpheriah Cemetery
Frenchwoman Lily Lacloche Builds Fashion Empire Abroad
Lily Lacloche, a French millionaire and athlete, breeds silkworms in Indo China, grows wool in New Caledonia, and cultivates raphia palms in Madagascar. She processes leaves into silk at Lyons mills and makes her own clothes from the resulting materials.
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Lily Lacloche
New Caledonia
Madagascar
Lyons
Queensland Plan to Erect Statue for Cactoblastus Insect
Premier Moore proposes a statue to the insect cactoblastus which destroys cactus and prickly pear. He calls the insect the savior of the state as cactus stands reclaim land that once yielded little and farmers regain lost acres.
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Moore
Queensland
Australia
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Chicago
By Charles Sughroe
Joan of Arc
Swivel Chair Corps
DR. Doctor
Minneapolis, Minn
B.W. Bergman
Children's Court
Buffalo
N.Y
Mrs. Mister
Baltimore,mnd
Joseph B. Lawrence
Bluefield
W.va
Loyd Saunders
Jim Loncos
Athens
Greece
CWNU
Muriel Bennett
Viola Marks
Red Cross
Federal Farm Board
Thomas Arkle Clark
University of Illinois
Daddy
Reid
Doan
Louisville Courier-Journal
Sample Freefield Tea Co
P.O. Srecklyn. WY
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