Hobbyist Fairs Show Vast World of Collecting Fancies
The Chicago hobby show spotlights collectors from Kansas to New York and a Chicago dealer with ribbons and bookplates. Notables include Roosevelt Ford Landon Horner and items from buttons to pipes and stamps. Exhibits reveal the social history of collecting and the shared hobbyist spirit.
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Field Museum
Metropolitan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Mich
Alf Landon
Kansas
Henry Horner
Illinois
Lincoln
New York
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Chicago
Hotel
Sherman
Kansas City
Geraldine Paulsen
Charles Bragin
Warren E. Buck
Pat Salmon
Gwen Peet
Meaning of Bears and Bulls in Market Terms
A bear is one who sells securities or commodities short or contracts to sell without owning them in anticipation of a price drop. A bull is one who buys or sells to push prices up, opposite of the bear. Bearish markets fall, bullish markets rise, named from the bear pulling down and the bull tossing up.
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Chicago
Paris
Indianapolis News
Warsaw
Washington
Two Sides Cited in Graft Debate by Know It and Tonkins
The remarks claim there are two sides to graft questions with insiders and outsiders in the debate.
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Tonkins
WPA funds expand Nebraska work camps and projects
State WPA administrator D. F. Felton announced $9,000 in federal money for transient care at Chadron Carter Lake and Bellevue work camps. District 3 reports 225 workers on 10 projects with $43,948 federal funds and $30,742 sponsors' contributions. Felton said hours rise and Saturdays added as new road work and a 24 man rock quarry job in Nemaha County receives $20,094.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
D. F. Felton
WPA
Chadron
Carter Lake
Bellevue
F. R. Hussong
District 3
Felton
NERA
Nevaha County
WPA Allots For 4 778 Jobs In Lincoln Area And Douglas County
D F Felton, state WPA administrator, reports 4 778 workers in Lincoln area District 3 and Douglas County, with District 3 receiving 203 268 dollars and Lincoln 43 141 of that sum. Douglas County allotment stands at 472 857 dollars. Fourteen new projects employ 245 people, including a 22 135 dollar Lincoln school board water main extension at Lakeview employing 100. A major allocation of 174 550 funds 1 007 workers goes to Omaha airport improvements.
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Lincoln
D. F. Felton
WPA
District 3
Douglas County
F. R. Hussong
Hussong
Lincoln School Board
Lakeview
Omaha
Sod house revival underway in North Platte valley
Farmers in the Scottsbluff region are building sod houses with modern interiors. Bayard reports Frank Tague and Roy Hagerman constructing 24 by 32 foot and 24 by 28 foot homes respectively, each with four to six rooms. Sod houses promise warmth in winter and coolness in summer.
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Scottsbluff
North Platte Valley
Bayard
Frank Tague
Roy Hagerman
Tague
Hagerman
Production Record Cow LaVertex Breaks U S Milky Totals
Lincoln Nebraska's Holstein cow LaVertex, age nearly 15, has set a lifetime national record in milk production. She has produced 227,831 pounds of milk over 10 years, about 26,490 gallons, with 8,455 pounds of butterfat, a U S lifetime record for all breeds.
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Lincoln
University of Nebraska
United States
Indianola Voters Reject $28,000 School Bond
In Indianola voters defeated a 28000 bond issue by 148 to 144, funding a new 50000 school building. In Pleasanton a 19600 bond for a school building passed 105 to 65, three votes more than required.
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Indianola
Pleasanton
Dodge Residents Reject Two Bond Proposals in Special Election
In a special election the Dodge residents rejected two bond measures totaling 22 000 dollars. The park bond of 5 000 dollars failed 57 against 100 for and the town hall bond of 7 200 dollars failed 63 against 94 for with two thirds needed for approval.
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Dodge
Park
Town Hall
State warrants total over four million for three-month period
State Tax Commissioner W. H. Smith reported warrants totaling 1 318 172 written in September, bringing the first three months of the biennium to 4 598 587. September warrants included 422 909 for salaries and 922 848 for public improvements including roads.
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W. H. Smith
Harrison to vote on $5000 bonds for water system upgrade
Voters will decide at a special election on November 26 whether to issue five thousand dollars in bonds to fund a fourteen thousand dollar city water system improvement. The PWA provides a grant equal to forty five percent of the cost, with the remaining amount covered by cash on hand.
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Harrison
PWA
Nebraska sugar beet growers price correction announced
Great Western Sugar officials said a clerical error led to an incorrect notice that Nebraska growers would be paid 45 cents less per ton. The initial payment this month is $4.83 per ton, not the misprinted $4.38.
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Great Western Sugar Company
Nebraska
Farm land sales rise led by Federal Land Bank
D. P. Hogan president of the Federal Land Bank of Omaha reports October activity with 43 farm sales totaling 307210 dollars. Purchases spread across Iowa with 34 listings, South Dakota seven, Nebraska two. About 70 percent of buyers are farmers seeking land to return to farming.
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D. P. Hogan
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Land Bank
Iowa
South Dakota
Nebraska
Federal funds approved for Indian land purchase in Dakotas and Nebraska
The Regional Rural Resettlement Administration in Lincoln announced a federal grant of 902 161 dollars to acquire 165 546 acres of land across North Dakota South Dakota and Nebraska for Indian use. A W Simington directs the acquisition noting long term land alienation harmed both races and praising the program to restore tribal life and culture by enabling farming and livestock livelihoods.
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Lincoln
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
A. W. Simington
Potatoes Shipments Forecast From North Platte Valley
Scottsbluff handlers estimate about 60 carloads daily will be needed to move the crop through May. Nearly two million bushels of table stock potatoes were raised in 1935 in the North Platte valley, broker Edgar Ramsay says. Western Nebraska ships account for most of Nebraska’s outgoing loads. prices have risen from 40–50 cents to about 75 cents per hundredweight, with some cars at 90 cents earlier in the week.
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North Platte Valley
Scottsbluff
Edgar Ramsay
Nebraska
Ramsay
Haigler approves bonds for light plant and school addition
Haigler voters pass a $25,000 municipal light plant bond and approve $8,500 for a gymnasium and auditorium addition to the school. The measures include anticipated $15,000 and $6,500 in federal funds respectively. The town may buy or build its own plant and supplement with federal money.
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Haigler
Farm receipts rise to $4.22 billion in nine months
Agriculture department reports nine month receipts from principal farm products at $4.215 billion, up from $3.892 billion in 1934 and $3.239 billion in 1933. AAA payments not included. Twelve states show declines, including Nebraska. Through August, renal and benefit payments totaled $349.614 million.
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Agriculture Department
AAA
Nebraska
Farley Strategy and 1930s Political Winds
The piece analyzes Farley’s pre election tactics and the NY Democratic majority, noting Republicans’ early crowing and Tammany Hall’s role in NY City and statewide races. It discusses Landon versus Roosevelt prospects, Hopkins missteps, and party dynamics shaping 1936 nominating odds. It cites Polish rye trade issues and fiscal policy signals from Hull and the State Department.
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Washington
James A. Farley
Empire State
Farley
New York Assembly
New York State
Tammany
la Guardia
Jim
New York
Upstate
al Smith
Smith
Black Cats Linked to Bad Luck Through History
A Washington Star piece notes black cats are long tied to misfortune. The cat is tied to witches and legends claim witches can transform into cats nine times. A Sixteenth century book warns against witches in disguise and fuels the cat’s unlucky image.
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Washington Star
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