Flying's Great Problem Is Successfully Solved
A Chicago meeting of engineers from the nation's four largest airlines announces practical blind landings using an instrument landing system. Since Oakland's trials, more than 2,000 landings by 30 pilots prove the method works. The process uses direction beam beacons, outer and inner markers, and automatic pilot control to guide the plane to a safe landing in fog or bad weather.
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Chicago
Radio and Aeronautical
United States
Oakland
Calif
Look for Beauty in Common Things and Stones
The piece reflects on sensing beauty in everyday objects and nature. It cites Tennyson’s flower garden and the crannied wall poem to illustrate how a discerning eye reveals deeper meaning. It suggests cultivation of perception to see power and beauty in ordinary things.
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Tennyson
Flaubert
Odd Household Hints From An Old Page
A damp closet can be dried with a neighbor’s saucerful of quicklime. Borax added to washing water keeps fine white flannel soft. Chopped ripe olives flavor veal casserole using about one quarter cup per two cups of water or stock. Shasta daisies may bloom themselves to death the first year unless some buds are removed. A campus plaid jacket blouse offers a dressy option for last season’s suit with belt and ascot tie at reasonable prices.
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Norman W. Celin
Seattle
Wash
Seeing Beyond the Common to Find Life’s Value
Betty Wells writes on cultivating wonder in everyday objects and people, urging readers to seek unseen resources in common things. The piece blends reflections on genius, humility, and patience with practical home safety tips for families, including childproofing and arranging shared spaces.
Snack by Wayside
A Lon doner named Mr. Gerhold invents a walking stick with small clips to hold plates and saucers for meals. The device is patented worldwide, and travel lunch components fit in a hiker’s rucksack except for the stick itself.
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Gerhold
Farmers to feed sheep drouth corn
Nebraska extension animal husbandryman Tolman urged farmers with damaged corn to feed sheep to start flocks. He noted sheep need little training, experiments by Prof. Alexander show 30 ewes can be fed with small cash outlay and potential profit. A second item reports 130 new state driver examiners to enforce a new license law starting September 1.
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Lincoln
Walter Tolman
Nebraska Agricultural College
Tolman
Nebraska
M. A. Alexander
R. W. Culwell
Drivers’ License Bureau
Highway Patrol
Douglas
Lancaster
A. C. Tilley
First Ponca plow unearthed near Niobrara ruins
Niobrara Diggers uncover a buffalo shoulder blade tool in a Ponca village ruins. Dr. Earl H. Bell reports evidence of extensive Ponca gardens, bottomland cultivation, and corn, beans, and squash crops along the Niobrara Missouri confluence.
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Niobrara
Earl H. Bell
University of Nebraska
Bell
Nebraska
Nebraska University
Missouri
Agriculture chiefs push farm program in Platte Valley alfalfa bid
The department of agriculture continued its campaign to sell the administration's proposed new farm program to Midwest farmers. A key goal is to use all land for its best-suited purpose, with the Platte Valley singled out as ideal for alfalfa cultivation.
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North Platte
Department of Agriculture
Midwest
Platte Valley
Many Grants To Neb Towns From Public Works Administration
The Public Works Administration approved multiple Nebraska grants for projects in Farwell Valley, Gering, Ashton, Kearney, Broken Bow, Oconto, Riverdale, Farnam and Litchfield. Funds range from 5,400 to 86,850 dollars for waterworks, libraries, school improvements and additions, and park work.
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Washington
D. C
Public Works Administration
Harry Coffee
Nebraska
Farwell
Valentine
Gering
Ashton
Kearney
Broken Bow
Oconto
Riverdale
Farnam
Litchfield
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Duchess of Windsor
Trousseau
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WNU Service
Ie’s
Model Boy
Christopher
Buddy) Finnegan
Gloucester
Mass
America
the Elks Lodge
Denver
Cape Cod
Emerson
Western Newspaper Union
Betty Wells
WNN Service
New State
San Francisco
M. L. Tainter
Harold Rosenblum
Dr. Barton
Dunn Takes
James C. Dunn
Division of
European Affairs
Political Relationships Department
State Department
Hull
Dunn
Jay Pierrepont Moffay
Urges Farm Unity
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