Small Army of Unpaid Weather Observers
Thousands of unpaid observers nationwide maintain daily weather records for nearly five decades. They supply data to Washington monthly, using thermometers and shelters provided by the bureau.
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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1931
Page
6
Thousands of unpaid observers nationwide maintain daily weather records for nearly five decades. They supply data to Washington monthly, using thermometers and shelters provided by the bureau.
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Readable bits describe payments and felons with scattered phrases about work and vacation. No clear event or names emerge, leaving a vague reflection on routine labor and worry.
In Pilarcitos Hiram Butterworth leaves his fortune to Elmer Clarke a poor youth. He confesses a forty year old swindle of $40 000 to his lawyer Absolom McPeake and arranges repayment with interest. Butterworth dies suddenly and a gossiping telegraph operator spreads news to Nellie Cathcas who learns Bimers inheritance exceeds a million.
Nellie Cathcart contemplates her role in shaping Elmer Clarke’s fortune and his future, believing she must marry him quickly to guard him from pranks of Uncle Hiram and the surprise million dollar legacy. She fears her influence may both save and complicate Elmer’s life as she drafts a strategic report for the First National Bank.
Elmer Clarke returns to lead the Smoke Shoppe after a quarrel with Sam Haskins. Colorado Charley plots a scam aided by Mae to lure Elmer into a new life while Elmer borrows twenty thousand from a bank. Nellie Cathcart flirts with engagement as Elmer debates moving to Pilarcitos San Clara Valley with her.
In a Berlin court the unpaid lay magistrate confessed fear of telling his ill wife that he was found guilty. The president revealed the man had been summoned to perform citizen duties as a magistrate, not as an accused, eliciting laughter from the judges.
An ancient abbey site in Perthshire hosted early Scottish kings and their coronations. The legendary coronation stone, part of the coronation chair, was seized by Edward I in 1296 and now rests under the British monarchs coronation chair in Westminster Abbey.
The house flag of a vessel bears the company device, serving as a kind of trademark. A claim notes that reclaiming scrap iron and steel in this country moves about half a billion dollars annually.
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