Dollar a Year Men and Tax Debates Highlight Cautionary Wartime Letters
A Washington column decries Dollar a Year workers guiding national defense policy while lawmakers question conflicts of interest with big labor and big business. It notes Hugh Auchincloss’s Pink Palace torn down for taxes and cites sky high federal spending from 1933 to 1941. The writer urges readers to include full names and addresses when contacting the office for agricultural bulletins and congressional material.
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Washington
National Defense Program
Sidney Hillman
OPM
CIO
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Hillman
Judiciary Committee
Military Affairs Committee
Hugh Auchincloss
Auchincloss
Regal Mansion
Cec
Belvidere
Lincoln
Fourth Congressional District
Singing Memnon Statue in Egypt Gave Morning and Evening Notes
The Singing Memnon was an ancient Egyptian statue that produced musical notes at sunrise and sunset, drawing observers who attributed the sounds to its stones.
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Egypt
Aquacade Stars to perform in Omaha at Ak-Sar-Ben
Billy Rose Aquacade stars bring a water show to Omaha's Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum from April 30 to May 4. Led by Buster Crabbe, the act features aquafemmes aquabaliet and comedy acts. The event uses the world’s largest portable tank and travels by special train with five nightly performances and one Sunday matinee. Tickets range 75c to $1.65 with mail orders accepted.
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Omaha
Billy Rose
New York
San Francisco
Buster Crabbe
Tarzan
Middle-West
Russell Sporting Goods Co
Cornelia Gilissen
Live Stock Prices at South Omaha on Monday April 15 1941
Receipts of cattle reached 8 300 head with plainer cattle steady and feeders light. Best cattle sold at 1200 to 1300 dollars. Hogs 8 000 head with lightweights at 8.80 to 9.00 and packing grades down to 8.25 9.00. Sows quoted 7.75 8.60. Woolskins and feeder lambs steady, aged sheep firm.
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Union Stock Yards
Omaha
Sheep and lamb market steady at Omaha receipts 6500 head
Receipts of sheep and lambs at Omaha on Monday reached 6 500 head prices for fat lambs and woolskins held steady with spring lambs at 10 00 to 10 50. Feeder lambs and aged sheep showed quotable unchanged values with fat lambs and feeder lambs quoted between 8 00 and 11 50 for various grades.
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Omaha
Early Cutting Reduces Alfalfa Yield 30 Percent
Wisconsin alfalfa specialist L F Graber warns that cutting the first crop too early can cut total annual yield and threaten stand survival. He notes a 12 day difference reduced first crop by 30 percent and second crop by 50 percent, with leaf hopper damage a key factor. Delayed cutting allows leaf hopper eggs to hatch after harvest and protects the field.
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L. F. Graber
University of Wisconsin
Graber
Wisconsin Agronomist
Democratic Bahamas Establishes Self-Governing Parliament
Article describes the Bahamas as a self governing colony with a democratic system patterned after Britain. It outlines the governor council structure, legislative branches, public funds boards, and the blend of English common law with imperial acts. It lists nine government departments and key officials including chief justice and magistrates.
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Bahama
Bahama Island
Duke of Windsor
Bahama Islands
Legislative Council
House of Assembly
Bahamas
Audit
Public Works
Customs
Post Office
Telephone and Telegraph
Electrical
Police
Medical
Danger of Aspiration Broncho Pneumonia In Surgery Patients
Chicago physicians Irons and Apfelbach warn in the Journal of the American Medical Association that aspiration of regurgitated stomach contents is a frequent and often fatal lung complication after surgery or when protective reflexes are impaired. A history of hiccoughing and nausea is common. Continuous mechanical suction before operations reduced its incidence.
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Ernest E. Irons
Carl Wesley Apfelbach
Chicago
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Pronunciation note on contrary with accent shifts
This passage discusses how the word contrary often carries two pronunciations with accents on different syllables. It notes some dictionaries ignore the second syllable accent and attributes the mispronunciation to Mother Goose. It claims best usage places the first-syllable accent in all meanings.
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Mother Goose
Earth Gaining Weight Says Harvard Expert
Harvard scientist Dr Kirtley F Mather reports the earth gains about 50000 tons daily from meteors and dust. At 2 billion years of age the total accumulated mass would be about 4e16 tons, implying a cosmic layer around 100 feet deep over geological time.
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Kirtley F. Mather
Harvard
Mather
Mortality Rate Among Children Falls Sharply
A Metropolitan Life study shows American children aged 1 to 14 now face death rates at 20 percent of those from 30 years earlier. Improvements mainly stem from better control of infectious diseases with declines in diphtheria measles scarlet fever and whooping cough. Tuberculosis deaths fell dramatically from 452 to 5.5 per 100 000 by 1939 while acute rheumatic fever also dropped. Automobile deaths rose since 1909 and remained above 1911 levels in 1939, despite overall declines in accidents.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Insurance Company
Auto Highway Across Panama Isthmus May Become a Reality
Douglas Malcolm of the American Express says a motor highway across the Isthmus of Panama may soon be built. The proposed 50 mile transcontinental road would be two lanes of concrete, rising about 300 feet at the divide, and east of Gatun Lake linking Panama City with Madden Dam. Currently travel crosses the isthmus only by train or sightseeing plane.
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Panama
Douglas Malcolm
American Express
Atlantic
Pacific
Ocean
Continental Divide
New World
Peru
Canal Zone
Isthmus
Hardening of Arteries and Medical Philosophy
Dr. Irving S. Wright of New York urges a shift in medical attitude toward arteriosclerosis. He argues that prolonging life should serve a full, pain free life rather than merely delaying death, given disability and quality of life considerations.
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Irving S. Wright
New York
Buying Canned Goods and Economic Considerations
Canned foods can offer savings when prices for vegetables and fruits are high. They require little fuel and effort to prepare, and container grade and size affect cost more than nourishment. Families with tight budgets should favor cheaper grades and the largest practical container.
Remarkable foresight lands Paris shopkeeper in jail
A Paris shopkeeper was jailed eight months after making slighting remarks about King Leopold before the Germans took control. He has appealed, arguing that he showed remarkable foresight in his words.
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Paris
Leopold
Sheriff Sale Notice of Polk County Real Estate
By order of the District Court of Polk County Nebraska a sheriff sale is set for April 21 1941 to satisfy a foreclosure decree against Leonard Smith et al on property described as the southwest quarter and west half of the southeast quarter section 25 and east half of section 26 township 13 north range 4 west. Sale at the south front door of the Osceola courthouse cash in hand at time of sale. GUNNARD PETERSON Sheriff. Also appears an unrelated advertisement for Chinese Elm trees at F L Dunn's nursery near Clark.
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District Court
Polk County
Nebraska
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Roseonard Smith
Osceola
Gunnard Peterson
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Carl Curtis
Farmer’s Osceola
Rising City
Shelby
Cornhusker Orchestra
South Omaha
Panama Isthmus
Phil B Campbell Philip Hayberg
F. L. Dunn
Clarks
Mr. Farmer
A. L. Hedbloom
Stromsburg
Nebr
Theatre Central City
Suez
Texas
Virginia
Hugo
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