Glacier Lake Dam Near Red Lodge Completed in Beartooth Region
The Glacier Lake dam, 24 miles south of Red Lodge Montana, is a rock filled auxiliary structure to serve 54,000 acres in Rock Creek valley. It stands 52 feet high with a 730 foot crest at 9,750 feet elevation and cost 82,731 dollars.
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Red Lodge
Mont
Beartooth Mountains
Drouth
Glacier Lake Dam
America
Montana Water Conservation Board
Rock Creek Valley
Silesia
Solid Rock
Red Lodge Creek
CCC
Rock Creek Gorge
Student Invents Machine to Speed Mathematics
A young research physicist at Sydney University has invented a device that speeds complex calculations. By tracing curves on paper it can solve engineering problems, range tables, statistics, and physics questions in hours rather than weeks. It also adds continuously varying numbers, updating totals in real time.
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Sydney
Sydney University
Standards of Living by Leonard A. Barrett
A discussion on how the economic downturn affected American living standards. The piece notes that those with stable incomes fared better while those with reduced incomes cut budgets, faced cheaper housing, fewer servants, and lower quality clothing, creating wider social consequences.
Redefining standards and aristocracy for true culture
The piece questions who sets standards of living and who governs them, arguing wealth alone does not equal culture. It urges shedding superficial living to elevate personality, promoting true aristocracy as spirit and inner character over material wealth, and notes democracy should guide what truly elevates.
Whimsical Walls for a Travel-Minded Boy
Betty Wells offers an interior plan for a practical street in which a dining room and a boy’s room are shaped around space constraints. Corner maple cupboards, white plaster walls, a gun metal linoleum floor with compass inlay, and Jacobean oak furniture create flexible, budget-friendly settings aligned to a geography loving nine-year-old.
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Toile de Touype
Brown
Betty Wells
WNU Service
Sympathy and Justice as Reflectors of Inner Life
The note from the Western Newspaper Union emphasizes sympathy simple justice and beneficent conduct as outward expressions of a righteous inner heart life.
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Western Newspaper Union
Duryea Wins First American Automobile Race
Charles B. Duryea claimed the first automobile race in America in 1895 with his gasoline buggy easily beating steam and electric rivals of the era.
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Charles B. Duryea
America
Nebraska officials report shelterbelts aid irrigation gains
Balcom of Minatare CCC forestry supervisor said shelterbelts and concrete ditches by CCC camps boost western Nebraska irrigation and reduce seepage losses. Grants for assistance rise by 69,301.58. Road bids total 312000 with six roadside projects. Farm tenant loans approved for Cedar Dawson Gage Morrill Polk counties total 28 loans averaging 7000. State overdraft down to 254295.58 with strong bank condition reported by Saunders.
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North Platte
R. B. Balcom
Balcom
Nebraska
Gage
Neil V. Vandemoer
Cochran
State Highway Department
North Western
Crowell
A. T. Lobdell
Wallace
Farm Security Administration
E. E. Greene
Cedar
Dawson
Morrill
Polk
Home Heating Hints by John Parsley
A WNU Service piece advises against using a poker to stir the fire from above. Stirring mixes ashes with live coals, forming clinkers that choke the fire and clog grates. Packing coal from above reduces air flow, but clinkers can be broken up and dropped into the ashpit by shaking the grates.
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WNU
Oh Wad the Powers the Giftee Gie Us
A pompous elderly man in a railway carriage boasts of his success and status. When the ticket collector asks his destination the man snarls at the question and insists the ticket is for a watch, revealing a misread boarding pass.
Glass Curtain Shines At Palacio de Bellas Artes
A Tiffany glass curtain in Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes stands as a standout feature. Thousands of vari colored glass pieces form a dramatic display, with lighting revealing Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl volcanoes at sunrise midday and sunset.
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National Theater
Mexico City
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Tiffany
New York
Popocatepetl
Ixtaccihuatl
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BY Charles Sughroe
Gramfaw
Montana
Dizzy Dean
Bradenton
Fla
Cardinals
Amazea Minute Scientifacts
Arnoli
Islands
Hawaii
California
By Leonard A. Barrett
Harold Hawes
School of Economics
Purdue University
Ousehold Tfints By
Daisy
Roosevelt
Faith Young
Owen D. Young
American Red Cross
Cary T. Grayson
Red Cross
Nebraska Petroleum Marketers, Inc
Walter Jensen
Treasury
Denton
Denton’s Facial Magnesia Select Products, Inc
23Rd St
Congeland City
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