Relief Sets Highest Payrolls In State Work
Nebraska's largest payroll remains the relief roll with about 23 000 workers earning around 1 300 monthly. WPA funds account for roughly 1 100 000 monthly, while 200 000 comes from other federal and state programs for labor on aid projects. At its peak in 1936 November 33 479 worked and 1 442 000 payroll. by May 1937 the figure fell to 20 182 workers as funding and demand shifted.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Federal Works Progress Administration
Dwight F. Felton
Public Works Administration
National Park Service
National Forest Service
U. S. Army
U. S. Biological Survey
Resettlement Administration
State Highway Department
WPA
Bids Opened for Hastings Substation Project
Tri- County power and irrigation district reviews over 20 bids for a $300000 Hastings electric substation. Westinghouse submitted the low bid of 110699 for oil switch parts, while General Electric offered 75788 for transformers. Directors expect to meet soon to award contracts.
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Hastings
Tri- County
Lincoln speech touts Nebraska as future educational hub
Professor R P Crawford told the Southeastern Nebraska Press association in Lincoln that Nebraska can become a top educational center in years ahead. He urged a moderate rise in the university's biennial funding to lift its national rank by about five places.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
R. P. Crawford
Southeastern Nebraska Press Association
Lincoln Hotel
Crawford
Nebraska liquor tax law adds to state revenue
State figures show the new beer and liquor tax law, effective April 2, produced $81,341 in additional revenue. Chairman J A McEachen of the Nebraska Liquor Commission announced the breakdown: liquor taxes $57,296. beer $11,578. wine $10,258. and eight wine $2,207.
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Lincoln
J. A. McEachen
Nebraska Hquor Commission
Nebraska Employment Service Reports May Placements
Nebraska state employment service and the national re employment service announced that about 1 888 placements were made in private industry in May. This is eight fewer than April but 260 percent higher than May 1936. The two services combined filled 2 417 public non relief positions in May, down 289 from April.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
National
Group to be Sent to Genoa Prison Farm
Lincoln Chairman Walter Hager of the state board of control announced that the first group of state penitentiary inmates will be sent to the new Genoa prison farm soon. Officials said about 25 prisoners will form the initial detachment with more to follow as farm work expands. About 100 inmates will be selected by Warden Joseph O Grady Jr from outside trustees for assignment to the farm.
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Lincoln
Walter Hager
State Board of Control
Genoa
Joseph O'Grady, Jr
Congress Shows Independence as Roosevelt Lands Slipstream
The piece argues Congress, in Roosevelt’s second term, is charting an independent path by scrutinizing White House bills. It notes resistance on relief funds and the farm bill, with Senate scrutiny and the threat of a court packing plan shaping a shift from the New Deal's early subservience. It also covers Treasury borrowing and gold policy amid growing deficits and gold imports.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
New Deal Congress
Roosevelt
White House
Supreme Court
Harry Hopkins
Mr Hopkins
Mr. Hopkins
Relief Fund
House Agriculture Committee
Wallace
Robinson
Ickes
Hopkins
Treasury
Morgenthau
United States
America
World Nations
Union
When Joseph Saw His Father Again Lesson
The lesson centers on Joseph showing kindness to his father Jacob and family, with his faith in God guiding a thoughtful, affectionate reunion. It recalls Genesis 46 and 50, stressing mutual devotion to God, humble family life, and leaving a faith-filled heritage for future generations.
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Joseph
Egypt
Promised Land
Land of
Pharaoh
Jacob
Canaan
God
Pleasure and Pain in Everyday Experience
A reflective note on how pleasure and pain arise from our mental stance toward surrounding circumstances and objects, asserting happiness depends on interpretation rather than external factors, attributed to Peacock.
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Peacock
Around 4 we House eea Items of Interest
A scattered roundup of household tips from the WNU Service covers kitchen hacks and small crafts. Advice includes avoiding boilovers with a buttered pot rim, brightening faded piano keys with alcohol, preserving cut flowers with sulfurous acid, making custard sauce, cleaning rubber rollers with kerosene, and stove polishing with old shoe polish. Also notes rhubarb preparation, cabbage cooked in milk, storing tea and coffee, and tinting milk to please children.
Laissez que je vous réponde and other phrases
A collection of foreign expressions with English translations and notes. It lists phrases in French and Latin with parallels like permit me to answer you and after wit is every man's wit. Also includes sans les injustices des hommes une nuit sans sommeil Uberrima fides and furor arma ministrat.
Time as a River Image in Verse
The passage likens time to a river of passing events with a strong current, noting that once something appears it is quickly swept away and replaced by the next moment. The quoted lines emphasize the relentless, transitory flow of time.
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Buck Jones’ Ranch
Little Billy
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Nade
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