Nebraska Farm Mortgages Fall While Land Value Ties Rise
Nebraska mortgage indebtedness shows a 23.7 percent loan share of farm land valued at 1928 figures, a $18.49 million drop since 1925. Nationwide, north central states lead in mortgage trends with a $108 million U.S. increase since 1925, while Nebraska records a $35.94 million annual interest bill on farm debt. Nebrask a farm lands mortgaged at $599,026,000 based on 1928 data.
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Lincoln
Nebraska and Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
North Central
Nebraska
United States
North Central States
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
South Dakota
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Ship Nebraska Mules To India
Frank Simpson of Florence Nebraska plans a major peace time mule shipment to India for the British government. Twenty carloads from Nebraska Kansas and Dakota will depart Florence and Fremont with 620 mules and 13 carloads of feed for acclimation. Occurring in November the mules will be used for army and road work once accepted by British agents and meeting height weight and pulling requirements.
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Nebraska
India
Omaha
Frank Simpson
Florence
Nebr
Simpson
Fremont
Kansas
Dakota
Dakotas
Walnut Timber Promoted as Regular Nebraska Crop
Rex Parson of Lincoln representing Penrod Jurden Clark announced walnut timber as a farm crop with potential yearly value around 50 dollars per acre. The company buys walnut in Nebraska at Pawnee City Falls City Liberty Lincoln and Cedar Bluffs for Des Moines mill, with lumber valued from forty to two hundred dollars per thousand feet and over forty thousand feet already gathered at DuBois. They expect shipments exceeding two hundred thousand feet from Pawnee City and DuBois as 20 years grow sizeable trees.
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Pawnee City
Rex Parson
Lincoln
Penrod, Jurden & Clark
Nebraska
Falls City
Liberty
Cedar Bluffs
Des Moines
Parson
Pawnee
DuBois
More Deaths In State In 1928 Washington DC
Nebraska saw a rise in deaths in 1928 with 13 660 total, up from 12 869 in 1927. Death rate per 100 000 climbed from 886 to 970 2 driven by heart disease cancer diabetes influenza and pneumonia. Omaha plans a corn stalk pulp plant after talks with Corn Stalk Products in New York.
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Washington, D. C
Nebraska
Department of Commerce
Omaha
Chicago
Glen Eastburn
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Eastburn
Harl Harding
Corn Stalk Products Company of
New York
Gas Tax Revenue Down From Peak Record
State treasurer reports October gasoline tax receipts tied to September shipments fell more than 200000 below the prior month’s peak. The total nears 18.7 million after small items, versus 947,607 in September tied to August shipments. October income this year nonetheless doubles October 1928 levels when the tax was 3 cents per gallon.
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Lincoln
Alliance to house Times-Herald plant with new brick building
A contract is awarded for a $60,000 brick two story building to house the Times-Herald newspaper plant in Alliance, as reported by Ben J. Sallows. Falls City church awards the Oldest Bible prize to Mrs. Grant Windle for a 1773 German Bible, 156 years old. Cattle movement in western Nebraska remains heavy with Burlington reporting 250 carloads to be shipped from Alliance to Seneca, while many cattle are on feeding ranges this fall.
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Times-Herald
Alliance
Ben J. Sallows
Christian Church
Falls City
Grant Windle
Nebraska
Burlington Railroad
Seneca
North Platte plans campaign for new hospital fund
The North Platte executive committee advances a campaign to raise 240000 for a proposed hospital building. Doctors donate equipment. former Governor Keith Neville started the drive with a several thousand dollar subscription.
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North Platte
Keith Neville
Fossil Skeleton Exhibited Near Naper Believed Prehistoric
Road crew unearthed bones embedded in limestone near Naper. Viewers think they show a woman holding a child, possibly ten feet tall, with a plain form and a single ear visible. Opinions vary from pre-glacial humans to a gorilla type.
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Naper
American Legion Wilber approves $10000 club house plan
At the Wilber annual meeting the American Legion authorized a club house costing about ten thousand dollars. Committees will secure a location on the city edge and arrange for architect’s plans. A donation was made toward the city library. Armistice day ceremonies are set for the opera house. A state college of agriculture and Burlington railroad joint exhibit tour drew 108063 visitors across 63 stops with an average attendance of 1715 per stop, ending in Ak-Sar-Ben Omaha after Ravenna.
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American Legionn
Wilber
Opera House
State College of Agriculture
Burlington Railroad
Ravenna
Lincoln
Ak- Sar-Ben
Omaha
President Hoover presses for swift tariff action in Senate
President Hoover urges the Senate to pass a tariff bill within two weeks. He avoids detailing rate schedules but backs agriculture and industry protection, prompting swift but contentious debates on schedules and coalition moves to push legislation before year end.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate
White House
Jones
Rep
Wash
House
United States Senate
Madame Curie Receives $50,000 to Buy Radium
President Hoover presented a $50,000 draft in silver to Madame Curie in a National Academy of Sciences ceremony. The funds will be used by American supporters to purchase a gram of radium for the famed scientist.
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Washington
Diplomatic Corps
Madame Curie
Hoover
National Academy of Sciences
Five Sons Hacked to Death Near Sofia Bulgaria
A Bulgarian villager Angueloff of Vasillevizi found his five sons hacked to pieces while they tended sheep. He brought food to the site and reported no trace of the assailant.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Angueloff
Vasillevizi
Reverend John Straton Dies at 54 in Clifton Springs
Rev Dr John Roach Straton, noted militant fundamentalist Baptist preacher, died at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs New York. He was fifty four years old.
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John R. Straton
Clifton Springs
N. Y
John Roach Straton
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