Public Service Co Offers Low Rates for Pump Irrigation
Western Public Service Company outlines irrigation pumping plan for Pumpkin Creek valley. Memo details two pump stations at company expense during a trial, later selling equipment at cost, with rates: first 100 kWh per month per hp at 4 cents, excess at 2.5 cents, minimum yearly charge of $10 per hp. Additional three year plan expects $10 per acre irrigated in line extensions. economics show an acre foot cost near $1.38 under 60 percent efficiency, with broader potential for valley development and higher yields through pump irrigation powered by electricity.
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Bridgeport News Blade
Pumpkin Creek
R L. Gill
Western Public Service Company
H A. Larsen
Bridgeport
Gill
H. A. Larsen
Snedeker
Bridgeport News-Blade
Pumpkin Creek Valley
H. P
R. L. Gill
Banner County
Boy Hurt In Railroad Yard Accident
Vernal Carpenter, a young lad, was injured last Saturday in the Carey Brothers service yard when riding a horse and colliding with a guy wire, causing a telephone pole to fall on him and inflicting a head gash needing three stitches.
Civil service ends probe of day position applicants
Washington reports the civil service commission has finished testing 5000 applicants for prohibition service jobs and will certify eligibles to the treasury department. 12000 took the test, 7000 failed, but retakes possible where shortages exist. New exams will be tougher to raise selection value and fill about 70 administrator posts as vacancies persist. Temporary appointees currently hold 2500 dry positions awaiting full certification.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Prohibition Service
Treasury Department
Prohibition
Doran
Prohibition Bureau
Commission
Civil Service
Dry Bureau
Immigration Official Quizzes I. W. W. at Oshkosh
A Denver immigration inspector held a hearing in Oshkosh on a charge of disseminating I. W. W. literature and anarchist propaganda by a Mexican beer laborer living in the city for two years. The accused, an I. W. W. member and considered anarchist, was discharged as not advocating violence. The inspector will file a full report to Washington.
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United States
Denver
Oshkosh
Washington
Garden County News
Radio Livestock Car Supply Broadcasts From WOW Omaha
The Nebraska cattle and sheep shipping schedule will be broadcast on WOW Omaha at 1 45 p m and 5 p m each Wednesday and Saturday until November 1. The service, secured from railroads, benefits shippers and is courtesy of the Omaha livestock exchange per Nebraska Stock Growers association requests. Shippers are urged to listen.
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Nebraska
WOW
Omaha
Omaha Livestock Exchange
Nebraska Stock Growers Association
Reading railroad operator sparks home radio phantom
Earl W Davidson of Reading, a railroad telegraph operator, devised a gadget that lets a loudspeaker function as a broadcasting microphone. He demonstrated from Terre Hill, Pa, reaching neighbors up to 14 miles and attracting a Wall Street offer of 35 000 in stock plus a salary as radio research adviser.
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Earl W Davidson
Reading
Davidson
Gee- Bee
Terre Hill
Chicago
Pittsburgh
New York
Wall Street
Sixty Passenger Seaplane Planned By U S Firm
O Connor Transportation Airways announces tests complete for a 60 passenger seaplane to cross the north Atlantic in 20 hours. Construction to start immediately, first flight in four months. Plane designed by John P. O Connor of New York, wing span 160 feet, 70 000 pounds full load, eight air cooled engines with two spare, new structural design to haul large fuel and pay loads for transatlantic and coastwise routes.
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North Atlantic Ocean
O'Connor Transportation Airways, Inc
New York
O’connor Company
Bermuda
John P. O'Connor
Stock Exchange to Address State Bankers in Omaha
Nebraska Bankers association members travel to Omaha for their annual convention October 17 and 18. E H H Simmons president of the New York Stock Exchange will speak. First day sessions are at the live stock exchange building and the second at the Fontenelle. Other speakers include W M Bortles of Kansas City attorney on direct buying of live stock, D W Stephens of Fremont founder of the regional clearing house system, Thornton Cooke of Kansas City taxation committee head, O R Sweeney corn stalk conversion expert of Ames Iowa, and R R Smith banking commissioner of South Dakota.
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Nebraska Bankers Association
Omaha
E.H. H. Simmons
New York Stock Exchange
Livestock Exchange
Fontenelle
W. M. Bortles
Kansas City
D. W. Stephens
Fremont
Thornton Cooke
Kansas
High Poultry and Dairy Price Prospects Amid Storage Figures
July 1 cold storage data show frozen poultry below last year while eggs remain near or above five year averages. Butter in storage totals 63.343 million pounds, down 7 million from last year and 20 million below the five year average. Cheese storage runs below last year, with American cheese at 53.617 million pounds versus 50 million last year and 46.522 million average. Beef in storage is half the average, pork run 15 percent above average and 8.5 above last year. Packers’ storage on July 1 reaches 214.465 million pounds, up 46 percent from 1927 and 56 percent above the five year average.
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Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
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Sidney
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Sidney Swimming
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Eenee Chaney
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Lindy
Texas
Varsa
E. F. Swanberg
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