Rain delays Sunol combining and threshing activity
Sunol reports heavy rain delaying combining and threshing. Local social visits include Harold Edens visiting relatives in Imperial and many gatherings at the Demers and Booth households. Community news notes cleaning of the school house, travel to Denver and Sidney, and Marcia Lee Webb's injury from a fall with a deep arm gash requiring stitches.
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Harold Edens
Imperial
Elsse
Eldora Bahr
Gertrude Bahr
John Demers
J. W. Webb
A. Fenske
Ben Vacik
Kidney
Mrs. Johnson
Fremont
G. W. Barlow
A. A. Bauer
Lee Line
Bund
Amelia Lindley
Blue Springs
Leah Booth
Firth Booth
Bert Allington
Tom
Chappell
Mons Johnson
Leslie Johnson
Earl Johnson
Lee Johnson
Earl Hoagland
Show
Walter Craig
E. L. Booth
Leah
J W Webb
Paul Booth
John Bahr
Sidney
Palmquist
H H Misegadis
Orma
James Tighe
Joe Wilson
Sheridan
Wyo
Booth
Missouri
Wilson
Marcia Lee Webb
East Center Summer Visitors Depart for Home
Mr and Mrs Harry Fessire and Austin Johnson left Vern Ankeny home for Laurel. Mr and Mrs Morris Peterson and children returned to North Bend after visiting Ray Berry home. G B Lobb and J O Lobb with Sylvia hosted at N H Tank Sidney. Mrs Henry Tank and Raymond visit Emil Tank near Potter. Loretta Tank visits Conrad Gerke. Linton family motor to Sidney. G B Lobb returns to Lincoln after summer stay. George Thompson of Sidney visited J O Lobb.
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Harry Fessire
Austin Johnson
Vern Ankeny
Laurel
Morris Peterson
North Bend
Ray Berry
G. B. Lobb
J. O. Lobb
Sylvia
N. H. Tank
Sidney
Henry Tank
Raymond
Emil Tank
Potter
N. AH. Tank
Loretta
Conrad Gerke
Albert Linton
Lincoln
George Thompson
Nebraska Corn Crop Condition 72 Percent Midmonth Bulletin
The Nebraska corn crop condition on August 15 stood at 72.8 percent per the midmonth bulletin. The report details the crop health status across the state and notes improvements or declines since earlier assessments.
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Nebraska
Prospects for corn fall after July 15 relief
A. E Anderson reports state and federal crop statisticians see corn prospects lowered since July 15 as continued dry weather would have worsened losses. Rain has mitigated damage and corn withstood heat better than expected while small grains yields exceed August 1 projections with 78 percent wheat and 71 percent oats threshed. Farm prices exceed July 15 with corn up 15 cents, wheat 6 cents, oats 4 cents, alfalfa hay 1.34 per ton, hogs 36 cents, butterfat 6 cents, and eggs up 1 cent a dozen.
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A. E Anderson
Gasoline use shows traffic rise across Nebraska in 1930
A highway bulletin links gasoline consumption to growing motor traffic, noting that registration figures miss miles driven and winter travel. In six months of 1930 Nebraska shipped 9,350,000 more gallons than 1929, implying about 112 million extra vehicle miles and 62 additional cars per trunk highway mile per day.
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Nebraska
State Highway Department
Nebraska seeks consular agents amid mixed settlement roots
Nebraska's population splits between original colonial descendants and European immigrant lines. The need for consular agents grows in the state’s largest city. Sweden maintains an official consul in Nebraska, while Nebraskans of foreign birth act as informal representatives for many nations. Germans form the largest group of foreign birth Nebraskans, followed by Swedes and Czechs.
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Nebraska
Sweden
Bread Prices and Wages in Wheat Economy
Analyzes why bread cost cannot drop with wheat prices. Argues bakery wages and rail/ mill costs drive bread price higher. Cites unions and steel wage views, urging wage leveling rather than consumer price cuts, and notes Department of Labor price data from 1930.
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Joseph
Chas. F. Hohlman
Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union of North America
John M. Hartley
Associated Bakers of America
J. A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Printers Ink
Department of Labor
Federal Farm Board
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Foreign-born residents listed by census ranks in Nebraska
A Nebraska article notes that foreign nationals from Russia and other nations rank according to 1920 census figures in order of population. It highlights local government officials as contact points between countries and the community, aiding communication and business for Nebraska.
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Nebraska
Oyster farming abroad mirrors ours in many ways
Countries that raise oysters for market besides ours include England France Germany Holland Spain Italy Australia China Japan Canada Mexico and parts of South America and Algeria. About ten oyster species exist in these nations all sharing a similar structure though sizes and flavors vary.
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England
France
Germany
Holland
Spain
Italy
Australia
China
Japan
Canada
Mexico
South America
Algeria
Splendor Sage of Chinatown Cautions Pride’s Blindness
The Washington Star quotes the sage Hi Ho of Chinatown warning that splendor may cause a proud man to be overlooked due to his own magnificence, a remark highlighted in a Telegraph Want Ad context.
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Hi Ho
Chinatown
Washington Star
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