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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1929
Page
3
The automobile reshaped life by shrinking distances and expanding cities. Speed, traffic risks, and the need for roads and regulations grew. projected air travel may further ease surface congestion. In New York and other cities, cars remain a minority, with streetcars meeting current needs until parking and safety improve.
The article recalls farmers long-ago expectations of a windfall era when grain profits would ease toil. Nebraska kept diversified farming through price busts as corn fell to 27 cents and wheat fell steeply in 1921, and Nebraskas agriculture entered a defining period of resilience and prudent adaptation.
Nebraska farmers expanded dairy herds and upgraded stock as corn markets shifted to pork in 1921 22. Butterfat production soared past 100 million pounds, placing Nebraska behind only Wisconsin and Minneapolis in extension dairying. Poultry revived with scientific methods, making dairy and poultry the state's top money earners in 1928, surpassing wheat and oats combined.
Opera star Marion Talley purchases a western Kansas wheat farm, planning to raise horses cattle turkeys and poultry alongside wheat. The move shows courage amid farm sector worries and a shift from Broadway to rural enterprise as she pursues a lifelong ambition.
Nebraska will buy more than 4.4 million blank forms for the new driver license law. Bids are due June 10 to State Purchasing Agent Yoder, with two main parts: 1.6 million duplicate application forms and 1.2 million lithographed license blanks for 93 counties. Deliveries required by August 5, licenses issued after September 1.
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