Volume Of Air Mail Doubled In Five Years
Washington reports the U S domestic air mail system has grown from a single 1918 route to over 29 000 route miles with more than 40 million miles flown last year The service costs 7 million less annually than 1932 and 15 377 000 pounds of mail were moved in the last fiscal year Farley cites rising foreign air mail and new safeguards from ocean and air subsidy reforms this growth follows anti subsidy legislation and competitive bidding by contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
New York
Thaca
Post Office Department
March of Transportation
U. S
Farley
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Black
Columbia Church Notes Highlights Local Ministry and Baptisms
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Hughes led activities at Columbia and LaPorte Churches with a Lent baptism of two adults and three children. Union and sunrise services, Easter breakfast, and upcoming sermons by Rev. Dr. Sharp and Rev. Hughes are noted along with twelve baptized members joining May 1.
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Columbia
Thomas Hughes
Lorain County
Elyria
Hughes
LaPorte
Columbia Methodist Church
Methodist Church
Claude Olmsted
Baptist Church
Town Hall
Columbia Baptist Church
Colgate Rochester
New York
Divinity School
Dr. Sharp of
Cleveland
The
Gladys Cole
Eileen Putt
Viola Cartright
Viola Henke
Roland Bartter
Clarence Walker
Harold Stinchcomb
Warren Meek
Warren Briggs
Norman Putt
Acme Grange
Parent-Teachers Association
E. L. Brett
Lakewood
Ernest Domford
Dover
J. H. Akins
Gertrude
Homer
Florida
Mary Pinckney
Mary Carr
Toledo
Pinckney Home
Edna Hankey
Mabel Meek
Bertha Grills
William Inger-soll
Roberta Ingersoll
Allen Smith
Mrs. Inger- Boll
Nova, Ohio
Lest We Forget The War Loans To Europe
The article recalls that funds lent to Europe during and after the war for relief, construction, and maintenance of credit were borrowed from American taxpayers.
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Europe
Girls to Have Own CCC Camps
The program creates 60 camps for 5,000 underprivileged girls with pay of five dollars monthly plus board and clothes. Camps use abandoned barracks and local buildings, offering training in cooking, housekeeping, handicraft, gardening, and plant nursery, with English health hygiene and student council disciplines under women directors.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kansas City
Richard R. Brong
Rhode Island
Arkansas
Florida
Oklahoma
Missouri
South Dakota
Tennessee
Worst Calamity In Africa Is To Be Born Twins
Mrs Elizabeth Williams Curtis, wife of Samuel J. Curtis principal of a school in Southern Rhodesia, writes that in Africa twins are feared as a bad omen and that a new law against killing twins leads to many infants being brought to missions. She notes irony in blooming carnations outside.
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Boston
Africa
Mt. Silinda
Rhodesia
Elizabeth Williams Curtis
Samuel J. Curtis
American Board of Foreign Missions
Curtis
Artesian Well Yields Healthful Colloidal Water Near Belleville
Dr. E. M. Carefoot reports a 500 foot artesian well four miles north of Belleville producing natural colloidal water. Analysis shows iodine and gold in colloidal form, with calcium and traces of silver barium magnesium potassium lithium manganese strontium and chlorides. Water benefits ulcerated stomachs skin conditions bladder trouble goiter arthritis neuritis and is being tested by Colloidal Laboratories of America for Rockefeller Foundation.
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Belleville
Ont
E. M. Carefoot
Carefoot
Colloidal Laboratories of America
Rockefeller Foundation
Unemployment in Sweden Declines Further
Stockholm reports a continuing drop in joblessness with 31 000 unemployed on January 1, down from 98 000 a year earlier. The Swedish Trades Unions record 11.9 percent unemployment versus 14.9 percent in 1935, while the Government Unemployment Committee spent 43 140 000 kronor in 1936, a reduction from prior totals.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Farm wife walks 350 miles yearly in kitchen study
Kansas State College extension engineer E D Warner notes farm women log about 350 miles of kitchen walking annually as they prepare meals. He links this to the need for a conveniently equipped kitchen to reduce effort.
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Manhattan
Kan
E D. Warner
Kansas State College
Question answers on marriage, royalty and divorce trends
The text argues self deception in money fights, explains royal decline via marriages, and cites Gina Kaus on Germany’s high divorce rate in 1935. It notes royalty’s general ability and links insanity to marriages, finishing with a 1937 copyright notice.
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F. A. Woods
Spain
Austria
England
Sweden
Holland
Gina Kaus
Germany
John F. Dille Co
California motor clubs push built in safety for highways
Sacramento a safety drive by state motor clubs urged built in safety for California highways. They propose divided highways with one way traffic, flattening hill crests for visibility, reflectorized markers, better metro signal control, and phased removal of grade crossings to cut the state’s high accident toll.
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Sacramento
Cal
California
Girl Becomes Truck Driver at Bay Area Lumber Camp
In Big Bay Michigan Anto Makela hires rugged road workers for pulpwood trips. A lean corn-haired girl Beatrice Lang arrives with confidence announcing she is the new truck driver. She proves capable by helping with mechanical repairs that night.
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Big Bay
Mich
Anto Makela
B. Lang
Makela
Beatrice Lang
Dog’s Footwork Brings Victory Over Rattler
GREEN RIVER Utah An amazing mongrel named Tough wins a deadly encounter with a rattlesnake 10 miles north of town. Under WPA guidance handler Harry P. Bagley notes Tough circles feints and lunges then twists the snake by the neck and hurls it to the rocks ending the danger.
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Green River
Utah
Here
Harry P. Bagley
WPA Information Service
Beatrice Makela First in Line for Forest Log Truck Route
Beatrice Makela a 23 year old road monkey, weighs 110 pounds, has driven the two ton spruce log truck for two years. She starts daybreak as first in line through forest roads in Huron mountains and averages over 190 miles daily despite rough rutty roads. She trained as fire clerk in Chicago to buy her truck and lives in a bunkhouse near Blaney Park, Michigan.
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Huron Mountains
Makela
Beatrice J
Beatrice
Chicago
Blaney Park
Mich
Michigan plants over two million game fish in 1936
Lansing report states the Michigan Conservation Commission announced that 2,021,420 game fish were planted in state waters during 1936. The figure highlights the department's ongoing stocking program and efforts to boost fishing opportunities.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
State Conservation Commission
Eclipse Party To Sail April 27
American scientists prepare for a June 8 solar eclipse observation at Engelbury Island in the British Phoenix group South Seas. The group sails from San Francisco April 27 aboard the Mariposa to Honolulu then to Pearl Harbor and Engelbury Island aboard the Avose. Led by Dr Samuel A Mitchell the party includes Capt J F Hellwig Dr Theodore Dunham and others from Mt Wilson Cornell Michigan Georgetown and the U S Naval Observatory.
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San Francisco
Engelbury Island
Phoenix Group
South Seas
Honolulu
Theodore Dunham
Mt. Wilson Observatory
Pasadena
Floyd K. Rightmyer
Cornell University Graduate School
Heber B. Curtis
University of Michigan Observatory
Paul A. McNally
Georgetown College Observatory
Washington
John E. Wills
U. S. Naval Observatory
Irvine C. Gardner
U. S. Bureau of Standards
Railroad Runs Private Train For Lone Passenger
A Toronto woman rode a special train advertised at 1 cent a mile from Toronto to Haliburton. The service ended 40 miles short at Fenelon Falls when the passenger insisted the journey be completed. The conductor relented and the train continued to Haliburton with one rider in the last coach.
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Fenelon Falls
Ont
Toronto
Haliburton
Hawaii’s Ka Hoku O Hawaii and Nu pepa Kuoka Remain Weekly
Two Hawaii newspapers, Ka Hoku O Hawaii and Nu pepa Kuoka, continue weekly publication in the native language. Each four-page edition provides concise world and local news summaries for readers in Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Hawaii
Ka Hoku O
Bridal Month Brings Divorces As Well As Marriages
Ambridge Beaver County officials report June 1936 as a peak for family legal actions. Records show 27 desertion and non support cases tied to brides, 23 in September, with 1,500 active cases and rising despite prosperity.
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Ambridge
Beaver County
Britain adds record radio licenses in January rise
London reports a new high total of 71,464 broadcasting licenses. January saw an increase of 110,891 licenses, and the past year added 592,847 licenses in total.
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London
Chile's Coal Source Among Few in South America
Chile stands out as one of the limited South American producers of coal, shaping regional energy dynamics and export options amid varied national resources and mining capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chile
Carved miniature figures on display in sand and pines
A display features seventy one figures carved by four hands. The three inch tall figures depict men and women in various poses including rowing walking swimming dancing and playing ball set among sand tiny pines and handmade log cabins.
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Pee Termeaie
Pittsburgh Wedding Bond Sparks Friendship Club
William F. Clark Jr a University of Pittsburgh graduate forms the Pittsburgh Friendship Club as a new social group in the city. The wedding theme underscores the club’s aim to foster community ties among residents and alumni.
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Pittsburgh
Beth
Pittsburgh Friendship Club
William F. Clark, Jr
University of Pittsburgh
Sorbole Quadruple Promises Thyroid Relief
An advertisement touts Sorbole Quadruple as a colorless tincture for thyroid substance. It claims rapid relief for thousands and urges twice daily use, noting involvement of two physicians and a Delaware Ohio retailer. Mrs Dot Cox of 36 Prosper St endorses its success.
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H. A.dall
Dot Cox
Prospes St
Delaware
Ohio
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Laura I. Baldt
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Columbia University
N.Y
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West 18Th Street
N. Y
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Rattler
Britain
Middle Avenue
Aria, Ohio
J.T. Barnard
Mgr
Tru
Cee
Romanch
June
Mary
Silvers
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