Prospects For Crop Improved As Rains Fall
Washington June 11 prospects for a one billion dollar wheat crop rose after the agriculture department forecast 825 to 850 million bushels total. The board projected 649 million from winter wheat with a 71.5 percent normal condition and 3.7 bushels per acre. Spring wheat was seen at 175 to 200 million bushels, aided by recent rainfall ending drought in the Plains though drought deficits still weighed on crops. Paul Revere is noted separately as the midnight rider who popularized the eagle symbol.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Crop Reporting Board
Great Plains States
University To Mark 200th Year
University of Pennsylvania prepares a 1940 bicentennial year in Philadelphia featuring a symposium of leading scholars, integrated lectures on intellectual progress, and a fall finale with Bicentennial degrees. Old football rivals Penn meet for a regatta with other colonial colleges invited along the Schuylkill River.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Wayne, Jr
America
Wayne
Penn
Schuylkill River
Band Concert To Be Held Saturday
Oberlin Ohio announces the first in a series of Summer Band Concerts to be led by Lawrence Gill. The Oberlin Fife Bugle and Drum Corps will exhibit drills at seven, followed by baton twirling by Adam West. Rehearsals occurred midweek, with youths practicing daily at Oberlin Summer School. Afterward the band members visit Apollo Theatre’s Jerry Steel, then return home to East College Street for a few weeks before Syria.
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Oberlin
Lawrence Gilt
Oberlin’ Fife, Bugle
Adam West
Gill
Jerry Steel
Apollo Theatre
Flower Mission Day Observed by Oberlin W C T U
The Oberlin W C T U held its annual Flower Mission Day at First Methodist Church to honor the sick with flowers fruit and tokens. Mrs Sedgeman directed the department Mrs Baxter led the devotional and Mrs Persons served as news commentator. The next meeting will be a mid summer picnic on July 21. News notes cover Shafer returning from a Baltimore Annapolis trip and other local health and move news.
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Oberlin W. C. T. U
First Methodist Church
Sedgeman
Baxter
Persons
Beams Record Traffic Movement in South Dakota
Invisible infrared beams record traffic on principal routes in South Dakota this year for the state highway department. Automatic devices installed under Harper Hamilton, traffic manager for the state highway planning survey, monitor flows for official data. A separate suit from Oklahoma seeks 5000 dollars for a wolf bite injury. Weatherford alleges a Weleetka wolf bit him, rabies treatment required. France prices cited as higher than rivals.
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Pierre
South Dakota
State Highway Department
Harper Hamilton
Oremah
Okla
W. J. B. Weatherford
Weleetka
Weatherford
Tips For 1937 Job Hunters From Akron Leader
Akron telegram outlines Bert S. Taylor six point scorecard for college men seeking work. Criteria include manner to make others glad, breadth of knowledge, ability to apply knowledge, potential for cooperation and loyalty, and personal presentation. Also notes Burwash England demography with nearly 100 over 70 and only one death under 70 in 20 years.
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Akron
Bert S. Taylor
B. F. Goodrich Company
Taylor
Burwash
England
Hawaii Plans For Food Reserves
Honolulu reports Major General Hugh A. Drum promotes emergency farming as essential to Hawaii’s self sufficiency in wartime. Eight island areas study production and consumption with aid from the Agriculture Department. Current imports cover much of the civilian need, including millions in potatoes onions fruits meats and eggs. Army Navy totals reach about 15 500 on the islands. A second item notes the equator crossing steamer Clement Hill ending 25 years of service after 2 500 crossings.
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Honolulu
America
Hugh A. Drum
U. S. Army
Service Command
Federal Department of Agriculture
United States
Hawaii
Department of Commerce
Capetown
Equator
Clement Hill
Lake Victoria
Forty clubs to take part in soccer contest to Russia
Thirty six cities will participate in a soccer contest bound for Russia. The event features teams from multiple regions aiming to showcase talent on an international stage.
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Russia
Two Okolona Teens Share Valedictorian Honor At Graduation
Elizabeth Eliot and Eleanor Baater both 17, neighbors since primer class, graduated from Okolona High School as co valedictorians with identical four year averages. In Novi Pazar Yugoslavia a 63 year old mother gave birth to a daughter. the baby’s age is listed as 38.
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Okolona
Elizabeth El-iot
Eleanor Baater
Okolona High School
Marija Jankoviteh
Novi Pasar
Yugoslavia
Baa
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Rigbee Supply CO
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Tam O’shanter
Sparta
United Feature Syndicats
Fon ‘Ous
Esther Wood
Professor St
West College Street
East College Street
Syria
Carl F. Wittke
Fiske
Rowland J. Tappan
J. E. Ferguson
Indiana Hills
Euclid
Ralph Dailey
Wagner
King Street
Elysia
Harold Cassidy
Cincinnati
Cassidy
Dorothy Braithwaite
Allen Hospital
W.C.T.U
Warren W. Shafer
Baltimore
Maryland
Annapolis
T. S. S. Wyoming
S. G. Clifton
Cleveland Clinic
Catherine Kutscher
J. H. Kutscher
Alien Hospital
G. Walter Fiske
France
Mantzen Bathing
Altman & Ackerman
Dey
the China Shop
King’s Blue Band
Tate
Uating
Pele
Elyria, Shio
Geshe
Studebaker Chemical. Co
Vulcan St
Fairgrounds
Norge
Avarale
E. Loeffler CO
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