Alaska Road Commission seeks $2 million for roads and trails
Washington December 4 1929 chief of engineers U S Army submits to Congress an estimate of 2 million dollars for Alaska road and trail maintenance and new construction for the year ending June 30 1930 and starting July 1 1929. Details include allocations by district and projects with emphasis on Fairbanks and southwestern Alaska.
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Washington, D. C
U. S. Army
Congress
Alaska Road Commission
Palrbanks-Circle
Alaska
Bethel District
Eagle
Valdez
Chitina
Fairbanks
Southwestern
Kuskokwim
Nome
Southwestern Alaska
Lkely
Southeastern Alaska
Walden
Delegate Sutherland Proposes Alaska Fisheries Amendment
Washington December 4 Delegate Sutherland proposes an amendment to the Alaska fisheries conservation law to bar preparing for sale as food saloon saleable salmon above four hours after death. The bill would make it unlawful to can salt ice or preserve salmon for sale as food more than four hours after killing.
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Washington
Sutherland
Washington Meeting of American States Aims at Arbitration
The Americas seek uniform policy for peaceful dispute settlement and a method to pick arbitrators. The conference in Washington aims to permit Latin American nations to sign arbitration treaties with the United States. Existing treaties with Brazil, Ecuador, Haiti, Peru, and Uruguay date from 1909.
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Washington
Deo
Americas
International Conference of American States
Havana
United States
Latin-America
Herbert O Hoover
Brazil
Ecuador
Haiti
Peru
Uruguay
South America
Washington, D. C
Hall of the Americas
Pan-American’ Union
Ctary Kellogg
Charles Evans Hughes
New Chapter in Hoovers Life Revealed by Woman in New York
Miss Lucy Fletcher Brown recalls Herbert Hoovers early years as a private school helper in California. She says he cared for horses at Mrs Browns school and later served as a student waiter at Encina Hall Stanford, presenting him as a quiet, diligent worker.
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Hoover
New York
Herbert Hoover
Lucy Fletcher Brown
Encina
Stanford
Old Coast Guard Cutter Bear May Be Given Oakland
Washington December 4 The old Coast Guard cutter Bear which for over half a century plied the northern waters rescuing Arctic survivors would be given to the City of Oakland California under the terms of a bill filed in the House by Representative Albert J Carter Republican of California Mr and Mrs Alex Ley left out the Princess Mary today for Seattle enroute Tacoma and other Washington points for a several weeks vacation trip
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Washington
Coast Guard
Oakland
California
Albert
Carter
Repubican
Alex Ley
Seattle
King's Sons Dash to London as King’s Condition Updates
Dramatic dispatches say Prince of Wales and Duke of Gloucester race to King George VI's bedside as reports say his condition improves mildly. Enterprise speeds to sea while other vessels prepare may travel by air if needed amid mounting rumors about the monarch's health and location. The king’s sons race from Africa toward the rail line by canoe as weather and travel threaten to slow their urgent journey.
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London
Prince of Wales
Mule
Gloucester
George
Africa
Craitio
Alexandria
Ruanors
Rhodesia
London commission to act for King amid absence
The Daily Mail reports a decision to appoint a commission to act for the King, similar to 1925 during His Majesty's absence from England. The expected members include the Lord Chancellor the Premier Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of York. Difficulties are said to have arisen over signing papers.
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London
King’s Physicians
Haldwin
Howse of Commons
England
Canter
Hory
Duke of York
Fatal courtship ends in tragedy in Ameroid
In Ameroid Sask a man William Lagaa, 30, shot dynamite while embracing his former lover Beatrice Barrager, 26, killing her and himself and injuring the girl's mother who tried to intervene. Lagaa had quarrelled over Beatrice with a rival and returned to plead again. upon her refusal he seized her, attracting a neighbor who arrived as the tragedy unfolded. Separate stock quotations from New York accompany the newspaper page including Alaska Juneau, Chrysler, Kennecott Copper, and others.
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William Lagaa
Lagua
Beatrice Barrager
Milas Barrager
Seeks Eugenic Mate in Market for Ideal Partner
A fragment describes a woman named Pella seeking a partner with eugenic criteria tall and muscular with a gentle mind and love of country life and children. The text is garbled but preserves the core search for the “perfect mate.”
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Pella
Greater Penalties For Liquor Violations Headline
Washington report from December cites steps toward stiffer penalties under the Nignor law. Clarence True Wilson, general head of the Board of Teas Hibiton and Public Morale, argues for passage of measures to enforce stricter liquor violations penalties.
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Washington
Arsety
Clarence ‘True Wilson
Board of
Tew Hibiton Amt Pobiie Morale Methodiat Episyypal Church
Board of Manexery
Tle Organization
Hoover tours Peru amid talks on Tacna Arica dispute
President elect Herbert Hoover travels the South American coast on a goodwill tour, studying printed reports from Ecuador officials and discussing Peru Chile negotiations over Tacna Arica. News describes Peru’s wealth in mining and agriculture and notes highway developments around Callao and Lima with remarks on high terrain and transportation challenges.
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Washington
Herbert Jteaver
Peru
Tacna
Pero
Pizarro
Swe
Lina
Republic
Callao
Hoover
Maryland
Farm relief legislation drafted with farm board plan
Washington Feb 4 The relief bill drafts a liberal Farm Board with a 200 million dollar fund and aims to regulate market flows by withholding war planes from the market. The measure, opposed by some, also proposes an equalization fee and corporate reform elements amid administration backing.
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Washington
Senate
McNary
Alaska Wins Tax Appeal
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a tax ruling in favor of the Territory of Alaska against Alaska Consolidated Canneries and Alaska Pacific Marine in a surtax dispute on tied sales. Arguments were heard November 2 with Attorney General John M. Runland representing the Territory.
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Prancisco
Cal
Alaska Consolidated Canneries
Almake
Cirenit Court of Appeste
Alawka
UT. 8
I M. Reed
Chewit
President Coolidge Delivers Message on Finance and Navy
President Calvin Coolidge outlines recommendations on farm relief, Federal Farm Board, and marketing cooperatives. He reiterates strong naval buildup and offers views on rivers and harbors legislation, Boulder Canyon Dam, and related public works. The address urges government support for cooperative farm organizations and cautions against private electrical power expansion.
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Boulder Canyon Dam
Rechmmavind
Federal Farm Board
Peteral Parm Board
Assat
St Surprise
Boulter Canyon
Pyromaniac at Large in New York Fires Kill Three
Three people died and others injured as multiple fires were set by a suspected arsonist in East Fourteenth Street tenement and nearby buildings. Fire Marshals believe one person started the blazes, spreading through stairwells and hallways, forcing hundreds from their beds. A woman and child traveled toward Richmond ahead of a party headed to Seattle.
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New York
Tech
Bantreda
East Fourteenth Street
Prisoner Faces Life Behind Bars in South Carolina
Columbia report details Henry Scrivens, South Carolina's oldest prisoner, whose paralysis confines him largely to his cell. Paroled in 1924 after 39 years for burglary and larceny, he was readmitted soon after and now rarely leaves, recognizing fellow inmates only by deafness and memory in a deteriorating state.
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C. Her
Henry Scrivens
Harlestan Sexra
South Carolina
Hyea
Mfe
Gov. Thomas
G. McLeod
Ira
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