Marketing bill offered in House funds farm product marketing
A billion dollar plan to finance marketing of farm products was introduced by Rep Tincher to the House. It calls for a 100 million loan fund and 1 billion debentures to finance marketing operations under a president appointed marketing commission. The measure aims to raise farmer prices through production and marketing regulation to prevent market gluts while avoiding direct price fixing.
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Washington
House
Tincher
Rep
Kan
Coolidge
Federal Treasury
Farmers’ Marketing Commission
Jardine
Dickinson
Treasury
Commission
Des Moiines
Corn Belt
Federal Land Bank
Advisory Council
Federal Farm Board
Marketing Commission
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate
Co-Operative Marketing Association
War on Potato Prices In Boston
Boston housewives declare war on potatoes as retail prices soar up to 1.50 per peck. Authorities report tight supply and rising costs across markets. Local grocers discuss shortages and efforts to stabilize availability for households.
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Boston
Nominations sent to Senate for Hooper and Higgins
President Coolidge transmitted to the Senate the nominations reappointing Ben W. Hooper as chairman of the railroad labor board and Samuel Higgins after their terms expired. The House District of Columbia Committee reported favorably a bill to abolish capital punishment noting states without the death penalty have seen a crime decrease and deem the method barbarous.
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Coolidge
Senate
Ben W. Hooper
Railroad Labor Board
Samuel Higgins
Washington
House District of Columbia
Parks Planned in Virginia and Tennessee by Secretary
The secretary recommends creating Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and Smoky Mountain National Park spanning Tennessee and North Carolina. He declines to back Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. The House approved a bill repealing a provision allowing interstate shipment of tick infested cattle under certain conditions.
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Work
Congress
Shenandoah National Park
Virginia
Smoky Mountain National Rk
Tennessee
North Caro
Mammoth Cave Park
Kentucky
House
Senate
Senate Elections Panel Recommends Dismissal of Schall Contest
The contest against Minnesota Senator Schall by former Senator Magnus Johnson, a Farmer-Labor figure, was recommended for dismissal by a unanimous vote of the Senate Elections Committee.
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Schall
Minnesota
Magnus Johnson
Farmer- Laborite
Senate Elections Committee
Bill Establishes National Radio Commission to Regulate Air
Senator Borah introduced a bill to transfer radio control from Commerce to a national three member commission. The plan sets seven year terms at ten thousand dollars a year and assigns wave bands and station powers, with licenses distributed by five zones. The measure aims to curb monopolies and apply anti trust laws to radio.
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Washington
Borah
Senate
Department ofCommerce
National Radio Commission
New England
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Porto Rico
Virgin Islands
Wisconsin Approves 450000 for Condemned Cattle Indemnities
Wisconsin lawmakers unanimously authorized an additional 450000 to pay indemnities for cattle condemned after bovine tuberculosis tests. Governor Blaine signed the bill during a one day special session prompted by Chicago health officials withholding milk from untested herds.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Blaine
Board of Health of Chicago
Bar Doubtful Milk Milwaukee
Milwaukee will close beginning October 1 to milk from cows that have not passed the tuberculosis test.
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Milwaukee
State Convention Dates Set and Local News Highlights
The Y M C A convention is scheduled for Fremont from April 28 to 30. Swedish vice consul P A Edquist of Omaha dies after pneumonia. Knox county votes 28 to 5 to divide the county. Nebraska highway spending reaches 2 million in a year, vs 8.5 million for new roads.
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Fremont
P. A. Edquist
Nebraska
Omaha
Bii Country Club
Knox County
W. Z. Edmiston
Ralston
Nebraska Federation of Woman’s Clubs
Curtis Hopkins
Scottsbluff
John M. Matzen
Colorado School of Mines
Golden
David J. Wood
Olive L. Jewett
Fairbury
Anne Marie
Boyd Bridgman
Verdon
Miriam Wells
D. M. Wells
Central High School
F. T. Mann
Macy
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
United States Geological Survey
University of Nebraska
Mildred Grace
American Legion
McMullen
Roy Cochran
Federal
State Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
Lincoln
Loretta Lincoln
C. W. Czerwinski
Chamber of Commerce
Cozad
Nebraska News of Current Week C M T C Interest Grows
Parents of boys 17 to 24 endorse Citizens Military Training Camps as a solution for summer vacation. Major-General B A Poore notes many letters praising the program. Camps run August at Fort Des Moines Fort Snelling and Fort Leavenworth with July 8 to August 6 at Jefferson Barracks Missouri. Mothers and fathers trust Uncle Sam for their sons to attend.
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C. M. T. C. Omaha
B. A. Poore
Seventh Corps
Sam
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Fort Snelling
Minnesota
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Jefferson Barracks
Missouri
United States
Hatchery Expansion Curtailed by State Leader
Secretary McLaughlin and head of fish and game department oppose new hatcheries as state cannot bear growth costs. Four hatcheries exist in Sarpy Cherry and Dundy counties. Valentine hatchery is being enlarged to produce about a million trout eggs yearly with improved egg care methods to meet stream needs.
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Lincoln
McLaughlin
Fish and Game Department
Sarpy
Cherry County
Tyro
Dundy
Valentine
Largest prehistoric mammoth skull unearthed for Nebraska museum
The University of Nebraska museum displays a mammoth skull weighing over 700 pounds. The massive skull, with tusks 82 inches long, is among the region’s largest finds. Professor BE. H. Barbour and university assistants spent more than a week excavating the specimen.
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University
Lincoln
United States
University of Nebraska Museum
BE. H. Barbour
Nebraska farm growth and equipment shown in census data
Preliminary 1920 census figures indicate Nebraska farms rose from 124 417 to 127 784 in five years. Over 7 000 farmers report tractor increases totaling 8 418. Radio receivers are present in 12 740 rural Nebraska homes.
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Omaha
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Census of Agriculture
Nebraska
Sunday Labor Law Appeal From Orleans Telephone Exchange Owner
R L Keester owner of the local telephone exchange has appealed to the supreme court alleging the state law banning Sunday labor. The appeal follows an order from the state railway commission requiring Sunday service provision.
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Orleans
Supreme Court
R. L. Keester
State Railway Commission
State approves Eldora ranch as game and bird reserve
State Agriculture Secretary McLaughlin and Chief Game Warden O Connell accept the tender of Eldora ranch near here, belonging to J Warren Keifer and Owin Keifer, to create a state protected game and bird reserve.
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Bostwick
McLaughlin
O’connell
Eldora Ranch
J. Warren Keifer
Owin Keifer
Nebraska National Guard to Hold Lincoln Ashland Encampment
Adjutant General Paul outlines a summer program for the Nebraska National Guard. The annual encampment runs August 2 through August 16 at the federal rifle range in Ashland with full days of camp.
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Lincoln
Paul
Nebraska National Guard
Federal Rifle Range
Ashland
Gift to University of Nebraska for Morrill Hall
Lincoln Chancellor Aver announces receipt of a registered package from Dr H Morrill of Stromsburg containing securities valued at 40000 dollars. The gift goes to the university for Morrill Hall the new museum building and its collections.
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University Lincoln
Aver
University of Nebraska
Dc. H. Morrill
Stromsburg
Morrill Hall
Fatal Accident Follows Four Years of Suffering
Archie Sweet prominent Elkhorn township farmer dies at the Godfrey he had operated for 14 years after a runaway accident four years of suffering preceded the death at the facility in Fremont.
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Fremont
Archie Sweet
Elkhorn Township
Godfrey
Izaak Walton League Withdraws from State Group
Grand Island unit of the Izaak Walton League withdraws from the state organization and vows cooperation with the national group only if state dues per member drop from fifty to twenty five cents.
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Grand Island
Izaak Walton League
Nebraska matriarch Absalom Shanks dies at 61 years in Comstock region
Mrs. Absalom Shanks of Nebraska died at her home near Comstock after 61 years in the state. She leaves 14 children, 84 grandchildren, and 18 great grandchildren.
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Broken Bow
Absalom Shanks
Nebraska
Comstock
Prohibition Drive Pressures for Change on Lincol n Andrews
In Washington the dry forces push six day hearings demanding a $100,000,000 boost for national enforcement while calling for Coolidge to remove Gen Lincoln Andrews over responses. Senators Bruce and Sheppard trade claims on the Prohibition evidence and enforcement prospects. Andrews denies seeking Volstead Act changes.
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Washington
Coolidge
Gen
Lincoln CG. Andrews
Bone Drys
United States Committee
Morris Sheppard
Dem
Tex
William Cabell Bruce
Senate
W. C. Bruce
Congress
General Andrews backs beer sales aid to law enforcement
Brig. Gen. Lincoln Andrews told a Senate committee that restricted beer not intoxicating in fact could aid enforcement, though not if sold publicly. He noted many illicit stills remain undiscovered, estimating about 1.72 million stills operate nationwide with heavy production ongoing every day.
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Washington
Lincoln Andrews
Andrews
James A. Reed
Dem
Senate
United States
Prohibition
General Andrews
Senator Reed
Missouri
Reed
Steck Seated in Iowa Senate Contest Victory
By a 45 to 41 vote the Iowa Senate unseated Wildman Brook hart and declared Capt. Dan F. Steck, a World War I veteran and Democrat, the senator from Iowa elected in 1924. Five minutes after the roll call Steck was sworn in, the first Democrat to sit in the Iowa Senate since the Civil War.
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Washington
Senate
Wildman Brookhart
Dan F. Steck
Iowa
Captain Steck
Federal Road Aid Bill Approved for 1928 29
The house passed a bill authorizing an appropriation of 82500000 dollars for federal road aid to states in 1928 and 1929.
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Frederic P. Lee
United States Senate
Hoover
Stephen B. Davis
Commerce
Nebraska News OF
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Steck
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