Top Hats Mark Eton Harrow Cricket Classic
The Eton team arrived at Lords wearing top hats and cut-away jackets as part of a long standing tradition for the Eton Harrow cricket match. Eton won the game by seven wickets. Eton, founded by Henry VI around 1440, now fields over 1,000 students and boasts alumni such as Gladstone Wellington Canning and Shelley.
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Eton
Lords
England
Harrow
Henry VI
Gladstone
Hallam
Shelley
Wellington
Canning
Chatham
Hugh Walpole
Fielding
Wellesley
Thomas Gray
Tax Levy Changes Under New System for Nebraska Counties
The Nebraska state board sets a 1937 state property tax levy of 2.64 mills up from 1.75 while counties must raise 780341.47 more for maintenance of indigent insane in state hospitals by adding to the state levy rather than increasing county levies. The 1937 law resolves the 1935 tangle by shifting funding responsibility from county to state levies for hospital care.
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Lincoln
State Board of Equalization
William H. Price
Nebraska
State Aid Cost 8 606 971 for Nebraska program
State auditors report that the Nebraska State Aid program cost 8 606 971.28 to operate in the first 18 months, covering client grants and administration. Vandemoer notes 1 770 866.91 balance on hand when the books closed, with federal share and state share detailed and re appropriation planned for the current biennium.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Neil C. Vandemoer
Possible expansion of Nebraska anthrax quarantine
Dr. John Anderson state veterinarian cautions that rapid anthrax spread in northern Nebraska could extend quarantines already stopping cattle movement in Knox Cedar and Boyd counties. Reports of Holt county infections rise as emergency headquarters track the outbreak, with vaccinations underway and soilborne germs blamed for cattle exposure.
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Niobrara
John Anderson
Nebraska
Knox
Cedar
Boyd
Holt County
Striken
Federal officials asked to shift duck season dates
The Lincoln state game, foresta tion and park commission urged federal authorities to set the duck and goose open season from October 15 to November 15 this fall, instead of November 1 to 30 as last year. Nebraska hunters complained that much of the migratory flight passed before shooting was allowed. Secretary Frank OConnell of the commission spoke on the matter.
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Lincoln
State Game, Forestation and Park Commission
Nebraska
Frank O’connell
Commission
Noon heavy meals aid weight loss in reluctant dieters
A physician helps a 5 foot 6 inch woman shed 16 pounds in four months by swapping her heavy dinner for noon consumption. She kept the same overall food amount and walked daily in city stores, boosting fat burn and energy use.
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Henry Ford
New Dearborn Veterans Hospital
Detroit
John Russell Pope
United States
America
John J. Pershing
Montfaucon
France
King Carol of Romania
London
Regent Street
Santa Ana
California
The
Marne
Maxime Real del Sarte
Paris
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Morro Castle
U. 8S
James W. Barton
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Dr. Barton
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