Government plan to shift relief costs to Nebraskas counties
Lincoln and state relief officials warn the federal plan to return all unemployables to state and county relief will cost Nebraska about 2 million dollars per year. January load estimated at 58 000 with a 40 percent December rise and 30 percent deemed unemployable. Officials caution counties with depleted funds face hardship or starvation this winter while awaiting federal grant notices.
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Lincoln
Rowland Haynes
Nebraska
Haynes
FERA
J. E. Woods
Woods
Wood
H. D. Elmore
J. R
Lincoln records show 1934 third driest year on record
Lincoln weather bureau notes 1934 had only 17.15 inches of precipitation, the driest May on record, September as wettest month, and extreme heat with 113 degrees on July 15. The year also featured a February 26 low of minus nine and 39 days over 100 degrees.
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Lincoln
Lincoln Weather Bureau
Mercury
Labor Situation In State Improves With 130727 Placed in 12 Months
Nebraska’s National Re-employment service reports 130727 Nebraskans placed on jobs in private industry during the year starting November 1 1933. Director Francis V Cornell notes 31475 of the total were employed by private enterprise as service expands to locate new work. The peak unemployment was around April 1 when active files declined.
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Omaha
National
Francis V. Cornell
Cornell
Flying boats move huge odd freight in the Caribbean
The New York Sun notes seaplanes cut delivery times to Haiti and the Caribbean, carrying perishable goods and emergency parts. Missions include live livestock and even tissue samples, with chicken miles totaling 18 million and oysters shipped as winter business.
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William Bridges
New York Sun
Haiti
New York
Miami
West Indies
Caribbean
South America
Air Express
Colombia
Arthur Curtis
British Guiana
Rié
Merida
Mexico
National Pathological Laboratories
Louisiana
Florida
Jamaica
Nassau
Pedestrian Struck as Aviators Move Overhead
A pedestrian crossed a busy street while looking up at an overhead airplane. Three buses barely missed him, wind from cars tugged at his suit, and seven drivers shifted gears to avoid him, muttering that aviators lead dangerous lives.
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Utica Observer Dispatch
Amiable Child Memorial Near Grant’s Tomb
The grave of St. Clair Pollock, an amiable child buried in 1797, lies within a small fenced enclosure near Grant’s Tomb on Riverside Drive. Urban curiosity persists as visitors and motorists glimpse the marble monument and urn, with historic notes about the Pollock family and the enclosure’s boundary transfer.
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Riverside Drive
Grant
Fifth Avenue
Rive
St. Clair Pollock
George Pollock
New York Sun
Gentle Whistler advises blunt critique nuance
The artist Whistler is quoted on feedback saying you should express dislike rather than claim universal lack of quality. His counsel emphasizes honest yet cautious appraisal in art criticism.
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Whistler
Universe Made of Electricity Says MIT President
Dr Karl T Compton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology states that the universe consists of electricity with 99 95 percent positive charge and the remainder negative in a Literary Digest summary of cosmic composition.
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Karl T. Compton
Massadchusetts Institute of Technology
Literary Digest
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Lee
Meas Simest
Metropolitan Grand Opera
Geraldine Farrar
NBC
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