Businessmen Demand Tax Cuts From Congress Memorial
The American Federation of Business, based in Chicago, urges Congress to end federal folly and political spending. Senator Jones E. Watson reads the memorial in the Senate urging tax reductions to avert national bankruptcy. The document blames overappropriation and government squandering for economic strain and calls for recovery through fiscal restraint.
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Washington
American Federation of Business
Chicago
Congress
Senate
Jones E. Watson
Indiana
Dame of Charles
A. Wilsop
Association
Bernard W. ‘Snow
Cook County
Republican Committee
Army Planes Drop Food to Snowbound Indians
Six large army bombers carrying provisioning cargoes dropped more than five tons of food at snowbound Zuni and Navajo villages in western New Mexico. Some twenty thousand isolated Indians faced famine after the heavy snows. Relief ordered by Washington officials was sent by air.
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Winslow
Ariz
New Mexico
Indian Department
Washington
Coast Guards seize two cargoes of liquor near Boston
The Mary, a fast rum runner from New Bedford, fled two miles in Dorchester Bay before coast guards seized 800 cases of liquor. Earlier, the power boat Buddy was captured with about 20000 dollars worth of liquor. Both crews escaped.
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Coast Guards
Boston
Mary
New. Bedford
Dorchester
Bay
John W Langley Former Congressman Is Dead
John W Langley former congressman dies in Kentucky incident. A native officer arrested the minister chauffeur as the car halted. Police intervened after a scuffle in which Mr Southard was knocked down.
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John W. Langley
Rail wage talks slow as nine presidents seek accord
A nine member railroad presidents committee and union representatives discuss wage and employment terms in Chicago with talks likely to extend. The labor plan seeks a one year job guarantee and a voluntary ten percent wage cut, aiming to preserve work and unlock two billion dollars in purchasing power while a national emergency employment bureau is created under E J McClees in New York J W Higgins in Chicago and C P Neill in Washington.
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Chicago
Palmer House
Workmen
Rail Committee
E. J.’ McClees
New York
J. W. Higgins
Washington
American Envoy Beaten by Abyssinian Police
The United States minister to Abyssinia, Mr. Southard, was knocked down by several Abyssinian policemen after an automobile accident in Addis Ababa. Reports say his car ran over a local woman's foot. she was only slightly hurt.
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Addis ’ Ababa
Abyssinia
Addison ‘Southard
United States
Southard
Kentucky
Congress
Langley
Katherine Langley
Irish Free State Receives Its New Great Seal
King George V handed the silver great seal to High Commissioner John Duranty at Sandringham in a historic ceremony. The seal, to be affixed to documents appointing Free State representatives abroad, marks the first dominion to exercise its own seal after the imperial conference granted the right. One side bears a harp, the other the king's head.
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Sandringham
George V
Irish Free State
John Duranty
Free State
England
Free States
King George
Road Building Is Speeded In 1931 Record
Nebraska reports a one year highway push with 62 fairs turning profit, a nine million dollar program, 000 miles of gravel roads, and 500 miles of paved highways. Costs fell for materials and maintenance, paving costs dropped from 1.74 to 1.44 per square yard, with maintenance below 1930 levels and paving deeper by one inch.
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Lincolna
Nebraska
Roy ‘Cochran
Highway Department
State Fair budget cuts eyed to balance 1931 deficit
The board presented a revised budget to the state board of agriculture aiming to trim more than 40 000 from next fall’s expenses and to solve an 88 000 shortfall from 1931. Proposals include a 20 percent salary cut for all staff led by Secretary George Jackson from 5000 to 4000 and no expense account.
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Lincoln
Board of Fair Managers
State Board of Agriculture
George Jackson
Nebraska county fairs mostly profitable in previous year
Lincoln figure presenter Tom Leadley told Lincoln audience that 76 of Nebraska's 80 county fairs reported net profit. Total receipts reached 638,501 with expenditures at 619,076 while grounds and improvements investments stood at 1,212,186. Nine high advertising fairs drew about 11,200 attendees on average.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Tom Leadley
Nebraska County Fair Managers Association
Seed Potatoes in Western Nebraska Spark Demand
Western Nebraska seed potato growers report high demand as planters in Louisiana and the Rio Grande valley require high grade seed. Planting has begun in Alabama and will start in Florida and Georgia soon. Certified seed potatoes from western Nebraska are priced around 1.25 dollars per cwt, says W. M. Morrow, manager of the Nebraska Certified Potato Growers association.
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Nebraska
Louisiana
Rio Grande Valley
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
South
W. M. Morrow
Farmers Marketing Co-Operative
Nebraska Certified Potato Growers Association
Farmers Elevator Co Plans 30000 Bushel Elevator at Giltner
The annual meeting of the Farmers Elevator Co of Giltner discussed building a new 30000 bushel capacity elevator at the Giltner opera house. A Pawnee City vote on Sunday movies was raised with the city council likely to submit the question at the next election. A dairyman offered a quarter section in South Dakota in exchange for a carload of feed for his milk cows. Nebraska drought relief and Cambridge area shipments were noted. Keith Neville, former Nebraska governor, was elected president of the First National Bank of North Platte, with E F Seeberger named vice president and W H Munger cashier after the death of Frank L Mooney.
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Farmers’ Elevator Co
Giltner
Giltner Opera House
Pawnee
Table Rock
South Dekota Rand
Neill
North Nebraska Drouth
Cambridgewen
Keith Neville
Nebraska
the First
National Bank of North
Platté
F. Seeberger
W. H. Munger
Neville
Frank Ll. Mooney
County Budget Cuts Approved In Sidney For 1932
More than 300 farmers and county commissioners attended a Sidney meeting where a budget reducing expenditures by over 30000 below the county total was approved. Every department faced cuts though salaries for officials and deputies remained unchanged. The 1932 budget was set at 66645 dollars.
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Bimsi- Mess Mei
Sidney
City Hopes Tax Relief From Electric Plant Profits
Residents are assured of tax relief as profits from selling surplus power bought from the federal Guernsey plant may reduce the city levy this year. For December the city paid 1,653 dollars for 83 139 kilowatt hours, then after lighting municipal buildings and streets and pumping, the remaining current was sold for a 2,244 dollar profit.
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Ering
Guernsey
Wyc
Burlington Railway Tax Report for Nebraska 1931
Taxes totaling 1 821 028 18 were paid in Nebraska during 1931 by the Burlington Railway and Co a report to Tax Commissioner W H Smith disclosed The tax was levied on assessed valuations of Burlington properties of 106 529 587 The total railway tax was 1 539 404 24 the city and village tax paid was 236 949 13 and the local tax at Lincoln 32 283 21 Shop equipment of the railway company was valued as follows Havelock 910 755 Plattsmouth 164 230 and McCook 37 430
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Nebraska
Burlington Railway &Co
W.H. Smith
Burlington
Lincoln
Havelock
Plattsmouth
McCook
Two North Nebraska Banks Consolidate in Union
The Bank of Norden and the Stockman’s Bank of Springview consolidate to form the Stockman’s Bank, Springview. Norden officers Mary Logan president Myrtle Logan vice president and C L Logan cashier while Stockman’s officers Charles Henneman president Anna Henneman vice president and E G Logan cashier. Deposits total about 101000 with capital stock 30000 and surplus 7000.
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North Nebraska
Bank, of
Norden
Stockman’s Bank of
Springview
Stockman’ S Bank
Bank of Norden
Mary Logan
Myrtle Logan
C. L. Logan
Stockman’s Bank
Charles Henneman
Anna Henneman
EG. Logan
Nebraska Farm Mortgage Debt Dips Since 1928
Preliminary figures from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics show Nebraska farm mortgage debt at 560973 as of January 1 1930 down from 599418 in 1928. Tenant farms carry higher debt than owner or manager farms with totals of 282966 and 270514 respectively. The United States total debt fell 2.4 percent from 1928 to 1930 to 9241000 amid foreclosures and loan renewals.
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Nebraska
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States
North Central States
East South Central States
Lad recounts school kindness and teacher’s hair remark
A boy tells his mother about a daily kind deed at school. The story centers on a comment about Mary's curls on a desk and a teacher seeing the boy’s lack of action as he defends not pulling hair.
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Mary
Yes I am going to study law and become a lawyer
The Cincinnati Enquirer quotes a sweet young person declaring plans to study law and become a lawyer. A playful critic suggests marriage could make one the lawyer judge and jury. The remark frames early ambition with humorous social commentary.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
A Man's Reputation Shapes Later Behavior
The saying warns that when little is known about a man, caution fades but proper behavior follows as new information emerges. It suggests that reduced uncertainty guides later conduct and public perception.
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