Chicago Air Show Surges Over Grant Park Harbor
Air corps units staged a massive show in Grant Park with 650 planes executing formation maneuvers above lakefront streets. Crowds lined piers and rooftops as bombardment, pursuit, and attack squadrons clashed in dramatic drills led by Capt Virgil Hines and Capt G D Hunter, ending with a smoke screen and a gala at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago.
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Navy
Virgil Hines
Re G. D. Hunter
Hunter
Stégie
Grant Park Harbor
Grant
Stevens
Chicago
Middle West
Farm cooperatives studied by conference and Farm Board
The conference will study farm cooperatives and the federal Farm Board to assess cooperative structures and policy implications for agriculture. Delegates from various regions will review current programs and discuss potential reforms and support mechanisms.
La Follette urges help for jobless through public works
Senator La Follette calls for an immediate special session of Congress to expand a public works program to relieve unemployment. He cites a report by Dr Isador Lubin and census figures showing 8 to 10 million unemployed and warns that without federal action municipalities struggle to aid the jobless.
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Washington
Congress
la Follette
Wisconsin
Isador Lubin
H Benenie
Milwaukee Mail Theft Case Stirs Milwaukee Officials
Hermar CC Pietech fifty one first assistant Milwaukee postmaster was hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning after his arrest by Postal Inspector R B Bates on charges of looting the mails. A suspect named Wiens confessed to rifling the mails at various locations in the weeks before his release on bond awaiting grand jury sessions.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Hermar CC
Pietech
Milwaukee Poscuiuster
R. B. Bates
Wella Math Wiens
Federal Grand, Jury
Pieckin
Onan Sean Eee
German Explorer Wegener's Body Found by Rescue Party
Berlin reports that the body of Prof Alfred J Wegener renowned explorer and scientist of the Greenland expedition was found by a rescue party ending the search for him. The discovery confirms his death after the expedition encountered peril in Greenland.
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Berlin
Alfred J. Wegener
Green
Nebraska farm land values and acreage totals reach high marks
The 129 458 farms in Nebraska cover 44 708 565 acres valued at 2 495 203 071. Crops occupy 21 399 340 acres with 359 783 acres idle and 884 489 idle in other categories. Farm dwellings total 222 568 739, other buildings 446 639 228, and implements 150 925 108 funded by farm owners. Cherry county tops acreage while Saunders county leads in total valuation.
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Washington, D. C
Cherry County
Amareage
Seunders County
Cherry
Nebraska Legislature Appropriations Details Released
The report outlines total appropriations at 1 700 445 with allocations from state general fund cap levy and age funds. It notes 343 267 balance. major spends include legislative operations court salaries journals and cell block upgrades at the penitentiary.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
George
Beet Acreage Slashed in Scottsbluff County
Western Nebraska beet growers cut acreage as Great Western Sugar reports unofficial signings of 57,000 acres versus 72,000 last year. Analysts expect final western Nebraska totals near two thousand more acres with the 1930 crop already setting a record despite a price drop from seven to six dollars per ton.
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Scottsbluff
Great Western Sugar Company
Nebraska
Cape
Pacific rail freight rates for gravel dispute surface
A terse note notes railroad charges on gravel shipments in the Pacific region. The dispatch cites freight rate adjustments and potential impacts on shippers, with no detailed figures or dates available in the readable text.
State Road Plan Advocates Nationwide County Seat Links
The State Good Roads secretary urges an all time road program to connect county seats with funding via state bonds. George Jackson, secretary of the state fair, notes preparations for the 1931 exhibit are delayed by lack of funds despite anticipated major receipts. A farm near Cozad, Amos Kaufman’s, becomes an alfalfa experiment site gathering plant samples from Asia to the Americas, two years in collection, making the area a leading alfalfa producer.
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State- Good Roads Association
George Jackson
State Fair
State Fair Board
Cozad
Amos Kaufman
al- Fiat
Asia
Africa
Europe
America
Agricul tural growth marks decade in Western Nebraska
Box Butte county epitomizes northern panhandle progress as cultivation expands from 8 300 acres in 1913 to a much larger area today with notable potato shipments.
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Nebraska
Box Butte
Nebraska Cattle Enter Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Nebraska dairy herds join the Dairy Herd Improvement Association as farmers enroll cows for performance testing and record keeping. Officials say the program aims to improve milk yield and genetic quality across member herds.
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Nebraska
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
State Purchases Carloads of Paitas At Per Thousand Feet
The state reports acquiring several carloads of paitas priced by the thousand feet. Details on the supplier and exact quantities are not fully clear from the available text.
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State
Saven Carload of
Paitas
Ae PV Atiek
Stock shows .266 most important states
Professor Howard commented on stock performance highlighting the .266 figure as the most important state-related metric.
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A Howard 7Hus
Unified Front Formed by Agricultural Co operatives
A joint meeting of representatives from agricultural cooperative agencies backed the national agricultural program and the federal farm act. The conference launched efforts to organize all agencies under cooperative production, financing, and marketing while stressing an educational campaign to promote cooperation among agriculturists and the general public. Executive leaders from five of seven national bodies attended as E A O Nea sounded the keynote urging broad cooperation.
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Asl
Amer* Federation
Gaudhel Oes Tanaa
Maing
E. A. O'Neal
Theureau Federation
O'Neal
General of U. S. Marines Dies to Save a Woman
General of the U S Marines dies in action in Tours France while saving a woman. The report notes the act occurred in the field with casualty details and tributes to the fallen officer.
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U. S
Tours
France
Paris
States
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Farm Co-Operatives
Federal Farm Board
Arthur M. Myde
Cheere
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