Yankee Doodle sets east to west air record across U S
Captain C B Collyer piloted the Yankee Doodle from New York to Los Angeles in 24 hours 51 minutes 30 seconds to establish a new east to west cross country record. Passenger Harry Tucker noted the feat while weather cut speed over the Alps and in the southwest.
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Los Angeles
Municipal
Atlantic
Pacific
CB. D. Collyer
Harry Tucker
Santa Monica
Roosevelt Field
New York
Army
John Macready
Oakley Kelley
Art Goebel
Lockheed
Allegheny Mountains
New Mexico
Arizona
Lee Shoenhair
Tucker
San Diego
Harrisburg
Collyer
Wichita
Kan
Albuquerque
N. M
Steel profits slide as 1926 peak production marked
Myron C. Taylor told a Columbia University conference that the steel industry earned 5.29 percent on a $4.75 billion capital in 1927 and 6.89 percent in 1926, with 200 million tons of raw material handled for 48 million tons produced and one million workers paid over $1.4 billion in wages.
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New York
United States
Myron C. Taylor
United States Steel Corporation
Columbia University
Taylor
New Liner to Use Electric Power in Belfast Construction
Lord Kylsant of Royal Mail and White Star Lines announced the new 1,000 foot 60,000 ton liner under construction in Belfast will be propelled by electric power. The vessel is priced at $30,000,000 with completion expected in 1931.
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New York
Lord Kylsant
Royal Mail
White Star Lines
White Starlner Uuuder
Belfast
Train Hits Car Killing Five School Children
Five school children and their teacher were killed at Howard when a freight train struck their automobile at the Howard crossing. Three other children were seriously injured.
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Forsyth
Howard
Howard Crossing
Farm School Night Classes Start in Trenor Iowa
To aid farm boys attending the consolidated school here a program of night classes has begun to help them husk the exceptionally large corn crop this year.
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Trenor
Iowa
Admiral Grayson Retires to Lead Gorgas Institute
Admiral Caryl T. Grayson, after 25 years as a naval surgeon on the Mayflower and personal physician to Presidents Taft and Wilson, retires to become president of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. President Coolidge approves the retirement.
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Washington
Caryl T. Grayson
Mayflower
Taft
Wilson
Gorgas Memorial Institute
Coolidge
Industrial Chiefs Honor Celebrities Dinner Honors Pioneers
New York hosts nearly 2000 guests at the Hotel Astor for a dinner closing an all day conference on major industries. Honorees include Henry Ford Orville Wright Thomas Edison Charles Schwab Julius Rosenwald George Eastman Harvey Firestone Cyrus Curtis Glenn Curtiss readers attend with 51 leaders. Schwab tells Edison he is the best beloved man in America and deserves honor.
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New York
Hotel Astor
Henry Ford
Orville Wright
Thomas A. Edison
Charles M. Schwab
Iron and Steel
Julius Rosenwald
George Eastman
Harveys
Firestone
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Glenn H. Curtiss
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
Doctor Butler
Schwab
Edison
America
1928 Airplane Production Predicted to Reach 15000
A New York authority predicts 1928 airplane production will reach 15000 or more, up from 5000 in 1927, driven by unfilled orders and increasing air services. The forecast notes material waste and growing regular air passenger and airmail traffic, with airmail expanding to all states.
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New York
Millionaire Gift Ties Firm to Bank Cadence
Fourteen employees of O. F. Grab & Co. will receive a $1,000,000 business as a year end gift as Oscar F. Grab becomes executive vice president of Lefcourt Normandie National Bank in New York.
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New York
O. F. Grab & Co
Oscar F. Grab
Lefcourt-Normandie National Bank
Air Ambulance Death in Texas Claims Oil Operator
Edward St. Albans, 50, oil operator of Laredo and husband of Mary St Albans, noted fiction writer, died aboard an airplane en route to a Texas destination. He collapsed during the emergency transfer in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Texas
Edward St. Albans
Laredo
Mary St. Albans
Nebraska News Roundup From State to Local Happenings
Frank J. Schmidt now with Lincoln and former Tri bune operator at Talmage buys the News at Johnson of R. H. Brett with the change set for November 1. Nebraska to pay farmers insured in the hail fund nineteen thousand six hundred two dollars by December 1, with all losses covered. Premiums for hail policies total twenty one thousand three hundred eighty six dollars, funding full loss payments and leaving funds for next year’s admin. York adds a Spanish design New Sun theater and two modern venues near one hundred thousand investment each. the York theater recently opened. Webster county votes November 6 on replacing commissioner system with township options after filing. Geneva to begin city mail delivery November 1 with two daily deliveries. Kenneth Wilson named carrier and Arlo Howell assistant. Street names dropped for numbers and letters during route setup. Scottsbluff Rotarians seek to attract manufacturing jobs to spur winter employment via a city committee. Richardson county crops show high yields per acre with corn at forty five, oats thirty eight, potatoes one hundred fifty, alfalfa two hundred. Dr Paul Mort’s Nebraska school finance study urges reforms including a state equalization fund, minimum program, higher teacher salaries, and county superintendents enforcing state-required levies. Walnut logs near Wy more yield twenty one carloads shipped to Kansas City and Des Moines, valued at a significant sum. Nelse Olson and son of Cheyenne
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Frank J. Schmidt
Lincoln
Tribune
Talmage
News
Johnson
R. H. Brett
Nebraska
Sun Theater
York
Ebster
Geneva
Post Office
Kenneth Wilson
Arlo Howell
Scottsbluff
United States
Richardson County
Paul R. Mort
Nebraska State Teachers’ Association
Dr. Mort
Wymore
Kansas City
Des Moines
Nelse Olson and Son
Cheyenne
State corn crop to average 21.5 bushels per acre
Bankers report estimates Nebraska total corn at 195,204,000 bushels with 81 percent marketable. State yield set at about 21.5 bushels per acre, ranging 15.7 to 30.2. Central drought trimmed yields. southeast near state average. Old corn price 77 cents, moisture scarce across state except east Platte Valley. Wheat seeding delayed by dry weather. southeast moist with 90 percent in ground. Feeder lamb prices up from $8.30 to $13.40 in the southeast.
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Lincoln
Bankers
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
Platte Valley
Platte- Valey
Southwest
South Central
Large Ranch Deal Falls Through Over Purchase Option
Major Paul Raberg of Cheyenne Wyoming failed to exercise an option on the Two Bar ranch of the Swan Cattle company and 100000 head of stock. The deal valued at about 1500000 would have merged the Two Bar and Diamond ranches into a 400000 acre holding across eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
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Kimball
Paul Raberg
Cheyenne
Wyo
Swan Cattle Company
Plains Country
Raberg
Chugwater
Grand Island Stocker and Feeder Sale Sets Records
Record sales at Grand Island third annual stocker and feeder sale showed nearly 10 000 head sold for 461 000 dollars. Buyers from ten midwestern states purchased cattle as 3 000 to 5 000 people attended daily, with market steady and prices satisfactory.
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Grand Island
Cate
Resurface Roads In Nuckolls County
A contract has been let to resurface gravel highways through Nuckolls county. Work began on laying a new gravel surface one inch thick from Superior to the county north boundary, about twenty miles. Gravel for the project comes from a Cowles pit to Nelson.
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Nuckolls
Nelson
Nuckolls County
Superior
DLD
Sutton
Cowles
Mitchell Fair Buildings Saved After Oil Pipe Break Fire
Fire threatened the Scottsbluff county fair buildings when crude oil leaked from a Sinclair pipeline break near Mitchell. About fifteen barrels flooded the grounds but a change in wind saved the structures. Oil company workers blame alkali corrosion for the pipe failure, marking a second break in two years.
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Mitchell
Scottsbluff County Fair
Sinclair
Oil Company
Flood relief work advancing rapidly on Mississippi project
Washington reports rapid progress on the Mississippi flood control program. The War Department expects the full 24 million dollar appropriation for the year to be spent through levee enlargement, bank revetment, dredging, and the Bonne Carre spillway near New Orleans.
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Washington
War Department
Mississippi
Congress
United States District
Mississippi Valley
Bonne Carre
New Orleans
Secretary of War
Record Enrollment of Commissioned Officers in National Guard
Washington reports a postwar stimulus leading to a record 12,244 National Guard officers as of June 30 1928. Infantry accounts for 4,932 officers and field artillery 2,317. Enlisted strength ends at 168,793, down from 168,950 in 1927, with infantry again leading all branches at 90,678.
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Washington
War Department
National Guard
Infantry
Pennsylvania R. R. Bays 10 Planes for Air Route
The Pennsylvania Railroad and Transcontinental Air Transport Inc. will operate a coast to coast air mail service next spring using ten Ford tri motor planes. Ford will deliver the aircraft by February 1, 1929 in a deal valued around 800000 dollars. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and the technical committee conducted studies since July 1 to select the planes as best suited for the service.
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New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Transcontinental Air Transport Inc
Ford Company
Ford
Charles A. Lindbergh
The
Air Transport Company
Zeppelin Mail Postage Set at 1.05 for Atlantic Run
Acting postmaster announces postage for Graf Zeppelin letters to Europe at 1.05 dollars. Only mail addressed to care of New York postmasters or Lakehurst is accepted aboard the flight. About 3,000 items await at Lakehurst, with many more delayed due to short postage. The Graf Zeppelin will carry the first Atlantic air shipment of this scale.
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Washington
Europe
New York City
Lakehurst
N. J
Atlantic
Mexico Orders 50 Airplanes
Mexico orders 50 military airplanes to be built at the Mexican airplane factory in Tijuana, Lower California.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Tijuana
California
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U. S
Grayson
Cary T. Grayson
News OF State
Pennsylvania
R. R. Bays
Zepp
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