Hoover Urges Early Tariff Decision in Senate
President Hoover presses for passage of the tariff bill within two weeks urging protection for agriculture and industry. White House statements say he will not interfere with rate details but seeks quick schedules, coalitions, and conference with the House to avoid delays.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate
White House
Jones
Rep
Wash
House
United States Senate
Curie Receives $50,000 to Buy Radium
In Washington a ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences saw Madame Curie accept a $50,000 gift from President Hoover to purchase a gram of radium. The draft, encased in silver, will finance the acquisition, with American friends and admirers handling the purchase.
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Washington
Diplomatic Corps
Madame Curie
Hoover
National Academy of Sciences
Countess to Visit U S
Washington reports that Count and Countess Karolyi Hungarian radicals will be granted permission to visit the United States after review of their former applications. State department disclosed the decision.
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Washington
Karolyi
United States
State Department
Four Great Lakes Shipwrecks Claim 100 Lives in Fifty-Two Days
A Chicago report details four Lake Michigan wrecks between Sept 9 and Oct 52, killing about 100. Vessels Andaste Milwaukee Wisconsin Senator sank in storms or collision near Port Washington. The Senator carried 241 cars. Marquette ore, $40 000 worth, bound for South Chicago.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Andaste
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Senator
Marquette
Port Washington
Sheboygan
Detroit
Escanaba
Mich
Maplehurst
Keweenaw Waterway
Houghton
George N. Menard
Forelle
St. Joseph
Fox Point
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Ann Arbor
Frankfort
Great Lakes
Bodies of 86 Michigan Soldiers Homeward From Archangel War Grave Run
The Soviet steamer Lieu tenant Schmidt carries 86 American officers and soldiers who died in the Archangel campaigns of 1918 and 1919. Flags fly at half mast as the ship leaves Leningrad for Havre, France, where an American battleship will convey the死 homeward in ceremonies. R Dutcher of the special graves commission accompanies Michigan veterans retrieved from Arctic graves.
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Leningrad
Schmidt
Archangel
Havre
France
America
R. Dutcher
Special Graves Commission
Detroit
Michigan
Arctic Circle
Nebraska Farm Mortgage Debt Shows Decline Across Years
Nebraska state farm mortgages dropped by 18.49 million dollars from 1925 to 1929 while Nebraska farm land valued at 599.0 million dollars bears 23.7 percent debt. Nationally mortgage indebtedness rose little but totals 108 million more since 1925 with increases in several midwestern states.
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Lincoln
Nebraska and Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
North Central
Nebraska
United States
North Central States
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
South Dakota
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Ship Nebraska Mules To India
Frank Simpson of Florence Nebraska announces a large peace time mule shipment to India for the British government. About 620 mules from Nebraska Kansas and the Dakotas will depart Florence and Fremont in November with 13 carloads of Nebraska feed to sustain them until acclimated.
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Nebraska
India
Omaha
Frank Simpson
Florence
Nebr
Simpsons
Fremont
Kansas
Dakota
Dakotas
Simpson
Walnut timber touted as crop with $50 per acre yield
Rex Parson of Lincoln representing Penrod Jorden Clark describes Walnut timber in Pawnee County as a crop with near 50 dollars per acre yearly production. The firm buys timber directly in Nebraska at Pawnee City Falls City Liberty Lincoln and Cedar Bluffs for a Des Moines mill. They report lumber worth 40 to 200 dollars per thousand feet and have gathered over 40 thousand feet at DuBois and expect to ship over 200 thousand feet from Pawnee City and DuBois.
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Pawnee City
Rex Parson
Lincoln
Penrod, Jorden & Clark
Nebraska
Falls City
Liberty
Cedar Bluffs
Des Moines
Parson
Pawnee County
DuBois
Deaths in Nebraska Rise in 1928 as Heart Disease Grows
The Department of Commerce reports Nebraska had 13,660 deaths in 1928, up from 12,869 in 1927, with the death rate rising from 36 to 970.2 per 100,000. Increased fatalities from heart disease cancer diabetes influenza and pneumonia explain the surge.
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Washington, D. C
Nebraska
Department of Commerce
Omaha Plans Cornstalk Pulp Plant Initiative
Omaha revival of plans for a corn stalk pulp plant follows Commissioner Glen Eastburn of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce return from Chicago. Eastburn conferred with Earl Harding of Corn Stalk Products in New York and said eastern capitalists see Omaha in the corn belt as an ideal site. The movement began about a year ago but was paused, promoters say.
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Omaha
Chicago
Glen Eastburn
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Eastburn
Earl Harding
Corn Stalk, Products Company of
New York
Construction contract issued for Times Herald plant in Alliance
A $60 000 brick two story building contract was let for the Times Herald paper plant at Alliance. Mrs. Grant Windle won the Oldest Bible prize from the Falls City Christian church for a 1773 German Bible, the oldest entry by far. Western Nebraska cattle movements are heavy with Burlington reporting 250 carloads from Alliance to Seneca and many cattle on feeding ranges this fall.
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Times-Herald
Alliance
Ben J. Sallows
Christian Church
Falls City
Grant Windle
Nebraska
Burlington Railroad
Seneca
North Platte Proposes $240000 Hospital Campaign Launch
The executive committee plans a Monday campaign to raise funds for the new hospital building. Doctors donated equipment while Former Governor Keith Neville started the drive with a multi thousand dollar subscription.
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North Platte
Keith Neville
Turkeys in Nebraska Hit Higher Fattening Rates This Year
The federal and state agricultural statistics department reports five percent more strutting turkeys being fattened on Nebraska farms this year. Of the Nebraska turkey crop, 58 percent will be ready for Thanksgiving, 32 percent for Christmas feasting, and 10 percent for later holidays.
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Nebraska
Federal and
State Agricultural Statistics Department
State music contest set for Hastings in May
The Nebraska High School Music association announced the annual state contest will be at Hastings on May 2 and 8 with district contests in late March at six locations. High schools may enter at the nearest site, regardless of district.
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Hastings
Carol M. Pitts
Nebraska High School Music Association
Lincoln highway paving near completion between Columbus and Schuyler
Paving of the Lincoln highway between Columbus and Schuyler is nearing completion with good weather. The last concrete pour should occur in a week or so. A less than one mile section between Richland and the next north turn remains to be surfaced.
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Columbus
Schuyler
Richland
Reeves Yields Record Alfalfa On Cordeal Farm Field
Marion Reeves, a renter on a farm owned by former State Senator John F. Cordeal in McCook, reports a record alfalfa yield this year. Seed cost at sixty five dollars per acre across 12 acres and 50 tons of hay from 25 acres, with three cuts and a possible fourth, mark the harvest.
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Marion Reeves
John F. Cordeal
McCook
Reeves
Nebraska runners advance to national contest at Platte City
Nebraska corn huskers finishing first and second in the state contest near West Point on November 12 earn entry to the sixth annual national contest at Platte City Missouri on November 15. The field will include champions and runners-up from eight states Missouri Kansas Nebraska Iowa Minnesota South Dakota Illinois and Indiana.
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Nebraska Corn Huskers
West Point
Platte City
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Illinois
Indiana
Fossil bones near Naper spark prehistoric theories
Fossilized bones found by a road grading crew near Naper are on display embedded in limestone. Believed by some observers to depict a tall prehistoric woman with a child, the imprint suggests a ten foot stature with broad shoulders and a holding arm. Opinions vary, with some calling them a low-order human or a giant gorilla.
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Naper
Wilber American Legion Approves Club House and Armistice Plans
At the Wilber annual meeting the American Legion approved a club house costing about ten thousand dollars with location and architectural plans to be set by committees. A library donation was announced, and Armistice Day ceremonies are planned for the opera house.
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The
American Legion
Wilber
Opera House
Farmers National Grain corporation launched in Chicago
The Farmers National Grain corporation is formed with articles of incorporation after a conference with grain growers and the federal farm board. It unveils a $100 million revolving loan fund aimed at stabilizing wheat prices and enabling farmer withholds until favorable markets emerge. S.J. Cattlington of Stanhope Iowa elected president. other officers named. Chicago to house headquarters.
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Chicago
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
Canadian Wheat Pool
Congress
Relief of Agriculture
Farm Board
Federal
Intermediate Credit
Federal Farm Board
Julius Barnes
World Bank Location Still Pending Decision
In Baden Baden Germany bankers of the Bank for International Settlements agree on the World Bank statutes except location. Pending trust agreement completion, statutes and charter not public. Directors will decide on final location and related actions.
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Baden-Baden
Germany
Organization Committee
Bank For International Settlements
World Bank
Imperial Airways Flying Boat City of Rome Lost at Sea
Imperial Airways reports its flying boat City of Rome, due to land at Genoa, was lost at sea in a gale off Genoa. Six men and a woman were aboard. Emergency crews search for survivors as authorities investigate the incident.
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London
Imperial Airways
City of Rome
Genoa
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