Policy Aids Grain Farmers via Federal Credit Board
The federal farm board announced a credit relief policy for grain farmers via the Farmers' National Grain Corporation. It plans 10 cent per bushel advances on unhedged grain and up to 90 percent of hedged sale prices, with liens subordinate to the intermediate credit bank. The grain group drafts its constitution and by laws under committee supervision and will file articles of incorporation once approved.
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Chicago
Federal Farm Board
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
Alexander Legge
Federal Board
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
Intermediate Credit Bank
Legge
Farm Board
William Settle
Farmers’ National Grait Corporation
George Farrand
Agricultural Marketing Act
Incorporating Board of Directors
Lindberghs Plan Swift Flight Across Amazon Wilderness
Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh will fly twelve hundred miles of unmapped jungle in one hop on an aerial tour of South America. The trip will inaugurate the U S air mail service from Miami to Paramaribo with arrival in South America on September 23. They aim to fly from Paramaribo south to Santos, Brazil, surveying a route never yet explored by white men.
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Lindberghs
Amazon
Washington
Lindbergh
South America
United States
Miami
Paramaribo
Dutch Guiana
Santos
Brazil
Coxey Move Aims For Washington With New Slogan
Warren Ohio reports General Jacob Coxey plans another march toward Washington with the slogan money at cost and noninterest bearing bonds to battle unemployment and other ills.
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Warren
Ohio
Jacob
Coxey
Washington
Global Wheat Yield Loss Across 26 Countries Reported
The U S Department of Agriculture estimates 26 nations produced 2 208 223 000 bushels of wheat this year down from 2 347 665 000 last year. European totals reach 947 339 000 bushels, with Prussia and other regions showing below year ago results amid transportation and procurement issues.
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U. S
Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
Russia
China
Prussia
Germany
France
Czechoslovakia
Lithuania
Miss Mexico Beauty Queen Kills Husband Then Attempts Suicide
Maria Teresa de Landa de Vidal Miss Mexico 1928 fatally shot her husband Gen Moises Vidal after learning of his first wife’s bigamy suit. She then tried to kill herself with the same pistol but found it empty. The couple had married recently in Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Maria Teresa de Landa de Vidal
Mexico
Galveston
Moises Vidal
Chicago Health Cult Leader’s Fasting Ends in Death
The body of Chris Solbrig, a 40 year old Chicago art model and cult member, was found starved in a tent at Peaceful valley Colorado. He was part of a group of thirty followers led by Dr George Huntley Aron who moved to Colorado seeking youth and health through fasting.
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Lyons
Col
Chris Solbrig
Chicago
Peaceful Valley
Solbrig
George Huntley Aron
Colorado
Nebraska Games Commission to Buy Fresh Fish for Nursery Stock
The Nebraska Game Commission plans to boost warm water fish production by purchasing bass, crappie, and bluegill from sports groups and private hatcheries. G H Nichols of Norfolk leads the effort to build private hatcheries and nurseries, targeting fall 1930 results and reduced raising costs.
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Game Commission
Nebraska Outdoor
G. H. Nichols
Norfolk
Nebraska
Lawsuit Challenges Night Work Ban for Women
About 50 women workers from Grand Island firms sue to test a state law barring female employment from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. They seek a temporary restraining order to halt enforcement pending a permanent injunction. The petition claims the law violates state and U S constitutions by depriving liberty and property and amounts to class legislation.
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Grand Island
Department of Public Welfare
United States
Two Lion Cubs Die at Omaha Menagerie
Twin lion cubs born at the Gould Dietz menagerie at Seventy second and Center streets in Omaha died within hours after birth. Veterinarian orders call for quiet for Mrs. Lion. Cubs named Joe and Hanna Burg, from native Johannesburg, South Africa, where Mr. Diets bought them two years ago. Hanna still very sick but expected to recover.
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Gould Dietz Menagerie
Seventy-second
Center Streets
Omaha
Lion
Milton
Joe
Hanna
Johannesburg
South Africa
Diets
Creamery plant assured for Lewellen Nebraska
A creamery plant for Lewellen Nebraska is assured as 700 cows pledged milk to a local men’s company. Plans to buy a site and erect the building at once are underway and the machinery has been ordered. Twin Alleys association to meet in St Francis Kansas this week to promote irrigation from the Republican river. Delegates from Wray Colorado to Cambridge Nebraska will attend. Victor Westermark of Benkelman is president.
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Lewellen
Nebraska
Ox Team Sought for Omaha Jubilee Pageant
Nebraska Diamond Jubilee pageant committee seeks an ox team and covered wagon for the November 6 and 7 performance in Omaha. The event marks Nebraska birthday celebrations with a $100,000 fund for visitor entertainment.
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Nebraska
Rail extension work begins on Yankton Norfolk line
State news notes the start of construction on the Yankton Norfolk and Southern railroad extension. Waltonian club lake in Meadows sees 1,500 fingerling fish released from Gretna hatcheries with Governor Weaver presiding. Nebraska bus lines gain permission to suspend operations from the state railway commission.
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Gretna
Meadows
Weaver
Nebraska
State Railway Commission
Lawrence wins tournament with three straight baseball victories
Lawrence defeated Edgar 17 to 4 Ashton 17 to 4 and Superior 4 to 0 to capture the tournament. The team committed only three errors across the three games while 150 people attended a Blair Park family reunion of Casper Havendick descendants. The fourth generation of Hovendick traced roots to Germany and Nebraska in 1854.
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Lawrence
Edgar
Ashton
Superior
Casper Havendick
Blair Park
Hovendick
America
Germany
Nebraska
Radio Gift Brings Music to Lincoln State Home
Governor Arthur Weaver arranged a radio gift to the state home for dependent children in Lincoln. The device will provide entertainment for the residents, funded by the governor’s action accepting the gift for the state.
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Lincoln
Arthur Weaver
A L Doc Bixby Visits Lions Club To Share California Trip
A. L. Doc Bixby veteran columnist and former Columbus editor spoke at the Lions Club in Lincoln last week. He regaled members with a brief whimsical account of his recent trip to California.
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A. L
Doc) Bixby
Lincoln State Journal
Columbus
Lions Club
California
South Omaha Students Parade to City Hall for School Fight
About 60 youths from South Central school rallied through South Omaha, then marched to Omaha city hall in a daylong effort to keep their school from closing.
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South Central School
South Omaha
Omaha
Richardson County Faces Bridge Fund Shortfall After Bond Defeat
Following a large defeat of the quarter million bond issue Richardson County commissioners must fund bridge work with only 11300 available before May 1930. By August only 10000 more can be raised until the 1930 levy becomes available.
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Richardson County
Corn Crop Prospects Deteriorate in Jefferson County
Dreary weather slashes corn prospects to about forty percent with many farmers silaging what remains. Subsoil moisture keeps some stands viable as heat and drought persist. Gutru estate in Nebraska plans division and sale of ten thousand acres near Newman Grove, spanning Madison, Platte and Boone counties.
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Jefferson County
Nebraska
Gutry
Newman Grove
George H. Gutru
Gutru
Madison, Platte
Boone
Walton league acquires 40000 acres north of town
Walton league members at Hays Center secure a 40 000 acre tract north of town. The area is heavily wooded with pines and hardwoods. Three major springs lie within the refuge with tributaries forming streams suitable for trout propagation. Two trout nurseries are being established within the preserve.
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Walton League
Hays Center
Nebraska City Plans Bridge Over Missouri River
The Nebraska City chamber of commerce announced plans for a new highway bridge over the Missouri River. The campaign began sixteen months ago and aims to raise 300000 dollars. A bridge company will issue seven percent preferred stock to finance the project.
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Missouri River
Nebraska City
Woman Bitten by Rattlesnake Recovers Near Oshkosh
Clara Hartman of near Oshkosh survived a rattlesnake bite without long illness. The snake struck without warning just above the shoe top. She killed the snake with a hoe, then received first aid that removed part of the flesh and reduced swelling.
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Clara Hartman
Oshkosh
Old Stone school reunion brings many former students
About 400 people attended the annual reunion of former Stone school house students east of Elk Creek. The event drew attendees from several states. A program featured early students with G. E. Becker of Pawnee City calling roll for the 1885 first year. eighteen answered, many now grandparents.
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Stone
Elk Creek
G. E. Becker
Pawnee City
Graf Zeppelin completes world flight record in twenty one days
Lakehurst New Jersey Graf Zeppelin arrives after circumnavigating the globe in twenty one days actual air time eleven days. Rear Admiral Moffett praises German dirigible leadership and notes future Navy airship plans including plane-carrying capabilities.
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Lakehurst
N.J
Magellan
Jules Verne
Nellie Bly
John Henry Mears
C. B. D. Collyer
California
Chicago
Cleveland
Golden Gate
Germany
Friedrichshafen
Tokyo
Kasumigaura Air Field
Los Angeles
Zep
New Jersey
Pacific
Rockies
F. W. von Meister
United States
Luftschiffsbau Zeppelin Gesellschaft
Hugh Allen
Goodyear Zeppelin Company
Graf Zeppelin
Lindbergh
W.A. Moffett
Bureau of
Graf
Five Illinois Women Die in Crossing Crash
Five Freeport women on a vacation trip were killed when a Northwestern road train hit their auto three miles west of Bancroft Wisconsin. The victims included Mrs. Anna M. Gransten publisher and Mrs. Martha Young school nurse and sister of Gransten, Mrs. William A. Hance banker’s wife, Miss Allie Retzell longtime Freeport teacher, and Mrs. C Fred Kuehner wife of a Freeport furniture dealer. The crossing offered a clear view of the tracks but the women apparently failed to see the oncoming train.
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Bancroft
Wis
Freeport
Here
Minnesota North Woods
Anna M. Gransten
Martha Young
Gransten
William A. Hance
Allie Retzell
Freeport High School
C. Fred Kuehner
Farmer rescued after 51 hours in collapsed well
In Allegan Michigan George Peet a 36 year old farmer was trapped 35 feet underground for 51 hours after a well collapse. He was finally rescued by emergency crews and taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Allegan
Mich
George Peet
Bremen Makes Fast Crossing to Cherbourg
The Bremen of the North German Lloyd arrived here after crossing the Atlantic in 4 days 18 hours 2 minutes.
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Bremen
Cherbourg
France
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Yankton-Norfolk and Southern Railroad
Illinois
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