Nebraska Legislature Faces Freshcomers in 1930 Session
About sixty percent of Nebraska’s newly elected lawmakers will meet next week. Most are Republicans with four exceptions. The roster lists senators and representatives from towns including Nehawka Wahoo Blair Lincoln Omaha and Hastings. The body is set to tackle state building funds civil policy and measures ranging from school land sales to boxing legalization and film censorship.
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O’gara
Kefield
Bock
David City
Ostern
Central City
Hoffmeister Imperial
Uhow
Nason
McKelgie
Nebraska Post
Perican Legion
Utley
McKelvie
Mary Antles
Harry Foster
Rovzis
Hay
Army trains soldiers as scientific farmers at Camp Travis
The article notes the US Army runs agricultural training at Camp Travis Texas for Second Division recruits. It describes a 400 acre farm adjacent to the camp where soldiers study horticulture agronomy dairying and animal husbandry under instructors from Mississippi A&M college and the Houston chamber of commerce. The program aims to turn soldiers into skilled farmers upon discharge and fits a broader War Department plan for educational and recreational activities for national service and Americanization.
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United States Army
Travis
San Antonio
Texas
War Department
Paris
Belleau Wood
Vaux
Uncle Sam
Great Military Reservation
Cantonment
Salado Creek
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Camp Travis
P. C. Harris
the Army
George G. Snow
Ues
Troy
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College
The
Houston Chamber of Commerce
T le Department of Animal Husbandry
Iuides
Secretary of War
Congress
Army
America
Shortage in Wheat Acreage in Nebraska
Lincoln Nebraska reports a 2 percent drop in winter wheat acreage from last year despite favorable autumn conditions. State totals show 8 301 000 acres planted, with harvested acres 3 716 000 in 1919 and 3 335 000 in 1920, 1921 outcomes depend on winter survival.
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Lincoln
Neb
A. E. Anderson
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Leo Stuhr
State Department of Agriculture
Anderson
House Passes Farm Aid Bill With Emergency Tariff
The House approved the farmers relief bill by 196 to 86, imposing a high emergency tariff on numerous agricultural products blamed in part on import competition. The measure moves to the Senate where fate is uncertain and may face prolonged debate after holidays. Nebraska delegation uniformly supported the bill, led by Congressman Green of Cornell Bluffs.
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House
Washington
D. C
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Nebraska
Green
Cornell Bluffs
Irish Riots Claim Dozens in Kilkenny Tippeary Clash
Heavy fighting between civilians and military and police raged between Callan and Glenbower with ambushes at three sites. Casualties included Sergeant Walsh and Sergeant Shannon, several soldiers, and ten to fifteen civilians killed. About thirty civilians wounded or captured as countryside residents flee in terror.
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Dublin
Callan
County Kilkenny
Glenbower
County Tipperary
Walsh
R. L C
Shannon
Merger of Express Companies Authorized in American Railway Express Co
Interstate Commerce Commission grants authority for permanent consolidation of Adams Express American Express Wells Fargo American Express and Southern Express into American Railway Express Co The commission says a single consolidated company will serve all lines with equal rates benefiting the public.
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Washington, D. CG
Interstate Commerce Commission
Adams, American, Wells Fargo & Co
Southern Express
American Railway Express Co
Former Nebraskan dies at Sawtelle California home
General Patrick Henry Barry 76 a native of County Cork Ireland and longtime leader of the Grand Army of the Republic died at his Sawtelle California residence on the home grounds after a brief illness. He had served as governor of the United States Soldiers' Home since 1913 and was once a Nebraska legislator.
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Sawtelle
Calif
Patrick Henry Barry
United States
Grand Army of the Republic
Barry
County Cork
Ireland
Sawtelle Home
Nebraska
Two Men Formed Mexican Expedition Conspiracy
San Antonio federal agents arrested Francisco Vasquez Gomez and Leon J. Taurel on a federal indictment charging them with conspiring with others to organize a United States military expedition into Mexico and with furnishing funds for the plot.
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San Antonio
Tex
United States
Mexico
Francisco Vasquez Gomez
Leon J. Taurel
Bibrell
Fur Exchange urges end to trapping to halt pelts decline
The International Fur Exchange has issued an admonition to trappers worldwide urging them to stop trapping in a bid to slow the rapidly falling prices of raw pelts.
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New York
International Fur Exchange
Ku Klux Klan Forms at University of Chicago
University of Chicago students form Ku Klux Klan units to counter violence along the Midway. Special guards patrol the area and assist women traveling to study while clubs and sorority houses are watched by Klan squads in segregated streets.
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Ku Klux
Chicago
Ku Klux Klan
University of Chicago
University
Klux Klan Ukewiee
International Live TM Show Highlights Canada Sweep at Chicago
Canada dominated the 1920 International Live TM show in Chicago with multiple championships and a sweepstakes by J. C. Mitchell of Cahinda Saskatchewan. The article notes Lucas from Stratford Ontario rising to championship with 49.2 pounds to the bushel, illustrating success from Western Canada’s low-priced land and diligent farming across nearly 1,000 acres.
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Chicago
Mileston
Canada
J. C. Mitchell
Cahinda
Saskatchewan
Mitchell
Manchester
England
Stratford
Ontario
Iucas
Alberta
Cayley
Lucas
Western Canada
How About Tiresome
A frightened mother at a city dispensary agrees to send her scarlet fever patient Teddy to the hospital. A social worker checks on the mother and confirms Teddy’s status as still in the tedious ward.
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Teddy
Yearly calendar debate prompts extra month idea
The fragment hints at a discussion asking whether an additional month should be added to the year. It questions support for a vacation month and presents the notion as a proposal rather than a decision.
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