California's Pit Number 5 hydro plant goes into service
The Pacific Gas & Electric Pit Number 5 hydro plant began operation April 29, adding 214,477 horsepower and a $25 million investment. The project, part of a five year, $152 million expansion, will generate substantial local and federal tax revenue and reflects private savings rather than tax money.
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Earl Warren
California
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Maine
Oklahoma
Texas
Bonneville
Grand Coulee
Columbia River
Court Prissily Rules Cat Fire Damages Store
A joint Chinese store ownership dispute ends with Ah Chee not liable for a blaze he unintentionally caused by a cat. The magistrate rules the other brothers’ neglect spread the fire, leaving Ah Chee owed no damages. The anecdote highlights whimsical jurisprudence from a nation’s business column.
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Hina
Celestial Republic
Ah Chee
Ah Boon
Harvard Anthropologist Hooton Designs Ideal Train Sea
Anthropologist Otis T. Hoiton of Harvard proposes a sea rail concept as an alternative to traditional rail and air travel, aiming to combine efficiency with broad accessibility. The device envisions a streamlined transport network connecting major seaports and inland hubs.
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Anthropologist Hooton
Harvard
Stenographer Quits After Illness Claims Job Loss
A stenographer seeking a new position says she lost her previous job due to illness. Her employer allegedly grew tired of her absence and performance.
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Ilness
Your Child and His Problems
A debated guide on parenting focuses on liking a child to foster growth and obedience. It argues affection plus understanding prompts better behavior, with Wagnerian emphasis on teacher and neighbor signals and a call to obtain Etiquette of Letter Writing from Frank Colby.
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Colby
Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr
LIFE
Long Island Sound
Herbert
Frank Colby
Waste paper drive urged by U S Victory committee
A telegram from the U S Victory waste paper campaign urges readers to bundle idle paper and send it to war effort. It cites April inventory data for Bannock County and Pocatello households, urges regular collection, and notes rising demand for waste paper for military and civilian needs. A local housewife shares concerns about waste and edible grease discarded at dump sites.
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Ing
U. S. Victory
Lexington Avenue
New York
Department of Commerce
Bannock
Pocatello
America
Lincoln School dismantled in Caldwell Idaho
The 60 year old Lincoln school building in Caldwell has been dismantled. Classes will be held next fall in a new building on a new site named Lincoln School. Four Eden relocation center youths in Boise jail on draft reporting charges with bonds set at 1500 dollars each. Idaho meat animal income in 1943 reaches 63.86 million dollars. Legislature candidates: 76 seek senate, 104 run for house, 101 Republicans and 79 Democrats seeking nominations. many unopposed.
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Lincoln School
Caldwell
Eden Relocation Center
Boise
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Idaho
Senate
House
Butte
House of Representatives
Misuse of Preventive and Quintuplet Pronunciations
A letter discusses common pronunciations such as preventive versus preventative and Quintuplet versus quadruplet and septuplet. It urges stressing the first syllable in the triples and using a long u as in few for quintuplet and septuplet.
Women to Direct Traffic in San Francisco War Effort
Police Chief Charles W. Dullea orders examinations to select 16 women traffic officers to help ease manpower shortages as streets fill with servicemen and war workers.
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San Francisco
Charles W. Dullea
Senator Maybank Reports Potato Price Ceiling Extended
Washington Senator Maybank says President Vinson has signed an order continuing the $3.25 per hundred pounds ceiling on early potatoes through June 15. The ceiling was due to drop to $3.05 under a prior rule.
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Washington
Maybank
D-Sc
Fred M. Vinson
Office of Price Administration
Peter Learns How Flitter Carries Her Babies
Peter questions Flitter the Bat about where her babies are while she teases him. Mrs Flitter explains she carries her young clinging to her fur and sometimes leaves them hung from a branch to hunt nearby. Next Peter Does a Favor and a note on Bolshevik origins is included.
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Peter Trabbit
Flitter the Bat
Peter
Flitter
Farmer Brown
Mrs. Flitter
Cromwell's espionage legacy noted in early military leadership
The text credits Oliver Cromwell as possibly the first to structure military espionage. It also explains that the term Tammany derives from an Indian chief said to have welcomed William Penn.
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Oliver Cromwell
William Penn
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Bonneville County
Republican Women's Club
Bingham County
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Bott
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Rialto
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Fay Bainter
Hugh Herbert
Manhattan
Lupe Velez
Michael Duane
Bataan
Robert Taylor
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King OF the Cowboys
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Beauty Shop
Bannock Hotel
Lucille Colson
Orpheum
Randolph Scott
Ella
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Eddie Quillan
Laramie Trail
Orson Welles
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Anne Gwynn
David Bruce
Vera Vague
Las Vegas
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Charles Boyer
Barbara Stanwyce
Edward G. Robinson
Anna Lee
Robert Cummings
Betty Ee
Johnny Johnston
Johnny
Scat” Davis
Inky
Hart Landscape Nursery
South Third Avenue
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Guido
Russian River
Ares
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