Healthy Merchant Marine Essential for Prosperity
Boston June 6 AP Admiral Jgh C Palmer president of the United States Fleet Corporation addresses the Eleventh National Foreign Trade convention. He says a healthy merchant marine is vital for safety and prosperity and that private enterprise must drive shipbuilding to reduce the cost differential with foreign operators. He argues government aid helps but efficiency and cheaper production will restore American competitiveness. Palmer stresses the merchant fleet's role in national defense and urges development of high class passenger and cargo ships with government support only as public interest allows.
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Boston
Jgh C. Palmer
States Fleet Corporation
Adral Palmer
Ingenious schemes used in smuggling liquor in Spokane
Spokane investigators report growing use of mechanical devices to defeat prohibition enforcement. A notable system hid liquor in a copper container under a basement sewer with a dual tap for liquor or water, operated by two buttons. Carpenters and tinsmiths have profited from building and installing these automatic evidence destroyers.
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Spokane
Wash
Scenane
Federa
Cent
Po Jce
Whitman College Receives 100000 German Marks Gift
Whitman College in Walla Walla receives a large anonymous gift of 100000 German marks for its endowment and building fund campaign. Judge Thomas Burke comments the donation is worth far less than two cents postage, though the gift will be credited to the college once valued.
Bison and Elk Slaughter Authorized on Montana Range
The Bureau of Biological Survey authorized the slaughter and sale of 100 bison and 200 elk on the national bison range west of Missoula due to feed shortages. The move aims to reduce the herd from about 1200 big game animals to ensure adequate forage, with 400 buffalo penned and set to fatten on alfalfa before returning to the range.
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Missoula
Mont
National Bison Range
Bureau of Biological Survey
Corrala
Incubating China Pheasants Tried at Eugene Farm
Eugene Oregon June 6 The experiment of hatching Chinese pheasants in incubators rather than under barnyard hens is being tried at the state game farm near Eugene. So far the method has proved successful and the baby birds will be cared for in brooders. The experiments will continue through the current hatching season and if fully successful will become the exclusive method for hatching and rearing the birds.
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Eugene
Ore
Bear entangled in fish trap at Twin Lakes
In Wenatchee Washington a young bear became entangled in a fish trap at Twin Lakes. T. J. Webb in charge of the hatchery reported the bear fled whenever approached. Webb beat the animal unconscious with an oar from a rowboat to free it.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Twin Lakes
T. J. Webbd
Webb
Idaho Fraternity Becomes National Delta Chi Installation Planned
University of Idaho reports Kappa Delta will join Delta Chi as the eighth national chapter on campus. Petition approved, installation likely after fall term. Delta Chi founded at Cornell in 1890 with chapters on the Pacific coast. Local house at University and Blake avenues valued around 17500 dollars. 34 members and several faculty and honorary members listed.
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University of Idaho
Moscow
Kappa Delta
University
Delta Chi
Cornell
Pacific Coast
Stanford
Washington
California
Horton
University and
Blake Avenues
F. G. Miller
School of Forestry
JC. W. Chenoweth
R. A. Muttowski
J. D. Davis
Sam Poindexter
Myron Given
Charles M. Anderson
Howard E. Barton
Boise
Carter Pitcher
New Astoria to Stage July Reconstruction Festival
Astoria Oregon announces a New Astoria celebration for July 4 and 5 marking the 18 month rebuilding period after the 1922 fire. The program features pageants athletic events dances band concerts fireworks and tours of Fort George and Lewis and Clark sites for northwest visitors.
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Astoria
Ore
Northwest
Old Fort George
Seaside
Dee
Woman's City Club of Detroit Opens New House
The Woman's City club of Detroit unveils a new sixatory clubhouse costing eight hundred thousand dollars. The project reflects a major civic venture with substantial funding and community impacts noted in local coverage.
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The
Woman's City Club of
Detroi
Bequeaths Large Sum to the Poor Bequeaths Large Sum to the Poor
Spokane records show the will of John Peterson a woodsman who died there leaving 5500 in cash to be shared by the poor. He names Police Judge Fred Witt executor to distribute and provide a Christian burial. The disposition includes clothing books and papers for the Salvation Army and notes two nephews in Portland and Minneapolis as survivors.
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Spokane
Wash
Jane
the All People of
Fred Witt
John Peterson
Sacred Heart Hospital
Peterson
Judge Witt
Arthur L. Hooper
Cctine Ra Xtfekyew
Ted
Spokane County
John Peterton
Tie
Great Northern
Swedish Salvation Army
Galax
Portland
Ore
Minneapoli
Minn
Widow pensioner of 1812 war described in Cedar Grove
The youngest widow pensioner of the 1812 war is Mrs. A. T. Anderson of Cedar Grove Georgia. She is 64 years and 3 months old and was married when her husband was 86 at the ceremony.
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A. T. Anderson
Cedar Grove, Ga
Motor bus queen leads growing female self-driven fleet
Starting with one car Miss Helen Schuitz Mason City has become the motor bus queen of America. Her fleet now includes sixteen large buses each able to carry fifty or more passengers. Oneen Marie of Roumani and her husband are noted as a keen motoriat observers of the rising women in motor travel.
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Helen Schuitz
Mason City
Lows
America
Oneen Marie
Roumani
Women Run Barber Shops Across United States With Many Chairs
Women operate between 12 000 and 15 000 barber shops in the United States with some locations containing as many as 85 chairs. The piece notes female ownership trends in the trade and regional distribution.
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Eontai
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Admiral Palmer
United States Fleet Corporation
Cook Drug Co
West Center
Heathiwell Drug Co
Whittlesey Pharmacy
Fast Center
Schramm-Johnson Droog Stores Co
Whitman College
Tribune
China
Idaho Fraternity
Pocalio
Remington Porticle
Remigton
Field Typewriter Exchange
Jso
W. Clark
Idaho Technical State
Col Aml
Met
Wimmer
Aho Technical Institute
Pocatello
Efemiy
Pashang
Montreal
Ena
van Camp’s Small
van Camp’s
Ige
Campbell’s Pork and
Clocoanut Dunham’s
Baker’s
Florida
MacLaren’s
Limburger
Maclounce
Kraft’s
BRICK
Kraft
Kraft's
Sampson
Tee Cl Man
People's Markets
Holesale & Retail Butchers
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