Municipal ownership not in favor now says Pack
Atlantic City June 7 AP President R F P Pack of the Electrical Light Nation opened its 50th convention with a call that municipal ownership faces no broad public favor while private operation remains preferred. Pack cited private ownership as delivering splendid achievements and noted US electric use costs compared to tobacco and candy. He recalled Chicago mayor Carter Harrison Sr praising electric cars in 1885 and presented figures on electric city growth and its role in industry and home life.
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Atlantic City
R. F P. Pack
Electrical Light Nation
Pack
United States
Carterison, Sr
Chicago
Flashes of Life Across Cities and Flying News
A humorous, scattered snapshot of 1930s gossip and curiosities. Items mention Klinge as a forecasted name, Cham berlain and Levine in a bogged town, Miss Pola Negri and a flying project, a doppelgänger aviator seen in Paris, and various regional tidbits from New York to Idaho.
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New York
Carl Lewiski
Chamberlain
Levine
Los Angeles
Miss Pola Negri
Prince Serge M. D'Ivani
Hawaii
Miss Negri
Lindberghs New Australian Mascot Tasie On Memphis Deck
Tasie the Tasmanian mascot of the cruiser Memphis roams the ship’s deck during the Australian cruise. The flower-loving mascot tried to rummage Lindbergh’s quarters for a breakfast of his bouquets and was locked up for disobeying orders. Tasie spends shore leave at 700 Philadelphia when Memphis calls there.
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U. S. S. Memphis
Tasie
Memphis
Lindbergh
Hobart
Tasmania
Lindy
France
Tash
Philadelphia
Treasury Secretary predicts surplus above six hundred million
Secretary Mellon announced on Monday that the treasury surplus for the current fiscal year will exceed 600 million dollars. The statement came amid measures to curb spending and boost revenue, signaling improved fiscal health for the government.
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Washington
Mellon
Treasury
Salmon History Tied to Lewis and Clark Snack in Idaho
The article recalls Captain Lewis and a salmon meal on August 13, 1805 as an early record of whites eating salmon in Idaho. It explains salmon migration from sea to freshwater, leanness of Idaho catches, and the life cycle from egg to returning adults, noting numerous varieties but few entering Idaho waters.
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Idaho
Lewis
Lewis and Clark
Columbia
Pacific Slope
Pygmy Ambassadors and Wortham Attractions Arrive in Pocatello
Pocatello residents will see two Eturi pygmy tribe members from the Belgian Congo during the Wortham shows opening June 13. Zambesi and her husband Lili weigh 44 and 89 pounds respectively, while Zambesi is 22 and Lili four feet tall. The event is organized by American Legion Post No 4 with a six attraction program including Shirley Francis and a Hey-Dey ride from England.
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Pocatello
Belgian Congo
Wortham Shows
Wortham
Pocatello Post No. 4
American Legion
Post
Burr W. Gordon
Zambesi
Lili
Wortham Company
Shirley Francis
Francis
Gordon
England
US Seeks Arrest in Mexican Murder of Former Harvard Star
The United States embassy in Mexico City sent a note to the Mexican foreign office demanding action after the murder of Arthur Brewer, a former Harvard football star, last week in Guadalajara. The note requests that Mexican authorities arrest and punish those responsible.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexican Foreign Office
Guadalajare
Arthur Brewer
Harvard
W D Vincent Named to State Board Education
Moscow June 7 AP The state board of education appoints W D Vincent of St Anthony as commissioner of education. Vincent, current superintendent of the state industrial school at St Anthony, has seven years with the school and is noted for welfare work in Idaho. He previously headed Blackfoot schools for nine years and studied at Washington University and Columbia University. He will move with his wife and son to Boise. A widow says that good husbands are like dough because women need them.
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Boise. Ida
C. Baldridge
Moscow
James W. Williams
Gooding County
Mr. Williams
J. Cher, Gooding
Gooding
State Board of Education
W. D. Vincent
St. Anthony
Vincent
Pocatello
Idaho
Walter R. Siders
D. W. Davis
Blackfoot
Washington Kansas
State University
Columbia University
New York
Boise
Pocatello Schools
Commissioner of Education
A. L. Chiilen
Los Angeles
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Harry
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Hongkong
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Rochester
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Rueben H. Gross
New York State Pedic Society
Mountaineer
Pap
Ketchum
Cap
Oxford
Appetite
Pygmy Land
Mexico
W.D. Vincent
Moon
N. Main St
Sam Se
Catleera Laboratories
Ee Cat Callas
Rudman & Gottberg Square
Jeweirs
Center St
North Main
Lander
Pocatello, Idaho
Men’s Athletic Union Suits
Williams
Mennen
Goodyear
Ecru
Bahan’s
Ajax Tires
Kodak
Cook Drug CO. Kodak Dept. Thos. EB. Barrett In Charge
Phoenix Hosiery
Phoenix
South Main
le Crist School of Dancing
Dorothy Cavanaugh
Photography
Arthur
Pocatell
Shankel Coal Yard
Aberdeen
Shankel
Coal & Ice CO
American Falls
Indian Springs
Natatorium
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