Government Will Spend Millions To Save Thousands
The Fort Peck dam project is criticized as a massive $84 million expense with limited benefits. Engineers say irrigation, flood control, and power are negligible, leaving navigation as the only plausible justification, while additional $60 million channel work and ongoing maintenance would be required. Critics note traffic gains fall far short of Panama Canal tonnage, questioning the program’s cost.
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Chicago Tribune
the Tribune
PWA
Fort Peck
Missouri River
St. Louis
Sioux City
Kansas City
Panama Canal
Politi
Seven Eclipses of Sun and Moon in 1935 Not 1939
An unusually large sequence of seven eclipses will occur in 1935 with two visible in the United States. A partial solar eclipse on February 3 will cover seven tenths of the sun at maximum, turning light greenish yellow and dimming air across the US west of the Rockies. The July 16 moon eclipse will be total, with the rest of North America seeing a milder display. The series includes partial solar events in June and July and a Christmas-day annular eclipse visible in the Antarctic and southern South America.
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United States
Rockies
Canada
Herbert C. Wilson
South Pacific
Europe
Asia
Australia
Indian Ocean
Pacific
Alaska
North Polar
Siberia
Russia
Greenland
Iceland
South Polar
Antarctic
South America
No Good Uses for Money Warns Schoolboys
A commentator argues that any high school boy who cannot think of useful ways to spend money aside from saving it should be expelled for being ineducable. The remark critiques financial prudence and discipline in youth.
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Cal
United States
Magnitude Of Farm Aid Seen In U S Report
Washington report shows Texas receiving 76.4 million dollars in AAA rental and benefit payments led by 67.1 million to cotton farmers. Wheat and corn hog programs totaled 7.3 and 2.0 million. Grayson County in Texas received 663,723 for cotton and 38,376 for corn and hogs.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Texas
Mississippi
Washington, D. C
AAA
Alabama
Georgia
Grayson County
Government Sees Social Security Opening for Involving State Insurance
Washington reports plan by some congressmen to use social security as a step toward government involvement in the insurance business. Insurance firms oppose the move and a congressional inquiry into insurers is quietly developing. President Roosevelt reportedly opposes the inquiry.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol
David J. Lewis
Maryland
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Lewis
Public debt reality shown as personal cost to Americans
An explanatory piece argues that public debt is not distant at all but a collective burden on every citizen. It notes federal and local totals, compares to Britain, and urges spending on productive projects with accountability for value received.
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Treasury
Collie Ends His Career in School With Certificate
Gyp Luce, a Scotch Collie, graduates from William Cullen Bryant School without study or rules, earning a certificate. The dog attended classes daily with Milton N. Luce Jr., sat in class, wagged his tail, and joined a Friday graduation brief. The diploma notes Grade 7-A completion and implies possible next steps in January 1935.
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Kansas City
Gyp Luce
William Cullen Bryant
Gyp
Milton N. Luce Jr
M. J. Patterson
Luce
Milton
Lindbergh Plans Pacific Flight After Hauptmann Trial
New York reports intimate associates say Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will fly across the Pacific shortly after the Hauptmann trial ends. The trip is seen as a preliminary step toward establishing an American Air Transport service between California and China.
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Lindbergh
Pacific
Hauptmann
New York
Lntimate Associates
Charles A. Lindbergh
Pacific Ocean
California
China
Science May Predetermine Sex Through Vitamin E
The Illinois State Medical Society journal reports experiments with rats linking Vitamin E intake to offspring sex ratios. Sparse Vitamin E tends to yield males while abundant supply yields females, with English cases of two women conceiving after treatment and note that vitamin mistreatment may boost intelligence.
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Chicago
Illinois State Medical Society
Socciety’s Journal
England
Public whipping witnessed by crowd at New Castle workhouse
In sub freezing weather one hundred spectators watched Warden Elmer J. Leach give ten lashes each to three youths at the open air whipping post in New Castle county workhouse. The trio had been found guilty of breaking in.
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New Castle
Del
Elmer J. Leach
Youths to public whipping and ten years jail for Townsend assault
In Townsend Delaware the offender group including John Light cap 18 Walter Bedwell 20 and Hazel Donovan 23 all of Wilmington were sentenced to the public whipping and to ten years in jail for beating and robbing their victim at the home of Henry Skaggs.
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Henry Skaggs
Townsend
Del
John Lightcap
Walter Bedwell
Hazel Donovan
Wilmington
Worth Considering landlord complaints about rent dispute
A Boston landlord says a tenant resists rent collection by force, claiming the tenant throws him down stairs. The remark suggests nonpayment as the possible motive, with uncertainty about the underlying matter.
Fatherly advice echoed in humorous exchange
A brief dialogue has one person inviting another to hear a sermon titled Love one another while the other declines, opting to stay home and practice the message. The exchange frames a light domestic moment focused on family values.
Sanitarian Explains Pit Toilet Grants in County
A letter to James T. Wall at the county relief office in Sherman acts as an application for pit type toilets built by relief labor. W. E. Sheppard says applicants will learn required materials after name and address are provided, with work starting Friday and a 6.50 dollar unit cost.
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James T. Wall
Sherman
W. E. Sheppard
U. S. Public Health Service
Two Bales of Cotton Bring $3480 in Bremen
In Bremen Germany two bales of American cotton valued at 400 marks sent by German sympathizers in New Orleans and Dallas brought 8,700 marks at the cotton exchange auction. Of the proceeds 8,300 marks will go to the Nazi winter relief fund.
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Bremen
Germany
New Orleans
Dallas
Tex
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Kelly
East Side Sq
Barbee-Bassett
Insurance Agency
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Community Natural Gas CO
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N. M. Etheridge
E. 10Th St
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