Farm program plans getting under way
Texas Extension Service reports farmers can plant while details are drafted under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. Crops will be classified as soil depleting conserving and building. No crop control. payments tied to land productivity with proof of compliance. Seventeen Texas experiment stations will guide best practices to curb erosion.
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College Station
Jack Shelton
Extension Service
Memphis
Secretary of Agriculture
Shelton
Texas
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Washington
Experiments to Curb Dust Storms Called Successful
SPRINGFIELD Colo Men wage war against dust to prevent a recurrence of dirt and sand laden clouds that once wiped out crops. CCC led trials trap dust in windward fields using contour furrows and dikes to hold moisture and slow soil loss. The Springfield camp with 168 youths from Oklahoma collaborates with farmers to rehabilitate 77,500 acres in Baca County as part of the Dust Bowl efforts.
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H. G. Beehler
CCC
Beehler
Springfield
Oklahoma
Baca County
Dust Bowl
Household Hints From Worn Clothes To Fresher Dishes
A collection of practical tips for the home covering fur cleaning with bran methods and benzine stains, frosted glass restoration with strong bicarbonate solution, ink stain removal on wallpaper using oxalic acid, lemon juice in waffle batter for flavor and lightness, stock preparation by blanching bones, and an ammonia paste to revive aged coat collars and sleeves as a cosmetic refresh for aging garments.
Facts and figures from a 1930s data snapshot
A compilation of statistics on US topics including sugar bills at 698 million dollars in 1935, 28 million youths attending movies weekly, birds with high body temperatures, no free seed distributions by the Department of Agriculture in 13 years, automobile taxation near 1.3 billion dollars, 50 billion dollars in fur farming investments, and the claim that snow never falls on about a third of the earth’s surface.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Washington
March of Science Highlights Cold Season Facts and Growth Hormone Findings
The article cites Dr. Walter L. Niles on spring colds being milder than January infections and Dr. Russell L. Cecil warning pneumonia as the real danger, noting higher male death rates and serum reducing Type I pneumonia deaths. It discusses height changes, Ice Age statures, and Darby’s shrimp hormone experiments showing how removal timing affects claw development.
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Walter L. Niles
New York Academy of Medicine
Russell L. Cecil
la Grippe
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
America
England
Cecil
Darby
Regeneration research and dust storm health risks
Dr Hugh H Darby of the Carnegie Institution reports on regeneration in various animals and notes humans heal wounds slowly. A dust storm study links rising respiratory diseases and other ailments to silica dust. public health measures include hospital care, dustproof housing, and masks for exposed people.
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Hugh H. Darby
Carnegie Institution
Laboratory For Marine Biology
Tortugas
United States Public Health Service
Roosevelt acts as reporter in new Government paper
The Federal Register, a daily government publication with world circulation, debuts in 16 pages at five cents. Roosevelt writes the lead story about Bull Island off South Carolina being reserved for the Agriculture Department under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act. Published by the National Archives under Bernard B. Kennedy. early forecasts warn the venture may be short lived.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Register
Congressional Record
Roosevelt
Bull Island
South Carolina
Department of Agriculture
National Archives
Bernard B. Kennedy
Budget Bureau
House Appropriations Committee
Tragedy Home of Lindbergh to Be Orphan's Asylum
Hopewell New Jersey residents learn the ill fated Lindbergh estate may become an orphanage in memory of the murdered child. The house and estate have been surveyed by High Fields Inc. remodeling is planned this spring under the Lindberghs and attorney Col Henry Breckenridge. The Lindberghs are abroad in Wales with their younger son.
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Hopewell
N. J
Sourland Mountain
Charles A. Lindbergh
High Fields, Inc
The
Lindberghs
Henry Breckenridge
Wales
Jon
White House
One Child From Every Hundred Doomed to Jail
Denver reports Maj. Charles Brandon Booth of the Volunteers of America warns that at least 1 in 100 Americans under 18 face prison life. He cites failed homes and strained schools as causes, notes lack of religious engagement, and highlights his group’s job program for ex-prisoners with a record January showing more placements than three prior months.
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Denver
Charles Brandon Booth
the Volunteers of America
Booth
Riddle of Grandfather and Alphabet Inventor Sequoyah
A quirky riddle explains a man who is his own grandfather through tangled kinship while noting Sequoyah, a Georgia Cherokee, created a unique alphabet despite being illiterate. The snippet blends puzzles with a historic note on Sequoyah's linguistic invention.
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Sequoyah
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