Driving Across the West with Louisa Meigs Green
A travelogue recounts a cross country journey from Iowa to Wyoming with Louisa Meigs Green. The narrator describes storms in the Midwest, the Missouri River crossing, the Bad Lands and Black Hills, Sylvan Lake, Wind Cave, Deadwood, Custer Battlefield area, Devil's Tower, and arid landscapes toward Arvada. It notes weather, road conditions, encounters with locals, and a shift from Midwest to Western frontier atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dounline
Iowa
Middle West
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Missouri River
Murdo
Custer Battlefield
Black Hills
Rapid City
Sylvan Lake
Virginia
Wind Cave
Deadwood
Custer
Rockies
Little Big Horn
Desert
West
Powder River
Arvada
Wyo
Hog market uptick boosts farmer purchasing power
In Chicago the hog market price trend rose, lifting farmer buying power. Duluth sees 200 workers back as American Steel and Wire resumes three open hearth furnaces on August 1 after idle period. Washington notes a 0.3 percent weekly rise in wholesale prices per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chicago railroads report last week’s car loadings about 100000 above the July 9 week. Ambridge Pennsylvania reports 150 draftsmen hired as 20000 tons of steel orders move to the America Bridge Company plant. Philadelphia notes federal employment chief Lewis G. Hines cites upturn in Pennsylvanian building trades with relief and highway work aiding the unemployed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Duluth
American Steel and Wire Company
Washington
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ambridge
America Bridge Company
Philadelphia
Lewis G. Hines
Pennsylvania
Virginia Plants Show a Gradual Output Increase
The United States employment service reports broader activity across Virginia plants with most large facilities operating though some curtail schedules. Increases appear in silk, furniture, overalls, woolen goods, shoes, textiles, cement, toys, and auto assembly as shipyards stay active and farm help improves. Standard Oil of New Jersey adds 50 workers since July 1 and announces a new five- unit inauguration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Richmond
United States Employment Service Today
Virginia
John R. Alpine
Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Salary Reductions Aimed at Hiring More Workers
An announcement states a ten percent salary cut for all employees earning over $100 a month. The savings are to be used to hire additional workers.
Canterbury Notes from CANTERBURG Virginia July update
Mrs Fred Dovel spent days with her son Carol in Washington D C. Mr and Mrs A Rowland's son visited. Paul Painter and Good of Washington spent the weekend with Nellie and Mae Painter. Carrie Hudson improves slowly. Ray Albin and daughter visit. Lynn Glover returns home from Washington. Painter siblings visit Gainesboro. Lomax DeHaven returns home. A P Johnson improves after eye treatments in Winchester. B A Rowland better after being indisposed. Farmers threshing and haymaking in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canterburg
Fred Dovel
Carol
D.C
A. Rowlandson
Lucketts
Paul Painter
Good
Washington
Nellie
Mae Painter
Carrie Hudson
Hudson
Ray Albin
Ter Herbert Pope
Winches
Lynn Glover
Washington, D. C
Dick Cooley
W. M. DeHaven
Gainesboro
Lomax DeHaven
A. P. Johnson
Winchester
B. A. Rowland
Government supervision urged for all interstate transport
Richmond July 23 H E Ketner commerce counsel of the State Corporation Commission urged that all forms of interstate transportation be placed under a central government agency He cited declining railroad revenues and car loadings in early 1932 and argued unified supervision would allow orderly control and replacement of methods to meet public demand He noted 12 103 903 freight cars moved January 9 to June 4 1932 versus 16 121 989 in the same period 1931.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Richmond
H. E. Ketner
Commerce
State Corporation Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bureau of Railway Economics
Ketner
Railroad revenues rise in early year report
The document notes 1031 being much greater than the 1981 decrease under 1930. It cites railroad gross operating revenues for the first four months of this year at 1 100 453 850 versus 1 448 717 001 in 1981 and net operating revenue from 148 186 723 to 87 535 374.
Fragmented prose on employment and fishing aspirations
The text remarks on a chaotic world with millions unemployed and many longing for a chance to fish. It contrasts whimsical imagery with stark economic despair, hinting at broader social longing and instability.
Hogue Creek Local News Notes and Tragic Deaths
Rev and Mrs C J Racey and driver were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Less Ramey. Numerous regional visits are recorded among residents of Hogue Creek and nearby towns including Gettysburg and Winchester. The community mourns the sudden deaths of Mrs Gilbert Elliott and Mr H Moore this week. A Scottish boy saved his younger companion after a gust swept him into the Forth Clyde canal. he pulled the boy to safety with a branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hogue Creek
C. J. Racey
Less Ramey
Clement Kump
Highview
W. Va
Scott White
Luther Larrick
Statton Orndoff
Gainesboro
Mark Carper
Winchester
A. L. Nail
Gladys Ramey
Boyd Ramey
Sloan Wolfe
Gettysburg
A. O. Cooper
Eckley
S. T. Larrick
Gilbert Elliott
H. Moore
J. S. Orndoff
Rufus Good
William Clowser
Laura Orndoff
Dora Fletcher
Joe Bayliss
Lloyd Light
Miss Mason
Elic
Forth Clyde Canal
Thomas Shorthouse
Bishopbriggs
Scotland
Public Sale of Valuable Real Estate in Frederick County
Pursuant to a June 26 1932 circuit court decree in Sylva Lemley v Ernest W Townsend in Frederick County Virginia I will on Saturday July 30 1932 at 11 AM offer for sale at the Winchester Courthouse front door the Amanda Margaret Townsend property Stephens City adjoining Jacob Lemley and George A Grove containing about one quarter acre with eight room house brick smokehouse cistern and well water Terms require one third cash and balance in two annual installments evidenced by two bonds secured by deed of trust on safe property and fire insurance Special Commissioner J Sloan Kuykendall certificate filed July 2 1932 by Clerk C C Brannon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Frederick
Sylva Lemley
Ernest W. Townsend
Virginia
Court House of
Winchester
Amanda Margaret Townsend
Stephens City
Frederick County
Jacob Lemley
George A Grove
J. Sloan Kuykendall
I. C. C. Brannon
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Louisa Meigs Green
Canterbury
Boston Shoe
E. Piccadilly St
People’s Tomorrow
Congress
People’s Service Drug Store
N. Main St
Shirley Shoppe
Keystone
Loodoup
Goodyear
Sperthway
Buncutter
the Gas Company
WLI
Wenders Apparel Shop
Just
Panama
Ladies’ Department
Ven Levinson Clothing CO
Planter’s Manufacturing CO
J. B. Beverley
Agt
W. Clifford St
Warehouse
R. R
Catherine D. Warne
Home Economist
The
Kelvin Kitchen
Kelvinator Cooking School
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