Eight Persons Burn to Death in Two U.S. Fires
Flames swept through a Honesdale residence killing five Griffin family members including George 64 Irene 46 and children Donald 10 Mildred 7 and Marion 12. Jean 8 Fay 2 were saved by smoke and hospitalized. In Pursley Community near Corsicana three others Dixie Lorene Massey 28 and two Davis children aged two and four died in a separate farmhouse fire.
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Honesdale
Indian Orchard
Ray Smith
George Griffin
Irene
Donald
Mildred
Marion
Jean
Pay
Smith
Fay
Corsicana
Pursley
Dixie Lorene Massey
Joe Massey
Davis
Sheriff's Office
Five Die As Truck Crashes Through Guard Rail
A loaded truck carrying laborers from New Jersey to Florida plunged 100 feet after crossing a guard rail at the Conowingo Dam bridge near Darlington Maryland. Five men were killed and about twenty injured, with several in critical condition. Hospital staff evacuated the wounded to Elkton A hospital, while state police and Hartford County officials investigated the crash.
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Darlington
Mad
Conowingo Dam
Here
Elkton
New Jersey
Florida
Harford County
Drouth May Boost Arm Tenancy In Iowa
Iowa land planning expert Dr. Rainer Schic-Mele says drought will accelerate a shift from owner-operators to tenancy. He notes farmers foresee more farm losses, especially in southern counties, boosting tenancy trends statewide.
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Ames
Rainer Schic- Mele
Iowa
Drouth
Washington Social Snippets and Political Banter Across The Capitol
A collage of anecdotes from Washington life touching on White House silver losses by souvenir hunters, Cummings mayoral bid in Stamford, Republican and Democrat rivalries between Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Mrs. Harriman, Queenly club life at Cosmos Club and National Press Club, and Sir Ronald Lindsay’s England return with discreet indignation.
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Sigrid Arne
Roosevelt
White House
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
J. Borden Harriman
Mrs. Harriman
Cosmos Club
National Press Club
Cosmos
Dolly Madison
Higher Mathematics To Be Reviewed in Adult Class Tonight
An adult education class reviews higher mathematics including analytical geometry and calculus tonight in the county judge's courthouse office. The program grew from a FER A funded fight school and now operates under the State Department of Education with 48 instructors across Potter Donley Randall Hutchinson and Ochiltree counties. Tuition is free and literacy remains a key focus with small classes and at home instruction offered for readers and writers.
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FERA
State Department of Education
Potter
Donley
Randall
Hutchinson
Ochiltree
W. E. Chapman
W. R
Bill” Rutherford
Rutherford
State auditor seeks full balance sheet for 1936 end
Austin Aug 27 A U P State Auditor Carneal Sheffield urged state departments to supply a detailed balance sheet as of Aug 31 1936 to show total cash by fund and contracts for future payment. Treasurer Charley Lockhart will finalize cash totals. appropriations unexpended revert to the general revenue fund.
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Charley Lockhart
Sheffield
State General Fund
General Revenue Fund
News Story Unites Brother, Sister in Iowa City
LeRoy Moomey, 86, of Iowa City, tracked down his long-lost half sister after reading a newspaper item about her birthday. She is Mrs John Gould of Marengo, now aged 87, and the siblings were separated when he was eight and she was nine.
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Iowa City
lLeRoy Moomey
John Gould
Marengo
Moomey
Russians Become Turks in Turkey Citizenship Grant
More than a thousand white Russian families exiled since the Soviet revolution have been granted Turkish citizenship through intervention by the Nansen international office for refugees. About a hundred others are designated undesirables and ordered to leave Turkey. In a separate item, Gov. James V. Allred of Texas accepted an invitation to be keynote speaker at a district meeting of the League of Young Democrats in Medicine Park on September 5.
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Ankara
Turkey
Nansen International Office For
League of Nations
Allred
Oklahoma City
James V. Allred
Texas
Oklahoma Democratic Central Committee
League of Young Democrats
Medicine Park
Rain and Credit Sought by Western Cattlemen Amid Drought
Western cattlemen face drought with 85 000 head moved from Wyoming pastures as 50 percent of Montana cattle may head to markets before winter. Despite losses, officials urge optimism citing green pastures and salvaging stock. France and Belgium imposed 1923 sanctions on the Ruhr until 1025.
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Denver
F. E. Mollin
American National Livestock Association
Mollin
Gillette
Wyo
Mullin
Wyoming
Russell Thorp
Wyoming Stock Growers Association
Montana
Versailles
France
Belgium
Ruhr
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