Monument for Melville Stone Still Growing
A tribute to Melville E. Stone founder of the Associated Press, dead Feb. 15, 1929, with a look at his creation’s enduring global network. The AP byline “By the Associated Press” remains his lasting monument and symbol of impartial news. The piece notes his anonymity ethos and his role in uniting 1,350 papers through copper-threaded telegraph networks.
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New York
Africa
Melville E. Stone
Associated Press
Peoria
Ill
New England
George Dewey
Manila Bay
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Madrid
London
Moscow
Tokio
Buenos Aires
Alf Landon Birthplace At 312 Main Street
Crowds gathered at a two story white house at 312 Main Street billed as Alf Landon birthplace. Spectators paused their parade to tour the ground floor pastor's study, the room where the governor was born, then moved to the nearby golf course to await his arrival with thousands on the greens.
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Main Street
White House
Alf Landon
William Mossman
Terry M. Smith of Sigourney Is Dead
Terry M. Smith 65 a monument dealer in Sigourney for forty years died in an Ottumwa hospital Saturday. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the family home. Surviving are his widow two daughters Mrs Lon Pfaff of Sigourney and Mrs Emma Hurd of Delta and two sons Joe of Sigourney and Tom of Sioux City. He was born in Kenwood now part of Cedar Rapids.
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Sigourney
Terry M. Smith
Ottumwa
Lon Pfaff
Emma Hurd
Delta
Joe
Tom
Sioux City
Mr. Smith
Kenwood
Cedar Rapids
Truckers Killed In Marengo Train Crash Identified
At a grade crossing near Marengo a Rock Island train struck a truck killing two drivers. Luther Franklin 17 from Glenwood Missouri and Hadley Corey 40 from Unionville Missouri died instantly. Franklin was the younger brother of Lester Franklin who held his chauffeur’s license.
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Marengo
Rock Island
Luther Franklin
Lester Franklin
Glenwood
Hadley Correy
Unionville
Landon’s Home Town Swelled By Big Crowd
West Middlesex Pennsylvania greeted Gov. Alfred M. Landon as he returned to his birthplace to launch his 1936 presidential bid. An estimated 125000 gathered or heard him via radio, with townsfolk and neighbors, flags, sunflowers, and streamers marking the Welcome Home Alf celebrations at the Tom O Shanter course.
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West Middlesex
Pennsylvania
Plains
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas
White House
Tom O’shanter
Ninehole
Landon
Alf
Main
Alf Landon
Drought Costs Mount As Federal Relief Wanes
Washington reports daily drought relief outlays nearing 300000 dollars with WPA and resettlement programs across drought states. Hopkins predicts WPA farmer employment surpassing 120000 as new counties join, while resettlement grants average 20 dollars monthly and RA loans fund feed for livestock. Subsis tence grants reach 73000 daily and loans 60000 daily, totaling about 299000 daily relief. Four states Kansas Oklahoma and the Dakotas already in drought territory, more counties eyed. By fall Judge Dailey warns 526000 farming families may need aid as harvests fail and work dries up.
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Washington
INS
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Kansas
Oklahoma
Dakotas
Corn Belt
Middle West
J. D. Dailey
Dailey
Stolen Money Orders Recovered In Illinois
Police said in Peoria that $1,000 in American Express money orders were recovered, part of $1,500 stolen in a robbery of Security State Bank in Sterling, Colorado, on April 11. The money was traced from a $10 note cashed at a restaurant by Assistant State's Attorney Michael Shore, who obtained it from his father-in-law Harry Dennison, a liquor store owner. Dennison said he accepted the money orders for liquor sold to an unidentified person.
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Peoria
Ill
American Express
Security State Bank
Sterling
Colo
Michael Shore
Harry Dennison
Dennison
Man's Joke Involving Police Car Lands Him Five Years
Notorious case from Long Beach California where Alfred Garnett, already a robber, took a police car from in front of a station and left it tied to a mule in a vacant lot. He pleaded the act was a joke and received a five year sentence.
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Long Beach
Calif
Alfred Garnett
Garnett
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Ress
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America
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Westminster Abbey
Lydia Wehmeier Perkins
First Avenue E
DIAL
Little Marjorie
Marjorie Gestring
Fred Cady
Berlin
Sigourney Is Dead
John B. Gumer
Newman
Newman’s College
Elizabeth Bryant
Elizabeth Clark
Cornell
Stevens
Edith Hersch
Newman’s
Iowa
Lorraine Eckert
Grinnell
Nancy Shields
Coe
Dorothy Whipple
AMES
Olympic
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