Few Surviving Civil War Nurses Reflect On Long Lives
NEA Service profiles eight aging women on government pension rolls as the last Civil War nurses. They recall battlefield mercy, early nursing beginnings led by Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton, and their enduring service to communities despite primitive wartime conditions.
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U. S
Florence Ightingale
Crimea
Clara Barton
United States
Walt Whitman
Hattie Brubaker
St. Paris
Jennie Kennedy
Bagdad
Fla
Bridget Murphy
Ashland
Mary E. Miller
Logansport
Ind
Eliza Pyle
Norris City
Ill
Rose Russell
Vicksburg
Miss
Mary C. Upton
Clinton
Mary M. Watson
Lockwood
Brubaker
Harriet Manning
New Orleans
American Red Cross
Financial Outlook Brightens for Iowa Farmers This Year
Porter M Hedge reports Iowa farmers face their brightest financial prospects since 1930 as 1936 crop prospects, prices, and incomes rise. Despite slightly lower prices, purchasing power holds steady due to reduced input costs and higher marketings.
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Des Moines
Iowa
White Elephant Turns Out To Be Of Dirty Gray Hue
Crowds gathered at Los Angeles harbor when a sacred white elephant from Siam was unloaded from the liner Asama Maru. The animal, Princess Nan Da San, proved gray like other elephants, as importer Dan Callahan explained the cargo and planned exhibition at the centennial exposition.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor
Siam
Nan-Da-San
Dan Callahan
Mary
Cory
Prince Puracha
Waterloo Minister Plans Public Meetings on Communism
Reverend P. B. Chenault of Walnut Street Baptist in Waterloo said he will air his charges about communism at public meetings June 8-10, despite Iowa Baptist convention officials declining to attend. He accused the convention board of managers of backing out of a closed hearing, while Rev. A. W. Lyons urged fraternal Christian dialogue and keeping the matter open.
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Fort Dodge
Special Investigation Committee
Tugwell Unit Expands Land Purchases for Recreation Sites
The Resettlement Administration announced purchase of over 500000 acres unsuited for farming to develop public recreation centers under the New Deal program. Most land lies within 46 projects in cooperation with the National Park Service. Work is underway and due for summer public use. Rexford Tugwell says proceed with all projects except Bound Brook pending appeal. Midwestern sites include Waterloo Detroit 13000 acres and Lake of the Ozarks 14500 acres among others.
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Resettlement Administration
Rand
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Reseralee Authority
National Park Service
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Court of Appeals
Bound Brook
Supreme Court
Michigan
Waterloo
Detroit
Yankee Springs
Grand Rapids
Illinois
Pere Marquette
St. Louis
Indiana
Versailles
Cincinnati
Winemac
Chicago
Missouri
Lake of the Ozarks
Springfield
Curvre River
Montserrat
Kansas City
Flying Skill Of Army Officer Averts Plane Crash Death
In San Francisco an army captain named Robert Miller saved lives by skillfully landing a disabled plane near a tree hedge, averting a wholesale death during a flight to honor war dead. His actions prevented a fatal crash and showcased decisive pilot training under emergency conditions.
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San Francisco
Robert Miller
Theater
Memorial day plane incident at park lake
A helicopter or small plane experienced engine failure at about 400 feet during a Memorial day ceremony at a park lake. Pilot Calin Miller steered for a clear area as a crowd watched in horror. Major Frank Flynn, aboard as ash scatterer, and the passenger were uninjured.
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Holiday Park
Frank Flynn
Crissy Field
Park Lake
Calain Miller
Wells says he fled family to escape gang threats in Wisconsin
Harry Wells a 37 year old Monroe Wisconsin truck line operator awaiting return to Madison on wire abandonment charges told United Press he ran away to protect his family from a Chicago bootleg gang. He said he was extorted about 2000 since 1981 and would go back only if authorities guaranteed protection.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Harry Wells
Monroe
Wis
Wells
United Press
Nea Oe
Chicago
Madison
Indian Service Plans War on Liquor Smugglers
Denver report says the United States Indian Service under Louis C. Mueller plans a campaign against liquor runners on reservations. Government aim is to end murders linked to drink crazed Indians after seven killings in recent months.
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Denver
Louis C. Mueller
United Sates Indian Service
Mueller
Mercury Slides After Memorial Day Heat Peak
Temperatures in Cedar Rapids fell from a Memorial Day high of 74 at 7 p.m. after a 64 degree peak at 3:30 p.m. and a low of 60 by 11 p.m. charting a rapid drop per Chambers Inskeep company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Jail Troy Mills Man Booked On Disturbing The Peace
A man claiming the name Art Floyd of Troy Mills was lodged in the county jail at 3 00 p m Saturday by Sheriff James H Smith. He was booked on a charge of disturbing the peace.
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Art Floyd
Troy Mills
James H. Smith
Iowa State Man to Head Baker Univ
Baldwin Kan AP Dr Nelson P Horn head of the religion department at Iowa State College Ames was unanimously chosen as president of Baker University He succeeds Dr Wallace B Fleming who resigns after fourteen years Horn will take over July 1 and visit the campus next week Fleming becomes president emeritus
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Horn
Heep
Missouri Wesleyan College
Garret Biblical Institute
Evanston, Ill
Northwestern University
Evanston
Ill
Interchurch School of Religion
Iowa
Believe Louisiana Posse closes in on fugitive slayer
Angola Louisiana UP two truckloads of armed convict tru s ties rushed into the woods east of here as prison officials said they were closing in on Wilfred Lindsley 23 triple slayer who escaped Wednesday night guards sighted him after a bar rage of bullets. He fled as officers tried to decoy him into an automobile. Warden Louis Jones led the posse through the woods amid rain and mud. June Lindsley and an accompanying woman fled down the Angola St Francisville highway signaling for him to come out. A man emerged from the woods and fled when ordered to halt. A prison guard died during the manhunt and Willie Wade a deaf farm youth was killed earlier after being mistaken for the fugitive. Lindsley was serving life for a rival suitor of a 16 year old girl.
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Angola
Here
Wilfred Lindsley
Wade Fournet
Lindsley
Nelson J. Hime
Louis Jones
Lindsey
June
Erga
Wim
Angola-St. Francisville Higheway
June Lindsley
Tone
Baton Rouge An
Tom Uit
Toll
Willie Wade
Red Oak Girl Crowned Peony Queen at Shenandoah Show
Miss Garnavieve Sellergren 16 of Red Oak Iowa was named peony queen by the Shenandoah Community Garden club at the annual flower show She was the unanimous pick from 15 candidates with four maids of honor named from the group The show closes today
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Shenandoah, Ia
Garnavieve Sellergren
Red Oak
Shenandoah Community Garden Club
Sellergren
Ueen
Marialus Hull
Clarinda
Irene
Ann Laumann
Farragut
Richardson
Hamburg
Seonges Use Army To Get Over Frontier Barriers
A regular army tank driven by trauseiers crashed frontier barriers at La Maison De Parades before dawn. French customs guards watched as the armored vehicle ripped through a double barbed wire barrier and sped toward the French countryside at high speed.
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Lille
France
Trauseiers
la Maison de Parades
Wodt
Tank Breaks Barrier and Returns to Belgium
Frontier guards intensified efforts at the border after smugglers were suspected to recross. A tank breached the barriers, evaded guards, and crossed back into Belgium despite precautions to stop it.
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Belgium
Three Of Family Killed As Train Hits Auto In Ohio
Three members of a family died instantly when their car was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train seven miles east of Youngstown Ohio. Two others were injured as the auto was demolished on the tracks. The victims were Cumatis Stamatiakis 42 of Campbell his daughter Catherine 4 and his mother-in-law Olga 9. A deputy sheriff reported Stamatiakis drove onto the tracks and was struck by the Youngstown bound train.
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Youngstown, O
Pennsylvania Railroad
Here
Cumatis Giemnatiakis
Campbell
Catherine
Olga
Wreck Victims Identified After Drone Strike
A large machine was hurled twenty five feet in a crash. Three occupants and a dog died before rescuers could extricate them from the wreckage.
Woman in Red Denied Theater Offer in Bucharest
Anna Sage known as the woman in red, who betrayed John Dillinger, was offered a singer and dancer job in a Bucharest theater but the interior ministry asked for the offer to be cancelled. An official said it would cast the heroine of an American crime into a theatrical sensation in Romania.
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Bucharest
Anna Sage
John Dillinger
Ministry of the Interior
Roumania
Wild Taxi Ride Ends in Bloomingdale Wreck
Chicago taxi driver Edwin Lavery, 44, plowed through a suburban Bloomingdale area at seven tan, struck an abutment, and rolled the cab. Police awaited his regained consciousness to learn the cause of the crash.
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Chicago
Edwin Lavery
Bloomingdale
Seventan
Ace
Fate Of American Missionaries In Ethiopia Unknown
Addis Ababa AP reports 53 missionaries in the Ethiopian interior remain unaccounted for, including 41 Americans. Dr Lambie, field director of Ethiopian mission service, says his headquarters in the capital survived rioting after Haile Selassie fled and before Italy’s May 5 advance. attempts to reach the interior group have failed.
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Addis Ababa
A & Lambie
Ethiopian Mission Service
Lambie
Andis
Haile Selassie
Secret television experiment blamed for London scientist illness
London reporters say Frank Manning, an experimental scientist, lies unconscious at St Bartholomew's with doctors unsure of diagnosis. Manning claimed his home built TV used two carbon pieces and a hidden secret between infrared and ultraviolet frequencies. A radiologist doubted cosmic rays caused the illness.
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London
Frank Manning
St. Bartholomew’s
Manning
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