Storms devastate Wisconsin Iowa and Illinois causing deaths and damage
Severe storms swept Wisconsin Iowa and Illinois last night and today killing at least six in Wisconsin bringing week total to fifteen and injuring many others. Destructive floods ruined crops damaged bridges and destroyed farm homes as Red Cross mobilized aid.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Henry J. Cox
Weather Bureau
St. Paul
Kansas City
West
Asatate
Red Cross
Granger
Black River Falls
Wis
Osseo
New Auburn
Bloomer
Muscatine
Hawthorne Race Track
Van Owardingen Plan To Acquire Other Roads
Wall Street hears the Van Sweringen brothers plan to form a larger Nickel Plate system adding Delaware Lackawanna & Western Wheeling & Lake Erie and Virginian properties. A fifth group may be proposed to the Interstate Commerce Commission with four trunk lines. Trading in Nickel Plate Erie Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere Marquette stock shifted on the news with mixed gains and losses as consolidation likelihoood impacts prices.
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New York
Wall Street
van Oweringen Brothers
Cleveland
Nickel Plate
Chesapeake & Ohio
Hocking Valley
Erie
Pere Marquette
Delaware, Lackawanna &Western
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Lackawanna
New York Stock Exchange
van Sweringens
Financial District
Interstate Commerce . Commission
Coidcabernt
Hudson
Baltimore & Ohio
Reading & Central Railroad
New Jersey
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pere Marquette Railroad
Mb. GN. Brown
Pacific Coast
Pete Marquette
Wisconsin Storm Toll Rises Amid Floods and Tornado
Fifteen lives lost across Wisconsin over six days as heavy rain caused Milwaukee river valley floods and a late yesterday tornado in the western counties. A northeast city storm dropped half an inch of rain and a forty mile per hour wind uprooted trees and damaged small buildings.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
Milwaukee River Valley
Terrific Windstorm in Toledo Destroys Roofs and Wrecks Signs
A rain and windstorm hit Toledo at 1 30 pm injuring buildings and trees and flooding streets. The J W Keller Hardware building lost its rear roof onto Main Street as telegraph lines and trolley wires toppled. Police cordons, a 72 mile per hour wind reading, suspended streetcar service, and a heavy glass canopy fell on Madison Avenue.
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Toledo
Associated Press
J. W. Keller Hardware Company
Second
Main Streets
Weather Bureau
Lotus Hotel
Madison Avenue
Wind Storm Caps Findlay Business District
A strong wind and rain storm in Findlay Ohio struck late today within a block of the business district sweeping three automobiles several yards and backing them into other cars. Signs on business houses were torn down. No injuries reported.
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Findlay, O
Findlay
Storm disrupts Midwest telegraph lines causing delays
Wire services across the Midwest report last night's storms delayed telegraphic transmissions from multiple directions. Communication trouble near Indianapolis St Louis and Chicago signaled a storm approaching Cincinnati.
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Mid- West
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Chigo
Cincinnati
Flappers and Sheiks May Suffer in Strike of Barbers
Chicago barbers announce a $25,000 strike protective fund as they seek higher wages and shorter hours. Barbers, earning $26 weekly, claim women customers demand higher quality work than in the past while flappers and sheiks may face delays in trimming and styling.
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Chicago
Cus
Tomers
Raiders uproot tobacco crop in Metcalf County night raid
Footprints show about a dozen men pulled a three thousand dollar tobacco crop in eight acres at John Smith’s farm in Metcalf County Kentucky Shortly after midnight nearly all of the crop was destroyed Fifty horsemen were seen moving silently through Center the night before The rash of night raids extends into nearby Barren County where a seven acre crop was destroyed Tuesday night and investigations continue
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Glasgow
John Smith
Metcalf County
Center
Smith Farm
Barren County
Metcalf
Fallon Victorious in Not Guilty Verdict for Juror Bribery Case
William J. Fallon, famed criminal lawyer, is acquitted of bribing a juror after a three week trial in New York. The verdict came at 11 05 p m after almost six hours deliberation sparked a wild courtroom celebration. Fallon claimed a plot by Victor Watson of the New York American and accused the paper of harming his reputation with false statements.
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New York
William J. Fallon
New York City
Fallon
Federal
Falion
Victor Watson
The
New York American
Watson
Charles Rengigs
Durrell- Gregory
Bendigs
Ernest Leidlitz
Eidlitz
William Randolph Hearst
the American
Coolidge Recalled Vermont Past During White House Ball Game
President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge watched a White House correspondents vs photographers game near the executive mansion. He recalled playing three old cat as a boy in Plymouth Vermont and said he played all positions. The correspondents won 11 to 8 in nine innings.
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Washington
White House
President Coolidge
Plymouth
Vermont
Derailment injures several Cincinnatians near Hanging Rock
A Cincinnati sleeper and an express car left the rails at Hanging Rock near Portsmouth Ohio. No serious injuries occurred as passengers were evacuated and treated at Ironton before the train resumed to Norfolk. Injured were Bernard Hardin of Panther West Virginia and W H Smith of Knoxville Tennessee.
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Portsmouth
Columbus
Norfolk
Hanging Rock
J. Drake
Ironton
Bernard Hardin
Panther
W. Va
W. H. Smith
Knoxville
Tenn
Confessed Slayer Vidrine Dies Calmly on Scaffold
Ville Platte La August Vidrine 27 confessed slayer of five men went to the scaffold at 12 42 pm He was hanged for the murder May 139 of Robert Leo Wiggins 27 son of Evangeline Parish s former sheriff Vidrine paused for a photo and spoke for half an hour warning against gambling and whisky A book he wrote after conviction details the killings of four other men
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Ville Platte
Uzebe Vidrine
Vidrine
Robert Leo Wiggins
Evangeline Parish
Wiggins
Four Die Drowning Trying to Save Children in Quebec River
In Piedmont Quebec on August 8 four people drowned in the North River while attempting a rescue after children fell from a raft. The children were saved by a troop of Boy Scouts who assisted them to shore. The victims included two women a boy and a girl with no other survivors.
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Scout Troop
Associated Press
Piedmont
Quebec
North River
Tragic Dead Man's Curve Crash Claims Child. Three Others Hurt
A five year old boy died at General Hospital after a car crashed into Dead Man's Curve iron railing on the Central Bridge. John George Jr. suffered severe injuries. his father John George and others were critically hurt. A separate crash on Second Street and Broadway involved James Williams and Richard Seale. Williams was charged with reckless driving.
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Dead Man’s Curve
Central Bridge
John George, Jr
General Hospital
John George
Central Avenue
Katie
Tony Mike
George
Mike
Edward Pancoast
Columbia Street
Vogel
Second District
Georges
Kentucky
Dead Man's Curve
James W. Williams
West Second Street
Richard M. Seale
Altamont Place
Ft. Thomas
Second Street
Broadway
Williams
Roxie
Eleanor Mason
Two Michigan youths drown aiding friend in Lake Michigan
D. Brockway aged 22 and Jay Slaughter aged 19, both Lansing residents, drowned while swimming in Lake Michigan at Bridgman. Brockway reportedly lost his life while attempting to rescue Slaughter who cried for help.
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Brean -Harbor
Mich
D. Brockway
Jay Slaughter
Lansing
Lake Michigan
Bridgman
Here
Brockway
Drownings Reported At Gloucester Ayannisquam and Akron
Mrs Thomas Galt of St Louis and Miss Julia Hitchcock of Springfield Mass are believed drowned off Annisquam after their canoe was found bottom up near Plum Cove. Coast guardsmen and residents searched with motor boats all night and today aided by an airplane. In Akron Ohio William Erdman 26 of Kenmore drowned while bathing in the East Reservoir.
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Gloucester Mass
Thomas Galt
St. Louis
Julia Hitchcock
Springfield
Mass
Annisquam
Annisquam River
Plum Cove Beach
Akron, CO
William Erdman
Kenmore
East Reservoir
Bandits confess to killing woman at hacienda
Five of the attackers in the murder of Mrs. Rosalie Evans near her hacienda are in custody in Texmelucan area after Alejo Garcia confessed. Hacienda payroll of 500 pesos seized. John Strauss injured and hospitalized in Puebla. Hernandez brothers detained. Rita and Pedro Hernandez named as gunmen. Governor Guerrero notes Evans never sought local protection.
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Mexico City
Rosalie Evans
Texmelucan
Alejo Garcia
Strauss
Puebla
Garcia
Evans
Wurrino Garcia
Francisco Ruiz
Garcias
Ruiz
Rita
Pedro Hernandez
Soldier Dies From Heat Wave at Ft Hayes
Deaths from the heat wave rose to two as 25 year old Soldier David L. Fuller died from sunstroke at Ft Hayes Columbus Ohio on August 8. Weather Bureau recorded 89 degrees the day’s high near the season’s peak while the low fell to 68 degrees yesterday.
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Columbus
David L. Fuller
Ft. Hayes
Weather Bureau
Uncle Sam offers free buffalo to anyone paying freight
The Interior Department announced a free buffalo offer to any willing to cover freight. Yellowstone National Park now hosts a herd of 730, and the expanding range has led to feed shortages.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
Interior Department
Yellowstone National Park
Anglo Soviet treaty signed in London amid quiet ceremony
British and Soviet representatives sealed the Anglo-Soviet treaty and trade pact in a small Foreign Office room. Premier MacDonald and Rakovsky signed for Britain and the Soviet delegation. Joffe Tomski Scheinmann also signed for the Soviets. The absence of the King's name prompted talk of a future royal signing if ratified.
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London
Foreign Office
MacDonald
Christian Rakovsky
Arthur Ponsonby
Great Britain
M. Rakovsky
Adolph Joffe
M. Tomski
M. Scheinmann
Soviets
Henry M. Pindell Dies at 63 Peoria Publisher
Henry M. Pindell, prominent Peoria newspaper publisher and Democratic figure, died at his summer home in Northport, Michigan, after a 48 hour illness from heart disease. Born December 28, 1860 in St. Joseph, Missouri, he built the Peoria Herald in 1899 and later owned the Transcript, Evening Times and Evening Journal. He had served as Springfield City Treasurer and was a delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention. in 1913 he was nominated twice as Ambassador to Russia, but declined the post after Senate confirmation.
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Northport
Mich
Henry M. Pindell
Peora
Ill
Mr. Pindell
St. Joseph
Peoria
Russia
Senate
British boxing fever grips Wembley as Gibbons faces Bloomfield
British boxing fans anticipate a 20 round Wembley Stadium bout between Tommy Gibbons and Jake Bloomfield. An expected 100000 could attend if weather favors the 127000 capacity venue. Gibbons remains the favorite, but Bloomfield’s odds have shortened amid national hope for a British title challenge.
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Gibbons
Bloomfield
Wembley
London
Great Britain
Wembley Stadium
Tommy Gibbons
Jake Bloomfield
World Flight Not Abandoned Says Air Service Officials
Washington reports rerouted efforts to locate and equip emergency bases in Greenland for the around the world flight. Ice blocks entry to Angmagsalik threatening the Icelandic leg, with naval convoy risks, while plans to a Cape Farewell base and a floating ice edge base are considered. Admiral Magruder warns against risky southern routes, as crews press to avoid delays and preserve the mission. Lieutenant Wade notes the Boston loss but urges no substitute flight to avoid jeopardizing success.
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Air Service
Greenland
Washington
Army Air Service
Angmagsalik
Thomas P. Magruder
Reykjavik
Iceland
Aviation Headquarters
Clarence E. Crumline
Milwaukee
Cape Farewell
Quest
C. T. Bissell
Gertrude
Angamagsalik
Magruder
Navy Department
Great Arctic Floet
Leigh Wade
Boston
Wade
Question of Party Responsibility Dominates Approaching Campaign
The 1924 campaign centers on party responsibility with Governor Al Smith and John W. Davis framing Republicans as answerable for four years of Washington policy including Teapot Dome. The Democrats accuse GOP unity to be broken by blocs, while supporters say President Coolidge remains a steadfast party man committed to discipline and allegiance to the Republican organization.
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the Commercial Tribune
New York
United States
John W. Davis
al Smith
Washington
Teapot Dome
Congress
Smith
James M. Cox
Woodrow Wilson
Fall
Republican Party
Mr. Coolidge
Massachusetts
Congregational Church
Honduran Troops Pursue Rebels Amid Regional Dispatches
Washington reports a provisional Honduran force of 2000 mobilized to pursue General Ferrera who left the capital with 500 troops. Ferrera's party reached Lepaterique and may head for Esperanza to recruit. a commission was sent to probe the Fonseca rebellion near the Nicaraguan border. Provisional President Tosta reshuffled his cabinet to include Carista and Liberal members.
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Washington
Honduras
Ferrera
Morales
Tegucigalpa
State Department
Lepaterique
Department
Esperanza
Fonseca Revolutionary Movement
Fonseca
Tosta
Carista
Liberal Party
Paris talks stall as Ruhr evacuation blocks accord
Premier Herriot and General Nollet clash over evacuation of the Ruhr. A Paris cabinet conference will slow London negotiations as French and Belgian demands on rail workers dyes and coke strain the talks. Optimism remains despite a likely August 14 agreement date.
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Associated Press
Paris
Doumergue
France
White House
Rambouillet
London
Herriot
Nollet
Clementel
General Nollet
M. Herriot
Dawes
M. Clementel
Ruhr
Germany
M. Glenefitel
Havas
Clemente
Rhineland
MacDonald
Eastbourne
Reciprocal prisoner releases tied to Berlin talks
Berlin reports rapid progress on a reciprocal release of German, French and Belgian prisoners in the Rhineland and Ruhr following London conference amnesty decisions. All political prisoners held by French and Belgian authorities in the Rhineland Palatinate and Ruhr are being freed.
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Berlin
Ruhr
Rhineland
Rhineland Palatinate
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