Drought Grips Midwest Farms Amid Heat Wave
Temperatures above 100 degrees blaze across the Middle West and South as drought cripples crops and water supplies. Illinois Chicago and nearby towns report record heat. Kentucky and Indiana reach triple digits. storms cause damage in Grinnell Iowa and Grinnell area.
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Chicago
South
Middle West
Harrisburg
Ill
St. Louis
Mercury
Sheldon
Poplar Bluffs
Nebraska
Lake Michigan
Indiana
Kentucky
South Carolina
McLeod
Corn
Kansas City
Illinois
Peoria
Pana
Grinnell
Weather shift brings relief from extreme heat across nation
Cooler air is arriving from the Canadian Northwest and is expected to reach the lower lake region by Sunday and push eastward across the mid Atlantic. A disturbance over South Dakota may ease the western Ohio Valley drought and the east Gulf region. Heat records were set in Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Augusta, with several cities posting their hottest September weather on record.
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Washington
United States
Canadian Northwest
Weather Bureau
Lower Lake Region
Ohio, Valley
Tennessee
Middle Atlantic
South Dakota
Ohio Valley
East Gulf
Gew
Tofay Weather Bureau
Chattanooga
Tenn
Birmingham
Ala
Augusta
All Ohio Faces Drought as Crops Suffer Across State
Drought grips Ohio with hot, dry conditions across counties. Farmers report stressed crops and declining yields while weather officials monitor heat levels and water shortages statewide.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Columbus
Making pet of rattler proves fatal to boy in field
Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 4. F L Tuttle, 19, tried to make a pet of a rattlesnake found in a cotton field. The reptile became calm, but hours later it bit him on the face as he threw it away. He died five hours afterward.
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Rattler
Tulsa
Okla
F. L. Tuttle
Boy and pilot die in Highland Park flight crash
In Cleveland Ohio a thirteen year old named Clifford Davis and Captain Walter L. Smith were killed when their 5 000 foot flight ended in a crash at Highland Park Cemetery. The boy had sought a flying cure for deafness after illness. Witnesses included golfers and park attendants. Captain Smith, an army veteran and respected instructor, leaves a widow.
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Cleveland, CO
Clifford Davis
Walter L. Smith
Highland Park Cemetery
Clifford
Smith
Brooks Field
Texas
France
Youngstown
Rum runners clash off Jersey coast with fatality and liquor seizures
A Sea Bright coast guard chase ends with Joseph Solbach known as Dynamite Joe dying from a stomach wound after a raid on a rum runner boat. Boats carrying 200 to 300 cases of liquor are captured, while a larger steamer linked to Montreal remains offshore. Authorities report a dozen runners waiting to dash for the harbor as tide of raids continues along the Jersey coast.
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Joe
Joseph West
Seabright Station
Solbach
West
Truax
Coast Guard
Nake A
Montreal
Mexican deputy shot by colleague after congress clash
Deputy Marin Perez died in a hospital from wounds after a pistol fight with Deputy Wenceslao Macib on a Mexico City street following a stormy congress session over Puebla agrarian crimes. President Calles condemned the debate, and political tensions rose after the killing.
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Mexico City
Marin Perez
Wenceslao Macib
Congress
Puebla
Calles
Louisville Hydro Electric Plan Promises Big Ohio River Power
The Standard Gas and Electric Company and partners announce a $10.75 million water power project on the Ohio River at Louisville. A two mile dam, twenty feet high, will form part of a nine foot stage project linking Pittsburgh to Cairo. The plan includes a 507 foot power house near Rock Island and a 135 000 horsepower ultimate capacity, with delivery to Louisville Gas and Electric Company under new Hydro Electric subsidiary.
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Chicago
Standard Gas 4and Electric Company
Louisville Gas and Electric Company
Ohio River
Louisville
United States
Pittsburgh
Cairo
Indiana
Rock Island
Shippingsport
Kentucky
Bullesby Engineering and Management Corporation
Standard Gas and Electric Company
Hydro-Electric Company
Standard Engineers
Delaware
H. M. Byllesby
Work To Be Started on Dam at Once
Colonel Charles W. Katz says work on a new dam project will begin within days with a coffer dam to shut off river flow. Bids for the permanent dam will be let by the government. The dam will run straight from Indiana shore toward Kentucky shore then angle downstream to the power plant built by Standard Gas and Electric Company.
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U. S
Charles W. Katz
Central Division
United States Engineering Department
Katz
Indiana
Kentucky
Standard Gas and Electric Company
Long elected president of American Bar Association
Detroit Sept. 4 Chester I. Long of Wichita Kansas was elected President of the American Bar Association to succeed Charles Evans Hughes. William P. Mc Cracken Jr of Chicago was chosen secretary and Fred E. Wilkins of Albany New York was reelected treasurer.
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Detroit
Chester I. Long
Wichita
Kan
American Bar Association
Charles Evans Hughes
William P. McCracken, Jr
Chicago
Fred E. Wilkins
Albany
N. Y
Barristers' Leader Chester I Long Elected President
Chester I. Long, aged 65, rises to the presidency of Barristers after aiding in shaping modern law. He entered politics in 1889 by winning a seat in the state Senate and is a Thirty second Degree Mason.
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Associated Press
Wichita
Kan
Chester I. Long
State Senate
Three Flee Illinois Jail Overpowers Sheriff
Three men escaped from the county jail in Pontiac Illinois last night after overpowering the sheriff. One identified escapee is Russell Carpentier a 19 year old from Owensville Kentucky.
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Illinois
Associated Press
Pontiac
Russell Carpentier
Owensville
Anti Evolution League Chooses Bryan Jr for President
The Anti Evolution League of America selected William Jennings Bryan Jr of Los Angeles as President and named a Campaign Committee to seek his acceptance. Dr John Roach Straton of New York was elected Campaign Committee chairman to lead a nationwide drive against teaching evolution in public schools.
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William Jennings Bryan, JR
Associated Press
Louisville
Anti-Evolution League of America Late Today
Los Angeles
John Roach Straton
New York
Sampan Captain Reports Towing Disabled Plane off Kauai Coast
In Honolulu on September 4 Captain Koda of the Sampan Kotoruki Maru told Customs Inspector Mitchell he saw a sampan towing a disabled airplane off the west coast of Kauai Miland at 7 o'clock this morning. He claimed the aircraft was from the missing Sea plane PN-9 No. 1, with Pearl Harbor on Oahu as the destination and the sighting well beyond the presumed crash point.
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Honolulu
Koda
Mitchell
Kauai Miland
Kauai
Oahu
Pearl Harbor
Eighteen Destroyers Ordered to Aid PN 9 Seaplane Search
Honolulu reports eighteen more destroyers ordered to assist in the hunt for the PN-9 No. 1 crew after the San Francisco to Pearl Harbor seaplane ran out of fuel in a rain storm. Navy radio operators processed thousands of messages as search efforts continued since Tuesday afternoon.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
San Francisco-Hawaii
PN-9
San Francisco
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Samoa
Navy
Cinderella Number 2 Disappears From Home in Bronx
Sylvia Mullen twelve year old, runner up in a Cinderella adoption contest for Edward Browning, went missing again after a note to a man was found. Police fear kidnapping as Atlantic City authorities report a girl named Sylvia Mullin held there and aided by Travelers' Aid Society.
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Associated Press
New York
Sylvia Mullen
Bronx
Edward W. Browning
Frances Mullen
Oine
Sylvia
Mary Louise Spas
Mr. Browning
Mary
Atlantic City
Sylvia Mullin
Travelers’ Aid Society
Fire in Shreveport Destroys Fifteen City Blocks
A midnight blaze in Shreveport Louisiana leveled over fifteen blocks of the residential area as water mains failed. Firemen fought to hold the flames from the business district while the inferno swept through a predominantly black neighborhood. Damage was estimated at more than $500,000.
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Shreveport
Pees
Man Kidnapper Evades Police After Abduction in New Jersey
Rewards totaling 3000 dollars are offered for information on a suspected black kidnapper who abducted six year old Mary Daly in Montclair New Jersey. A pursue and manhunt involving police, state troopers and citizen posses ensued after a chauffeur John Sandin was wounded while chasing the abductor who fled with the child in a car linked to Raymond Pierce, whose body later was found. The case centers on a ransom call and multiple kidnapping attempts in recent months. Daly's father is president of Washington Hardware Company.
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Montclair
N. J
Watchung Mountains
Mary Daly
Liberty
John Sandin
Sandin
Raymond Pierce
Pierce
Herbert Matz
Daly
New York
Sheriff's Office
Jane Dix
Dix
Joseph Bower
Lower Notch
Washington Hardware Company
New York City
Knoxville dairy chemist kills woman then dies in car
J L Wallace of Knoxville Tennessee and Denver Mrs Ethel Sherman were found dead in an automobile. Police say Wallace killed Mrs Sherman by a bullet to the head then took his own life. Wallace, a dairy chemist from a wealthy Knoxville family, was named as co respondent in a divorce filing by William Sherman on June 20.
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Denver
Col
J. L. Wallace
Knoxville
Tenn
Ethel E. Sherman
Wallace
Sherman
William Sherman
Rockefeller Gift Funds Megiddo Research at Chicago
John D. Rockefeller Jr. pledged 215000 for archaeological studies among the ruins of Megiddo during the University of Chicago’s 138th commencement led by Vice President Tufts.
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Chicago
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Megiddo
Tufts
University of Chicago
Log of Shenandoah in Field Points to Worst Storm Ever
Cambridge Ohio September 4 The Shenandoah crash may have resulted from over taxed engines going dead in the wind and a weakened construction especially in the control cabin The wrecks show motors broke and parts scattered over two miles O Sullivan of Lowell Massachusetts listed as last seen alive.
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Cambridge
Lakehurst
Bartholomew B. O'Sullivan
Lowell
Mass
Shenandoah crash dumps 75000 pounds of parts
New York report details 75000 pounds of materials dropping from the Shenandoah in Ohio fields after the dirigible was lost. Duralumin 23000 pounds steel wire 7000 pounds wood 500 pounds paint and varnish 500 pounds cloth for cover 5000 yards cloth for gas cells 32000 yards gold beaters skins 460000 approximate total parts 3500000
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New York World News Service
New York
Ohio
Shenandoah
Running back on the catwalk with a bucket of water
A brief fragment notes a running back on a catwalk carrying a bucket of water. The text appears as a clipped Entertainment or sports caption with a stray Parenthetical note about continued text on the second page.
Survivors defend Shenandoah design against gale disaster
Lakehurst New Jersey September 4 surviving officers mechanics and enlisted experts arrived at the naval air station to deny charges of inefficiency in the Shenandoah wreck stating no ship could have ridden that gale They praised the ship s condition and blamed only the wind as experts prepared a Court of Inquiry into all criticisms and construction details remain undisclosed
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New York World News Service
Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Air Station
Heinen
Germany
Zeppélin Company
Los Angeles
America
Chang
Whittley
Akron Zeppelin Company
Zachary Lansdowne
Shenandoah
Ohio
Middlewest
Air Station
George W. Steele
Morley Pierce
Lakewood
Navy Department
Cambridge
Washington
Naval Air
Secretary Wilbur Denies Knowledge of Shenandoah Design Flaws
Washington reports quote Secretary Wilbur denying detailed knowledge of alleged weaknesses in the Shenandoah’s design as charges by Captain Anton Heinen prompt a Board of Inquiry to examine every detail of the disaster and its possible causes.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Anton Heinen
Board of
Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur
Girl Lost in Woods Found After Eleven Days
Twelve year old Evelyn Peterson, who vanished while picking wild berries near Lakewood, Duluth, on August 25, was found alive a mile from the search area. She survived eleven nights with only wild berries, endured wolves’ howls, and recalled hearing cows, roosters, and men while wandering.
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Associated Press
Duluth
Minn
Evelyn Peterson
Lakewood
K. B. Johnson
Swimmer Drowns at Y M C A Camp
Harry Burgoyne 28 a male nurse drowned in the Little Miami River near the Y M C A Tower Hill Camp. His body was recovered after a nightlong search. he had wartime shrapnel scars on his right leg and was staying at a nearby cottage.
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Harry Burgoyne
Little Miami River
Tower Hill
Burgoyne
Milford
C. A. Culbertson
Clarion Avenue
Evanston
Standard Optical Company
Emery Arcade
E. R. Cumley
Henry Beebe
P. Eaking
Fred Nolte
Roe Street
Madisonville
O. E. Cress
Boy Drowns After Diving in Ford Waterway
Calvin Manning twelve, son of Mr and Mrs Edward Manning of 422 Lockwood avenue, drowned while swimming in a waterway leading to the Ford Company power plant in Hamilton Ohio. He dove from a bridge into a waterway about sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep and failed to resurface. Companions Victor Elliott Leroy Wolpert and Edward Nistler, all twelve, alerted police and the body was recovered at 8 30 tonight. He leaves a brother Palmer and a sister Mrs Mildred Palmer of Middletown. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.
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Ford Waterway
The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Calvin Manning
Edward Manning
Lockwood Avenue
Ford Company
Calvin
Victor Elliott
Leroy Wolpert
Edward Nistler
Shenandoah Log Found Near Control Cabin
Pleasant City in a field yields the Shenandoah airliner log used in the investigation of Commander Zachary Lansdowne and six crew deaths. The two volume ledger by W. G. Moor details the last trip including test times, buoyancy checks, and a westward cruise with weather, radio contacts, and landscape observations until the log ends mid sentence.
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New York World News Service
Pleasant City
Shenandoah
Zachary Lansdowne
H. D. Flanagan
Jacob N. Klein
W. G. Moor
O. K
Lansdowne
O.K
Philadelphia
Delaware River
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Mich
Laurel Mountains
Europe
North America
Chambersburg
Tom
Billy
Pennsylvania
Ito
Uniontown
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Washington
Wheeling
City
Ohio River
Ohio
Resignation from Major QO. N. Solbert’s Army Aide Post
Washington reports the resignation of Major QO N Solbert one of President Coolidges military aids. The resignation takes effect on September 26 and the date was announced today.
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Washington
QO. N. Solbert
Coolidge
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James Robbins
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Miss
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Byersville
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