Collisions and Disasters Claim Thirteen Lives
A weekend of accidents in Iowa and California leaves thirteen dead with multiple drownings, burn injuries, and auto crashes across towns including Waterloo Creston Montour Fairfield Independence Marshalltown Clinton Ottumwa and an Arizona-California region quake that damages San Bernardino Redlands San Diego and beyond with no reported fatalities.
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Des Moines
Waterloo
W. S. Frank
John Coons
Ruby Spencer
Creston
Mildred Madden
Fairfield
Charles Mannin
Bon
Montour
Verma Corkhill
Independence
Raymade Jones
Marshalltown
Walter Wagener
Clinton
Ella Micheimer
Kale
Charles Skalpa
Cedar River
Ottumwa
G. Seen
Ernest Gordon
Murnaiy
Arctic Wastes Declared Good Flying Terrain by Lieutenant Dietrichen
Lieutenant Dietrichen, cited by Aftenposten, says Arctic high above the mountains offers calm conditions, wind pockets vanish, and vast ice fields provide safe landings as polar flight nears. He is among Norweg ian airmen sent to Spitzbergen in relief efforts linked to Amundsen.
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Bergen
Arctic
Dietrichen
Aftenposten
Spitzbergent
Amundsen
Brookhart to Speak in Eldon After Return to Iowa
Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa returns home and plans a series of speeches urging an extra session of Congress. He will begin in Eldon in Wapello county next Saturday.
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Washington, In
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Eldon
Wapello County
Weather forecast for Chicago area in brief
Chicago weather bulletin notes likely local thunder showers this afternoon or tonight. Cooler air ahead with Tuesday forecast generally fair and near 80 degrees.
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Chicago
Weather Summary Observations For The Past 24 Hours
Local observations cover the last 24 hours ending at the report time. Data reflect hourly readings from multiple stations, including temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation. Final totals and anomalies are compiled for regional weather awareness and forecasting.
Pioneer Normal School centennial celebrated in Concord Vermont
Concord Vermont marks the 100th anniversary of what is believed to be America’s first normal school. August 14 and 15 feature a three hundred person pageant and a monument unveiling at Concord Corner. Rev Samuel Read Hall founded the academy for teacher training in 1823 and published early pedagogy texts.
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Concord
Vermont
Concord Corner
Samuel Read Hall
Croydon
N. H
Congregational Church
Concord Academy
Columbia Academy
Essex County Grammar School
Hall
Home Town Repudiates Late Bulgarian Premier
The village of Salvovitza petitions to rename itself Borisovo in honor of the king after Stamboulisky’s death and the June 9 clash. Residents resent his seizure of communal land, which they say harmed the community and drew attacks against him, framing him as an enemy of state, church, and peasants.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Salvovitza
Stamboulisky
Yellow Guard
Ministry of the Interior
Borisovo
Slavovitza
Slavavitza
Gibson issues new county expense law in Iowa
Des Moines July 23 Attorney General Ben J Gibson issued the Tuck law directing counties to live within their income. The measure affects Jefferson Cass Jasper Clark and Van Buren counties. In Mark county it does not relate to Clarkdale primary roads.
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Des Moines
Ben J. Gibson
Jefferson
Cass
Jasper
Clark
van Buren
Mark County
Clarkdale
Leonard Tendler Title Fight At Yankee Stadium Tonight
Bennie Leonard vs Lew Tendler for the lightweight crown in a 15 round bout at Yankee Stadium with about 80 000 expected ringside. Weigh ins 134 and 133 1 2 pounds. Gate receipts near 400 000 for the card led by four other bouts including Babe Herman versus Joey Fox and Jack Zivic versus Johnny Darcy.
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New York
Bennie Leonard
Lew Tendler
Yankee Stadium
Leonard
Tendler
Philadelphia
Leonard-Tendler
Johnston
Boyle
Thirty Acres
Babe Herman
San Francisco
Joey Fox
England
Jack Zivic
Pittsburgh
Johnny Darcy
Cedar Rapids Storm Ditches Tourists Near Mt Vernon
A sudden storm near Cedar Rapids and Mt. Vernon Iowa yesterday night stranded tourists in muddy ditches. Many travelers called home pleading for help to be pulled out of mud by residents.
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Cedar Rapids
Mt. Vernon
Defer Tour Of Hy 10 School MaMs Tuesday
Creston hosts a voluntary evening car tour for 250 summer school teachers from the high school. Chamber backs the drive and seeks volunteers to provide fifty cars at 7 p.m. for about an hour. Cars will tour McKinley Park Country Club water works disposal plants hills and notable city sights.
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Creston
Chamber of Commerce
McKinley Park
Country Club
Recapture of 19 Illinois jail-breakers at hospital
In Chester Illinois on July 23, nineteen of the forty one escaped prisoners from the state hospital for the criminally insane were recaptured after battering down a steel mesh fence. Two guards were injured and Dr. Frank Stubblefield suffered a fractured arm in the melee. William Jackson, a Black man, was stabbed to death in the general clash, though by a prisoner not a guard as previously reported.
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Chester
State Hospital
Frank Stubblefield
William Jackson
Bennie Leonard vs Lew Tendler Fight Report Broadcast
The Advertiser will air live radio coverage of the Bennie Leonard and Lew Tendler bout from New York. Jack Golden will monitor the fight from the office while direct wires relay round by round progress starting at 9 pm eastern.
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New York
Bennie Leonard
Lew Tendler
Advertiser
Jack” Golden
Will Meaanhone
Mildred Madden Dies in Auto Crash on Blue Grass Highway
Mildred Madden an 18 year old Lenox resident died after being struck by a car driven by Ernest Hofer of Lenox on the Blue Grass highway near Stringtown. Hofer also injured and rushed to Greater Community Hospital where he is said to be shaken. witnesses Imogene Madden and Grace Sullivan reported the incident occurred as Madden stepped from a parked coupe. The crash occurred in front of Edward Metz's house. funeral arrangements have not been made.
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Mildred Madden
Lenox
Ernest Hofer
Greater Community Hospital
Mr. Hofer
Miss Madden
Edward Metz
Stringtown
Imogene Madden
Mildred
Grace Sullivan
Miss Sullivan
Susquehanna Taken Off Run to Brazil
The Susquehanna, used on the Pacific-Argen tine Brazil line, is removed from the Brazil service after arriving from Buenos Aires. It will unload at Seattle before being returned to the shipping board. Two passenger boats remain, while three freight boats are added to the route via Cape Horn.
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San Francisco
Susquehanna
Buenos Aires
Seattle
Shipping Board
Hayes
Harrison
Straits of Magellan
Panama Canal
Ancient Japanese Forts to Become Modern Parks
Several of the ancient island forts guarding Tokyo and Shinagawa are to be turned into parks. Built by the government to defend the capital, the forts are now useless as modern guns have outpaced their defenses.
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Tokio
Shinagawa
Earthquake Noted by Georgetown Seismograph in Washington
An earthquake of severe intensity lasting two hours was recorded yesterday on the Georgetown university seismograph. The disturbance occurred about 4,900 miles from Washington, continuing from 9:29 to 11:30 a m with peak intensity between 10:00 and 10:10 a m.
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Washington
Georgetown University
Man and Woman Die in Airplane Crash near Santa Fe Springs
An aerial photographer William L. Cross and an unidentified woman were killed when Crosss plane plunged into a nose dive from about 100 feet at an oil field suburb near Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
William L. Cross
Santa Fe Springs
Cross
Belleau Wood Memorial Dedicated by Franco‑American群
Belleau Wood in France is dedicated as a permanent memorial to American dead. Marshal Foch praises the battle as a turning point. paintings and tablets honor the fallen from many states. President Harding and Gen Pershing notes are read. Maj Gen Harbord extols the shrine.
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Chateau Thierry
France
Belleau Wood
Foch
U.S. S
Pittsburgh
Rhine
America
Col
T. Bentley Mott
Myron T. Herrick
Harding
Gen. Pershing
Yorktown
James G. Harbord
Senator Hiram Johnson Arrives in New York Aboard Leviathan
United States Senator Hiram Johnson of California arrived in New York on the Leviathan amid crowding reporters. He said he had no time for domestic politics and declined interview on a possible 1924 presidential bid. Senator Moses of New Hampshire will attend a dinner Wednesday evening for Johnson.
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New York
United States
Hiram Johnson
California
Leviathan
Moses
Newshire
Johnson
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Jersey City
Jimmy Johnston
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