Des Moines News on May Flies Pervading Iowa Towns
Des Moines reports millions of dead may flies blanket streets and sidewalks near the Missouri and Mississippi rivers each season. Cities like Burlington Council Bluffs and Omaha close bridges and deal with slick piles that hinder traffic and drift over windshields. Entomologists study the pest but provide few answers as the annual swarm arrives and dies in the streets.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Missouri
Mississippi
Emergency Drive On For Polio Funds
United States faces severe polio epidemic as an emergency drive opens to raise 14.5 million dollars for a projected total of 40,000 cases. At week ended Sept 3, 2,915 cases were reported, with all states except Illinois contributing.
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New
York
United States
Invasion of Flies Triggers Riverfront Cleanup
Across Iowa border towns such as Muscatine Davenport and Dubuque crews with brooms and trucks search for large fly swarms after heavy insect invasions. Fishermen note a strong river fish run coinciding with fly invasions used as bait. The life cycle shows eggs hatch into worm-like aquatic nymphs with seven abdominal breathing appendages and a tail.
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Ience
Ascatine
Davenport
Dubuque
Iowa
Critics Can't Faze The Fans
Critics cannot deter film fans as Eric Johnston argues that the box office ultimately decides a movie’s fate. He describes A and B critics, notes mass appeal matters, and predicts upcoming Hollywood releases will prove influential with the public.
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America
Hollywood
Man Pinned Under Car in Parking Lot
ATANTA Sept 8 A Fay ettevilles visitor was run over by a car and then pinned beneath it in a parking lot. Police found Harvey Cox 42 pinned under the vehicle after the owner started the car and halted to investigate groans. He was injur ed slightly and booked for being drunk or on private property.
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K. A. Wooster
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Wooster
Cox
Columbus First Landfall in the New World Report
Historical note recalls Christopher Columbus sighting land on his first voyage in 1492 at San Salvador in the Bahamas, marking a pivotal moment in exploration.
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Christopher Columbus
New World
San Salvador
Watling Islands
Bahamas
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