Floods Ravage Several States As Quincy Struck Hard
A severe June storm in Quincy Illinois caused 60 mph winds and lightning strikes in the business district. Rain collapsed roofs, toppled trees, and damaged a bridge, with total damage exceeding 200000 dollars. no fatalities reported locally. Across Missouri Oklahoma Ohio and Washington the flood and wind toll rose with dozens injured and property losses reaching into the millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Ater
Busi
Mississippi River
Quincy Electric
Totel
Kansas City
U.P
Missouri
Arhoma
Kan Center
Oklahoma
Mound City
Oregon
Jill
Marion Matlock
Columbus
Ohio
Marietta
Newark
Washington County
Petit Jury Delayed Until September Term
Court excuses the Petit Jury for two months due to heavy farm work and other duties. The panel, summoned for Monday, will not be called again until the September term as judges grant relief to jurors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toun Sycamore
Coltonville Resident Brought to Glidden Hospital
A. N. Johnson of Coltonville road is a patient at Glidden Memorial hospital after a Saturday transfer. He has suffered a severe attack of asthma for several weeks and the hospital hopes treatment will help. His condition is reported as unchanged.
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A. N. Johnson
Glidden Hospital
Coltonville Road
Glidden Memorial Hospital
President Kept Indoors by Heavy Rain at Cedar Island
President Cooke is confined indoors at Cedar Island Lodge due to three days of continuous rain in Superior Wisconsin. He spends time patrolling his island home in an oil skin while officials postpone his visit and workers speculate on his plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior
Cooke
Cedar Tslane Lodge
William Butler
Republican National Committee
Work Farm for Royalty and Pleas in Sycamore Court
Kenneth Royalty and Everett Butler appeared in the Sycamore court on indictments. Both entered pleas of guilty to charges. sentences included work farm terms for Royalty and ten months for Butler. Several motions to quash indictments were overruled. Other defendants, including John Kerwin and Theodore Hambeck, appeared with counsel. civil decrees and adjournments followed into the next term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Royalty
Gram
Couri Et Sycamore
Ecuilty
Everett Butler
Evittemee
Teynity
Vailas
Mather
Tex Mantt
Beatty
State Motores
Pephaeyin
Rutler
Tiwie
Oteliek Atweorden
John Kerwin
Wileym Kerwin
David Devit
Plenny Derr
Theodore Hambeck
Alan
Steve Ruksvilie
Gansul Af Agrera
Throuehl Alg
Kennedy Cwink
Gansul
Hoover Curtis meet at capital home in Washington
President Hoover and Senator Charles Curtis arrived in Washington for a major conference on campaign plans. The meeting on the White House porch set the stage for a broader Hoover Curtis collaboration as they discussed strategies for the farming west and preconvention planning. Curtis planned a wider national tour starting soon with stops aimed at shaping Republican messaging.
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Curtiss
Hoover
Waesddicton
Curtis Howe
P Curtis
Topeksr
Toeve Ley
George Akerson
Curtis
Edward Gann
Gans
James W. Good
Kansas City
Flyers land in London after Atlantic flight and cheers
Amelia Earhart and Fred Stultz completed their voyage aboard the Friendship landing near the Imperial Airways seaplane dock in London after a five mile water crossing from Barryport. Thousands greeted the crew, with police and crowds managing the reception as Earhart spoke of the flight and her aviation goals.
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Woolston
England
Amelia Erhart
Friendship
Garryport
Landdine
Walemer Stultx
Lou Gordon
Perseus Wslore Ams
Lenets
Ain
Huereat
Stoltz
Imperial Airway
London
Treland
Stolle
Calan
Stultz
Aly
Ascot
Injured in Auto Accident East of DeKalb
Mrs Willsey of Rockford badly hurt when a Chevrolet overturned two miles east of DeKalb. Her daughter was also injured as six passengers traveled to Lockford. Mrs Willsey was hospitalized at Glidden and expected to recover in days. Ray Yocum aided at the scene and sped to DeKalb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whipple
Henry Erb
Cornelius Sehowenderman
Lowell
Sehwenderman
DeKalb
Mergaret Willsey
Rockford
Briel
Litocolt
Willsey
Glvlien Hospital
Grave Willsey
Lockford
Willsry
Willses
Ray Yocum
Willey
Glidden
Stabilize franc soon aims for gold standard return
Government plans to stabilize the franc with a gold standard within weeks. A cabinet statement outlines monetary reform, a new gold franc replacing paper notes, and a pledged legal value tied to a gold frame, with the Bank and treasury under strict control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mronion Poingare
Feo Dhe
de Fats
Plane
Ministry of Firing
Dhe Benk
France
Non Union Workers Struck at Rockford Shop
Severe labor conflict erupts at Nuns Mirror Works Rockford as Tastee orders cessation of work. Union leaders enforce work stoppage and threaten to replace nonunion crews with union men for the job at the Swarson-enson store project.
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Nuns Mirror Works
Rockford
DL Oo'etoek
Swarson-enson
Tastee
My. Kove
Guldheck & Beksman
Guidheck & Gelksiarn
Roekfern
Treckford Cire
Trent
Union Tifmere
John Sullivan of Marengo Dies in Local Death Notice
Obituary notes the death of John Sullivan of Marengo with services held at 1 o clock. Family connections include relatives in Marengo and Chicago, with legal representatives named among the Sullivan family.
Features Left Out from Today's Paper
Fragmented OCR text indicates readers missing features and serial installments. Mentions Jubilee's Partner Merve and Mom, health service The Link of power, Henry prevermtes, and a future installment titled My double Uutelimenta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jubilee
Merve
Mom
Henry
Mabel Wavers Over Start on Ocean Flight
Miss Mabel Boil and her crew waver after a reported abandonment of a proposed trans Atlantic flight. A telephone chat with Charles A. Levine leaves only possibilities of flying to Europe or returning to New York. Pilot Giver C. Le Boutillier says a final decision will be made today.
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St. Johns
Nov
Dime
Mabel Boil
Charles A. Levine
Europe
New York
Giver C. le Boutillier
Roland Arther Arties
Harbor Gra
Receiver Appointed for Ed Conlin Inc in Dekalb County
The circuit court in Dekalb County appoints John L. Murphy of Sycamore as receiver for Ed Conlin Inc a Dekalb city firm active in grain coal lumber and feed trading across Dekalb Cortland and Maple Park. Murphy aims to keep operations running to aid farmers while liquidating if needed and all actions are secured by bond to protect creditors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Murphy
Ed Conlin Inc
Clrewt
DekKalb County
Ed Conlin, Inc
Dekalb
Corthlund
Maple Park
Penn Company
Sycamore
Murphy
Lightning Strikes Illinois Power Plant Cutting Service
An early morning lightning strike caused a fire at the Illinois Power Company plant in Sycamore, burning insulation on feeder wires and halting water pumps. Crews worked to restore service by evening, with reports of damaged turbines and melted insulators and firefighters fighting fumes. Emergency repairs and multiple storms disrupted operations as the city faced power shortages.
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Illiinois Power Company
Sycamore
Kirkland
Thomas Fawcett
Ilinois Power Company
F. S. Simms
Fawcett
M. H. McEvoy
Illinoi s Power curtails light. council to use Steel Welfare
City officials arrange with American Steel & Wire to use the Steel Welfare building for tonight’s council meeting if lights fail. Sewer survey report to be presented. attendance expected unusually large. Tokyo dispatch notes Chang Tso Lin death likely announced June 21 with Chang Hsueh Liang set to proclaim himself Japan’s ruler in FengTien province.
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Ilinois Power Company
American Steel & Wire Comany
Steel Welfare
Tokio
Nippon Dempo
Mukden
Chang - Tso-Lin
North China
Chang
Chang Hsuec-Liang
Japan
Fengtien
Smith gains Maryland votes in convention push
Washington dispatch reports Maryland’s 16 votes pledged to Governor Smith boosting his first ballot total toward the 733 1 2 required for nomination. Some delegates anticipate a heavy Virginia showing and a potential landslide similar to Kerr Kansas City, while others doubt Ritchie can win the vice presidency. Western leaders aboard a train to Houston foresee a platform endorsement of the equalization fee and McNary Haugen plan gains in public support.
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Washington
U.P
Alfred E. Smith
Maryland
Albert C. Ritchie
Houston
Smith
Virginia
Hoover
Kansas City
James A. Reed
Missouri
Ritchie
United Press
Middle West
Huston Thompson
Walsh
Montana
Henry T. Allen
Kentucky
Claude Bowers
New York
Jesse Jones
Tex
U.S
Villamore
Reed-for-President
Dallas
Odd Result of Primary Vote in Minnesota
In Minnesota a wet candidate and McNary-Haugen opponent won the Republican nomination in two districts. Walter H. Newton was re nominated in the fifth district with a margin better than two to one. Melvin J. Maas won the fourth district nomination on a modification platform including legalization of light wines and beer. Arthur E. Nelson appeared to win the Republican nomination for U.S. senator to oppose Hendrick Shipstead.
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Minnesota
St. Paul
Minn
U.P
Congress
Walter H. Newton
Minneapolis
Melvin J. Maas
Newton
Maas
Arthur E. Nelson
United States
Hendrick Shipstead
Farmer-Labor
Nobile rescue watch continued as planes miss camp again
On June 19 in Spitzbergen near Kings Bay General Umberto Nobile and five aides waited as rescue planes approached but failed to locate their floating ice camp. Norwegian crews flew within two kilometers yet did not sight them. Nobile noted the planes and radioed plans to broadcast directions to guide air searches.
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Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Umberto Nobile
H. Riiser-Larsen
Leutzow-Holm
Nobile
Citta di
Seon To Open New Pavement Between Sterling and Dixon
District Engineer Gocke of Dixon says the cement paving between Sterling and Dixon will reopen before week’s end. The surface has hardened after weeks of curing though shoulders and equipment still delay full traffic due to safety. Construction began last summer after the brick road was ruined by heavy trucks.
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Gocke of
Dixon
Sterling
Resident of Malta Buried In Afternoon
Funeral services were held for 82 year old William Church a longtime Malta resident who died after a stroke at the Thomas Lawrence home in Cortland. Services were at 1 30 at Nelson chapel and 2 at the Episcopal church with burial in Evergreen cemetery. He was visiting when stricken and was grandfather of Mrs Glenn Kaiser and father of Mrs Lon Hilliker.
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William Church
Malta
Thomas Lawrence
Cortland
Nelson Chapel
Episcopal Church
Evergreen Cemetery
Church
Lawrence
Glenn Kaiser
Lon Hilliker
Mr. Church
Wilsons Called to Hoopeston for Mother's Funeral
Mr and Mrs Harry Wilson of 317 Maplewood Avenue left Saturday afternoon for Hoopeston called there by the sudden death of Mr Wilsons mother It is understood funeral services were to be held yesterday at Hoopeston The information received here was meager and did not include details of Mrs Wilsons death
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Harry Wilson
Maplewood Avenue
Hoopeston
Mr. Wilson
Wilson
DeKalb
Illinoia ‘Ower Company
Mrs. Wilson
Dixon Reports Heavy Rain In Early Morning
Dixon reports heavy rain in the forenoon with damage to a light plant from lightning and city utilities facing similar issues as DeKalb. By noon, a large amount of water had fallen but no specific damages were reported.
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Dixon
DeKalb
Dixon Telegraph
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Holeemh
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John Sullivan
Marengo
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Marenece
Neway
Marenco
Wark
Iin
Mabel Wavers
Power Company
Bulletin
Seon
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