Rains Bring Relief as Midwest Crops Benefit
Torrential rain flooded parts of Iowa while easing drought in Illinois and other Iowa regions. Cedar Rapids logged seven inches with 3.5 in nearby. crops and grain markets reacted as wheat and corn prices fell. Flooding damaged roads and rail lines. four transcontinental trains stalled by a washed trestle near Watkins, Illinois. The Weather Bureau forecast more showers in the Great Lakes and Ohio valleys with fair conditions elsewhere.
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Chicago
Middle West
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Illinois
Belle Plaine
Watkins, Jr
Chicaso and North Western Railway
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Great Plains
Indians Attack Salmon Hordes at Ket tle Falls River Spectacle
At Ket tle Falls Washington a horde of Colville and other Northwest Indians fished the Columbia River with nets spears and clubs as thousands of visitors watched the annual salmon run During weeks of fishing 15 to 60 pound fish were hooked some dragged downstream by their catch Fish dried for winter and a salmon chief regulated the work during June to September culminating in a seasonal celebration
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Kettle Falls
Wash
Columbia River
Colville
Kettie Falls
Tiven
Northwest
Rancher John Durks Held on Horse Stealing Charge
John Durks a former rancher near the Crow Creek Reservation is jailed in Tukghes county awaiting a horse stealing charge. He was arrested near Plankinton by Hughes County Sheriff C E Drew yesterday.
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Duerks
Pierre
John Durks
Crow Creek Indian Reservation
Tukghes County
Hughes County
Durks
Plankinton
C. E. Drew
Capital Heat Sends Cabinet To Cooler Spots
President Hoover and eight cabinet members left Washington to escape the heat. Vice President Curtis and Secretaries Lamont and Wilbur remained in the capital over the weekend. Hoover traveled with Postmaster General Brown Attorney General Mitchell and veterans bureau director Frank T. Hines to his mountain camp on the Rapidan River in Virginia to study office problems amid cooler breezes.
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Washington
Hoover
Curtis
Lamont
Wilbur
Brown
Mitchell
Frank T. Hines
Veterans Bureau
Rapidan River
Virginia
Mary Stewart to lead Indian vocational education reforms
Miss Mary Stewart, selected by Secretary Wilbur, becomes assistant director of education in the Bureau of Indian Affairs to guide Indians toward the good life through environment suited education. The Ohioborn reformer has long pioneered in education and previously led the Hoover campaign businesswomen's division.
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Margugrite Young
Washington
Mary Stewart
Wilbur
America
Bureau of Indian Affairs
University of Montana
Business
Professional Women
Department of Labor
Young America
Interior Department
Stewart
Episcopal Church
Republican Party
Hoover Organization
Ohio
Colorado
Shea
Request C. C. Pyle To Furnish $1000 Wages
C. U. Pyle promoter of sports agents was summoned by the state labor commission in Los Angeles to appear with $1000 to apply on wage claims against him. Failure to appear with the money will trigger criminal proceedings, officers said.
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Los Angeles
C. U. Pyle
New York
State Labor Commission
Commission
Aid
U S Farm Board Studies Wives Pantry Wants and Needs
The U S Farm Board through the Bureau of Home Economics will study what housewives want in their kitchens to aid cooperative marketing. Dr Louise Stanley argues women’s buying power drives food purchases and outlines experiments in palatability testing and rapid food processing to expand markets and ease housework.
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Washington
Bureau of Home Economics
Federal
Hoaard
Louise Stanley
Bureau
Stanley
Stamboul Rich Must Aid Poor Neighbors
In Stamboul a new law compels well to do households in each district to aid at least one pauperized family. Government inspectors will classify households as well-off or poor and require food, money, or employment support for the in-district paupers. The measure follows the old question Am I my brother's keeper.
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Stamboul
Turkey
Kidnap Drivers Force Pierre Trip
Rapid City reports two men abducted automobile salesman Charles Hoover and forced him to drive toward Pierre. Hoover escaped when the assailants halted to search him. a gun was fired during the escape. The car was later abandoned near Imlay as authorities pursued the captors.
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Rapid City
Badlands
Charles Hoover
Box Bilder
Here
Imlay
Hoover
Pierre
Utilities Rally To New Highs On Broad Stock Surge
A brisk bull move powered utilities higher in a two hour session with gains of five to eight points lifting many issues to record levels. Westinghouse Electric led, up nearly 16 points past 230. LaClede Gas and several gas and electric stocks followed with large advances. General Motors, International Telephone, Johns Manville and Union Pacific also rose, while overall volume neared 1.75 million shares as traders debated wide price strength.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Westinghouse Electric
General Electric
LaClede
Brooklyn
Union Gas
General Public Service
People’s Gas
Consolidated Gas
Southern California Edison
Pacific Lighting
Auburn Auto
International Silver
General Motors
International Telephone
Johns Manville
Union Pacific
Found Excitants In Girl's Stomach
Dr. CG Gong testified in Columbus that two emotional excitants were found undigested in Theora Hix’s stomach after her death. The substances were allegedly given by Dr. James H. Snook as they drove to a rifle range on June 13, and the murder followed when she resisted his advances.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cg, F. Gong
James H. Snook
Theora Hix
Snook
Long
John J. Chester, Jr
Sweden Solves Big Work Problem With Relief Plan
Sweden reports from 1914 to 1924 spent 64.1 million dollars on unemployed relief. During 1922 about 150000 unemployed registered monthly. Only one fifth of funds went to doles. rest funded roads and railways 1800 miles plus farm improvements and 54 recreation grounds. The piece ends noting Hoarse chimes in Parliament after 700 years.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Threshing to be well under way by first of week
Central South Dakota fields begin heavy threshing as week opens. Wheat yields vary with reports up to 20 bushels per acre No 1 grade noted near Volesky. Oats yield high at 47 bushels per acre in Jerauld County. corn generally fair but rain needed in many areas.
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S. D
South Dakota
Yald
Leo Volesky
Jerauld
Beadle
Otto Meyers
R. A. Cave
Sanborn
Sanborn County
Jerauld County
Wessington Hills
Nottinghams Sir Albert Buys Derby Prison Speculation
Notting ham businessman Sir Albert Ball bought the Derby prison built in 1826 for about 1 625 000 dollars. He says the asset is valuable property and could be converted into a factory or engineering works with little alteration and will consider offers soon.
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Nottingham
England
Sir Albert Ball
Albert
Derby
Girl Killed by Auto in Sioux Falls
Arlene Barber an eight year old girl was fatally injured when run over by a moving automobile while playing in front of her home in Sioux Falls on August 3.
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Auto Sioux
Falls
Arlene Barber
Weather Forecast Huron and South Dakota
Weather roundup shows fair conditions in Huron tonight with Sunday clouds and warmer temperatures In South Dakota fair tonight and Sunday with possible showers Sunday in western areas rising temperatures expected through the day
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Huron
South Dakota
Yanks In Russia Don Pajamas Among Bolshevik Stares
American men and women in a Soviet delegation wear day pajamas all day as they tour Russia. En route from Stalingrad to Kislovodsk they travel in silk nightwear, attracting astonished gazes from locals while New York society women travel in two dining cars aboard a special train.
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Kislovodsk
U.S
Soviet Russia
Stalingrad
Kistovodsk
New York
Alice de Lamar
Jane Bréed
Mary van Renssalaer Cogswell
Anne ‘Onett
Huron to Open Oldsmobile Viking Branch
J A Crowley announces a new Huron Oldsmobile and Viking branch to serve central South Dakota. The unit at Second Street and Wisconsin Avenue will act as local retail outlet and supply depot with 20 to 25 new cars and full parts line. R L Southard to manage. service by specialists.
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Huron
Oldsmobile
Viking
South Dakota
J. A.crowley
Sioux Hulls Motor Company, Incorporated
Heron
Crowley
Inquiry into Okoboji Boat Collision Continues
Spirit Lake reports County Attorney Kenneth Welty begins final probe into last Sunday night collision on Lake Okoboji that killed nine. He plans to present the case to a Dickinson County grand jury after dismissing second degree murder charges against Harold Yarnes and the Zipper owners.
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Spirit Lake
Kenneth GB. Welty
Lake Okoboji
Dickinson County
Harold Yarnes
John
Milo Hartman
Welty
Iowa Archbishop Keane Dies After Long Service
The death of the Archbishop of Dubuque, the Most Reverend James John Keane, was announced. Born August 26, 1857 in Joliet Illinois, he became Bishop of Cheyenne in 1902 and Archbishop of Dubuque in 1911, a longtime friend of D. F. Desmond of Huron who visited him in this city.
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Dubuque
James John Keane
Mggr
D. F. Desmond
Huron
Archbishop Keane
Joliet
Cheyenne
Dirigible Graft Zeppelin Nears New York Coast Sunday
The trans Atlantic Zeppelin Graft Zeppelin, two and whale days out, makes steady progress toward Lakehurst on its second U S voyage. It is about 425 miles southwest of the Azores at 2 a m CST and 2 000 miles from the United States with an expected coastward swing toward Norfolk Va and New York City possibly Sunday.
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Atlantic
Lakehurst
United States
Azores
Fo Wekener
New York
American
Goppelin
New York City
Navy Department
Washington
Plen
Friedrichshafen
Jow
Santa Maria Island
Une Azores
Fayal
Pico
Horta
Locust Swarms Devastate Corsican Farmlands
Ajaccio Corsica August 3 United Press Locust swarms sweep across the island’s rich southern region stripping wheat vegetables oat cork and olive groves and vineyards. The invasion leaves farmers struggling to feed cattle as fodder supplies diminish and crops vanish.
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Ajaccio
Corsica
Restoration Of Gaelic Costly To Free State
Dublin reports the government faces high costs to enforce use of the Irish language among professionals. The finance minister announced figures likely near a half million lars for enforcement and restoration, with lawyers among those affected. The policy aims to push Gaelic use though success remains uncertain.
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Dublin
Annon
Hay
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