Woonsocket Festival to Feature Gould Show Troupe
Woonsocket prepares a two day harvest festival on July 28 and 29 with the Jay Gould Show Troupe. The program includes a band concert, circus review, evening revue, and dances on a large Main Street stage. The troupe now numbers 150 performing acts from aerial to dog tricks plus a mummy of John Wilkes Booth souvenir.
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Woonsocket
Jay Gould
City Band
Gould
Main Street
United States
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Life Magazine
Atterburys
Perfort
Atterbury
Don Philipa
DuBell
Baby Mine
Baby Elphant
Shanholzs Visiting Colman Parents in Wellington
Special report notes Mr. and Mrs. Orval Shanholz visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Ec Shanholz at Colman. The visit occurs in Wellington on July 14 with emphasis on family gathering.
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Colman Wellington
Orval Shanholz
Flashes of Life by Tae Aw LYNCHBURG shoe sale whimsy
In Lynchburg a church rummage yielded only one shoe and jokes about selling it to a one legged man. Later a man appeared, the shoe fit, and he bought it. In Norfolk Janina W Pierce was fined $180 for driving while intoxicated after a water-tank truck collision.
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Tae Aw
Lynchburg
Norfolk. Va
Janina W. Pierce
Pierce
North Dakota Sees Comeback After Drought Toll
North Dakota optimistic that 1938 will be a come back year after years of drought. Crop conditions statewide reported 2% to 100% better than last year due to intermittent rains and revived moisture. Farmers fear grasshopper threats and rust in wheat, while Fargo Geavids Forks areas expect near record potato and sugar beet yields.
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Pall D. Shoemaker
Associated Press
Minot
N. D
North Dakota
J.T. E. Dunwoodie
AAA
Dean H. J. Walster
North Dakota State College of Agriculture
Dean Walster
Red River Valley
Fargo
Geavid Forks
Rugby
North America
Centerville Man Killed In Crash
Centerville on July 14 a 21 year old Verlyn Anderson died in a bridge detour crash on highway 19. Delmar Payson, driving, was injured with a fractured arm while William Boom, dust blinded, suffered a fractured skull. Anderson's surviving relatives include his mother and a brother and sister.
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Centerville
Verlyn Anderson
Highway 19
Here
Anderson
Delmar Payson
William Boom
Center~ville
Boom
Payson
Sioux City Hospital
Seadlund Sentenced to Death in Kidnapping Case
John Henry Seadlund, a 55 year old lumberman and kidnapper, was electrocuted at 12 08 p m central standard time in Cook County jail for kidnapping Charles S Ross and killing a fellow abettor. Seadlund walked into the chamber without protest and faced the clamps with rare calm. Twenty five witnesses attended including doctors, journalists and officers. Seadlund’s accomplice James Atwood Gray was captured earlier and confessed to the FBI. His widow Mrs Mar C Ross paid a $50 000 ransom later recovered by federal agents.
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Chicago
John Henry Seadlund
Charles S. Ross
Cook County
Sendlund
Arthur Gooch
McAlster
Oale
Paris
Tex
Seadlund
Severing
James Atwood Gray
Ross
Maindy
Wisconsin
North Woods
Spoone
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gray
Sead
Lund
Mar C. Ross
Santa Anita
California
Daughters Born and Visitation Highlights Across Towns
Special notices report a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Elmer Johnson at their Carpenter home on Sunday. Bertel Nelwon’s birthday dinner drew Maynard Denman George Hansch and Grover Denman families in Willow Lake. Lena Wright from Champaign visited briefly with Mrs John Stuthit and Mrs Nels Madsen Sr. Jess Delaney Carl Seeman Toft planned a Black Hills trip. Richkma Lutheran Sunday School held a picnic near Martin Opsahl’s grove with about 60 attendees. Laird Swaney and son Lyle visited Mrs Swaney’s parents, John Juergens, in Wolsey. Harm Thaden family visited Luz Stephen in Iroquois. I E Costello family visited Lloyd Dirksen near Crands. Rev Walter S Van left for ministerial training in Brookings. Annie Peterson attended her father Lerson’s Hitchock birthday party. Elmer Tobey visited his mother Lettie Tobey in Bancroft. Frank Snyder and wife announced birth of a 10% pound son named Charles Raymond.
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Carpenter
Maynard Denman
George Hansch
Grover Denman
Bertel Nelwon
Willow Lake
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Gdyv
Saas
Huesgen
Huron,s. D
Charles
Elmer Johnson
Lena Wright
Champaign
John Stuthit
Nels Madsen
Black Hills
Tulare
Mrs
Jess Delaney and
Carl Seeman Toft
Suesday Morning
Richkma Lutheran Sunday School
Martin Opsahl
Juergens
Wolsey
Laird Swaney
Lyle
None Tulare
Swaney
John Juergens
Troquois Bancroft
Harm Thaden
Lucille
Doris
Thaden
Lucy Stephen
Iroquois
Dirksen
Bancroft
Mrs. I. E. Costello
Lloyd Dirksen
Crands
Dons Old
Highmore
Walter S van
Brookings
State College, Brookings
Frankfort
Annie Peterson
Hitchcock
Lerson
Elmer Tobey of
Sisseton
Lettie Tobey
Wellington
Frank Snyder
Charles Raymond
Tve
Dresen
Quaker Business
Lerettes
Quaker L
Priscilla Sty
Madras
Dale Me
Jasy
Wagner
Drygoods
Childrens
Crepe
Batiste
Hemberg
Jatforieed
wWorem
Alantia Top
I’ Gasiy Palz
Armatrong
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