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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1927
Page
4
Hundreds attended the alumni homecoming, with Lanella Crasher honored for long service. The event featured speeches, memories, and the recognition of notable retirees, drawing attendees from Malvern, Lincoln, and surrounding towns.
A Friday morning class picnic near Bird farm ended in a serious crash when Dick Zieke’s Ford overturned after a wheel hit a rut. Riders Evelyn Ards, Pearful Love Mae Speer, Bill Wood, and Otis Alles suffered injuries, with Zieke and two others sustaining contusions and scrapes. A second tractor collision later injured a man four miles west of Portom.
A heavy machine passed over a child as rescuers tried to reach the house, and the boy died in his arms. The community grieves with the family, while friends offer deep sympathy for their loss.
The text traces early experiments with sound recording to 1877, citing Thoma Edison’s crude talking machine. It notes press practices showing world events via compass directions, the origin of the term newspaper, and early news distribution by telegraph and telephone to millions, plus references to wartime commerce, cinemas, and postwar mail by air. It also mentions a boyhood of Harry Houdini.
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