Drouth Broken by Heavy Rains Over Missouri
Rains across Missouri end a severe spring drought, boosting crops, gardens, and pastures. Western counties saw the heaviest precipitation with considerable hail damage offset by gains in wheat, fruit, and vegetables. Springfield reported the heaviest single rain in the nation, worth about a million dollars to Ozarks crops and berry growers.
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Missouri
Associated Press
NoGeway County
St Joseph
State Hospital No. 2
Springfield
Ozarks
W. W. Talbot
United States Weather Bureau
Joplin
Gimton
Sedalia
Funeral for Col Willard D Vandiver Held in Columbia
Funeral services were held today in Columbia for Colonel Willard D Vandiver former Missouri congressman and Democratic figure who died Monday Burial followed at Columbia cemetery Honorary pallbearers included Charles M Hay Russell L Dearmont M M Lemming North T Gentry S F Conley Floyd C Shoemaker C B Rollins Sr and Martin T Shaw The Rev Frank C Tucker of the Missouri Methodist Church officiated
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Columbia
Willard D. Vandiver
Old Fourteenth District
Missouri
Columbia Cemetery
Charles M. Hay
St. Louis
Russell L. Dearmont
MM. EH. Lemming
Cape Girardeau
T. Gentry
S. F. Conley
Floyd C. Shoemaker
C. B. Rollins
Montgomery Accepts Presidency at Muskingum College
Dr. Robert N. Montgomery today accepted the presidency of Muskingum College after earlier election following his father John Knox Montgomery’s death. He has served as head of Tarkio College in Missouri for two years.
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New Concord
Robert N. Montgomery
Muskingum College
Johnnox Montgomery
Tarkio College
Tarkio
Halt Receivership of the Cotton Belt
New York June 1 AP relief shifts in the Cotton Belt saga avert immediate receivership for the system. Wall Street faces no new railroad crises yet market prices and views spark cautious concern about future railroad solvency and operations amid ongoing industry troubles. The article notes 17 divorces per 1000 in the United States as a side statistic, reflecting social trends of the period.
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New York
Financial District
Wall Street
United States to join world economic conference in London
Washington reports the United States has formally agreed to take part in an international economic conference to discuss stabilizing world commodity prices. The invitation was conveyed to Sir Renad Lindsay the British ambassador after Lausanne, with the meeting to focus on economic topics only and dates to be announced.
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Washington
United States
Renad Lindsay
London
100 Per Cent Tax on Crime Income Imposed by Senate
Washington June 1 Invoking the axiom that the power to tax is the power to destroy the Senate added a 100 percent tax on all incomes earned from crime to the revenue bill. If kept, gangsters bootleggers narcotics distributors and gambling rings face federal action to crush their earnings.
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Washington
Senate
Internal Revenue Bureau
Ring Lost Sixteen Years Recovered in Garden
Kirkville June 1 A diamond ring lost sixteen years ago was found by Mrs. M A Horn while digging in her garden to sell plants The ring was lost by Miss Havel Townsend after receiving it from her mother as a gift The inscription identified the ring which remained undamaged The ground had been spaded annually
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Kirksville
M. A. Horn
Havel Townsend
British golf championship semifinal ends American era
Mrs. Lesna Cheney, the last surviving American in the British women's golf championship, was defeated in the semi finals by Enid Wilson who held the lead throughout and won three and two. Wilson advances as defending champion.
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Saunton
Eng
Lesna Cheney
Enid Wilson
Miss Wilson
Congress debating economy bill and relief hearings
Senate moves to take up the economy program while the Banking Committee discusses the Goldsborough bill to stabilize the dollar. House plans private bills as relief hearings proceed before the Ways and Means Committee and the Judiciary Committee weighs kidnapping legislation.
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Senate
Banking Committee
House
Ways and Means
Judiciary Committee
Kentucky Man 19 Lynched by Mob in Princeton
Walter Merrick, 48, was pulled from the county jail by a mob in Princeton on June 1. His body was found hanging three miles from town. Merrick faced trial for a dynamite attack on M. F Poole’s Hopson store in February that injured Poole and a boy nearby.
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Princeton
Walter Merrick
Curt Jones
Merrick
M. F’poole
Hopson
Here
P'Poole
Nashville
Tenn
New Handicap Air Races Planned in Cleveland
Development of aviation's greatest mass competitive flight is the goal for this year's national air races. A new transcontinental air derby, comparable to European handicap races, will inaugurate the event in Cleveland from August 27 to September 5. Handicaps will be set so all licensed pilots may compete on an equal basis.
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Cleveland
Clifford W. Henderson
Department of Commerce
Chesterfield Cross-Blending Pledge Highlights Quality Taste
The text explains cross-blending as fusing Bright Burley and Turkish tobaccos to create the Chesterfield blend. It states this method yields the finest flavors from each tobacco and combines them into one distinct Chesterfield taste. It emphasizes extra care and science to produce a milder, better tasting cigarette.
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