Merciless Heat Rules Northwest Cities
Severe heat swept the Northwest on June 19 with temperatures near a century mark and prostrations. Two bathers drowned in Minnesota towns Worthington and Pine Island, a third died in Bismarck, North Dakota, a Milwaukee graduate collapsed and died, and a Omaha driver perished at the wheel. Weather bureau offered little relief.
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Chicago
Northwest
Minnesota
Worthington
Pine Island
Bismarck
N.D
Milwaukee
Cmnaha
Neb
Weather Bureau
Man on 16th Floor Window Survives Fire in Chicago
Chicago June 19 AP A school trustee and contractor Walter H Brandenburg clung to a 16 story window ledge to escape flames racing through his apartment in a Sheridan Road 20 story building. He and his brother were rescued by firemen. Brandenburg slightly burned. Also tenants including Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden of Amos n Andy fame evacuated as library fire sparked the blaze but did not spread.
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Chicago
Walter H. Brandenburg
Charles J. Correll
Freeman F. Gosden
Amos 'N' Andy
National Radio Fame
Sheridan Road
Library of Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Shoe production shows May rise to 29 million pairs
New York June 19 AP Shoe production in May reached about 29 million pairs, up from 25.4 million a year earlier and below April’s 29.787 million. The preliminary estimate from the New York stock exchange indicates May sales were the strongest for a May outside 1929 and 1923, signaling heightened activity in shoe manufacturing.
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New York
Mrs Jefferson City Studies the Eating Habit Changes
A Household Science Institute study compares present day American diets with those of 25 years ago. Mrs. Jefferson City serves a wide variety of foods year round, with more dairy products and meat emphasis, while sausages gain popularity due to quality, convenience, and synthetic forecasting enabling quick freshness checks.
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Jefferson City
Gor
Flashes from around the world and a Detroit holdup
A collection of brief items includes a Rome penal code revision with harsh penalties for illicit conduct, a London note on diverse fruit sales and sponsored hikers lodging, musk deer glands risk in Yunnan, decay of the old Russian consulate in Shanghai, George M. Cohan Jr making his stage debut, and a Detroit filling station robbery by a bicycle bandit.
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Associated Press
Rome
Warrensburg Man Kills Himself in Home Despair
L. R. Trapp, 45, a salesman for Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co for eighteen years, shot himself at his Warrensburg home this morning after Mrs. Trapp called him to breakfast. She heard a muffled sound, found him with a revolver wound to the temple. despondency was noted.
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Warrensburg
L. R.trapp
Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company
Public Enemies Under Fire in New York
In New York on June 19 AP reports police and federal tax investigators converged on known crime figures led by Arthur Dutch Schultz who is jailed on gun and resisting arrests charges after a gunbattle. Schultz’s bodyguard Dan Amada died in hospital after being shot. United States Attorney Medalie noted Schultz carried $18,800, and declared the money taxable only for 1931. The story also notes Argentina’s theatres wired for sound and India auto registrations rising.
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New York
Arthur
Dutch” Schultz
Schultz
Leutenant
Dan Amada
United States
George Z. Medalie
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