Salem Fire Devastates Historic City in Massive Conflagration
Salem Mass June 26 Nearly half of the historic city is burned in a huge blaze causing seven deaths and leaving about 15,000 homeless. Fires raged two miles through factories and homes dating to colonial times while martial law restricted looting. Firefighting efforts failed for 18 hours as winds spread the flames across Lafayette Street and May Street with water pressure failing and assistance from militia and nearby towns arriving.
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Salem
Mass
Tech
Mary Miske
Edward McGlone
John Lee
May Street
Lafayette Street
Sarah Abbott
o’Mack
Vernor Walsh
Proposed Market To Bring Farmer Into La Crosse
A bid to establish a city market in La Crosse seeks 400 shares at 25 dollars and a 2500 dollar city appropriation to build Market Square structure. A. A. Bentley heads the advisory committee and mails appeals to merchants to back the venture, promising farmers a steady purchaser and city residents fresh seasonal produce and other goods. The plan aims to bring farmers and residents closer, with broad interest seen across La Crosse and beyond.
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la Crosse
Retail Merchants Association
J. J. Felber
Market Square
Villa Executes Mexican federal leaders at Zacatecas
June 26 Zacatecas dispatches report in the Mexican conflict indicate General Francisco Villa ordered executions of fifty seven federal irregulars nicknamed colorados after recent victories. Villa pursues the fleeing federal army commanded by General Luis Medina Barron toward Aguas Calientes, burning bridges and destroying rails. Villa plans to move his force of seventeen to twenty thousand against Aguas Calientes, with trains rerouted from Laredo due to washouts.
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Villa
Luis Medina Barron
Aguas Calientes
Zacatecas
Auguas Calientes
Beni Argumendo Rojas
Federal Army
Torreon
Torres
San Luis Potosi
Laredo
Texas
Jiminez
Queretaro
Mexico City
Cloudburst floods Lanesboro and nearby towns
Cloudburst floods Lanesboro Minnesota with two feet of water. Town inundated. rail lines and telegraph crippled. roots river rising. Bangor Wisconsin storm destroys barns and silos. Wausau reports two killed in cyclone. families flee rising basements and damaged homes.
Mayor's Welcome To Home-Coming Guests In La Crosse
The address greets returning La Crosse visitors as home-coming pilgrims and celebrates the city as a warm, hospitable place. It likens La Crosse to an old fashioned home and expresses pride in the community, its industries, and the joy of reunion with former residents returning for a week of pleasure. It ends with a thrice repeated welcome to the home-comers.
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la Crosse
Let Em Fight It Out Kohn Seeks License Grants
Frank Kohn chairman of the council license committee said they would recommend granting licenses to all applicants and let the council fight it out. He noted the mayor can veto licenses, implying not all would be granted. Tonight's meeting will focus on granting a permit to Fred Wehrer of the Wisconsin house.
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Frank Kohn
Eberhart Back Lee Support at Swedish Festival
Governor A C Eberhart of Minnesota said he would back Lee in the race for the Republican nomination, despite Lee not backing him two years earlier, while attending a Swedish midsummer festival in Sioux City Iowa on June 26.
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Sioux City
Iowa
A. C. Eberhart
Minnesota
Lee
Senator Williams Targets Plutocratic Press In Session Warning
Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi told reporters in New York that the senate would remain in session until all trust program bills pass. He assailed the plutocratic press for calamity howling and urged steady action on key measures.
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New York
Senate
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Vanitie Wins Third Victory in Oyster Bay Test
Vanitie finished first at 1 00 05 PM in the tenth America’s Cup defense race at Oyster Bay New York. Resolute trailed by 53 seconds and Defiance followed at 1 01 19 PM. The course ran a repeated fifteen mile triangle twice.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Vanitie
Resolute
City Newcomers Day Plan Encourages Go to Church Sunday
The committee proposes designate opening day of homecoming as Go to Church Sunday to welcome new residents. City newcomers day on Friday aims to greet new residents and integrate them into community activities.
Civic Parade Plans Finished for Go to Church Sunday
The board of trade committee organizing Homecoming in La Crosse proposed Sunday June 28 as Go to Church Sunday. They urged substituting churches for bands and urged the press to back the idea as reasonable and timely.
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Board of Trade
la Crosse
McGovern to Visit La Crosse Wednesday Noon
Governor Francis E. Mc Govern told May Sorensen he will arrive in La Crosse at noon Wednesday and declined an earlier visit due to a knee injury favoring rest.
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McGovern
Francis E. McGovern
Ori J. Sorensen
la Crosse
New Comers Day Aims to Welcome Returning La Crosse Residents
A local committee proposes New Comers Day for next Friday to honor the many former La Crosse residents returning for a reunion. They note hundreds of past residents are returning and many newcomers have arrived in the last decade, hoping the event will foster acquaintance and future attendance at church.
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la Crosse
No One Loves Me Writes Girl Who Killed Self Today
Lillian Benz, 17, killed herself at noon using a shotgun. The note found with her claimed premeditation, but others dismissed it as nerves. Police and school officials investigating motives and any warning signs.
Tragedy as Teen Kills Self After Family Dispute
Lillie Benz, 17, died at her mother Mrs. John Neukerchen’s home after a quarrel over a grocery bill. She shot herself with a 12 gauge shotgun, head blown away, leaving a note premeditated the day before. The note blamed no one, saying no one loved her and she was tired of life. Funeral plans pending.
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Lillie Benz
John Neukerchen
South Twenty-fourth Street
Lillie
Eugene Hunt
Pine Streets
Neukerchen
John B. Webber
Lawrence Dugan
Herman E. Wolfe
Ida Abraham
North Twenty-first
Lilly
Weather Unsettled Tonight and Saturday for Wisconsin
For La Crosse and vicinity unsettled conditions expected tonight and Saturday with probable showers and no clear temperature change. Across Wisconsin unsettled weather tonight and Saturday with showers and thunderstorms, higher temperatures mainly in the south and east portion tonight.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
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Dan G. MacMillan
Albert P. Funk
H. Clay Evenson
Farmers’ Committee
N. M. Scott
W. F. Goodrich
John C. Burns
A. H. Schubert
William Doertlinger
Sven
Wome
Hawthorne
LA Grosse
A. A. Bentley
Huertista
Zaca
Tecas
Lanesboro
Rushford
Minn
Bangor
Wis
Roberts Brother
Richard Meinking
William Niedfelt
Emil Gerke
Frank Bolles
F. A. Harrison
Mr. Cssael
R. Meinking
G. H. Jones
Orrin Fletcher
Martin Mengelt
Wausau Wausau
William Schade
Ford Shalade
Fred Weinandadt
Kohn
Eberhart
Hits Plute Press
GIRL
Lillian Benz
Grover
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