Spring Floods Roil Midwest Rivers Across Several States
Illinois Missouri Iowa and Nebraska faced two days of spring floods as rising temperatures thawed snow. Acres of farmland flooded, roads and buildings submerged, bridges torn away and rail lines halted. The Mississippi and its tributaries surged. Galena Illinois flooded with business district only reachable by boat. Government warns Asia missions river danger slight from present freshets. bombing planes dispatched to Missouri river. Ice gorge forms above Valley Nebraska as Platte eats into land at one foot per hour threatening to change course.
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Missouri River
Valley
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Lowell
Sisters Reunited After Thirty Years Apart Near Tonganoxie
Jessie Hanson Reed, who left her siblings when their parents Mr. and Mrs. Jamies Hanson died near Tonganoxie, has been reunited with sister Mamie Trackwell and brother Jim after decades apart. Jessie, adopted after two brothers and two sisters were sent to Topeka Children’s Home, learned of siblings Jim and Clara and John in Arkansas, while Clara is deceased.
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Jamies Hanson
Tonganoxie
Jessie Hanson
Jessie
John
Clara
Topeka
D. L. Parks
Marysville
S. E. Reed
Wichita
Beton
B. H. Kness
Tribune
Tribune, Met A Former Employee of the Children’s Home
Kness
Fésident
Reed
Jim
National Military Home
Leavenworth
Lves
Arkansas
Farm Bureau Demonstration Kitchens Arrive in Douglas County
Miss Marguerite Harper from Kansas State Agriculture college and Miss Elizabeth Randle Douglas county home demonstration agent arrived in Lawrence to assist in establishing demonstration kitchens. They will inspect the setups with county kitchen improvement leaders to guide Farm Bureau groups.
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Marguerite Harper
Kansas State Agriculture College
Lawrence
Elizabeth Randle
Douglas County
Farm Bureau
Jaedicke's Radio Dealers Exclusive Philco Line
Jaedicke Hardware announces exclusive Philco radio units for Lawrence and nearby areas. All electric sets priced from 139.75 dollars upward. Fred Jaedicke will oversee sales and service in the new department. The firm plans to hire two or three men soon to devote full time to radios.
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Sempler
Wheat market swings amid higher prices and crop damage
Market reports from Chicago show rising wheat prices amid widespread crop damage in parts of Kansas and Nebraska, with selling on bulges causing late declines. Corn and oats slipped slightly while livestock and other grain markets moved, and discussions of stabilization plans and India’s re selling of wheat added to the uncertain outlook.
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Kansas
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Jrigher
Finois
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Ohio
Liverpool
India
Argent
Eeenor
Rede Registarien
Lons- Vie
Stabiliaziin Corporation
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Weil
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Reeeker
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