Corn crop is poor in many central states
An agricultural survey across the Great Lakes eastern and midwestern states shows corn prospects are very slim this year. Even with higher acreage in Illinois and neighboring states, midsummer and fall weather will decide if a surplus can occur. Many fields are unplowed or barely above ground and only six inches tall, with worse conditions in the southern half of the state.
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ST. Louis
Great Lakes
Ilinois
Marshall
Mast St. Louis
Madinna
Ohio
Rockefeller Backing Williamsburg Restoration Project
John D. Rockefeller Jr. plans multimillion support for restoring Williamsburg to its colonial era as a shrine to liberty. Dr. W A Goodwin, secretary of the restoration corporation, said gifts could total 5 million dollars and ensure completion of the project long contemplated at William and Mary College.
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Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
W. A. BR. Goodwin
Goodwin
William and Mary College
Rockefeller
Purdue confers bachelor of science on Donald O'Brien
Donald O'Brien of Linton received a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Purdue University during the fifty fourth annual commencement in Lafayette Indiana on Tuesday morning. President Edward G. Hilpert presided as the graduation procession closed Gala Week with a Purdue Military Band performance.
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Pspmcrab
Cuelaien
Lafayette
Ind
Donald
O’brien
Linton
School of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
Edward G. Hiliett
Purdue Military
Boy Drowns After Mother's Reassurance at Indiana Pond
In Speed Indiana a 13 year old boy Preston Rice from Middletown drowned while attempting a brief swim after his mother urged him from a raft about 80 feet from shore. He disappeared within 15 feet of shore as frantic mother watched. body later recovered.
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Louisville
Dune
Speed
Ind
Preston Rice
New Middletown
End
Colorado banker’s body found in hut near Liberal
The body of H. A. Kessinger, kidnapped when four robbers struck the First National Bank of Samar, Col., May 23, was found in an abandoned shack near Liberal, Kansas. He had been shot to death. Kessinger, assistant cashier, and A. N. Parrish and his son John Parrish were among the bank victims.
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Kas
HK. A. Kessinger
First National Bank of
Samar
Here
Kessinger
A. N. Parrish
John
Spiders’ Webs and Crosswise Tools Recounted
Folk science snippet notes how spiders weave webs used as precision tools like range finders and cross devices. It mentions a gardike thread guiding the web and hints at early understanding of thread physics in natural engineering.
Mrs. Spicer Divorces Third Husband in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on June 13 a divorce decree was granted to Mrs Lilian P Spicer mother of Charlie Chaplins former wife Lita Grey Chaplin. She charged her husband Robert Spicer with desertion dating from January 1924 after a three month separation. Spicer was her third husband.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Lilian P. Spicer
Charlie Chaplin
Lita’ Grey Chaplin
Convention Hatch Fight Over Hoover Platform
Farm leaders threaten to storm convention hall as platform committee deadlocks over farm relief and the proposed equalization fee. Hoover forces hold numerical control while Dawes and Pershing emerge as viable vice presidential options amid party splits led by Curtis Lowden Watson and Tilles.
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Hoover
Platform Committee
Herbert Hoover
Farm Row
Curtis
Lowden
Watson
Charles D. Tilles
New York
Athletic Club
Doa. Im
Hoover Group
Smoot
Heiress Millicent Rogers Ramos Fights Pneumonia
Secluded at her father's lodge The Port of Missing Men on Great Peconic Bay North Sea four miles from Southampton L L Millicent Rogers Ramos former Countess Salm battles double pneumonia with four doctors in attendance as mother Mrs HW UH Ropers rushes home from abroad to be with her.
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Great Peconic Bay
North Sea
Southampton
L. L. Millicent’ Rogers Ramos
Countess Salm
HW. UH. Ropers
United States
Fragmentary note on ancient fleet and wars
A damaged line fragment mentions Geleptiane and Kawawa in association with ancient Mevptiitis and a fleet. Reads unclear due to OCR errors but hints at historical conflicts and maritime forces.
Trusted Stranger Vanishes After Marriage Promise
In Marion Indiana a woman, unnamed by police, lost 3000 dollars to a man who posed as a prospective husband from a matrimonial bureau. He appeared to plan marriage, urged investment of her savings, then disappeared, leaving only a suitcase of newspapers.
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Marion
Ind
Desert Beatle Address Sparks Change in Aid Stance
The Wallowa Sun reports a shift in rhetoric from a minister who previously spoke to a crowd about desert aid. The new message emphasizes direct action for aid to those in the American desert and contrasts with prior abstract calls.
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Tle
Desert
Wallowa
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