Crowds greet river swimmer at dock after long Mississippi quest
Crowds greet Freq Newton a 27 year old from Clinton Oklahoma as he crawled ashore at the Twin Cities dock after swimming about 11 hours 6 minutes on Thursday night. He has logged over 190 hours in the river covering nearly 400 miles with plans to write a book after reaching New Orleans.
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Freq Newton
Clinton, Okla
Merman
Mississippi River
Twin Cities
New Orleans
Newton
St. Paul
Hastings
Minn
Davenport
Power Boat Club
Byron
Fred
Bud
Lake Minnetonka
le Claire
Moline
New Boston
Ill
Oquawka
Burlington
Far North Expedition Lectures Tonight at Legion Hall
Charles Planinshek and Charles O Grady, leaders of the Planinshek O Grady Arctic expedition, will recount years as fur traders and prospectors in the far north at the American Legion home this evening. The program will include northland views and four expedition dogs from Chesterfield to the headwaters of the Mississippi. The group has traveled since March 12, 1929. Legion post arranged the event and a stag picnic within 30 days, with Warren Davis named general chairman.
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Charles Planinshek
Charles O'Grady
Planinshek- O’grady
Arctic Circle
Havana
Far North
American Legion
Planinshek
Northland
Chesterfield
Mississippi
Muscatine Legion
Legion
Warren Davis
Sherwood Samuels
Flood Devastates Nogales Border City Areas
Soldiers police and citizens scoured Nogales Sonora for 13 missing feared dead as floods left four dead and 500 homeless. The storm pushed north to Winslow Arizona and to California's Imperial Valley causing wrecks and a Santa Fe train derailment with the engineer and fireman killed.
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Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
Arizona
Winslow
Imperial Valley
Santa Fe
Win
Robbers With Flair for Fine Clothes Loot Hub Store
A gang of burglars stole 300 to 500 expensive suits from the Hub store in Waukegan at 7 a.m. They locked manager Julius Fingkin in a back room and restrained Adolph Canter before completing the heist worth about 10000 dollars.
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Waukegan, Tl
Julius Fingkin
Adolph Canter
Fingkin
City mill levy set at 34.5 by aldermen for next year
City council approved an appropriation ordinance funding various city funds and set the mill levy at 34.5 for the coming year, a 3 mill cut from 37.5 in the current year. The reduction follows an agreement with water and light trustees to handle maturing bonds.
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Water and Light Departments
Water Department
Board of Health
Transport Pilot Flies Blind with Ten Passengers
W. E. Slim Larned of Stout airplanes piloted a tri motor from Chicago to Detroit with ten passengers while blind to visual cues. Sealed cabin, instrument guidance, and radio beams steered to La Porte Indiana, Jackson Michigan, then Detroit, proving instrument and radio beam flying for large cross continental air travel.
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Detroit
Chicago
W. E
Slim” Larned
la Porte
Ind
Ford
Jackson
Mich
Larned
Man electrocuted while repairing power line at Salix
Sioux City Aug 8 AP. Frank Mesner 35 an Iowa Public Service employee died after being shocked by 11 000 volts at Salix while working with a crew from Cherokee. His home was believed to be in Kansas City Missouri.
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Sioux City
Frank Mesner
Iowa Public Service Company
Salix
Mesner
Kansas City
Cherokee
County Budget Hearing Set For Aug 18 By Board
The board of supervisors will hold a hearing August 18 at 10 a m on the proposed 1931 county budget estimated at 434713 dollars with expected tax raise of 366213 dollars and a per thousand tax rate of 10 50. Funds listed include General 85000 court expense 15000 poor 35000 state insane 19000 county insane 15000 county school 15000 soldiers relief 4000 bond funds 31000 bond interest 13713 emergency 10000 juvenile 9000 fair ground 2500 secondary road construction 85000 maintenance 95000 with 68500 expected income from non tax sources and a June 1 cash balance of 105116. last year mill levy was 41 25 and may drop about 2 mills.
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Ss General
Board of Supervisors
C. H. Pitchforth
Pitchforth
Dance Marathon Ends With World Record Time
Ann Gerry of Chicago and Mike Gouvas of Hammond Indiana set a new world record by dancing 2831 hours four minutes thirty seconds in a north side ballroom marathon. Medical staff halted the event when the partner’s foot injury made further dancing impossible. In Sioux City Wallace Query 24 sustained critical injuries in a street brawl and Henry Friel 20 was arrested.
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Chicago
Lincoln Park
Southern Cross
North Atlantic
North Side
Ann Gerry
Mike Gouvas
Hammond
Ind
Sioux City
Wallace Query
Henry Friel
Friel
Funeral services for Am Davis in Mora Minnesota
Am Davis, a former local business man, died at his home in Mora Minnesota on Tuesday. Funeral services were held at 9 a.m. at St Matthias Church conducted by Rev. Father W. L. Hannon. Burial followed at St. Mary’s Cemetery with pallbearers B F Bates Frank Gottbrecht Theodore Gottbrecht George Williams Milton Frack and George Connell.
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Am Davis
Mora
Minn
St. Mathias Church
W. L. Hannon
St. Mary’s Cemetery
B. F. Bates
Frank and
Theodore Gottbrecht
George Williams
Milton Frack
George Connell
Intoxication Claim Surfaces in Oesterreich Murder Trial
New testimony in the Walburga Oesterreich murder case says she was intoxicated the night her husband Fred Oesterreich was shot on August 22, 1922. Neighbors Florence Rawson and Cora Norton testified hearing four shots and seeing activity, with Mrs. Oesterreich crying Fred after the shots. They previously did not mention intoxication.
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Los Angeles
Walburga Oesterreich
Fred Oesterreich
Wife Slayer Aims for Electric Chair in Texas
A. D. Payne of Amarillo admitted in a dictated statement that he planted a dynamite bomb in his car, killing his wife and injuring their 9-year-old son. He reportedly urged waiving trial to hasten execution by electric chair.
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Payne
Woman’s Fatal Car Incident Prompt Aftermath
A woman driving toward town was involved in a crash and her body was reportedly thrown several hundred feet, according to the limited readable text. No further details, names, or context are available in the fragment.
Letts District Seeks Bids for Hack Route No
The Letts Consolidated school district invites sealed bids for Hack Route No. . Bids must be filed with the secretary by August 11. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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Letts Consolidated School District
Siegfried Wagner Buried In Bayreuth Oak Grave
Siegfried Wagner son of Richard Wagner was buried in Bayreuth beneath a stately oak. His coffin was carried to the grave by singers of Wagnerian roles. Among mourners were former Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Hohenzollern Prince August Wilhelm.
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Siegfried Wagner
Bayreuth
Germany
Richard Wagner
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
August Wilhelm
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