Hundreds Flee as Dire Break Floods Woodland District
About 500 farmers and families escaped to safety after a 15 foot high dike broke on the Columbia River floodplain near Woodland Washington. The Breached dike flooded 12 000 acres, destroyed the Burchslough pumping station and caused $300 000 in damage amid preparations to house refugees.
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Woodland
Wash
Columbia River
Burchslough
Woodland Diking
P Burrows Creek
Martin's Bluff
May wheat soars to 1 82 on Chicago Board edge
May wheat jumped 12 to 15 cents in minutes on the Chicago Board of Trade, touching 1.82 a bushel before easing to 1.75. Shorts rushed to cover as scarce offerings and large northern and eastern interests reportedly entered the market, keeping prices volatile.
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Board of Trade
Chicago
Shorts
Harding to See Midshipmen at Naval Graduation
President Harding and Secretary Denby will visit the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis on Thursday for diploma ceremonies. About 31,400 midshipmen will cruise to European waters as a five battleship squadron sails from Annapolis next Saturday and returns around September 1.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Harding
Denby
Navy Department
Amnapolis
Blaine vetoes day bill over Volstead act conflict
Governor Blaine vetoes the Mathe son prohibition enforcement bill calling it indefinite and uncertain and says it conflicts with the federal Volstead act. In a message to the assembly he criticizes the Anti Saloon League lobby for drafting a pernicious measure.
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Madison, Wis
Blaine
Assembly
Actor Drowns in Fake Rescue at Green Lake
Seattle June 1 J A Clark motion picture actor drowned while attempting a staged rescue of Isabelle Carpenter his leading lady for a film being shot in Seattle at Green Lake The incident occurred during production of a picture drama by a local film company.
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Seattle
Wash
J. A. Clark
Green Lake
Isabelle Carpenter
Independent refiners cut Kentucky crude price
Reports from Louisville, Kentucky state independent refiners lowered Western Kentucky crude by 60 cents a barrel. The new price stands at 31 28 per barrel.
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Oi City
Louisville
Western Kentucky
Bolshevist Premier Requests Return to Capitalism
A Moscow dispatch cites Nika Lenin declaring communism bankrupt and asking the all Russian central executive committee to permit unlimited capitalism and recall of constitutional democrats to aid in rebuilding Russia. The report lacks official Bolshevist confirmation. Stockholm reports the Soviet may lease major factories to former owners, signaling a potential shift from Soviet principles to trade policy.
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Riga
Latvia
Moscow
Nikolai Lenin
Central Executive Committee
Russia
Constitutional Democrats
Stockholm
Mrs Orthwein on Trial for Murder in Chicago
Mrs Cora Isa bee Orthwein stands trial for the murder of Herbert P Ziegler a wealthy Chicago businessman in her apartment on March 2. She plans a self defense plea claiming Ziegler broke into her home. State witnesses include Mrs Charlotte Lewinsky and Mrs Lewinsky danced with Ziegler hours before his death.
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H. P. Ziegler
Chicago
Cora Isabee Orthwein
Herbert P. Ziegler
Orthwein
Ziegler
Charlotte Lewinsky
Jacek Dnarry
Lewinsky
Hoover in new trade meet
Secretary Hoover held a seventh conference with cotton goods manufacturers from the south and New England to develop commerce department facilities. The aim is timely and accurate trade statistics for the cotton industry.
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Washington
Hoover
Department of Commerce
South
New England
Fourteen Year Old Girl Kills Man at Window in Texarkana
Texarkana Arkansas June 1 a 14 year old girl shot and killed Claude A. Dunigan a 30 year old salesman who appeared at her bedroom window police say. The incident occurred as Dunigan reportedly approached the house seeking an appointment.
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Texarkana
Ark
Claude A. Dunigan
Dunigan
Plane crash at Rose City speedwayends in possible fatality
Portland June 1. Pilot Joe Peters was injured probably fatally when his airplane crashed at the Rose City speedway during a motorcycle race meet. Photographer Gilles I. Sanderson and Joe Reeves were slightly hurt. The group was filming moving pictures of the race.
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Portland
Ore
Joe Peters
Rose City Speedway
Gilles I. Sanderson
Joe Reeves
Unusual divorce suits spread through Anderson area
In Anderson an odd case unfolds as two local workmen reportedly seek to exchange wives, prompting court guidance to pursue formal divorces. Across Indiana many towns report civic and legal notes from agriculture to public safety, with elections and infrastructure progress also highlighted.
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Anderson
William Muncey
Gordon Huffman
Elkhart
Indianapolis
Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations
Tennessee
Frederick van Nuys
United States
Washington
Marion County Auditor
L. N. Vines
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Indiana County Superintendents
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Marion County
South Bend
Raphael
Notre Dame
Grand Army of the Repupolic
Congregation of Holy Cross
University of Notre Dame
Bedford
Robert Cazee
Elza Finn
Emmet Manuel
Evansville
Elks
Evansvile
Indiana Elks
McCray
Board of Public Safety
Huntington
Huntington School Savings Bank
Political Opponents of Senator Elkins Aver He Is Appearing in Entirely New Light
A Buffalo Express item notes Senator Davis Elkins of West Virginia offers to be the official angel for pages after Senator Phelan’s retirement. It suggests Elkins’s wealth from coal mines and oil wells would make a grand gesture with summer plans of baseball, candy, and ice cream for the pages.
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Elkins
Phelan
California
Senate
Davis Elkins
West Virginia
Beau Brummel of the Plains visits major Middle West cities
Big Bear, head of the Sioux, famed as the best dressed Indian in America, recently toured several large Middle West cities in full regalia.
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Beau Brummel
Plains
Big Bear
America
Middle West
Weigh Off Puzzles An American Visitor In England
An American on a trip in England studies a weighing machine and asks what it means. A friend explains the odd units and the humorous measurement of eleven stone two bricks one board piece and two shingles.
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England
American Legion Weekly
Brown and Boaston Translate Watch Debate Transcript
In the Boaston transcript Brown notes a watch that strikes while another claims theirs refuses to work. The exchange highlights differing perceptions of timekeeping devices.
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Ida Wolfe
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Steve Waite
Liberty Trail
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