Harding Heads Pacific Bound for Alaska
President Harding sails from Tacoma aboard the U S S Henderson for Alaska with the presidential party. The voyage up the inside passage will reach Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Seward, and end at Cordova then Vancouver. The trip aims to gather first hand Alaska data and includes completion of the Tanana River railroad with a golden spike at Nenana. The president also presses for an eight hour steel shift as pledged by Gary and steel leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Alaska
Harding
Henderson
President Yarding
United States Navy
White House
Tacoma Stadium
Mrs. Harding
Great Northern Territory
British Columbia
Katchikan
Wrangell
Juneau
Territorial
Seward
Anchorage
Chickaloon
Nenan
Fairbanks
Arctic Circle
Tanana River
Nena
Interior
Richardson Trail
Copper River
Northwestern
Chitina
Cordova
Sitka
Vancouver
B. C
Seattle
Harding and Steel
H. Gary
Tacoma
American Iron and Steel Institute
Cattle Train Wreck Near Fairdale Kills Five
Five men died and about a dozen were injured in a cattle train wreck near Fairdale. The dead and many injured were Black workers in a central car as cattle stampeded through the wreck. Loaded cars overturned crushing cattle and men. the train ran from Omaha to Chicago and injured were transported to Rockford hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Fairdale
Omaha
Chicago
Rockford
Princeton Tigers Ready for Baseball Season Opener
Princeton fans welcome real baseball as the Princeton Tigers organize a season team and travel to Francisco to face the Miners. Batteries for Sunday are Morton and Turpin for Princeton against Shoop and Christian for Francisco. The squad includes Morton, Turpin, Cleveland, Davis, Shuel, Frohbieter, G Jennings, Whitman, and Hart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Princeton Tigers
Tigers
Francisco
Miners
Francisco Miners
Bacon
Morton
Turpin
Shoop
Christian
Muren
Cleveland
Davis
Shuel
Frohbieter
G. Jennings
Whitman
Hart
Chautauqua Official Jumps Before Freight Train
Christian DP Messner, superintendent of the Redpath Chautauqua bureau Five Day Advancement, ended his life by leaping between two cars of a Norfolk and Western freight train near Portsmouth Ohio. His left leg was severed. death was instant. A note in his coat asked notification of his Hartford City Indiana home and his father. Messner’s headquarters were in Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Christian DP. Messner
Redpath Chautauqua Bureau
Norfolk and Western
Hartford City
Ind
Messner
Columbus
Schumann-Heink Honored as Veterans Toast Her Son Lost Aboard U Boat
In Minneapolis Madame Schumann-Heink, lifelong defender of America, presided over a dinner of Dis abled American Veterans. She tearfully recalled her son who died aboard a German U Boat in 1918 while thirty veterans toasted him and pledged to bury her in the United States with taps at her grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schumann-Heink
Minneapolis
Madame Schumann-Heink
America
Mme. Schumann-Heink
Col
George Leach
Cherry Grove Notes Herald Fourth of July Visits
Joe Brown and family visited hospital patient Mrs. Brown in Evansville. Brittingham family from Wheeling spent the holiday with Fred Sweppy. Sturgeon host guests and neighbors gathered for Independence Day. Embrees entertained Olmstead Harbinson and Grace Embree. Walter Coleman family enjoyed the Fourth at the Fair Grounds. Embree family plus Olivia visited St Francisville. Mabel Coleman and Elmer Paulson's Evansville relatives arrived to spend days with Walter Coleman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Brown
Claude Brown
Nola Griffin
Evansville
Walter Coleman
Fair Grounds
Mabel Coleman
Elmer Paulson
Egg in Accident Escapes Fracture Boonville Tale
Edward M. Egg of Jasper drove into a concrete abutment on the state highway near Boonville after swerving to avoid another car. The wreck demolished the auto and threw Egg’s daughter against a telegraph pole, cutting her face. The fatal corner has seen several recent crashes.
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Boonville
Edward M. Egg
Jasper
Here
Egg
Man in Barrel Sought as Sheriff Seizes Moonshine Equipment
TERRE HAUTE July 6 Police join search for a man wearing a barrel who escaped Sheriff Armstrong's raid yesterday. The suspect, a moonshiner, fled his shack without clothing. A 50 gallon still was seized in the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Armstrong
Indiana Weather Outlook With Sun and Clouds
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Thursday high 91 and low 70 with clouds. Friday 6 AM temperature noted, sunset 7:16 PM Friday, sunrise Saturday at 4:38. Last year comparisons show 80 high and 57 low with clear skies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Marriage Unites Moris Stevens and Virgil Schleter
On a Wednesday afternoon at the First Presbyterian church in South Main Street the marriage of Miss Moris Stevens of Francisco and Mr. Virgil Schleter of this city was performed by Rev. L A Harriman. The couple will reside at 825 South Hart Street next week.
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Orcock
First Presbyterian Church
South Main Street
Moris Stevens
Francisco
Virgil Schleter
L. A. Harriman
William Stevens
Center Township
Emma Schieter
Schleter
South
Hart Street
Mrs Marie McLean Weds George Franklin in Tulsa
Mrs Marie McLean and Mr George Franklin married on Thursday June 28 in Tulsa Oklahoma. Mrs Franklin formerly lived here and has many friends in our locale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake Schlumpf
Marie McLean
George Franklin
Tulsa
Okla
Franklin
Birth of 12 pound son Jack Pierce at Stormont Street
Mr and Mrs Harrison Pierce announce the birth of a son named Jack weighing 12 pounds born Thursday at their Stormont Street home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Pierce
Jack
Stormont Street
Balloon pilots survive dramatic crash above Ohio River
Capt. Chas. E. McCullough and an aide rode the American Legionnaire in the national elimination balloon race from Indianapolis on July 4. A storm crushed the gas bag at 20,000 feet, sending them into a big butternut tree where they clung, narrowly escaping death as they descended 1,200 feet per minute before the crash-landing. The pair survived with injuries minimal, crediting the tree for saving them from catastrophe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort Springs
Chas. E. McCullough
American Legionnaire
Indianapolis
Ohio River
McCullough
United Press
Atlantic
Earth
Two balloons still aloft in national elimination event
Indianapolis reports two balloons from the national elimination race remain airborne at noon. Lester Miller's army balloon landed at Ford City, Pennsylvania. H. E. Honeywell of St Louis and Lieut. L. J. Roth in the navy entry are believed in flight, with no word for hours. they may be at high altitude or crossing into Canada where updates are delayed.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Lester Miller
Ford City
H. E. Honeywell
St. Louis
L. J. Roth
Navy
Canada
Eleven Demands From Anthracite Miners Spark Conference
Atlantic City N J July 6 Anthracite miners issued an ultimatum to coal operators with eleven demands including a 20 percent raise. UMWA representatives joined the conference to decide if a strike will follow as the new working agreement takes effect September 1 after the old contract expires. Over 200 operators and union delegates attended the opening session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
United Mine Workers of America
Bridge construction advances on White River link in Hazleton
Engineers nearing completion on the White River bridge at Hazleton Indiana with concrete work finished except the floors on the two north spans. A 4.5 mile hard surface roadway between Hazleton and Patoka is being laid out and prepared for finishing touches before the roadway opens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
Patoka
Burch
State Highway Commission
Split in third party rocks Chicago political scene
In Chicago on July 6 the country's third party fractured hours after its founding over communism and Henry Ford. Liberals led by Ruthenberg and William Z Foster backed the Federated Labor Party merger plan, while conservative Farmer-Labor delegates opposed it, with splits over Ford’s presidential candidacy and Soviet Russia terminology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Henry Ford
Farmer-Labor Party
Federated Farmer, ‘Labor Party
Workers’ Party
Ruthenberg
William Z. Foster
Russia
Holt
Farmer and Labor
Habeas corpus release denied for Louis Reed
Louis Reed of Oakland City faced habeas corpus in circuit court with Judge R C Baltzell ruling against him. Reed remains bound over to the sheriff to serve a sentence for liquor possession following prior conviction and a separate 60 day penal farm term plus a $100 fine imposed by Mayor Niemeier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Reed
Oakland City
R. C. Baltzell
Reed
Niemeier
Baltzell
Oakland City to Play at Patoka Giants
Oakland City baseball team will play Patoka Giants Sunday at Riverside Park in Patoka Indiana. Battery for the Giants will be Kolb and Reese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland City
Patoka
Ind
Giants
Riverside
Kolb
Reese
Battery
Failing in Houses prompts Missouri families to seek Princeton homes
Nineteen men and all but four of their families leave Eldon Missouri for Princeton seeking housing to relocate their property. Thirteen children accompany, with fifteen more in another group. Workers include ten machinists and eight carmen, all leaving Eldon to take jobs with the Southern in Princeton, hoping to settle here once housing is found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldon
St. Louis
Prince
Missouri
Princeton
Fe Nomeone
Mat
William Ousley
R. W. Austin
D. W. Simmons
W. C. Nichols
Henry Skiles
E. W. Peters
W. G. Adams
Co. A. Short
Harry Weatherholt
al Mitchell
W. C. Tracy
Henr
Moore
G. B. Mall
Gus Goodrich
Henry
Rock Island
Congressman Wilson helps veterans pension and rating case
Washington July 6 Mrs Pro vy A Lamar of Evansville Indiana widow of Forest D Lamar has been granted a pension retroactive to November 16 1921 plus additional compensation for her minor child. Congressman William BR Wilson secured evidence and settlement in the Lamar claim and another veteran James C Collins of Evansville received a re rating and amended award for compensation with back pay due. The revised rating is 60 percent based on temporary partial disability.
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Washington
Provy A. Lamar
West Columbia St
Evansville
Ind
Forest D. Lamar
Company M
14Th
U. S. Infantry
William BR. Wilson
Pension Bureau
Lamar
James C. Collins
West Virginia St
Indiana
Reserve
Willient
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U. S
S. Henderson
President Hard
Frisco
Madame Schumann-Heina
Cherry Grove
Harrison Brittingham
Wheeling
Fred Sweppy
George Brown
Elna
Chester Taylor
George Baden
Paul Sturgeon
Sam Embree
8. L. Olmstead
John Harbinson
Grace Embree
Viola
Dallas Stevens
St. Francisville
Stevens-Schleter
Legion
Legionnaire
Hazleton, Ind
Spe
Cial
NEW Third Party
City
W. E. Wilson
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