Rail Crash Near Sulphur Springs Kills Many
A rear end collision of Missouri Pacific trains near Sulphur Springs leaves 36 dead and 138 injured, 25 critically. Engineer of No 4 failed to heed a block signal, jumping from the cab and dying. No 4 collided with No 32, injuring crew and scattering wreckage as ambulances rushed victims to St Louis hospitals.
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Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
Sulphur Springs
John Cannon
Matt Engel Glenn
Cannon
Glenn
Edward Tinsley
No. 4
Lmited
Lttle
Mississippi
Glaize Creek
Attempts Made to Wreck Trains on LIRR
Sabotage on electrified Long Island Railroad lines threatened thousands of travelers to Rockaway and Long Beach. Seven attempts aimed at wrecking trains by tearing up five third rails. No passenger injured, one employee hurt, many trains short circuited, one set afire, and morning service delayed.
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New York
Long Island
Rockaway
Long Beach
Live Models in Funeral Costume at Maine Undertakers Meet
Augusta Maine novelty opens the Maine undertakers convention with live models displaying funeral gowns for both sexes. After a discussion of new burial attire styles the gathering will announce this season s fashion decrees for the deceased.
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Augusta
Maine
Martial Law Declared in Italian Provinces
Martial law declared in Genoa Milan Parma Ancona and Leghorn. Military authorities take complete control until order returns. In Rome troops with machine guns rush to protect the chamber of deputies from possible fascist attack.
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Rome
Genoa
Milan
Parma
Anonca
Leghorn
Chamber of Deputies
World News Backs Strong Steps on Strikes and Trade
Major world events span coal shipments to the United States from Britain and Wales, railroad strike talks, and President Harding backing rapid congress action. Aliens admitted reach 810000, while aviation and rail issues prompt government action and policy debate.
Train Collision Kills 40 Pilgrims in France
A collision between two pilgrim trains near Villecomtal France killed 40 and injured 50. The crash halted interisland and rail traffic as government vessels and rails were tied up in the aftermath.
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Grotto of
Lourdes
Villecomtal
France
Interisland
Manila Dispatch
Hawkeye State News Highlights From Across Iowa
Reports show six new thresher separators unloaded at Blockton. Over 1,000 teachers took uniform county exams in Cedar Falls. Afton business leaders offer free community movies twice weekly. Muscatine prepares a $110,000 First Baptist building. Thresher yields and farm thefts noted in multiple counties. Pershing to attend American Legion convention in Waterloo.
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Blockton
Cedar Falls
Afton
First Baptist Church
Muscatine
John Siefen
New London
Burlington
Clinton
H. B. Allen
Waterloo
Kate Greene
East Thirteenth Street
Des Moines
Tabor & Northern Railroad
Consolidated School District
Reinbeck
Sibley
Oscar Johnson
John Stienke
Fred Greimann
Garner
Eli Township
Greimann
John Crow
Clarinda
Page County
Ben C. Studer
Wesley
Uneeda Orion
Telling Brothers
Duroc
Danville
Nelson
S. Nelson
Olmitz
Iowa
John Carmody
Perry
John J. Pershing
American Legion
Kendall
Hanford MacNider
Dysart Consolidated
Mary A. Richards
Grant Hemingway
West Branch
Marshall County
H. A. Sharp
Cement Products Company of
Sharp
Mrs. Mollie Abbey Wins Big Tanlac Reprieve
Mrs Mollie Abbey of Jennings Lodge Oregon credits Tanlac with ending nine years of awful gas and tenacious distress. She says she now eats freely gains thirty nine pounds and has renewed strength enabling full housework. Tanlac sold by all good druggists.
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Tanlac
Taniac
Ponce de Leon Seeks Fountain of Youth on Streetcar
A humorous Louisville Courier Journal item riffs on Ponce de Leon riding a streetcar and reading ads for youth cures. He stops the car claiming he is going the wrong way as old legends meet modern marketing.
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Ponce de Leon
Louisville Courier Journal
Important to Mothers Examines Castoria Bottles Carefully
Inspect every bottle of Castoria, the long trusted remedy for infants and children, to confirm the three a. signature and CYIV TULA. For over 30 years, children have cried for Fletcher's Castoria, a reminder echoed in street chatter and national notices.
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Fletcher
Shave With Cuticura Soap Ad Claims Benefits
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for shaving and bathing and shampooing. It promises doubled razor efficiency and purified skin with no irritation even when shaved twice daily. It endorses a single soap for all uses and mocks laziness.
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Missouri
Washington
United States
England
Wales
Shipping Board
Harding
Senate
White House
Henry Spencer
William of. Bigelow
The
Iilnois Steel Company
Oak Port
Frink
Cowgill
Bartlett, Frazier & Co
Chicago
Skokle Country Club
Glencoe
Marilynn Reynolds Carter
John C. Pickford
Mrs
Douglas Fairbanks
Los Angeles
Punk” Harris
Hot Springs
Ark
Maurice Connelly
Lieut
Samuel M. Lunt
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Tex
Lunt
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Boston
Madalynne C. Obenchain
J. Belton Kennedy
Cal
Tracey Lyons
Augustus Altemeier
Port Jervis
Montana
Gren‘don
Minn
O. M. Olson
Clay County
Atlantic City
N. J
Cherbourg
Wweashington
R. D. Carey
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Cleveland (O
Fox River Valley
Appleton
Wis
Colwell
Floyd County
Sabine
Magna Petroleum Company
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Charles Stewart
Nebraska
Omaha
J. B. Winchell & Co
Haverhill, Mass
State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Anton Coury
Estancia
N. M
Duran, N. M
Atwood
W. Va
Wang Chung Hui
China
Peking
Harry J. Boland
Sinn Fein
Dublin
Skerries
National Army
Great Britain
London
Harry Long
Logansport
Ind
Fitzhugh Langston
Auburn
N. C
Erdenbreitstein
Germany
Berlin
Bern
Switzerland
Jungfrau
John Jova
Snagangla Grande
Cuba
Hawkeye
State News
Mrs. Abbey
Hewitt
Jewett
New York Times
Bright
Dean
South Dakota
McClura
N. Jay &J
Aberdeen
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Messig-Elus
Chani
Peete
Memphis
Tenn
W.N. U
Sioux City
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