Forest fires rage across northwest in expansive blazes
Spokane reports widespread fires across Montana Idaho Wyoming and Colorado with 2000 firefighters battling outbreaks. Crews trench Slemlock Creek Quartz Creek and Challis forests as 15000 acre Idaho blaze grows and Bitterroot Lolo burns threaten 938000 acres. Wyoming Willow Park and Medicine Bow forests face closures while small Colorado fires near Allen's Park are controlled.
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Spokane
Wash
Montana
Thaho
Wyoming
Idaho
Slemlock Creek
Challis Forest
Bitter Root
Lolo
Rock Creek
Bitte Root
Willow Park
Big Town National Forest
Compreenes
Medicine Bow Forest
Allen's Park
Denver
Colorado
Ragweed Eradication Drive Targets Roseland District
South End Chamber of Commerce launches a campaign to remove ragweed across the Roseland area to curb hay fever. Sixty workers will uproot weeds along South End highway 3 and residents are urged to clear weeds from yards and vacant lots. A hay fever bulletin explains ragweed, tree pollen in early season, and grasses in midsummer as primary irritants.
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South End
Chamber of Commerce
South End Highway 3
Chamber
Committee On
Destruction Planned Before August For Weeds At Gompers School
Mrs. Starriet Treadwell, principal of the Gompers school, notes pupils devoted spring work to removing troublesome flora. Attacks on these growths should occur before weeds blossom and dust spreads, targeting destruction before the first week of August.
Vigilantes Capture Three Bank Robbers in Illinois Town
Three Chicago bank robbers were captured by Newark volunteers after a holdup at Millington Bank. Two bandits were shot as their car fled. all three were found hiding in a field near Newark. Prisoners were Jerry Pitzgerald Thomas Harper and Jack Sullivan. Harper seriously wounded.
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Chicago
Newark
Ill
First State Bank of Millington
Martin Mwextell
York
Jerry Pitzgerald
Thomas Harper
Jack Sullivan
Roy Scorsini
Theodore Flouse
Millington Bank
Ottawa
Scogeins
Farmers State Bank
Thor Wogen
Homewood News Update from Louis School
Mrs. George Scheidel vacationing in Oakes North Dakota. A new machinist son arrived Monday making three boys in the family. Mrs. Carlson moved into Louis Mueller's cottage on Mary and Morris. The Funk place rented to I C collectors. A wrestling match is planned for Saturday July 22 at 8 15 pm at Gottschalk Pavilion.
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Homewood
Louis School
George Scheidel
Oakes
North Dakota
Fred Domm
Gottschalk Pavilion
South Holland News Twenty Years Ago Snippets
The column notes recent local notes from South Holland with playful questions about residents like John Kiekert and John VanDraa. It mentions guests Mrs Mary VanErden and Annie Siewers of Roseland visiting Peter Vankirden and reports Dr and Mrs Walvoord welcoming a baby boy born Wednesday.
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South Holland News
John Kiekert
John VanDraa
Niel Eylander
Joe Fisher
William Swets
Bertha Fries
Fred
Mary VanErden
Annie Siewers
Roseland
Peter Vankirden
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West 188Th Street
Riverdale
Aupply Type Craft Press
Lincoln Avenue
Dalton
Voss, Maytag
Michigan Avenue
J. C. Depot
138Th Street
Oak Street
John Ravesloot, Jr
State Street
South Holland
Harvey
Main Street
Illinois Street
E. Bales
South State
Wabash Avenue
Louis Rubinic
Sheridan Avenue
W. van Keppel
Vincennes Avenue
Harvey, Ill
Henry Frischkorn
E. 173Rd Street
East
Hazel Crest
Fray’s Flower Shop
Dolton
Henry W. Schnoor
Chicago Street
K. L. Sherrill
Leyden Ave
Gladstone
Interocean
Res
Hammond
Walter R. Stroh
Sanderson Ave
A. W. Hamann
St. Michigan Ave
Joe
JOE Alpert Shoe Repair Shop
B. D. Foulois
Benjamin D. Foulois
Army Air Corps
William Green
American Federation of Labor
International
Long Shoremen’s Association
New York
Machine Window
Sasn Puileys
Et Morris, Mlinois
Guilliume de L’isle
Amsterdam
Chirzgo
Verhoeven
Mary Teresa Cogan
St. Anselm’s Church
Gist
C. Tl. Thomsen
Park Avenue
Ellen Dolton
Robert Hanschman
Melbourne Lowall
Mabel Lona
Hielen Cook
Ifilda
Marion Kasten
Helen Wise
Delton Auto Laundry
Delton
Conrad Kern
Indiana Avenue
THE
F. & M. Laundry
la Salle St. Riverdale
Alien Hotel
East 137Th Street
A. J. Allen
Prop
Riverdale, NL
Isaac Shilling
159Th St
George Tuch
Peter Farney
Aspen
Anthony Basile Plumbing
Lincoln Ave
AR. Arras
Hohman St
Carondolet
Carl Dieck
Interscean
Wm. C. Zesch
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