Levees Bolstered as Flood Fears Surge Across Mississippi Valley
Flood warnings escalate as crews reinforce weakened levees along the Mississippi and Red rivers. In New Orleans and towns like Natchez and Moreauville, hundreds labor to shore up banks while authorities plan relief and rehabilitation funds. Public debate in Memphis weighs a permanent flood control policy amid widespread evacuations and potential breaches.
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Storms Kill 20 In Tornado Outbreak Across States
Tornadoes ripped through Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma as storms killed about 20 people and injured hundreds. Hardest hit counties include Lawrence and Missouri where dozens perished and many injured. Downed power lines and wrecked homes amid widespread debris delayed relief efforts across multiple towns.
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Aimee Crocker Pleads Divorce in Paris Affair
Aimee Crocker pleads divorce in Paris detailing alleged adultery and abandonment. The article notes Crocker as a former Almere figure and references a daring personal saga surrounding her marriage in May.
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Daringl the Prince
Fliers Sought After Atlantic Mystery Deepens Amid Fog
Paris alarms as French airmen Captain Nungesser and his navigator vanish in fog over the Atlantic. Naval and coast guard authorities coordinate searches from Ireland to Grand Banks with ships on lookout and preventive patrols. Shipping Board vessels ordered to maintain watch and aid any survivors.
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Fog halts search for Nungesser plane over Atlantic
Fog over the Atlantic hampered a wide search for French aviators Charles Nungesser and Paul Coli after their biplane vanished on a flight from Paris to New York. Authorities deployed ships and aircraft from Newfoundland to New York while hopes that the plane could stay afloat were kept alive by the pilots’ past statements and the aircraft’s design for water landing.
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Civilization and slavery drive advance in agriculture
The passage argues that ancient thinker Aristotle claimed civilization rests on slavery. It notes modern tech such as steam, electricity, and machinery as making slave labor unnecessary, referencing tractors and plows guiding twenty acres at Nebraska's Agriculture College with professors and farmers watching the demonstration.
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Locai
Nebraska
Agriculture College
Imrs Snyder in coma doctors fear insanity
New York reports Henry Judd Gray found guilty of first degree murder in the Albert Snyder case. Mrs Snyder and Gray confessed, defense claims Mrs Snyder falsely testified, jurors say widow lied. Trials drew crowds as verdicts came seven weeks after Snyder’s murder.
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Clemency Plea Sent To Justice Bureau
A clemency request for Barl Carroll, a New York producer sentenced to a year and a day in Atlant prison for perjons, reached the justice department but was not yet referred to President Coolidge. Separate notes mention rescue aircraft being prepared at various bases and ongoing efforts to locate missing airmen amid Atlantic and Pacific search efforts.
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English Channel search for missing airmen expands
Reports from Cherbourg indicate naval forces and aircraft began a sweep of the English Channel after claims that Captain Nar Nussar may have crash landed while attempting a trans Atlantic flight. Early details are unclear with fragmented signals from Fastnet Dock and offshore areas.
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U S Professor to Head Greek School in Maine
Professor Henry King of Baudoin College is appointed the first president of the new Athené College in Greece. He will lead the Greek school project from Brunswick Maine, outlining plans for its opening and academic program.
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Division in Sham Battle Concludes Morning Operations
The Second Division opened its attack at 6 o clock Tuesday in a dawn darkness cover then advanced toward Lacon Springs while Maj. Gen. Winnert Hinds, commander of the Highth Corps Area, conducted the annual tactical inspection. Operations wrapped up by morning with an afternoon stand at Camp Stanley where the corps had maintained HQ during the inspection amid next week’s combined ground and air maneuvers.
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Norwegians to Meet June 2d Convention in Duluth
Nordlandslaget of Amerika gears up for its annual gathering in Duluth on June 23 24 and 2 with about 50 delegates expected from Wisconsin Iowa Michigan Minnesota North and South Dakota. The group unites many of the nation’s Norwegian Americans while most delegates hail from Northwest small towns and rural districts. Last year the Natthaldelaget met in the Twin Cities alongside the Norse American centennial drawing several thousand attendees.
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South Dakotas
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Lindbergh’s Hop Delayed By Weather Forecasts
Captain Lindbergh’s departure for a nonstop flight to St Louis was postponed as weather reports from Kansas and Oklahoma were awaited. Lindbergh indicated the flight would proceed as planned once favorable conditions were confirmed, seeking to further a proposed cross continental venture toward Africa.
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International News Service
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Canadians Invite U S to Draft Anti Rum Treaty
Canadian government officials invite United States envoys to negotiate an anti rum treaty in Chota new mouths to curb waterborne shipments. The plan mirrors the pact with Great Britain and aims to check the influx of water into the United States via ships and ports.
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Am ‘Aba
T. C. Andrews
United States
Bowdoin College Plans Tuition Increase to $230
Bowdoin College announces a tuition hike from 200 to 230 dollars for next fall, per President Kenneth M. Litly. The higher cost still leaves Bowdoin cheaper than many peer institutions at the time.
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Bowdail
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Daar
Duke of Lee Disposition Shares London May 16 Report
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a 188 in London on May 16 and reference a Lee and Lachian today. Details are unclear but indicate a brief item about a titled figure and a dated action in London.
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