Freight Train Crash Kills 22 on School Bus
A Denver Rio Grande Western freight train hit a Jordan district high school bus in a sleet storm near Salt Lake City killing 22 people including the driver. More than 17 students were injured as survivors recalled the moment and authorities identified victims at Salt Lake General Hospital.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake General Hospital
R. J. Alexander
Jordan District High School
Midvale
F. H. Silcox
Jordan High School
Sarah Bergstrom
Here
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Sheriff Young
E. L. Reahmer
Young
Margie Groves
South Jordan
Mack Bateman
Mabel Smith
Mabel
Mack
Barn Fire Destroys Stock Barn and Damages Five Homes
Fire of undetermined origin caused over 3000 dollars in damage at the old Riley stock barn on 210 West Pettis street and severely damaged five nearby homes. Three East Sedalia firefighters suffered non serious heat burns while battling the blaze. Embers from the collapsing barn set multiple structures alight, with losses including the stock barn, a shed at Verla MacMiller's home, and several Cooper street residences.
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Riley
West Pettis Street
East Sedalia
Verla McMiller
North
Osage Avenue
Creston Clark
Lee May
Whitley Woodson
William Middleton
Joe Riley
Verla MacMiller
North Osage
Jane Jones
Cooper Street
Tom Petty
West Cooper
Irvin Gray
Ellen Fields
Missouri State Fair Schedule Announced for August
Jefferson City December 1 The 1939 Missouri State Fair will be held the week of August 19 announced by Jewell Mayes commissioner of Agriculture.
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Jefferson City
Jewell Mayes
Farmer Robbed of $4 778 Cash in St Charles
St Charles county farmer John Schmidt was robbed of 4778 dollars by two men, one an old acquaintance, who had stayed at his home over two weeks. After his family left for a movie, a gun was drawn, Schmidt was tied to a chair, and the money was taken. The pair had been pressuring him about an Oklahoma oil venture.
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ST. Charles
John Schmidt
St. Charles County
Schmidt
Miner dies thawing dynamite near Pittsburg
In Gross near Pittsburg Kansas a miner Mie Senkevech fifty died when a box of dynamite near his stove exploded while he warmed it in freezing weather. Three other occupants of the four room house escaped with bruises as the blast demolished the structure. John Mason, who works in the mine with Senkevech, was blown about fifty feet.
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Pittsburg
Kas
Mie Senkeveck
Gross
Leon Delamarde
Senekevech
John Mason
Missouri Pacific shops reopen with full force
The Missouri Pacific shops, shut since November 23, report all furloughed workers recalled. Many shopmen and their families used the Thanksgiving break to visit relatives during the week off.
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Missouri Pacific
Ford Ready to Welcome Oppressed Jews to U S A
Detroit December 1 Henry Ford says admitting Jews fleeing Nazi persecution under the quotas would boost American business. He spoke after meeting Rabbi Leo M Franklin in Dearborn. Ford rejects Nazi sympathy, calls the US a haven for the oppressed and notes Jewish workers at Ford plants show loyalty and ambition.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Leo M. Franklin
Temple Beth el
Adolph Hitler
Ford
Marriage License Issued for Harris and Wells
Jacob J. Harris of Clarksburg and Myrtle Wells of Joplin obtained a marriage license, formalizing their union. The couple plans to wed in the near future.
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Jacob J. Harris
Clarksburg
Myrtle Wells
Joplin
Large December Old Age Assistance Checks Drawn
The social security commission issued 74,434 old age assistance checks averaging $18.48 for December, boosting total December payments to $1,375,369. The 1937-38 biennium ended with a $3.76 million surplus, while 600 staff were laid off due to funding limits. Nine counties reached a $29 average payment, led by St Louis city at $21.27.
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Jefferson City
Social Security Commission
Commission
George S. Haworth
Federal Social Security Board
Missouri
Leloyd C. Stark
Barry
Greene
Jackson
Jasper
Lafayette
McDonald
Pettis
Vernon
St. Louis City
St. Francois
Boone
Buchanan
Butler
Cape Girardeau
Cole
Grundy
Livingston
Marion
Nodaway
Randolph
St. Louis County
Haworth
Registry system of the United States post office began in 1854
The article notes that the registry system of the U S post office started in 1854. It outlines the early adoption of a formal registration process for mail handling and address tracking.
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United States Post Office
Iceland Celebrates Sovereignty Without Military Force
Iceland marks 20 years of sovereignty as a nation with student processions to Jon Sigurdsson’s grave and speeches by officials led by Prime Minister Hermann Jonasson. The article notes the Althing founded in 930 A D and highlights Iceland’s long language, universal literacy, and high per capita foreign trade and fishing output.
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Rzejavik
Iceland
Jon Sigurdsson
Hermann Jonasson
Alting
America
Major Test for Labor Standards Act Awaits Supreme Court
Wage hour investigators sift 1800 complaints with about 450 showing real violations as the new federal labor standards act nears its first major constitutional test. Government lawyers anticipate injunctions criminal actions or civil suits over minimum wages and overtime in interstate commerce cases.
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Washington
Wagehour
Elmer F. Andrews
Supreme
Sedalia Kiwanis hears on armory needs and fund methods
Capt. E. J. Hansman spoke at the Sedalia Kiwanis noon meeting in Bothwell hotel outlining the needs and proposed methods to obtain a new national guard armory for Sedalia. I. H. Reed introduced the speaker and Rev. O. J. Rumpf presented the attendance gift to Barney Morriss.
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E. J. Hansman
Sedalia Kiwanis Club
Bothwell Hotel
National Guard
Sedalia
I. H. Reed
O. J. Rumpf
Barney Morriss
Kiwanians
Les D. Frolus
Kansas City
Christian Church
Rotary Club
Smith- Cotton
Don Faurot
Missouri U
Porter Robb
William Pettyjohn
Paul Christman
Tiger
Kiwanis
Weather Summary for November Reports Moisture and Snow Totals
The November weather page records moisture at 4.08 inches and snowfall at 3.2 inches. Maximum temperature reached 83 degrees on November 1 and minimum 10 degrees on November 27. There were twenty clear days seven cloudy days and three partly cloudy days.
Whittier Wins First in School Parade
Whittier school's float depicting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs earned first prize of 25 dollars in Sedalia’s Christmas parade opening shopping season. Mark Twain took second with a Snow King float. prizes were 15 dollars.
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Whittier
Whittier School
Sedalia
Mark Twain
Red Candle Lights Spark Sedalia Christmas Opening
Multicolored lights crown evergreen arches along Ohio avenue from Broadway to Main and on the surrounding streets for Sedalia’s Christmas season. Several downtown lights were transformed into large red candles while others wore evergreen branches to mark the holiday.
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Ohio Avenue
Broadway
Main Street
Sedalia
Sedalia Christmas Parade Floats Win Prizes and Delights
Floats from Washington Mark Twain Horace Mann Broadway Whittier and more dazzled Sedalia crowds in a Christmas parade. Prizes ranged from 5 to 25 dollars for enrollment and rural contest winners. Santa Claus rode a evergreen float while bands from Smith-Cotton and Lincoln High led the procession.
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Snow White
Mary
Washington School
Jefferson School
Pied Piper of
Hamlin
Horace Mann School
Broadway Grade
Houstonia School
Allen School
Oak Grove School
Sedalia
Chamber of Commerce
Herman Fischer
Smith-Cotton High School
Norma Read
Lincoln High School
C. C. Hubbard
Santa Claus
Hugo Spain
Santa
Mark Twain
Horace Mann
Broadway
The
Elves
Toy Shop
Whittier
Seven Dwarfs
King
Queen Smith-Cotton High School
Harold Barrick
Norma Jean Kahrs
Atwell Bohling
Queen
Helen Barnes
Jack Kries
Lawyers Will Hold City Meeting Friday in Sedalia
A district five Missouri Bar Institute gathers in Sedalia at 2 p m with over 100 attorneys from Jackson and surrounding counties. Lee Montgomery chairs the session. John T. Martin welcomes. program includes Trusty on Drawing Instructions Boatright on Chandler Act and Hook on The Trial with evening dinner at the Country Club.
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Missouri Bar Association
Sedalia
Court House
Law Institute
Country Club
Jackson County
Kansas City
Lafayette
Saline
Cass, Johnson, Pettis, Bates
Henry
St. Clair
Benton Counties
Lee Montgomery
John T. Martin
Sedalia Bar Association
Mr. Montgomery
Samuel L. Trusty
Chandler
William L. Boatright
Ingram D. Hook
Judicial Council of
Missouri
Wm. H. Becker
Columbia
Laurance A. Hyde
Missouri Supreme Court
Frank W. Hayes
Bandit Pair Still Being Sought in Missouri Search
In Excelsior Springs a large manhunt continues for Benny and Estelle Dickson public enemy pair No 1. Deputies and federal agents scoured roads and trails while a car similar to theirs was found but cleared as not belonging to the bandits. FBI warned they may move toward Minnesota as searches spread to western Iowa.
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Excelsior Springs
Benny
Estelle Dickson
South Dakota
Dickson
Minnesota
FBI
Des Moines
Iowa
Life term for doctor's slayer
In Winslow Arkansas Crawford circuit court jurors found Charles Paynen Jr guilty of first degree murder in the July 11 slaying of Dr. T. E. Gray. The jury recommended life imprisonment after the state sought the death penalty. Paynen admitted killing the physician with a rock after a ride and pleaded insanity. The all-farmer jury deliberated ten hours after three days of trial with conflicting sanity testimony.
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Winslow
Ark
Crawford
Charles Paynen, Jr
T. E. Gray
Young Payne
Proposals for New Congress Studied in Warm Springs
President Roosevelt shifts from vacation to outline a new congressional program with defense and relief outlays likely exceeding a billion dollars. Speaker Bankhead joins Hopkins and Bankhead for strategy talks as a broad policy slate emerges including tax changes, social security expansion, crop control, rail funding, and possible government reorganization.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Bankhead
Alabama
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
William C. Bullitt
France
White House
Miami
Fla
Bahamas
Hopkins
Washington
American Republics
Canada
Western Hemisphere
Defense
Congress
Pupil Saver credited to Premonition at Joplin School
Miss Dollie Board a veteran first grade teacher said providence warned her before the ceiling collapsed in a Joplin Missouri grade school room. She ordered 34 children out moments before tons of plaster and metal lath fell, sparing all the youngsters from injury.
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Joplin
Dollie Board
Providence
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Duane Parkinson
Dean Winward
Kenneth C. Peterson
B. H. Blazer
Boyd Larsen
Helen Young
Helen Lloyd
Harold Sanstrom
Louis Johnstrom
Blaine Page
Rae Miller
Rosa Larsen
Osage and
Pettis Streets
U. S
Ford Motor Company
Fritz Hailer
Hitler
Deaborn
Hansman
Armory
Let
Mary Ethel McGowan
Bob Wilmer
Vera Martin
Richard Erickson
Helen Carter
Oak Grove
Glover
Business and Professional Women’s Club
City Light and Traction Company
Esther Harris
Virginia Flower Hayes
Frank Wagner
Alpha Brown
American Legion
Robert Q. Henderson
Peter T. O’brien
M. D. Weathers
Arthur Brill
Stanton Hudson
Cecil Glenn
D. Harold Oliver
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