Delegates Recall Kiwanis International Trip Across North America
Geo W Kirk and party describe a 3767 mile 18 day journey from Sikeston to Boston for Kiwanis meetings. They toured Ford plants, Niagara Falls, Ottawa and Montreal, then New York landmarks and Washington DC monuments before returning home noting crop droughts and scant private construction along the route.
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Canada
Boston
Mass
Geo. W Kirk
Kirk
L. M. Standley
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Warrenton
Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Charlottsville
University of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
Washington
Winston Salem
N.C
Ashville
Cherokee Indian Reservation and National Forest
Knoxville
Tenn
U. S
Hopkinsville
Paducah
Cairo
Home
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Massachusetts
North Carolina
United States
Sikeston
Kentucky flood toll nears hundred mark
Searchers scoured silt and debris for bodies in eastern Kentucky after a mountain cloudburst flood that killed about 50 and left more than 50 missing. In Breathitt county losses reached $1 million as floodwaters up to 20 feet swept through communities with no warning. Mountain Bible Institute buildings collapsed while nine students remain missing.
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Kentucky
Morehead
Breathitt County
Mountain Bible Institute
Methodist
Six Million Dollar Loan For Surplus Butter
The Commodity Credit Corporation will lend six million dollars to the Dairy Products Marketing Association in Chicago for buying price depressed butter during the market season starting July 4. The association, a cooperative of dairy producers, will resell the butter to the government for relief distribution.
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The
Commodity Credit Corporation
Dairy Products Marketing Association
Bloomfield Man Held for Chicken Stealing
Richard A. Hankins of near Bloomfield was arrested yesterday at New Madrid by State Highway Patrol Sergeant Melvin Dace on a charge of stealing chickens. He was turned over to Trooper Wade Shankle and placed in the Stoddard county jail at Bloomfield. Meanwhile Mrs. J. H. Yount, visiting St. Louis, will return to her country home Sunday. her son J. H. Yount, Jr. will accompany her to the city Saturday.
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Ford
Greenwich Village
Detroi
Detroit River Unne
Niagra Falls
Ontario
Lake Ene
Niagara
Tander the Falls
Niagara-on-the“lake
Lake Ontario
Toronto
Ottawa
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
St Lawrence River
Plains of Abraham
Wolf
Standley
U.S. A
Maine
United States
Old City
Boston
Bunker Hill
Farnell Hall
Harvard University
Plymouth
Bass
Plymouth Rock
Providence
R. L
New Haven
Conn
New York City
New York
Richard A. Hankins
Bloomfield
New Madrid
Melvin Dace
State Highway Patrol
Hankins
Wade Shankle
Dexter
Stoddard
J. H. Yount
St. Louis
J. H. Yount, Jr
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Mr. Kirk
Sticheston
Taim
Detroit
Mich
Cairobridge
Vincennes
Ind
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
Rockefeller Center
Empire State Building
Chrysler Building
Upper
Lower Manhattan Island
Grant
St. Johns
Hudson River
Lincoln Tunnel
New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Continental Congress
Baltimore
Annapolis
U. S. Naval Academy
Washington, D. C
Washington Monument
Capital
Sikeston Bull Service
Jersey
Guernsey
Holstein—U. Mo
Aggie Sultan Union
Hereford
Domino Blanchard III
Shorthorn Durham
Overbrooks
E. J. Keith and
P. H. Buchholz
PHONE
Sikeston, MO
HivEe
Red Cross
Sre
Elery Zimmermen
Robert King
Poplar Bluff
Merlin Barnes
John and
Charles
New Orleans
Clint H. Denman
Herald
Dempster’s
F. L. Gross
Lyman Gross
Nettie Gross
Benton
Said County
Sidwell, Jeweler
Center St
Scott County Abstract Company
Benton, Harris D. Borie
Charlies Bellamy
National Hotel
Flat River
M. CG. Gresham
East Acres
Powell’s Insurance Agency
Frank Neal
Oran, Mo
Keith Building
E. J. Keith
N. Handy Street
Laura Chaney Place
J. C. Young
Jonesboro, Arkansas
ATORS
Dempster Furniture & Undertaking Co
Front Street
Sikeston, Missouri
Aina Lines
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