Storm Across Ontario Leaves Widespread Damage
GREAT DAMAGE DONE BY WIND, HAIL STORMS. Ontario storms over the weekend ruin crops and damage buildings. Hail battered half of the oat crop, damaged corn and destroyed apples, with lightning striking multiple structures and starting fires. Numerous motor accidents reported as drivers left ditches. In Philadelphia lightning struck a refinery tank and a man, with many buildings damaged.
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Toronto
Ontario
Laskey
Ughning
Philadelphia
Atlantic Refining Company
Graf Zeppelin Ready to Sail Tuesday Night
Graf Zeppelin readies to depart from Friedrichshafen at 9 p.m. tomorrow on the Tokyo stage of the world flight. Commander Otto Eckener says weather may delay but the craft is in perfect order for the round the world journey. Passengers hold all necessary permits and visas.
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Priedrichshafen
Otto Eckener
Dr. Eckener
Woman Killed as Train Hits Auto In Los Angeles
A collision between a loaded 4% Pacific Electric train inbound from Venice and a car killed Rosella Zink of Los Angeles and injured five others. The wrecked auto was dragged 150 feet along the right of way as the excursion train carried victims from the scene.
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Los Angeles
Gal
Pacific Electric
Venice
Rosella Zink
Plane Crash Kills Three Near Colvis New Mexico
Colvis New Mexico Aug 12 Thomas E Scully manager of Transcontinental Transport Airport aged 32 Phillip Berry aged 29 and Lieut C L Stephens racing pilot were instantly killed yesterday when their Mane piloted by Stephens crashed near here
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Colvis
New Mexico
Thomas E. Scully
Phillip Berry
Lieut. C. L. Stephens
Stephens
Fireworks predicted as Mrs McCormick starts 1930 Senate bid
Chicago August 12 Two rival Republicans Ruth Hanna McCormick and Charles Deneen prepare for a bitter 1930 Senate nomination battle. McCormick would be the first woman candidate. Deneen returns from retirement to challenge, backed by Thompson and Len Small factions. Party splits widen across Cook and downstate Illinois.
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Walter T. Brown
A. P
Chicago
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Congress
Charles 8. Deneen
Illinois
McCormick
Mark Hanna
Cook County
Deneen
Thompson
Avery
Brundage
Len
Em Merson
Otis PF
Glenn
Oscar E Carlstrom
Emerson
Guards Placed Over Girl After Alleged Pantages Attack
Eunice Pringle, 17, alleges she was attacked by theatrical magnate Alexander Pantages in his Los Angeles offices. Guards are installed between Pringle and potential threats after authorities detained Pantages on an open charge and later set bail at 45 000. Three material witnesses in the building receive protection following threats that Eunice would be harmed if she remained in the city. The threats reportedly came by telephone as Pringle’s father Dr Lewis Pringle reported the claims that his daughter talked too much.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Eunice Pringle
Alexander Pantages
Lewis Pringle
Pringle
Pantages
Thirteen Killed as Sunshine Special Hits Auto
In Dallas on August 12, the Sunshine Special train struck a truck, killing eleven outright and two later in hospital. Fourteen remain injured, including two broken legs. The dead include Ivy Badgett and multiple Badgett children, and the Henry family among others in a single family involved.
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Dallas
Tex
Sunshine Special
Ivy Badgett
Vera
Eva Badgett
Emma Badgett
Texas Badgett
Birdie Badgett
Jessie Badgett
Mary Badgett
Keystone State Second In Number Of Tickers
Philadelphia reports Pennsylvania ranks second to New York in stock and bond tickers. More than 500 stock tickers and 28 bond tickers operate in the state based on exchange records. Nationwide there are about 8,000 stock tickers, with 4,560 in New York.
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Philadelphia
America
Pennsylvania
New York
Illinois
New Jersey
California
Massachusetts
Ohio
Michigan
Mississippi
Five Texas lawmakers still in university at UT Austin
Tex August 12 five University of Texas students serve in the Texas House of Representatives adding a new angle to earning while learning. Dewey Young, a senior law student, has spent eight years alternating roll calls between the classroom and the Capitol. J R Long of Wichita Falls, a sophomore, uses five dollars daily pay to fund his education after being chosen on a collegiate platform of no excuses. Thurman Adkins Roger H Thurman and H C Mosely complete the youthful trio and are law school students.
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Austin. Tex
University of Texas
Texas House of Representatives
Dewey Young
Young
J. R. Long
Wichita Falls
Henry Ford Aids After Boston Bus Crash in Sudbury
Aug 13 Sudbury Massachusetts reports a Boston bound bus and three cars colliding on the Henry Ford highway near his estate. One man died, three injured seriously, and Henry Ford came to aid victims. Captain Roy Darkhume of the National Guard Medical Unit is named among the dead.
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Sudbury
Mass
Boston
Henry Ford
Roy Darkhume
National Guard
Ammonia blast kills three men at Phoenix Dairy
In Houston on August 12 a major ammonia explosion at the Phoenix Dairy left three men dead Chester Hilton engineer A Robinson electrician and Robert Williams workman all from Houston. Hilton was pulled from a brine cooler pit after the blast while Robinson was blown through an insulated wall as rescuers suffered exposure to deadly gases during the recovery.
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Houston
Texas
Phoenix
Chester Hilton
A. Robinson
Robert ©. Williams
Hilton
Robinson
Five held in alleged attack on 11 year old girl
Los Angeles police arrested Anita Alvarado 26 Henry Dapper 22 Lewis Burton 22 Robert Warner 20 and Carl Bright 23 all of Los Angeles on assault charges in a case involving Ruth Manske 11 who said she was abducted from her street and attacked after being dragged to an auto and to an isolated area. Alvarado was seized near the scene when his coat tied the case together.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Anita Alvarado
Henry Dapper
Lewis Burton
Robert Warner
Carl Bright
Ruth Manske
Miss Manske
Alvarado
Six of wedding party burned in crash near Sacramento
Sacramento city area reports a wedding party from a nearby town lost six members when their car collided with another, overturned, and caught fire. Two other Chinese travelers were badly injured, one possibly fatally, as the wreck burned.
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Sacramento
Cal
Alig
U S to be charted for air navigation
The United States will be charted for aerial navigation with 89 sections covering four degrees of longitude and three degrees of latitude. The initial Detroit Sheet will cover parts of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, while the Coast Survey and Department of Commerce plan to create strip maps for over 50 commercial airways.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce Geodetic and Coast Survey
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Detroit
Equalization Board Meets Tuesday at City Hall
The annual session of the Board of Equalization of the City Council will open at 2 pm Tuesday in Council Chambers. Taxpayers may appear to raise questions on current assessments. The Board will meet every afternoon for five days as the 1929 tax tolls are prepared by City Clerk Timor Shepard. Visitors include Miss Susan Yates and Miss Ruth Chase from Albany, Oregon, traveling to Windham and planning further trips aboard the Dorothy Alexander and the Princess Louie. Tommy Judson, son of the mayor, also visits at the Yates home in Windham.
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Board of Equalization of the City Councl
Timr, Shepird
Windham
Susan Yates
David W. Yates
Mire Ruth Chase
Albany
Oregon
Dorothy Alexander
America
Juneau
Louie
Tommy Judson
TB. Judson
D. W. Yates
Wiheettsaae
Missing airmen found near Lisbon plan New York flight
Three Bwiks aviators missing for three days were located in Lisbon caressing their airplane as they prepared to depart for New York. They flew from Cazaux France and had traveled via Lebourges Meld and Zurich before reaching Lisbon. Air officials had feared they were lost at sea during a transatlantic attempt led by pilot Oscar Daoser, backer Kurt Lueseker, and mechanic Alfred Tschopp.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Bwiks
New York
Cazaux
France
Lebourges
Meld
Zurich
Switzerland
Atlantic
Oscar Daoser
Pijot
Kurt Lueseker
Backer
Alfred ‘Tschopp
Marl Earn
Tremors Rattle Eastern States as Church Walls Fall
A morning series of earthquakes shook portions of five Eastern States and one Canadian province. Shocks reached Springfield Mass to Toronto with damage centered in Western New York. Utica reports church walls collapsed and chimneys toppled, waking sleepers and damaging buildings.
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New York
Springfield
Mass
Ashtabula
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Toronto
Utica
Duke Schiller Among Missing in Hudson Bay Search
Toronto reports Charles Duke Beciller missing for two weeks after a takeoff with two companions along the Hudson Bay northwest shore. A search by plane found no trace. a second plane will be dispatched. Schiller rose to prominence in 1927 with a Windsor to Windsor flight plan that failed after three false starts.
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Toronto
Charles
Duke" Beciller
Hudson Bay
Dia~patehed
Schiller
Windsor
Ontario
England
Phil Wood
Autograph Hunters Foiled By Hoover Regime
Aug 12 dispatches report autograph seekers for notary commissions thwarted by President Hoover. He confines signatures to one incidence per list, limiting annual issuances to DC residents, echoing Washington precedents.
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Hoover
Washington
George Washington
District of Columbia
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