Natives Fond of Home Life
A two year survey of 11,232 urban American homes shows most families stay close to home for recreation with autos common but used for local trips. Radio lags behind phonographs and pianos, and homes rely on electricity and gas. In Zanesville the study focused on representative urban life, noting home ownership, incomes, and consumer habits.
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New York
Bangor
San Bernardino
Calif
Zanesville
Ohio
Cloudbursts Do Heavy Damage in Pacific Northwest
Cloudbursts caused estimated damage of several hundred thousand dollars across Weston and Arlington Oregon and the Walla Walla valley Washington and Oregon. Water four feet high flowed through Weston and more than 20 000 acres of fall wheat were ruined by a severe hailstorm near Cottonwood Idaho Milton and Freewater Oregon. Much poultry and livestock were lost and residents escaped with warnings.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Blue Mountains
Weston
Arlington
Oregon
Walla Walla Valley
Cottonwood
Ida
Milton
Freewater
Ore
Chinese suffer heavy reverses in Kiangsu campaign
Shanghai dispatches report Chinese nationalists endure the heaviest reverses of the war at Suchonfu Kiangsu. Attacked by General Sun Chuan Feng and Shangtungese forces the nationalists evacuated Suchonfu after four days of fighting losing 80 000 men mostly killed and retreated eighty miles to Pengfu.
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London
Shanghai
Exchange
Suchonfu
Kiangsurovince
Sun Chuan Feng
Pengfu
Presbyterians Plan Bellevue Summer Conference July 14 17
Increased attendance is reported by southern Idaho Presbyterian churches for the Bellevue gathering. Twenty to twenty five youths may attend from one eastern church with all expenses paid. Rev A G Pearson leads arrangements and says delegates arrive July 14 for a seven day event along Wood River. A field meet with Methodist and Baptist groups includes a trophy. An eighteen piece orchestra and a professional song leader will accompany daily assembly periods. The faculty includes Dr J S Armentrout Dr William H Oxtoby Dr E T Allen Dr Walter M Irwin A B McCormick Miss Ruth Bernice Mead and Miss Frances Davis.
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Bellevue
Idaho
A. G. Pearson
Twin Falls
Shady Grove
Wood River
Wood River Valley
M. G. Montgomery
Parma
Synod of Idaho
J. 8. Armentrout
Philadelphia
William H. Oxtoby
San Francisco Theological Seminary
E. T. Allen
Whitman College
Walla Walla
Wash
Walter M. Irwin
Denver
A. B. McCormick
New York
Ruth Bernice Mead
Pocatello
Frances Davis
Salt Lake City
Actress Pola Negri Bitten by Poisonous Spider
Los Angeles June 29 The Ex aminer reports Pola Negri film star was bitten on the forehead by a poisonous spider while sleeping at her beach home. Doctors treated the wound and she suspended work, with swelling and burns from emergency methods lingering. Industries of Sweden now support one third of the population, up from one sixth fifty years ago.
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Los Angeles
Pola Negri
Miss Negri
Santa Monica
Mias Negri
Sweden
Touristor recounts cross country trip to Portland via Granger
Charles Lameroux and Ed Smith, Tribune employees, travel 5 539 miles with wife and step son through Iowa Chicago and Pittsburgh on the Lincoln highway. They report detours bad roads rain and traffic officers in Chicago and note Lindbergh receptions and visits to major leagues games. Includes mention of Ben Carothers Taxi Service and local contact.
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Charles Lameroux
Mr. Lameroux
Salt Lake City
Portland
Granger
Pocatello
Ed Smith
Washington
New York
Lameroux
Mr. Smith
Tribune
Lincoln
Iowa
Dubuque
Chicago
Idaho
Wyoming
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Altoona
Journeymen travelogue details a long newspaper crew’s cross country trip
Mr Lameroux notes forty janitors keeping the building spotless. A Pittsburgh advertiser holds a large daily space. The travelers face nine foot floods on the Kansas river and mud en route on the National highway. They tour Colorado Springs and the Garden of the Gods and Pike’s Peak literature push. The Oregon Trail route through Idaho is praised for good road. They return home to resume publishing their daily paper.
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Kansas
Colorado Springs
Printers’ Union
Garden of the Gods
Pike's Peak
Lamerouz
Oregon Trail
Idaho
Wyoming
Photographer Gandara Held on Neutrality Charge in Arizona
In Tuscan Ariz on June 29 AP reports Jose Gandara an El Paso photographer charged with violating U.S. neutrality laws is jailed in Pima county under a $5,000 bond he cannot post. No date is set for his preliminary hearing. Norway's new labor court has already settled several wage disputes.
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Tuscan
Ariz
Jose Gandara
el Paso
United States
Pima County
Norway
New Labor Court
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Grocers
Clorox
J. J. Scott Nerve Specialist
Oliver Motel
Presbyterians
Pocatello Party
St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Press
Ben Carothers
Peterson
Peterson Planing and Fixture Co
Kaynee
Oxford
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