Storm Hilda Devastates Tampico and Surrounding Areas
Hurricane Hilda struck Tampico Gulf of Mexico with 12 dead and 350 injured as 80 percent of the city’s 110 000 residents faced damage. Water services returned but power and communications remained out. Governor Teran requested aid and helicopters from Texas to assist rescue efforts.
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Mexico City
Tampico
Gulf of Mexico
Hilda
Mexico
Texas
Horacio Teran
Pertredie
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
Teran
Washington
Gon
Allan Shivers
Texas Good Neighbor Commission
Mexcan
Cuidad Madero
Altamira
Teras
Raffled aftermath of tropical storms hits Tampico region
The article reports heavy rains from tropical storms Gladys and Hilda washing out highways and two rail routes into Tampico and swelling the Panuco River floodplain. Refugees flood into the port city while Tuxpan experiences rain and floods, Vera Cruz feels no storm impact, and port activities continue at Ft Hamilton after Army service.
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Tampico
Hilda
Gladys
Panuco
Tuxpan
Vera Cruz
Local residents hospitalized and discharged from armed forces
Whitehall Fenwick Vanderwerken of Williams street is confined to Glens Falls Hospital. Mrs Charles Dockum of Granville Whitehall road underwent an operation Monday. Ronald R Burns, son of Mr and Mrs William Burns of Potter street, was honorably discharged from the armed forces.
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Fenwick Vanderwerken
Williams Street
Glens Falls Hospital
Charles Dockum
Granville-Whitehall Road
Ronald R- Burns
William Burns
Potter Street
Montreal Golf Founded on Organized Basis in 1873
The passage notes that golf began in Canada on an organized basis with the founding of the Royal Montreal Golf Club in 1873, marking the start of formal Canadian golf.
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Montreal
Canada
Royal Montreal
Two American Missionaries Reach Freedom From China
Two Presbyterian missionaries Sarah Perkins and Dorothy Middleton were released from a Chinese jail after 44 years, crossing the border with Red Cross relief on September 11. They taught in leper colonies and had been among the first Americans listed for release under Geneva talks.
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Hong Kong
China
Sarah Perkins
New York City
Dorothy Middleton
Cicero
Dilmas T. Kanady
Houston
Tex
Shanghai
Reds
Peiping
Geneva
Emma Angelina Barry
Robert Howard Parker
Philadelphia
Howard Ricks
Japan
Ricks
Eve Stella Dugay
Theresa
New York
Presbyterian
Miss Perkins
Canton
Grotto Delegates Attend Session From Iran and Troy
A large delegation from Iran Grotto Patrol accompanied by MOVPER of Troy attended the Empire State Grotto Assn session in Hamilton Ontario for its 29th annual meeting. The 25 member Iran unit received an honorable mention in the Grills under Capt. J. Shelly Hamm and President Robert J. Tritchie. Altos R. Holmes led the Troy group as monarch with others active in the conclave.
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Iran
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A. E. Soden & CO. Fine Furniture
By Jo Fischer
Ft. Hamilton
Brooklyn
Ft. Tilden
Providence College
George Bellow
Stamford
Albert Chadwick
Poultney Street
Shirley Ann Noonan
Broadway
John Fenton
Chittendon
Guy Noonan
Whitehall
St. Joseph's Infant Home
Troy
Ronald Jennett
England
A.lc
Ronald Jennette
Idlewild International Airport
Jennette
Alva Jennette
Sth Avenue
Air Force
Whitehall High School
John Hoffman
Arthur Hoffman
Mountain Street
David Lamphron
Lloyd Lamphron
Saunders Street
Herman Brown
Systera
Bey Steel Office
Mann’s
Fulton St
Springdale
Moree
Spring Air Mattress Co
PROME
Chinese Free Two Women
Arthur J. Atk
Archibeld W
River ST
Ndasios
Sports
Uiizal
Ene
Hendrick Hudson Garage
Ray Kranson
Stella Cole
Troy Theatre
Upstate, N.Y
Buffalo Harbor
St. Lawrence Seaway
Great Lakes
East
Upstate
Hudson River
Niagara Frontier
Canadas
Earle J. Machold
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
Syracuse
N. Y
New York State Thruway
Niagara Mohawk System
Niagara
Cor Raverins Mevonaes
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