Utah News Highlights From The State Fair To Local Incidents
Major Grant endorses General Otis in the Philippines campaign. Plans for four state university buildings advance. Utah apples praised as superior in quality. Utah & Pacific extends to the Utah line. A fatal lye ingestion by a daughter of Alfred Bates is noted. A cloudburst at Lemon damages crops and bridges. Gunnison to build a city bathhouse for 4008 dollars by November 20. Provo enumerators report 2172 children, 1004 boys and 1070 girls. Cattle movements from Oregon valued at 820,000 head to Salt Lake. Iceland Day observed by 600 Icelanders with banquet. Veterans camp announced at Provo. Juror fees questioned for audit. Copper wire theft from Salt Lake streetcar. Legal cases cover murder charges and settlements. Union Pacific land sales include large acre transfers. Madden estate dispute and mail-related accident fatality reported. Typhoid death of Lt. Richard If Iaiph en route from the Philippines. born in Cornwall, 1879.
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Utah
Utah & Paciio
Alfred Fates
American Pork
Amell
Gunnison
Haa Tet
Provo
Dixie
Balt Lake
Oregon
Sait Lite
Iceland
Spanish Lorle
Wack Hawk Veterana
Provo Inko
Andtor Richards
Witnena
Ome Mindtounta Regently
Salt Lala City Street Railway Company
Potea
Whig
Salt Lake City
Todaisie
Thomas Madden
Madden
Robert Cadley
Tifa
Texas
Hia
Jlo Jims
Richard If Iaiph
Philippines
Utah Battery
Omeka
Cornwall
England
Tintle
West Indian Winds Leave Toll Buildings Wiped Inland
San Juan de Porto Rico Aug 12 A hurricane swept the south coast Tuesday morning and moved northwest with no abatement. Widespread damage hit Band Woolanda and Ponce, destroying homes and bridges. Port facilities suffered, with 500000 in property damage and stores valued at 830000 lost. Many towns reported ruined buildings, casualties, and missing persons as United States forces responded and relief efforts began.
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San Juan de Porto Rico
Pine Howe
Ponce
United States
Solfura
Catuna
Standard Git Company
Brynton
Curollad
Cuguna
Willem Hittricon
Mayaguesa
Snan Juan
Sslogle
Montserrat Devastated by Hurricanes in Atlantic Reach
The Caribbean island of Montserrat was nearly wiped out by a hurricane that struck Monday and Tuesday. Churches, estates, and villages lay destroyed with about 100 people killed. 21 at Ta Dolute and Mtro, 102 at Titet Chin and Count Loula. Cuppon and Lamcotin were completely ruined, and A t Toula do Mare Galaote suffered severe damage. In the British Antilles St Thomas faced light damage and Antigua reported deaths. widespread homelessness followed. In Vieques and the Virgin Islands destruction was extensive with thirty killed on St Croix and residents overwhelmed by wreckage. Chinese forces drowned amid reports of mass robbers and casualties as ships carried news of the disaster.
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New York
Ang
Menger
Glande
Monteerrat
Noirs
Ta Dolute O Mtro
Taland
Quadetoupe
Titet Chin
Lt Croix
Virgie Islands
Wanchlefly
A Felon's Love Chapter Xiil
Luke confronts suspicions about his missing brother and a rumored letter to Tom Baynes. Mr Hall orders telegrams to detain Baynes while Luke investigates Baynes’ hut, haunted by drink and past mistakes as he wrestles with fear, memory, and a possible crime.
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Sullivans Door
William Luke
Sam
Luke
Tom Baynes
Redmount
Tom Dayner
Wr Hall
Bam Jones
Baynes
Lkely
Mount Gippa
Sullivans
Mr Fall
Vr Hall
Mr Trall
Sydney
Tia
Wall
Adelaide
Melbourne
Wiliam Tuke
Mra Baynes
Flatton
Hailstorm devastates wide ND wheat crops in 1942
North Dakota reports a severe hailstorm around August 1942 wiping out about two million bushels of wheat. The storm damaged 250000 acres along a fifteen mile swath from Arquaville to Gardiner and Case to Trail, with forest areas 5 to 15 times wider south to north, leaving crops largely destroyed and losses estimated at 83 to 100 percent.
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Arquaville
Gardiner
Jo Case
Nelso
Trail
Lowala
Chapter XIV Scene in a Hut and a Hidden Waist-Belt
A narrator recalls a man’s drift into drinking, his dependence growing until it governs days and nights. In a hut Luke, waking from a heavy numbness, discovers a suspicious leather piece atop a rough bunk, not a snake, and examines it with a candle in hand.
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Luke
Social Pretenders and Ambitious Self Advertisers
A sharp pen portrait of social pretenders from London society. It recalls the harmless boasts of a letter writer who begins with Dear Duchess, a fawning courter who praises every passing carriage, a flatterer who labels peers as royalty, and simpering imitators who pursue late-deceased nobles. A tale of Mrs Somerset Cobbley and her bid for social ascent ends with a carriage full of observed bravado and envy.
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Ingland
Smith
Demted Titi and the Outburst at the Door
A brief exchange shows a stout man ejected from a scene as a caller notes a gentleman’s presence. The speaker claims no trouble occurred and asserts a ten cent item could buy more than a debtor’s dollar owed.
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Putpum
Naidur
Reubrook
Burt Mola
Union Pactile Land Department
John TF White
Salt Lake
Rummilt County
Forest N
Montzerrat
Killed
Lundrerdae
Murnelers
Moudrods
Coltlers
Waldias
Mr Llughes
Droyles
Siglona
Luk
Meng
Charles
Hlow
Bob Luke
Jongevica
Bob
Lill
Glalken
North Dakota
Lady Baltimore
Alry
Nereenage
Beattermngie
Tte
Amerterin
Somerset Cobbley
Bealette
Freo
Clas House
Ncnauchton & Nccaslin
Vernal
Ft. Duchesne
Mr. Browne
Ft. Duchesne, Vintah and
Ouray Agencies
Maria
Hocrrare
U & Aid
Uaa
Iran
Addrein
C.A
Patcar Otro
Washington
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