Coolidge Tours Hot Springs Veterans Hospital Visit
President Coolidge and party arrived in Hot Springs South Dakota for a veteran’s hospital inspection. Crowds met him as he toured the facility and he planned to spend most of September on the rails continuing a westward campaign tour with stops in Wyoming Montana and Yellowstone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Hot Springs
S. D
Collidge
Veterans Hospital
Coolidge
Washington
West
White House
Sheridan
Wyo
Bullings
Livingston
Mont
Yellowstone National Park
Brookcogs
5. B
Vermont
Troubled Tail Monkey Weather Column
The narrator, a witty Tribune Weather Monkey, laments a broken tail foretelling bad weather. After a car nearly severs his tail on Hickory Street, he jokes that the city must endure a weather drought until conditions improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punkie
the Tribune Weather Monkey
Hickory Street
Haig advances near Ypres as German war aims are declared
Ten years ago this August 19 1917 Field Marshal Haig’s forces push northeast of Ypres claiming a 500 yard progress and snubbing the Somme front as well as the Ypres Poecapelle sector. In Rathenow Prussia General Von Liebert pledges no peace until Flanders coast a colonial empire and maritime bases are secured with plans for postwar work.
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Haig
Ypres
Somme Front
Ypres-Poecapelle
von Liebert
Rathenow
Prussia
Germany
Flanders
Landmark Damaged Wilkins Homestead Fire Displaces Families
A fire in Woodlawn damaged the Wilkins Homestead, a local landmark, forcing several African American families living there to flee. The incident disrupted the neighborhood and prompted emergency response as investigators looked into the cause.
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Woodlawn
Wilkins
Tribune Insurance
Falls Seven Stories and Lives to Tell It
Philadelphia August 18 Charles Crosby 32 a Gloucester New Jersey painter survived a seven story fall from the land title building while painting the exterior.He plummeted from the ninth to the second floor fracturing his skull and sustaining other injuries. Doctors at Jefferson Hospital gave scant hope for his recovery.
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Philadelphia
Charles Crosby
Gloucester
N. J
Land Title
Crosby
Jefferson Hospital
Better Service and More Tire Mileage
J. J. Retzer of the Warren Garage Firestone dealers in Warren Pa urges rotating tires to balance wear and extend life. He advises placing a new spare on the right rear for rest and switching other tires to even out stress, plus regular inspection, prompt repair, correct inflation, and tight valve caps to prevent leaks.
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J. J. Retzer
Warren
Firestone
Coal operators seek curfew to curb disorder at suspension event
In Punxsutawney on August 18 AU local coal operators request Sheriff F F Evans issue order prohibiting gatherings of more than three persons to prevent disorder arising from the bituminous suspension.
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Punxsutawney
F. F. Evans
Cool weather this summer not unusual says weather bureau
The Weather Bureau reports the current summer has been normal with unusually narrow temperature extremes through mid August. It notes cooling in some states but stresses variations and local frosts are common in a country as large as the United States.
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Thomas L. Stokes
United Press
Washington
United States Weather Bureau
St. Swithins
Bureau
United States
Pennsylvania
Weather Bureau
Michigan
New England
New York
Bertaud Delayed By Soggy Runway In Cross Atlantic Flight
Curtiss Field New York August 18 Fokker monoplane Old Glory will not depart for Rome for two or three days due to a soggy runway pilot Lloyd Bertaud said safety requires a dry start. Meanwhile in Gloucester New Jersey a cycling accident killed William Yerkes Jr 17 when his brother David fell from a bicycle crushed by a racing car at a local track.
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Curtiss Field
N. Y
U. P
Rome
Lloyd Bertaud
Esse
Gloucester
N. J
Wiliam
David Yerkes, Jr
William
Harry Coppings Show Promises Children’s Day Tomorrow
Carnival manager Harry Copping invites all attendees to become “kids” for a day with Kiddies pricing. Visitors can ride the ferris wheel merry go round whip sensational dangler and see Wax Figures minstrels Freaks and Princess Yvonne in the circus side show. Five cent admission to all.
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Harry Copping
Yvonne
Man Ground Under Train At Erie Depot
Erie August 18 Robert Robertson fifty of Erie was killed tonight when he was crushed beneath a freight train as it entered Union depot He was waiting for a Buffalo bound train and apparently stepped into the path of the approaching locomotive.
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Erie
U. P
Robert Robertson
Union Depot
Robertson
Buffalo
Warren Street Railway Schedule Details
Warren Street Railway schedule lists outbound and return runs to Sheffield and Warren with first cars at 6 50 am and 7 00 am on Sunday. Main line cars run every ten minutes from 6 06 am, North Warren and Conewango Avenue lines every 30 minutes, with Sunday start times at 6 22 am for Main Line, 8 00 am North Warren, and 3 00 am Conewango.
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Warren
Sheffield
Ows
Main Line
North Warren
Conenango Avenue
Conewango Avenue
Warren and Jamestown Street Railway Schedule
Daily schedule details the first cars from Warren to Russell at 6:00 am and from Russell to Warren at 6:20 am. Frequent trips begin 6:10 am with hourly runs to 9:00 pm, last car to Jamestown at 11:50 pm arriving Frewsburg at 12:15 am. Weekend service runs Saturday and Sunday.
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Warren
Frewsburg
Jamestown
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S. D. Veterans Hospital
Beindat
Pavania
Simmons
Loreen
Bayer’s Furniture Store
Edinger’s Electric Shop
Penna. Ave
UNI NY
Bertaud
The
Tribune
Harry Coppings
Oakland
Cal
Warren Street Railway Co
Merle Graham
W. E. Draheim
Penna. Ave. E
Hap
Ward-Rogers Insurance Co
Waid-Rogers CO
Warren Savings & Trust Co
Youngsville
Starbrick
Alvington
Bell
Sinuse
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