Saint Louis Welcomes Lindbergh Home With Roaring Parade
Saint Louis greeted Col. Charles A. Lindbergh with a citywide parade and cheering crowds estimated at 400000 as he returned from the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris aboard the Spirit of St. Louis. The hero rode with his mother and hosts, meeting officials and a massive crowd along a 20 mile route ending at the Congress hotel.
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ST. Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Atlantic
Lindbergh
Congress Hotel
Harry H. Knight
Victor Miller
St Louis
Scottfield
London
Brussels
Bairds
Washington
Keith Molesworth Returns to Monmouth for Summer Work
Keith Molesworth arrived in Monmouth Illinois this morning to begin summer work. He has been visiting the town with his mother Mrs Ed Gray and his aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Wisie Long.
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Keith Molesworth
Monmouth
Ed Gray
Wisie Long
Navy commends officer who ordered Noa to fire on Nanking
Lieutenant Commander Roy Campbell Smith, executive officer of the destroyer Noa, faced a court martial threat or medal after ordering ships to fire on Nanking in March. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur officially commended him for timely action protecting lives and property, stating the department’s praise for the operation.
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Washington
Roy Campell Smith
Noa
Nanking
Secretary of Navy
Wilbur
Renny
B. FR. Staud
Coolidge Welcomed by Editors at Rapid City Visit
About 200 editors from the national editorial association arrived by train and car to Rapid City South Dakota to attend a Buffalo steak barbecue near the state game lodge and meet President Coolidge. The group traveled from Omaha after their convention and were greeted by townspeople amid Main Street flags. The president and Mrs. Coolidge planned a reception at the summer white house later, with Mrs. Coolidge knitting and the president enjoying recent fishing trips.
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Rapid City
S. D
National Editorial Association
Coolidge
Omaha
Main Street
Mr. Coolidge
Galena
State Lodge
Mrs. Coolidge
White House
Normal Weather Forecast For Week In Midwest
Weather outlook for June 20 to June 25 for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and the northern and central Great Plains. One of two shower periods, otherwise generally fair. Temperatures mostly normal or above.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Lissouri
Great Plains
Senator Fess States Coolidge Will Run For Third Term
Senator Simeon D. Fess уверt confidently stated at a banquet that President Calvin Coolidge would seek a third term. He asserted the ticket would be Coolidge and Dawes unless a major industrial shift occurs.
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Fess
Coolidge
Youngstown, CO
Simeon D. Fess
Calvin Coolidge
Tam Iin
Dawes
Boy Fatally Hurt In Seven Foot Fall In Cemetery
Fairfield Indiana June 18 a six year old named Junior Galiland was fatally hurt when the top of a monument at Evergreen Cemetery fell seven feet on him crushing the skull as he hit the ground other children racing back found him bleeding on the ground
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Fairfield
Junior Galiland
Evergre@ny
Johnson County Police Seize Large Liquor Haul
Iowa City authorities raid the home of George and Peter Dingleberry six miles north of town and confiscate several hundred gallons of mash and a forty gallon still in full operation. The Dingleberrys are jailed awaiting charges in the era's largest liquor haul in months.
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Iowa City
George Ofi
Peter Dingleberry
Here
Dingleberrys
Arms Limit Proposals Announced at Geneva Conference
Geneva June 18 The naval limitations conference opens Monday with the United States Great Britain Japan participating and France Italy observers. England proposes extending Washington limits and reducing gun power while submarines and destroyers face a 1000 ton cap. The American plan outlines a 5 5 8 auxiliary crafts ratio and keeps 10000 ton cruisers while opposing reductions in capital ship tonnage.
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Coolidge
Japan
Great Britain
United States
France
Italy
Hugh S. Gibson
Belgium
Gibson
Unite States
England
Washington
Lingh Gibson
United Press
Simiar
Britain
Pacific
Panama Canal
World’s tallest building planned by John A Larkin NY
John A Larkin of New York plans a 110 story structure, nearly doubling the Woolworths height and surpassing the Eiffel Tower by over 200 feet. The project includes seventy five elevators, numerous office suites, and land and construction cost totaling 25 million dollars. The news notes silk prices rising in Massachusetts due to drought and in the southern Mississippi valley due to food shortages.
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John A. Larkin
New York
Woolworth
Eiffel
Massachusetts
Mississippi Valley
Radio reception poor under new wavelength plan in Iowa
Francis St. Austell of the Iowa Radio Listeners League reports weak reception after the federal reallocation. He says three nights yielded nothing worth listening to and Friday headquarters received eighty complaints about Station WOC Davenport. He urged action and notes it may take months for stations to stabilize on proper wave lengths.
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Des Moines
Francis St. Austell
Iowa Radio Listeners League
St. Austell
Laune
Federal Radio Commission
Iowa
Sherfey extradition work ends with California return plan
Sheriff Denison resumes the return of Ralph Sherfey from California after a successful extradition in Los Angeles. Sherfey, once at Santa Ana custody, faced a Washington county forgery indictment and bonds jumped years ago in this county. The pair are expected back by mid next week with possible stopovers for rest and security.
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Charles M. Denison
California
Ralph Sherfey
Kalona
Washington County
Santa Ana
Calif
Sherfey
Mexico
Denison
Des Moines
A. E. Baldrige
Labor Federation Endorses Lowden for President
Cedar Rapids June 18 The Iowa state federation of labor endorsed Frank O Lowden of Illinois for the Republican nomination for president. The former governor was approved at the convention with a resolution praising him to deal justly with labor and agriculture. The body also backed a five day work week, endorsed the state parole board and condemned prison made goods.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
Iowa
Baby dies in auto crash near Tripoli
The one year old child of MP H. Kingsley was killed when the car carrying Mrs. Kingsley and Miss Ethel Reibhoff ran into a ditch near Tripoli in Vagle Grove Iowa. Mrs. Kingsley and Miss Reibhoff were injured but expected to recover.
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Vagle Grove
H. ©. Kingsley
Chang Declared Dictator of North China at Peking
Chang Tso Lin was inaugurated today as civil and military dictator of the north with headquarters at Peking and the tile Generalissimo. He met with John V. A. MacMurray and other diplomats at the foreign office in the presidential palace. The United States will continue de facto recognition of Chang's control in northern China, without recognizing a national government.
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Peking
Chang Tso-Lin
China
North
Presidential
Chang
John V. A. MacMurray
United States
Foreign Office
American Policy
Washington
Hankow
Nanking
Mayor Answers Question On Local Marriage Deception
Centerville mayor explains Edward E Harvey and Fama Helen Stephenson wed by Squire Patton on May 30 with witnesses Faith Stephenson and a man posing as Frank W Harvey, the groom’s father, who gave consent while the real father has not responded to the inquiry.
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J. W. Applegate
Frank W. Harvey
Centerville
Edward E. Harvey
Washington
Fama Helen Stephenson
Squire J. W. Patton
Faith Stephenson
Secretary of War Obeys Orders in Lindbergh Welcome
In St Louis on June 18 Secretary of War Dwight Davis joined the Lindbergh reception at Lambert Field. He slipped past guards to get a closer look at the silver monoplane and then retreated behind the roped enclosure as rookie guards shouted for him to move back.
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ST Louis
Dwight Davis
St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh
Lambert Field
Lindbergh
National
Davis
Pacific
Maitland
Albert F. Hegenberger
Billy Mitchel
Mitchell
Dayton
Ohio
Bolling Field
Hawaii
Wright Field
Fairfield
Davison
Little Falls Car Linked to Lindbergh Display in City
Tourists traveling the Jefferson highway toward Minnesota can view Little Falls where the battered 1917 Intage automobile once owned by Colonel Lindbergh sits on a concrete base at a downtown intersection under traffic signals. Painted signs include Good Boy Slim and Lindbergh First Place.
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Des Moines
Minnesota
Little Falls
Colonel Lindbergh
Slim
Lindbergh
Remodel Stairway at the Court House
Workmen tear out the old stairway to remodel the basement, building a wider gentler main staircase. The ground floor entrance is blocked today. use the main entrance for access to the main and second floors during the project.
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Court House
Two More Counties Plan Elections on Paved Road Project
Buena Vista county will vote on $900,000 in paying bonds to pave thirty miles of highway. Petitioners urged the supervisors to call the election. Also in Sidney Iowa voters circulate a petition for a $600,000 road bonds election amid optimism for 1,000 signatures.
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Storm Lake
Buena Vista County
Sidney
Chicago children seek summer homes in Washington
Miss Eva Mehling of Chicago arrived in Washington with twenty one Howell neighborhood house children for a summer away from city grime. Twelve were placed with Washington families, nine remain homeless and awaiting foster homes. Mrs. FE. EB. Greenfield shelters them temporarily while appeals go out for additional homes.
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Chicago
Eva Mehling
Washington
FE. EB. Greenfield
Howell
Miss Mehling
William Lisak
Martin Mimecek
Frank Kepiks
Andy Hubina
Eleanor Charle
Mary Turek
Tillie Kurtin
Blanche Cikanek
Irene Kiepika
Migs Mehling
Stevi Hebs
Roscoe Anderson
Eddie and
Thom Johnson
L. Stephens
Frances Strand
al Horsey
Mamie Mikulak
Ed McGee
Iowa City
Stella Nalipa
Dana Finch
Walter Nalipa
Arthur Helble
Davenport
Sylvia Rhames
Manford Wilcox
Ainsworth
Anna Puski
E. EB. Greenfield
Lillian Homa
A. J. Huber
Libbie Stopen
C. J. Karel
Lillian Vozas
Elmer Kolosick
Fliers Plan to Span the Pacific Next
In San Francisco six groups of aviators plan Pacific flights toward Hawaii the Philippines and Japan. Lieut Maitland and Lieut Hegenberger are the lead pair to attempt a Hawaii flight while Grace heads toward Honolulu aboard a freighter for test.
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Pacific
San Francisco
Atlantic
United States
Hawaii
Philippines
Japan
Lester Maitianga
Richard Pb. Grace
Maitland
Grace
Honolulu
Washington
Lindbergh
Lester J. Maitland
Lindbergh Shies at Car Gift in St Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh refused to accept an automobile offered by a St Louis dealer saying he doubts the gift and prefers buying what he wants only if he can pay for it. He noted the roadster matched his Spirit of St Louis plane colors. A detective guarding his home recounted the exchange.
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ST Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
St. Louis
Spirit of
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