Floods and Wind Ravage Illinois Indiana and Midwest
Excessive rains and winds bring the worst flood menace in years across Illinois and Indiana. Indiana reports three dead as streams flood streets and force evacuations. A Tulsa tornado kills five and injures 20 plus heavy property loss. Xenia Ohio reports fatalities and multiple houses flattened with damage around 75 000 dollars.
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United Press
Illinois
Indiana
Tulsa
Oklo
Xenia
Ohio
Concert in Park Ends Music Week Final Band Performance
Director Milburn McKay announces a Central Park high school band concert at 8 PM by 75 musicians including 15 extras from the 60 piece contest band. Favorable weather and the large program should draw a large crowd to close the music week.
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Milburn McKay
Central Park
New Colonial Wall Chore Highlights Gala Night at Chenette High
The program features America March and Down v Myddleton Suite as Chenette High School presents a gala night. Beethoven novelty pieces and the Loyalty Song underscore a diverse concert including Don Quixote and Minuet in G.
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America
Minuet
Chenette
Carter Recital and Band Concert Close Music Week
Washington notes conclude National Music Week with Carter Recital at Mrs Harve Carter’s at four this afternoon and a band concert tonight. An Anderson pupil recital, postponed due to Mrs J H Hull’s death, moves to next Saturday afternoon.
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Grateful Fry
Washington
Music Department
Carter
Harve Carter
A. Anderson
Eicher Aide James France Plans Early Start to Capital
James France of Tipton private secretary to Congressman Er. C. Eicher spent a brief visit here yesterday. He will start early in the week from Tipton for Washington and arranged for Jack Wilson of Washington to accompany him east in his car.
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James France
Tipton
Er. C. Eicher
Washington
Jack Wilson
Game Commission to install quail pheasant incubation units
The Pennsylvania Game Commission plans to set up incubators and brooding gear at the Fisher State Game Farm to support quail and ring necked pheasants. This effort aims to bolster game bird propagation and regional populations.
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Harrisburg
The
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Fisher State Game Farm
Washington Band To March To Minnesota For Anniversary
The 25 piece Washington Concert band will travel by car to Eitzen Minnesota for Rev F C Klein’s 25th anniversary as pastor at St Luke's Evangelical Church. They will play at a morning church service and an informal afternoon program after a 200 mile drive starting Sunday at 4 30 am. The trip honors a long friendship between Rev Klein and the band.
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Carl W. Klein
St. Paul's Evangelical Church
Eitzen
Minn
F. C. Klein
St. Luke's Evangelical Church
Washington
L. A. Jones
C. J. Jungbluth
Dee Lee
Harold Putnam
Roger Sherman
Wise Long
Claire Dewey
Mr. Klein
Howard Hays
Jungbluth
Grant Humble
Dewey
Klein
Carl Koch
St. Paul
Theological Seminary
St. Louis
Minnesota
Towa Line
Waukon
Mississippi River
Towa
Dutch Creek
Oklahoma Weather Brings Cowboys to Town
A lively Oklahoma sentiment notes spring arriving and a shift toward horses as a sign of returning sanity. The speaker reports rumors that President Roosevelt will appoint an oil czar, with Rockefeller and Brisbane moving north from Florida signaling notable industry attention.
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Chelsa
Oklahoma
Mr. Roosevelt
Washington
Rockefeller
Brisbane
Florida
Patriotic groups plan school visits before Memorial Day
Committees from the Woman's Relief Corps Daughters of the American Revolution Daughters of Union Veterans Legion Auxiliary and Grand Army will visit Washington city schools this week for pre Memorial Day assemblies. Sites include Washington High Wallace St James Lincoln Heights Centennial with varied speakers each day.
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Washington
Woman's Relief Corps
Daughters of the American Revolution
Daughters of Union Veterans
The
Legion Auxiliary
Grand Army
Pr. J. C. Rolce
A. J. Dawson
Frank Kurtz
C. W McLaughlin
Clifford Thorne
Orville Elder
Julia Cavender
M. EK. Dicken
Besse Conger
A. Anderson
A. E. Baldrige
M. Heights School
J. M. Embree
Charlie Brown
Frank Broadgate
J. B. Gardner
Will Dupuis
Belle Rice
Centennial School
J. M. Thompson
Edith Miller
Ed Morrison
J. C. Boice
Elizabeth Fisher
Rock Mining For County Road Surfacing Near Grace Hill
About ninety Washington county men mine limestone rock on the R. C. Brinning farm near Grace Hill for county road use. Funds from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation provide employment through May and June, with crushing to come later and machinery not yet arranged.
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Washington County
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
R. C. Brinning
Grace Hill
Dublin Highway
Hog prices reach five dollars a hundred at Chicago stockyards
Hogs sold at five dollars per hundred pounds at the Chicago union stock yards for the first time since last August, with prices rising to 4.90 to 5.00. Cattle also hit a new high for the year, as the market showed a broad advance across the midweek gains. In Iowa the top price climbed to 4.50, the highest since last August.
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Chicago
Union
Middle West
Iowa
Bond Fixed for Rioting Farmers at Le Mars
Three farmers accused in the assault on Judge C. C. Bradley were arraigned. Martin Rosbert and Richard Popken waived preliminary hearing and requested time to plead to assault and conspiracy to assault, held on 5000 dollar bonds. John Sokolsky faced conspiracy charge with bond set at 2000 dollars. In Denison, ten men facing foreclosure sale riot charges remained jailed awaiting bonds.
County considers new rock surfacing for roads
The board of supervisors contemplates using higher quality crushed rock for maintenance of rock roads and new surfacing on Riverside Road. A three mile section on the Washington River side road was contracted last year but not finished and may be started later, with the road already bridged and graded.
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Riverside
Board of Supervisors
Washington Riverside
Washington Veteran Offered Air Trip to Wyoming for Park Dedication
J M Thompson of Washington 87 is believed last surviving pony express rider. United Air Lines invited him to attend the June 25 1933 dedication of Wyoming’s Old Fort Bridger Historical Park and cover all expenses. If unable to go he may instead fly Iowa City to Chicago for the Century of Progress.
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Washington
Wyoming
J. M. Thompson
United Air Lines
Old Fort Bridger
Wyo
Thompson
Iowa City
Chicago
Boice
Boeing Air Transport Company
James M. Thompson
Fort Bridger
Mr. Thompson
Tosted Air Lines
Adrian Reynolds
Rock Springs
Altho
Stockton
California
William Campbell
Omaha
North Platte
Cheyenne
Salt Lake
Elko
Reno
Sacramento
Oregon
Eleventh
Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
Ft. Leavenworth
Kans
Colorado
Dakota Territory
G. A. R. Post
Exhibit Styles At School Play
High school home economics pupils will model modern and old-fashioned styles in a 4 pm play at the high school auditorium on Tuesday afternoon May 23. The public may attend without charge and about fifty girls will model clothing they made.
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High School
Reno Calls Off Holiday Dairy Strike Turned Delayed 30 Days
The farmer strike was postponed for at least thirty days by Reno and other leaders, while northern Illinois dairymen and Wisconsin milk producers joined a separate strike. Mass meeting at Woodstock with 4009 attendees backed peaceful persuasion at Crystal Lake and Appleton blockades. Reno said they respect the president and will meet in Des Moines to assess the new farm aid law and decide on further action.
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Chicago
U.P
Northern Illinois
Wisconsin
Laka
McHenry
Boone Counties
Woodstock
Appleton
Wis
Bowman Company
Crystal Lake
Milo Reno
Association
Roosevelt
Des Moines
Placer Mining School Offered by Cosmopolitan Club
Great Falls Montana hosts a spring placer mining school under the Cosmopolitan club. A similar course drew several hundred students last year and plans include bringing an instructor from the Montana School of Mines.
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Great Falls
Mont.- PR
Montana School of Mines
Ingham Funeral Held in Brighton for Mrs Baxter Ingham
Funeral services were held at the late home for Mrs Baxter Ingham 88 who died Thursday night. Rev Goltry led the Methodist service with burial in Brighton cemetery. She leaves husband Baxter Ingham in frail health, a sister Mrs Milton Sweet of Washington an adopted daughter Mrs Cecil Mortimore and two grandchildren Arthur Eugene Mortimore and Shirley Anne Mortimore. Born January 4 1845 in Glasgow Iowa she moved to Brighton in 1877 and married Baxter Ingham November 23 1887.
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Brighton
Baxter Ingham
Mr. Goltry
Methodist Church
Ingham
Milton Sweet
Washington
Cecil Mortimore
Arthur Eugene Mortimore
Shirley Anne Mortimore
Margaret Elizabeth Kirkpatricks
Glasgow
Iowa
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Satorek
Eicher
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U. S
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Capital
Seth Waggoner
World’s Fair Service Bureau
Lindys
Charles A. Lindbergh
Newark
N. J
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Gaston B. Means
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