Funeral for Henry W Lighty Scheduled After Sudden Death
Henry W Lighty died suddenly at 8:30 Sunday while preparing for church at his home 1423 Williston Street. He was 62, born July 8 1863 in Naxtontown IL, married Ella Roby in 1860, survived by widow and daughter Mrs A G Kelly and several sisters. Funeral Monday at First Baptist Church with Rev Dr W Y OL Dorgan officiating, interment Elmwood Cemetery.
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Williston
Henry W. Lighty
Lighty
Ead
Deosased
Naxontown
Waterloo
Ella Roby
A. GC. Kelly
Linwood Avenue
Phoebe Akin
Melvina Fitzgerald
Laura Baum
St.Louis
First Hapfist Church
WY. OL. Dorgan
Elmwood Cemeery
Electric Plant Resumes Work After Haatland Disaster
Chicago moves to reopen the Westam Electric plant after a deadly incident. Casualty tallies show 3 identified dead, 2 unidentified dead, and 140 missing with most later accounted for as deceased. Flags remain at half mast as mourning ends.
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Chicago
Westam Electric Company
Haatland
Police scoff at slugging story in Waterloo incident
Althee Tven Downing of Masonitr claims a 314 theft and a slugging near the 1900 block on Third Breanne West at 2 45 AM. Police doubt the account, noting no injury or rain marks and suggesting a rival or acquaintance connected to a woman in the area may be involved. Downing says it was his first Waterloo visit and he was unconscious after leaving a residence on Mcinoty.
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Althee Tven Downing
Masonitr
Third Breanne West
Downing
Waterloo
Mcinoty
Italy's Great Onslaught Drives Austrians From Gorizia Plateau
The map highlights the Doberdò plateau where five days of fierce battle pushed Austrian forces out of their stronghold at Gorzla.
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Italy
Doberdo
Gorzla
Haiti marines quell mob in Port au Prince unrest
Washington reports a mob attacked a mission in Port au Prince Saturday night while a man who murdered a prisoner was reportedly secreted in a barn. Rear Admiral Gaperton cites no details as authorities claim control. In Port au Prince political deadlock follows Guillaume's murder as Haitian congress seeks a successor.
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Washington
D. C
Avgie Wesleyan Mission
Port Au Prinea
Jas
Gaperton
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Guillaume
Gwyneth Sampson Joins Schoolmate as Accompanist
Miss Gwyneth Sampson, pianist at Westminster Presbyterian Church, becomes accompanist to her former West High Schoolmate Miss Gladys Beulah Powers who tours New York and New England for a Boston booking agency. Powers recently starred at Sayville TL L with folding costumes and contralto solos. a fall return to Waterlso is anticipated under Century Lyceum Chicago. Evangeline Sampson, 14, played in Chicago for a winter engagement.
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Gwyneth Sampson
Westminster Presbyterian Church
West High
Gladys Beulah Powers
New York
New England
Boston
Waterlso
Century Lyceum Bureau of
Chicago
Evangeline
Immense Throngs at Becker Funeral in the Bronx
Charles Becker, executed at Sing Sing for instigating Herman Rosenthal’s murder, is honored in a Bronx church funeral. Crowds blocked streets as a ceremonial procession formed, with floral tributes and long lines of police reserves watching the arrival and viewing. The casket bore a new plate stating Becker died July 30, 1915.
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New York
Charles Becker
Sing Sing
Herman Rosenthal
St. Nicholas of Talanting
Bronx
Becker
Whitman
Ranka
German Press Praises Kaiser's War Proclamation
Berlin reports the overseas agency says the German press applauds Emperor William’s war proclamation on the war’s anniversary. It lauds national unity toward lasting peace and cites churchgoers thanking God for blessings while prayers for a swift end fill the nation. Newspapers praise army reviews and note efforts to starve seventy million were frustrated by organized resources.
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Berlin
Sayvilla
William
Rhureh
Italians Declares 17000 Prisoners Captured
Rome via Paris August 2 The Selemani News agency reports 17000 prisoners taken by Italian forces from Austria Hungary. The captives include officers and come from across Austria Hungary. Treated under Italian guards, they retain their own officers and receive Italian rations.
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Rome
Paris
Ase
Sefani
Austria-Hungary
Rockefeller Buys Noted Aphrodite Art Mystery
John J. Rockefeller reportedly purchased the famed Aphrodite statue once called the Montalvo Venus amid heated debate at the National Arts Club in 1805. Rumors place the piece in London before possibly arriving in New York. price cited around 76000 dollars with sellers Sir Algernon Freeman Firth and William H. Aykroyd.
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New York
John J. Rockefeller
Prax Dheles
National Arts Club
London
Sir Algernon, Freeman, Firth
William H. Aykroyd
Tennis Tourney Begins Tuesday
Eighteen players enter the city YMCA tennis tournament, which runs through August 17. Pairings were drawn Saturday after entries closed, with singles first round to be completed this week and rounds scheduled through August 17. Major matches use best two of three sets, final best three of five.
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Jacob Bintz
Alao
E. S. Hurwich
Root
Harbin
J. EB. Jordan
Kopel
Claude Stubbs
L. S. Hurwich
M. Buck
E. L. Truman
W. H. Veach
FH. Hardin
L. C. Hemsworth
BP. B
Shoemaker
Lloyd Hostetter
WA. Dowees
Ben Everall
Cotton crop down by over four million bales from last year
Washington August 2 The 1940 season’s cotton crop is unofficially estimated at about 11,970,037 600 pound bales versus 16,194,930 bales a year ago based on government condition reports and acreage data. Final size depends on growing conditions until picking time.
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Washington, D. C
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