Iowan Sees Huge Possibilities In Flying Service
Des Moines reports on the national air tour led by 14 planes covering 4,200 miles with Iowa’s Ralph Young aboard from Detroit to finish in Omaha. The piece notes improved aircraft reliability, rising public interest, and airports expanding as air travel becomes inevitable. The tour, won by Eddie Stinson piloting a Stinson-Detroiter, and the potential future westward extension are highlighted.
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Ralph Young
Des Moines
Courier Special Service
Iowa
Young
Clarence Young
Areanautics
Federal Department of
Detroit
Walter Beech
Wichita
Kan
Eddie Stinson
Stinson
Edward F. Schlee
Alleghenies
Berkshires
South
Middlewest
Grand Rapids
Ground damage fails to stop wartime planes at Ford Field
Despite extensive ground damage, all ships withstood a 60 mile gale and landed safely at Ford airport. Each aircraft maintained progress through the turbulent conditions, reaching the destination without incident.
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Ford Airport
Western Iowa Plans Big Road Program
Sioux City July 19. Sur facing with either gravel or paving of every primary road in Plymouth Woodbury and Monona counties has been assured by recent special elections on bond issues. Nearly 80 miles of paving and 144 miles of graveled road will be built at a cost of 3 000 000 in the next three years linking Council Bluffs Omaha Sioux City and Missouri Valley.
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Sioux City
Plymouth
Woodbury
Monona
Harrison
Pottawattamie
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Monona County
Missouri Valley
Alleged Embezzler Released on Bonds
N. Pelton, jailed since July 8 on embezzlement charges from Waterloo Fruit & Commission Co., was released today on $1500 bonds awaiting district court disposition.
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Were N. Pelton
Waterloo Fruit & Commission Co
Lack of Feeling Wrongly Placed Says Historian
Washington July 19. Smithsonian study of burials west of the Mississippi shows Omaha grief. relatives apply white clay and scarify themselves as mourning rites. Historian David I. Bussell Jr. notes Indians expressed affliction in frenzied forms, challenging the notion of lacking humanity.
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Washington, D. C
Smithsonian Institution
Bureau of American Ethnology
Mississippi
David I. Bushnell, Jr
Mourning Customs and Afterlife Beliefs of Plains Tribes
The text details Lakota Pawnee Osage Ojibway and Blackfoot mourning rites such as skin cutting, barefoot processions, grave visiting spanning years, and varied burial methods like tree and scaffold graves and birch bark coffins. It notes beliefs in life after death, rewards for the brave, punishments for the wicked, and ceremonial journeys including crossing a river with a bundle of deeds.
Husband Sues for Wife to Pay Divorce Costs
Park Hancher filed for divorce from Jean Hancher after two months of marriage at Osage Indiana alleging cruel treatment. He asks the court to make his wife pay the divorce costs and grant equitable relief as deemed.
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Park Hancher
Jean Hancher
Osage
Hancher
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