June Storm Ravages Midwest Killing Four In Iowa
A severe late spring storm swept from the west into Iowa Nebraska Minnesota South Dakota causing four deaths in Iowa and crop damage relief in the corn belt. Wind toppled plate glass windows damaged buildings and uprooted trees while rainfall revived parched fields and cooled a heat wave. Local sections reported injuries from flying glass and several storefronts suffered extensive damage as utilities flickered and were repaired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Divide
Towa
Midwest
Nebraska
Minnesota
South Dakota
Ropraale
Wyoming
South Pass
Atlantic City
Courier Delivery Time and Contact Instructions
The notice states home delivery before 5 30 p m with a phone number 100 for issues or missed papers and a 6 40 p m call deadline for receiving a copy. It emphasizes reporting by phone to ensure prompt replacement.
Bowman Challenges Bankers Debate on Bank Guaranty Law
Senator M Bowman of Waterloo challenges the Iowa State Bankers Association to debate the bank guaranty law in twelve districts. He derides Republican leaders for trying to dictate nominees and aims to push the $85,006,000 Good Roads bond issue to a vote in the next legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowman
Rapids Gets Ready for Pythian Sisters
Cedar Rapids delegates converge for the annual convention of the grand lodge and grand temple of the Pythian Sisters and the D. O. K. K. Three thousand delegates are expected July 28 29 and 30 with committees named by the local Knights of Pythias and special trains planned from Des Moines and Sioux City to carry delegations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Grand Temple of Pythian Sisters
Des Moines
Sioux City
Iowan Democratic Weekly Leader Named Former Iowa Congressman
Dr Jamieson president of a new national Democratic weekly and former editor of Shenandoah World once served as congressman from Iowa's Eighth district and now lives in Washington Council Bluffs Scouts Rescue Girl in raid case at Crescent local youths aid police by freeing a 16 year old girl Francis Marens exonerated by the girl and released Omaha teen involved in a separate incident
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah, la
W. Dr. Jamieson
New National Democratic Weekly
Forrmer
Shenandoah World
Iowa
Washington, D
LOY Scouts Rescue Gir
Council Bluffs
Leo Bradley
Crescent
Boy Scouts
Francis Marens
Omaha
American Medics Greeted by Duke of York in London
The Duke of York welcomed 600 American doctors to England during the conference of the interstate post-graduate assembly. Ne ville Chamberlain and Ambassador Houghton echoed friendship between nations, noting wartime ties and a permanent peace-time comradeship. England’s top surgeons were to perform complex operations for the visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Africa
London
Assembly of America
Neville Chamberlain
Houghton
Lesponding
Banker confesses altered dates on Gillmor notes
Cinternational News Wire Sac City Ja June 2 C L Voss a private banker from Denison Iowa on trial for forgery confessed altering dates of notes received from Crawford county farmer Ira Gillmor. He said he sent notes to correspondent banks despite no records showing Gillmor received money. He admitted taking acknowledgments as notary and signing papers he had not read, with his wife present during the testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sac City
C. L. Voss
Denison
Iran
Gillmor
Crawford County
Voss
Robert Healy
Fork Dodge
Healy
Ira Gillmor
Mabel Gillmor
Alto
Young Stinnes Taken H in Mexico City
Mexico City June 2 Otto Stinnes son of the late German capitalist and industrial leader underwent a hurried appendicitis operation last night. German specialists performed the procedure and one had served on the front in the world war. Stinnes had come to set up stations to serve ships of a German steamer line proposed for operation between Germany and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Otto Slintes
Stinnes
Germany
British Move to Halt Afghan Uprising
London reports British forces in India advancing toward the Afghanistan Indian frontier amid rumors of an imminent general Afghan uprising against the emir. Soviet emissaries are alleged to have influenced Afghan unrest over the past two years through active operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
iBy
Associated Press
London
India
Afghanistan
Iowan and Carl Ultan Share College Prize at Columbia
H. H. Holland of Dubuque Iowa and Carl Ultan of New York are jointly awarded the Robert H Montgomery prize for the graduating class member deemed most proficient in college work at Columbia University. The prize includes the income from $1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fina
H. H. Holland
Dubuque
Carl Ultan
Robert H. Montgomery
Columbia University
Gotham Police Foil Bomb Plot Near Elevated Trains
New York police stopped a bomb plot early today after two boxes believed to hold bombs were found projecting over elevated tracks at two stations. The boxes were tossed into the East River by officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
East River
Cook County Tax Revolt Smirk Draws Gov Small Joke
Springfield June 2 Gov Len Small calls the Cook county board of commissioners tax revolt a joke He says as long as he is governor Cook county will stay part of Illinois and the revolt does not pay the legislature it pays the state of Illinois to the Associated Press
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
Chicago
Springfield
Cook County
Ill
Len Small
Cook County Board of Commissioners
Associated Press
Illinois
Board of Commissioners
Plow Horses Killed by Bolt Driver Barely Hurt
Cedar Falls June 2 Special Hans Petersen a farmer west of here had a narrow escape from electrocution when a bolt of lightning killed two horses while he plowed corn. The electricity traveled along the reins around his neck. He sustained only a shock and a burned strip where the reins touched his flesh. Louis Olson's new barn was blown down Bernard Smith sustained a burn and sheds were wrecked. A 150 by 80 foot barn on Neil Johnson's place collapsed and was badly damaged. Eight houses burned west of Cedar Falls as the wind’s full force appeared to center there. Telephone lines are down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
Hans Petersen
Here
Petersen
Louis Olson
Bernard Smith
Neil Johnson
Farmer Seriously Injured in Windstorm Brooder House Wreck
Andrew Christofferson was buried in debris when a brooder house collapsed during a Monday windstorm on his farm west of town. Doctors report a serious condition from a head wound and four rib fractures, with x rays pending to assess further injuries. He is to be moved to Waterloo for further examination of his injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson
Jane
Andrew Christofferson
Town
McMillan
Christofferson
Waterloo
Christoferson
Nine Men Convicted in Sirdar's Murder During Cairo Riots
London reports nine men were found guilty today of the murder last November of Sir Lee Stack, governor general of the Sudan and sirdar of the Egyptian army. Sentencing set for Saturday. Cairo dispatch says 18 communists arrested, breaking up a planned revolution linked to bolshevist activity and the Stack case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lee Stack
Sudan
Sirdar
Cairo
Central News
Egypt
Five Dead in Iowa Three Struck by Lightning Windswept Sioux City
Sioux City and surrounding areas endured a severe wind storm on Monday afternoon. In Kendron Kelly addition homes were destroyed and four people injured. the Ralph Still family suffered severe injuries with their home torn from its foundations. Across Des Moines and eastern Iowa, storms caused five deaths and heavy property damage, with reports of lightning strikes and a tornado near Dike. The Midwest faced heat and wind waves as storms extended to Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nebraska, with dozens of homes damaged and several fatalities attributed to heat and electrical storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Iowa
Electric Sewice
Altho
Ralph B. Slippy
Associated Press
Sioux City
Kendron- Kelly Addition
Ralph Still
Methodist Hospital
Stiil
Sour
Des Moines
United States Weather Bureau
Richard Pabst
Dike
Frank Hascher
Fred ‘Sjaiema
Farmar
Sully
Chae
Midwest
Chicago
Middlewest
Nebraska
Sandhills
Ohio
Central States
South Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa City
Dubuque
Plovence
Omaha
Warland
Kansas
Missouri
Cleveland
Right
Wisconsin
Detroit
Robbers Hold Up Messenger With $15000 Payroll
In Denver on June 2, automobile bandits stopped a Messenger from Windsor Farm Dairy and rode off amid a fusillade of shots with about $15000 in payroll. Authorities investigated the downtown incident and searchers scoured the area for the suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Galo
Windsor Farm Dairy !Company
Three in Plot to Kidnap Pickford May Be Turned Loose
Los Angeles June 2 three men arrested for an alleged plot to kidnap Mary Pickford and other film celebrities may escape punishment due to lack of evidence. Police say the conspirators confessed to abducting Mrs Douglas Fairbanks for a $209000 ransom but District Attorney Keyes doubts the case can be pressed as no actual crime was committed. Claude Holcomb A Stevens and Adrian James Wood are described as small fry with the seriousness of the plot dwindling after no success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashted
Keyes
Shanghai Riots Spur Foreign Marines in Shanghai Vigilance
Foreign and American marines plus Italian forces take control in Shanghai as deadly clashes erupt in the foreign settlement. Reports say scores dead and many wounded as students and rioters clash with police, while patrols guard key assets and transportation amid martial law tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
National Guard
Heavy Rain and Wind Ravage Cedar Falls Area
Rainfall reaches 15.15 inches the heaviest since May. A special wind near 50 mph tore fence sections on the athletic field and uprooted trees on the hill and town. The Jacob Boehmiler farm roof was blown off, the Roy Harrigar barn was wrecked, and debris scattered far from the site. Roofs were removed from all structures except the Brant place house three miles west on Twelfth street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
Teachers College
Jacob Boehmiler
Union Township
Roy Harrigar
Here
Twelfth Street
Brant Place
Shepherd Case Dragged by Interrogation in Jury Selection
Chicago June scene of the William C D Shepherd murder trial as jurors are being selected to hear the case of his foster son William McClintock killed by typhoid germs. Only four jurors seated. witnesses sparse. State witness Robert White remains missing with reports of hidden in Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ventremen J
William CD. Shepherd
William WN. McClintock
L ‘Ag
Robert White
Alten
Pittsburgh
1000 Excursionists Marooned After Steamer Grounding
About a thousand excursionists were marooned all night when the river steamer St Paul ran aground on a sand bar in the Mississippi ten miles north of St Louis. After several river craft worked to dislodge the vessel, the passengers were brought to shore by daybreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Mississippi
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Norway to Begin Seaplane Search for Polar Party
Norway plans a search for the Amundsen Ellsworth polar expedition. Two seaplanes will be sent from Spitzbergen area toward the Arctic coast aboard the ship Ingertrie. The plan aims to locate the explorers who departed May 21, with the vessel expected to reach Norton near Oslo today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic
Spitsbergen
Ingarthe
Spitzbergen
Amundsen
Mancani
Atsmaged
Oslo
Norway
Amundsen-Ellsworth
North Pole
Ingertrie
Areclie
Cape Columbia
Norton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Benet
Raofsets
de Stefani
Ttalian
Chamber of Deputies
J. P. Morgan & Co
Italy
Black's
At_ Frank Bros.’ clothing store
Commercial Street
Paul Davis
Fourth Street
Wley
Charles J. Pickett
C. E. Pickett
Leland Avenue
Dnes
Henry Mueller
High Street
First Evangelical
Nivn
Henry George
San Felice
Bud
Dorothy Martin Hillman
Eddie’ Hillman
Pythian Sisters
Democratic Weekly
AY Duke OF York
Iowan
Gotham Police
Small
Farmer
Albany
Pitts ‘Burgh
Newark
Greenfeld
Mass
Philadelphia
York
New Eng
Pekin
Foreign Office
Diplomatic Corps
Shanghai
Hy United Press
Associated Pt
China
Nese
Roteiparti
Amséricz Teer
Firin
America
Valunteers
Nan- Klug
Thibet Road
Sousa
Burlington
Bluffs
Council Bus
J. F. Carlin
Carlin
Davenport
Shepherd
New Ventremen
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!