74 Lose Lives In Hospital Fire
Effingham Illinois hospital fire at St Anthony’s kills 74 likely dead with nine newborns among the victims. Fire started in basement. a laundry chute sent flames through the three story building. About 108 patients were in the facility. one nurse Miss Fern Riley missing presumed dead. The town population is 6 000 and the hospital is the only facility in the area.
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Effingham
Ill
St. Anthony's Hospital
Charles Jaycox
Wenton Sidner
C. J. Springer
John J. Goff
St. Anthony’s Church
Fern Riley
Frank Reis
Chicago
Springfield
Cowboys stampede herd of elephants in Gonzales incident
A Bailey Brothers Circus elephant herd of eighteen stampeded over a two mile area near Gonzales after gunfire by cowboys. Two men were injured Rex Williams and Raymond Sreivogal as drivers fled and the herd was finally rounded up after two hours.
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Gonzales
Bailey Brothers Circus
Guadalupe River
Ben Davenport
Lee Orr
Orr
Rex Williams
Raymond Sreivogal
Williams
Sreivogal
Hamburg gives housewives paid day off each month
Hamburg city council passes a bill granting housewives who also work outside the home one full paid day off per month if they work 48 hours a week. The note adds Japan experiences about three and a half earthquakes daily on average, usually imperceptible.
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Hamburg
Germany
Japan
Local Want Ad Listings From Sherman Area
Various classified ads offer used appliances furnishings autos and housing in Whitewright Tom Bean and Sherman. Frigidaire refrigerators Maytag washers Babcock Auto Store car deals and farm equipment appear alongside flowers real estate and personal notices by named residents and merchants.
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Joe Wallace
Allen T. Short
Hannah’s. Tf
Johnson Jewelry & Appliance
Florence
Pete
Babcock Auto Store
Whitewright
Jimmie Christian
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
Oslin
West
Houston
Sherman
Tom Bean
Hannah Florist
J. E. Moran
H. P
Lee Wilson
N. B. Nicholson
Dawson Butane
Jack Nossaman
Lucian Jones
East Whitewright
Tom Barbee
Sudan
One Billion FDIC Fee Debate Moves Congress
Washington confronts whether a 1 billion FDIC kitty suffices to insure deposits as total insured and underinsured sums loom. Bankers want lower assessments or halted payments while FDIC reserves hover around a fixed floor amid sagging loan volumes.
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Washington
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
FDIC
Buried treasure disappears from man's basement
Los Angeles report states Charles Yuhas buried $3000 in cash and jewelry worth 367 in a basement pit last October. When he returned to recover the treasure, the pit was empty and a former tenant who moved soon after the burial had witnessed the filling of the hole.
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Los Angeles
Captain Kidd
Charles Yuhas
Yuhas
Use of Vitamin C In Polio Advocated
Dr. Joseph C. Risser a Pasadena bone specialist and president elect of the American Academy of Applied Nutrition urged vitamin C as a polio treatment at the academy meeting in Los Angeles. He warned that lack of vitamin C in the diet endangers bone health and argued a link between polio susceptibility and foods rich in Vitamin C.
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Los Angeles
Joseph C. Risser
Pasadena
American Academy of Applied Nutrition
Risser
Academy
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Housewives
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J.kelly
Stephens & Bryant
Lucyle Sanders
Auto Finance Co
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis
B Farmall
H Farmall
C. J. Meadow Truck and Tractor Company
Flowers of Sherman
Carl May
Pat Murphy
Earth
E. M. Badgett
Federal Deposit Corp
BT Uta
Sherwin - Williams
Sherwin-Williams
Sherwin-Williams Home Decorator
Fiome
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