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Driving with his wife through Muncy, Pa., on his way from Washington to his McCook, Neb. home, 73-year-old Senator George William Norris slowed down to 15 m.p.h. to look around for a tourist home. Suddenly a 9-year-old youngster darted in front of the machine. Senator Norris swerved, braked-but too late. The front wheel of the car passed over the boy's body, killed him. Senator & Mrs. Norris attended the funeral, were cleared by a coroner's jury, drove carefully on toward McCook...
Clement Lowell Harriss, Omaha, Neb...
...records, the Chicago Weather Bureau announced that precipitation over 1,000,000 sq. mi. from the Rockies to the Lakes was less than 20% normal. "Worst drought since 1894," said the Lincoln, Neb. Weather Bureau. "Worst in 50 years," retorted Chicago. "There has never been anything like it," cried AAAdministrator Chester Davis. "For intensity, duration and scope, this drought exceeds anything in our knowledge. The ensuing crop failure is likely to be just as drastic...
...western towns through which Zephyr flashed. Two thousand five hundred constables, legionaries, volunteer citizens, railway men guarded 1,689 grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal Scot (401 mi., London to Glasgow at 56 m. p. h.). At 7:10 p. m. Zephyr broke the official finish-line tape at Chicago's Halsted Street. Without...
...years ago, the Vesteys set up their own shops which now number some 4,000. When they could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world"), and in 1924 the second Lady Vestey...