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Yesterday's Phillips County News Memories for July 10, 2019

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July 9, 1919

The locomotive of the Great Northern's mail train No. 27, blew up at Dunkirk, 10 miles east of Shelby, killing the firemen, engineer and engineer's 12-year-old son. The explosion was caused by a shortage of water at Chester.

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A prairie fire had destroyed much of the range grass north and east of Bowdoin Lake.

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The Chase and V.J. Ludwick families have returned from a vacation spent at Glacier Park.

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The First National Bank quarters at the corner of Front Street and Fifth Avenue are being remodeled and enlarged.

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"Yesterday's hot wind was the worst of the s...

 

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