Major Connolly Is Laid To Rest While Dubuque Pays Reverent Tribute

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 The Telegraph-Herald  Wednesday June 1, 1921 Major Connolly Is Laid                    To Rest While Dubuque                                    Pays Reverent Tribute Business Generally Suspended For One Hour While Dead Aviator Is Borne To Grave—- Firing Squad And Bugler At Cemetery— Funeral Marked By Simplicity. All Dubuque paid a last tribute to the late Major Maurice Connolly today, when […]

MAURICE CONNOLLY KILLED–MEETS DEATH WITH SIX OTHERS IN FALL OF HUGE AIRPLANE

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 The Telegraph-Herald ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­EST. MAY 11, 1936   10 PAGES             DUBUQUE, IOWA MONDAY  MAY 30, 1921      PRICE 3 CENTS VOL.68, NO.101 MAURICE CONNOLLY KILLED MEETS DEATH WITH SIX OTHERS IN FALL OF HUGE AIRPLANE CRAFT CAUGHT IN FIERCE STORM GOES CRASHING TO EARTH WHEN PILOT LOSES  CONTROL; ACCIDENT OCCURS NEAR WASHINGTON—ARMY OFFICERS PLAN INVESTIGATION. While in the […]