Gilded spike of railway project looms in Texas
In Swisher County Texas a finance campaign opens to fund the Texas Panhandle and Gull Railway on three million dollars. Representatives from towns along the route will join the drive to buy stock, shaping the regional transportation map and financial Future.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Texas Panhandle
Gull
West Texas
Administration Corporation
Swisher County Court House
Clement H. Powell
Governors Tour Maine Conference Opens Economies Topics
Governors at Poland Springs speeded up their seventeenth annual meeting to begin a Maine tour. Discussions covered federal and state power, cooperative marketing, agriculture, prison administration, and state cooperation in prison-made goods. A banquet honored them, and two messages from President Coolidge were read.
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Associated Press
Poland Springs
Maine
Ralph C. Brewster
Brewster
Coolidge
Ed Jackson
Indiana
Thomas G. McLeod
South Carolina
McLeod
South
Carnegie Steel
Rockefeller Oil
Santa Barbara Eyes 20 Million Dollar Reconstruction Loan
City leaders seek a 20 million loan to fund post quake rebuilding in Santa Barbara. A 2 million earthquake aid fund will wipe mortgages on the business district, enabling full use of the loan for new construction as San Francisco and Los Angeles send engineers to direct demolition and planning. The disaster raised ten deaths and 29 injuries, with banking and commerce slowly resuming as temporary services restart.
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Associated Press
Santa Barbara
Calif
Pacific Coast
Rexnald Brown
Los Angeles
R. M. Litchfield
Earler Herrado O'Harris
Cottage Hospital
Santa Barbara Telephone Company
Mass meeting to push Texas Panhandle and Gulf line
Special to The News Tulia June 30 mass meeting with directors and finance board to decide construction steps for the Texas Panhandle and Gulf Railroad. Towns along the Seymour to Tucumcari route face a 3 million stock assessment. full amount plus 5 million pledged by pond buyers must be raised for ICC permit. Intercity interest and par offers to stockholders are noted as momentum grows for three rail routes into the South Plains.
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Tulia
Texas Panhandle & Gulf Railroad
Finance Board
Seymour
Tucumcari
A Here
East
Interstate Commerce Commission
South Plains
Building Permits Hit Half Year Record Over Two Million
City building permits for the first half of the year total $2,236,445, a record surpassing all previous periods. May and February show standout activity, with February leading at $547,405 and the six month total edging past prior records by thousands. Engineers report $261,950 issued in the latest month, $30,000 below May but still above last year’s monthly totals.
Sixteen manufacturers plead guilty in Sherman trust case
Chicago June 30 The second group of manufacturers admitted operating a trust in violation of the Sherman act and pleaded guilty before Judge Adam C. Cliffe. Earlier a first group had entered pleas and been fined. The sixteen firms were fined 2000 to 5000 dollars each and argued they did not fix prices even if they violated the act in letter.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Adam CG. Cliffe
Chamber Plans Plains Trip for ICC Visitors
Wichita Falls chamber of commerce plans a three or four car tour through the lower Panhandle ending near Plainview around July 20. The trip accompanies support for extending the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railroad and includes attendance at a state railroad commission and Interstate Commerce Commission hearing. Directors approved the plan at a Tuesday meeting.
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Associated Press
Wichita Falls
Lower
Panhandle
Plainview
State Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Fort Worth
Denver South Plains
Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce
Veteran Show Woman Miss McMahon dies at home
In Little Rock on June 80 Miss Mary McMahon a veteran of the show world died at her home after a brief illness She owned the McMahon Shows and directed them personally Her only survivor is her brother J M McMahon of Portland Oregon
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Little Rock
Mary McMahon
McMahon
J. M. McMahon
Portland
Ore
Four Mayflower hotel staff face federal liquor charges
Four employees of Washington's Mayflower hotel were arrested on prohibition related charges after a pre Volstead banquet on June 17 attended by seventeen agents. Maitre d Hotel Jules Venice assistant chef Rinardo Slag and bellboy John Mendas and waiter Ralph Jones faced conspiracy and illegal liquor sale accusations with bail set at 5000 1000 and 1500 respectively. An undercover agent reported the hotel could supply liquor to guests. The filing states 24 cocktails and over five bottles of whiskey were served.
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Associated
Preas
Washington
Tfour
Jules Venice
Rinardo Slag
John Mendas
Ralph &. Jones
Lquor
United States
Turnage
Venice
Brazi
Mendas
Jones
San Francisco
Grand Jury Vets No Bill in Shepherd Case
Chicago June 30 William Darling Shepherd freed of all charges after a grand jury refused to indict on the murder of William Nelson McClintock. a separate probe into Mrs Emma Nelson McClintock found no poison traces. Another man, Charles Farman, released. probate battle looms over the will winding up a 1 million estate with an $8,000 annuity to McClintock’s fiancée Isabelle Pope as cousins contest.
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Associated Press
Chicago
William Darling Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Emma Nelson McClintock
Young McClintock
Charles C. Farman
Shepherd
McClintock
Isabelle Pope
Miss Pope
General Dodd Dies in Orlando at 78
Word arrives of the death in Orlando Florida of Brigadier General George A. Dodd aged 78 a leader with General Pershing in the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916. His body is en route to Arlington Cemetery for interment with full military honors. Dodd formerly resided in Enfield New York and had a long career including Indian warfare the Spanish American War and the Philippines. He retired July 1 1916.
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Associated Press
Ithaca
N. Y
Orlando
Fla
George A. Dodd
John J. Pershing
Mexico
Dodd
Enfield
General Dodd
Arlington Cemetery
Washington, D. C
Philippines
Kidnapped banker found by officers in Blane County
W C Kelly cashier of the First State bank of Greenfield Blaine County was kidnaped by robbers who held up the bank and escaped with 2500 dollars. He was picked up by deputy sheriffs late this afternoon while walking along a road near Watonga Oklahoma.
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Watonga
Okla
W. C. Kelly
First State Bank of
Greenfield
Blaine County
News-Post Boxing Party For Wills-Weinert Then Greb Walker Bouts
The Daily News and Evening Post host a boxing party Thursday evening for the Wills Weinert bout and the Greb Walker match in New York. Bouts start at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, 6:30 p.m. Amarillo time. Returns by rounds arrive at The News-Post building on Sixth and Fillmore. Home owned, home edited.
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Daily News and Evening Post
Wills-Weinert
Greb-Walker
New York
News-Post
Amarillo
Sixth
Fillmore Streets
Train Hits Car Near Grants Kills Mother and Daughter
Mrs. Otto E. Elgert and daughter Lucille 11 of Los Angeles were killed when their car was struck by the second section of the Santa Fe eastbound California limited train near Grants New Mexico fifty miles west of Albuquerque. Mr Elgert and son Lawrence 15 were critically injured. The car was dragged on the locomotive pivot for over a quarter mile.
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Associated Press
Albuquerque
N. M
Otto E. Elgert
Lucille
Los Angeles
Calif
Concordia Man Convicted in Wife Killing Plot
Charles B. Davies a retired businessman of Concordia Kansas told police he hired Kansas City gunmen with two thousand dollars to kill his wife. The plan failed the gunmen blackmailed him into a confession he later repudiated but he was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary.
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Charles B. Davies
Concordia
Kans
Kansas City
Letter to Beethoven Found Address, Then Returned
Vienna reports a late letter addressed to Professor Ludwig van Beethoven, conservatory contact, Schwarzepaniergasse 15. The addressee died in 1827, so the postal office opened the letter and returned it noting the addressee migrated heavenward. The missive sought piano lessons for 200 crowns per lesson. The letter’s address was valid but undeliverable.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Ludwig van Beethoven
Conservatory
Schwarzepaniergasse 15
Beethoven
Eau Claire lawyer Roy Wilcon seeks La Follette seat
Eau Claire leader Roy Wilcon, former state senator and president of the Wisconsin Bar Association, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Robert M. La Follette. Cambridge address marks 150th anniversary events with radio broadcast of President Coolidge speaking about 4:30 p.m. local time.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Roy Wilcon
Wisconsin Bar Association
United States
Robert M. la Follette
Cambridge
Mass
Coolidge
Washington
Cambridge Common
Edison
WEEI
Westinghouse
WBZ
Western Weekly feature previews color action films
Movies With Voice, Action and Color highlights two camera techniques in a page feature. An army parachute jumper discusses air service work in a separate article. Raton, New Mexico is noted for vacation advantages. Phoebe K Warner writes on Aunt Hank Smith, noted as the first white woman on the South Plains.
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Western Weekly
Air Service
Raton
N. M
Phoebe K. Warner
Hank Smith
South Plains
Massachusetts elects Edith Nourse Rogers to Congress
In a special election for the fifth district Massachusetts voters chose Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican and widow of John Jacob Rogers, to represent them in Congress. She defeated Democrat Eugene Foss by more than two to one, totaling 23,614 to 9,251 across 82 towns and cities, with strong rural majorities. Lowell saw about half the registered turnout, and Foss carried no town.
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Associated Press
Lowell
Mass
Fifth Congressional District
Edith Nourse Rogers
Congress
Foss
Pond Case Goes to Duty in Assault Trial
Austin June 30. The case of A Pond charged with assault with a prohibited weapon on 18 year old Miss Mabel Canady went to the jury this afternoon after a lengthy trial. District attorney J D Moore led the state while John E Shelton and Polk Shelton defended.
Editors Duel in Rome Ends After Wounding
In Rome on June 30 editors Tullio Giordana of the Tribuna and Giovani Amendola of the Mondo dueled over a clash in the Mondo. Giordana was wounded on the forehead before physicians stopped the fight and the editors professed reconciliation.
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Associated Press
Rome
Tullio
Giordana
The
Tribuna
Giovani Amendola
Mondo
Unionization urged at teachers convention by labor head
George W. Perkins vice president of the AFL Labor Department urged broader organization among teachers and educators at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Chicago. He argued brainwork contributes more to civilization than physical labor and that teachers deserve higher pay, criticizing current wages and the waste in the public school system. Dr. H. Ry. Linville of New York echoed concerns about study curricula and education standards.
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Labor Department
Associated Press
Chicago
George W. Perkins
Union Labor Department
American Federation of Labor
American Federation Teachers’ Convention
H. Ry. Linville
Teachers’ Union of New York
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