Contention over Wilson’s authority and hunger themes in era writings
The piece argues Woodrow Wilson overstepped constitutional bounds by signing papers without Congress, warning of dangerous precedent. It blends social critique on hunger physical and spiritual, suicide prevention efforts, and satirical notes on theatre and music figures, ending with skepticism about brain wave communication claims.
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Belgium
Woodrow Wilson
Congress
United States
Anthracite Mine War Negotiations Resume Talks
Hazleton Pa August 25 Associated Press miners scale committee and business men's committee announce plans to renew contract talks with operators. negotiations will resume if operators do not reject demands solely on grounds of increasing mine cost.
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Associated Press
Hazleton, Pa
Anthracite Miners Scale Committee
Business Men's Committee
Weather Forecast and Temperatures for Amarillo
The forecast calls for tonight and Wednesday partly cloudy. Today’s temperature range was 84 maximum and 62 minimum, compared with 82 and 61 a year ago. Hourly readings are partly unreadable in the fragment but indicate typical spring variations.
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Amarillo
Fight Begins At Onge Over Garmon Case
Walter Crossett denounces charges against B D Garmon deputy state game and fish warden ousted by Austin officials. Judge Motlow and Hugh Whitcomb deny hunting with Garmon or each other while Izaak Walton league members defend Garmon as the best game warden amid political controversy.
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Walter Crossett
B. D. Garmon
Austin
Tam
Mr. Crossett
E. R. Thurman
Pampa
Garmon
Judge Motlow
Hugh Whitcomb
Amarillo
Motlow
Mr. Garmon
Izaak Walton League
Mr. Whitcomb
Mr. Garman
Abilene boosters greeted by Amarillo turnout and parade
Amarillo crowds of several hundred greet the 125 Abilene boosters on a West Texas tour. A band concert and parade along Polk and Taylor streets, led by the American Legion drum corps, precede a dance at the Legion club rooms. Delegation members include Ernest O. Thompson and J N Riggs. They depart at 5 56 a m.
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Amarillo
Abilene
Polk and
Taylor Streets
Amarillo Ameican Legion
Ernest O. Thompson
J. N. Riggs
Fort Worth
Denver
American Legion Club
Tolzien-Frawell
Women Take Leading Role at West Texas Farm Congress
The second annual West Texas Farmers Educational Congress opens with a campfire at the Tri-State exposition grounds tonight and continues Thursday morning with women leading programs. O P Russ will discuss The Farm Woman and the Demand and Market for her Products. Mrs J E Cockrell will describe the Progressive Community Canning club. Mrs Cabbot will explain Why Music in the Public Schools. Demonstrations include balanced diets led by Miss Anna Bower and charts for rural schools by Miss Laura V Hamner.
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West Texas
Anna Bower
Potter County
Laura V. Hamner
Evacuation of Sanction Cities Ends Occupation
Duesseldorf Duisburg and Ruhrort, long held as sanction cities since 1921, were evacuated today by French and Belgian troops, ending their occupation of the cities.
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Associated Press
Duesseldorf
Germany
Duisberg
Ruhrort
Posses Sweep Two States for Slavers
North Platte Nebraska August 25 posses today combing southwestern Nebraska and northern Kansas for two men who yesterday shot and killed Ed Clark North Platt traffic officer and Sam Pratt sheriff of Thomas county Kansas. The sheriff was killed in a fight in which Kansas authorities tried to capture the men.
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Associated Press
North Platte
Neb
Nebraska
Kansas
Ed Clark
North Platt
Sam Pratt
Thomas County
West Texas Chamber of Commerce tour visits Spearman and Texhoma
The West Texas chamber head Col R Q Lee and party are hosted in Spearman with a 10 am welcome by the Spearman band and escort to Perryton for a 1 30 pm courthouse program highlighting the Tri State exposition and Western Packing. The Nort Plains tour continues to Canadian tonight and Texhoma Oklahoma hosts a Texhoma schoolhouse meeting at 8 pm with farmers urged to diversify and intensify farming.
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West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Spearman
Spearman High School
Tri- State Exposition
George M. Perry
J. M. Grigsby
van W. Stewart
F. P. Rogers
W. B. Lemander
Perryton
Texhoma
Okla
West Texas
Olin Hardy
Mrs. Henry Ansley
Amarillo
Guy W. Slack
Frank Sewell
Slack
Henry Ansley
Western Packing Company
Inventor of flying machine ends life in despondent act
Worchester Mass August 25 Alphonse K Dube inventor of a motorless flying machine that would not fly hanged himself in his garage during a fit of despondency caused by the failure of his machines He had tested wings by flapping them like a bird and attempted experiments by jumping from buildings his last leap broke a leg
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Associated Press
Worchester
Mass
Alphonse K. Dube
Mary
Cabinet Crisis in Mealco Over Gubernatorial Elation
Mexico City reports a cabinet crisis as Interior Secretary Gilbert Valenzuela resigns over diverging views with President Calles on the Mexico state governor election. Four legislatures claimed victory. Calles backs labor candidate Carlos Riva Palacio, while Valenzuela calls the decision against his convictions and national politics.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Gilbert Valenzuela
Calles
Mexico
Carlos Riva Palacio
Senor Valenzuela
Famous For Food and Dad's Chili Stand in Amarillo Hotel area
A compact notice lists The Coffee Shop at the Amarillo Hotel branded Famous For Food offering Dutch lunches and keg beer. It also mentions Dad's Chili Stand at 117 East Fourth Street and a drive yourself car rental at 113 East Fourth Street with contact 1521.
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Amarillo Hotel
Dad's Chili Stand
East Fourth Street
East 4Th
Bottled Bootleg Liquor Poured Down City Catch Basin
Sheriff’s deputies destroyed hundreds of gallons of seized liquor valued at up to twenty thousand dollars in a staged pour down a catch basin near the county jail. First batches emptied at 2 pm, with a second batch queued for 3:30 pm after chemical analyses. Judge Henry Bishop ordered the destruction at the sheriff’s request.
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Sheriff's Department
Austin
Henry Bishp
Wiley Pollard
Free Mail Delivery Sought for San Jacinto District
Post Office Inspector M B Johnson will inspect San Jacinto to determine eligibility for free mail delivery. If residents meet requirements such as sidewalks crossings and street markers Postmaster Kenyon asks the service be installed for a town of about 4000 people.
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Post Office
M. B. Johnson
Post Office Department
Washington
San Jacinto
Kenyon
Johnson
Dam Site Near Amarillo Highly Recommended by Engineers
A dam site twenty miles north of Amarillo in Potter county is praised by War Department engineers as the best natural site for flood control of the Canadian river. The party, including lawmakers and engineers, toured the site during a flood control conference and will inspect a second site in Hutchinson county later.
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Amarillo
United States War Department
Potter County
W. A. Strong
Oklahoma House Committee On Irrigation
Strong
A. Lincoln Fellows
Reclamation Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
A. S&s. Stinnett
Texas
E. E. Blake
Oklahoma Irrigation, Drainage, and Reclamation Commission
Marvin Jones
United States
Lee Satterwhite
War Department
Hutchinson County
Congress
Panhandle
Fire Damages Three Buildings in San Antonio Storage Yard Blast
A flying match head landed in a tub of gasoline used to clean clothes, sparking a fire Tuesday morning that damaged three buildings on Houston and Laredo streets. Stocks to about $40,000 affected. American Warehouse Co. storage operations disrupted.
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San Antonio
Houston
Laredo
Coney Slaughter Re-Arrested In Colorado Road Bank Heist
Denver reports Coney C Slaughter, famed son of Texas cattle king William B Slaughter, recaptured after escaping Leavenworth. He minors with Enola Landry, sought $100000 embezzled funds, and had been a Pueblo bank cashier. Father laments his son’s downfall and vows return to prison.
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Associated Press
Denver
Colo
Coney C. Slaughter
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Mercantile National Bank of Pueblo
Colorado
Slaughter
Enola Landry
Phoenixville
Pennsylvania
A. J. Todd
Lone Star
William B. Slaughter
Sam Houston
San Antonio
Bowie
Santa Anna
Coney Slaughter
Texas
Coney
Intersstiting Bank
Dalhart
Pueblo Bank
Young Slaughter
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Coney C Slaughter Escapes From Leavenworth Prisons
Kansas City dispatch reports Coney C Slaughter a 1915 Pueblo bank wrecker escaped from Leavenworth in January after serving as a deputy warden office trusty. He used an outside pass for the escape and is linked to the Mercantile National Bank defalcations totaling 352060 dollars. his father William B Slaughter was a noted Southwest cattle king in Kansas City.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Coney C. Slaughter
Pueblo Bank
Denver
Leavenworth
Slaughter
William B. Slaughter
Central High School
Southwest
Tong War Breaks Out In Four Cities At Once
A new Chinese tong war broke out today in New York Boston Chicago and Pittsburgh following the burial of Lee Kugying expected mayor of Chinatown. One tongman was shot in Boston another in Chicago and one in Pittsburgh. A Chinese cook was found dead in a Chinatown cellar in New York City.
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Associated Press
New York
Lee Kugying
Chinatown
Hip Sing
On Leong
Boston
Chicago
Pittsburgh
China Town
Banquet on Canadian River Irrigation Plan in Amarillo
A banquet at the Amarillo hotel Thursday night will present federal and state reclamation plans for the Canadian River flood control and irrigation project. Speakers include A Lincoln Fellows, Blake, and Texas commissioner A S Stinnett who will lead the program. dinner cost is nominal per plate. The event, hosted by City Development, aims to inform county farmers and nearby towns about anticipated congressional proposals due in December.
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Amarillo
Congress
Hereford
Plainview
A. Lincoln Fellows
United States Department of Agriculture
I Blake
Oklahoma
A. S. Stinnett
Texas
Stinnett
Funeral for Accident Victim Lucas Told Here
Clyde B. Lucas, 28, died Thursday in Santa Rita New Mexico after injuries from a steam shovel. The body arrives tonight via Santa Fe. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at 3 PM at Blackburn Funeral Home with Rev G H Bryant officiating. Burial in Blanco Cemetery. He is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs J B Lucas Am arillo and brothers Frank and Bennie Lucas Zanesville Ohio and C A Lucas.
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Clyde B. Lucas
Santa Rita
N. M
Santa Fe
Blackburn Funeral Home
G. H. Bryant
Buchanan Street Methodist Church
Jlano Cemetery
J. B. Lucus
C. A. Lucus
Amarillo
Frank
Bennie Lucas
Zanesville
Ohio
Fat More Dangerous Than Airplane or Steanship
In Chicago on August 25 President Albert M Johnson of the National Life Insurance Co. of the United States of America warned that obesity now threatens more lives than ocean liners trains or airplanes. He urged special education and stated the ocean liner cabin is the safest place, followed by trains, with air travel possibly becoming the third safest.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Pres
Abert M. Johnson
National Life Insurance Company
United States of America
No Extradition For Mrs Canady Denied By Governor
AustinAugust 25 Requisition from Gov Al Smith of New York to extradite Mrs Roscoe Canady of San Antonio for allegedly kidnapping her child Roscoe Jr was denied by Gov Miriam A Ferguson The ruling ends the effort to return the child to New York where the case originated
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Associated Press
Austin
al Smith
New York
Roscoe Canady
San Antonio
Roscoe, Jr
Miriam A. Ferguson
Washington Accepts China Conference Invitation in Peking
The Washington government formally accepted China's invitation to attend the customs conference in Peking on October 26. The British government also accepted the invitation.
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Washington
China
Peking
City to hear Jones report on water plant valuation
City engineer Panks Jones is to present a detailed valuation of the City Light and Water company plant at tonight's city commission meeting in City Hall. Officials expect the figures to clarify the dispute over price and ownership as Southwestern Public Service previously paid 1,250,000 for the plant and later offered 950,000 to the city.
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Panks Jones
City Light and Water Company
City Commission
Jones
North Dakota Destroys I W W Group in Harvest Sweep
Fargo authorities, led by Sheriff John C. Ross, deputized citizens to escort 118 alleged Industrial Workers of the World members out of Fargo. The group was split into 43 and 75 and moved across two Red River bridges into Moorhead, Minnesota.
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Associated Press
Fargo
N. D
John C. Ross
Cass County
Industrial Workers of the World
Red River
Moorhead
Minn
Phantom bandit says friends helped ruin him
Fred G. Nicholas a Dayton manufacturer and confessed phantom bandit says his downfall was partly caused by friends. He claims there are no real friends and blames lack of funds for the prison term after a robbery at the North Dayton branch of Dayton Savings and Trust.
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Associated Press
Dayton
Fred G. Nicholas
Dayton Savings and Trust Company
Local Child Drinks Coal Oil Improves After Near-Disaster
Mary Helen Pirtle a 16 month old child drank a small amount of coal oil yesterday and was in precarious condition for about three hours. Some oil entered a lung raising concern for pneumonia but recovery is expected if pneumonia does not develop. Parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Pirtle reside at 701 A Jackson street. He works as assistant manager at Brazelton Lumber Co.
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Mary Helen Pirtle
Thomas Pirtle
Jackson Street
Brazelton Lumber Company
Sinclair Drops Prices In Middle West Fuel Cut
Sinclair Oil and Refining company announced a two cent a gallon cut for gasoline and a one cent cut for kerosene in the middle western states to match a price reduction reported by Standard Oil of Indiana last night.
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Associated Press
New York
Sinclair Oil and Refining Company
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
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