Trio to Die in First Triple Hanging at Joliet Jail
Joliet Illinois July 14 officials prepared for the planned execution of three condemned men for killing Deputy Warden Peter M Klein. Sanity petitions for Robert Torres were filed by Mary Spencer as Mexican consul Leis Lapian sought delays. guards surrounded the jail amid fears of a raid. Torrez sang farewell, promising to croon La Paloma at dawn while Stalesky and Duschewski showed grim resolve.
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United Press
Joliet
Well County
Mary Belle Spencer
Leis Lapian
Chisago
Miss Spencer
Wall
Sanity
Robert Torres
Rave Ruswell Scott
Phea
Russell Scott
Canadian
Will Cennay
Charles Dschowski
Walter Stuleskhy
Peter M. Klein
Torrez
Tehar
Kien
Iany
Bernardo Roa
Gergoreo Rizzo
Chicago
Rea
Blaze War
Charles Shader
Illinois
Bud Stillman Heads Princeton Class Amid Divorce History
James Bud Stillman son of the late noted New York court case graduates from Princeton University. The Stillman family, once at the center of a nationally watched divorce suit, is highlighted as Bud appears in high school traditions and now moves onward from college.
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Princeton University
James
Bud
Amarillo cop questioned after threat to slap newsboy
Curbstone column recounts Mayor Bivins defending against claims that Officer P Price threatened to slap Frank Levey a newsboy. The piece mocks rural recruits and notes a jail inmate request for The Globe. It ends with a quip about inventors and the joke that interest was a creator of trouble.
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Amarillo
Bivins
P. Price
Fourth
Polk
Frank Levey
Trishman
Mr. Price
Levey
Tack
Ben W. Stratton
Police Guard Placed Around Consul Office
Police guards were posted around the American consulate in Matamoros at the request of Consul H. H. Leonard due to Sacco Vanzetti demonstrations in Mexico. No personal threats or trouble are reported. the precautionary move follows a U. S. government directive urging all Mexican consuls to take measures.
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Globe Office
Pleydada
Amarillo
Paris
City Hall
Polk Street
Associated Press
Brownsville
Matamoros
H. H. Leonard
Sacco- Vanzetti
Mexico
Leonard
United States
King George Revives Order of St Patrick for Prince of Wales
London report notes King George II restored the Order of St Patrick, ranking third after the Garter and Thistle, for the Prince of Wales. Founded in 1783 to soothe Irish sentiment, this is the first bestowal since 1922, with seventeen knights total aside from the royal family.
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Associated Press
London
George
Prince of Wales
George II
Loveland
St. Patrick
Frith Gowards
Buckingham
Court Debutante Show Draws Long Buckingham Line
In London a half mile queue of cars carrying debutantes in feathers and trains forms outside Buckingham Palace for the annual presentation. Spectators peer into car windows while Bobbies keep order, as the court ceremony remains a famed yearly spectacle.
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Associated Press
London
Buckingham Palace
Palace
Savoy Hotel Installs Dog Drinking Fountains
Three small replicas of the Benvenuto Cellini fountain sit in the Savoy hotel marble courtyard to serve as drinking places for guests pets. The fountains provide artesian well water so dogs receive the proper chalk prescribed by doctors.
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Associated
Premn
London
Florence
Savoy Hotel
Ludwig Seeks Carlyle Grave in Westminster Abbey
Emil Ludwig the German biographer sought Thomas Carlyle’s grave at Westminster Abbey on a London visit but learned Carlyle is buried in his birthplace at Beclerechan Scotland. The Annandale village of the Scots birthplace became part of Ludwig’s itinerary.
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Associated Press
London
Emil Ludwig
Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Westminster Abbey
Sage
Chelisea
Bcclerechan
Scotland
Annandale
Herr Ludwig
Cheapside’s Name Misleading to Modern Visitors
London street market Cheapside earned its name from the old term cheape meaning market. The piece notes that the Western end’s surrounding streets Milk Street Bread Street Wood Street and Honey Lane echo the area’s historic retail role near St Paul’s Cathedral.
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Associated Press
London
Cheapside
Old St. Paul's Cathedral
British Museum and Westminster Bridge Funded by Lotteries
English landmarks owe their existence to large lotteries. The British Museum arose from a 500000 pound lottery with 200000 pounds in prizes and 300000 pounds for the building. Westminster Bridge also funded by a 700000 pound lottery in 1736, aiding the Adelphi Terrace project by the Adam brothers.
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the Associates Press
London
British Museum
Westminster Bridge
Archbishop of
Canterbury
Adam
Thames
Savoy Hotel
Charing Cross
Artists and writers quit Chelsea for Battersea
London report notes artists and writers abandoning Chelsea for Battersea across the Thames. They are replaced by young married couples from Mayfair able to afford higher rents, with Chelsea losing its creative center to the south bank over the next decade.
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tPy
Associated Press
London
Chelsea
Battersea
Mayfair
the Thames
Amarillo Proclamation Calls Paint Up and Clean Up Campaign
Amarillo Mayor Lee Bivins proclaims a city wide Paint Up and Clean Up effort on July 14 1927 urging property owners to employ painters, improve vacant lots and enhance the city’s appearance as part of a beautification push and steady work for local painters.
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Amarillo
Texas
Lee Bivins
Don’t Go to Extremes in Thanking Ford
New York July 14 The American Jewish Committee president Leews F Marshall urged Jews against extreme praise after Henry Ford apologized for Dearborn Independent anti Jewish content. Marshall emphasized Ford’s public recantation may lessen damage to Jewry regardless of motives.
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Associated Preva
New York
Leews
F. Marshall
New York Sun Today
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Marshall
American Jewish Committee
Mr. Ford
Ford
F M Snow Happy At Twenty Day Stay
Huntsville reports F M Snow of Erath county told fellow condemned men he was happy after Governor Moody granted a twenty day stay of execution. Snow, to die in the electric chair, was notified last night of the delay.
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Huntsville
F. M. Snow
Erath County
Mildred Doran Heads for Coast in Honolulu Air Race
Mildred Doran and pilot Auggy Pedlar left Lindbergh Field bound for Tulsa en route to San Francisco to compete in the air race to Honolulu commencing August 11. Takeoff reported easy with optimistic forecast for ideal flying conditions.
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United Prece
Carago
Mildred Doran
Auggy Pedlar
Lindbergh Field
Tulsa
San Francisco
Honolulu
Yellow Cab Taxi Company Holds Good Will Banquet
Officials of the Yellow Cab Taxi company hosted a goodwill banquet for employees last night. Almost all workers attended and heard informal talks by both management and drivers. The event followed a short red strike that lasted only a few hours.
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Yellow Cab Taxi Company
Youth Dies Inhaling Gasoline Fumes
Johnston City Tenn July 14 William Shupe eighteen of Milligan college near here died last night from inhaling gasoline while aiding two motorists in an incident on the road.
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Associated Press
Johnston City
Tenn
William Shupe
Milligan College
Here
Five Birds and Five Children In Individuality
Poem by Edgar A. Guest on birth and uniqueness. It compares five birds from five eggs to five children of birth, noting each figures its own charm while sharing common traits. The piece underscores that each child or bird remains distinct within a shared nature.
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Earth
Markets HANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK Summary
Kansas City livestock markets report cattle 8 800 head and calves steady with tops and ranges noted. Texas cattle receipts up to 41.10 and veal top 12.60. Fort Worth stockyards show hogs and cattle varied with tops around 16.90 and 3 500 cattle incl calves. Chicago and St Louis follow with mixed hog, cattle, and sheep data. grain and cash grain prices listed for wheat corn and oats.
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Hansas City
Associated Prove
Kansas “City
Texas
Northwest Area
Idaho
Fort Worth
Bbc
Dali
Chicago
ST. Lowis
Associated Press
East ST. Louis
Grain and commodity prices across markets July report
Kansas City shows wheat and corn prices with No 2 dark hard at 1.82 percent and No 2 white corn around 3.01, while No 2 red wheat sits near 1.87. Butter and eggs cited as unchanged in Chicago, poultry alive firm with hens around 28 to 44, potatoes weaker with Irish cobblers in Virginia and Kansas Missouri sacks priced around 4.40 to 2.46.
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Chicago
The
Associated Press
Kansas City
Virginia Barrel
Kansay Missouri
Foreign exchange rates in New York on July 14
Foreign exchanges steady with Great Britain demand at 4.858-16, cables 4.8644, sixty day bills on banks 94.81%. France demand 8.917-16, cables 8.91% with Italy 6.484, Belgium 18.8944, Germany 28.78, Tokyo 47.20, Montreal 9.87% quoted.
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Associated Press
New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Tokyo
Montreal
Stocks open higher as U S Steel leads market gains
New York stocks advance at the opening with U S Steel up to a new high after a 40 percent stock dividend, Louisville and Nashville reaching a fresh peak, and Case Threshing Machine Continental Insurance and Air Reduction also rising to yearly highs. Motors like General Motors and Mack Truck show strength while Houston Oil slips 14 percent. Foreign exchange opens irregular with sterling near 4.85 dollars and francs above 3.91 cents.
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New York
Associated Press
U.S. ‘Steel
Louisville
Nashville
Peoria
Eastern
U. S. Steel
Case
Continental Insurance
Motors
General Motors
Mack Truck
Old Tack's Amarillo Program for a Better City
A list proposing extensive civic reforms for Amarillo including lower utility rates, new parks, a municipal swimming pool and golf course, faster through traffic, elimination of railroad crossings, better police and fire regulation, and a push to attract new industries. It calls for infrastructure like storm sewers, viaducts, and Bivins lake access, plus urban improvements and lower costs for residents.
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Courthouse
Bivins Lake
Amarillo
San Jacinto
New Orleans Social Leader Mel Settoon Dies by Suicide
Prominent New Orleans society woman Mrs. Melville Charles Settoon was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the heart at her home. Police say the wound is linked to personal safety concerns after a day that followed a swimming party with naval station colleague Jack Wood, who disappeared during the outing.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Melville Charles Settoon
Lost French Birdmen Traced Toward Canadian Wilds
Ray L. Hall of Pathe News says the French aviators Nungesser and Coli will be found either dead or alive in the Canadian wilds. Pathe photographers follow Indians into Chicoutimi area north of Quebec to wreckage, after a three week survey by sea and land.
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Associated Press
New York
Ray L. Hall
Pathe’s News
Nungesser
Coli
Pathe
Chicoutimi
Quebec
Hall
Rotarians Focus on Public Relations at Amarillo Meeting
Rotary club members at the Amarillo hotel heard directors discuss public affairs. Norris Ewing spoke on Rotary education and John Hill urged greater public interest and attendance. Hill also reviewed an All-Texas trip to the North and East and noted the state received substantial publicity.
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Rotary Club
Woon
Amarillo
Norris Ewing
Guy Saunders
John Hill
Hill
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