England spreads new net for international crooks
London reports an influx of world known criminals to the British Empire exhibition at Wembley. Scotland Yard has compiled a photo catalogue and forwarded it to ports to bar known offenders while boat trains face stricter checks. The Flying Squad is expanded as the exposition opens.
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London
Wembly
Scotland Yard
Prohibition Era Dry Agents Hosted Champagne Party
Federal testimony in Philadelphia describes a roadhouse champagne party funded by a dry agent and colleague to gather evidence against Green Hills Farms. The New Year event featured ten pints at escalating prices, with two unnamed lady companions present. the proprietor was acquitted of illegal liquor sales.
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Philadelphia
Reilly
Sam
R. B. Farlow
Green Hills Farms
Farlow
Panhandle Prominence In Weather Yet Fields The Nation
The Panhandle is portrayed as a cosmopolitan yet predominantly white region with strong rail linkages and large patchwork communities. It contrasts climate features with California or Florida, arguing its strategic value to national commerce and railroads.
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United States
Eau
Panhandle
California
Florida
Rhode Island
Who Is It The Silent Vermont Man
George W. Wood of Springfield Mals, manager of a medical store, is mistaken for President Coolidge due to a strong facial resemblance to the silent man from Vermont, drawing crowds of curious onlookers.
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President Coolidge
George W. Wood
Springfield Mals
Vermont
Panhandle Cattle Herd First Slaughtered at Amavillo Plant
The Panhandle's famed cattle were raised and fed locally and form the first herd slaughtered at the Western Packing plant in Amavillo. Livestock men praise the region's beef quality, noting Panhandle cattle have won at major shows and that farming and packing will boost feeding as a central industry.
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Panhandle
Western Packing Company
Amavillo
Panhandle News Sketches Amarillo Dempster Firm Growth
In 1916 Amarillo the Dempster Company began with one man and now employs many. After a spring fire destroyed the old building plans were made for a handsome new structure. The Panhandle region enjoys abundant wild game and fish and the Tri State Field Trials in Wheeler and Hemphill counties are acclaimed as among the best in the nation. Prairie chickens are hunted across the area.
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Tri State
Wheeler
Hemphill
United States
Methodist Board Denies War on Tobacco Campaign
The Board of Temperance Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal church dismissed claims that the anti tobacco drive seeks to outlaw tobacco. It noted foreign reports of drastic prohibitions and urged that no significant American anti tobacco organization with funds or membership is pursuing such a policy.
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United Press
Washington
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and
Methodist Euiscopal Church, Inco
Celves
America
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