Kansas City and Chicago Livestock Markets May 5 6 5
Cattle 4 000 alves 600 steady teers 12 15 good heavies 11 25 medium Hart feds down to 9 005 choice veals 1 000 11 50 top hogs 10 25 packing 8.00 60 65 sheep 4 000 steady top shorn 5 25 spring lambs 17 85 New Orleans cotton active erratic prices rose late to 16 93 July 16 05 October 16 32. New York cotton steady near 15 82.
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Quaratine
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Eleady
ST. Louis
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Reese
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Giant salamander gifted to Japanese prince by temple head
A temple head near Asakura presented a giant salamander, estimated at 150 years old, to the prince regent of Japan. The gesture was reported by Answers, London, highlighting a historic and ceremonial exchange.
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Japan
Asakura
Baptists Plan Fight On Change Administration
In Louisville on May , factions gathered to debate proposed changes in the Southern Baptist Convention’s business administration. The morning session focused on denominational press circulation and funding for general missionary, educational, and benevolent budgets. A campaign to recruit churches and Baptists for proportional gifts was urged, alongside plans for the W M U ruby anniversary program aiming for forty thousand new members by 1928 and a four million dollar annual gift total.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Southern Baptist Convention
Convention
Co-Operative Program Commission
J. A. Barton
Nashville
Women’s Missionary Union
Careter Wright
Alabama
Organization of Missionary Societies
Young People's Organization
Mellon and British dispute over war debt payments
The exchange centers on how payments from Germany and other nations are counted toward war debts. Britain disputes Mellon's figures and cites a typographical error, while Mellon defends the distinctions between reparations receipts and intergovernmental debt payments. The British note preserves a tone of friendly cooperation despite disagreements.
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Hibben
Germany
United States
Mellon
Great Britain
Treasury Secretary
France
Bank of France
Bank of England
Italy
Dominions
Treasury Department
Tactless Texan heads home via Santa Fe to Amarillo
A long diary style note from an Amarillo traveler describes travel by Santa Fe to Amarillo, encounters in New York with O W and Mrs Toney, a financial scramble, and a fatal automobile train crash near St. Louis. He also mentions meeting Irv Cobb in New York, predicts a band and drum corps welcome, and ends with a per capita water use comparison among London New York and Chicago.
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O. W
New York
Santa Fe
Amarilo
American Legion
London
Chicago
Britain Says War Debts Note Targets Continental Debtors
A Downing Street official told AP that Britain's war debts note to the United States primarily targets continental debtors and aims to dispel false impressions abroad following Mellon’s letter to Princeton president Hibben. The official added Britain has no criticism of Kellogg’s brief reply.
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Associated Press
London
Downing Street
Associated Press Today
Great Britain
United States
West Texas chamber meet draws hundreds to Childress
About 500 people attended the opening session of the West Texas chamber of commerce district convention in Childress. A. M. Bourland of Vernon presided. Fred Story of Childress welcomed attendees, with Claude Wells of Memphis replying. M. Whitaker of the West Texas group spoke on solving local problems. Claude C. Wild led the Amarillo delegation and reported on a Memphis visit by West Texas officials.
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Childress
West Texas
Claude C. Wild
Board of City Development
Amarillo
Mr. Wild
Memphis
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Snyder Trial Details Gruesome Murder Plot and Confession
Prosecutor Wallace questions Gray about planning to murder Albert Snyder with Mrs. Snyder. Gray describes midnight entry to the home, chloroform, sash weight, and gloves as Mrs. Snyder leads the way. He recounts the killing while spectators react with tears and gasps in the crowded Queens Village courtroom.
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Justice Scudder
Gray
Queensvillage
Snyder
Tte
Snyders
Albert
Ruth
Lorraine
Mrs. Snyder
Momie
Albert Snyder
Amarillo Man Hurt In Wreck In South Texas
Five injured in an automobile crash on the Houston Galveston road near Dickinson. Injuries ranged from facial lacerations to a broken jaw. passengers include F. E. Smallwood Gibson Oil chairman J. E. Dunn Amarillo president and E D Hoover Jr Canadian Texas and Vashti Hoover Canadian Texas. The party traveled from Galveston to Houston when their car hit a gravel truck.
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Associated Press
Houston
Houston-Galveston
Dickenson
FE. L. Smallwood
Gibson Oil Corporation
New York City
Vashti Hoover
Canadian
Texas
J. E. Dunn
Amarillo
Gibson Oil Company
E. D. Hoover, Jr
Evelyn Henson
Drumright
Oklahoma
Galveston
Two Hart When Well Comes in With Rush
Two men were seriously hurt at Spindle Top oil field in Beaumont when Yount-See Me Fadden No. 29 came in unexpectedly as a gasser and demolished the derrick in a rush of gas oil mud rocks and pipe. John Chance of Voth Texas suffered a fractured skull and Bowie Sanders was seriously injured when the derrick collapsed.
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Beaumont
Spindle Top
John
Chance
Voth
Texas
Bowie Sanders
American Business Club Plans Largest Mother’s Day Program
The American Business Club, a young men’s civic group, will stage its annual Mother’s Day program at 12:05 PM Friday. It is one of the club’s premier events with flowers and gifts for every attendee and more than one hundred people expected, each member bringing a mother.
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American Business Club
Young Men’s Civic Organization
Nighttime Silence Depends on You in Paris
A fragment from Pele Mele in Paris presents a quibbling exchange where John asks his wife if everything is quiet for the night and Hen peck responds that it depends on him. The piece reads as a humorous domestic skit with a sharp punchline.
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John
Henpeck
Paris
Gray testimony details attempted smothering and chloroform use
Gray describes a planned murder of Snyder by Mrs. Snyder and himself. He recounts grappling with Snyder to smother him with bed clothing, choking attempts, and closing a window to muffle cries. Mrs. Snyder allegedly poured chloroform on a pillow and tied Snyder with a picture wire.
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Der
Gray
Snyder
District Attorney Flesher on Official Visit
District Attorney W J Flesher left today on an official trip to other sections. Assistant District Attorney Grady Hazelwood and County Attorney Leo Sparks will handle duties in his absence. Grand jury expected to report several bills soon. The trial of former policeman B Bettis for murder is set for June 13 and the state versus Stratton for May 30.
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W. J. Flesher
Grady Hazelwood
Leo Sparks
B. Bettis
Stratton
Seek Burks in Texas tied to Elida bank robbery trio
A Texas inquiry centers on Burks as investigators continue to link Allen with the daylight Elida New Mexico bank robbery. Dyer and Eakins were arrested in Amarillo and Town Park, confessing and identifying Allen, Burks remaining at large with Michigan authorities seeking his capture.
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Allen
Elida
New Mexico
Jack Dyer
Verdun
Burks
Norman Eakins
Town Park
Dyer
Eakins
Amarillo
Pollard
Sherif Pollard
Michigan
Riot Anniversary Accident In Chicago Wrecks Haymarket Statue
On the forty first anniversary of the Haymarket riot a speeding street car derailed at the riot site in Chicago and damaged a statue honoring policemen killed in 1886. Two girls were cut by glass and eighteen passengers were shaken. the motorman broke his ankle.
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United Press
Chicago
Haymarket
Youth Is Kinder London Says Harrow Head Master
Dr Cyril Norwood, longtime Harrow head master, testifies that today’s youth are kinder and more civilized than 70 years ago while maintaining their manhood and womanhood qualities.
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London
Cyril Norwood
Harrow
Judge Predicts Rain Tomorrow in Oblique Note
Judge Henry Bishop hints rain tomorrow citing a forecast and observations of a “foul Friday” in a meandering report. A Globe News recount notes weather-tinged remarks amid speculation on his political fate tied to a regional rain pattern.
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Henry Bishop
Globe News
Bishop
Rotary Heads Named as Howard Paul Takes Over
Howard Paul assumed the presidency of the Amarillo Rotary Club at a noon luncheon at the Amarillo hotel. He outlined hopes for the term and urged club work while committees and officers were announced. The program featured a Boy Scout Teachers Institute at the Central Presbyterian church and Y M C A talks on Hi Y.
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Rotary
Howard Paul
Amarillo
Paul
D. Roach
R. Thomson
Boy Scout Teachers Institute
Central Presbyterian Church
Cecil Seaman
North Texas
Episcopal Church
Y. M
Rotary Club
George Lindsay
Rela Townsend
Sam Orr
Harry Lander
Frank Butler
Wilbur Hawk
W. H H. Matthews
Herman Pipkin
Roy Pool
Jim O'Brien
Ross Rogers
Will Winch
Fred Bone
G. L. Yates
O. V. Vernon
T. B. Gallaher
R. P. Parcells
Flood refusals and rescue amid Mississippi River break
Major John H. Lee warns a week to flood the town of about one hundred homes. Vicksburg and steamer Tallulah struggle as river rises ten to twenty feet, with skippers guiding stern-wheelers over flooded farmlands. Negroes stay on levee bundles while Red Cross prepares food and health officials call inoculation after a typhoid case.
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John ©. H. Lee
Tallulah
Delta
Milliken Bend
Vicksburg
Duckport
Harris Clifford
Louisiana
Red Cross
J. E. Black
State Board of Health
Unsolved Murders Haunt Amarillo Past Reports
Police review lingering homicide cases with hints of a missing body and possible suspects. Earlier leads tied a deceased man to an Alamo rooming house killing and two New Mexico convicts, but no solid crew connected. Other unsolved deaths include a Mexican recluse, a man found in a dugout near the Children’s Home, and sales man E. W. Hobart near Mias i Bivins Stadium.
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Texas
Terre Haute
Burton Roach
Alamo
New Mexico
Amarillo
Indiana
E. W. Hobart
Mias i Bivins
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