Dowager Empress Marie of Russia dies at Copenhagen
Obituary reflects on Marie of Russia mother of Nicholas II and widow of Alexander III. The piece contrasts her era with modern times, noting the decline of imperial rule, wartime upheavals, and her exile away from the once grand Petrograd court. It warns how being born too late can be worse than being born too early.
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Copenhagen
Marie
Russia
Nicholas
Alexander III
Imperial
Petrograd
Indiana Anti-Saloon leader begins penitentiary term
The Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, gives up efforts to escape a sixty day sentence on the state penal farm after the Indiana Supreme Court found him in contempt. He cited lack of funds to continue the legal fight as the reason for abandoning the appeal.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
E. S. Shumaker
Indiana
Anti-Saloon League
State
Indiana Supreme Court
Shumaker
Texas doctors set Beaumont for meeting
Two hundred physicians of Southeast Texas will convene in Beaumont on April 10 11 and 12 for the South Texas Medical Association meeting. Beaumont was chosen as next meeting place at the last session in Houston.
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Associated Press
Beaumont Tex
Texas
Beaumont
South Texas Medical Association
Houston
Preacher at 19 Leads Rich Valley Church in Indiana
Richard A. Havens, 19, serves as regular pastor of Rich Valley Christian church in Kokomo Indiana. A high school graduate he plans to study law in the future and continue his clerical duties.
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United Press
Kokomo
Ind
Richard A. Havens
Rich Valley
Make-Up 7 Romance Footh Lions Chapter L
Janet reflects on her past in New York while caring for Denny with Lotus Flower and coping with memories of Ballard. Denny grows toward manhood as Janet balances mothering and ambition, contemplating happiness and the meaning of love.
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Denny Darlin
Dennis Reilly
Denny
New York
Flavia
Ballard
Theater
Janet James
Della
Janet
Broadway
Lotus
Lotus Flower
When He Is Sick The Child Rules The Home
Mrs Agnes Lyne argues that a sick child can dominate family life causing siblings to feel neglected and the mother to overindulge. She cautions mothers to balance care with firm return to normal duties to prevent lasting selfish behavior after recovery.
Sincere love tale amid Sussex casters and unyielding kin
A working girl Iris in Sussex loves a caster despite her uncle Henry's doubts. A village exchange frames the courtship as sincere though the suitor seems improper. Iris vows love with a grim humor about luck and blessing, while the uncle remains unconvinced.
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Sussex
England
Iris
Enery
Wife Slayer Electrocuted at Lincoln
Frank Sharp, twice convicted and twice sentenced to death for killing his wife, was electrocuted at 6 29 am in the Nebraska penitentiary. His wife, the third, was slain in March 1926 and found by the roadside after Sharp claimed he and his wife were kidnapped by three men.
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Associated Pres
Lincoln
Neb
Frank Sharp
Sharp
New York Streets and People Parade in 1928 Reflections
A collage of city scenes and figures from a New York column by D C McIntyre. It notes Riverside Drive plans and Park Avenue contrasts with Fifth and Broadway life, plus vivid street characters and a self-aware authorial voice.
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Riverside Drive
Park Avenue
Sutton and Beekman
72Nd Street
Hudson
New York
Fifth
Madison Avenue
Why Jimmy Skunk Wasn't Caught
Jimmy Skunk avoids traps by digging under a barn foundation to escape. He uses patience and careful planning, examines the scene from outside, and finally triggers a trap by rolling stones toward it, then returns to Farmer Brown’s area where traps are not allowed.
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Jimmy Skunk
Skunk
Jimmy
Farmer Brown
T. W. Burgess
France orders American correspondent to leave Paris
Harold Horan of the New York American is declared an undesirable foreigner by France over a memorandum on the Anglo French naval pact. He may face expulsion, after consenting to depart. Hearst and Norman Armour pressured the foreign office on his behalf.
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Clarence Walker Barron
Barron
Associated Press
Paris
Harold Horan
New York American
France
Hearst News Service
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Horan
London Daily Mail Today
International News Service
Norman Armour
Herrick
Foreign Office
Crossword Puzzle Teaches Words Across and Down
Puzzle features a gentle set of clues covering water springs manner possession and health for both across and down. Readers match terms like suitable roe and irrigation terms while probing ages and harvest tools in a classic newspaper cryptic style.
Puzzle of Clues and Phrases in a Comic Crossword
A garbled list of numbered clues spans sports terms fashion items and abstract notions. The fragmented text includes references to poker stake backbone coercion time coarse fabric and other assorted hints suggesting a crossword style puzzle or word game.
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Slayer Goes to Asylum for Insane Weatherford
Willie Ray Wall age 20 is committed to a state asylum after being declared insane at Weatherford. He faces hospital placement as authorities order treatment and evaluation following the incident.
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Slayer
Asylum For
The
Associated Press
Weatherford
Willie Ray Wall
Asylum Verdict in Poolville Slaying Case
A jury ruled Wall insane at the time of the shooting of C. C. Almonrode and remains insane now. Almonrode, an elderly farmer, was shot four times in the back while buying stamps from Wall’s father, the postmaster.
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C. C. Almonrode
Poolville
Wall
Almonrode
Master Plumbers Meet at Crowell Texas
Plumbers from 80 Northwest Texas towns are expected in Crowell for a regional Master Plumber Association meeting in October. Mr and Mrs Cliff Crump are spending their vacation in Dallas.
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Crowell
The
Associated Press
Crowell, Tex
Texas
Master
Mrs
Cliff Crump
Dallas
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