Buffalo Jones and the Wests Bold Cowboy Hero
The piece lauds Buffalo Jones as a daring frontier figure who helped save the American bison and performed feats with cowpunchers like Tex Mansel and Buffalo Bill. It recounts African expedition antics, a Colorado canyon lariat rescue, musk oxen capture, and Roosevelt’s compliment, contrasting Jones with Bill and noting rodeo culture. the author visits Jones in Chicago and reflects on frontier myths.
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Tex’’ Mansel
Bozeman
Jones
Chicago
Ringling
Colorado Canyon
Tex
Roosevelt
Buffalo Jones
Plalsman
Kills Son in Law After Whippings in Georgia
In Newman Georgia John W Minter confessed shooting Millard Trouton to avenge his daughter's brutalities. He said five bullets were fired with family members holding relatives nearby. Trouton was kidnaped from near his home. his body later dumped in a creek and recovered a week ago.
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Associated Press
Newman
John W. Minter
Millard Trouton
Trouton
Breach Healed Plan Aims at U S Mexico Friendship
Washington reporters describe a groundwork plan for renewed U S Mexico amity after the return of commissioners Warren and Payne from Mexico City. They briefed Secretary Hughes and presented the accord to President Coolidge, with two claims conventions proposed to settle disputes and establish enduring ties.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Mexico
Harding
General Obregon
Charles B. Warren
John Barton Payne
International Commission
Washington Administration
North American
Mr. Warren
Payne
Hughes
Mexico City
Coolidge
State Department
White House
Plane nose dives killing two men at Camp Bragg
Alfred Demesquita of Brooklyn and Durham publisher and Army aviator Sergeant Edmund Reece of New York died when a privately owned plane crashed after takeoff at Pope Field Camp Bragg North Carolina. A board of inquiry was appointed to investigate.
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Associated Press
Popefield
Camp Bragg
N. C
Alfred Demesquita
Brooklyn
N. Y
Durham
Edmund Reece
New York City
Montana editors to visit Butte for Montana Press meet
About 150 Montana editors, arriving Thursday, will attend the annual Montana Press Association meeting in Butte. Local boosters say the visit offers Butte a chance to showcase itself as a warm, hospitable mining city and to counter the idea that Butte lives apart from state life. Sessions run Thursday to Saturday with visitors urged to observe city life.
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Montana
Butte
Montana Press Association
Chamber of Commerce
Firemen Entombed As Brooklyn Building Collapses
Early today a building housing the Plaza dance hall in Brooklyn collapsed during a fire. Estimates place 10 or more dead and 20 to 40 injured while crews rescued civilians and firemen amid heat and risk of further collapse. Ambulatory crews from Brooklyn and Manhattan aided by nurses and multiple fire alarms.
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New York
New Plaza
Brooklyn
New Plaza Dance Hall
Manhattan
Boulder Woman Killed In Unusual Car Accident
Helena reports Mrs. O Murray of Boulder was instantly killed when a revolver in the car discharged unexpectedly. The weapon lay on a folding seat. a rough road discharge sent the bullet through her mouth into her palate. The fatal incident happened on a road near Boulder as the Murray family rode in the vehicle.
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Associated Press
Helena
O| Murray
Boulder
Wage rates stall wage talks in renewed coal talks
Atlantic City August 20 wage rates in the anthracite industry dominated the renewed joint negotiations between mine operators and union officials. Union leaders demanded a five dollar per day increase in piece rates per ton for mining coal while operators argued any rise could be absorbed only by a coal price hike of about two dollars per ton, a burden the consumer could not bear. The United States coal commission reported the day’s sessions as adjournment left the topic open for further discussion tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
N. J
United States Coal Commission
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Phillip Murray
Rinaldo Cappellini
C. J. Golden
Thomas Kennedy
D. Warriner
W. J. Richards
A. B. Jessup
W W. Inglis
Uncle Sam to test transcontinental air mail in two planes
New York and San Francisco will launch an aerial express mail run. The two planes will fly toward each other to meet at the continent center. The five day test aims to set 30 hours west bound and 28 hours east bound flight times. Wind effects account for the two hour difference.
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Associated Press
New York
Sam
San Francisco
Atlantic
Pacific
Mother Smothers Unnamed Babe in Alco ster City
In Altester 8 D Aug 20 a mother, Mrs Archie Cornish, suffered a violent coughing spell while holding her infant at home. She fainted and fell atop the baby, who died under the mother before she recovered.
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Associated Press
Alcester
Archie Cornish
Secretary Wallace Warns U.S. Farmers of Wheat Bankruptcies
Washington notes thousands of farmers face bankruptcy as wheat trades far below production costs. Wallace says price gaps with other goods, high wages, taxes, and freight rates press farm costs, urging a fair balance between agriculture and industry. He doubts government price fixes or large purchases will solve the crisis.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wallace
Stokes Case Plays False Testimony Revelations
Four witnesses in the W E D Stokes divorce trial admitted they testified falsely. The confession was disclosed by Chief Assistant District Attorney F Pecora. Stokes, a wealthy hotel owner, sues Helen Elwood Stokes seeking 1 900 000 damages from step son W E D Stokes Jr known as Weddle, alleging involvement in a defamation scheme referenced amid sensational trial details.
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Associated Press
New York
W. E. D Stokes
F. Pecora
Stokes
Helen Elwood Stokes
Mellon to Remain in Cabinet Shapes Debt Talks
Secretary Mellon, back from Europe, will stay in the cabinet and aid policy on foreign war time debt funding. He told President Coolidge he is pessimistic about near term funding settlements, doubts any immediate inquiry into European repayment plans, and urges extending the debt commission’s life. He warned Europe’s reparations issue blocks improvement and linked it to U S debt payments, while noting German bankers’ fears of full republic dismemberment and France’s reconstruction progress.
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Associated Press
Washington
Treasury
Mellon
Europe
Coolidge
American Debt Commission
Debt Commission
United States
France
Friends
America
Germany
Republic
Kidnapping Baby Lillian McKenzie Still Missing in New York
An empty baby carriage sits on West Eighteenth Street where 3 month old Lillian McKenzie was kidnapped last Saturday. Peter McKenzie returns the empty carriage to his wife as detectives fear the child is dead. Police believe the kidnapper is a demented woman driven by a diseased maternal craving.
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Associated Press
New York
West Eighteenth Street
Lillian McKenzie
Peter McKenzie
McKenzie
Lillian
Flooding Hits Harrison Avenue In Butte Heavy Rain
A cloudburst overflowed Woodville canyon flooding Silver Bow creek and inundating Harrison Avenue. Debris and fast current crippled the busy street and halted traffic for hours as streetcars and boats were rescued by tugmen and launch crews. Commodore Nash led the effort from a motor as water rose to cover this main thoroughfare.
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Butte
United States Navy
Woodville Canyon
Silver Bow Creek
Mississippi River
Arkansas
Harrison Avenue
Commodore Nash
The
Street Railway Company
Spanish Forces in Desperate Situation at Melilla Front
Report from travelers arriving at Malaga describe a harsh censorship in Melilla and Abdel-Krim’s uprising with Kabyles and Beni Said. Spanish garrison at Farja holds under night raids and siege while relief attempts reach Faria. Rebels ambush columns but fail to break Spanish lines amid heavy artillery fire.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Malaga
Melilla
Morocco
Abdel-Krim
Farja
Afrau
Faria
Tifermin
Suing for Return of Diamond Ring From Former Lady Friend
Carl Rasmussen sues Maud Vogen in Justice Wilkinson's court over a $248 diamond ring. Rasmussen claims loan status. Vogen says gift. A Butte jeweler testified the ring was not paid for, supporting Rasmussen's loan assertion.
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Justice Wilkinson
Carl Rasmussen
Maud Vogen
A. Lvelovage
Butte
Rasmussen
Miss Wogen
Mussen
Mise Vogen
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United Mine Workers of America
Rinaldo Cappelini
W. of A
Charles P. O'Neill
John Hays Hammond
Uv. & Coal Commission
Thomas Riley Marshall
Buffalo
Africa
London
Arctic Circle
Buffalo Bill
Pendleton
Cheyenne
U. S
Obregon
Burning Hall
U. 8
Armerg
Secretary of the Treasury
American Debt Funding Commission
N. P. Viaduct
Grand Avenue
Deep Sea Harbor
Woodville
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