Tallest Bride in the World Plans Gretna Green Marriage
Mies Katie Vandyk and Jan Van Albert, each eight feet tall, intend to wed at Gretna Green then tour Scotland and America. Vandyk, 20, weighs 350 pounds, faces clothing and hotel hurdles, and jokes about beds made from two joined double beds for comfort on her towering frame.
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Central Press
London
England
Mies Katie Vandyk
Bootland
Jan van Albert
Amsterdam
Sid Gretna Greenand
Scotland
Mauretania
Mise Vandy
Bond market quiets after period of reinvestment activity
After a spell of unusual reinvestment, the bond market slowed last week as new financing contracted and dealers worked down slower issues. Demand favored railroad issues and foreign bonds paused. Treasury officials noted foreign borrowing resistance benefits the United States as about $500 million flowed abroad in the first half and large offerings included Florida Power and Light and Long-Bell Lumber.
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Associated Pri New York
Dune
Kattford Lens
Woversl
Tiene Issa
Mount Imporance
Uwe
Vost
America
Flen Loara
Metion
United States
Foreian
Forelien Fone
Italy
Florida Power and Tight Company
Ie Long-Bell’ Lumber Company
Normal Business in Home Run Circles
The top sluggers continued hot in a busy week, with Babe Ruth lifting his season total to 27 and career to 838. Wilton kept his lead among Nationals with another homer as the Robins fell in a 10 inning game. In AL listings Ruth and Meusel pace the charts for New York and Detroit led, while in the NL Wilson, Louis, Bell, Hornsby, and Louis show strong totals for their teams Chicago, St Louis, and Philadelphia.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Babe Ruth
Hack” Wilton
Nationals
Ina
Ruth
New York
Laster
Simmons
Phiadelphia
Meurel
Goslin
Washington
Louis
Manush
Detroit
Cochrane
Philadelphia
National League
L. Wilson
Bell
J. Louis
Hornsby
Britton to Emerge from Retirement in Miami Match
Former welterweight champion Jack Britton plans a comeback meeting Red McLaughlin in August after retiring in 1925 to enter business. Promoter Ed Douglass said the bout would mark Britton's return to the ring under his private-life name William J. Breslin.
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Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Jack Britton
Ed Douglass
Red McLaughlin
Weather in Butte Sees Hot Pleasant Sunday Outing
Weather stayed hot in Butte as residents fled the city to woods and fishing streams. Returnees note few mosquitos and a sunny Sunday atmosphere with a high near 100 and a low around 53, marking a mild cooling from two weeks earlier.
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Butte
Wealthy baronet’s son picks toy train job over Oxford
J Terence Holter, 20, son of Sir John Holder, a wealthy British baronet, arrives in the United States to engineer a miniature Canadian Pacific train at the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial. He recalls his grandfather built England’s first miniature railroad, a mile and a half long. He had planned Oxford but chose the toy train role instead.
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New York
J. Terence Holter
John Holder
Britten Baronet
Oxford
Holder
Fitzpatrick Wins Orton Golf Prize in Butte
J M Pitepatrick defeated B Vic Daveler one up at the Butte Country Club yesterday to win the W C Orton trophy. Sixteen players started two weeks ago in the event, with finalists after three rounds. A blind bogey match drew many entrants as AL Tremblay finished first, three up on bogey.
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J. M. Pitepatrick
B. Vic Daveler
Butte Country
W. C. Orton
Sesday
AL. Tremblay
HW. A
Ra Clark
Bankers
Pen
Butte
Visting Bankers
Kansas Farmers Blame Tourists For Nuisances
Kansas farmers along major routes complain tourists bring little benefit while taxes fund highways used mainly by visitors. The Missouri farm association leader cites petty theft and misdeeds following tourist activity, urging警 vigilance and warnings to protect farms and small towns.
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Kansas City
Red Star
Out
Tel
Vicars Highway
Kaneas
Missouri Farm Associations
Earth shocks recorded near Georgetown University seismograph
July recordings show pronounced earth shocks from 10 36 to 11 00 a.m. at Georgetown University seismograph. Director Tondorff places the disturbance center about 1 000 miles from Washington, measuring the event as a notable geophysical occurrence.
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Georgetown University Seismograph
Tondorff
Washington
Business News Shows Mixed Summer Economic Trends
New York July 11 weekly business notes indicate continued summer activity with mixed signals. Industrial output declines and inventory clearing by one large manufacturer contrast with rail carriers reporting May earnings near record levels and a high operating ratio. Prices fall for certain crude oils and staple textiles seek revived demand as a national campaign aims to boost sales.
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York
New
Besing
Nand
United States
Thors
Reo
Catton Textiles
Campaten Stan
Spiritualism Attacked by London Preacher Basil Bourehler
Rev Basil Bourehler, a leading London preacher, denounces Spiritualism as a deception promising the beyond but delivering madness. He warns seekers that the movement is materialistic and harmful, citing personal disillusionment and avoidance of seances despite invitations from Arthur Conan Doyle and Vale Owen.
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London
Basil Bourehler
Ielange
Inquirer
F Crone
Arthur Conan’ Doyle
Vale Owen
New German Invention Promises Safer Airplanes
Berlin report claims Heer Bobiet of Breslau has devised a device that attaches a sliding weight to airplanes. The weight moves toward the rear as the aircraft begins a vertical descent, allegedly preventing crashes.
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Berlin
Heer Bobiet
Breslau
Obist
Dietium
Suffrage Leaders Recall London March Milestone
The president emeritus of the National Union of Suffrage Societies recalls marching in the first London suffrage demonstration twenty five years ago. She was among the earliest to signal intent for this year’s parade as a global suffrage and equal rights event drew a large turnout.
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National Union of Suffrage Societies
London
Broadmoor and Jimmy Chase Cherbourg Air Drama
In a clipped narrative from the airfront, Jimmy and Broadmoor escape a perilous chase toward Cherbourg after a Dutch rival Rogers plots to trap them. A Fokker and a Bleriot rendezvous amid fuel drops and a tense coast landing, with Broadmoor guiding Jimmy to safety and a plan to expose Rogers through regular channels.
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Belde
Broadmoor
Gruger
Cherbourg
Jimmy
Rogers Ad
Hentin
Anatishman
Weil
Quiet Prevails At Kanghg Prison After Mutiny
LANSING Kan July 11 annual Sunday quiet prevailed today at the Kanene alate penitentiary where yesterday 375 prisoners surrendered after a 36 hour mutiny. The prisoners barricaded themselves at the bottom of the mine shaft by locking the mine cage with heavy timbers at the 730 foot level. Work in the mine will be resumed tomorrow by the usual force except a few held for guest was announced tonight from the office of Warden W H Mackey. Guards held captive by the mutineers commented on the good order maintained in the mine.
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Prose Lansing
Kan
Kanene Alate
W. H. Mackey
Teady
Bunka
Molltary
Ward
H.W. Duncan
J. Black
Guarda
Canton urges powers to withhold recognition of Peking government
The Canton government declares no valid central government exists in Peking and asks foreign ministers to refrain from recognizing any new regime there. It argues foreign recognition fuels internal strife and intervention by outsiders, urging a peoples’ convention and united government before any recognition.
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Peking
Canton
China
Bulgarian doctors hunt cures in U9
Atlanta readers learn Bulgarian bacteriologist Dr Alexander Michailoff and four colleagues arrive in Georgia for a three month study of tuberculosis and infant mortality methods. The group travels from Boston and New York under Rockefeller Foundation hospitality to examine local techniques.
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Atlanta
Red Old Hills
Georgia
Alexander Mihailoff
Tntitute
John Howkins
Rockefeller Foundation
Michailott
United States
Boston
New York
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