Bryan Eternalizes a Nation's Faithful Leader
Eastern Tennessee mourners gather at Dayton home as William J. Bryan lies in state awaiting funeral rites. The Associated Press chronicles the procession, the planned Washington services at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, and the arrival details for the funeral train via Chattanooga Knoxville and Roanoke.
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New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Bryan
Wallace Radcliffe
Radcliffe
Europe
Thompson
National Capital
Wiliam Bryan
Robbery at Depot Drug Store on South Butte Corner
Two unmasked bandits posing as buyers forced prescription clerk Maurice McBride into a rear room at gunpoint and escaped with 150 dollars from a cash register and safe. McBride was bound but freed, aided by Mr. and Mrs. Jones, and police were alerted. The crime occurred at a busy corner on Utah avenue and Front street as bystanders passed.
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Depot Drug
Utah Avenue
Front Street
Maurice McBride
McBride
T. C. Jones
South Butte
Death Stroke to Be Demonstrated Off California
Dr Edward R Scott of Detroit announces a U S battleship demonstration off California for a weapon called the death stroke He claims the munition will kill life within 20 miles and says the test will occur within two months The Associated Press report from San Francisco July 28.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
United States
California
Edward R. Scott
Detroit
Scott
Detroit Invent
Security Pact Seen Opening Door to Arms Conference
President Coolidge said a standing security pact among major European powers would clear the way for a new arms limitation conference. He spoke at White Court detailing that the pact could stabilize conditions abroad and lay a foundation for disarmament while delaying action until favorable prospects emerge.
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Associated Preas
Swampscott
O Coolidge
White Court
Europe
Coolidge
Mystery Poison Death Shocks Dillon City
Trena Krenegar a 22 year old woman believed to be from Billings was found dead in a Dillon rooming house after reportedly ingesting two poisons. She had arrived a day earlier and had been seen at an employment agency and Barshaw cafe before disappearing. Police investigate possible personal crisis in the case.
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Trena Krenegar
Billings
Butte
Barshaw
Bond
Tax Cut Urged By Copeland For At Least 500 Million
Senator Copeland of New York urged a tax reduction of at least 500 million dollars with no tax on incomes up to 5 000 dollars and the elimination of miscellaneous and inheritance taxes. He called for surtax reductions to ten percent.
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Washington
Copeland
Democrat
New York
Fairbanks Testifies in Mary Pickford Kidnap Plot Trial
Douglas Fairbanks testified about the defendants loitering at the studio where Mary Pickford worked. He described Stephens driving a sedan with Holcomb and Geck—one man missing who was said to testify for the prosecution. A defense bid questions a purported confession by Adrian J. Wood.
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Los Angeles
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Miss Pickford
Stephens
Holcomb
Louie Geck
Adrian J. Wood
Wood
Gertrude Ederle Plans English Channel Swim
In Boulogne France on July 28 1926 Gertrude Ederle the American girl swimmer announced her attempt to cross the English Channel on Monday August 2 at 6 45 am If weather cooperates she will follow the Tirabochi route and aim to beat the 16 hour 32 minute record set in 1923 by Enrique Tirabochi.
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Associated Press
Boulogne
France
Gertrude Ederle
English Channel
Mise Ederle
Enrique Tirabochi
Swirmer
Bryan quits cabinet over Austria note rumor story
Milton A. Miller of Portland, a close friend of the late William J. Bryan, says Bryan recounted in 1920 that his 1916 note to Austria was to counter Austrian and German plots harming American industry. Wilson approved the note and Bryan sent it to the cable office after delivering a copy to Ambassador Dumba, who then confronted the State Department.
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Portland
Ore
Milton A. Miller
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Wilson
Germany
Miller
United States
Austria
War Office
Konstantin Theodor Dumba
Dumba
Dawes Hooks Finger While Trout Fishing in Colorado Rockies
Vice President Dawes, staying at Col. A. K. Humphreys camp in the Colorado Rockies, hooked his finger while fishing. He landed twelve trout for the day, then required a doctor to remove the hook but returned to casting in the afternoon.
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Associated Press
Wagon Wheel Gap
Col
Dawes
Colorado Hockies
A. K. Humphreys
Mr. Dawes
Creede
Disant
Death of Ambassador Bancroft in Japan
Foreign office officials depart for Karuizawa to arrange transfer of the body of American ambassador Edgar Addison Bancroft from Japan to the United States. Japanese government may provide a battleship for the voyage. condolences from Baron Bidehara sent to the state department. Washington reports Bancroft died suddenly from a duodenal ulcer hemorrhage at Karuizawa. end came peacefully.
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Edgar Addison Bancroft
Tokio
Kellogg
Associated Press
Foreien Office
Karuizawa
United States
Baron Bhidehara
State Department
Foreign Office
Japan
Washington
Edgar A. Brancroft
Bancroft
Beere
Evolution Case To Be Heard On Friday
A Washington evolution suit hearing was postponed to Friday. The government motion to dismiss will have preferred status, agreed by Justice Fiddons after counsel for Loren H. Wittner sought more time to study the filing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Justice Fiddons
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Loren H. Wittner
Bond Issue Bid Fallout Delays Silver Bow Warrants Deal
Stranahan Harris Oatis of Toledo backed $320000 in serial bonds for Silver Bow county poor fund warrants but walks away after demanding a $10000 good faith deposit be returned. County officials refuse and prepare for possible legal action as the bond market worsens and a 4 percent issue with a $6.56 per thousand premium is reconsidered. James J. Brett forwards the deposited check for collection. Continued on Page 2.
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H. G. Walking
Stranahan, Harris & Oatis Company
Toledo
Silver Bow
James J. Brett
Walking
Butte
Great Northern Chief Expects Higher Earnings This Year
New York July 28 Ralph Budd president of the Great Northern says rail earnings may exceed 1924 due to stronger first half results and a favorable Northwest crop. He avoids Western rate issues but notes the Potter plan lacks support from Northwestern rail executives.
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Associated Press
New York
Ralph Budd
Great Northern
Northwest
Bryan Speech Published From Late William Jennings Bryan
Dayton Tennessee July 28 The anti evolution oration by William J Bryan was delivered posthumously framed as a defense of Christian faith and attack on evolution. He argued that Christianity solves humanitys problems while evolution is a collection of guesses. The address was intended for the Scopes trial but closing arguments stopped and Bryan lay in a bronze casket afterward.
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Dayton, Tenn
William J. Bryan
Bryan
John T. Scopes
Tennessee
George F. Melton
Chattanooga News
MacMillan Ships In Melville Bay Adventure
The Bowdoin and Peary of the MacMillan Arctic expedition left South Upermik Greenland and headed for Melville Bay. A July 27 radio to the National Geographic Society reported clear weather at noon, ice at Tugtokortok, and the pair approaching Wilcox Head and Devil’s Thumb. The ships aimed to cross Melville Bay, a route feared for trapping ships for weeks.
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Uppermiik
Greenland
Tugtokortok
Wilcox Head
Devil's Thumb
Melville Bay
Duel Tale in Cal Recorded as Murder Cover Story
Investigation into the Truden Kirk deaths in Brawley California finds letters alleging a dawn duel false. Evidence suggests a third party killed both men, not Truden who allegedly killed Kirk and then took his own life. A maid at the Imperial hotel corroborates Truden declined to rise, challenging the death letter narrative.
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Cal
John Truden
Henry Kirk
Truden
Kirk
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Tery
California
Imperial Hotel
Imperial
Jaccumba
Perth
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Roanoke
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Southern Railway
Ae McBride
Dillon Place
Commoner
Edgar Bancroft
Stranahan, Harris & Oatis
Mrs. Bryan
Macmillan
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