House Approves Statehood With Conditional Referendums
The House passed a joint resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to immediate statehood but with postponement of final approval until each state votes on amendments. Arizona must vote on removing judicial recall provisions and on making its constitution more easily amended. Final statehood hinges on these referenda outcomes.
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Washington
Arizona
New Mexico
House of Representatives
Congress
Redlands Navel Crop Estimated at 3 Million Net
Redlands growers are projected to net about 3 million dollars for this season's navel crop, with roughly 700 cars of oranges still to be shipped. The season averaged around 1.60 per 100 pounds for navels, and pools ranged from 1.50 to 1.60. Packers push Valencia shipments before peak heat.
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Redlands
Relands
Spies to End Terror Targets Black Hand Rings in U.S.
Chicago and New York pursue Italian spies under federal police auspices to dismantle Sicilian Black Hand and Camorra networks blamed for recent murders at death corner. Investigations traced leaders across cities as Gen. James E. Stuart notes infiltration methods and possible double agents.
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Chicago
America
Black Hand
Camorra
Viterbo
Italy
New York
James E. Stuart
Post Office
Tony Maniscalsco
Death Corner
Marechetti
Sicily
Tony Mantaba
Paper House in Paris Aims at 1000 Capacity Church
Paris engages in novel architecture with a 1000 seat paper church said to be watertight by curdled milk and egg. The structure features electrical devices and a glass house design prompting talk of future power country homes.
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Paris
Unusual Pomona Civil War Vet Wills Frugally Buried
Franklin Cogswell of Pomona files a will valuing his estate at 20000 dollars but dedicates most paragraphs to burial plans. He asks for an oblong pine or redwood box five feet eight inches by one foot eight inches with six cheap handles and a hinged top for viewing his face, protesting expensive funerals.
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Los Angeles
Franklin Cogswell
Pomona
Cogswell
Minister's Wife Whips Kansas School Director in Public
In Caney Kansas Mrs W A Haynes wife of the local Christian church pastor publicly horse whipped Daniel Plowman a well known dairyman and Caney school board member. The dispute arose over a superintendent of public schools election after Mrs Haynes wrote a letter to a newspaper and Plowman pasted a clipped copy in his store window with the note she claims she is a religious woman. She entered his store demanding removal and then assaulted him with a riding whip.
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Caney, Kas
W. A. Haynes
Christian Church
Daniel Plowman
Caney
Plowman
Haynes
Mouse wins battle over Brooklyn pole planting dispute
In Brooklyn suburbs twenty women blocked a New York Telephone Co. crew from placing poles for 24 hours using hatpins flatirons brooms and rolling pins. Police were called but a worker then produced a mouse to divert attention and the poles were finally planted.
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New York
New York Telephone Company
Brooklyn
Hotel Man Guilty in First Eight Hour Law Test
Riverside May 30 Frank A Miller proprietor of the Mission Inn was arrested for violating the new eight hour law after his head waitress alleged a nine hour shift. Miller was found guilty but stayed judgment pending appeal. The case will go to the supreme court as a fast track test by the Southern California Hotel Men's association which backs him.
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Riverside
Frank A. Miller
Mission Inn
Miller
Supreme Court
Southern California Hotel Men's Association
Mistletoe on Water Elms in Oklahoma
Mistletoe is rarely on oaks and in Oklahoma is almost always on swamp or water elms. These elms grow in lowlands and along river banks where mistletoe thrives luxuriantly and does not appear to injure the host trees.
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Oklahoma
New York Night Workers Reach Sixty Two Thousand
A careful canvass finds 62 000 people work after sundown in New York. The figure equals the populations of Springfield Massachusetts Hoboken New Jersey Savannah Georgia Utica New Jersey and Elizabeth New Jersey.
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New York
Springfield
Mass
Hoboken
N J
Savannah
Utica
N. J
Elizabeth
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