Miracle phonograph aids deaf children at school
A machine combining radio and phonograph features enables deaf students to hear their own voices and others for the first time. A girl of eighteen heard her name aloud, linking signs and lip reading to a new world of sound. The article then ponders naming mountains and streets and critiques odd local street names as examples of neglected history.
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Bluefield
Powell Streets
Gilmer
Bland
Bland Street
Bland Road
Lakeside Avenue
Memorial Avenue
Cumberland Pike
Gilmer Street
Earl Street
Mountain View
Ile Ramos
Peck
Thomas
Stewart
Stowers
French Cabinet Divided Over Doumer Plan in Budget Battle
Paris reports a fractious race in the chamber as Left bloc groups draft budget bills to balance the budget. They push 800 million francs in savings, higher foreign tax payments, and penal penalties while leaving capital levy to later consideration. Paris tribunes note Briand may face a cabinet crisis if Doumer's plan fails.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Briand
Doumer
Chamber
M. Doumer
Chambers of Commerce of
Mulhouse
Cotmar
Industrial Association of the
Upper Rhine
France
Mitchell to Continue His Air Defense Fight
Colonel William Mitchell says in a letter to the Florida Morning State he will persist in his fight for a national air defense system. He plans no business engagement that could hinder the defense effort and remains determined until a real defense is established.
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Tallahassee
Fla
William Mitchell
Florida
His Brother's Keeper presentation at Colonial
A Bluefield printing fraternity hosts an afternoon screening of the film His Brother's Keeper at the Colonial with free admission. Maury Barrett and Earl B. Lowder perform songs, H. Shett presents a talk, and a short clip. the film portrays the Colorado Springs printers hospital system and the union’s headquarters in Indianapolis, inspired by Dollman’s Am I My Brother's Keeper.
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Colonial
Bluefield
Maury Barrett
Earl B. Lowder
Daily
Tellgren
H. Shett
Indianapolis
Broadening Farm Relief Aid Seeks Surplus Crop Handling
Washington reports the administration plans to broaden its farm relief program to include machinery for handling surplus crops. President Coolidge and Secretary Jardine seek a conservative approach with a government commission to direct disposal, while avoiding government operation of a business or fixed farm prices.
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Washington
Coolidge
Jardine
Congressional Farm Bloc
Western Agriculture
Federal Agricultural Commission
White House
Itas
Des Moines
Iowa
Dickingon
River patrol boat aids fire fight at waterfront warehouses
A Potomac River fire patrol boat helped local firemen battle a waterfront blaze in Alexandria on December 26. The fire caused under 50 000 dollars in damage to two grocery warehouses near the torpedo warehouse, where no explosives were found. The cause was not yet determined.
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Alexandria
Navy
Potomac River
Power of Rich Peasants Blamed by Communists
Moscow reports that the Communist Party Congress debated methods to ease Russia’s economy and finance. The discussion centered on the Kulaks, rich peasants blamed by the Bolsheviks for grain export failures and other defects in the Communist economic system.
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Moscow
Russia
Communist Party Congress
Renewal of gang warfare blamed for Brooklyn pistol battle
In South Brooklyn at the Adonis Social Club a Christmas night party ended in a pistol duel. Richard Lonergan known as Peg Leg and two others died after a violent struggle while Aaron and Neil Perry were identified amid police records. A fourth man, James Hart, was wounded and arrested for homicide.
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New York
Brooklyn
Adonis
Richard
Peg Leg) Lonergan
Nergan
Mary Lonergan
White Hand
William Lovett
Neil
Perry
James Hart
Cumberland Street
Helen Logan
Mae Wilson
Hart
Lice
Joseph Howa
Pat Maloney
Jor
Coal Mine Owners Call Striking Men Back to Work
Anthracite operators publish ads urging miners to return at old wage rates for eight months while negotiations continue. United Mine Workers official Thomas Kennedy says workers will not be stampeded and will return only under a new contract, amid ongoing wage and arbitration disputes.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Kennedy
United Mine Workers
Hazleton
New York
W. W. Inglis
Mr. Kenney
Luzerne
Pennsylvania of Representative
Pinchot
Kennedy
International
Order for Chapman's appearance issued in federal case
New York December 26 Judge Charlies Merrill Hough issued an order for Gerald Chapman's appearance in the U S circuit on January 26. The order lets the convicted mall robber and murderer appear from Connecticut's adverse ruling. If the circuit rules against Chapman, a further appeal to the Supreme Court will follow.
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New York
Gerald Chapman
United States
Charlies Merrill Hough
Thomas
Federal District Court of
Connecticut
Chapman
Atlanta
New Britain
Hough
Charles W. Murphy
Supreme Court
Learned Hand
Hand
Man With Crutches Fatally Shoots Self in Downtown Gallery
In Louisville Charles J. Smith, 26, entered a shooting gallery with two crutches, put down a nickel, fired at a target and a shot through his head. He died minutes later. A note to his mother from Rosedale, Kansas, read I cant stand the life I am leading any longer.
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Louieville
Dee
Charles J. Smith
Jm. Frank Smith
Rosedale Kans
Bitterest cold wave sweeps East after Christmas
A post Christmas cold wave grips the northern United States and Canada with temperatures down to twenty eight below in Pas Manitoba and twenty three below in Minot North Dakota. Chicago reports three deaths from the cold as shippers brace for ten to twenty five below zero and polar bears huddle indoors amid subzero winds.
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New York
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Minnesota
North Dakota
Ferro
Canada
Pas
Manitoba
Minot
N. 1
Chicago
Weather Bureau
Middle West
Pittsburg
Atlanta
Great Lakes
Minneapolis
Duluth
Minn
Waterloo
Iowa
Milwaukee
Wis
Adirondacks
Fort Covington
Canadian
Owls Head
New York City
New England
Vermont
Boston
Harding Letters Not Burned By Mrs Harding Officials Say
Hoke Donithen of the Harding Memorial Association stated Mrs. Warren G Harding destroyed only personal and confidential letters. The government file remained at the White House. The Harding Memorial Association holds the rest and will dispose of them for posterity and national benefit.
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Marion
Ohio
Hoke Donithen
Harding Memorial Association
Warren G. Harding
Donithen
Mrs. Harding
United States
White House
Hardings
Harding
Harding Memorial Association of
Coolidge
NFL seeks to bar college players until graduation
New York officials propose an amendment to the NFL constitution at the Detroit meeting on January 36 to stop signing college players before they graduate. A second recommendation calls for reducing teams and splitting the league into eastern and western wings with a post season championship between division winners.
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New York
National Football League
Detroit
T. I Mara
New York Football Organization
Worship of Degrees Educational Policy
Frederick J. E. Woodbridge of Columbia University warned in his annual report that higher degrees attract the unfit and have become educational idolatry. He said the degree often favours status over true ability in many institutions.
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New York
Frederick J. E. Woodbridge
Columbia University
Nicholas Murray Butler
Tested New Rifle With Dynamite Target Tragedy
In Philadelphia a Christmas rifle test by 15 year old Vid Lavery and 12 year old Orlando De George went horribly wrong after they found a box of dynamite left open. Lavery fired from about ten yards causing a massive blast that left both boys gravely injured and carried to a hospital where doctors feared for their lives.
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Philadelphia
Markm
Vid Lavery
Orlando de George
Lavery
de George
Wells Disqualified in Welterweight Bout by Referee
Milly Wells of England was disqualified in the seventh round of a ten round welterweight match with Harry Dudley of California for using the backhand blow after ignoring repeated warnings. Reporters at ringside had given Wells the edge on points despite the ruling.
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Wells
New York
Milly Wells
England
Harry Dudley
California
Beckley Fire Destroys The Hab Store and Damages City Block
A destructive blaze in Beckley West Virginia started in The Hab local department store, causing an estimated 100000 in damage and forcing four hours of firefighting to confine flames to one block. The Hab was completely destroyed with owner estimates between 10000 and 15000 for the building, as Mount Hope crews aided.
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Beckley
W. Va
Dee
Beckley and
Mount Hope
T. J. Fink
H. B. Carter
Pr. BE. Bibb
I Aanware & Supply Comp
Beckley Department Store
Farm hand murders farmer then commits suicide
In Pocatello Idaho on December 24 Warren Lowry a farm hand killed farmer Frank Thirkill Jr with an axe as he slept then shot himself in the Farmers Home. Mrs Thirkill and their infant were bound but escaped to a neighbor. Lowry was found dead on a couch with a shotgun nearby. No motive yet established.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Pocatello Tribune
Frank Thirkill
Warren Lowry
Mra
Thirkill
Lowry
Wheat market wild affair as prices hit seasonal highs
Chicago reports a brisk wheat rally before Saturdays trading with prices rising 4 to 7 1/2 cents and December wheat closing at 1.4414 dollars per bushel. The advance was driven by return buying and a bullish government report with export demand and professional trading predominating. last hour gains were pared by profit taking. Corn and oats rose modestly on the spillover.
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Chicago
Cardinal Mercier to Undergo Operation
Brussels reports Cardinal Mercier aged 74 will have stomach surgery on December 29 for a lesion causing persistent dyspepsia. The bulletin notes nutrition is reduced and the operation will be performed with age precautions and local anaesthetics.
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Brussels
Mercier
Belgium
Pittsburg Patrols Tighten as Holiday Crime Surge Hits
Pittsburg December 26 Allegheny county detectives placed on 24 hour duty and reserve forces expanded at every police station to fight a holiday crime wave. The period has already seen two robbery murders and numerous injuries. In the last 48 hours three additional murders occurred where robbery did not appear to be the motive.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny County
Eight Webb mine victims laid to rest in joint funeral
Eight of the nine Webb mine disaster victims were buried at Rose Hill Cemetery after a joint service at the Miners Temple in Bellaire Ohio. The event drew leaders of the Ohio miners and included veterans from World War II, with military honours for Julius Tabaretti and a consular tribute for Alfonzo Zaccagini. Edward Kennedy’s burial was postponed to tomorrow to await his brother from Oklahoma. National leaders John L. Lewis and Phillip Murray sent regrets they could not attend.
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Webb Mine
Bellaire
Ohio
Webb
Rose Hill Cemetery
Miner's Temple
Temple Millionaire
Eastern Ohio
Lee Hall
David Watkins
W. G. Savage
William Roberts
FE. Schiltz
Shady Side Methodist Episcopal Church
Julius Tabaretti
Tabaretti
Washington, D. C
Alfonzo Zaccagini
Edward Kennedy
Oklahoma
John L. Lewis
Phillip Murray
Control of Feng in Northern Zone China Extended
Chinese civil war headlines note Feng Yu-hsiang extending control across northern China from the Mongolian border to the sea as Wu Peifu battles south and Chang Tso-lin resumes influence near Mukden. Tientsin quiets after Li Ching-ling defeat as foreign guards withdraw and rail service to Peking resumes.
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Feng
China
Washington
Tientsin
Feng “Ue
Chang Tso-Lin
Mukden
Chang
Great Wall
Shanghai
Manila
Ang
Tientain
Owever
Wu-Pei Fu
Soviet Russia
Mongolia
Lake Baikal
Fong
Kalgan
Peking
Japan
Russia
Pacific
Chihli
Li Ching-Ling
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Kuominchun National Peoples’ Army
Tientsin-Pukow
Kuo-Sung- Ling
Lin Changse
Kuo Sung- Ling
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Decoor
North Carolina
West Virginia
East River
Peter's Mountain
Flat Top
Elkhorn
Beaver Pond
Grassy Branch
Brush Fork
Earth
Mitchell
Inter
Memorial Association
Theag
Board of Trustees
Frank Thirkhill, Jr
Cardinal Mercier
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