Reds win fourth straight game in 5 4 victory over Philadelphia
The Cincinnati Reds edged the Philadelphia Phillies 5 to 4 to notch their fourth consecutive win. Key hits came in the seventh and eighth innings as Cincinnati built a lead, then held on as Philadelphia rallied in the ninth.
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REDS
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Reds
Rina Nat
Satte
Mohon
Joneard
Nixen
Emehy
Vribers
Reneen
Poe
Ferguson
Tle Revesler
Walther
Noaptrava
Wandewer
Kord
Wanninger
Oe Pressen
Mekan
Rprewsler
Wargrave
Thompson
Wriahtetone
Tindel- Phin
Bixey
Ferran
Persson
Meerie Kiem
Melaughiin
Tennis, Ryan Defeats Clarke in Kent Championships
In Beckenham England Miss Elizabeth Ryan defeated England's Miks E R Clarke 6 2 6 4 in the Kent county championships second round. Other American entrants Helen Wills and Mrs Molla Mallory did not play. Also results from Southern Association games show Nashville 5 Mobile 4 Memphis 6 Birmingham 3 Little Rock 5 Atlanta 2 New Orleans 7 Chattanooga.
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Nashville
Mobile
Memphis
Birmingham
Little Rock
Atlanta
New Orleans
Chattanooga
Ryan
Beckenham
England
Elizabeth Ryan
America
Miks E. R Clarke
Helen Wills
Molla Mallory
Postponed featherweight eliminations bout in New York
The State Athletic Commission sanctioned postponement of the Dick Finch Finnegan versus Red Chapman elimination bout from Friday to June 22 due to Finnegan illness, described as chills and fever. The match had already been delayed once and was set for tonight originally.
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New York
Honeyboy) Finnegan
Red Chapman
Poston
State Athletic Commission
Finnegan
Coal loadings decline week by week in 1926 report
Washington June 8. Coal loadings for the week ended May 26 totalled 165 723 cars, down 11 875 from the year-ago period as the American Railway association released figures. Freight loadings were 1 026 397 cars, down 54 389 from last year, with other classes including Miscellaneous 386 477 down 19 928 and ore 62 201 down 4 298.
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Washington
American Railway Association
Terrorist outrages frighten Russians in double incident
Moscow reports two terrorist attacks within a day shocking the Soviet Union. A bomb thrown into a Leningrad Communist discussion club hall injured twenty six people, including ten women, as gunmen fled. A second blast killed Vice Chief Opansky and two assistants while a Polish intelligence agent Yani was injured on a Minsk bound railway car. Investigation points to counter revolutionary involvement.
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Moscow
Leningrad Communist Discussion Club
Leningrad
Opansky
State Political Police
White Russia
Yani
Minsk
Lish
President and Mrs Coolidge to vacation in South Dakota park
Washington reports President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge will vacation in Custer State Park in the Black Hills South Dakota. The area is described as one of the largest state parks with lakes trails and a network of scenic mountain roads.
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Washington
Coolidge
Harney Peak
Atlantic
Rockies
Lookout
Sheep Mountain
Buckhorn Mountain
Adirondack and
Catskill
New York
Pennsylvania
Peter Norbeck
Hie
State Lodge
State Game Department
Sylvan Lake
Camp McMaster
Snorty Colf
Dear Friends Share Aboard Rumor Of Former Maid
In Munich a fragment from Flegende Blaetter reports Mrs Smith learning her former maid is nearby. Mrs Smythe reacts with disbelief while Mrs Smith urges belief in half the tale.
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Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Smythe
Flegende Blaetter
Munich
President Coolidge eyed for potential special session
Washington reports a possible special session of Congress with Senator Smoot urging an early assembly. The White House gave no definite decision, stating it was too early to announce. Smoot, finance committee chair, notes six week lead time before December to address flood control and farm relief, with Vare and Smith contests looming.
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Washington
Congress
Smoot
Utah
White House
Coolidge
Coolidee
Sanders
Senator Smoot
Senate
Vare
Smith
Tlinois
Pennsylvania
Jones
Commerce
Georgia farmer cleared from charge of peonage
Dr W R King a prominent physician farmer of Oglethorpe county was found not guilty by a federal court jury. The case alleged peonage on his Lexington area plantation with accusations of white and black workers held against their will and forced to work without pay after an investigation by a Justice Department agent.
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Thens. Ga
W. R .King
Oglethorpe County
King
Lexington
Department of Justice
Allenrhu Special Formula No 2 Promises Neuritis Relief
A dental pain relief ad-style notice touts Allenrhu Special Formula No 2 capsules as a safe efficient cure for neuritis pain across shoulders arms necks or legs. It claims relief within 24 hours and advises two to three days of use, with Goodykoontz Drug Co. or any druggist supplying the product.
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Allenrhu
Good
Lindbergh Declines $2 Million Trust Offer
Philadelphia backers proposed a $2,000,000 fund to aid Charles A Lindbergh and his mother during their lives with eventual support for families of aviation pioneers. Lindbergh expressed gratitude but declined the proposal, which was organized by Joseph W Wear after talks with George H Brooke. The plan aimed to fund flight development families after the Lindberghs’ deaths.
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Philadelphia
Charlies A. Lindbergh
Joseph W. Wear
Hiladelphia
Wear
Lindbergh
George H. Brooke
University of Pennsylvania
Lindbergh Flight
London
Lind
Firmen
Moonlit Pacific Flight Postponed to August for Hawaii Race
Honolulu sets moonlit air race to Hawaii with a $25 000 prize from James D Dole. The event moved from August 1 to August 12 with moonrise after sunset. Competing airplanes may start from any North American port and must finish at John Rodgers Airport. Seaplanes finish in Pearl Harbor. Fliers follow great circle routes between Hawaii and mainland ports.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
James D. Dole
National Aeronautical Association
North American
John Rodgers
Pearl Harbor
Porta
Bandits Rob Local Bank Take Cash and Bonds
Three men held up the First National Bank at Ansonia near Greensville Ohio in the afternoon escaping by car with cash estimated between five thousand and forty five thousand dollars in government bonds. Police suspect flight toward Toledo or the Indiana line.
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Greensville
Ohio
Jane
First National Bank
Ansonia
Here
Toledo
Indiana Line
Two Fatally Injured When Bus Turns Over On Fifth Avenue
A Fifth Avenue bus overturned after a collision with an automobile at Fifth Avenue and 65th Street injuring two men fatally and hospitalizing many others. About 40 passengers were aboard. those on top were thrown to the street and others were crushed beneath the vehicle.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
65Th Street
Luncheon Club Speech Makes Farrington Hawaii Governor
Honolulu June 06 Farrington, then general manager of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and head of the Honolulu Advertising club, received a welcome from Senator Warren G Harding at a luncheon. Harding praised Farrington and later said he would appoint him Hawaii governor if presidentship ever came, a prediction fulfilled as Farrington has served a second term after reappointment by President Coolidge in 1925.
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Honolulu
T. H
Pima
Wallace
Farrington
Hawaii
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Honolulu Advertising Club
Warren G Harding
Ohio
United States
Bayou Black Dam Dynamited by Angry Residents
About 200 residents near Bayou Black detonated dynamite to blow out a hastily erected food dam amid ongoing controversy. The July event escalates a dispute over the barrier, disrupting local water control and prompting concerns of further action.
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Houma
Bayou Black
West Virginia Ohio River company to build toll bridge
The West Virginia Ohio River company plans a two way steeple like bridge across the Ohio River from Point Pleasant West Virginia to the Ohio shore near Gallinella. Construction has been approved by Congress and the war department.
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Pittsburgh
West Virginia-Ohio River Company
Ohio River
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Ohio
Gallinella
Purnell Accused of Hypnotic Influence Over Followers
State witness Mrs Rath Woerth testified in St Joseph that Benjamin Purnell head of the House of David colony used hypnotic persuasion to control followers. She recalled episodes where followers doubted his divinity and returned to the fold. Two teen girls Elian Murphy and Jessie Wheeler reportedly died by suicide after banishment to High Island colony possession.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Janet
Benjamin Purnell
le House of David Colony
Rath Wade Wwoerth
Jessie Wheeler
High Island
Kiwanis Loses One Fifth Its Members
A. Heber Winder of Riverside California told Kiwanis delegates at the 1927 convention that the international organization has shed more than a fifth of its total membership in the past year. He attributed the drop to indifference and lack of interest and urged strict adherence to the member classification system.
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Memphis
Tenn
United States
A. Heber Winder
Riverside
Cal
The
International
Winder
Alleged Gangster Indicted for Doctor’s Murder in West Virginia
Wellebure West Virginia June Brooke county grand jury indicted James Trepod 28 Steubenville gangster on murder charge in the November slaying of Dr Diego Delfino a follawshbree physician. Trepod previously faced trial in Steubenville on another slaying and was extradited after acquittal. Delfino was found shot in his car on a highway near here. Authorities did not reveal potential links between Trepod and the killing.
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Wellebure
W. Va
James Trepod
Steubenville, O
Brooke County
Grand Jury
Diego Nelfinen
Trepod
Steubenville
Dominic Soinett
West Virginia
Delfino
Here
Lodge predicts artificial life surpassing past limits
In Oxford Sir Oliver Lodge argues that creating life in the lab through synthetic protoplasm is not only possible but inevitable from certain viewpoints. He says such advances pose no religious threat and could enable human control over future phenomena once thought ancient.
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Oxford
England
Jones
Oliver Lodge
Italian Anarchist Goes On Trial For Plot Against Mussolini
Rome reports Italian anarchist Gino Lucetti, aged 27, who attempted to assassinate Premier Mussolini by throwing two bombs at the premier’s car last September, will go on trial tomorrow before a special tribunal for the defense of the state.
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Rome
Gino Lucetti
Muscolini
Mattison Burned in University Play Incident
Ralph Mattison, tackle for the 1926 Davis and Elkins team, was severely burned about the face when a stage cannon loaded with blank cartridges was fired too close to him during the college play Two Crooks and a Woman in Elkins West Virginia. Surgeons later said his sight likely remains intact.
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Elkins
W. Va
Ralph Mattison
Davis and Elkins
Cai
Texas well man burns to death near Pampa
Karl Lee Masters of Borger Texas a tool dresser was burned to death near Pampa when the Empire Oil No. 1 Archer well caught fire. Flames rose 20 feet after a blast while Masters was changing wells.
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Pampa
Texas
Karl Lee Masters
Borger
Empire Oil Company
Situation in China Steadily Improving Amid Tense Evacuation Talks
Peking shows unease among foreign residents as evacuation rumors circulate. Brigadier General Smedley Butler has arrived at Tianjin. American Marines prepare for possible movement to the coast while authorities debate risks of relocating the Peking legation. Negotiations with Chinese leaders continue with peace as the goal, but military stalemate persists.
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Peking
Smedher J. Butler
Tientain
Hal
North
South China
Orom Reese
Families flee as new flood threats rise across regions
Evacuations continue in Arkansas Missouri and surrounding areas as flood fears grow in Louisiana. Rehabilitation of flooded territory proceeds slowly despite an expected crest and plans discuss government boats delivering food and supplies to camps. Refugees leave concentration centers as waters creep toward the Atchafalaya basin and officials warn of another rise.
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New Orleans
Jane
Arkansas
Missouri
Tumore
Louisiana Territory
Lauretana
Atchafalaya
All Mexico Mourns As Cal es Wife Is Buried
Mexico City mourned as Senora De Calles, wife of the president, was laid to rest in the capital’s largest cemetery amid a vast crowd. The funeral followed a simple service after she died in Los Angeles following an operation. Also noted, 1928 US imports included $51,000,600 in diamonds and $5,457,000 in pearls.
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Mexico
Calles
Mexico City
Senora de Calles
Senora de Callee
Los Angeles
United States
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