Gold Rush Days Return for Weeklong Sacramento Celebration
Sacramento prepares a six day revival of the Days of 49 from May 23 to 28 led by the Chamber of Commerce with state input. The event will feature period dress, mining town replicas, ox teams, stage coaches, and reenactments of Fremont Carson Vallejo and other figures, culminating in a governor's ball and a wild West contest. Transcontinental railroads offer special excursion rates starting May 16 to attend the festival.
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Clifornia
Sutter
California
Sutter Fort
Fremont
Kit
Carson
Vallejo
John B. Lonergan
Philadelphia
America
Transcontinental
Nevada to consider repeal of lethal gas execution law
Nevada officials say the next State Legislature will review repealing the unusual law allowing lethal gas for executions. The measure has drawn unfavorable publicity and failed to achieve its aims.
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Nevada
Carson City
Nev
Messenger Boy Held for Larceny on Wall Street
New York April 20 Maurice Byrnes a ten dollar weekly messenger boy on Wall Street is held on two thousand dollar bail on suspicion of grand larceny after allegedly throwing about one hundred thousand dollars in securities into the East River The case draws criticism from Magistrate McQuade who says brokers should ensure proper delivery of securities instead of relying on messenger boys
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New York
Maurice Byrnes
Wall Street
East River
McQuade
Commission hearings on merchant marine act section 28 schedule
Commissioners George E. Chamberlain Frederick I Thompson and William S Benson join Llewellyn G Smith to examine if section 28 of the merchant marine act of 1920 should be enforced The hearings commence at 10 30 in room 413 Federal Building and may continue tomorrow They will hold sessions in Norfolk Savannah New Orleans and across the Great Lakes and Pacific regions to assess port impact and adequacy of facilities for American tonnage usage
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George E. Chamberlain
Frederick I. Thompson
Williams. Benson
Llewellyn G. ‘Smith
Shipping Board
Guardian
Federal Building
New York
United States
Thompson
Gulf District
Chamberlain
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Benson
Atlantic Coast
Norfolk
Savannah
New Orleans
Great Lakes
Pacific
Ziegfeld to fingerprint Ziegfeld girls for truth checks
The Follies and related showgirls will be fingerprinted after hiring proposals by J H Taylor of the U S Navy Identification Bureau. Marie Dahm, a former Navy assistant, will head the fingerprint bureau to verify claims of being a Ziegfeld girl and swiftly expose impostors.
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Ziegfeld
Frolic
Sally
Mr. Ziegfeld
Identification Bureau
United States Navy
Department
Washington
Marie Dahm
Miss Dahin
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