Missouri News Nuggets: Missouri Youths and Trials
A Missouri roundup reports deaths in Nevada Grays Summit Paris and Sedalia, including Mrs Barah J Wellman 92 and Miss S T Adams 17. Attorney George W Farrell former Madison mayor convicted of manslaughter. A joint funeral for Mr and Mrs Milford Boyer notes a wife’s killer act. Scarritt-Morrisville assets endow Central College Fayette. Youth Leslie Merrick killed coon hunting. O W Harlow dies in accident. Boonville arrests in liquor raids. Sedalia banking figures—Poward H Harris Jr dies in Tucson. St Joseph council earns Rosecrans Airport title. Poplar Bluff Railway ceases two trains. Fulton Russell Bowers 16 dies from accidental gun wound. Sedalia escapees caught Beamon. Butler pair pleads guilty to robbery.
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Nevada
Barah J. Wellman
R. W. Mitchell
Shels
Mitchell
H. W. Wellman
St. Louis
Grays Summit
T. Adams
Missouri
Wm. North
W. G. Moore
J. B. Newby
Paris
George W. Farrell
Madison
Leslie Farrell
Farrell
Fand
Monroe County
Bt. Joseph
Milford Boyer
Springfield
Scarritt-Morrinville College
Morrisville
Central College
Fayette
Scarritt-Morrisville
Southwest Missouri
Southern Methodist
Leslie Merrick
Here
Coon
Sikeston
O. W. Harlow
William Harlow
Helf
Boonville
Ciry
United States
Irvin Bringes
Pettis County
Warrensburg
Estes
John S Watson
M. J. Elbert
Washington
Redalia
W. J. Hawkins
Eld
Washington University
Smith-Cotton High School
Linneus
James H. Collins
Commercial Hotel
Sedalia
Poward H. Harris, Jr
Third National Bank
Tucson
Ariz
Poplar Bluff
Hiram A. Jones
Greenville
St. Joseph
City of
Arthur Scoffield
Frank Waters
Missouri Heformatory
Beamon
Butler
Walter Letterman
Abred Burge
W. M. Rice
Passaic
Bates County
Child Five Goes With House In Sale
Los Angeles report states a five year old girl Barbara Carenter was treated as chattel when a boarding house was sold a month earlier. Buyer Mrs. B Hebard says the former occupant Mrs. Grace Stark turned the child over, claiming the mother would call soon, but no mother has appeared and the child cannot assist.
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Los Angeles
Barbara Carenter
B. Hebard
Grace Stark
Hardened convict shows chivalry in Boston theft tale
New York’s Arthur Murray, a 70 year old with a long prison record, confessed to a 4.65 theft with a 19 year old companion in a motion picture theater. He blamed the incident on his past, stated he took the goods while Mrs Erickson knew nothing, and the justices gave him a lenient indeterminate sentence while probation officers review Erickson’s record.
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New York
Arthur Murray Hieen
Boston
Arthur Murray
Murray
J. Brick
Oppenheim-Colling
Dog Sacrifices Life Trying to Save Gasser Family
A rescued collie named Collie lived as a loyal friend to Walter Gasser's farm family near Nashville. During a fire that claimed Mrs. Johnson and her three children, the dog repeatedly entered the burning home to rouse occupants and awaken others, suffering fatal injuries while trying to save them. The heroic animal died after guiding inhabitants to safety and enduring severe burns.
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Nashvi
Walter Gasser
Here
John Uttle
James A. Johnson
Gasser
Collie
Priest and Nuns Survive 21 Pirates Raid on Warhol
Father W. A. Fletcher and seven Canadian nuns endured raids by 21 pirate gangs aboard the Warhol from Kongmoon to Youngkong. They were robbed and confined for 60 hours as robbers looted the ship and murdered guards and officers. Pirates repeatedly boarded, taking cargo, supplies, and even Father Fletcher's hat and nun shoes.
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Hongkong
Kongmoon
W. A. Fletcher
Warhol
Youngkong
Walhol
Fletcher
Child mistreated by parents on home barge in Providence
Four year old Mary Marshall, living aboard a barge with her parents Cola and Minnie Marshall and siblings, faced severe abuse described as slings between beds and belted wrists. Police and juvenile court moved swiftly. the couple, Greensboro, N. C., residents, were jailed on cruelty charges after a report led to discovery at 16 Cape Street. Mary, rescued to safety, shows signs of hopeful recovery with care.
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Providence
R. I
North Carolina
Mary Marshall
Mary
Doyle Avenue
The
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
David
Lila May
Cola
Micnie Marshall
Providence County
Marshall
Water Front
Frederick Rueckert
Minthle Marshall
Hall
Greensboro
N. C
Little Mary
Flemming
Agent Proctor
Cape Street
Marshalls
State Pier
Proctor
Whale Climbs Bow Of Warship For A Day In Los Angeles
A 100 ton whale rode the bow of the battleship New Mexico for a day on the voyage from the Puget Sound yard to Los Angeles harbor. The navigator and crew faced alarm as bearings showed slow progress and the whale was finally found wedged on the knifelike bow and removed.
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Los Angeles
Calif
New Mexico
Los Angeles Harbor
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Discovery
Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots in History
A compact profile of Elizabeth I highlighting her contraditions and rule, and the backdrop of Mary Queen of Scots. It covers Elizabeth’s personality, marriages, favorites, conflict with Mary, the Armada threat, and the Golden Age of literature and exploration, plus her succession by James VI.
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Elizabeth
Henry VIII
England
Mary Queen of Scots
Elisabeth
Henry
Richard Tid
Europe
Edward VI
Mary
Edward
Jane Gray
Jane
Philip II
Spain
Eiizabeth
Henry 11
France
Leicester
Essex
Walter Raleigh
Scotland
Francis II
Henry II
Francis
Philip 11
Netherlands
Philip
Shakepeare
Spenser
Bacon
Raleigh
Drake
James VI of
James L
Engigod
Revise alphabet proposal eyed to save a billion dollars
Philadelphia reports Harvard professor Dr. Godfrey Dewey urged a new alphabet at the English language congress. The plan adds consonants and vowels, a symbol for the word the, and claims lighter books and faster reading would cut costs and labor while reducing print material.
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Philadelphia
Godfrey Dewey
Harvard University
Dewey
Labrador Claim by Montreal Precentor Stirs British Council
Rev Isaac de la Pena of the Montreal Hepard congregation asserts a royal grant from King William II for Labrador. The peninsula of 511000 square miles, partly Canada Newfoundland and Quebec, is sparsely populated and rich in timber and metals. The claim hinges on a seventeenth century Rotterdam merchant ancestor who allegedly saved royalty from wreck.
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Labrador
London
Pelvy Council
Privy ‘Council
Canada
Newfoundland
Isaac de la Penba
Hepard Congregation
Montreal
William II
Joseph de la Penda
Rotterdam
William
Quebec
Our Second Port Washington Century Battle of Ports
Our Second Port Washington notes that the second largest U S port is cited as the Du Tuth and Superior complex handling about 45 600 900 tons last year, trailing only New York.
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Washington
United States
du Tuth
Superior
New York
Moonlight Prompts Caution in Washington-Love Tomato Crops
Uncle Sam’s farm experts warn that moonlight, even a full moon, does not improve tomato growing. Washington-Love area farmers are advised to rely on standard crop practices and avoid moonlit cultivation assumptions.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Tiny fly inspires new streamlining in aviation design
An entomologist in Brazil observed a small orange mothlike insect moving at high speed. The creature, identified as geperty phor? cephenomyla, reportedly flies at 815 miles per hour, about half the speed of a rifle bullet, prompting engineers to study its streamlined form for next generation aircraft.
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Brazan
Geerty
Prickly Pear Dress Aims for Textile Industry Lease
Prickly Pear Dress group requests a perpetual 500 acre lease and a 125000 subsidy to build a textile plant using country waste products. Mime McCracken of Dublin led the delegation before Sydney’s labor minister and showcased garments from prickly pear and other waste fibers. Baby dresses could dazzle with Red Cross Ball Five laundry use.
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Women’s Organizations of
Australia
Mime
McCracken
Dublin
Widespread Arranged Marriages and Primitive Customs
A government report from Backward Africa notes in Bali in the British Cameroons, West Africa, that one man has 98 wives while 400 local men remain unwed. Another man has 27 wives and seven warriors have two spouses. The report also cites slavery witchcraft and trial by ordeal among some tribes, highlighting their primitive customs.
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Africa
Bali
British Cameroons
West Africa
Cuticura Advertisement Claims Skin Benefits
A vintage ad touts Cuticura Ointment for improving skin while recommending gentle facial application and a five minute wash with Cuticura Soap. It promises remedies for poor complexions, dandruff, itching, and rough hands in a concise promotional pitch.
Her Size Shoe Salesman Dialogue
A humorous exchange about shoe sizing. The salesman asks for her size. The customer says fives fit, but fives and a half are more comfortable, so she wears sixes.
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