Romania's Carol I Returns as King After Coup
Edward W. Pickard outlines King Carol I's dramatic return to Bucharest after a coup d etat, Parliament's quick coronation, a general amnesty, and political turmoil as parties split over a stable government. The piece notes Carol's constitutional pledges, family doubts, and rivalries with the Liberal party and Princess Helene. The report ends with tariff bill passage after extended debates.
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Edward W. Pickard
Carol Carriman
Rumania
Caroli
Bucharest
Michael
Carol
Romania
Liberal
Geome
National Peasants’ Party
Julia Mania
Marie
Tincharest
Oberammergau
Helene
Magda Lupescu
Bags
Chicago crime wave after murder of veteran police reporter
Chicago responds to the killing of Alfred J. Lingle, a veteran Tribune crime reporter. Rewards totaling 55 100 are offered for information leading to the slayer’s conviction. City officials face sharp criticism for gang suppression as police target known criminals and the press reflects nationwide on the bold attack.
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Hicago
Alfred J. Lingle
Chicago Tribune
Polce Department
Lingle
Underworld
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Steamer Fairfax Rams Tanker Pinthis In Fog Fatal Collision
In Massachusetts Bay off Scituate the steamer Fairfax collided with the tanker Pinthis laden with 500000 gallons of high test gasoline. Two minutes after impact the tanker exploded and burned, killing many aboard both vessels. About eighteen Fairfax crew members died and the rest suffered severe burns. Federal investigators opened a case in Boston with serious charges under review.
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Fairfax
Merchants
Miners’ Line
Massachusetts Bay
Scituate
Boston
Bishop Cannon Faces Senate Contempt Inquiry
ISHOP CANNON of the Methodist Church and various dry groups may avoid punishment for contempt of the senate lobbying committee. He appeared voluntarily again, again refused to answer questions about his 1928 campaign activities. The private conference committee ruled it fruitless to pursue punishment or seek senate authority to compel testimony.
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Ishop Cannon
Methodist Church, South
Senate Committee On
Senate
Committee On
Cannon
Senate fights over access to naval treaty documents
The Senate foreign relations committee pressed for full access to all papers on the naval treaty and London conference. Senator Johnson urged the committee to obtain documents, while Senator Teed offered secret papers under non disclosure. The committee adopted a resolution asserting its right to examine all relevant documents and Borah warned the dispute would not alter the treaty's fate.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
California
Senate
Teed
Pennsylvania
Borah
House panel approves second Boulder dam deficiency bill
The house appropriations committee reported favorably the second deficiency bill with an initial $10 660 000 appropriation for the Boulder dam project after contract changes. Witnesses including Secretary of the Interior Silas Wilbur testified that contracts with Los Angeles and the metropolitan water district did not require minimum water or power purchases. Amendments were made to address these objections.
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House Appropriations Committee
Boulder Dam
Secretary of the Interior
Tay Lyman Wilbur
City of
Los Angeles
Metropolitan Water District
Hoover Nominates Forbes for Ambassador to Japan
President Hoover taps W. Cameron Forbes of Boston as ambassador to Japan and names Chairman Legge and C. C. Teague to join the federal farm board, appointing leaders from federal agencies.
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Hoover
W. Cameron Forbes
Boston
Japan
Legge
C. C. Teague
Federal Farm Board
Wisconsin Republicans Hold Oshkosh Convention Endorses Kotler
Wisconsin Republicans convened in Oshkosh and endorsed Gov. Walter J. Kotler for renomination. Delegates adopted a platform of new progressivism seeking a middle ground between reactionaries and radicals and reiterated a call for a nationwide prohibition referendum.
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Egular Republicans
Wisconsin
Oshkosh
Indiana Democrats and national party clashes reflect campaign rhetoric
The Indiana Democrats issued a state ticket and criticized Republicans amid charges that the people are not governing themselves. In Ontario a Mystice Shrine event drew a large crowd to a parade and a peace memorial dedication featured Senator Joseph T. Robinson. The Imperial council chose Esten A. Fletcher of Rochester as imperial potentate and Cleveland as next year's convention site.
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Indiana
Republican Party
Obles
Toronto
Ont
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Imperial Council
Esten A. Fletcher
Rochester
Imperial
Cleveland
Ohio
Hoover awards Walgreens prize to Ohio high school senior
President Hoover gave the Charles Tt. Walgreen prize of 500 dollars to Pauline Lodge of Lakewood Ohio a high school senior. She won the second annual Gorgas memorial essay contest among 5000 competitors nationwide and received five hundred dollars plus two hundred fifty dollars for travel expenses to the National Capital.
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Hoover
Charles Tt. Walgreen
Pauline Lodge
Lakewood
Ohio
Prestes Returns to Brazil After Washington Visit
Ulio Prestes president elect of Brazil was hosted by the U S government in Washington last week. Secretary of State Stimson and other officials met him at the station and Marines, cavalry and artillery escorted him to a private residence. The state banquet on Thursday evening was the chief feature of the visit.
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Ulio Prestes
Brazil
Mr. Hoover
Washington
Stimson
Doctor Prestes
Baltimore physician claims cold germ found and vaccine
Dr J A Pfeiffer of Baltimore announces isolation of the micrococcus causing the common cold and a vaccine proven in tests. The vaccine is said to immunize individuals against colds for one to three years, potentially reducing losses to American workers estimated at two billion dollars annually.
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J. A. Pfeiffer
Baltimore
Simon Commission report published in London and India
The first volume of the Simon Commission report on India appears in both London and India. It states Britain will grant self government within the empire at the earliest safe moment. English reception is favorable while Indian nationalists and native press condemn it as insulting to India. Indian princes endorse it as supporters of the British role.
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India
London
Great Britain
England
Bank of Bay Biscayne shuts doors amid withdrawals in Florida
Florida's Bank of Bay Biscayne, its three subsidiaries in Miami, and others suspend operations as a protective move for depositors amid large withdrawals. Federal Reserve airlift of 35 million arrives to stabilize the system. Bank resources total 17.182 million with deposits of 15.037 million as of March 27 1990. Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust of Cincinnati also shut after capital impairment from stock market losses.
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Gorrs
Florida
Bank of Bay Biscayne
Miami
Federal Reserve Bank
Athinta
Obid State Banking Department
Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust Company of Cincinnati
A. W. Shafer
Henry L. Doherty Company
New York
Toledo Robber Shot After Ambush At Home
Police in Toledo concealed an ambush at the bandit Claude Allen's home for days. Allen, 30, was killed in a gun battle as his wife Edna, 26, and their 3-year-old son John watched from a bedroom. The wife and child were prisoners. other gang members fled. Loot valued at several hundred dollars linked the gang to crimes in Flint Jackson Lenawee. Edna Allen described their life and the couple’s rise in crime, with Claude seeking better prospects north of Tennessee before crime led to their downfall. Edna is staying at Beech House while Tennessee relatives arrange to take her and the child home.
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Toledo
Ohio
Claude Allen
Allen
Edna
John
Bandit
Flint
Jackson
Lena
Wee Junction
Mich
Claude
Tennessee
Falls
Jem
Michigan
Thad
Britain Plans Air Giant for Service to America
London announces completion of plans for a new giant airship K-102 destined for transatlantic service. It will be larger and faster than recent British airships and use semi Diesel engines powered by shale oil, signaling a major step in lighter than air design.
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London
England
French Air Taxis Offer Flight at One-Guest Price
Paris hotel launches its own plane service for guests enabling up to four riders for the price of one. Planes available at a flat nine francs per kilometer with hangars at Le Bourges. Guests may order trips anywhere and keep aircraft on call for any duration.
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Paris
le Bourges
Eleven year old girl appointed church organist in Colford England
Stella Dix of Short Standing is named organist of a local church. The 11 year old schoolgirl takes on the role in Colford, England, marking a notable youth achievement in the parish.
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Colford
England
Stella Dix
Lighthearted New York Snippets From The Bell Syndicate Era
A collection of humorous vignettes set in New York City scenes. Tales include a purser seeking sea voyage relief, rooftop hideaways on Park Avenue, a profit driven apartment complex without a post office, a German cigarette box mystery, and a Westchester housewife’s umbrella misadventure on a Grand Central trip. The anecdotes mix city life, quirks, and social curiosities with light ironic tone.
Woman uses three names in three hours in Newcastle
In Newcastle Indiana three name changes occur in one day. Mrs Amos C Dyer first appears as Mildred Kiesick obtaining a divorce from Simon Kissick and restoring her maiden name Hniynes. She then becomes the wife of Dyer.
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Newcastie
Ind
Amos C. Dyer
Newcastle
Mildred Kiesick
Simon Kissick
Hniynes
Dyer
Change Decree for Budapest In the Name of Crown
A decree from Budapest alters phrasing for legal acts. All laws and decrees now bear In the name of the holy Hungarian crown replacing the prior In the name of the Hungarian people. The change aligns with historic royal tradition following postwar shifts and deprivations of the Hapsburg lineage.
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Budapest
Hungary
Hapsborg &Ing
Rockefeller Becomes Tenderfoot Boy Scout in Lakewood
John Rockefeller was made a tenderfoot Boy Scout outside the Baptist church in Lakewood New Jersey after listening to a talk by William Mc Gee twelve years old of Lakewood on the aims of the Boy Scout movement of Ocean and Monmouth counties. Mc Gee spoke on a $150000 fund drive for the scouts and was introduced to the financier after services.
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Rockefeller
Tenderfoot
Lakewood
N. J
John Rockefeller
Baptist
William McGee
Boy Scout Organization
Ocean and
Monmouth Counties
William
New Orleans Market Celebrates 200 Years Of Food And History
The old French Market in New Orleans marks two centuries of supplying fowl seafood and produce to residents and visitors. Historians note its continuous history and its role across four flags from French to American power. The Louisiana Historical Society plans commemorations as a modern sanitary market is prepared to replace the stalls.
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New Orleans
North America
Place d'Armes
Andrew Jackson
Lafayette
Thackeray
Jenny Lind
O'Reilly
Roosevelt
Tutt
Louisiana Historical Society Plains
Sister saves sister then killed in street crash
Six year old Marion Carlin pushed her four year old sister Peggy aside to spare her, but was struck by a truck on Twenty seventh Street and Gerard Avenue. Marion died instantly at Mary Dreyel hospital. Peggy suffered cuts and bruises. Mellor Griffith of Manayunk was arrested.
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Philadelphia
Marion Carlin
Peggy
George Street
Gerard Avenue
Mellor Griffith
Manayunk
Marion
Mary Drevel Hospital
Griffith
Students Outsmart Elders in St Louis History Quiz
St Louis high school students stumped elders in a city history exam. A contestant corrected the founder’s name Pierre Laclede Liguest, not La clede. Another student proposed consolidating St Louis and St Louis County, a plan baffling officials. Judges were unanimous in favor of the students.
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St. Louis
St. Lows
Pierre Laclede
St. Louis County
Woman 51 Sees Father for First Time in Life
In Portland Oregon Mrs. Fulton aged 51 connects with her father John Turnage 78 of Carbon Dale Illinois after years of separation. They located each other about six years ago through friends in Williamson County Illinois and recently met face to face for the first time.
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Portland
Ore
Mra
da Fulton
John Turnage
Carbondale
Turnage
From Soaps to Ivories at the Twentieth Century Store
Marie Antoinette Kelly, a soap counter clerk, is suspected in an ivory manicure set theft but is exonerated by a detective who reveals a long‑time pattern of her sharp salesmanship. The officer offers a promotion to oversee the ivory counter after Saturday.
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Aris Antoinette Kelly
Marie Anfalnete
Miss Skinner
Marie
County Register
Ann Winston
Ann
Mare
Toler
Maurie
Misa Skinner
Walt
Ivory
Muarle
Alaric
Morte
Ivories
Teilet
Kelly
Marie Antoinette
Inland Waterway From New York To Florida Route Outline
A described inland waterway runs from New York harbor along the Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay then via Albemarle Sound to Pamlico Sound. It continues by artificial channels past Georgetown North Carolina and outside from New Port North Carolina to Florida, paralleling the Atlantic coast.
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New York
Florida
Atlantic Coast
New York Harbor
Delaware River
Chesapeake Bay
Albemarne Sound
Pamco Sound
Newpot
N.C
Georgetown
N. C
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