Curry Denies Forcing Girl Into Marriage Plan
Johnstown report says 20 year old Fred Curry in jail on charges linked to a 24 hour disappearance of Miss Wiolet Hyder. Curry claims she volunteered into the car and showed no protest, while authorities report she says a hand covered her mouth during an abduction from her father’s home in Conemaugh. Arrests include Curry’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Saba Curry and Zelma Curry and Ivan Zagmalck.
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Johnstown
Fred Curry
Wiolet Hyder
Cumberland
Conemaugh
Scainshim
Miss
Marttage
Zelma Curry
Ivan Zagmalck
Rowell to Attend Annual Tuberculosis Meeting
Geonie C Hewell executive secretary of the West Virginia Tuberculosis and Health Association will attend the National Tuberculosis Association annual meeting in June 1927 at Sarganac Lake. Howell chairs the advisory committee on social and vocational rehabilitation of tuberculosis patients in sanatoria and will report to the conference. Attending also are Dr A V Cadden Mary Virginia GM Frances Taberta Pratt Clio McLaughlin field nurses and Mrs Mabel Merziken. Alicia Shimer from the national stall assigned to West Virginia to continue rehabilitation work at Hopemont sanatorium in cooperation with the Blaje association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geonie C. Hewell
West Virginia Tubercareais and Health Association
National Tuberculosis Association
Sarganac Lake
Howell
A. V. Cadden
Hopemont Sanatorium
Mary _Virgina GM
Frances Taberta Pratt
Clio McLaughlin
Stoic Tuberculosis Clinic
Mabel Merziken
Huntington Tuberculosis Association
Misa Alica Shimer
West Virginia
Blaje Association
Trial of Mrs Shaffer To Be in Wood County
Mrs Ruby Shaffer 37 of Bancroft faces circuit court in Wood County in October on charges of conspiring with Distord Cauley to poison her husband Patrick Shaffer collect his life insurance and marry Cantry. Alvin J Barnhart said venue moved from Putnam County after two trials, one hung jury and one conviction of Cauley. The defense argues Shaffer died natural causes while the state cites stomach poison traces. A separate note reports a German who carried a bullet 18 years died of blood poisoning in Palsiey Beotland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Shaffer
Bancroft
Patrick Shaffer
Cantry
Circuit Court
Wood County
Alvin J. Barnhart
Cauley
Shaffer
Palsiey
Beotland
Tax cases and other news from a bygone year
The column surveys tax appeal chatter involving Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank and a possible ruling on Mellon. It notes the Blue Cage baseball team’s dominance, Roosevelt sandwich quip, warm-season retail boosts, and University honors for Senator Carter Glass. Also mentioned are Fred Brown’s Senate debut, Michael MacWhite’s art collection, the rise of traveling actors, Arthur Mitchell’s Virgin Islands trip, Oswaldo Aranha’s travel observations, and a New England hotel registration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Mmitelett
National Chty Bank
Mitchell ML
Caele
Andy” Mellon
Coolidge
Fred Brown
New Hampshire
Senate
Brown
Calvin Coalidge
Michael MacWhite
Telsh Eree
Bartlett
Dublin
Arthur W. Mitchell
Virgin Islands
Oswaldo Aranha
New England
Conn
Washington phone call and stock market chaos hinted
A clerk arranged a long distance call to Washington and within minutes the line rang with Washington on the wire. The day’s trading saw many stocks rise to yearly highs amid a volatile Wall Street crowd. A reported tax plan moves through state and national chambers while bookmakers loom on the horizon.
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Washington
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Wall Street
House
Senate
Chicago
Obituaries and funeral notices for several local residents
A sequence of funeral notices for Mrs. Anna A Midkiff Mrs Mary E Spencer Charles Crofford Peters and others detail services set for two o'clock this afternoon or 2:30 tomorrow at local churches chapels and cemeteries, with cloistered lists of pallbearers flower girls and survivors including families and addresses in Davis Creek Sugar Creek Two and Three Quarter Mile Creek and nearby areas. Burial locations include Cobb cemetery Spring Hill cemetery and Lynn cemetery.
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Anna A. Midkiff
C. E. Walker
HH. Howell
Anna B. Midkiff
Waroea
Levi
Cobb ‘Cemetery
Davis Creek
Beegle
Mount Calvary Baptist Church
O. E. Beeple
Randolph Street
C. B. Jackson
Spring
Fred Ravts
Fred Sloane
C.F. Warner
B. W. Parsons
M. Walden
W. C
Mary FR. Spencer
Virginia Street
Bartlett Chapel
George W. Shirley
Lynn Cemetery
Sugar Creek
Charles Crofford Peters
Charles Croffors Peters
Stanbury Peters
Bakers Fork
Harden and Harden
Mary S. Smith
Samuel DL, Smith of
Hichlawn
Mer. L. D. Mitchell
C. Lb. Mitchell
HL C
Wary Jesa
Cora J. Smith
Waley Pleads Guilty in Kidnap Case Amid Confession
The court heard Waley plead guilty to kidnapping the Mules timber heir and receive a 45 year term though not yet sentenced. Attorny Stephen J. O'Brien noted the defendant’s youth and claimed the 19 year old girl involved rented a Spokane house without knowledge of the crime. The judge delayed sentencing to review the unqualified plea.
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Waley
Wile
Spokane
Snafety Gang
Stephen J. O'Brien
Aps
O'Arlen
Cushman
Raymond J
Hoquiam
Dalnard
John P. Weyerhaeuser
Connelley
Tacoma
Weyerhaeuser
Dajnard
Annie Wright Seminary
Conneltey
Dainard
Kidnapping details unfold with ransom plot and arrests
Testimony outlines Waley and Dainard handling a boy captive, routing a $200,000 ransom from May 31 in Seattle Spokane and Issaquah moves. Suspects jailed in Salt Lake after fleeing to Utah while Mitchell pushes bribery claims against steamboat inspection officials and a missing Morro Castle report.
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Waley
Dainard
Cannelley
Tacoma
Seattle
Issaruah
John P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr
Spokane
Issaqualy
Waleys
Connelley
Salt Lake
Gwynn Gardiner
Mitchell
Trimble
J. S. Patton
Coast and Geodetic Survey
H. D. King
Bureau of Lighthouses
Joseph B. Weaver
Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection
Ene [Bene Vidal
Bureau of Air Commerce
Morro Castle
Roper Denies Graft Charges and Damages Questioned
The article describes Senator Roper denying graft charges after appearances before the committee. J Craig Peacock, head of the shipping bureau, outlined the Leviathan contract and claimed damages of 20,000. Mitchell, relating to a gift of 1,720,000, faced skepticism from Sen. Vandenberg who doubted the figures and suggested larger forgiven damages.
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Edly
Roper
J. Craig Peacock
Shipping Board Bureau
Mitchel
United States Lines
Pepcack
Sen. Vandenberg
I. Mich
Summer Season Begins Officially This Morning
The summer season opens officially this morning at 2:58 Eastern Standard Time as the sun rises over the North Pole area. Officials note the spring period has passed with reports of rain on the 15th and 26 days of the month, marking the transition.
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North Pole
South Trimble
Commerce Department
Pearick
Twin Daughters Born to Elkins in Charleston General
Mr and Mrs Robert Elkins of Dorothy announce the birth of twin daughters on Wednesday June 19 at Charleston General hospital. Also listed are a son Kerry Lee born June 14 to Mr and Mrs R William Brooks of Buckhannon, a daughter born yesterday to Mr and Mrs A E Rutoff of Belle at Charleston General hospital, a son Richard Earl born yesterday to Mr and Mrs T S Burford of Guthrie, and other notices including Helen Farris Watt prior to marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Elkins
Dorothy
Charleston General Hospital
R. William Brooks
Buckhannon
Kerry Lee
Huckhannon
Brooke
Helen Farris Watt
A. E. Rutoff
Belle
Ralph Meadows
St. Albans
T. S. Burford
Guthrie
Richard Earl
German liner Gneisenau sister ship to Scharnhorst
Rainfall data notes June total of 3.83 inches and May 22 day total of 8.15 inches. Bremen reports the new 19,000 ton German liner Gneisenau as a sister ship to the Scharnhorst which began her maiden voyage to the Far East days earlier.
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Bremen
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Far East
Double Cross Planned by Bruno Page Cont welder case
A partial account reveals how Hauptmann’s alleged wider interest and other unpresented points could influence a possible retrial. A state official called the abductors’ scheme an example of extreme criminal planning. A hailstorm in Na iat killed thousands of birds and villagers reported lochusts wiped out a swarm.
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Naiat
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Hollywood
Marlene Dittrich
Claudette Carter
Carole Lambard
Los Angeles
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Jack Frost
Roubaix
France
England
Mery Spencer
Mary McClaskey Spencer
J. H. Spencer
Edward
Artie Spencer
Frank Spencer
South Charleston
Theodore Spencer
Eurela
Nellie Maddox
Macel Spencer
Daisy Andereson
Charleston
Johnson Mortuary
Rigrish
WooVn
Be Pe
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Kodak
P. G. Buckley Drug Store
Kanawha City
Carey System, Inc
Ike
Pure Food Markets
Wyoming Street
Kanawha St
Dial
East Bank
W. Va
Aleies
Teeberg
Ben Davis
Meat Dept
Kanawha Street
Veal
Focket
Toby Wing
Jackie Coogan
Toby
Paul Wing
U. S
Bronson Cutting
Jackie
Associated Press
Issaquah
Sec
Kellogg
Kellogg's
Battle Creel
Walt
Bruno
Buet
Hauptmann
IKIDS
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