Bryan Will Funds Churches and Academy Plan
The will of William Jennings Bryan filed in Dade County Florida sets aside funds for churches and a boys academy under evangelical church supervision. Mary Baird Bryan is named executrix with his children and relatives receiving specified shares, plus a religious education endowment and a plan to establish a non profit academy if feasible.
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Miami
Fla
William Jennings Bryan
Dade County
Bryan
Mary Baird Bryan
Ruth Bryan Owen
Grace Bryan Hargreaves
William Jennings Bryan, Jr
W. F. Blanton
Mary Bai Bryan
Bryan Letter Foreshadows Battle Over Revealed Religion
The Nashville dispatch reports William Jennings Bryan, from Cocoanut Grove Florida on June 27 1925, urging Governor Austin Peay to let the state decide matters in the Scopes evolution trial and arguing that the state must determine what is manifestly inimical to public welfare in schools. The piece recalls Bryan and Harding friendship and notes their past dinners and a porch chat during which Bryan ate cold roasting ears with lemonade.
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Bryan
Tennessee
Scopes
Nashville
William Jennings Bryan
Dayton
Austin Peay
Cocoanut Grove
Fla
Peay
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Oregon
Illinois
Firm Friendship of Bryan and Harding Recalled by Christian
Columbus Ohio August 8 incidents in the career of William Jennings Bryan and Warren G Harding recalled by a Christian observer recounting their political ties and shared era.
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Bryan
Harding
Christian
Associated Press
Columbus, O
William Jen
Locomotive Explosion Wounds Three Near Monroe Center
A Milwaukee Road locomotive exploded tonight near Monroe Center Illinois injuring three train crew members. They were rushed to Rockford Hospital as emergency cases after notification by the hospital. The incident occurred on the main Chicago to Omaha line.
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Rockford
Monroe Center
Here
Rockford Hospital
Milwaukee
Father of Scott victim seeks clothes to get work
Jacob Maurer, father of Joseph Maurer killed in the hold up that led to Russell T. Scott’s death sentence, arrives at the Detective Bureau asking for his son's clothes to wear while seeking new employment. Scott is being escorted to the Chester Insane Asylum after his final appeals.
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Scott
Chicago
Russell T. Scott
Chester Insane Asylum
Jacob Maurer
Joseph Maurer
Maurer
Joey
Cook County
Catherine Scott
St. Louis
Cold Drawn Steel Firms Form $20.6 Million Union
In Gary Indiana on August 8 C W Thompson head of the Union Drawn Steel Company announced a merger of seven independent cold drawn steel producers with Gary and eastern districts valued at about $20 million The move aims to curb Western competition after ending the Pittsburgh plus plan The Union Company was a principal factor and plant expansions are expected.
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Gary
Ind
C. W. Thompson
Union Drawn Steel Company
Union Company
Footprints as Evidence in Barge Theft Case
Police and criminology students note preservation of footprints near a river barge owned by Cleveland and Philadelphia Coal Company after tools rope coal and materials valued at 1200 dollars were stolen. County detective Edward Henncke to view exhibits. two men Sanders and Wilke bound over to grand jury. two arrested youths sent to Juvenile Court.
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Cleveland & Philadelphia Coal Ompany
Schneider
D. W. Swaltney
Cleves
Nash Tailoring Firm Defends Golden Rule Policy
Nash employees at the Cincinnati plant reject union critique of the Golden Rule approach. A. P. Harmon defends the policy by citing longtime workers and year-round employment. The Olivet conference backed forming a committee to study wage scales and shop conditions at Nash tailoring outlets.
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Nash Tailoring Company
Cincinnati
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
C. C. Morrison
Christian Century
Fellowship For A Christian Social Order
Olivet
Mich
Nash
A. P. Harmon
Arthur Nash
Hillman
Nash Company
Wil Harrison
Cincinnatians Escape In Automobile Crash
Three Columbus residents were hurt when their car wheel came off and they collided with an oncoming vehicle on the National road west of Springfield Ohio. Injured are Jesse Dennis 15 Rose Dennis 42 and Bertha Dennis 20 all of 312 South Central avenue. They suffered serious lacerations and bruises. The other car carried Mr and Mrs Harry Rogers of Cincinnati and Mr and Mrs George Brink of Bellevue Kentucky. no one was injured. The injured were taken to City Hospital Springfield. Rogers buys silks and dress goods for a department store.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Columbus
Here
Jesse Dennis
Rose Dennis
Bertha Dennis
South Central Avenue
Harry H. Rogers
Cincinnati
George Brink
Bellevue
City Hospital
Woman Official Removed for Destroying Ballots
Marie Dickson of Steubenville, Deputy State Supervisor of Elections in Jefferson County, was removed by Secretary of State Thad H. Brown for unlawfully opening and destroying eleven absent voters ballots. Investigation by Assistant Secretary Joseph Baird found she opened then burned the ballots with a match. Dickson, serving a third term since 1921, violated a ruling that identification envelopes may not be opened.
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Columbus
Marie Dickson
Steubenville
Jefferson County
Thad H. Brown
Joseph Baird
Baird
Secretary of State
John J. Price
Miss Dickson
Jefferson County Board of Elections
Mother Leaves Children, Two Sisters Placed in Home
Jewel Harrison aged three and her sister Mary were brought to the Children's Home by Mrs. Mary Heins after their mother, who had left them in her care, failed to return. The parents had moved from 514 Dandridge Street and police search efforts continue. The mother had dropped the girls at Mrs. Heins on Friday promising to call later. When she did not return, the Harrison residence was found vacant and the children were placed in the home.
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Marymont
Cocoanut Grove
Fla
Ruth Bryan Qwen
W. J. Bryan, Jr
Grace Bryan Hargreaves
United States
John
Ruth
William
Grage
Frances Bryan Baird
East Lincoln
Fairview
Laura
Frank
Will
Charles W. Bryan
Mary Bryan Allen
Essie
Jim Baird
Fannie
T.S. Allen
Roy Spangler
A. R. Talbot
Salem
First Presbyterian Church
Jacksonville
Ill
First Presbyterian Church of
Lincoln
Neb
Westminster Presbyterian Church of
Normal Methodist Church
Nebraska
Miami
Bryan-Bennett
Salem, Ill
Public Library
Woman's Club
Public
Sigma Pi Society
Illinois College
Philosophian Society
McKendree College
Lebanon
The
Baptist Church of
Bryan
Harding
White House
Christian
Mrs. Harding
Jewel Harrison
Mary
Mary Heins
Vinestreet
Dandridge Street
Barber Minister Officiates In City Shop Wedding
In Port Angeles Washington August 8 an ordained barber who cuts hair part time married two Tacoma youths who had eloped to avoid a wedding ploy. The ceremony occurred between two chairs with Rev Harry Miller officiating as the couple stood, were blessed, and left to face matrimony.
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New York
J World News Service
Port Angeles
Wash
Tacoma
Theodore T. Lowell
Ice Company
Ethel L. Jones
Lowell
sHarry Miler
Iler
Oriental potentates dazzle Europe with lavish London visit
Occidental millionaires pale beside Indian ruling princes enjoying holidays in London. The Maharajah of Jodhpur arrives with polo team, wives, and a vast retinue, staying in a grand mansion and hosting lavish entertainments. The Maharajah of Satiala arrives in Marseilles with consort and an enormous suite and travels by special train to cross into Britain.
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Associated Press
London
Jodhpur
Europe
Satiala
Marseilles
France
English Channel
Maharajah Occupies London Hotel With Entourage
The Maharajah and his retinue occupy 100 rooms in London's largest hotel with luggage on a separate floor. Courtyard limousines await all day, two rooms serve as kitchens for his chefs cooking Indian rice curry and seafood dishes. He plans to travel to Geneva to represent Indian potentates at the League of Nations.
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London
India
Geneva
League of Nations
England's Charleston Sparks Dancer Controversy in London
London observers report England's Charleston, the American dance import, faces fierce critique as to its eccentric and spectacular style. Critics warn of possible ban by censorial authorities while public ballrooms and Mayfair private dances embrace the new craze despite sharp teaching criticisms.
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London
England
America
Atlantic
Eugene O'Neill
Elms
Mayfair
Erie Train Kills Five at Crossing
Five men were killed when a Buffalo bound Erie passenger train struck an automobile at a highway crossing near Gowanda New York. The crash occurred as workers were present at the site. Authorities reported the ages and exact identities pending notification.
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Erie
Gowanda
N. Y
Jug
Buffalo
Desertion Tale From Destitute Wife Found Half Fainting
Mrs. Lucille X. Curls, 20, of 428 Clark Street, told police her husband deserted her, leaving her destitute. She was found half fainting on the City Hall steps, taken to the First District Station and then to General Hospital, where doctors warned of possible surgery. She had not eaten in four days and could not give a coherent account of the quarrel.
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Lucille X. Curls
Clark Street
Archduke Joseph Remembered As Austrian WWI Leader
Former Archduke Joseph, a key Austrian World War I commander, is noted today as having been born fifty three years ago.
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Archduke Joseph
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