The Great White Way Opens at Strand with Sports Celebrities
A new protoplay The Great White Way opens at the Strand featuring sport luminaries from boxing racing and racing circles. Pete Hartley battles Oscar Shaw in a prize fight scene with Tex Rickard Joe Humphreys and Jonny Gal lisher among the cast and a Belmont Park scene staged for the film with Earle Sande riding.
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Hfe
Metropolia
Pete Hartley
Oscar Shaw
Tex Rickard
Joe Humphreys
Jonny Gallesher
Madison Square Warden
Irvin S. Cobb
Damon Reunyon
Bugs’ Baer
Billy de Beck
Kid Broad
Tammany Young
H. C. Witwer
Great White Way
Belmont Park
Earle Sande
Anita Stewart
T. Roy Barnes
Tom Lewis Olin Howland
Harry Watson
Dore Davidson
Hal Forde
Stanley Forde
Frank Wonderly
Obituary: James McKee Civil War veteran dies at Creston
James McKee, born in Belfast Ireland July 12 1833, died in Creston Iowa August 6 1924. He came to the United States in 1857 settling in Knoxville Illinois. During the Civil War he served in Company H 11th Illinois Cavalry rising to Sergeant Major before the war’s end. He married Fannie L Talcott at Biggsville September 1 1866.
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James McKee
Belfast
Ireland
Creston
Iowa
United States
Knoxville
Ilinois
11Th
Illinoise Cavalry
Fannie L. Talcott
Biggsville
Iowa corn and oats yield prospects and wheat production for 1924
Iowa reports show corn at 74 percent of normal on August 1 with a forecast yield around 33.2 bushels and a state crop of 361,482,000 bushels, down 17 percent from last year. Oats yield at 94 percent implies 40.2 bushels. production forecast 232,115,000 bushels, up 11 percent from last year, while winter wheat yields rise to about 20.4 bushels and total 8,078,000 bushels for Iowa. Nationwide trends show a 16 percent drop in US corn and a 10 percent rise in US oats.
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Federal
State
United States
Iowa
Towa
Illinois Pioneer McKee Family Ranks Tenure and Toward Legacy
Illinois obituary details the large McKee family of this city. The deceased Mr McKee had twelve children with four predeceasing him. Surviving are William A McKee Margaret Choate James G McKee and DiMuton E McKee of this city plus Chas B McKee of Denver May Davis of Seattle Mildred Webb of Mt. Washington and Henrietta Hax of Kansas City. He joined the Presbyterian church as a boy and belonged to the G A R Potter Post and Elks lodge.
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Illinois
Dennis Hvliott
Maude MacClosky
Joni
Wanrize
William A. McKee
Margaret Choate
James. G. McKee
DiMuton £. McKee
Chas B. McKee
Denver
Colorado
May Davis
Seattle Washington
Mildred Webb
Mt. Washington
Henrietta Hax
Kansas City
McKee
Presbyterian Church
G. A. R Potter Post and Elks
Census analysis shows illiteracy in the United States
A census analysis of the National Educational Association reports 10,000,000 illiterates and another 10,000,000 who can barely read or write. The writer questions those who push to cut educational facilities, contrasting with Americans who prize enlightenment.
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National Educational Association
United States
Radio schedules and local notices from diverse markets
Radio programming listings for multiple stations show varied schedules including mass, news, music, talks, and orchestras across Chicago Buffalo Cincinnati Detroit and more. The passage also notes regional notices from Cairo Atbara and Ames and lists several local people events and travel.
Egyptian Railway Office Fire Raises Sudan Tension
An official communique reports Egyptian railway battalion soldiers sabotaged railway works at Atbara, destroyed vehicles and machinery, and set offices ablaze. They refused to heed officers as a court of inquiry is ordered by the sirdar. London papers link Sudan unrest to conspiracies by Egyptian interests and the White Flag society of Cairo.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Atbara
Sudan Railways
London
Sudan
White Flag Society of
Cario
Battleship Marlborough to Leave Zara for Alexandria
AP reports Britain orders Marlborough to Alexandria amid Sudan troubles. Weymouth heads to Port Sudan from Colombo and Clematis moves toward the same port. Cairo dispatch says Egypt plans to recall the railway battalion blamed for the unrest.
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Alexandria
London
Sudan
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