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Newspaper
Daily Captial News
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1927
Page
6
The piece surveys rising farm prices and floods that threaten crops, notes the hopeful tone for agriculture, and urges safety in water activities. It also comments on a boy’s $25,000 inheritance plan, ghost lore in English estates, and a quip about the dollar’s value and Chicago politics.
The piece traces wanderers shifting from rails to roads over decades. It notes rail and sea parasites, now hobos on highways rely on motorists for rides to avoid fares. It calls the behavior a petty hold-up and urges stop to begging rides across long stretches away from populated areas.
A Everett Massachusetts teen, aged 16, assists at a local theater to earn money for his high school needs. He volunteers usher duties to gain work experience and support his education.
The poem portrays June as a rare day when perfect conditions align with nature. Lowell describes life stirring in grass and flowers, trees and birds, as Heaven and Earth tune together to reveal beauty, warmth, and the springtime pulse of creation.
Daily Interview by K K Kawakami argues Japan faces scarce resources and overpopulation, needing industrialization and overseas trade. He questions US policy in the Pacific, warning that if America restricts access to markets and materials, Japan may confront war to secure its survival.
Madrid reports Premier Primo De Rivera announces return to parliamentary government ending the 1923 dictatorship. A national assembly will draft a new constitution and electoral law for universal suffrage, with subsequent elections and ratification by new deputies. The move follows De Rivera's 1920s coup.
A circuit court jury in Kirksville Mo ruled directors of the defunct Citizens Trust Co of Gorin liable for bank deposits while in charge. The verdict awarded A R Leslie guardian for E W Leslie 4308 26, the amount on deposit when the bank closed in July 1928. Other suits against directors total 43000. Defendants include J B Thomas Roy Myers A Smith Myers J B MacCutcheon G C Hill and John L McNatt.
Associated Press reports L. J. Tibbs 29 a laborer drowned when a small boat capsized in Black River about 15 miles north of Poplar Bluff while two men worked at a gravel pit. At nine this morning his body had not been recovered.
Santa Fe lifts Miss Katherine Stinson as the worlds greatest aviatrix and a pioneer in American flight to represent New Mexico at the first national conference for commercial aviation in St Joseph Missouri on June 6 and 7 Governor Dillon praises her reticence and cites parallels to Lindbergh in a reply. Miss Stinson began flying in 1912 and has earned many medals for aviation excellence.
Lawrence Dennis who served as charged d affaires in Nicaragua during most of the civil war there has resigned from the foreign service. His resignation was accepted by Secretary Kellogg.
Windsor Ontario reports liquor sales began today the first since 1916 as officials enforce orders against demonstrations by wets and delay permits for American tourists. Government stores offer high grade products at minimum cost and initial turnout caused manageable disorder at one outlet and limited crowds at another.
Real estate dealer Joseph Miller sues Henry Ford and the Dearborn Independent for 200000 claiming they maliciously harmed his reputation by implying involvement in corrupting a jury in the Ford Sapiro case. Miller cites a mistrial motion after alleged talks with juror Mrs Hoffman.
Gov. Sam A. Baker honored a requisition for the return of Harry Smith alias Charles E. Woods to San Quentin to finish a ten year term for attempted murder. Smith now serves five years in Boonville reformatory for robbery after escaping a California road camp on March 20, 1925.
Ozark Wesleyan at Carthage Missouri announced it will become a four year standard college starting in the fall term. Governor Arthur M. Hyde gave the commencement address to 64 graduates. Dr William Wirthing was re elected president of the board of trustees and Dr Louis M Potts was re elected vice president in charge of the finance.
The Justus School will continue through the summer offering day and night classes. Open for enrollment. phone number 961 provided for contact and inquiries.
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