Lindbergh Heads Home From Paris With Honors
Paris honors Captain Lindbergh as he prepares to depart for Cherbourg aboard the U S S Memphis. The aviator will fly back to the United States in a French plane, meeting President Coolidge upon arrival, after a two week European tour marked by crowds and receptions.
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Cherbourg
Memphis
Associated Press
Paris
Charlie” Lindbergh
New York
Atlantic
Coolidge
St. Louis
England
Kanley Air Field
United States
Europe
Lindbergh
Kenley
Lympne
Channel
le Bourget
Bois de Boulogne
American Legion
St. Cloud Memorial
Lafayette Escadrille
American Hospital
Comite Franco-Amerique
Lafayette Monument
Legion
Legionnaires
Myron T. Herrick
Lindbergh Day Declared for June 11
Washington reports that by presidential designation June 11 will be Lindbergh Day, announced on June 3 during Coolidge administration directives.
Mrs Chaplin to Deny All Charges in Divorce Cross Complaint
Lawyers for Lita Grey Chaplin prepare a denials filled answer to Charlie Chaplin's cross complaint for divorce in Los Angeles. They aim to fight for divorce property custody and may add counter charges. Deposition proceedings and potential public disclosure of unnamed women in Chaplin’s circle are noted as the trial approaches.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Lita Grey Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Lyndol K. Young
Young
Lita
Chaplin
Edwin McMurray
O Farrell to Receive N L Diploma Today
World Champion Cardinals manager Robert A. O Farrell will receive the National League most valuable player diploma for 1926 and a $1 000 prize before the game with Brooklyn. The award will be presented by Martin J Haley, with John A Heydler, NL president, delivering the purse. Rogers Hornsby, now with the Giants, was MVP for 1925.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Robert A. O'Farrell
Cardinals
National League
Brooklyn
Martin J. Haley
Baseball Writers’ Association of America
John A. Heydler
Cardinal
Rogers Hlornsby
Giants
Local Residents Accept Positions With K. C. Firm
Miss Florence Bruto and Nannie Bedsworth left early this morning for Kansas City to accept responsible positions with the T. J. Nichols Publishing House of that city.
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K. C. Firm
Florence Bruto
Nannie Bedsworth
Kansas City
T. J. Nichols Publishing House
Lindbergh to be greeted in Washington with top honor
Captain Lindbergh will fly from Europe to Washington where President Coolidge will honor him with the Distinguished Flying Cross. A cabinet dinner at the temporary White House at Dupont Circle will feature the Missouri flier as guest of honor. Mrs Lindbergh. Evangeline Lindbergh. Spirit of St Louis.
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New York
Paris
Lindbergh
Washington
Europe
Air Service
Lone Eagle
Business Organization of the Government
Missouri National Guard
White House
Dupont Circle
Coolidge
Evangeline L. Lindbergh
Swedish Actor Einar Hanson Dies in California Crash
Swedish film and stage star Einar Hanson died in Santa Monica after his car rolled on the coast highway. He had been Pola Negri's leading man and reportedly blamed blinded headlights before the wreck. A party of Swedish guests, including Greta Garbo and Maurice Stiller, had dined with him the previous evening. Funeral plans were to be set by Stockholm officials.
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Associated Preas
Santa Monica
Calif
Einar Hanson
Hanson
Pola Negri
Physicians
Greta Garbo
Maurice Stiller
Sweden
Stockholm
Banker Acquitted of Forgery Charge in Missouri Trial
S L Bay former treasurer of the defunct Richmond Trust company was acquitted by a jury in Carrollton Missouri of forgery. Several other charges related to the bank failure remain pending and are set for trial September 26 in the circuit court.
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Associated Preape
Carrollton
S. L. Bay
Richmond Trust Company
Richmond
Cirect
Bay
Three Convicts Escape From Missouri Road Camp
Three inmates of the Missouri penitentiary escaped Thursday night from prison rock crusher No. 4 north of Columbia. The men named Jack Williams Louis Franklin and Robert White had varying sentences for forgery grand larceny and assault with intent to kill, all received from St Louis Audrain County or the prison.
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Missouri Penitentiary
Rock Crusher No. 4
Columbia
Jack Williams
St. Louis
Louis Franklin
Robert White
Audrain County
Eldon Prisoners Sentenced for Larceny at Rock Island
C E Bean and J W Blevins of Eldon pleaded guilty after arrest for stealing a suitcase from Rock Island Station Monday night. They were brought to Cole County Jail to serve thirty day terms each.
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C. E. Bean
J. W. Blevins
Eldon
Rock Island
Cole County
Turbett Believed to Have Left City
W. E. Turbett Jr. is charged with writing numerous worthless checks in this city but had not been arrested by late last night. He is believed to have left town and police officials in other cities will be asked to locate him.
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W. E. Turbett, Jr
Turbett
Bell Company to Spend $1,700,000 in Eastern Missouri
St Louis June 3 More than $1,700,000 will be spent on telephone equipment for eastern Missouri during 1927 announced today by Percy Redmund general manager of the Bell system. Similar plans of the entire Bell System provide for extension of service in the United States at a cost of $92,000,000.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Missouri
Fercy Redmund
Bell System
United States
Mrs N W Simpson Reported Improved After Operation
Mrs. N. W. Simpson, who recently underwent an operation at St. Marys Hospital, was reported greatly improved last night.
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N. W. Simpson
St. Mary’s Hospital
Capital City Telephone to Publish New Directory
The Capital City Telephone Company plans a new telephone directory dated July 1. Subscribers who want to change their listings must notify the company on or before June 11, 1927.
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Capital City Telephone Company
Telephone Directory Ad Reaches 4000 Homes and Businesses
Advertising notice inviting campaigns to appear in the telephone directory which reaches over four thousand homes and business offices in the city and surrounding counties. Call 1158 for rates.
Bellanca Plane to Hop Off from New York Today
Associated Press report from Curtiss Field New York states Clarence D. Chamberlin plans a 4 a m takeoff in the Bellanca monoplane bound for Europe. He will fly as far as fuel allows with an unnamed navigator and not solo.
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Bellanca
New York
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Europe
Associated Press
Curtiss Field
Chamberlin
Garden City
Roosevelt Field
Robert McKim Near Death After Stroke in Hospital
Los Angeles reports actor Robert McKim fifty, once a film heavy opposite Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro, lay near death from apo plexy stroke. Unconscious since train removal yesterday, doctors deem his survival unlikely. He left films over a year ago after a nervous breakdown and was then touring with vaudeville when the stroke occurred in Salt Lake City.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Robert McKim
McKim
Douglas Fairbanks
Fairbank
Salt Lake City
Utah City
Cars Collide At High And Monroe Streets
A Hupmobile driven by Mrs Arthur Kaiser and a Buick driven by Mrs W M Oakerson collided yesterday afternoon at High and Monroe Streets. Both cars were damaged and Traffic Officer Erhardt witnessed the mishap. The drivers were invited to appear in police court with the case set for next Monday morning.
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Arthur Kaiser
W. M. Oakerson
High
Monroe Streets
Thirty-Five Teachers Attend County Exam at Courthouse
The regular June teachers examination was held yesterday at the county courthouse under Roger W. Smith county superintendent of schools. Thirty-five teachers from various sections of the county attended the examinations.
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Roger W. Smith
Columbia Couple Wed by Dunn at Probate Court
Robert O. Smith and Mrs. Nellie Cooper of Columbia obtained a marriage license from County Recorder Le Page and were married at the courthouse office of Probate Judge Dunn. The couple, who have relatives in the city, will reside in Columbia.
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Robert O. Smith
Nellie Cooper
Columbia
le Page
Dunn
Card of Thanks for Kindness After Death
We extend sincere appreciation to friends and neighbors for acts of kindness shown at the death of our wife, daughter and sister. Thanks for floral offerings and use of cars. Oscar Hackman, Albert Distler and family, Henry Hackman and family.
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Oscar Hackman
Albert Distler
Henry Hackman
U S Epperson Dies at Kansas City Home
U S Epper son 65 founder of the U S Epper son Underwriting Company and a nationally known figure in the reciprocal insurance field died at his Kansas City home after a long illness.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
U. S
Cadet Morris B. Robinson Dies In Plane Crash Near Brooks Field
Baltimore born flying cadet Morris B. Robinson was killed when the plane’s motor failed after a successful takeoff from an auxiliary field near Brooks Field, where he was stationed.
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San Antonio
Morris B. Robinson
Baltimore
Brooks Field
Inside Missouri Penitentiary to Get $250000 Hardboiled Prison
Plans for a new internal prison at the Missouri penitentiary call for a $250000 reinforced concrete and steel complex. It will house about 500 hardened criminals in a four story cell block with bullet proof windows and a top steel tower armed with a machine gun. Bricks will be made by inmates inside the walls and transported to the kiln by tram from prison farm No 1.
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Missouri Penitentiary
Tilden Beats Cochet in Semi Final Return Triumph
In St Cloud France on June 8 Big Bill Tilden defeated Henri Cochet in straight sets 9-7 6-3 6-2 to prove his comeback. The crowd of about 5000 cheered as Tilden avenged defeats by the trio Cochet LaCoste and Borotra in last season’s French invasion of the United States.
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Associated Press
ST. Cloud
France
Bill Tilden
Henri Cochet
Tilden
Hundred Die as Kentucky Mountain Storms Rage
Louisville report notes disasters of major proportions in the eastern Kentucky mountains from Sunday and Monday storms. Upward of a hundred lives lost, thousands homeless, and property damage to homes, coal mines, business property, and railroads estimated over 5 million dollars.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Burgett in Serious Condition After Shooting
Woody Burgett, a Black man, was reported in serious condition at the hospital after being shot by Stumble Foster. His left arm had been amputated several days earlier.
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Woody Burgett
Stumble Foster
Dr Hendrix Attends Missouri Chiropractic Convention
Dr Chat E Hendrix president of the state Board of Chiropractic Examiners and Mrs Hendrix depart for St Louis to attend the 14th annual Missouri Chiropractic Convention at the Marquette Hotel for three days starting June 4. A report on probable future plans of the Board will be presented.
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Chat. E. Hendrix
State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Hendrix
St. Louis
Marquette Hotel
Meisenbachs And Eldrach Travel To St Louis
Mr and Mrs Harry Meisenbach and daughter and Mrs A P Eldrach motored to St Louis yesterday.
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ST. Louis
Harry Meisenbach
A. P. Eldracher
Editor Everett Pizer Visits Capital City
Everett Pizer, editor of the Tipton Times, was in the Capital City yesterday on a business visit.
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Everett Pizer
Tipton
Sedalia Visitor Pete Wilkins Returns to Town
Pete Wilkins of Sedalia, a former local resident, was in town yesterday visiting friends and relatives.
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Pete Wilkins
Sedalia
Rsident
Fort Collins high school favored to win third straight track title
The Fort Collins Colorado high school squad, winner of the 1925 and 1926 national interscholastic track championships, is favored in the twenty third renewal of the games today. A thousand athletes from 182 high schools in 33 states enter this year’s event as Stagg directs the meet at Chicago. In Los Angeles Jack Dempsey leaves his camp to seek sparring partners, with witnesses saying his return would be a body battle in the ring.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Fort Collin
Colo
A. A
Yale
Sabin Carr
Stagg
University of Chicago
Los Angeles
Jack Dempsey
Ajai
Dempsey
Northwestern elects Tiny Lewis captain of 1928 track team
Chicago report notes Leland Tiny Lewis from Carlinville Illinois has been chosen captain of Northwestern University's track and field squad for the 1928 season.
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Chicago
Leland
Tiny” Lewis
Carlinville, Ills
Northwestern University
Spring Valley Social and Local Work Update
Rain and hail marked the past week in Spring Valley with neighbors visiting and helping on projects. Families listed include Hoskins Richardson Golden Gilpin McGee Smith Miller Hickey and others sharing visits carpentry road work and a cemetery outing at Spring Garden.
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H. O. Hoskins
R. L. Richardson
Joe Golden
James Roark
George Fischer
Louis McGee
Earnest Smith
Oak Grove
Dennis Hoskins
Earnest Gilpin
Marion Gilpin
Barcie
Ollie Richardson
John Wilson
Eugene Martin
Ross Hoskins
Maries County
Dewey Miller
Kansas City
J. R. Smith
Omer Hickey
D. A. Hoskins
Adram Miller
Jefferson City
William Miller
Spring Garden
Willard Hoskins
Edgar Robbinett
Dora Kelsay
Raymond
Donald Opel
St. Louis
Dover’s Cave
Eunice Gordon
Orlando Hickey
Dorsey Hoskins
Andy Bond
Kaiser of Columbia Visits Capital City Yesterday
L. R. Kaiser of Columbia was a business visitor in the Capital City yesterday. Subscribe for the Capital News.
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L. R. Kaiser
Columbia
The
Capital News
Americans Open Lead in World Golf Ryder Cup
Americans held a decisive edge at Worcester Country Club as Johnny Farrell and Joe Turnesa dominated Geo Duncan and Archie Compston 8 up 6 to play in the morning session. Aubrey Boomer and Charles Whitcombe faced Leo Diegel and Bill Mehlhorn 7 and 5, while Gene Sarazen and Al Watrous led Arthur Havers and Herbert Jolly by 4 at the start of the afternoon.
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Ity Associated Press
Worcester
Mass
Worcester Country Club
Walter Hagen
Ted Ray
Johnny Fars Rell
Joe Turnesa
Geo. Duncan
Archie Compson
Aubrey Boomer
Chas Whitcombe
Leo Diegel
Bill Mehlhorn
Gene Sarazen
al Watrous
Arthur Havers
Herbert Jolly
Hagen
John Golden
North Jersey
Fred Robeson
Atl Square
Mashie Niblick
Golden
Hager
Dormic
Duncan
Compston
Farrell
Turnesa
Kansas City businessmen pledge 50000 for flood relief
Kansas City business men on June 3 pledged 50000 toward rehabilitation of the flood torn lower Mississippi river area. The contribution funds a subscription toward the capital stock of a 2000000 corporation formed in Washington to provide relief credit.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Mississippi River
Washington
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O’farrell
N. L
West
Cole Bastile
Bell Company
Monroe
Epperson
New
Burgett
DR. Hendrix
Spring Valley
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