Knox Attacks Roosevelt as He Accepts GOP VP Nomination
Col. Frank Knox accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination with a Chicago Stadium address urging preservation of free enterprise. He denounced the New Deal as regimentation and deficits, contrasted a government-controlled economy with the American way of self-support and self-government, and planned a nationwide platform tour with Gov. Alfred M. Landon.
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Chicago
Frank Knox
Alfred M. Lardon
Kansas
New Deal
United States
Col. Knox
HARTSELLE ITEMS Hostess Luncheon and Local News
Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Thomas Stewart hosted a Saturday luncheon at East Main Street with guest M. E. Piwards of Decatur. The event featured gladioli decorations and a memento gift for the honoree. The column lists local visitors and residents on hospital, travel, revivals, and family happenings across Hartselle and surrounding towns.
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Stewart
Thomas Stewart
Fannie Bess Crow
East Main Street
M. E. Piwards
Julia Bingham
Decatur
Edwards
R. L. Carlson
The
Benevolent Society Hospital
Mary Grace Orr
Cullman
Martha Lillian Whitman
Henry Gibson
Florence
Jim Gibson
Howard Prather
First Christian Church
Cape Girardean
Fred Sherrill
Birmingham
Lara Coise
Massey
Hartselle
Clara Blackwell
A. L. Guyer
H. L. Brown
Arthur Stephenson
Z. H Sarders
R. M. McGlathery
Stephenson
Edwin Miller
Nashville
Louise Powell
Vinemont
Hazel
Nina Freeman
Jake Wiggins
Mary Charles
W. E. Stone
Union Grove
Pruitt Livingston
Danville
Lavert Russell
el Paso
Dallas
Texas
Emmett Hodges
Louisville
Floy Lassiter
Enterprise
Carolyn Sharpey
Second Wife Sues for Back Alimony in San Francisco
The second of Lewis Lauckenbach Luckenbach four wives sues for 2916.62 back alimony from the 1933 Reno divorce. She claims he owes 5000 dollars annually in nine years of installments. Dor othy, the third wife, also sues the fourth wife for alienation of affections.
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San Francisco
Lewis Lauckenbach
Steamship Company
Della Louise’ Luckenbach
Reno
Luckenbach
Dorothy
Gladys
Puerto Rican Nationalists Convicted in Uprising Plot
Eight Puerto Rican nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos were convicted of conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government by force and sentenced to six years in prison.
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San Juan
P. R
Pedro Albizu Campos
United States
Skunk Raid Damages Henhouse in Grants Pass
State Representative W. A. Johnson faced a nocturnal raid by a skunk on his henhouse in Grants Pass Oregon. Johnson fired both barrels of a shotgun, killing the intruder and leaving one hen alive among three chicks killed by shotgun pellets.
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Grants Pass
Ore
W. A. Johnson
Johnson
Business Upturn Reported By Bradstreet In July
A Bradstreet weekly review notes improved business conditions across the nation with retail distribution widening in drought areas as farm prices rise and relief payments spread. Wholesale buying remains strong, factories shift schedules earlier, and output in coal, steel, freight cars, and lumber rises while bank clearings fall. regional gains in retail trade reach 12 to 30 percent versus last year.
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New York
Bradstreet
New England
Torn
Middle West
Southern
Southwest
Northwest
Pacific Coast
Knife Attack During Robbery In Warsaw Panhandling
In Wheeling West Virginia on July 31 Elmer Oliver 50 was shaken down by a panhandler who demanded a dime for coffee. After Oliver offered no change the stranger grabbed his hand slashed him with a knife and seized a $5 bill before fleeing.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Elmer Oliver
Buddie
Mulga Doctor to Return Home Today
Dr. Garrold Nungester of Mulga visiting his parents here will return home today.
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Garrold Nungester of
Mulga
Brooks killed by rock at Parker dam lunch site
In San Bernardino California Charles O Brooks 22 was killed when a rock hurled from a distant dynamite blast at the Parker dam project struck him as he ate with coworkers. A second item from Portland Oregon notes a purse snatching where a woman reports the thief fled after she did not scream.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Charles O. Brooks
Parker Dam
Portland
Ore
Mary Nagel
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