Advertising Sells-Floto Circus Arrives in Dillon for August 4
Advertising car No 1 of Sells-Floto circus arrived early Saturday morning. Thirty workers began poster and banner duties for a promotional campaign spanning Dillon and a 50 mile radius. The show features the Hanneford Family riders Eddie Ward and aerialists Tenger Arabs Miss Erma Ward and others. Fifty-one clowns will perform around the hippodrome. The circus plays on the Athletic field as the only big show in town.
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Sells- Floto Circus
America
Dillon
Verne Williams
Vern Williams
Sells-Floto
Hanneford
Eddie Ward
Tenger Arabs
Erma Ward
Peter Taylor
John Helliott
Irene Ledeett
Effie Rairden
John Smith
Bobby Cornett
LaVerne Hauser
Bill Wells
Interesting Light on Old Labor Conditions
An article reports a 1 500 year old Sardis building artisans union agreement from Asia Minor. It outlines conditions such as completing work when paid, fines for idleness used for public works, and pledges of property liens to ensure payment and discipline.
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Sardis
Asia Minor
Electrical Workers’ Journal
Jacksonville
United Mine Workers of America
Christian Science Lesson Sermon Cites Universe Evolution
The June 17 lesson in Christian Science churches centers on human creation through divine force. It includes Psalms 95 6 7 and John 1 1 3, asserting God as creator and speaker, with passages from Science and Health describing the universe and man as governed by divine Mind.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Roaches in Drama Stir Reactions Across Audiences
A mixed reception greets a roach themed stage presentation. The crowd responds with curiosity and ambivalence as performers deploy insects to underscore themes of resilience and decay.
Washkowsky's shoe savings prompt bankers education note
A Kansas City Star item lampoons Mr. Washkowsky of Brooklyn who hid 3350 in an old shoe then lost it. It urges the American Bankers Association to promote bank use and financial education, arguing many hide money in odd places and banks are scarce.
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American Bankers Association
Washkowsky
Brooklyn
Bankers Association
Congress
Mellon
Mr. Washkowsky
Kansas City Star
Perfect Recruit In New York Army Bureau
The army recruiting bureau reports a perfect man in New York Sergt. Herbert B. Smith aged twenty seven with height four feet six inches and weight unspecified. He passed an examination covering moral mental and physical attainments with a 100 percent record. He does not drink and he smokes a pipe.
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New York
Army Recruiting Bureau
Herbert EB. Smith
Obregon Assassination Shocks Mexico and Fallout Looms
Edward W. Pickard reviews the Obregon assassination at a San Angel banquet and the potential shift in Mexican politics. Calles vows constitutional limits while suspects and religious factors swirl amid U.S. diplomatic reactions. Obregon’s death unsettles regional ties and raises questions about church-state tensions and succession.
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Obregon
San Angel
Mexico City
Jose de Leon Teral
Alberto Cruz
Zertuche
Calles
Catholic Church
Mexico
Governor Smith's Albany outreach and candidate rumor denied
Governor Smith met with lawmakers and business leaders in Albany as Congressman Burns pledged Southern and border state support. Reports of Democratic revolt in Texas were dismissed. A rumor that Owen D. Young would be the Democratic candidate to succeed Smith was denied for both men.
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Coolidge
Dawes
Kelloge
Washington
Teles
Congress
Permanent Commission of Congress
Holesale
Texas
Hoover
Smith
Asheville
Cannon
Methodist Church
South
Buncombe County
North Carolina
Arthur J. Barton
Corn Belt
Des Moines
Hoover and
Curtis
Kansas City
al Smith
Troover
President Coolidge
White House
California
Overnor Smith
Albany
Congressman Burns
Tennessee
Owen D. Young
General Electric Company
Secret Kellogg pact gains broad Allied acceptance
Secretary Kellogg's anti war treaty advances toward completion with early in principle approvals from Great Britain and dominions, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and positive signals from the United States. Germany France Italy and other nations had already signaled approval.
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Great Britain
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Irish Free On
India
Washington
Belgium
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Germany
France
Italy
Prohibition Officials Admit Bahama Incident Mocked U S Authority
Secretary Kellogg announced that the United States apologized for the Bahama coast seizure last September by Coast Guard Lieutenant Christansen. Two boats were seized off the Bahama coast, liquor removed, and prisoners sent to Miami. Kellogg pledged restitution and transfer of Christiansen. Officials discussed expanded air enforcement of dry laws.
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Ecklessneess
Kellogg
Bahama Islands
Larry Christiansen
Coast Guard
Bahama
Miami
Christiansen
Doran
Treasury Department
Washington
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Christian Science Churches
Fife
Washkowsky’s. Old. Shoe
Alber
T. Roid
Wrangelliseum
G. Adlon Tiancucs
Edward W. Pickard
Alvaro Obregon
United States
Dwight Morrow
General Obregon
Sonora
Emilio Carranza
New Jersey
Japan
EACE
Lithuania
Waldemaray
Russia
League of Nations
Assembly
Council
League
Austen Chamberlain
World Court of Arbitration At
Geneva
Charles Evans Hughes
John Bassett Moore
Walter Simons
Hughes
England
Spain
Tangier
Alfred Loewenstein
English Channel
Cape Griz- Nez
Giovanni Giolitti
Mussolini
D. C. Davies
Field Museum
Chicago
Henry R. Rathbone
Illnois
William E. Warmon
Jedediah Tingle
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