Wets and Drys Claim Hearing Victory
Washington report notes wets and drys claiming victory from the house judiciary committee inquiry into prohibition law conditions. The committee plans no further action or legislation and will shift focus to the senate lobby committee investigating anti prohibition groups led by Association Against the Prohibition Amendment president H. B. Curran.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Graham
Net
Senate
Senate Lobby Committee
H. BH. Curran
Association
Curran
House
The
West
William W. Roper
Princeton
Henry Drayston
Ontario
Tom Johnson Dies. Funeral Planned In Riverside Cemetery
Funeral services for Tom Johnson, who died early yesterday, will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at his home and 3 p.m. at the American Lutheran church. The Rev. F. D. Disrud will officiate with burial in Riverside Cemetery. Police pallbearers will wear Wahiform except John Boyle. The service will not be at Kin Yon’s chapel as previously announced.
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Tom Johnson
Second Street
American Lutheran Church
D_ Disrud
Riverside Cemetery
Mr Johnson
Wahiform
John Boyle
Kin- Yon's
Wounded In Dry Raid Man Fights For Life
Edward Foht, 36, was wounded when a bullet deflected from a tree struck him during a prohibition raid on his island mill near Eagle River Wisconsin. Sheriff Joe Greer of Grant County and Federal Prohibition Agent Ed F. Smith were attempting to stop the group. Witnesses said Greer fired a shot that was deflected by a tree and hit Foht. Smith and Miller were taken to Madison to face charges.
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Eagle River
Wis. AL
Edward Foht
Foht
Wil Smith
Elmer Miller
Joe Greer
Grant County
Ed F. Smith
Madison
Greer
Smith
Miller
Priest Charged With Assault Attempt in Fairmont
Rev Joseph Hagostek a Roman Catholic priest from Rochester Minnesota is jailed in Fairmont on a charge of attempting to assault a 20 year old school teacher the complaint filed by her father states Hagostek was arrested after pleading guilty in Albert Lea justice court to transporting liquor and was sent to Martin county for the Fairmont charge
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Fairmont
Minn
Joseph Hagostek
Rochester
Mion
Hagostek
Martin County
Fairgnant
Emry Heads to Washington for Chamber Meeting
Roy L Emry South Dakota State Chamber of Commerce secretary leaves for Washington D C to attend the United States Chamber of Commerce annual meeting through next week. He says South Dakota will send its largest delegation ever with Will Allen president and W C Lusk on the trip. Allen seeks election to the US Chamber board from the eight district with broad regional support.
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Emry
Washington
Secretary of State
Allen
Beard
South Dakota
Yankton
Mitchell
Huron
Will Allen
W. C. Lusk
Eighth
United States
Dakotas
Montana
Wyoming
Nebraska
Colorado
Minnesota
North Dakota
Mrr
Emory
United States Chamber
State Chamber
Board of Directors
Several Believed Lost In Ship Fire
BRIDGEPORT CONN April 25 Several Thames crew members believed dead as the freighter burned and sank in Long Island Sound. Part of the crew were rescued with numbers totaling 15 aboard. others reported seen in the water. Clarence Tibbetts chief engineer was rescued after an hour in the sea. The Thames River Steamship Line operated vessel was en route from New York to New London when the fire broke out. Coast guard and other vessels reported rescuing nine to several men. captain George Wilson criticized searchlights during the rescue.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Thames
Long Island Sound
Sound
Headh
Clarence Tibbetts
Alert
New York
New London
Con
Arc
Thames River Steamship Line
Radio Marine Station
Lexington
Providence
R. L
New Bedford
Dralle Receives Five-Year Penitentiary Sentence
Lloyd Dralle of Abedreen was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary at Sioux Falls after pleading guilty to burglary. The hearing, before Circuit Judge R. C. Bakewell at Plankinton, detailed his entry into Otto Rerode’s farm home, theft of cash, trade checks, and stolen goods including a radio and camera. He was arrested in Yankton after traces led to Aberdeen, and will be taken to Sioux Falls tonight.
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Woonsocket
Lloyd Dralle
Abedreen
Sioux Falls
R. C. Bakewell
Plankinton
Drakle
Otto
Mike Helgeland
Sanborn County
Drake
Yankton
Aberdeen
Mitchell
Thut
Helgeland
Women Contribute to Old Lee Mansion Restoration
Government supervises the transformation of the old Lee mansion into a public shrine. Donors provide prized antiques from fine homes to recreate the Nellie Custis and Mary Custis Lee era. Colored women from Virginia guide placement of pieces as they were a century ago, with items from Mrs. James Peyton Powell and Nellie Custis’s great granddaughter.
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Nellie Custis
Mary Custis Lee
Lee Plantation
Virginia
James Peyton Powell
Huntsville
Alabama
Lees
George Goldsborough
Mount Vernon
Potomac
Nellie Park Custis
George Washington
Mary Custis
Robert E. Lee
Secrets Of A New Planet Revealed In Tucson Speech
In Tucson Arizona on April 25 delegates to the eleventh annual convention of the Southwestern section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science heard Dr. E B Slipher discuss a trans Neptune body now heralded as the ninth planet. The body estimated to be earth sized is said to lie about 41 astronomical units from Earth. Dr Slipher and the Lowell Observatory figures tie to Percival Lowell's will and long range study of the object. Further details outline the planet's distance and its smaller than first believed mass.
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Tucson
Ariz
EB. C. Slipehr
Lowell Observatory
American Association, For Advancement of Science
Slipher
W. M. Slipher
Percival Lowell
Lowell
Earth
Most Distant Object Yet Seen In Our Solar System
The article notes a planetary object far beyond known comets or asteroids, with an elongated orbit and an inclined plane relative to major planets. Estimates place its diameter around twenty three units and its distance implies a view time of about a century, with a total visibility span near three thousand years. Astronomers Dre Slipher references recent scientific papers and emphasizes this object is distinctly planetary, not a fragment of a comet or asteroid, marking it as the farthest observed in our solar system.
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Earth
Dre Slipher
Real estate transfer: Buehrig to Buehrig in Southlawn
Trell F. Buehrig transfers Lot 4 Block 3 Southlawn addition in Huron to Emma F. Buehrig, Weasington, for $1. Real estate abstracts by Beadle County Abstract & Title Co. confirm the transaction.
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Beadle County Abstract’ & Title Co
Trell F. Buehrig
Emma F. Buehrig
Weasington
Blic
Southlawn
Huron
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