Moonshine Outfit Captured West of Virgil
Ontjo Wessels 23, son of a farmer near Virgil, faces a liquor manufacture charge after a raid found a 50 gallon still five miles west and one mile north of Virgil. A cave hideaway in an abandoned pit concealed the operation as deputies, with federal presence, seized mash sugar apricots and yeast. Bail set at 1000 dollars. hearing tentatively set for today.
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Ontjo Wessels
Virgil
Dick Maney
Wessels
A.J. Larsen
Larsen
Largen
Beadle County
Beadle County CMTC Dinner Honors Camp Delegates
Beadle county CMTC trainees who will attend Citizens Military Training camps this fall are honored guests at an Officers Reserve Corps dinner in Hotel Marvin Plushitt Tuesday evening. Lieutenant Colonel John M. True of Sioux Falls will visit the Huron chapter school and address the gathering. Fathers of the attending cadets are invited, a mock court martial will follow, and H. MS Cass presides over the program.
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Toys
Beadle County
Citizens Military
Officers Reserve Corps
Marvin Plushitt
John M. True
Sioux Falls
Huron
Karl F. Flanagan
Citizens Military Training Camp
H. MS. Cass
The
Pershing Honored in New York for Return to Fraternal Service
In New York Pershing is honored upon his return. He chaired the distribution committee of the Grand Lodge in 2920. He served on the judiciary committee in 1921, 22, and 23. From 1923-24 he sat on the social welfare committee with 1925-97 as a grand forum justice. Practicing law, he is senior partner at Hulbert & Hieromance. He is married with one child, Regina.
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Murray Hulbert
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Huron
Huron Elks Lodge
Mr. Aulbert
Rochester
N. Y
New York City
New York Law School
New York Lodge No. 1
Hulbert
Order of Elks
New York State
United States
New York
House of Representatives
Twenty
War Congress
Congress
City of
Board of Aldermen
John F. Hylan
America
Amateur Athletic Association
International Athletic Moderation
Grand Lodge
Miami
Amsterdam
Los Angeles
Calif
Pershing
New
France
Grand Forum
City
Hulbert & Hieeromance
Regina
Totenmany Pir of the Dead Reported in Region
Reports describe a mysterious phenomenon named Totenmany and a thunder like roar heard for miles around Wer hours. Villagers feared the strange sound as physicists investigate a crater bottom frozen over.
Hoover ends personal signing of notary commissions
Autograph seekers aiming for the president’s signature are met with a Hoover regime that ends the practice. George Washington’s precedent had the chief executive personally sign all DC notary commissions, about 506 issued yearly. Hoover now signs only once on a submitted list, with individual commissions bearing a facsimile.
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Hoover Washington
Hoover
George Washington
District of Columbia
Sears Roebuck May Sell Automobiles
Chicago May 7 Sears Roebuck and Company signed an agreement with Gardner Motors for a joint study of the status of motor cars as merchandise and the possibility of large scale production of low priced automobiles for distribution through Sears Roebuck channels. General Robert W Wood, president of Sears Roebuck confirmed the report.
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Chicago
Sears Roebuck ‘and Company
Gardner Motors Company
Sears Roebuek
Robert W. Wood
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Frost Damage Reports Sparse Yet Varied Across County
Farm crews plan long hours into next week on frost recovery. Fruit trees and early gardens show slight damage while grains and grasses were slowed Wednesday night. Central South Dakota farmers brace for continued frost effects on planting and crop recovery efforts.
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Buffalo County
South
Dakota
Miner and Sully County Growers Report Slow Spring Progress
Miner county reports 35 percent of corn planted with Alfalfa standing six inches high. Small grain growth slowed by cold weather but well anchored. rapid growth seen on warm days. Onida and Howard shipments from May 1, 1928 to April 1929 show barley 65 cars, oats 42, rye 2, wheat 21, flax six, potatoes four, clover seed seven, sheep 13, horses four, hogs 219, and misc 100. Flax acreage in Spink County up materially from last year as land is prepared.
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Miner County
Couny
Steve Jones
Alval Fn
Howard
Apri Rzy
Sully
Onida
Repays
Spink
Fight for Illinois reapportionment alla Chicago man bosses 25 years
John B. Fergus, 86, head of a long standing Chicago printing firm, has pressed a legal campaign since 1904 to force state redistricting. He argues the constitution requires reapportionment after each federal census and that Cook County deserves more senators and representatives. His efforts have included mandamus actions and petitions in Cook County and the U.S. Supreme Court, with costs surpassing 60 000 dollars and talk of potential secession from Illinois.
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Chicago
Tor
John B. Vergus
Pergus
United States Supreme Court
Fergus
Cook County
Supreme Court
Chicagoan
Waranto
Tergus
Fergus Bave
Constitutional Apportionment League
General Assembly
Triois
Freak Air Currents Create Odd Noises in Wifel Mountains
In Treves Germany on May 18 an unusual weather event amid severe frost produced strange sounds from a volcanic crater in the Wifel mountains. The report notes air currents and eerie noise as observers reported anomalous atmospheric activity.
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Treves
Germany
Wifel Mountains
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Ontjio Wessels
Concea 2d
John M. Wrae
Regular Army
Elks
Hurray Welbert
Sears
Roebuck
John Fergus
Huron Dental Society
Radiola
Third Street
Flanniteere
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