Seven Thousand Safe After Wild Weehawken Ferry Crash
In Weehawken New Jersey a West Point ferry boat crash with an Erie car float off Hoboken sent 7000 passengers fleeing onto the car float and shore. Rescue crews from the Culkins and electric ferries saved all aboard and the vessel was pumped dry with no immediate sinking danger.
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Weehawken
N. J
Westshore
West Point
Erie
Hoboken
New York
42Nd Street
Charles W. Culkins
One Killed and Six Hurt in Abilene Crash
In Abilene Texas Mrs A M Janes 68 of Wellington died after an auto crash while en route to a Christmas reunion. Six family members including her daughter in law Mrs King Janes and four children were badly hurt with two believed to have internal injuries. Driver King Janes attempted to pass a car, collision occurred sending the truck into a ditch and reentering another ditch before stopping. The deceased lived with her daughter Mrs L W Hartman in Wellington and had been visiting her son in Petersburg.
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Abilene
Tex
A. M. Janes
Wellington
Here
King Janes
Janes
Notice to Bid on Fence Posts by Gillespie County Court
Gillespie County Commissioners Court in Fredericksburg Texas will receive bids on 5000 cedar fence posts six feet long with four inch top diameter and three inch heart and 100 corner cedar posts eight feet long with four inch heart, F O B Fredericksburg. Bids dated January 13 1930 at 10 o'clock A M may be rejected at the court's discretion. Witnesses hand and seat December 11 1929.
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County Commissioners’ Court
Gillespie County
Texas
Fredericksburg
Shook Sentenced Five Years In Robbery Case
Tom Shook former Electra police chief was sentenced to the minimum five years in the penitentiary for robbery with firearms in the Jefferson hotel holdup. He was later taken to Wichita Falls to await a murder trial for the Oscar Daughtery slaying in Electra in 1928 and faces three additional felony indictments.
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Graham
Tom Shook
Electra
Wichita Falls
Shook
Henry Shumate
Jefferson Hotel
Oscar Daughtery
Youths In Streeter Affray Severely Cut At Dance Hall
Sixteen year old Beam from Hay Stack is hospitalized after a cutting affray at a Streeter dance hall Saturday near midnight. Fellow teen Jack Hanson faces $1000 bond on aggravated assault charges awaiting grand jury action. Other justice court cases include McWerter fined for fighting, Irene Curtis linked to a Streeter melee, and Lucille Awalt wounded in a separate incident connected to a prior bank hold up.
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Maine
Math McWerter
Menard County
Justice Court
Mason
Irene Curtis
McWherter
Lucille Awalt
Brady
R. C. Turner
Trady
Mystery Shooting Endangers Llano Rancher Home
In Llano Texas on December 20 an unidentified shooter fired three . Winchester rounds at Leo Hardy’s ranch house. Sheriff Dan McDonald and bloodhounds tracked a shell trail and a single shoe print, but the culprit remains at large as Hardy recalls hearing shots a quarter mile away.
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Llano. Tex
Leo Hardy
Llano
Hardy
Dan McDonald
Llano County
McDonald
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Bjerthes
Leach
Albert E. Klett
Gillespie Co. Tex
E. E. Wakefield
Runnels County
Loyal Valley
Ben Hey
Mason County News
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Gay
Empress Poultry and Egg Corporation
W.N. Lee
Scjoeder Bros
Stucke
Kolmeier & Klier Co
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