Irrigation Congress Set for Spokane August Meeting
Congressman Hobson of Alabama writes from Washington to R. Insinger, Spokane irrigation delegates chair, urging focus on forestry drainage and homebuilding. Senators Bankhead and Underwood express interest as Kansas official Faxon plans active western delegation. Other southern representatives signal support for arid lands irrigation and related topics.
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Spokane
Washington
Daily Item
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Alabama
D. C
R. Insinger
Board of Control
17Th
National Irrigation Congress
Hobson
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
John H. Bankhead
O. W. Underwood
Congressional
H. L. Goodwin
North Carolina
John D. Small
Ralph H. Faxon
Chester I. Long
Kansas
Spokane Congress
Arkansas Valley
Garden City
Arkansas
Faxon
Albuquerque
Congress
Barstow
Congan
William A. Reeder
Great West
Insinger
South
The Way They Fooled Dad and Other Showings at Electric Theatre
At the Electric Theatre tonight a program features The Way They Fooled Dad Juvenile Chicken Thieves and The Drummer's Day Off along with Fasci nating Fluffy Dimples as acts. The listings note her heavy trouble retaining engagements and a busy schedule.
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Electric Theatre
Weather alert azimuth from Savannah to Fortress Monroe
A telegram from the weather bureau to the U S Engineer's office at 11 a m reports a southwest storm warning from Savannah to Fortress Monroe. It predicts high winds this afternoon and tonight with a shift to the northwest and colder temperatures tomorrow.
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Weather Bureau
U. S. Engineer’s
Savannah
Fortress Monroe
Walker's peculiar gait links Slater in Gilchrist murder case
William Warnick and John Pyper arrived with witnesses for the Slater extradition hearing before US Commissioner Shields. Helen Lambie, Miss Gilchrist's maid, testified she saw an unfamiliar man leaving the hallway at about seven o’clock and identified Slater only by a distinctive slouching walk, not by his face. She said Miss Gilchrist, aged 82, was absent briefly that evening.
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New York
William Warnick
Glasgow
Scotland
John Pyper
Baltic
United States
Shields
Oscar Slater
Marion Gilchrist
Helen Lambie
Miss Gilchrist
Slater
Gilchrist
Murder at Christening Sparks Knife Battle in West Virginia
In Benwood Marshall county early today a christening party of Polish men ended in a fatal stabbing and multiple knife wounds. One man died after a brutal half hour fight sparked by a slighting remark about the child. several suspects fled and police jointed Benwood and McMechen to track them. The scene was described as a slaughter pen.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Benwood
Marshall County
McMechen
Carrie Nation Egged at Canterbury Meeting in London
Carrie Nation compared herself to biblical prophets and denounced London as the worst place on earth after a shower of eggs struck her during an advertised Cant erbury Music Hall appearance. The curtain fell as the assault interrupted the harangue and she faulted the managers for failing to provide protection.
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London
Carrie Nation
Canterbury Music Hall
Shocking Tragedy in Laurens Patrolman and Burglar Die
Laurens reports a deadly shootout last night between Patrolman McDuffie Stone and an unknown burglar described as a yeggman. The burglar died at the city station with four wounds, while Stone, after an operation, died at 8:30 this afternoon.
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Laurens
McDuffie Stone
W. Frank Walker
Yeggman
Stone
US horses number twenty million with value near two billion
Washington reports 20,640,000 horses in the United States on January 1, valued at 1,974,052,000 dollars. The total value of all farm animals on farms and ranges reached 4,525,259,000 dollars, up over four percent from a year ago, with gains in per head value and shifts in cattle, sheep, and swine totals.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Plant Juice Doctor Promises Free Chronic Disease Cure
An advertisement argues money cannot buy health, urging readers to consult the Plant Juice Doctor in Cincinnati. It claims modern treatments can cure chronic illnesses and offers free consultation at 822 Front St., with office hours 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. It lists conditions such as deafness, catarrh, rheumatism, kidney and liver troubles, and nervous disorders.
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Front St
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Plant Juice Medicine Co
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mr. Brickman
North
Arrowdale
Bank of Georgetown
Georgetown, 8. C
Opera House
Mason-Newcomb ‘Stock Co
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