Gloria Swanson talks up sound pictures in New York
New York reports Gloria Swanson confirming vocal talent and that her first talkie The Trespasser will follow Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere. She plans to move to Hollywood, selling a Manhattan apartment and Croton country home. Racket operators offering fake voice tests are exposed, with agents denying involvement and conductors sometimes covering fares out of pocket.
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New York
Gloria Swanson
Talking Pictures
Miss Swanson
Elsie Janis
Edmund Goulding
Budget plans replace installment buying in polite talk
A fragment notes how terms like budget plan deferred payment plan and payment from income have become the polite way to describe installment buying. It cites metropolitan stores expanding large credit business and emphasizes gentility in phrasing to make purchases seem worthwhile.
World News Summary: European reparations and royal health concerns
Overnight dispatches report Britain and The Hague opposing Young plan division of German reparations payments. The Crown’s health anxiety rises over Prince George. Elsewhere, arbi tration ends cotton industry deadlock and Washington trims auto duties. Zeppelin round-the-world flight readied, and forest fires scorch four states, with a Kentucky plane crash killing three.
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Associated Press
The
Hague
Britain
White sheep with black tails lure frothingham to yukon
San Diego August 7 Wild white sheep with black tails lured Robert Frothingham into the Yukon and through inaccessible Campbell mountain range. He managed to kill an old ram with a rifle in the area between the Pel ly river headwaters and Frances Lake on the Yukon Liard divide.
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San Diego
Cal
Robert Frothingham
Yukon
Campbell Mountain Range
New York Magazine
Campbell Mountains
Pelly River
Frances Lake
Yukon River
Liard River
Foundation stone laid for Arsakeion girls college building
Athens report that the foundation stone of the new Arsakeion girls college building in Psychiko a suburb of Athens will be laid in November and the structure expected to be completed in 1932.
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Athens
Arsakeion
Psychiko
Tulsa siblings strive for straight A grades at TU
Doris and Gordon Allen, siblings from Tulsa, finish high school with all A grades for six years. Doris, 18, aims for an English major at the University of Tulsa. Gordon, two years younger, seeks a perfect average in chemistry.
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Tulsa
Okla
University of Tulsa
Doris
Gordon Allen
Gordon
Sisters Reunite After Sixty Years Across War Gap
Louisville August 7 two sisters long separated by Civil War era finally meet again. Mrs M L Huskins 82 of New River Tennessee and Mrs Caroline Perkins 80 of Louisville Kentucky had stayed in touch by letter during the 60 year estrangement and brief reunion marks first sight since the war era.
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Louisville
M. L. Huskins
New River
Tenn
Caroline Perkins
Loutaville
Once Popular Writer Found Dead In Room
Chicago August 7 UP Mary MacLane once famed author of I Mary Mac Lane and Men Who Have Made Love To Me died last night in a lonely room on the fringe of Chicago. She had faded from public view and her death was certified as natural causes. Born in 1881, she was found by the hotel proprietor where she had lived for four years.
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Chicago
Mary MacLane
Miss MacLane
Plane crash kills three near Jeffersonville sightseers
The article continues a report from Page One detailing a fatal plane crash near town. It identifies Flave Courts, 23, a store clerk, and Mitchell and Irwin Voigt of Jeffersonville Indiana, owners of the plane who had flown in the day before and were leading sight-seeing trips. Voigt reportedly observed the crash from a nearby landing field about a mile and a half away.
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Flave Courts
Mitchell
Irwin Voigt
Jeffersonville
Ind
Voight
Pollard Wins Across State in Democratic Sweep
Pollard received broad Democratic backing as unofficial returns show a complete sweep in all congressional districts. Only in the first district, home of Senator Mapp, might later returns shave the margin.
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Pollard
Mapp
Controversy Over Sliding Scale Bill Faces GOP Opposition
Democratic members of the committee and some Republicans oppose the plan as discussion continues. The controversy centers on a sliding scale provision debated at the hearing with Republican colleagues on the committee not yet aligned.
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Rapidan River Camp
Senate
Young Plan Faces Objections From Smaller Powers
The conference heard a formal note from Portugal and a Greek spokesman, noting that smaller creditor nations were overlooked in Paris the fixing of reparations shares. Germany signaled willingness to use the Young plan as a settlement basis, while Portugal urged more consideration for its reduced credits and payments.
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M. Ulrich
Portugal
Gustav Stresemann
Germany
Venizelos
Greece
Paris
Prison Break 1 Ends in Sentry Fire at Prison Gate
Convicts used shields of guards and prisoners to approach the gate and escape. They burst through as a fusillade from a sentry opened on them. Hudspeth and Arthur Graham organized the guard for pursuit after the breakout.
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Hudspeth
Arthur Graham
Graham
Five Train Riders End Their Journey in Magistrates Court
Five train riders were detained by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad detectives and arraigned before Magistrate John S. Wittman, each sentenced to ten days on Taylor county roads. The group included George Evans, James Lebeau, Harry Johnson, Paul Edwards, and Roy Freeman. Evans claimed an alibi involving his estranged wife in Baltimore, while the others provided varying testimonies amid a broader court scene.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Taylor County
John S. Wittman
John Grob
H. B. Slation
George Evans
James Lebeau
Harry Johnson
Paul Edwards
Roy Freeman
Labeau
Evans
Wittman
Baltimore
National Limited
Slaton
James
Snook Trial Shows Wife Defends Doctor In Murder Case
Mrs Helen Snook testified for Dr James H Snook in his first degree murder trial for killing a rival woman. She recalled their 15 year marriage and said he was quiet and not abusive. She described their home life as normal and noted the couple had grown distant.
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Lansing
Columbus
D. Ave
Helen M. Snook
James H. Snook
Dr. Snook
Ricketts
Ohio professor Snook trial paints image of calm man
In Columbus the defense calls Mrs Helen Snook and Mrs Abner Snook as witnesses to depict Dr James H Snook as peaceful by nature driven to frenzy by a clandestine affair with Theora Hix. They describe his early life, war service, and a long time controlling his associations with women as the trial seeks to spare him from the electric chair.
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Seidel
Chester
John F. Seidel
Schanfarber
Rickeets
Theora Hix
South
Lebanon
Columbus
James H. Snook
Helen M. Snook
Abner Snook
Ohio State University
Spook
Ohio State
Snook
Zeppelin Flight Expectations Reported For Sunday Takeoff
Weather outlook is cloudy with possible showers but no high winds, aiding the Graf Zeppelin takeoff. Pilot Hans Von Schiller and co-pilot Lieut. I. Reicheldor Likehurst anticipate the airship will reach Friedrichshafen early Sunday after schedule from page one.
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8. I. Reicheldorifer
Likehurst
Hans von Schiller
Graf
Friedriehshafen
Martinez Referee Shot in Duel Between Friends
Mexico City on August 7 Miguel Martinez accepted an invitation to referee a duel between two friends. They fired from twenty paces. the referee was wounded and dying. Both duelists, unharmed, fled the scene.
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Mexico City
Miguel Martinez
Balla
Martinez
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