Mrs McCormick death candles by family gathers at bedside
Longtime social escort and adviser Edith Rockefeller McCormick dies after a battle with breast cancer. Her estranged family, including Harold McCormick and John D. Rockefeller Jr., rush to her side as finances and a Trust shaped her fortunes.
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E. Parmalee Prentice
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Invasion thwarted as strikers attacked near Franklin line
Chief Walter Moody ordered evacua tion of Coulterville as about 4000 strikers held a mass meeting to decide policy after a cavalcade was routed by deputies using clubs pistols and shotguns. About 100 suffered minor injuries while two gunshot wounds were minor. Invasion forces retreated toward Mulkey town then north, with many spending the night in cars.
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Coulterville
Moody
Franklin County
Franklin
Perry County
Dowell
Staunton
Gillespie
United States
Milkeyotwn
Browning Robinson
Benton
Walter Moody
State Highway Police
Mulkeytown
Duquein
Stock Market Drifts Lower Amid Decline and Mixed Support
New York reported a substantially lower opening in today’s stock market with leaders finding support in the early afternoon as investors awaited Washington economic conference developments. Receivers appointed for Interborough Rapid Transit tempered bullish sentiment while major issues like American Telephone U S Steel and New York Central showed early losses before partial recoveries.
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Washington
American Telephone
U. S. Steel
New York Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Chesapeake and ‘Ohio
The Top’s The Thing In Winter Coats Of 1932
Paris fashion notes describe the season’s coats with emphasis on upper body design. Flat furs form bodices and sleeves, seven-eighths and three quarter lengths gain upper emphasis, detachable fox collars offer economy, and collars swirl higher framing the face. Dark fur pairs with bright coats while sleeves gain prominence with varied puff shapes. Waistlines remain semi fitted and belts appear more often.
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Diana Merwin
Associated Press
Paris
Coloy
Mayor Walker Ouster Hearing Sparks Applause Interruption
At Albany and New York hearings on Mayor James Walker that involve ouster charges and a linked fee splitting inquiry, Roosevelt warned against applause as Seabury pressed witnesses. Witnesses included Hilly on fee splits and Lockwood, a Republican justice, as testimony covered Equitable Coach franchise and alleged city aid to state Sen Hastings.
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Rosevelt
Walter
Samuel Seabury
Arthur J. W. Hilly
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York City Corporation
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Hing
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Hilly
Supreme Court
Charles C. Lockwood
Walker
Tammany Hall
Lockwood
New York
John J. Curtin
Curtin
Equitable Coach Company
John A. Hastings
John H. Delaney
Equitable
William’ G. Fuleran
Cabinet Caucus Again Cancelled
Washington Aug 26 1930 President Hoover cancels his regular weekly cabinet meeting for the second time in a week saying the conference with his official family was postponed due to adverse conditions and heavy schedules. The prior cancellation occurred last Friday.
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Washington
Hoover
Cabinet meeting cancelled as Hoover chairs conference
A cabinet gathering was cancelled because at the usual hour Herbert Hoover attended the department of commerce to chair the national conference of business and industrial leaders.
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Hoover
Department of Commerce
National Conference of Business and Industrial Leaders
Shooting of Prisoner Is to Be Probed
Detroit reports state police and county prosecutors investigate the death of prisoner David Cantor from a gunshot wound. Detectives Hoesel and another officer said Cantor reached for a captor’s gun during transport to a burglary scene to elicit a confession. He is quoted saying he tried to ward off a blow before the shot.
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Detroit
State Police
Tthe County Prosecutors Office
David Cantor
Vincent Hoesel
Cantor
Injured in Eviction Tilt Sparks Detroit Clash
Detroit August 26 A weeklong dispute over a eviction action erupted into a clash between about 1000 civilians and 300 police. Two patrolmen were injured and eight civilians held for investigation as prisoners. The disorder focused on John Mitchells home where constables had faced resistance a week prior. Police said the crowd swelled after neighbors urged dispersal prompting the heavy police response including mounted and plain clothes officers.
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Detroit
John Mitchell
Rain Appeal Is Answered in Hopi Rain Dance
In Winslow Arizona August 26 the Hopi performed the snake dance rites to conjure rain after a prolonged drought. Medicine men oversee the ritual while crowds of tourists watch as dancers snake their way through a soil chamber, pleading moisture for crops. The ceremony lasts about forty minutes and concludes with a ceremonial motion toward the six compass points.
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Winslow
Ariz
Hote Villa
Hopiland
Bobby Olds Captures Grand American Prelim Honor
Seventeen year old Bobby Olds of Lansing Michigan, a Vandalia Ohio farm boy, rose to trapshooting fame and fortune by outshooting 700 of the country’s best marksmen to win the preliminary Grand American handicap.
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Vandalia
Bobby
Olds
Lansing
Mich
Slight quake rocks Austria in Klagenfurt report
A minor earthquake struck Klagenfurt Austria causing rattled dishes and mild alarm with no serious damage or injuries reported. Residents felt a light tremor as local authorities urged calm and monitoring of aftershocks.
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Klagenfurt
Austria
Posse hunts for slayer of farmer Earl Basing
A posse began a methodical search today for the unknown killer of Earl Basing, 42, a farmer and father of five, shot in the back while riding his horse on his farm as he was returning from watering. The incident occurred near Lancaster. Nearly 400,000 Democratic voters are registered for this year’s South Carolina primary.
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Earl Basing
Basing
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South Carolina
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