Tracked by the Police on screen at Opera House
Warner brothers’ Rin Tin Tin tale Tracked by the Police shown tonight and Saturday follows a desert dam construction dispute. Rival firms threaten, a heroine in peril, landslides and snipers unfold as Rin Tin Tin defeats villains with his canine insight aided by Jason Robards and Virginia Browne Maire among others.
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Rinty
Winty
Warner Brothers
Opera House
Arizona
Laguna Dam
Bob Owen
Jason Robards
Virginia Browne Maire
Tom “Santschi
Nanette
Theodore _ Lore
Dave Morris
Wilfred ‘North
Jay Enright
Wisconsin GOP convention actions at Milwaukee session
Wisconsin Republicans in Milwaukee pass a resolution urging the national convention to take up the prohibition issue. Harris Hayes, 60, acquitted in Blakely Georgia of murdering his daughter in law, faces two other indictments alleging murders of two sons and involvement with his wife. Twelve Russian industrialists held by U.S. immigration authorities in New York are permitted to enter after posting $500 bonds each. Eight Ruston Technical Institute students are expelled for involvement in a freshman hair cutting party. A Houston iron worker admits fabricating a tar and feather incident to pressure his daughter regarding companions, held on a statutory charge.
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Milwaukee
Harris Hayes
Blakely
Nhile
New York
United States
Louisiana ‘Technical Institute
Ruston
Houston Iron Worker
Christmas Seals Aid Tuberculosis Fight in 1928
A West Virginia Tuberculosis Association pamphlet notes the drop in U S death rates from 200000 in 1907 to 90000 in 1927 due to Christmas seal funds. It urges school involvement to fund early diagnosis clinics and specialists, citing Dr Henry G Wildman and Edna Shingleton and highlighting Taylor County efforts to improve public health. Buy seals today to save lives.
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West Virginia Tuber Culosis Association
United States
Henry. G. Wildman
Hopemont
Grafton
Itme
West Virginia Association
Wildman
Edna Shingleton
Taylor County
Flood forces hundreds to flee in Birmingham
Valley Creek rose above banks after four days of heavy rain marooning residents in Negro neighborhoods. Many refuse to leave while others build rafts or ride horses as officials warn it will take days to drain clogged sewers before waters recede.
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Birmingham
Ala
Valley Creek
Valley Green
Louisiana Alienation Suit Ended By Husband Of Beauty
New Orleans case ends as Louisiana’s first alienation of affections suit with a ruling denying damages. Frank Monte leone accused of winning away Agrippina Moulin’s affections from Augustin Moulin for $8000. Chief Justice O Neill rejects punitive damages and warns against treating a wife as a chattel.
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Louisiana
Dixie
New Orleans
Virginia Hobbs Moulin
Augustin Moulin
Frank J. Monteleone
Bienville
Province of
Justice O'Neil
O'Neill de
Bedspread foretells end of Coolidge era in 1929
Washington reports a bedspread created by Mrs. Coolidge’s designers is seen as a mute prophecy of President Calvin Coolidge leaving the White House in 1929. The cloth bears the United States coat of arms and the name Lincoln with 1861-1865 on one side while Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 appears on the other.
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Washington
Girls Debate Married Women's Right to Work
In Chicago on December 16 the debate between Purdue and Northwestern University teams centered on whether married women should work. Purdue argued employment supports homes and reduces poverty while Northwestern favored state measures like mothers’ pensions and child insurance as alternatives to work.
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Chicago
Purdue
Northwestern
Prohibition Raid Nets Barbour and Taylor County Arrests
State officers led by W G Brown raided Galloway Junction and Bear Mountain in Barbour county trapping eight suspects on liquor violations. Four gallons mash and liquor seized at Tom Silvis home, plus bottles destroyed. Tony Petite pool hall and John Petitte arrest followed a moonshine purchase. Suspects held for Barbour county grand jury. others detained at Flemington jail with officers Brown Haller McCloud and Meni assisting.
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W.G. Brown
Burg
Galloway Junction
Mountain
Barbour County
Taylor County
Tom Silvis
Silvis
Silvie Bony
Cochran
Bear Mountain
Tony Petite
John Petitte
Tony
RH. Brown
Parkersburg
Petitte Place
Flemington
Lace Corder
Bar
No Smoking Signs Across Multilingual Border Area
Las Cruces New Mexico December 7 reports that along the southern border the population speaks many languages. Fires from smoking threaten cotton bales and ginning mills prompting No Smoking warnings in 22 languages. A mill displays notices in Polish Spanish Russian Swedish Hebrew Portuguese Danish Turkish and German with English clarifications.
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Las Cruces
N. M
New Mexico
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Ramon Novarro
Marceline Day
Father
Sister
R. L. Clark & Co
Ory
Eta Oeey
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General Motors Acceptance Corporation
Starcher Chevrolet Co
Opera
SEALS
Tuberculosis Association
Matthew
Loar’s
G. W. Loar & Co
Jewelers
West Virginia
Clare
Town Crier
Grafton Feed & Storage Co
TownGtier Flour
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