Shyster vs. Shyster and a Broker’s Cunning Gift
A New York broker, prosperous yet bored, contemplates gifting his wife a chaise longue. He nearly buys it but leaves, only to find delivery later and a $300 bill. Two lawyers bluff through a trial by using the broker as a witness and a maid to vouch for delivery and payment. The farce ends with a legal victory and a quirky tale of deceit. Mr and Mrs M. D. Allender depart for Parkersburg for a few days.
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New York
Shyster
Bond
Full Service Promised for New Orleans Car Lines
New Orleans July 17. Labor leaders promise full street car service by week end as they seek public support before potential sympathy strikes. Union executive committee met, calling an open mass meeting next Thursday to discuss showing labor's side of the street car dispute. Since federal marshals enforced the injunction, streetcar service has risen without riot.
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New Orleans
Carmen
William Ruth
Refrigeration gas blamed for three deaths in Chicago
Chicago health authorities blamed methyl chloride gas leaking from a central mechanical refrigerating system for the deaths of Joseph Painter and his wife Mary and their infant son Joseph Jr in their apartment. Coroner Bundesen ordered suspension of methyl chloride systems and sought city council action while 75 000 installations may be affected and 500 000 units halted.
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Chicago
Herman N. Bundesen
Joseph Painter
Mary
Joseph
Bundesen
Bessie Dorsey
Painter
Mrs De Priest Tells of White House Impressions
Mrs Oscar De Priest wife of the only Negro congressman spoke to Pilgrim Baptist Church women in Chicago about her June White House visit as a guest at a congressmen whites tea. She praised Mrs Hoover as a cosmopolite and hostess noting her great soul modesty and dignity in the White House setting.
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Mrs. de Priest
White House
Chicago
Oscar de Priest
Pilgrim Baptist Church
Mason and Dixon Line
Flemington Babe Meirs Donovan Phelps Died Tuesday Morning
Burial services for Meirs Donovan Phelps seventeen months old son of Mr and Mrs George A Phelps of Flemington will be held at Mount Morris M P church Thursday morning at ten o'clock The child died Tuesday morning at Mason hospital Clarksburg after a serious operation He is survived by his parents two sisters and a brother Rev G H Snyder will conduct the services and interment will be in Mount Morris cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meirs Donova Phelps
George A. Phelps
Flemington
Mason
Fall's Sister Sent To Insane Asylum
Mrs. Katherine Petty sister of Albert B. Fall former secretary of the interior was committed to a state insane asylum by order of the superior court yesterday. She had been under the care of a psychopathic parole officer since 1924 and was a former magazine writer.
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Los Angeles
Katherine Petty
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Superior Court
Flashes of Life and Court Bids in Early News
New York report on Donald L. Samuels a stock exchange member aged 28 sued for separation over a failed ante-nuptial promise to reduce. Wife cites psychosis due to romance novels and odd behavior. they married six years. husband earns over $60,000 yearly. Cowes Isle of Wight: Miss Betty Carstairs unveils a new boat with three airplane engines aiming at Detroit races. Los Angeles: Anita Stewart comments on her next marriage after eloping at 18. New York: Plo Ziegfeld is getting -
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New York
Donald L. Samuels
New York Stock Exchange
Cowes
Isle of Wight
Betty Carstairs
Detroit
Seagrave
Speed
Los Angeles
Anita Stewart
George P. Converse
Forty Seamen Die In Storm Off Valparaiso Chile
Off Valparaiso in a violent storm the Chilean transport Abtao sank. Forty-one officers and crew are missing, two of 43 aboard were saved, and boats from Flora Antartico and Imperial rescued survivors and recovered bodies among wreckage. The storm affected southern and central Chile with severe conditions near Valparaiso and San Antonio.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Abtao
Flora
Antartico
Imperial
Mnrique Aranda
Francisco
Goodbye Folks Continued from Page One
The item lists varied notes from entertainment to crime, including signings for a musical comedy, estate purchases by John D. Rockefeller Jr, a large swordfish caught off Portland and a puzzling auto tire mackerel find. A talkie demonstration by Robert Belgan draws Kiwanis praise while a prison inquiry centers on a miner suspect.
Boy Scouts Report Notes Outdoor Kiwanis Meetings
Stanley Tobin of Logan WV is highlighted in a continued page report on Boy Scouts. Rev Torrey provides a report as Till Towles, program chairman, announces two Kiwanis outdoor meetings in August with locations to be announced.
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R. B. Petty
Kiwanis
Dr. Petty
Theodore Patton
Howard Cameron
Brooks Gall
R. E. Petty
Jack Willson
Mary A. Forcello
Towles
James C. Holt
Karl J. Nuzum
Stanley Tobin
Logan
West Virginia
Torrey
Wickersham Prohibition Question Near Governors Conference
Wickersham continues from page one as the prohibition question is addressed before the governors conference yesterday with Governor leading the discussion.
Roosevelt Hosts Crime Session On Prohibition Division
York as principal speaker read a Wicker letter calling prohibition a serious subject and proposing shared authority. It urged federal action to curb interstate liquor import and transport while states handle sale, saloons, and local enforcement with remarks from Governor Byrd of Virginia and Governor Conley of West Virginia.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
York
Wickersham
Byrd
Virginia
Conley
West Virginia
Dream Island Proves To Be Fairy Land
Cleveland July 17 M F Bramley dreamt of an island off California that he later found to be a sand reef beneath the sea He imagined creating a private kingdom with himself as ruler by building a breakwater and pumping sand Bramley estimated costs may be prohibitive The reef 30 feet under water is part of the sunken Mu continent and Bramley spoke of white Guatemalan legend natives He would renounce American citizenship to found the realm but would not block U S claims Bramley formerly used the yacht Peary on Arctic expeditions
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Cleveland
M. F. Bramley
California
Bramley
Pacific
Roester
Cortez Reef
United States
Commodore Peary
Broken Down Actor Gets Five Years Probation
Fred Joseph Mellini former Metropolitan Grand Opera Company member received five years probation in superior court yesterday on a charge of issuing a worthless check after evidence was presented in Los Angeles on July 17.
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Los Angeles
Fred Joseph Mellini
Metropolitan Grand Opera Company
Florida growers push papaya as new farm industry
John M. Demarest of Hypoluxo Island and Will Grefe plan to commercialize papaya in Florida. Demarest plants 5000 trees on his Hypoluxo estate while Grefe cultivates trees on his Miami Beach area, testing sliced fruit and preserves. The fruit ships poorly but already enters California markets at about $1.25 a pound, with origins in Cuba and the Caribbean.
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Miami
Florida
John M. Demarest
Mypoluxo Island
Will Grefe
New York
Demarest
Hypoluxo
Bonita Groves
Redland Grofe
Hiscayne Boulevard
California
San Francisco
Cuba
Central America
West Indies
Walther League debate on tithing and convention fate
The article notes Mellini in observation after a head injury said to have been struck by an object in Chicago in 1920 and later slight criminal tendencies. It reports the 1930 convention ratification in Cleveland and a tithing proposal requiring each senior member to give one tenth of income to church work. Older members fear the plan as revolutionary. a vote may occur later today or be postponed.
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Mellini
Chicago
Cleveland
Hon
Walther League
Weekly US coal output nears ten million tons
The National Coal Association estimates preliminary car loadings show bituminous coal production at about 9.5 million net tons for the week ended July 12. For reference, the Bureau of Mines shows 9.174 million tons for the week ended June 29 and 7.122 million for the week ended July 6.
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United States
National Goal Association
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Walther League Keeps All Present Officials
Fort Wayne Indiana July 17 The present administration of the Walther League will continue in office for another year Delegates to the 87th annual convention of the Young Lutherans voted yesterday to re elect almost the entire slate of incumbents
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Walther League
Ion of the Young Lutherans
Virginia Sportsmen Give Hoover Fishing Tackle
A delegation from the Orange County Virginia chapter of the Ta l Walton League presented President Hoover with a fishing rod and reel as thanks for choosing Virginia as a weekend recreation spot. Members hailed from Orange Madison and Albemarle counties. A retraction demanded of the editor under penalty of arrest. The next afternoon the headlining read Half the City Council Aren't Crooks.
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Washington
Orange Oumnety
Virginia
Taal Walton League
Ofarmsmea
Hoover
Orange
Madison
Albemarle
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Massock
M. D. Allender
Parkersburg
Associated Press
William Hendershott
Kewanez
Honas Mayberry
Hammond
Mayberry
SAT
Babe
G. H. Snyder
Mount Morris Cemetery
Fall
Plo Ziegfeld
Veterans’ Convention
Henri Gouraud
Rainbow Division
Baltimore
Drouhin
Daru
Ting
Hollywood
Hel
Ruth Morgan
Evelyn Peirce Colete Merton
Doraine Lee
Tarrytown, Y
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Pocantico Hills
Portland
Grand Banks
Montreal
Robert C. Belgan
Ohio
Morehead
Tovlick
BOY Scouts
Dream Island
Fairy Land
Uri
Gus
Gussie
Wright Root, JR
Adan
Adam
Carrie
Yau
Ste
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