Edison Nearer Rubber Fort Myers Visit to New Jersey Soon
Thomas A. Edison advances in rubber experiments in Florida and plans to return to New Jersey. His health varies this winter with less stomach trouble but reduced strength. He attended public events and a bridge dedication, and his routine includes frequent Seminole Lodge stays and milk with broth meals. Harvey Firestone’s 84th birthday is noted in a related context.
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Thomas A. Edison
Florida
New Jersey
Caloorahatchee River
Fort Myers
Leaping Louie the Brahma Bull Roams Park
In Kansas City a 1,600-pound Brahma bull named Leaping Louie injured two people during a rodeo at a resort. He unseated cowboy John Pacey Rawlins of Wyoming, ripped a tail light from a car, tore a spare tire, and led a 40-yard dash down a highway. Louie calmed after officials announced owner Frank Winn’s contract cancellation and prize notices drew cheers from resort workers.
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Louie
Babe
John Pacey
Wyoming
Frank Winn
Grey Faces $103,923 Tax Demand On Return
Zane Grey, famed novelist, will confront a $103,923 addition to his income tax when he returns from a South Seas fishing cruise next fall. T J Davis, secretary of the federal tax board, says the government disputes the legality of an agreement with Grey’s wife to share income on books written since their marriage. Grey and his wife filed separate returns for 1923 through 1926. the government contends Grey alone owed the tax.
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Los Angeles
Zane Grey
South Seas
T. J. Davis
Federal Tax Board
Grey
Elks Celebrate Lodge Anniversary in Wheeling
Several hundred Elks from Ohio and Pennsylvania gathered in Wheeling West Virginia to mark the 47th anniversary of Wheeling Lodge No. 28. The event drew members from neighboring lodges as they toasted the organization's long history in the area. Attendees included prominent local leaders and visiting dignitaries.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Wheeling Elks
Wheeling Lodge
Capone Aide Indicted. Howlett Noted as Millionaire Official
Chicago June 22 Internal revenue agents linked George A Howlett to the Capone liquor case noting his $100000 Long Beach Indiana summer home and status as a millionaire official of a Chicago printing firm among the 68 indicted beer peddlers and aides. None of the others have been arraigned and some remain at large.
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Chicago
Alphonse Capone
George A. Howlett
Herald and Examiner
Internal Revenue Department
Capone
Howlett
Long Beach
Ind
Scarface al
Freak Accident On La Trobe Street Saturday Night
A Chevrolet owned by Charles Colebank ran wild on La Trobe Street striking two parked cars and crushing a fender near the Standard Cafe. The car started in reverse after being cranked, hit a nearby vehicle, then struck a second car with no injuries reported.
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Latrobe Street
Charles Colebank
Colebank
Evalyn Knapp Injured In 15 Foot Fall While Hiking
Hollywood Cal June 22 Evalyn Knapp 23 a screen actress is hospitalized after a fall over a 15 foot embankment during a Hollywood Heights hike with her brother. She fractured her spinal column and broke two ribs and was unconscious and bleeding. Dr Carl H Conn calls her condition extremely serious. North Carolina birth rate for April doubled its death rate.
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Evalyn Knapp
Hollywood
Cal
Miss Knapp
Hollywood Heights
Lollywood Lake
Knapp
Carl H. Conn
North Carolina
Dallas preacher nearly hanged as rope stretches free
Associated Press reports B. P. Brown, a part time Dallas preacher, was bound to a chandelier in a Dallas church and escaped death when the rope stretched, allowing him to push his feet onto a chair and avoid hanging.
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B. P. Brown
Dallas
Tex
Federal Officials See Limited Oil Imports Continue
Federal officials note unrestrained importation may rise but costs favor Mid-Continent oil. Officials privately say importers will not increase volume now because bringing in foreign oil costs more, and authorities have kept away from the importing companies with little knowledge of their plans.
Fugitive Benjamin Franklin Surrenders After 17 Years
In Marydel Delaware a man once fleeing justice for 17 years surrendered today after confessing to a Florida murder. He had become a civic leader and church worker, later fleeing again after an appeal. Ministers urged him to return, and locals seek a possible pardon to allow him to run the town's large filling station he saved.
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Marydel
Del
Jue
Florida
Benjamin Franklin
Blountsville
Fla
Frankin
Zeppelin On Wheels Sets World Rail Speed Record
Berlin reports Franz Kruckenbure’s "Zeppelin on wheels" achieved a 143 miles per hour world rail speed, covering 160 miles Hamburg to Span dau near Berlin in 1 hour 36 minutes. It averaged 106 mph, four minutes faster than the standard passenger plane. The coach, propelled by a 12 cylinder airplane engine, seats 50, and uses four miles per gallon.
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Berlin
Franz Kruckenbure
Beer War Claims Seven Lives in New York
New York report says a beer war outbreak has claimed seven lives over months. The latest victim is John Soriculli, 31, an aide to Dutch Schultz, shot at his Bronx apartment doorway. He died after smoking a cigarette and collapsing before medical aid arrived.
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New York
T'elice
John Soriculli
Dutch Schultz
Bronx
Sorielli
Chicago Pageant To Picture Century of Farm Progress
A Danville Illinois farmer Harvey J. Sconce will craft a Century of Progress pageant over two years to depict agriculture’s evolution from 1820s to modern machine age. His 2500 acre farm yields new corn varieties and a purple dye from a single species. The exhibit will trace 150 food products from field to factory, with separate buildings for scientific progress and raw product production, featuring a citrus fruit grove and by products demonstrations. The plan centers on an island off Chicago’s lakefront with coordinated groups of producers, manufacturers and distributors.
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Chicago
Harvey J. Sconce
Danville
Sconce
Illinois Agricultural Association
United States
International Institute of Agriculture
Rome
Churches Here and Across Grattan Display Pupils Handcrafts
Churches across Grattan show school projects and handcrafts with twenty two projects from the entire school. Teachers noted the varied displays including dipped jars, book racks, cut-outs and more. Children's Day programs featured a First Christian Church play Telling the News and an illustrated Hawaii travelogue at Andrews M E Church with later songs and a St Paul M B annual gram by the League.
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First Christian Church
Andrews M
Samuel Charles Jones
Hawaii
St. Paul's
R League
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