Mexico education urged by press and Hoover trip noted
The piece discusses Mexican illiteracy and calls for education led by teachers, citing General Calles and American interests. It also notes President Hoover plans a foreign tour after Congress adjourns, including to the Panama Canal, Mexico, and the West Indies, as an extension of U.S. relations and experience.
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Mexico
Caillies
Gil
Hoover
Congress
Panama Canal
West Indies
United States
Fragmented historic excerpts mix religion and policy notes
A jumble of OCR text blends Zechariah prophecies with comments on Secretary Mellon and prohibition era smuggling. It recalls debates on stock ownership by public officials, outlines a shift in rum running to the Detroit river, and mentions Dallas News on Mexico’s revolutions, yielding a fragmented, era-spanning snapshot.
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Detroit River
Canada
Prohibition Customs
Coast Guard
Rui
Congress Debates Tariffs and Farm Relief Bills
Today in Congress the House continues tariff debate while the Senate considers the Norris attack on the power trust. Census reapportionment remains unfinished business in the Senate as committees mull tariff amendments and conference talks aim to reconcile farm relief differences.
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Senate
Norris
Power Trust
House
Ways and Means
Thor Keeps Ball and Home Quiet Despite Alley Fun
In Chicago on May 21 a neighbor Thor confiscates a game ball from neighborhood boys playing in an alley to protect his window panes and newly seeded lawn. Ten year old William Day retrieves the ball, sparking a dispute leading Day’s father to file a warrant with Magistrate James Feron set for June 1. The West Branch Iowa home praised as Hoover birthplace hosts a romance climax between Dorothy Helen Franco and Francie Reckdeset in an abrupt wedding notice.
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Chicago
Conrad
Thor
William Day
William
Day
James Feron
West Branch
Iowa
President Hoover
Dorothy Helen Franco
Francie Reckdeset
Crand Jury Discharged After Completing Duties
Judge Warren B Kittle discharged the Taylor county grand jury after it completed its work and filed its report. Nine felonies and eight misdemeanors were indicted, with Roy Kirby Raymond Sapp and Donald Chester charged in related cases. Indictments include jail breaking by Weaver Norris and Bays and related charges.
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Warren B. Kittle
Taylor County
Grand Jury
Roy Kirby
Raymond Sapp
Donald Chester
Jim Weaver
Herman Norris
Joe Bays
William Bays
Local Offenders Named In Various Misdemeanors
A list cites Thomas Bays and Everett Stemple facing charges for breaking and entering and stealing. Oliver Stemple and Frank Wotring connected to theft. Ellis Kennedy cited for auto accident, Charles W. Wehn for election law violation, Lawson Starcher for driving without a license, Lucy Minor for liquor possession, and Harry Dalton for disturbing public worship.
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Ing
Thomas Bays
Oliver €. Stemple
Everett Stemple
Frank Wotring
Ellis Kennedy
Charles W. Wehn
Lawson Starcher
Lucy Minor
Harry Dalton
Tennessee strike tensions and guard action in Elizabethtown
National guardsmen patrolled the Elizabethtown strike area as they sought to identify occupants of an automobile from which two volleys of pistol fire struck Ernest Hammer at the American Bemberg Rayon plant last night. Explosions on Happy Valley mountainsides kept guardsmen alert, while 50 strikers and sympathizers waited Chancellor Miller’s ruling on whether their activities constituted peaceful picketing under an injunction for the plant owners.
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Elizabethtown
Tenn
National
C. B. Miller
Legion To Give Help To Disabled Veterans
The American Legion focuses on rehabilitation of disabled veterans child welfare Americanism and national defense. National commander Paul V McNutt will guest at a Fairmont post banquet tonight after a Wheeling stop. He is expected to broadcast from station WMMN around 7 30 PM.
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Fairmont
American Legion
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Wheeling
WMMN
Couple Reconciled After Annulment Hurdle
Los Angeles report states Mrs Rosanna Robinson former wife of Paul Berlenbach the former light heavyweight champion announced last night she and Berlenbach have reconciled The remarriage hinges on her success in obtaining an annulment of her marriage to Albert J Robinson her present husband a boxer serving a term in San Quentin for grand theft
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Los Angeles
Rosanna Robinson
Paul Berlenbach
Berlenbach
Thei
Albert J. Robinson
San Quentin
Women Sentenced in Federal Court Reach Alderson Prison
Five women from the district were sentenced to prison terms at this term of federal court. Mary Johnson and Laura Kemple of Moundsville, Marie Bartholomew and Harriett Weekley of Fairmont, received one to two years for narcotics violations, while Hazel Irene Shields of Bridgeport got two years for violating the Mann act. Shields allegedly eloped with Bridgeport merchant Alfred Russell. her husband accompanied her to the station and said he forgave her and would await her return.
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Wheeling
Itt
Alderson
Mary Johnson
Laura Kemple
Moundsville
Marie Bartholomew
Harriett Weekley
Fairmont
Hazel Irene Shields
Bridgeport
Radio Education Conference Planned by Wilbur
Secretary Wilbur announced a conference of educators and radio executives next Friday to explore education by radio and the federal role. He noted the shift from printed pages and blackboard lectures to radio as a new information agency and said the aim is to develop and present methods and ideals for government involvement. Invited are Federal Radio Commission Chairman Robinson and J L Clifton of Columbus Education.
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Washington
Wilbur
Aadio
Radio
Robinson
Federal Radio Commission
J. L. Clifton
Columbus
One Good Cow Worth Twelve Dairy Cattle Says Bankers
The American Bankers Association Agricultural Commission concludes from 108000 dairy records that a single 500 pound cow outproduces twelve 100 pound cows in net return after feed cost by about ten dollars, even before labor and housing costs for a larger herd are considered. The analysis notes variability in farm prices nationwide.
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Bulletin of
The
American Bankers Association Agricultural Commission
Prohibition Extends to Hop Flavored Malt Products
Washington May 21 Prohibition Commissioner Doran announced the investigation by the prohibition bureau to all products convertible into intoxicants extended to hop flavored malt. Informal conferences with hop flavored malt producers have been under way for three weeks. No action would interfere with hop growers. the bureau is surveying the situation.
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Washington
Prohibition
Doran
Supreme Court Affirms Cabell County Tribunal
The West Virginia Supreme Court today affirmed a Cabell County Circuit Court ruling directing Dilson P. Carter to account to his mother Lucinda M. Carter for the sale of a Huntington house and lot valued at 2500 dollars. The property had been conveyed to O. M. Carter then deeded to Ditson P. Carter who sold it in 1911. The case centers on whether the property was a gift or held to facilitate the sale. A final note adds that the last unit of Lindbergh Field at San Diego, linked to Lindbergh’s Paris flight, is under construction.
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Charleston
WeVa
State Supreme Court
Cabell County Circuit Court
Dilson P. Carter
Lucinda M. Carter
Huntington
0. M. Carter
Ditson P. Carter
San Diego
Paris
New Photo Shows Dr Julius Klein Promoted by Hoover
A new Associated Press photo captures Dr Julius Klein, formerly director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, as he receives a promotion from President Hoover to assistant secretary of commerce.
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Associated Press
Friedrichshafen
Cours
France
Zeppelin
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Hugo Eckener
He Lehmann
Henry, Pierce
Julius Klein
Hoover
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Secretary of Commerce
Congregation elects officers and vestry for EpIscopal church
Charles W. Steel was re elected treasurer at a meeting last night of the congregation of Christ Mathews Protestant Episcopal church announced today by Rev A J Torrey rector Those elected to the Vestry were W C Pembroke B G Watt Charles Steel Eugene Sommerville Archer B Stavely Clyde Gilbert and J A Moran
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Charles W. Steel
Matthiae Protestant Episcopal
A. J. Torrey
W. C. Pembroke
B. G. Watt
Charles Steel
Eugene Sommerville
Archer B. Stavely
Clyde Gilbert
J. A. Moran
State Medicos Open Meeting in Martinsburg West Virginia
Dr Harry T Hall president of the West Virginia State Medical Association opened the sixty second annual convention in Martinsburg urging study of psychosis and noting the need for a federal health department. About 150 physicians attended as the three day meeting began. Mrs Ada Coddington McDermott and Dr David Littlejohn spoke at the auxiliary convention opening alongside.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Harry T. Hall
Wheeling
West Virginia State Medical Association
Department of Health
Hall
Lindbergh
Hatfield
Huntington
United States
Women’s Auxiliary Meat Association of
West Virgina
Ada Coddington McDermott
David Littlejohn
Signs Lee Meadows Sold to Indianapolis Club
The Indianapolis club announced it obtained veteran pitcher Lee Meadows from Pittsburgh on an optional agreement. Meadows, long in the major leagues, was among the first players to wear spectacles in uniform. Naval planes have made over 2,000 takeoffs from carriers Lexington and Saratoga without a mishap.
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American Association Today
Lee Meadows
Pittsburgh
Meadows
Naval
Lexington
Saratoga
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