Scout Jamborees Highlight World Scout Mission and History
The article explains the World Scout Jamboree concept as a grand gathering blending global youth cultures, with the Third International Jamboree planned for 1929 at Arrowe Park England. It traces earlier Jamborees in Copenhagen 1924 and London 1929 highlights, detailing participant numbers, activities, and criteria for American Scouts, and outlines plans for future local-led participation and broader representation.
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Greece
France
India
Arrowe Park
Birkenhead
England
BOY Scouts OF America
United
International Scout Jamboree Promise World Wide Experience
Troops will travel separately and organize trips best suited to their groups. Leadership standards and uniforms will be prescribed with provisions for organized control upon arrival at the International Camp. Local councils and individuals may raise or donate special funds. This jamboree is a lifetime event offering world wide value and benefits to American Scouts.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Aus
Life
Scouts of America
Deaths in Havre and Atlanta Highlight Consular and Postal Roles
James Gordon Finley aged 42 American vice consul in Havre France has died. George W. Ribble aged 63 general manager Southern division of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company died in Avlanta Georgia.
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Havre
France
James Gordon Finley
Avlanta
George W. Ribble
Southern Division
The
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Court Allows Writ of Error to Marshall Man
Charleston May 28 The supreme court has allowed writ of error and superseders to Grover Littleton of Marshall county to permit him to present an appeal from a conviction and five year sentence for breaking and entering.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Grover Littleton
Marshall County
West Virginia Coming Events Calendar Summary
A condensed listing of May and June events across West Virginia. Highlights include meetings of medical and dental associations, college and high school commencement addresses, circus exhibitions in Spencer and Shinnston, parades in Weston and Morgantown, Memorial Day speeches by Senator Goff, and various band performances, horse races, carnivals, and fairs with dates spanning May 28 to June 18.
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West Virginia
Parkersburg
West Va. Dental Association
White Sulphur Springs
Ralph Roberts
Fairmont
Wadestown High School
K. of P
Salem
Silvan-Drew
Spencer
201St Regiment
Wheeling
Guy D. Goff
Grafton
Mont Chateau
Lake Lynn
Legion
Mountaineer Stadium
Morgantown
Weston
Lesburg
M.M
Neely
Fairview High School
J. Frank Marsh
Fairmont State
Bootleggers Face Liquor Tax Ruling in New Orleans
Federal Judge Ben C. Dawkins ruled that the retail liquor tax under internal revenue law applies to bootleggers despite the Volstead act. Prohibition officials will keep records of all convicted bootleggers to collect the tax.
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New Orleans
Ben C. Dawkins
Prohibition
Bereaved Mother Killed by Train Near Shady Grove
Mrs Bessie Matthews of Uniontown died after being struck by a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train while en route to a greenhouse to buy flowers for her child's grave. Her husband, Robert Speaker, driver of the automobile, was seriously hurt. Passenger Mrs Warren Trimbath was in the car but left shortly before the crossing.
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Uniontown
Bessie Matthews
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Shady Grove
Robert Speaker
Warren Trimbath
Ambassador Morrow on Mexico post after son in law’s wedding
Washington May 28 22 Dwight F Morrow the American ambassador to Mexico City says the job would be easier than being a new father in law He spoke after attending the wedding in New Jersey of his daughter Anne to Charles Lindbergh and then conferred with Secretary Stimson at the State Department on U S interests with Mexico.
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Washington
Mexico
Dwight F. Morrow
San
New Jersey
Anne
Charles
Ajolindbergh
State Department
Stimson
States
Reporters summoned in Wheeling grand jury probe
Newspaper publishers and reporters were summoned as final witnesses before the Ohio county grand jury investigating gambling and alleged vice conditions in Wheeling and Ohio County. The jury was expected to make a presentment this afternoon.
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Wheeling
W.a
Ohio’ County
Ohio County
Senate rejects Sackett amendment on census count
Washington May 28 The senate today rejected Senator Sackett of Kentucky amendment to the census bill. The amendment would have barred aliens from being counted in the population base used to determine representation in the house.
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Washington
Senate
Sackett
Kentucky
House
Plane to leave tomorrow for Rome from Old Orchard
Captain Lewis A. Yancey, navigator of the Green Flash, announced today the plane would depart Old Orchard at 8 a m tomorrow for Rome after a telephone conference with New York weather bureau officials. Final takeoff preparations were under way this afternoon.
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Old Orchard
Lewis A. Yancey
Green Flash
Rome
New York Weather Bureau
Tractors Arrive by Trainload in Regina Saskatchewan
A large shipment of tractors arrived by train in Regina Saskatchewan. The tractors were purchased to boost local farm operations and support agriculture in the surrounding area.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Signal System In Use Today On Monongahela Line
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad announced a new electric color signal system between Parkersburg and Cumberland. Superintendent T. K. Faherty said once trainmen and operators are trained, branch movement will be safer and faster. The $800,000 project began in June 1928, with two years expected to complete Cumberland division. Gangs will move to Cumberland division to install the same appliances. Faherty noted the largest concrete spans in the west, including a Los Angeles bridge about 254 feet long within a 2,700 foot length.
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Baltimore
Parkersburg
T. K. Faherty
Trans
Faherty
Peherty
Cumberland Division
Faherty Sead
Weat
Los Angeles
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