Teacher dies saving boy at Bosque River drowning
J Bates McKinney, 35, Sunday School teacher, drowned near Waco Texas while attempting to rescue 13 year old Wilbur Moser. McKinney's body was recovered and pronounced dead at a sanitarium. Moser's body remained missing by nightfall. The tragedy followed a Sunday School picnic at the Blue Hole known for drownings.
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Waco
Texas
J. Bates McKinney
Blue Hole
Bosque Rover
McKinney
Wilbur Moser
Frontage of Flagler Street Told In Tales Of Wealth
Miami narration recalls Flagler Street as a premier trade frontage with stories of fortunes won in the glow of its busy hours. A tale recounts a man clinging to a lamp post shouting in intoxication until a police officer intervened. He insisted he knew the light upstairs was on.
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Flagler
Miami
Fla
Florida
Thash
One Year to Live shown at National Theatre
Antonio Meeno stars in One Year to Live a new picture where he plays a dashing American sea captain in Paris. The film screens at the National Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday June 9 and 10.
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Antonio Meeno
National Theatre
Wemy
Paris
Moreno
Uncle Sam
Perlin Police Wear Flexible Steel Armor
Chicago police and prosecutors could benefit from the new light flexible steel plate body armor now worn by Perlin officers. The armor promises enhanced protection while allowing greater mobility in tense situations.
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Chicago
Perlin
Average ward costs at state elect mosynary schools Apr
State records show April spending for the state's eighteen eleemosynary institutions total $274,219 with 13,410 inmates and 11,769 present. Construction and repair costs reached $90,996. The Carlsbad tuberculosis sanatorium led per capita costs at $54.79, followed by the School for the Blind at Austin and Girls' Training School Gainesville.
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Austin
Texas
State Board of Control
Carlsbad
School For the
Girls’ Training School
Gainesville
Dancing Mothers at National Theatre June 7 and 8
A dramatic Paramount drama about a devoted mother and a flapper daughter whose late nights spark worry. The plot centers on a night club flirtation with a questionable bachelor and the perilous path the daughter faces, as the family confronts choices and consequences.
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Paramount Picture
National Theatre
Persia Builds Mosque Replica for Philadelphia Expo
Persia plans a replica of a famed mosque for the Sesqui Centennial International Exposition in Philadelphia. The fair runs from June 1 to December 1 and will showcase Persian architecture and culture.
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Persia
Philadelphia
Local Marriage Licenses Reported
D. H. Williams with Miss Hazel Brock, John L. McCombs with Miss Mary Lou Burgess, and Jack R. Haruff with Miss Ola Ethel McKee are listed in the marriage licenses column.
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D. H. Williams
Miss Hazel
John L. McCombs
Mary Lou Burgess
Jack R. Haruff
Ola Ethel McKee
Green Magic and Quiet Minds in Color Theory
A reflective piece notes scientists claiming nature’s greens calm nerves and suggests money soothes anger, implying color psychology and finance as stress relief mechanisms. The tone hints at folk wisdom and contemporary science for a light moral lesson.
How I Improved My Kitchen by Mrs Ella Martin
Mrs Ella Martin of Mount Pleasant in Young County describes her kitchen contest project under Miss Norfleet Grimes. She details building a built in cabinet with sink, piping water from a barrel, adding light via new doors and a window, wallpaper, flooring, stove repositioning, a storage closet, a wood box, an ironing board case, handmade panel doors, painted dining room and kitchen woodwork, curtains, a wall lamp and clock, and finally a cheerful, practical space that even draws family visitors to Grandmother's kitchen.
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Ella Martin
Mount Pleasant
Young County
Norfleet Grimes
Mount Pleasant Club
Martin
Miss Grimes
Grimes
Richard Dix stars in Let's Get Married at National Theatre
Richard Dix headlines the Paramount film described as a mile a minute mind in a mile an hour bus. The piece comes to the National Theatre on Friday and Saturday June 11-12, with a plot about a father restraining his fast young son by removing his high powered car and forcing him to take an old electric coupe.
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Richard Dix
Paramount
National Theatre
Richard
Life's Mirror Reflections by Paine Poem
A reflective verse urges living to give good to others. The speaker imagines helping a child with a talking doll or providing socks to a kindly elder, even a simple friendly smile. The plea is to live to love the world and offer the best of oneself.
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Paine
City Hall in Philadelphia Illuminated for Sesqui Centen
The famous City Hall in Philadelphia shines with lights nightly topped by the William Penn statue. The bright display forms part of the Sesqui Centennial International exposition program scheduled to run from June 1 to December 1.
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Philadelphia
William Penn
Greenhorn farmer finds bumper truck garden on Florida coast
Dusty Joe Roanoke notes soil and climate woes yet Floyd Johnson in Fort Pierce builds a thriving Everglades truck garden. In January 1926 his rows yield carrots, radishes, beans, cabbage, onions, peppers, tomatoes, and more with daily wholesale sales from local trade. He irrigates with artesian wells, uses minimal water, and plans year round crops for tourist demand.
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Dusty Joe
Roanoke
Ala
Floyd
Fort Pierce
Florida
Floyd Johnson
Everglades
Mr. Johnson
Johnson
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Hinson-Hockaway Grain Co
Brock
Wm. G. McAdoo
California
al Smith
New York
Trola
Life’s
Eases
Josh
Graham
Graham Mill & Elevator CO
John £. Morrison
Graham, Texas
Olney, Newcastle and
Loving
Tr. Johnson
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