Prohibition clashes with labor and a landmark Times bombing case
The text notes a sweeping editorial mix on prohibition and wages, then recalls the Los Angeles Times bombing trial. It reports the defendants’ guilty pleas, life sentence for James Namers and a 20-year term for Jobs Namers, and mentions efforts to expose those behind a vast conspiracy. A judge’s remarks urge restraint and decency among youth, while a separate court action rejects a petition to raise live stock weight charges. The piece also references misused vernacular and a price card exchange anecdote.
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acNamers Brothers
Los Angeles ‘Times-building
James
California
Vast Dead Letter Office Work Revealed by Post Office
Postmaster McKim details the Dead Letter office effort with 178 staff and 15 specialists handling mail lost or misdirected. About 59,000 dollars in cash was found, 40,000 returned, 19,000 deposited with the U.S. Treasury after owners could not be located.
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United States Postal Department
McKim
U. S. Trassery
U.S
News From the Churches Regular Services and Programs
Regular morning and evening services announced with scripture from Luke 17 20 The Kingdom of God not observe d Reserve Sabbath 17th for Rev McIntyre to ring Message about Laymen Movement Everyone welcome Rev C A Marshall pastor Evening service at 8 o clock Sunday school 104 m Junior league 8 p m Epworth league 630 p m Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 30 p m Wy HM will meet at Rev C Werner pastor
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Eving
McIntyre
C. A. Marshall
Epworth
Preyer
The Cold Church Warmth Debate in No Citizen
The piece laments cold churches causing hardship to worshipers, urging trustees to ensure warmth and criticizing janitors and sextons who fail to heat the building. It argues that church service should not threaten health or comfort and calls for accountability at the church leadership level.
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House of Prayer
Sfice
Kibor
Exit the Worm in the Apple
An orchardist in Washington state has devised a method to kill the coddling moth by suspending fine copper and tin coated electric wire in trees to electrocute moths that contact it. The idea, paired with a poison spray, aims to prevent wormy apples, but the piece labels the method as infant murder in a Kansas City Times quote.
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State of
Washington
Kansas City Times
American Sunday School Union Mission Ties Enduring Work
The American Sunday School Union is described as a national evangelical mission with eighty three years of active life. It selects pious, tactful leaders, runs a 36 member lay board, and dispatches missionaries by team to organize Sunday schools and prayer meetings in rural and neglected districts. Bequests are legally formed as gifts to the Union in Philadelphia.
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American Sunday School ‘Union
School Missionary Society
Sunday School Missionary Society
America
American Sunday School Union
Philadelpha
Rabbits Plentiful This Year Amid Dry Summer Report
Local hunters in Treynor Record note that the rabbit population is unusually high this year due to an exceptionally dry season. They observed eighteen rabbits along the railroad right of way near the Bluffs and report many more unseen.
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Bluffs
Treynor
Open Door: Miller’s Rise From Debt to Wealthu
Jacob Miller, once broke at 65 on the Chicago board of trade with debts over 19008, moved to Kansas for a homestead. He died recently leaving substats valued at 125000, showing a late-life recovery and substantial assets for his children.
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Jacob Miller
Chicago Board of Trade
Kansas
Miller
Bopa
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