Coolidge Calls Gettysburg Memorial Day Tribute
President Coolidge arrived by special train at Gettysburg station to honor Civil War dead. Rain eased before a parade led by Battery F and 1 000 school children, followed by veterans and civic groups. a 21 gun salute greeted the president at Stevens Knob.
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Gettysburg
Coolidge
West Maryland
Fisher
National Cemetery
Battery F
Sixth Field Artillery
Stevens Knob
Work Talks To Students At Lincoln
Hubert Work secretary of the interior spoke at Lincoln Memorial University during commencement on a hall of citizenship. He urged young voters to pursue knowledge and virtue, stressing religion and service as essential to civilization and drawing on Abraham Lincoln. The address framed education as part of a broader moral mission for the nation.
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Lincoln
Harrogate
Tenn
Lincoln Memorial University
Hubert Work
Interior
Abraham Lincoln
Coolidge Speaks at Gettysburg Memorial Day
President Coolidge speaks at Gettysburg near the Soldiers' National Monument and the Lincoln memorial. The report notes Lincoln delivered the 1863 address from the cemetery platform and that Coolidge is the second president since Lincoln to speak there on Memorial Day after Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.
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Gettysburg
Lincoln
Soldiers’ National Monument
Coolidge
President Coolidge
Roosevelt
Gettysburg National Cemetery
Methodists Alter Divorce Attitude
The 1928 quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church approved broader divorce grounds allowing ministers to marry someone divorced on non adultery grounds. They urged states to require delay in marriage licenses and public notice, and to recognize state divorces.
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Kansas City
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Conference
Sentinel Wins Presidential Cup For Best Weekly Paper
The Sentinel Bemidji Minn received the president s cup from the National Editorial Association as top weekly newspaper. The Star Clipper Thaer Iowa blocked by rule from two consecutive wins. Also awarded auxiliary cup for best front page to Northfield News with Rogers Ark Democrat second.
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Tenn
the Sentinel
Bemidji
Minn
H. Z. Mitchell
National Editorial Association
Star-Clipper
Thaer
Iowa
C. M. Meredith
Quakertown
Gazette
Rhinbeck
N. Y
News
Northfield
Northfield News
Rogers, Ark
Democrat
Bemidji Sentinel
Republican Record
Chadom
Florence, Ala
Herald
Farmville, Va
Walter Williams Surrenders to Police After Fatal Shooting
Walter Williams, of near Janeville, turned himself in to the Gaston county sheriff after a Monday afternoon shooting near Pineville that killed John Connor of Lancaster, S. C. He was jailed in Mecklenburg Rural lock up and faces a preliminary hearing in county recorder's court. bond was not allowed.
Music Perils Town Banded Police Force in Maplewood
Maplewood police commissioner Runyon warns too much music endangers safety as 24 of 28 officers belong to the police department band leaving four on duty during out of town gigs.
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Maplewood
N. J
Runyon
Police Department
Army aviator dies in Arizona crash landing
Captain B. W. Baucom of the army aviation corps commander of a squadron of three planes en route from San Antonio to March Field California was burned to death this morning when he made a forced landing four miles northwest of Douglas.
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Douglas, Ariz
B. W. Baucom
Army Aviation Corps
San Antonio
March Field
California
Douglas
Fighting in Progress Along Chinese Front
Advices from Tientsin report heavy fighting along the Peking Hankow railway between northern troops and Shansi province forces allied with the nationalists. Since last Saturday the battle has cost about 6 000 lives as Shansi seeks to lure Mukden forces away to weaken northern positions. General Fung Yu Hsiang supports a break through near Hokienfu 70 miles southwest of Tientsin.
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Tokyo
Tientsin
Peking-Hankow
Shansi Province
Fung Yu-Hsiang
Hokienfu
Mail Plane Forced Down North of Greensboro
The southbound New York to Atlanta mail plane forced to land twenty miles north of Greensboro at McIver emergency field due to a clogged oil line. Pilot Gene Brown reported oil pressure drop after beacon pass. landed in bad weather without damage. A mechanic was to be sent from Richmond for repairs.
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Gene Brown
Greensboro
New York
Atlanta
Here
Richmond
Brown
Candlerfield
New York-Atlanta
Pershing Speaks Against War At Cemetery For U S War Dead
General John J. Pershing told an audience at St Mihiel cemetery that wars arise from flawed beliefs and that nations must pursue a universal move to outlaw war as a policy. He urged leading powers to agree on a simple no war pledge while meeting armament needs.
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U. S
Thiacourt
France
John J. Pershing
St. Mihiel
Kelloger
Adair Realty Officials Arrest Warrants Issued
Bench warrants were issued in Gainesville for Frank Adair Forrest Adair Sr Forrest Adair Jr and Evans A Erwin after their indictment on mail fraud charges in Atlanta. Bonds of 5000 each per indictment set totaling 15000 per defendant.
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Gainesville
Frank Adair
Forrest Adair, Sr
Forrest Adair, Jr
Evans A. Erwin
Adair Realty and Trust Company of
Atlanta
Federation Denies Commercial Motive Behind Club Work
In San Antonio on May 30, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs reports to the biannual convention that its president Mrs John D Sherman dismisses charges of commercial influence. The federation is described as the world’s largest group of practical homemakers. It urges a permanent endowment to study attacks, promote home elevation, advocate law enforcement, and mobilize the 62 million potential voters for the November election.
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San Antonio
Tex
General Federation of Women’s Club
John D. Sherman
Federation
Daniels Speaks at Raleigh Memorial Day Exercises
Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, addressed national Memorial Day exercises in Raleigh under the Raleigh post of the American Legion. Gold star war mothers occupied reserved seats on the platform.
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Raleigh
Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
American Legion
Lynching of Slater suspect reported near Marshall
Marshall Missouri May 30 The negro Cle Wilson who killed Romeo Logan in a Slater gambling game was seized from Saline county officers on the highway between Marshall and Slater early today and lynched. His body hung from a tree beside the highway three miles south of Slater.
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Marshall
Ccle Wilson
Romeo Logan
Slater
Saline County
Here
Lynching Report Surfaces Near Marshall Missouri
A suspect named Odie Wilson was seized by twelve masked men on the highway between Marshall and Slater and believed lynched. A tourist reported a body hanging from a tree along the highway. the sheriff and coroner searched the area for the victim.
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Marshall
Odie Wilson
Here
Slater
Special Deputy Sheriff Faces Murder Trial in Nash County
W. B. Bissettte, special deputy sheriff, goes on trial in Nash county superior court for the fatal shooting of Luther Williford during a raid on a stit operation. about 75 witnesses summoned as counsel and testimony fill the week.
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Rocky Mount
W. B. Bissettte
Nash County Superior Court
Luther Williford
All Delegates Chosen To Republican Convention
Washington reports the Kansas City convention delegates are set and no candidate holds a first ballot majority. Hoover claims near 522 of 1,089 delegates with 182 disputed by rivals, while Lowden predicts around 300 votes on first ballot and a path to the nomination.
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Hoover
Lowden
Washington
Kansas City
Commerce
Illinois
West Virginia
West Virginia Primary Yields Tight GOP Lead for Goff
With 497 of 2306 precincts reporting, Guy D. Goff led Hoover 26 908 to 25 779 in the GOP race for president and Al Smith led Reed in the Democratic contest. Hatfield led Gore for Senate. Conley led in the gubernatorial GOP contest as Taylor edged Hogg in a tight Democratic race.
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Charleston
W. Va
United States
Guy D. Goff
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
West Virginia
Goff
al Smith
New York
James A. Reed
Missouri
Smith
Reed
Kansas City
Houston
Henry D. Hatfield
Howard Gore
Benjamin Rosenbloom
Hatfield
Gore
Rosenbloom
William G. Conley
H. Roy Waugh
A. Alfred Taylor
Gary Hogg
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