Coast Guard boat and steamer collide off Cape Ann
The Prince George, a coastal steamer from Yarmouth Nova Scotia, collided with the 125 foot cutter Agassiz fifty miles off Cape Ann. All 249 passengers survived as Agassiz rescued them amid fog and rising seas. The Prince George was towed to Boston and placed in dry dock. investigations by owner and coast guard are ongoing.
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Boston
United States Coast Guard
Prince George
Cape Ann
Coast Guard
Agassiz
Yarmouth
N. S
Mojave
West Hika
Iver Maple
Injave
East Boston
Knee George
Operon
Tuscarora
Bessie ‘Vage
Lynnfield
Ter
Portland Hosts Eightieth A M A Convention
Portland Oregon opens the eightieth convention of the American Medical Association with about 19 000 doctors expected to attend the five day sessions and medical delegates from the United States and foreign countries gathering for the event Grows 61 Varieties of Iris in Ukiah Mrs J Q White’s garden displays sixty one iris varieties in bloom as part of her lifelong collection in Ukiah California on June 21.
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Ore
Portland
United States
American Medical Association
Ukiah
Cal
J. Q. White
Beating Allegation at Central Indiana Hospital
William Gates, 61, epileptic inmate at Central Indiana hospital, may lose an eye after alleged assault by two attendants, Van Snively and Onis Howes, with a metal cuspidor. Both attendants, 21 and 18, await municipal court trial on assault and battery with intent to kill as hospital officials vow zero tolerance for inmate violence.
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William Gates
Central Indiana Hospital
van Snively
Onis Howes
Folsonville
Gates
E. O. Thompson
Max A. Bahr
American Medical Association
Oregon
Two Die in Dry Battle at Chidester Ark
In Chidester Arkansas deputies and constable confronted bootlegger Walter Patterson aged 40 and his brother Albert. Walter tried to grab Marsh's pistol and killed Deputy Marsh before being shot by Constable Meeks. Albert was jailed on bootlegging charges.
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Chidester
Ark
Walter Patterson
E. R. Marsh
Patterson
Marsh
John Pruitt
Luther Meeks
Albert
Pruitt
Meeks
Albert Patterson
Ouachita County
Elks Open Parley in Los Angeles Convention
Retired presiding officer notes Elks gathering as about 120000 delegates arrive for the annual convention in Los Angeles. Registration headquarters report arrivals and a day planned of business meetings between entertainment. Dignitaries Governor C C Young Mayor John C Porter Grand Exalted Ruler Murray Hubert and Exalted Ruler Edward Gibbs to speak at a public session at Philharmonic auditorium.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Elkhom
C. C. Young
California
John C. Porter
Murray Hubert
Edward Gibbs
Philharmonic Auditorium
Car Burns Owner Held on Vagrancy Charges
Bluford Sturgeon, 25, of 508 Bird Street, owner of a car found burning in a wooded lot on Graveyard road near Maywood, was held by deputy sheriffs on vagrancy charges under a $5,000 bond. He had reported the car stolen shortly before the fire.
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Graveyard Road
Maywood
Bluford Sturgeon
Bird Street
Sturgeon
Aimee McPherson Leaves Detroit After Campaign Deficit
Aimee Semple McPherson departs Detroit to travel to Ingersoll Ontario by car and then by train to Los Angeles. She cites a campaign deficit between two and eight thousand dollars for a fifteen day drive. In Detroit she recounted healing a Jacksonville boy but did not perform healing there.
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Detroit
Aimee Semple McPherson
Ingersoll
Ontario
Los Angeles
Jacksonville
Fla
Try 10 change wheel in air nearly crash
United Press reports Atlanta fliers Bee ler Blevins and Bonnie Rowe performed a dramatic wheel change at 1000 feet above ground in a Curtiss Jenny. A wind gust tangled ropes, blades struck, and crew narrowly avoided disaster as Rowe replaced a wheel and both planes landed safely.
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United Preas
Atlanta
Beeler Blevins
Bonnie Rowe
Blevins
Rowe
Mackay Solenberger
W. C. Striplin
Striplin
Belvins
City Youth Drowns During Swim Near Edinburg Ind
Indianapolis police continued dragging rain swelled Sugar creek five miles north of Edinburg Indiana for the body of John Edward Filcer a nineteen year old son of Mr and Mrs John E Filcer of 2009 Hoyt avenue He drowned while swimming Sunday afternoon He was a member of St Patrick s H and S baseball team that left Indianapolis to play Edinburg The victim likely cramps as he was an experienced swimmer His parents witnessed the rescue efforts and survive with three sisters Dorothy Frances and Helen Filcer He attended Cathedral and Arsenal Tech high schools where he was first baseman on the baseball team.
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Indianapolis
Sugar Creek
Edinburg
Inn
John Edward Filcer
John E. Filcer
Hoyt Avenue
St. Patrick’s H
Filcer
Cathedral
Arsenal Technical
Dorothy
Frances
Helen Filcer
Gas company to add 40 coke ovens at Prospect plant
Citizens Gas Company will erect forty new coke ovens, install a compressor and extend the compressor house at its Prospect street plant at a cost of 779000 dollars. The expansion brings ovens to 120 and total coal capacity to about 1520 tons daily, with Langsdale avenue adding 445 tons. The rise in gas consumers from 11000 in 1912 to 78375 in 1928 justifies the expansion.
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Prospect Street
Citizens Gas Company
C. L. Kirk
Langsdale Avenue
Motorist Receives Ticket After Street Obstruction Incident
Charles Howard of 138 West Twenty-First Street attempted to park in front of 211 East Washington Street on Saturday. He waited two hours for the owner to move the car, then received an overtime parking tag. Howard appeared before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter, who took the case under advisement, citing the car obstructing him for two hours belonging to Patrolman Eugene O'Sullivan.
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Charles Howard
West Twenty-First Street
East Washington Street
Howard
Paul C. Wetter
Eugene O'Sullivan
Wetter
Kidnapped Boston Boy Found Slain in Marsh Creek
Salvatore De Mona, 10, of Boston, disappeared eighteen days ago and was found dead in the Pine river marshes near Saugus, Mass. Police report two black hand letters demanding $5,000 and threatening the boy’s death if payment failed. Parents identified the body and reported the letters this morning.
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United Press Sagus
Mass
Salvatore de Mona
Boston
Pine River
Santi de Mona
Trunks Held in San Francisco for Drug Inspection
Customs inspector William B. Hamilton said seven trunks owned by Mrs. Ying Kao wife of the Chinese vice consul are being examined in Washington by treasury agents. The trunks arrived Friday from Honolulu amid rumors they contained opium.
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San Francisco
William B. Hamilton
Ying Kao
Hamilton
Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Honolulu
War Veteran 83 Dies in Marion Community
Robert William Bird aged 83 a pioneer resident of Van Buren township and Civil War veteran died at his home near Marion Indiana He was a member of the Van Buren Masonic lodge for more than fifty years He is survived by his widow.
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Marion
Ind
Robert William Bird
van Buren Township
Here
van Buren
Asthma Remedy Ad From St. Marys Drugstore
D. J. Lane, a druggist at 1413 Lane Building St. Marys Kansas manufactures an asthma remedy. He offers to mail a $1.25 bottle to anyone who writes for it and will be paid only after they are satisfied with results. The customer must judge the outcome.
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D. J. Lane
Lane Building
St. Mary's
Kan
Police raid three blind tiger dens. sixteen held
Sixteen people arrested on blind tiger and vagrancy charges after three weekend raids. At 208 Beauty avenue police detained Edna Perkins and six others for liquor violations. quantities of beer and alcohol seized. Suspect Cecil Johnson alias Nichols fled prior to arrival. additional arrests at 2434 North Keystone avenue and 948 Holbrook street noted.
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Edna Perkins
Beauty Avenue
Ben Brock
North
Denny Street
North Keystone Avenue
Clark
Brock
Plaice
Cecil Johnson
Alias Nichols
Keystone Avenue
Roy Crawfords
Richard Fowler
Holbrook Street
Caroline Marshall
Senate Avenue
William
Drys Hero Captain Faces Prohibition Charges in Erie
Heroic World War I veteran and former safety director candidate Edward Schmelzer, past commander of Eric's V. F. W. Post and present commander of an American Legion post, is charged after dry agents found liquor in clubrooms. Also jailed are Mathews and Dodson on blind tiger charges. Northern faces vagrancy.
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Edward Schmelzer
112Th Infantry
Fismes
Erie
Eric
V. F. W. Post
American Legion Post
French Worry Over Exodus From Farms
Paris debate centers on 6,000,000 French youths leaving rural areas for city life since 1846. Deputies Dormann and Blanc suggest electrification, water works, easier loans for young farmers, and better schools to curb rural depopulation driven by desire for urban culture and entertainers.
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Reynolds Packard
United Press
Paris
France
Maurice Dormann
Prosper Blanc
Maurice Chevalier
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