Kansas City Women Rally Against Immoral Shows
About 300 women protested the Empress and Gayety Theaters, demanding a padlocking of “immoral shows” as city officials planned a December 20 hearing on a proposed ordinance. Dr Adeline Soule and Mrs Charles R Howard testified, urging protection for children, while theater acts continued performances.
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Kansas City
Empress
Society For the Prevention
Nat Spencer
Iere
Adeline Goodrich Soule
Government Study Club
Soule
Charles R. Howard
Parent-Teachers Association
C. Jasper Bell
General Council
Bell
Round the Town social notes a busy travel week
A compilation of visits and trips from Jefferson City with numerous residents and guests traveling to St. Louis Chicago and New York. Local residents including Miss Frances Crump Mrs C G Hammond and Judge James T Blair Jr. are mentioned along with attendees at events and university visits.
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James T. Blair, Jr
Samco
Blair
St. Louis
James T. Blair
Robert Hunt
Margaret Hunt
Kansas City
H. E. Meeker
New York City
Market gains lift stocks amid holiday trading
A half holiday session saw heavy volume as stocks rose with extreme gains of 2 to nearly 20 points in leaders like U S Steel Western Union and International Telephone. Reports of holiday trade and expected dividends supported advances while profit taking limited gains. The Gem Ballroom dance drew a large crowd with the Virginia Ravens providing a lively show last night.
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Stanley W. Prenosil
Associated Press
New York
Bethes
WU. S. Steel
Republic
Vanadium Steels
Western Union
Iternational Telephone
Otis Elevator
American Tobacco B
Columbia
Graphiphone
Allied Chemical
National Lead
Ingersoll Rand
Columbian Caran
J. I. Case
U.S. Industrial Alcohol
Hoover Seeks Haiti Commission and Marines Boost
President Hoover urged immediate creation of a commission to study Haitian relations with the United States and asked Congress to fund 840,000 for its expenses. He disclosed an additional Marine force was ordered to Haiti, with about 500 already en route, and noted Haiti’s recent material improvements while underscoring the need for policy review.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
United States
Stimson
Haiti
Haith
House of Congress
Sixteenth Section Lands Sold At Public Auction
POPLAR BLUFF Mo Ded One of the last sixteenth sections of public school lands sold yesterday by sheriff’s sale under district voters’ order. The 480 acre tract, 160 acres previously sold, brought $600 to Fred Platt, a millman. The price per acre mirrors the rate from 45 years ago, about 1.25.
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Poplar Bluff
Missouri
Fred Platt
Prohibition Agent Accused Of Using Son To Aid Raids
In St Louis Frank Thompson accuses deputy agent D Padfield of befriending his 19 year old son Wesley and supplying money to buy inks, alleging the youth was drawn into liquor raids. Padfield declines to comment. Mayor's birthday sparks recall of birth year confusion amid farm venting plant figures.
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ST. Louis
Frank Thompson
Wesley
Thompson
X. D. Padfield
Padfield
Mogler Widow Questioned In Theatre Slaying Case
In St Louis, Mrs Adelaide Mogler widow of slain State Senator Joseph Mogler and her attorney Martha Hackett were taken to police headquarters for questioning after an incomplete inquest into the murder. The inquest was continued pending further police investigation as two masked men who waylaid Mogler remained unidentified. A missing "little black book" kept by Mogler, detailing intimate affairs and dealings with gangsters, was not found on his body. Probate court named Mrs Mogler administratrix of her husband’s estate valued around 250000 dollars, with about 100000 dollars in trust, largely to her.
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ST. Louis
Adelaide Mogler
Joseph Mogler
Hiis
Martha J. Hackett
Magler
Transaghons
Mogier
Edward Phinney
Jim
Kaiser
Oh Professor staged at Acme College campus
The Missouri writer John B. Graham presents Oh Professor a two act musical comedy at Junior College Auditorium next week. Produced by the David Belasco Dramatic Club under Lions Club sponsorship it features Chester Barnett directing with Billy Phillips as Tony pep leader at Acme College. Mrs Arabella Blossom Mrs Wilhelma Bettis and Prof Alexander Aloysis Zeno Dwight Brown lead a lively cast as the show promises step lively musical comedy and a dramatic finale with a campus wedding and crowd pleasing choruses. Ticket sales have begun and posters fill city windows.
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Junior College Auditorium
Missouri
John 8
Graham
David Belasco Dramatic Club
Lions Club
Chester Barnett
Acme College
Billy Phillips
Jefferson City High School
Toney
Acme
Arabella Blossom
Wilhelma Bettis
Alexander Aloysis Zeno
Dwight Brown
Haitian Clash With Marines Halts Port au Prince Rampage
Five Haitians were killed and 20 wounded in a night clash at Aux Cayes with 20 U.S. Marines as a band of 150 natives attacked the Marine patrol. Marines used a machine gun and six automatic rifles. no Marines were hurt. Martial law followed rioting that began with customs workers and spread to Port au Prince and other towns.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
United States
Aux Cayes
Customs House
Mrs Margaret Wolfe Found Dead In Barn Near ToKa
Maryville Missouri December AP reports Margaret Wolfe 32 a daughter of Colhour of Siloam Springs Arkansas was found seriously frozen in a barn near To-ka. The Solhours moved from Maryville area to Arkansas last fall. Wolfe previously worked as a hospital dietitian in Snoqualmie Washington. Husband Lee Wolfe believed to be in Rock Port Missouri and police probe the disappearance of a former husband Herbert Kish who left Craig Missouri with the couple’s two children.
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Maryville
Margaret Wolfe
Colhour
Siloam Springs
Atk
Solhours
Arkansas
Wolfe
Snobualinfe
Wash
Kansas City
Lee Wolfe
Rock Port
Cal Coolidge May Go To Senate In 1930
The Boston Transcript reports that Calvin Coolidge may be a Senate candidate in 1930. Washington sources say officials close to the administration urge his run, working with Massachusetts leaders, with hopes the field would be cleared for him.
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Boston
Boston Transcript
Calvin
Massachusetts
Coolidge
Bloomfield Twins Acquitted In Murder Case
Twin brothers Jack and Robert Powell were acquitted by a Bloomfield Circuit Court jury of murder in the slaying of W. J. Stone, Parma District farmer. Stone was wounded April 27 on a farm they tenants of, after dispute over crop division. The defense said Stone's party, led by John Stone with a pistol, forced the confrontation, and the Powells acted in self defense.
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Bloomfield
Jack
Robert Powell
W. J. Stone
Parma
Stone
Powell Brothers
Wiliam Stone
John Stone
Jack Powell
Powell
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Mr. Smith
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St. Joseph
K. J. Powers
Russell Tate
Eldon
Mildred Lewis
Burneeton, Mo
W. B. McGregor
Brookfield
CG. C. Hammond
Odessa, Mo
Charles Lee
BE. L. Murdock
Mildred McCarty
Walter A. Reinhardt
Alin Nichols
George Stanpfly
Ethel Macauley
Topeka
Kansas
Securitas Benefit Hospital
John, Moore
Wilbur Pace
Monett, Missouri
University of Missouri
W. E. Grimp
Frances Brown
Henry Miller
Moberman Manufacturing Company of
Lincoln
Nebraska
Cletus Pope
St. Mary's Hospital
W. C. Crump
Nebraskan
D. St. Obenhan Manufacturing Company
Julius Caeser
Walter Simpson
Missouri Hotel
Fred Wickham
C. L. Wickham
Los Angeles
Calif
Wickham
California
Louise Dallmeyer
Jean Stevenson
Charistie Lotter
Miss Dallmeyer
Robert Zunvyatt
Raymond Pavier
St. Mary's
Velora Davis
Margaret 2Eitz
Daisy
Ivy Breaker
Ethel Sloan
Agnes Brandecker
Marquesie Jones
Stella Heidman
Ruth Carson
Moter
Sedalia
Robinson
James Nerlin
Jefferson City
Nevli
Margaret Robinson
Gem Ballroom
Virginia Ravens
Joplin
Victor S. Miller
Mmocler
Little
Black Book Raffles
Aut Caves
Marjorie Klinger
Donald Babcock
Roosevelt Field
Long Island
Goulitge
Senate
Robert Holt
Joseph Aspdin
First National Bank of
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