Spotter identified in Detroit gang massacre probe
Chicago AP report identifies three Detroit Purple gangsters from photos as spotters for Thursday killings. Harry Keynwell, Phil Keynwell, and Eddie Fletcher allegedly watched victims from rooms above the crime scene to time the murders. Police say Moran blamed Capone gang. Swanson orders crackdown on gambling and vice.
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Chicago
Detroit
Harry
Phil Keynwell
Eddie Fletcher
George Bugsi Moran
Moran
John A. Swanson
Cock County
Russell
Swanson
Suicide in Russellville Barn Claims Local Resident
The body of Joe Roark, 60, a well known Russellville resident, was found hanging in his barn this morning. He had gone to hitch up his team for a trip to Jefferson City. He is survived by his widow, two sons, and three daughters. one daughter lives in Jefferson City.
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Joe Roark
Russellville
Roark
Jefferson City
Negro Arrested for Car Theft Near Lohman
Harvey Lutzemberger of the state library commission spotted a stolen car on High Street. Police arrested Amos Milton Sears near Lohman after he admitted taking the Capitol vehicle to satisfy a long desire for a car.
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Harvey Lutzemberger
State Library Commission
Amos Milton Sears
Near Lohman
Lutzemberger
High Street
Schatzer
Central Hotel
Capitol
Lohman
Mining Community Has Only Three Days Food
385 Sunnyside Mine workers near Silverton face critical shortage after two weeks cut off by snowslides. Food supplies will run out in three or four days. mail and provisions blocked by 200 foot snow depths. An army of shovelers works to clear tracks and two snowshoe runners are contracted to attempt mail delivery.
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Durango
Colo
Sunnyside
Silverton
Eureka
Father 85 Says He Should Spank Son 63 in Court
In Joplin Missouri on February 16, Charles L. Mitchell, 85, told the court he ought to give his son D. B. Mitchell, 63, a good jamming after a replay insult during a wag on and harness race incident. The exchange followed a court replay proceeding.
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Joplin, Mo
Charles L. Mitchell
D. B. Mitchell
Apple Train to Visit Jefferson City Today
Missouri Pacific officials announced readiness for the Apple Train arrival in Jefferson City this evening. Exhibit cars open at 7 with a 7 30 program featuring practical talks on apple growing and marketing led by horticultural agent Ashleigh P. Boles. A group of leading nurserymen will offer high quality apple trees at low prices to boost local cultivation.
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Missouri Pacific
Dover
Hodge
Waverly
Marshall
Napton
Blackwater
Jefferson City
Ashleigh P. Boles
M. B. Lines
Jeading
Official Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Day Feb 15 1929
The House met pursuant to adjournment with Speaker Parker presiding. Invocation by Representative Ram followed by reading and approval of the Journal of the previous day.
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Parker
Ram- Journal
Missouri House Bills Introduced in Early 1920s Session
A list of House Bill numbers, sponsors, and brief aims covers repeals, new sections, park purchases, forestry, teachers retirement, inheritance tax, insurance investments, corporate rules, county salaries, justices of the peace, city districting, public notices, machine gun prohibitions, civil procedure, state highway commission, coroners’ salaries, and an aviation bureau with emergency clauses. Names include Williams, Joh, Lawrence, Freeland, Bales, Wherry, Moore, Miller, Hicks, Huber, Everett R. Meyer, Jones, McGee, Nelson, and others. Places cited include St. Louis County, Shannon, Hope County, and Dunklin.
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Willams
St. Louis County
Joh and Lawrence
Hope County
Missouri
Freeland and Bales
Shannon
Fifty-third General Assembly
State Board of Agriculture
Department of Forestry
Frank X. Moore
Miller
St. Louis City
Wherry
Fiftyfourth General Assembly
Representative Wherry
Fifty- Third General Assembly
Representative Hicks
Representative Huber
Huber, Schwartz, and Davies
52Nd General Assembly
Everett R. Meyer
Jones
Dunklin
State Highway Commission
Louis Cly
Bureau of Aviation
Report of Standing Committees Summary
Representative Robinet chair of Penitentiary and Reform Schools reports House Bills 94 373 and 93 should not pass. Representative Wingo chair of Roads and Highways reports HB 148 should pass. Representative Huber chair of Municipal Corporations reports HB 933 395 380 332 425 401 and 331 recommend if they do pass.
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Robinett
Committee On
Penitentiary and Reform Schools
Wingo
Huber
Committee On Municipal Corporations
Capitol Wedding in State Assembly Read and Adopted
A House of Representatives session includes a wedding comment by Day praising unity and the Cana wedding in the Capitol on Sunday morning February 1th at 10 o'clock. The sergeant at arms is authorized to move a piano to the rotunda for the ceremony. The day features numerous committee reports and a busy slate of bills on pass and refer, with adjournment set for the next morning.
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Paradise
Galilee
Cana
Galilea
State Capitol
House of Representatives
Fifty-fifth ‘General Assembly
Representative Logan
Committee On Publc Health and Scientific Institutions
Steiner
Committee On Agriculture
Osage County
Zevely
Committee On Fish and Game
Representative Case
Committee On Education
Committee On Judiciary
Davies
Committee On Pensions
Papke
Committee
Harrington, Wingo and Baldwin
Boards of
Bates
Shannon
Senate
Missouri
Spencer
Freeland
Elmer
Fifty-first General Assembly
Municipal Corporation Court
Murry
Committee On Taxation and Revenue
Ringe
Committee On Wills and Probate
House
Kansas City Doctor Sentenced to Twenty Years in Missouri Penitentiary
BUTLER Mo Feb 15 AP Dr George Kowertz a Kansas City physician was sentenced to 20 years in the Missouri penitentiary after conviction for robbing a Ballard Kentucky bank of 900 dollars last November In KC he had been named by two youths as head of a robber gang He previously drew a seven year term in 1922 for counterfeiting at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
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Butler
George Kowertz
Kansas
Missouri Penitentiary
Ballard, Mac
Kansas City
Kowertz
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Maple wood hardness and ancient walnuts in China
The text notes maple hornbeam and wild cherry are harder woods than oak and mentions walnut trees over 200 years old still bearing nuts in parts of China. It also states the Assyrian Sabbath is on Wednesday.
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China
Sky Music Arrives by Fokker Plane in Jefferson City
A Fokker tri-rotor plane labeled Voice of the Sky hovered over Jefferson City for about fifteen minutes as part of a Midwest tour by Industrial Aléonds Institute. Announcements promoted de natured alcohol and automotive anti-freeze while the aircraft dazzled residents with skycasting music.
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Jefferson City
Mid-western States
Industrial Aléonds Institute, Inc
New York
Fifty Robberies Traced To Two Men
In St. Louis and St. Louis County police linked more than fifty robberies to two men, who confessed after being arrested. Suspects Fred Bowall alias Harry Sears, 32, and Charles H. Hoffman, 32, aided by the confession, with fear others may be cleared up. In West Plains, a 14 year old daughter of J. K. Scott of Willow Springs was gravely wounded, probably fatally, when a rifle discharged while a 10 year old brother played with it.
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ST. Louis
8Th. Louis
Fred Bowall
Harry Sears
Charles H. Hoffman
West Plains
Hila
J. K. Scott
Willow Springs
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Trail
Capone
Silloway
Frank J. Loesch
Chicago Crime Commission
George
Bugs) Moran
al Capone
Florida
Herald-and-Examiner
Frederick D. Sillakay
Sillaway
van Buren
Everett Heart
Eugene Swazey
Poplar Bluff
Uberty
Links& Sons
Elisinore
H. G. Stroud
Henderson
Kenucky
ost-Tribune
Stroud
Missouri School of Journalism
To- Yo
Japan
AH. Lutzemberger
Auto
House of Representatives Fifty-fifth
General Assembly
Representative Elmer
Gyes
Bales
Representative Blair
Winter
Advertising Club of
Arthur B. Schaneul
Club
Henry W. Wiel
B. J. White
Missouri’ Pacific Railway
Walter B. Weisenburger
Blair
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