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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1925
Page
1
The Fourth of July weekend brought a surge in fatalities with automobile accidents leading the toll. Chicago and vicinity recorded 27 auto casualties, while drownings totaled 49 nationwide and 9 nearby. Other incidents include a Boston cabaret collapse and several local crashes with multiple deaths.
The Grain Marketing Company, a $26 million midwestern merger project, announced that its stock selling campaign among farmers has been abandoned. Secretary John Coverdale said promotion of the organization should be pushed and the firm must find other means to meet $4 million in obligations due July 28. Officers and directors met to decide the enterprise's future course.
The Comptrollers of currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Tuesday June 30. The notice seeks detailed reports of assets liabilities and cash holdings from every chartered bank in the nation.
Judge Richard Stoll instructed the July term grand jury to investigate a death at Greendale reform school. The joint probe by the state board of charities and corrections and Fayette County Commonwealth Attorney has findings available to the grand jury.
Seven men bound three watchmen and two others at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden. The band then robbed the club house, blew open one safe and pried another door, escaping with about $19,800 in money and checks.
The Schuetzen verein will have a queen as its head for the year, a first in German history. Frau Koeppen, wife of a Junker estate owner, won the highest score at the Ringenwald Club contests and earned the title Queen of the Sharpshooters.
In Cookeville Tennessee Dr John Neal considers seeking a restraining order from Judge John J Gore to halt Tennessee state court action in the Scopes trial matter A conference with Oscar Holliday preceded Neal's silent stance and a planned petition for tomorrow The judge warned interference requires a strong justified case and noted any order would be filed in the Chattanooga division with a ten day return period
Nashville minister W. L. Murray claims his lectures on Fundamentalism vs. Modernism inspired Rep. J. W. Butler to propose an anti evolution bill. Murray argues Tennessee law blocks teaching evolution in public schools and denounces Darwinian evolution as a basis for modernism and state harm.
A 16 year old Ruggian cellist Raya Garbousovil from Tiflis Georgia appears in Berlin ending the concert season with virtuosity and promise. Her frail frame masks mastery and she recalls playing through frostbite during the Russian revolution to support her family.
Dr W te Mason and L Lawrence Bowman, missing since June 33, were found alive but in serious condition on Signal Mountain by mountaineer Jan Thomas. They described being abducted by five hooded men, chained to trees and moved nightly to unsearched spots, with Mason starving and both men exhausted after days without proper nourishment.
Madisonville authorities announced a signed confession from a man arrested Saturday for drunkenness who admits killing Syp Byrd a news butcher. The confession was given before County Judge Ott Stanley and witnessed by three others. The suspect, Graham, claimed Byrd won $5 from him in a train gambling game and that two alibis supported his story.
Armed youths robbed Joseph Jasinski, cashier at Waratramck National Bank, taking 14500 dollars he had recently retrieved from Peoples State Bank of Hamtramck. They fled in a waiting car shortly before noon and escaped.
The annual report shows the close of the fiscal year June 30 with more than $52,000 in cash turned over to the treasury in the state accounts.
The Pickwick Club disaster in Boston after a Fourth of July party killed 43, with 3 in hospitals and 9 identified women among the dead. Investigators and responders cleared debris as officers recover bodies including Police Inspector Benjamin Alexander and Patrolman Paul Halloran. Vandals looted a cloak room during the frantic search.
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