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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1925
Page
5
The Associated Press reports over 160 weekend deaths nationwide with autos totaling 57 and drownings 39. A Boston cabaret collapse killed more than 100, while 19 Fourth of July participants died. An airplane crash claimed two lives and Chicago area saw 27 auto fatalities plus nine drownings nearby.
Auto accidents caused the most deaths and injuries with ten dead and eight wounded. Four killed when a car hit by a Baltimore and Ohio train near Newark Ohio. Two killed and two injured when wheels locked and car hit a telegraph pole at Hastings New York. Two dead and two seriously hurt in Geneva New York crash. One dead four injured near Pomona New Jersey.
Officers of the Grain Marketing Company a 26 million dollar firm formed to merge four large midwestern farms announced that selling stock to farmers has been dropped. Secretary treasurer John Coverdale said promotion slowed in the last 30 days and the company must find other means to meet 4 million dollars in obligations due July 28. A special meeting of officers and directors was held to decide the future course.
The Comptroller of Currency today issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Tuesday June 30. This annual report request informs banks must submit data on assets liabilities and capital.
Judge Richard Stoll instructed the July grand jury in Lexington to investigate a death at Greendale reform school. The joint inquiry by the state board of charities and corrections and Fayette county’s commonwealth attorney has findings available for the jurors.
Seven robbers bound three watchmen and two others at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden early today. They invaded the clubhouse, blew open one safe, pried the door from another, and escaped with about $19 800 in money and checks.
Berlin on July 4 Germany marks a first as the Schuetzen verein installs a queen for the year Frau Koeppen wife of a Junker estate owner tops the annual Ringenwald Club sharpshooting contests earning the title Queen of the Sharpshooters She leads the order amid famed rifles and regional tradition
In Cookeville Tennessee attorney Dr John Neal chief defense counsel signals plans to seek a temporary restraining order to halt state court proceedings Friday Judge Gore says a strong case would be needed to justify federal intervention The Tennessee state court calendar and possible appeals to higher courts loom as factors in the timing of any injunction and hearing details remain unsettled
Nashville minister W. L. Murray says his lectures on Fundamentalism vs Modernism inspired Representative J. W. Butler to draft an anti evolution bill. Murray argues the Tennessee law does not require teaching fundamentalism yet taxes should not fund evolution. He ties Darwinism to modernism and claims teaching it breaches state interests.
Berlin critics hailed Russian cellist Raya Garbousova from Tiflis Georgia for a striking appearance at season end. The frail 16 year old performed with virtuosity and promise, having supported her family during Russia's revolution by playing with frostbitten fingers.
A ten day search after their June 23 disappearance on Signal Mountain ended when Dr. W. D. Mason and L. Lawrence Bowman were found alive but severely weakened. They said hooded men abducted them, chained them to trees, and moved them nightly to new spots to avoid discovery.
Madisonville authorities say they hold a signed confession from a negro arrested for drunkenness and charged with murdering Syp Byrd news butcher. The statement, given before County Judge Ott Stanley and witnessed by three, details a stabbing after Byrd won $5 on a train. Graham had two alibis and previously served six months in Nashville for slaying a negro woman. He said he was on parole when the Byrd killing happened.
Four armed youths robbed Joseph Jasinski, cashier of the Hamtramck National Bank, of fourteen thousand five hundred dollars he had just obtained from the Peoples State Bank of Hamtramck. They escaped in an automobile.
Frankfort Ky July 6 Economy in the office of the secretary of state resulted in turning over to the treasury of more than 52600 in cash with the close of the fiscal year June 30 the annual report disclosed today.
The Boston Pickwick Club building collapsed during Fourth of July festivities leaving 43 known dead as rescue teams remove debris. Sixteen injured remained in hospitals, with four in critical condition. investigators pursue the cause amid looting attempts and police recoveries.
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