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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1934
Page
5
At Corbeil Ontario doctors report the Dionne quintuplets gaining weight as they cry for meals every two hours. Dr A R Dafoe notes the babies respond to feeding with tongue thrusts and that Ramn is given in small doses to stimulate. Mrs Dionne, exhausted but improving, is expected to leave bed today after a perilous confinement.
MINERAL WELLS TEX June AP The author of A slow Train through Arkansas and other humor booklets is dead. The body of Thomas W Jackson railroad humorist was found in the bathroom of his home by Mrs Jackson. A bullet wound in the temple indicating suicide. Jackson wrote playful railroading pieces and was known for jokes about a clean shaven passenger on the slow train through Arkansas. His most famous joke involves a passenger arguing with a conductor after cows delay the train. The passenger says his family awaits and that they do not expect him until the train arrives.
Three killed when a Pennsyl vania passenger train plunged down a 380 foot embankment near Graystone. Engineer IF Bossom and fireman 0 Blauser, both of Baltimore, were thrown from the cab. Passenger Margaret Frederick died after boiler explosion. Body of John Phillips found near Newport after killings at nearby scene. Tennessee officials to distribute 55000 dairy cows and 38000 yearlings to relief families amid drought.
Approximately 100 Tennessee editors and publishers gather for the sixty third annual Tennessee Press Association convention in Knoxville with a banquet hosted by the two local newspapers. Speakers include John Wesley Haynie Dr P White and Robert P Lowen on National advertising. Delegates visit Norris Dam and later Alumina Company at Alcoa.
SNPA appoints committee chairs led by E K Gaylord with posts across advertising business affairs editorial labor education and postal traffic. Appointees include Boykin Paschal Savannah News and Press Colonel J H Long Huntington Advertiser and Merald Dispatch Tom Wallace Louisville Courier Journal and Times J B Parks Fort Smith Times Record John A Brice Atlanta Journal and cited others.
In Cheyenne Wyoming FP recommended stopping radio broadcasting for 90 days to end a drought. Federal weather forecaster L N Disterdieck said waves from radio stations may hinder rain formation and the complainant urged government action to halt broadcasting to allow rain.
Elizabethton plans a new chartered bank the Watauga State Bank with 75000 capital. KR G Turrentine of Neosho Missouri will manage the institution. In Tennessee trapshooting officials gathered for the state meet with champions named from Chattanooga Knoxville and Knoxville. Plans outlined for crippled children clinics statewide by July 1 through TERA American Legion and county courts.
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