Fifteen Entombed After West Kentucky Mine Explosion
At Sturgis Kentucky mine number nine a blast left fifteen men entombed while around 200 worked underground. About 183 escaped through alternate exits as rescue crews from Evansville and the company prepared to enter. Ventilation deemed good, cause of the blast not yet determined. Eight years earlier a Mine number seven blast entombed 62 miners in western Kentucky.
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Sturgis
West Kentucky
United State
Evansville
Kentucky
New Group Houses Offered Public Now
Kingsport residents are invited to view a new development along Oaks, near Borden Mills, featuring sixteen acres of woodland and well built, attractive homes. The layout echoes Br Street in the city center with strong drainage and thoughtful surroundings. Louisville Chamber of Commerce members and a New England manufacturer praised the project as impressive and valuable, noting rents near cost.
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Times
Borden Mills
Louisville
Kingsport
Widow Mary Kenyon Dies In Coffin Fire
The body of Mrs. Mary Kenyon aged eighty five of 1092 Second Avenue New York was burned yesterday by a fire caused by candles placed about the coffin. The flames started while her son James was away waking arrangements for the funeral.
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New York
N. J
Mary Kenyon
Second Avenue
James
Business Men to Meet Y Tonight in Kingsport
The Kingsport Business Men's Club holds its regular monthly meeting at the Community eye tonight at o'clock. All business men are urged to attend to discuss several important items including plans for the city prospectus and other matters deferred from the last meeting.
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Kingsport Business Men's Club
Community Eye
Crops Benefitted by Rains Sunday
Weather bureau predictions verified as local showers moved through the area. Rain aided dry fields and crops, especially corn, with Kingsport receiving the heaviest rainfall while nearby towns saw little or none. A heat wave near Knoxville caused a reported death.
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Weather Bureau
Kingsport
Growneville
Johnson City
Bristol
Highland Park
Here
Knoxville
Darwin Defended in Sermon by University Professor
Vanderbilt graduate sermon features Dr. Gary B. Wilmer of the University of the South calling Darwin Galileo and other scientists saints and servants of truth. He argues science should not be dictated by civil lawmakers and that Christ illuminates inquiry while preserving liberty of thought. Scopes case details follow with admission books still on lists.
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Nashville
Tenn
Darwin Galileo
Servants of Truth
Gary B. Wilmer
University of the’ South
Vander
Caesar
Christ
Galileo
Darwin
Huxley
Einstein
Wilmer
New York
Scopes
Dayton
Mgr. Scapes
American Civil Liberties Union
Markets By The Associated Press Louisville Market Report
Louisville market notes show cattle 1100 head at 3.50 to 10.25 per hundredweight, hogs 1400 head 70 to 125, sheep 2500 head steady to strong 4.50 to 5, spring lambs 14.25 to 15.75. Timea Wants gee the results.
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Associated Proas
Louisville
Eight Track Workers Buried After Train Wreck Near Converse
By The Anmienied Presa Peru Ind June-Eight negro track layers and one train man killed when the Chesapeake freight train overturned on a curve near Converse Indiana fifteen miles south of here. Bodies buried beneath engine and tender and fifteen cars. Recovery expected to take hours. Railroad officials say possibly eleven killed. Fifteen injured taken to hospitals in Peru and Marion. Trackmen stepped aside to let rain pass and were caught when cars overturned.
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Ind
Chesapeake
Converse
Marion
Airplane Passes Over Kingsport Rousing Crowd
Citizens lined porches as a plane passed overhead about 9 30 AM. The high altitude craft lingered briefly in view near Kingsport heading toward Bristol, origin unknown. The event drew curiosity from residents who heard the distant motor and scanned the sky. The report also notes the First American Mill, the first cloth mill in America, began operations at Rowley Ipswich Massachusetts around 1743.
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Kingsport
Bristol
FISRT
America
Rowley
Ipswitch
Mass
Youths drift alone on life preserver in lake rescue
Port Huron Mich June 8 James McCay 13 drifted since Sunday afternoon after being placed in a life preserver and thrown from a sinking row boat by his father. The boy remains missing while his father and two other children were rescued by harbor beach coast guard during a fishing trip two miles from shore.
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Port Huron
Mich
Lake Huron
James McCay
Altho
Harbor Beach
James
Coast Guard
Anarchy Declared Valid by Supreme Court in New York
The Associated Press report from Washington on June 8 states that New York’s criminals anarchy was declared valid and constitutional today by the Supreme Court. The opinion held that the NY utilize the pit or throw of organized government.
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Bross
Washington
New York
Supreme Court
Fire damages business blocks in Kentucky town
A large fire in Glasgow Kentucky damaged two business blocks last night with losses potentially reaching two million dollars. Officials cite defective wiring or spontaneous combustion. The Moore Tobacco Company Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association and Murford and Company suffered heavy losses. The entire plant of the kilter was wiped out and the town was in danger until the wind shifted. About half the loss is insured and all injured are expected to recover.
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Poosa
Glascow
Moore Tobacco Company
Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
Murford and Company
Louisville
Kingsport Band To Rehearse Tonight
The Kingsport Municipal Band will rehearse at the Elks Club band room tonight around 8. Under director Charles Wiley the group has improved rapidly since formation and now rivals city bands. All Kingsport residents are welcome to attend and see the ensemble. Visitors are urged to join tonight as a public concert is planned in the near future.
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Kingsport
Elks Club
Charles Wiley
Stockings Come Off as Heat Hits Paris
Paris endures a heat wave with temperatures near ninety. Parisians flee to the countryside while others linger at terrace cafes for ices and drinks. Midinettes meet in the heat as stockings disappear and hats grow larger. A few heat prostrations are reported amid crowded police stations and tense scenes.
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Paris
Associated
Prose
United States
Europe
Heat Wave Toll Drops in Middle West Relief Arrives
Heat wave which killed 481 nationally ends in the middle west as a storm brings relief. High winds and small tornadoes damage several states, flood basements, and interrupt communications. Des Moines reports a rapid 9 to 10 degree temperature drop.
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Middle West
Associated Press
Chicago
Middle Western
Mercury
Des Moines
L and N Contends Uphold Slated Southeast Rail Line
Interstate Commerce Commission report weighs Bristol Virginia Tennessee stake in a proposed Southeastern Railway line from Harlan County Kentucky to Appalachia Virginia. Examiner Davis finds public convenience and necessity not shown for the line, despite Bristol interests backing the project to connect coal regions. Louisville and Nashville oppose, citing plans to build a separate Harlan to Clinchfield link. Continued on page 2.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern
Herlan County
Kentucky
Appalachia
H. C. Davis
Southeastern Railway Company
Lee County
Virginia
Harlan County
Bristol
Louisville and Nashville Railway
Harlan Fields
Clinchfield Railway
L. and N
C. C. and O
Har
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C.C
Southeastern Railway
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