Damsites Surveyed on the Holston River Near Bristol
Government surveyors team from Chattanooga maps two potential power dam sites on the Holston river near Bristol and Big Creek, with aerial photos guiding site location. The 30 member crew, led by Burney V. Reany, works daily from June through mid July, surveying topography and river segments up to Damascus.
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Bristol
Hng
Tennessee River
Holston River
Blu City
Riddle Creek
Big Creek
Damascus
Chattanooga
Holston Valley Pike
Burney V. Reany
College Opens Janitor Engineering Course at Greeley
The Associated Peaks reports Colorado teachers college in Greeley has opened a janitor engineering course. Six college janitors will be trained in floor sweeping, window washing, and furnace tending under college authorities to qualify as caretakers.
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Greeley
Colo
Colorado State Teachers’ College
Want Ads Bring The Times Together For Bargain Seekers
A compact want ad summary notes The Times brings together shoppers and sellers for bargains. It highlights sales, classifieds, and miscellaneous offers inviting readers to action.
Campaign to sell memorial coins to start Monday
Chattanooga reports a statewide campaign to sell 400000 Stone Mountain Memorial coins starting June 15. The effort honors President Polk and Tennessee Volunteers heritage, with volunteer week June 13 to mobilize committees, banks to redeem certificates, and a special mintage of 2300000 fifty cent pieces sold at one dollar each.
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Chattanooga
James K. Polk
Tennessee
Stone Mountain
Austin Peay
Polk
Old Stone Mountain
Philadelphia
Market quotes rough and inconsistent from Louisville report
Market notes from Louisville on June 12 show bids and prices for cattle and sheep with several garbled figures. The report lists multiple terms like hundred steady and quarter lower, plus lamb and buck quotes, but legibility is poor and key numbers and entities are unclear.
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Louisville
Long Missing Witness Comes to Aid Shepherd Trial
Robert White, long missing witness in the Shepherd murder trial, unexpectedly reported to the court with his wife and two children. He declared readiness to fight to the finish as prosecutors press motives in the McClintock billion-dollar estate case. William Darling Shepherd goes on trial amid sharp prosecutorial attack and questions over the motive.
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Shepherd
Associated Prom
Chicago
Robert White
Jséph Savage
Savage
White
Wiliam Darling Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
McClintock
Robert E. Crowe
Olwon
Harry Olson
Young McClintock Jastwinter
Olson
W. W. O'Brien
Stewart
Nelson
Rial
Court to Decide If Robber Is a Barber
The Newark Hair Dressers Association backs Gentile in a suit by Dellacorte alleging Gentile bobbed women's hair on Sunday violating a no barber work rule. Vice-Chancellor Berry heard the plea for a preliminary injunction and favored filing briefs. The association’s involvement was announced recently.
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Associated Pres
New York
Newark Hair Dressers’Association
Channcellor Berry
Newark
Virginia Gentile
Summit
NL d
Victor Dellacorte
Gentile
Dellacorte
Bank Robbery Probe Seizes $16900 After Carrsville Heist
In Carrsville Ohio area authorities track two men after a bank robbery. W D Stone, a farmer near Marion Kentucky, is wounded and captured following a gunfight with Bradley Crittenden passman. $16900 in cash and Liberty bonds recovered. McGowan believed to have swum the Ohio River.
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Prase
Carrsville
Ohio River
McGowan
St. Louis
W.D. Stone
Marion
Stone
Bradley Crittenden Passeman
Six killed in Chinese riot near British concession
Six were killed and many wounded while aiding the defense of the British concession during a riot. Chinese forces and local combatants clashed as thousands fought in the streets, causing heavy casualties and widespread chaos.
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Hoakow
Tune
Passengers cling to tops of Rio's crowded trains
Rio de Janeiro faces severe transit strain as suburban growth and cheap rail fares push crowds onto trains. In 1924 the federal district held 1.44 million residents, with 2.006 million in suburbs along the main railway to San Paulo. Officials say top-car riding is banned but enforcement is unlikely without better service. riders cram cars during rush hours.
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Preas
Rio de Janeiro
Federal District
San Paulo
Rio
Strike Is Result Hankow Disorder
Japanese residents seek refuge in the Hankow concession as a waterside strike keeps 35 ships idle. Riots kill several in Hankow interior while Chinese milk workers who had walked out again return to work amid anti-foreign disturbances. Volunteers defend British armory as violence spreads. refugees arrive in Hong Kong aboard crowded British steamers.
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Associated Pre
Shanghai
Hankow
Fort -y-Settlement
Tondon
Daily Express
Hong Kong
Canton
Washington
China
Cunningham
Gil Jenkins
Pampanga
Ile Aunich
Riot and general outbreak devastate Glacebay area
Glacebay Nova Scotia reports looting and property destruction after a riot in New Waterford where one miner was killed and 25 police officers were badly beaten. Four Cominion Coal Company stores looted, foodstuffs and clothing taken or destroyed amounting to thousands of dollars.
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Glacebay
Nova Scotia
New Waterford
British Empire Steel Corporation
Cominion Coal Company
Kilgore Found Hanging in Coal Shed in Glasgow
Glasgow June 12. Reed Kilgore fifty a cousin of Joe Richard son editor of the Glasgow Times was found dead in a coal shed today. Kilgore returned during the night after leaving Tuesday for nine months at Sulphuwell. His family unaware of his return until his body was discovered hanging.
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Glasgow
Reeed Kilgore
Joe Richardson
Glasgow Times
Kilgore
Sulphuewell
Belgian Cabinet Head Defeated in Senate
June 12. Viscount who yesterday armed and informed the king he was unable to establish a government after the Belgian cabinet head was defeated in the senate today.
Evolution Questions Sent to Civil Liberties Union
Nashville telegraphs Neal W. Cooper of Davidson County Sunday School Association sent a series of questions to the Civil Liberties Union of New York regarding Tennessee's anti evolution law. The telegram asks about Bible creation, daily Bible readings, school day prayers, oath taking, and Ten Commandments teaching, requesting names of top officers and affiliations.
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Axsvelaist Press
Nashville
Tenn
Neal W. Cooper
Davidson County Sunday School Association
Civil Liberties Union of New York
Congress
Christ
Amazing five year rise from first grade to college degree
Albert C Boucek, twenty one, completed schooling from first grade in public school to high school and earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Born in Austria Hungary he came to America in 1920, started learning English late, and rapidly advanced through East Street School Allegheny High and Carnegie.
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Pittsburgh
Albert C. Boucek
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Albert
America
Graz
Czecho- Slovakia
East Street
Allegheny High School
Carnegie
Improved conditions lure Germans to stay home
Berlin reports pressure on American consulates for visas has eased as Dawes plan reforms stabilize currency and finances. Thousands who sought emigration last year reconsider, with consulates noting few applicants now appear on long waited lists.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Republic
America
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Railey
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British Volunteers
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Harvey W. Wiley
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Liberties Union
Noah W. Cooper
Union
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