Bad Convict Reforms Now Model Citizen Houston Tale
A long Texas penitentiary tale follows Bill Jones once labeled the worst convict. Reform sparked by a trusted superintendent leads to education engineering degrees and a return to prison life, escape attempts, and eventual pardon. He ends as a respected engineer in a large U.S. firm reflecting on conscience and redemption.
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Houston
Texas
Bien Valde
Lfe
Gatisfe
Bill Jones
Bill
Hilt
Jengtttte
L.A. Whatley
University of Chicago
San Francisco
South America
Andes
Aftrie
Fire engine crash kills girl in Philadelphia scene
Miss Louise Calla han, twenty seven, is killed when a fire truck crashes into her car in Philadelphia. Albert Callahan, brother of the deceased, drives the auto in which five other occupants are injured including two women.
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Philadelphia
Louise Callahan
Wan Klled
Ariven
Albert Callahan
Christmas Week Struggles Over Lost Burns Book
Mrs William, awaiting a lost copy of Rab Burns after a library mix up, endures crowded stores and rain during Christmas week. A tired messenger boy returns the fallen book, igniting her wish to share warmth and good cheer at home, while musing on the connection between pleasantness and mental health.
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William Ito
Christ
Masag
Billy
Robert Burns
William
Tess
Werh
Ler
Funeral services for Dr G W Summers held at Glade Springs
Services for Dr G W Summers who died at East Radford yesterday were conducted this afternoon at the home of his daughters Mrs Asbury in Glade Springs Tennessee. A minister spoke on Americanization while speeches from students and a Cambridge parish clergyman followed. The event drew brothers and other relatives and included addresses by James Je Ease president and the church’s istmaster.
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G. W. Summers
East Radford
Mrs. Asbury
Glade Springs
Tenn
Glade
Germany
Russia
China
Armenia
Korea
James Je Ease
Tor
Cambridge
Representatives of 43 Nations Dine Together in Boston
In a Boston Globe report, forty three nations shared a meal at the twentieth Century Club under the Greater Boston Federation of churches. Dark-eyed daughters of France, Spain, and Italy mingled with Nordic guests as Irish, English, Scots, and Liberian Negroes joined Harvard and Radcliffe graduates in a symbol of fraternity. They discussed politics in the British Isles and sang together in an atmosphere of goodwill.
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New York
Boston ‘Globe
Boston
Twentieth Century Club
Greater Boston
England
Scotland
British Isles
Liberia
America
Harvard
Radcliffe
Slagles Store Opens at Five Points Tomorrow Morning
Slagle’s store, Five Paints, will open tomorrow morning in the old Cooper Brothers building at Sullivan and Cherokee streets. The interior has been remodeled and the shop renamed Willfest new. The store is owned and managed by R A Slagle.
Sligle Bias Store Aims To Modernize With Soda Fountain
A fragment describes a store with lines of goods including stationery medicines and tobaccos. A modern soda fountain is installed offering drinks sundaes and sodas. The piece mentions club members visiting from Hiels man Chattanooga Beeson Johnson City Malcolm Miller Knoxville and Kingsport plus a note on Miss Lucile Roller returning home for summer with her family.
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iSligle
Veonipiet Ith Ani Ghldéelangpus
AML
Hay
Ralph Wirey
Chattanooga
D. R. Beeson
Johnsonity
Malcolm Miller
Knoxville
William Roller
Jake Heerens
Kingsport
Lucile Roller
Lynchburg
Wobr
Bradley
Coumbia
Mary, Bradley
Winning Kiwanis team fed at the Inn today
The winning Kiwanis team dined at the Inn with the three losing teams paying, marked by unusually good attendance. Over ten weeks the winning team averaged 99.3 percent attendance, and President Slone praised the effort.
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Kiwadnis
Slone
Bristol Road Growth Impacts Farms and Highway
The Bristol area reports widespread growth affecting farms gardens and pastures as the new state highway nears completion. Rev Clark delivered a splendid sermon at Mountain View Sunday night with Mrs Clark and a young son present. Mrs Mollie Lambirth suffered a relapse since Sunday and was seriously ill for a few days but is better now. Chicken thieves are reportedly active in the area, with merchants urged to refuse buying from dubious sources.
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Clark
Mountain View
Little Son
Iowa Town Tornado Wipes Out Town. Dozens Reported Injured
Masonee Town reports a devastating tornado that virtually destroyed Franklin county community Alexander late yesterday. About a score of residents are injured amid widespread ruin and emergency response.
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Masonee Town
Alexander
Franklin Count Ty
Broad Street Church to Skip Sunday Services for Paint Job
Broad Street Methodist Church will not hold morning or evening preaching next Sunday due to painting and redecorating work. Sunday School will meet in classrooms as usual, but no services will be conducted during the day.
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Broad Street Methodist Church
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Charter Party of New Club
Jonesboro
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Iowa
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Slagle
Nyal Agency
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