Law Enforcement at Regular Kiwanian Luncheon
At the Kiwanis weekly luncheon in Kingsport Judge D A Vines spoke on enforcing laws fairly for all. Juvenile Court Judge Sam Matthews outlined 1924-1925 case work, family reunifications, and ongoing probation. Tickets for a July 4 Legion Kiwanis ball support the Boy Scout camp. Bebe Daniels touted Nassau weight loss tale with Sinners in Heaven at the Gem Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis
Ralph Worley
D. A. Vines
Judge Vines
Kingsport
Sullivan County
Sam Matthews
Juvenile Court of
Kiwanis Club
Legion-Kiwanis
Andrew J. Leddy
Kingsport Hosiery Mills
H. O. Bunn
W. P. Flora
H. M. McNeil
Cam A. King
Bebe Daniels
Paramount
Nassau
Miss Daniels
Richard Dix
Paramount Players
New York
Bahama Islands
Alan Crosland
Dix
Alvan Crosland
Bebe
Gem Theatre
Husband of former Kingsport Lady Claimed by Death
Friends report the death of W R Nesbit on Monday June 8 at Zelienople Pennsylvania. Nesbit a prominent middle aged businessman died suddenly with details limited. His widow Elizabeth Taylor Nesbit once lived in Kingsport and Jefferson City Tennessee where she had many early friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsport
W. R. Nesbit
Zelienokle
Nesbit
Elizabeth Taylor
Jefferson City
Tenn
Miss Taylor
Zelienoble
Fantastical Fire Alarm Delivers Miss Spore’s Studio Duel
The psychic painter Miss Spore stayed calm as a smoke-filled fire rose through the former Delmonico's building at Forty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue. A visible apparition shouted fire and spats, prompting 30 onlookers to flee while Spore wrapped 175 canvases in canvas to shield them. Firefighters eventually doused the blaze, but she missed the flames entirely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Marian Spore
Delmonico’s
Forty-fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Miss Spore
Man Swallows Teeth During Cough Then Hospitalized
Conrad Wimier of 187 Thirty-second Street Brooklyn swallowed a full set of upper teeth during a violent coughing spell. He was first taken to Norwegian Hospital where doctors could not locate the plate and advised a later X ray. After hours of pain his wife took him to Brooklyn Eye and Ear where specialists recommended waiting until 9 o clock. At that time he was admitted and the pulmonary area was X rayed. Dr John Auwerda removed the plate late that night, with no injury to Wimier’s throat or the plate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Conrad Wimier
Thirty-second Street
Brooklyn
Wimier
Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital
John Auwerda
Babies Drop From Window as Fire Kills Two in Providence
In Providence Rhode Island a tenement blaze killed two children and injured a mother and daughter who leaped from a second story window to escape. Sixteen year old Marion Browning woke her mother and helped rescue a baby and two girls aged four and six. A fifteen year old boy was helped to safety and later pushed out. Both the mother and daughter suffered injuries from the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. I
Marion Browning
Work on
A motivational verse urging steady effort and perseverance. It extols continuing to work toward larger goals, noting humble duties today lead to tomorrow’s honors and fortunes, with endurance as the path to wealth, experience, and service to others.
Charter filed to commercialize fingerprints in national firm
Nashville notes report a Delaware charter for Waggener Fingerprint Corp to commercialize fingerprints with Memphis offices. Plans include using prints on checks for bank protection and radiator attachments for autos, with national expansion. Governor Peay seeks Mississippi return for Everett C. French on wife desertion charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Secretary of State
Waggener Fingerprint Corporation
Delaware
Memphis
Hall N. Waggener
Peay
Mississippi
Obin County
Everett C. French
State Laboratory Expands Under New York Johns Hopkins Visits
Dr. William Litterer state bacteriologist returned from tours of New York City laboratories Johns Hopkins and Washington. He gathered information to advance expansion of the state laboratory work. Commissioner Dr. E L Bishop says the lab program concentrates under increased state appropriations to broaden its scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur A. Nelson
Washington, D. C
States Relation Department
National Record Council
William Litterer
New York City
Johns Hopkins
Washington
State Laboratory
E. L. Bishop
State’ Laboratory
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W. R. Nesbitt
Zelienokle, Pa
Nesbitt
J. Fred Johnson & Company, Inc
J. M. Hamlett
Times
By Douglas Malloch
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Capitol Notes
Statement of Education
J. D. Senter
Humboldt
Supreme Court
Rge
Frank Hall
Dresden
Senter
Middle Tennessee
West Tennessee
J. D. B. DeBow
Middel Tennessee
Grafton Green
Nelson
Geologist Nelson
Monteagle
Dayton
B. W. Agel
South Market Street
East
Tennessee
Austin Peay
Chattanooga
Alexander W. Chambliss
John T. Scopes
Justice Chambliss
P. L. Harned
Education
Fuller
J. Fred Johnson & Co., Inc
Palm Beach
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