Men Missing After Mountain Crime Linked to Moonshiners
In Chattanooga Tennessee police pursue theories that veterinary Dr J W Mason and Lawrence Bowman were lured to Signal Mountain and slain by a moonshine gang. A bloodstained car and hats were found. authorities fear a brutal murder by a heavy bludgeon and possible shooting.
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Peres
Chattanooga
Tenn
Walden Ridge
J. W. Mason
Lawrence Bowman
Bowman
Mason
Signal Mountain
W. D. Mason
Manson
Signal Mountain District
Prohibition
Dr. Mason
Marriage of the Prince of Wales remains a puzzle
London dispatch notes Britons debate the Prince of Wales marriage after his thirty first birthday. Some see no rush and no strong courtship, while others predict he will marry after his Africa and South American tour, possibly to an English girl.
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London
Prince of Wales
Tate
Edward
Oversea
Alexandra
England
Second Murder Charge Not to Be Pressed Against Shepherd
William Shepherd, acquitted of murdering his foster son William McClintock, was told the second murder charge over McClintock's mother would not be pressed. State's Attorney Crowe cited lack of evidence of murder. Action on C. C. Faiman and witness issues cited. Chief Justice Olson criticized prosecutors for not calling witnesses.
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Toax
Chicago
William Shepherd
William McClintock
McClintock
Shepherd
Olson
Crowe
French General Declines Marshal Baton Offer in 1874
Paris reports General Antoine Chanzy, famed for Franco-Prussian War actions, refused the marshal of France baton when offered in 1874. Fifty years later Parliament proposed a special bill to raise his widow Madame Chanzy’s pension from 12,000 to 18,000 francs, matching marshal widows. She had requested the increase due to living costs, though Chanzy never became marshal.
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Paris
Antoine Eugene Alfred Chanzy
Fuat
Marshal
France
Rhine
Madame Chanzy
Fraanca
Madsayn
Chanzy
Great Russian Tenor Refuses Politics
Paris June 27 Feodor Chaliapin, famed Russian tenor, avoids political topics in a Paris interview. He speaks warmly of art and music but becomes silent when politics arise, escorts the critic to the door and bids farewell, ending the chat on a courteous note.
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Paris
Feodor Chaliapin
North
South America
Europe
Australia
Chaliapin
Russia
Old hens may vanish from markets due to thyroid treatment
London reports at Wembley show Dr A E Crew of Edinburgh University claims administering thyroid to old hens revived egg production. Hens previously laying 25 to 80 eggs yearly surpassed 100 after treatment. Crew also notes potential for sex determination via X ray exposure, signaling future poultry science advances.
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London
A. E. Crew
Edinburgh University
Wembley
Dy.Crew
Edinburg
Grew
American women in crisis noted by French delegate
Madame Avril de Sainte Croix, head of the French delegation, says American women are in a restless crisis as education shifts at Vassar and Wellesley. She notes birth control questions shock in the U S and praises hospitality shown to her in Washington and at the French embassy.
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Ramodalad Prem
Paris
Avril de Sainte Croix
Washington
Vassar
Wellesley
America
France
Madame de Sainte Croix
Goolidge
White House
United States
Canada
Weather Outlook For Coming Week In Washington
Weather outlook for the week starting Monday calls for partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers. Temperatures start moderate and trend mostly above normal as the week progresses.
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Washington
California Boys Plan to Execute Looming Crime
Bliss Baker a UC Berkeley senior told authorities in the city jail he and a companion planned to extort Daniel Tackling mining magnate for fifty thousand dollars by threatening his wife in hotel suites. Baker named accomplice George Beaman and said the scheme aimed to surpass the Loch and Leopold Chicago crime.
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Prins
San Francisco
Calif
Bliss Baker
University of California
Daniel Tackling
Tackling
Baker
George Beaman
Loch and
Leopold
Chicago
Hired Men to Kill Wife Confession Reported
Concordia merchant Charles B Davies reportedly confessed to hiring Walter Mosely and Ray Bryan to murder his wife, paying 2000 dollars with 8000 more promised. He allegedly conspired with Kansas City gunmen, the plan masked as a robbery.
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Concordia
Kane A. J. Kersenbroek
Cloud County
Kansas
Charles B
Kaneas City
Davies
Tomorrow
Inten
Walter Mosely
Mosely
Ray “Bryan
Thy
Davies Fox
Boys Leave For Tour of European Country
Twenty boys from eleven states of the Young Men’s Christian Association sail from New York aboard the steamship Atlanta for a three month world friendship tour. They will meet President von Hindenburg and leaders of Poland and Czechoslovakia and visit most European countries.
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New York
Young Men’s Christian Associations
Atlanta
Europe
Vor Hindenburg
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Market Report from Louisville Cattle Hogs and Lambs
Market notes from Louisville show cattle at two hundred steady, hogs up six hundred to seven to fourteen higher, sheep and lambs mostly lower with sheep and ewes down five to sixteen.
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Louisville
Sheen
Different Opinion On Klan Activities In Washington
Washington dispatch reports Thomas L Avaultt former Klan official now leader of Knights of America pushed a protest to President Coolidge ahead of the August 8 Klan parade. He claims authorities fear rioting bloodshed and a national uprising in the District of Columbia.
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Washington
Thomas L. Avautt
Ku Klux Klan
the Knights of America
Coolidge
District of Columbia
German Building in Washington Disgusts Delegates
Clara Mende, Reichstag member and German delegate to a Washington women’s congress, denounces the German embassy in the American capital for its dilapidated state and meager hospitality. She writes in Die Zeit criticizing the foreign office for offering little support to German representatives.
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Thy
Berlin
Clara_ Mende
Congress of Women
Washington
Foreign Office
Baron von Maltvan
Gustav Stresemann
Die Zeit
Fray
Mende
Amelia
Milton Known by Hamburg Student Joke
A university anecdote from Hamburg circulates a student reply to a professor about Milton. The student says Milton was a famous English poet who married and wrote Paradise est, then after his wife died he wrote Paradise Regained.
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Amsoelsied Preva
Berlin
University of Hamburg
Evolution stronger than law of Newton in Scopes case
Dayton residents, Dayton water officials, and national figures comment on the Scopes evolution trial. Dudley Field Malone arrives in Knoxville as defense counsel. Darrow and Colby are praised and criticized, amid debates over science versus religion and the Tennessee law. Scopes says Dayton remains quiet and stresses his faith and Bible reading. Darwinism framed as trial-worthy yet evolution a universal law, with security measures at Dayton's springs ahead of proceedings.
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Iansucliven
Trean
Knoxville
Tenn
Dudley Field Malone
Par of
New York
John T. Scopes
Dayton
Tennessee
Tennessee Bar Association
State Bar of
Mar. Malone
Malone
Bryan
Chicago
Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Mr. Malone
Darrow
Colby
Hare
Associated Press
George Craig Stewart
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Evanston
Lbeen
Dayt Tenn
Stewart - ‘Agert
William
Dave ‘Ton
John
Germans impressed by U S steel work
Berlin observer Prof Hugo Wach represented the Berlin College of Technology at an New York architects convention. He cited red hot rivets and bolts flying as construction rose many stories high and praised American methods for dampness and fire protection. He noted Beaux Arts influence on American architecture.
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Berlin
International Convention of Architects
New York
Hugo Wach
Berlin College of Technology
Wach
Ecole Des Beaux
Paris
Col John Coolidge Relapse Reported At Plymouth Vermont
The Associated Press says President Coolidge was informed that his father Colonel John Coolidge suffered a health relapse at his Plymouth Vermont home. Dr James F Coupal and the president’s physician Dr E L Chute were dispatched to Plymouth.
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Associated Presse
Swampscatt
Mass
Coolidge
John Coolidge
Plymouth
Vermont
James F. Coupal
E. L. Chute
Berlin to Have New System Calling Cabs
Berlin introduces a centralized taxicab calling system. Forty telephone pillars will stand at main cab stands and direct callers to the central station nearest the address. The taxi association will cover the system's costs.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Jin Berlin
Toxical Association
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