Bath Michigan school blast kills many and wounds many more
Twenty bodies were removed from a Bath district school wreckage after a morning blast likely caused by dynamite. Among the dead are Glenn Smith postmaster and Nelson McFarren. superintendent Esme Buick died trying to seek aid. The modern three story school served about 500 pupils.
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Lansing
Mid
Bath
Here
Andrew Keyhole
Keyhole
Glenn Smith
Nelson McFarren
McFarren
Smith
Esme Buick
Nina Matson
St. Ignace
Leona Gutkriest
Ann Arbor
Schol
Explosion Kills 20 School Children in Columbia Flight News
News from New York May 18: an explosion aboard the Bellanca plane Columbia kills 20 children. Dispute over navigator threatens crew changes while Charles Lindbergh awaits favorable weather for a solo Paris flight. Clarence Chamberlin remains on board as Byrd and companions refine America.
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Columbia
France
Ocean
New York
Bellanca
Charles A. Lavine
Columbia Aircraft Corporation
Lloyd Bertaud
Air Mail
Bertaud
Levine
Garden City
Noel Davis
Stanton Wooster
American Legion
Chamberlain Levine
Clarence Chamberlin
Bernt Balehen
Commader
Richard E. Byrd
North Pole
Bertand
Balehen
Atlantic Aircraft Corporation
Byrd
America
Berland
Thomas L. Hill
American Society For the Promotion of Aviation
Iwo
Paris
Linderberg
Charles Lindberg
Richard Byrd
Gearse
Nevile
Bert Acosta
Atlantic
Fleet of 100 Ships to Visit Hampton Roads
Navy department announces the U S fleet visiting Hampton Roads from May to June 4 will comprise about 100 warships. This is more than double the original plan, and all vessels will be available for review by the president if he visits Norfolk. Local committees prepare to entertain thousands of officers and men.
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Norfolk,a
Navy Department
United States
Hampton Roads
Norfolk
Japanese Destroyer Fired On Near Hankow
The Japanese destroyer Momo, accompanying a Japanese foreign office mission to Hankow, was fired on by northern Chinese troops while anchored off Chinkiang. The destroyer returned fire for two hours, and a warrant officer was wounded.
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Shanghai
Momo
Hankow
Foreign Office
Yangtze Valley
Chinkiang
Coolidge Praises The Medical Men For Welfare Work
President Coolidge complimented doctors for their role in human welfare at the American Medical Association annual session. He said the world relies on medicine to achieve physical, mental, and spiritual regeneration through reason, not force, while noting a structural weakness in human nature and the persistence of crime.
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Washington
Coolidge
The
American Medical
Entire Quintet Faces Murder Trial for Kerrick Slaying
In Los Angeles May 18 AP three of five revelers from the Hollywood gun party faced no dismissal of murder charges as the state pursued trial. The defense sought to show Mrs Kerrick’s husband was the target in a separate Arizona incident. Witnesses testified Miss Anita Davis admitted shooting Kerrick while intoxicated and that Mrs Kerrick may have owned the pistol used.
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Los Angeles
Arizona
Mes. Kervicck
Ariaom
Ms. Kervith
Henry Isabella
A. H. Woodward
Hollywood
Kerrick
Miss Davis
C. Hollowell
Isabelle
Health Problems At AMA Annual Session Opens
The American Medical Association opened its annual convention in Washington with a formal inauguration and a speech by President Coolidge focusing on public health aims. Delegates discussed keeping well, fighting disease, and extending healthy lifespans as the meeting began.
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Washington
American Medical Association
Coolidge
Radical church reforms proposed by Presbyterians in 10
Chattanooga Tenn May 18 Radical changes in the machinery of the Presbyterian church in the United States are outlined in a report by Rev. Ernest Thompson chairman of the churchs committee on survey Recommendations call for a new 44 member assembly work committee with 11 women to be elected for four year terms divided into six sub committees Overseeing executive and promotional committees and promoting cooperation to plan advance work adjust budgets and ensure economical administration of the assembly
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Presbyterian Church
United States
Ernest Thompson
General Assembly
Assembly
Paul Kelly Faces Crucial Role in His Career
LA May 18 Paul Kelly the husky young actor awaits a witness stand in a murder case involving Raymond, musical comedy star. He is expected to defend Dorothy Mackaye against sensational claims while prosecutors present experts and Mackaye’s maid testifies. Perry Askom defends Raymond’s memory saying he never saw him intoxicated.
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Los Angeles
Kelly
Scriot
Ray Raymond
Dorothy Mackaye
Raymond
Miss Mackaye
Gilbert
W. J. Sullivan
Hollywood
Sullivan
Lbert
Miss Mackaya
Perry Askom
Askom
Sictor
Weather bulletin for Virginia and Tennessee regions
Weather forecast notes showers tonight and Thursday with warmer conditions in the southern portion and cooler in the north. Tennessee area sees partly cloudy skies with possible thundershowers toward night, warmer in the east. Data compiled at the U S weather station by G L Bunn with 6 pm readings.
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Virginia
Thorse
U. Ss
G. L. Bunn
S.cece
Greatest flood drags Louisiana into unknown death toll
South central Louisiana endures the greatest flood in state history as 7,000 square miles flood, breaking in from Atchafalaya and Bayou Glaises. Unknown lives likely lost. Melville reports drownings though officials dispute counts. Rescue worker tells of saving 163 people before drowning in home. ad hoc missions continue as relief centers mobilize.
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Louisiana
Qne
New Orleans
Atchafalaya River
Beyon Des Glaises
Gulf of Mexico
Melville
Archafalaye River
Paul Lefleur
Rosa Plantation
Midville
Highland
Toombs
Marksville
Dupree
Planckeville
Clark
Flood Covers 11 Million Acres In Deep South
New Orleans report cites an estimate of flood acreage across Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana. Officials and relief headquarters say 4 million acres in Arkansas 2 million in Mississippi and 5 million in Louisiana, covering valuable cotton land hardwood forests truck farming belts and cane areas.
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New Orleans
Varios
Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Marines Display Valor in Managua
Marines uphold the reputation of the corps after a clash near La Pan Centro in Nicaragua. Captain Richard Beil Buchanan and Private Martin Jackson led a platoon against Liberal forces, outnumbered ten to one. fourteen Liberals and two Marines died in the engagement. The Marine camp near Leon received alarms at about one o clock Monday morning and reinforcement patrols were dispatched.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Richard Beil Buchanan
Martin Jackson
United States Marines
la Pan Centro
Leon
Buchanan
C. J. Chappel
Wreckage Thought Found Linked to Nungesser Flight
Coast guard and government patrols rushed to a reported 20 by 5 foot section of wood with cross ribs resembling airplane wing structures, found about 100 miles at sea south of Cape Sable Nova Scotia. The sighting points to possible remnants of the trans Atlantic flight by Captain Charles Nungesser and Captain Francois Cali.
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Boston
Charles Nungesser
Francis Cali
Coast Guard
S. F. Ring
United Shipping Board
Bellepline
Rotterdam
Cape Sable
N.S
Lynn
Cape
Deaths Of House Of David Members Tied To Purnell Trial
In St Joseph Michigan a court record listing ten House of David colony deaths with no declared cause was introduced. Prosecutor Nichols said the deaths, including a sister in law of Bessie Woodworth, may influence the Purnell dissolution case. The deaths occurred on High Island in Lake Michigan. Defense objected to assigning causes as county clerk George A. Roderick read the records. The session focused on whether Benjamin and Mary Purnell were legitimate leaders.
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ST. Joseph
Mick
House of David
George A. Roderick
George Nichols
Bessie Woodworth
Benjamin Purnell
Wy Dewhirst
Rederick
Roderick
Reading County
High Island
Lake Miichigan
Benjamin
Mary Purnell
British party visits church in Richmond during historic tour
A British party of businessmen touring the Old Dominion visited St. John's Church where Patrick Henry delivered his liberty or death speech. They moved to the Senate chamber for a portrait presentation of Robert Dinwiddie by Robert Dunwoody to Governor Byrd, then toured Westover and the Byrd ancestral home before an informal dinner at the Country Club of Virginia.
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Richmond
St. John’s Church
Patrick Henry
Kime George
Old Dominion
Senate
Robert B. Dunwoody
Commonwealth of Virginia
Robert Dinwiddie
Virginia
Dunwoody
Byrd
Westover
Byrds
Richard Grane
Colonial Dames of
Country Club of
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James L. Feiser
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American Medical Assn
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Paul Kelly
Ray ‘Raymond
Sever
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Nungesser
House of David Colony
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