Trade Week motorcade promotes Kingsport event in Virginia towns
A 15-car motorcade with large banners advertised Kingsport Trade Week as it toured Gate City Norton and surrounding Virginia towns. Officials say half fare buses from Daniel Boone and ET WN lines boost regional travel to Kingsport where merchants offer unprecedented values. The campaign emphasizes Kingsport as a crossroad and premier trade center with thousands expected to visit stores this week.
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Belize hurricane death toll climbs to near two thousand
Sept. 10. Rehabilitation plans stalled as residents seek relief from the hurricane disaster that struck Belize Thursday. Navy doctors estimate 1,500 to 2,000 dead, with nearly 1,000 bodies burned on five funeral pyres. The city of 23,600 faces slow recovery without effective cleanup of wrecked frame buildings.
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Evidence Against Cramer's Planet Discovered by Ship
Hampton Virginia dispatch reports Professor Elisha Kent Kane's counsel seeking his release as authorities search for a letter tied to Mrs Janet Graham Kane. In New York, Edo Aircraft manager confirms wreckage identified as Parker Cramer's plane, with minor discrepancies in manufacturing numbers. The Lords Trent trawler relayed that the seaplane wreckage appeared long submerged, near latitude AG 50 minutes, longitude 1 degree 10 minutes east.
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Edo Aircraft Corporation
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Canada
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Missing plane Esa sought in Canada across Atlantic detour
New York report says the missing monoplane Esa from Lisbon to New York was sighted near the Azores and off Cape Race Newfound land. Three flyers Will Rody Christian Johanssen and Fernando Costa Viega, Germans and Portuguese, had 48 hours of fuel left with scant food and water. Searchers hope they landed in a remote Canadian spot.
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Canada
British Sailors Protest Wage Cuts Amid Fleet Tensions
London reports a conference between Sir Austen Chamberlain and Rear Admiral Colvin on wage reductions that sparked protests in the British Navy. Dissatisfaction centers on cuts up to 25 percent, with sixteen ships implicated and crews at Invergordon Rosyth Port land and Portsmouth reacting. some lower ratings blocked anchor operations while cheering King George.
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Texas Weighs Cotton Acreage Cut Amid Crisis
Texas lawmakers push acreage curtailment as a solution to the cotton crisis while South Carolina advances the no cotton plan. Governor Gardner of North Carolina says no legislative session next year. Georgia farmers gather in Atlanta amid the upheaval.
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Weather Fair With Warmth Continues In South
TENNESSEE Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Thursday. VIRGINIA Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with possible scattered thundershowers in north and east. Readings show yesterday’s high near 90 with no rain on the corresponding date. Winds shift to east and southeast in the eastern portions.
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Tale of Mass Murder Found in Old Paper Tale
Berlin authorities uncover a six page antiquarian tale about a 16th century serial killer Genipperteniga told in a spasmodic 1851 newspaper. It describes his method of ambush theft torture and murder of travelers including his wife. The tale ends with his capture confession and execution on the rack after a lengthy trial.
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Aimee Semple McPherson faces breach suit at marriage
In Los Angeles on September 16 AP reports a $200,000 breach of promise suit against David L. Hutton hovered beside Aimee Semple McPherson and his marriage ceremony. Myrtle St Petre, a 24 year old nurse, filed the suit as Hutton was served while meeting McPherson at Angelus Temple. McPherson said she would not let the case cloud her happiness and faced the future with resolve.
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Portugal fears another revolt in Lisbon crisis
In Lisbon on September 16 the government asserted fear of a fresh revolt, ordering military precautions as troops remained in barracks. A cabinet emergency session preceded cavalry deployments and strategic guardings in the capital, with lines cut to Oporto. Last month a revolutionary move ment left 29 tried and over 100 injured as rebels seized artillery at Fort St. George before being repelled by government forces.
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Drowning of Paul Long Under Inquiry in Tennessee
In Johnson City Tennessee on September 16 a sheriff inquiry probed the drowning of 22 year old taxi driver Paul Long in the Holston River near Fordtown. Long leaped from a canoe during an outing with Frank Bersher 34 and Edith Newman 18. Newman, a former Athens resident, said Long had been drinking. Bersher and Newman were released after questioning.
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Paul Long
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Athens
Bodies found near Oyster Bay shipwreck scene
The body of Benjamin P. Collings, of Stamford CT, found in Long Island Sound near Lloyds Neck with hands and feet bound and a head wound. His wife, Barbara aboard Penguin, had claimed two men tossed him overboard after abducting her. Nassau and Suffolk prosecutors weigh her account amid a wide police search and flight investigations.
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Back to School Movement by Relief Group Succeeds
Washington reports a national response to the relief group’s pack to school drive. Hoover’s unemployment relief effort promotes school attendance, pledging cooperation and detailing local plans. In Nebraska, Stockton of Spenest outlines rural helps keep children in class with free lodging and monthly food aid funded by teachers. Indianapolis reportedly sustains under-16 schooling via clubs and individuals. Relief HQs handle wider unemployment issues as Wadsworth chairs a September 25 coordination meeting and fund-raising proceeds.
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