Augustus Thomas Named Executive of Producing Managers Association
Augustus Thomas, a prominent American playwright and former railroad worker and newspaper writer, is chosen to head the Producing Managers Association. He is to serve a role in theater akin to Will Hays in film and Landis in baseball, with a career rooted in St. Louis and the Midwest.
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Augustus Thomas
Producing Managers’ Association
Will H. Hays
Commissioner Landis
America
Mr. Thomas
Middle West
St.Louis
Birthday Highlights From The Daily Birthday Party
Princess Marie Joss of Belgium born in Brussels 22 years ago today. Jesse W Reno inventor of the moving stairway born at Fort Leavenworth Kansas 61 years ago today. Sir Harry Lauder first vaudeville star knighted born at Portobello Scotland 52 years ago today. Rt Rev Henry J Mikell Episcopal bishop of Atlanta born Sumter South Carolina 49 years ago today. Charles J McCarthy former governor of Hawaii born in Boston 61 years ago today.
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Marie Joss
Brussels
Jesse W. Reno
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Harry Lauder
Portobello
Scotland
Henry, J. Mikell
Atlanta
Sumter
3. C
Charles J. McCarthy
Territory of Hawaii
Boston
Hunger the Gest Sauce Improves Digestion Says Tablets
A brief note explains digestion boosts appetite and relish for food. It recommends Chamberlain's Tablets to improve digestion, stimulate a healthy appetite, and gently move the bowels.
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Chamberlain
Russia appeals for aid to famine sufferers
One year ago today Russia appealed to the world for aid to famine sufferers. A federal court halted Des Moines streetcar service for failing to pay expenses.
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Russia
Federal
Desa Moines
Duke of Northumberland Faces Tax Burden and Cuts
The Duke of Northumberland, like many titled peers, is selling northern properties including hotels and has rented his Thameside mansion to a Paris art dealer. To reduce expenses he plans to close Alnwick Castle, keeping only a few rooms for visits, with the estate to be let.
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Associated Press
London
Duke of Northumberland
Paris
the Thames
Kew
Alnwick Castle
Dutchess
Festival and primaries highlighted in today’s events
Festival of St. Dominic celebrated in Gre Britain. Tomorrow primaries for nominating congressmen and officials to be voted for next Fall. Church workers from twenty six countries gather in Copenhagen for an international center presided by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Aeronautical tournaments inaugurated in Chicago to develop the city as aviation center of the country.
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St. Dominic
Order of Dominicans
Gre
Britain
Copenhagen
Canterbury
Chicago
Still Making Wine
The Associated Press report from San Francisco notes California wine production and consumption trends with emphasis on rapid output and growing demand.
The Horn That Calmed Lions on African Road
In East Africa near Nakuru a lone motorist used a single horn to scare away three lions attacking a wagon with 16 oxen. The panic caused the oxen to pull the wagon into a curve where one ox was killed, but the horn sound routed the lions and the herd halted safely at the roadside.
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Py Associated Press
Nairobi
Kenya
Colony
East Africa
Africa
Nakuru
Vision bombing city as London fears future air raids
London concerns about a renewed air war after a Parliamentary Air Committee letter to the Prime Minister warns that bombs could rise from 190 pounds to 4,000 pounds, with squadrons over cities at 160 mph at 20,000 feet. It predicts rapid destruction of ports, railways, munitions, and the capital, urging a strong commission to study defenses.
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Associated Press
London
Exceptive Committee
Parliamentary Air Committee
Lordon
England
Hot Weather Ailments Target Bowlers Remedies
In hot summer weather disorders of the bowels become dangerous, urging families to obtain Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. The ad claims the medicine is dependable and cites many testimonials to its excellence.
Railroad Time Table Summary for Texas-Mexican Lines
Train No 1 on Texas-Mexican departs for Corpus Christi at 10 00 a m and Train No 3 arrives from Corpus Christi at 8 36 p m International Great Northern runs a through fast to St Louis leaving 1 01 p m and arriving 6 18 p m Night Train departs 10 00 p m arriving 7 30 a m Rio Grande Eagle Pass service lists Train No 1 leaving Laredo daily except Sundays at 8 30 a m arriving Minera at 10 20 a m Train No 3 leaves Minera daily except Sundays at 1 15 a m arriving Laredo at 8 16 p m
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Corpus Christi
International
Great Northern
Louis
Rilo Grande
Eagle Pass
Laredo
Minera
Varedo
Gossip and Humorous Meditations From Laredo Citizens
A collage of light anecdotes and social quips from Laredo readers. Jokes about everyday life, fashion, gossip, and yard observations frame a slice of small town humor and local color. The items poke fun at jobs, fashion, gum chewing, saloons, travel woes, and neighborly attention in a candid, tongue in cheek style.
Laredo Trends Blink Between Seasons And Societal Says
In Laredo reflections on seasonal goods and social wit, the piece notes that watermelon picking signals end of season, drugstore vanity affects women, oyster season nears while lobster is daily, sensible men align with wives, and modern auto traders outshine old horse traders in fibbing.
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Laredo
Vital Fact For Today
A quirky note advises Theo house wife she will avoid trouble when fly paper is placed by the window screen and a ticking clock if she keeps sheets from being pulled apart. The item reads like a dated social snippet from a world miscellany.
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Theo Housewive
Overseas Week in Hamburg Seeks Global Trade Revival
Revive German trade plans advance in Hamburg for Overseas Week from August 17 to 27. A management board includes Wilhelm Cuno, Walther Simons, and Max Warburg. The event aims to study Europe reconstruction, reestablish cross border commerce, and remove trade barriers. Delegates from finance, shipping, industry, and science will attend.
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Associated Press
Hamburg
Wilhelm Cuno
Hamburg-Amerika Line
Walther Simons
Max Warburg
Europe
Overseas ‘Club
Ver ‘Safes
Germany
Mexico Silver Mines Yielded Three Billion Value
Historical assessment places the total ore yield from Mexico's silver mines from the Spanish conquest to today at about three billion dollars in value.
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Mexico
Social Calendar and Local Travel News
Friday social events include Mrs A C Hamilton hosting a 4 30 pm shower and bridge for Mrs Walter Ferguson Doney, and the Sunbeam Band meeting at 5 pm at the Baptist Church. The column lists numerous local residents returning from travels to Maxia Texas Del Rio Corpus Christi Dallas San Antonio San Marcos and Olmos ranch with visits to relatives and friends.
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A. C. Hamilton
Walter Ferguson Doney
Sunbeam Band of the Baptist Church
Silent tribute as Bell’s body laid to rest in Nova Scotia
At 5 45 this evening the moment of Dr Alexander Graham Bell’s burial in Nova Scotia will trigger a one minute silence of all telephones in Laredo announced by the local telephone office.
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Dr. Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Nova Scotia
Laredo
Weather forecast from New Orleans bureau
Tonight and Saturday unsettled forecast from the United States Weather Bureau for New Orleans region. The Times relays daily update via Telephone Co. line service.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
The
Telephone Co
Fort McIntosh 24 Hour Weather Observation
Fort McIntosh reported a 24 hour period ending 7 pm with a maximum temperature of 102 degrees.
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Fort McIntosh
New Shop Union Awaits Federal Recognition on Santa Fe
Topeka Kan Aug 4 Officials of the newly organized shop crafts association in all Santa Fe system shops awaited a reply from the United States labor board on whether the board will officially recognize the new craft organization. The six crafts groups and the firemen and oilers union held board recognition before July 1. The new organization, formed under the 1920 federal transportation act, says it has supplanted the old unions to give workers a voice before the federal board.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Kan
Santa Fe
United States Labor Board
Firemen and Oilers
New Crafts
Federal Board
Whipped shop workers report in Gainesville Texas
Six Santa Fe shop employees in Gainesville, Texas, were allegedly abducted by unidentified men last night, taken to a nearby area, and whipped with wet ropes. Two of the four who returned did so after receiving medical attention.
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Gainesville
Texas
Santa Fe
Burial at summit tomb for Dr. Pell on Bevan Breagh Mountain
The body of Dr. Alexander Graham Pell will be laid to rest this afternoon from his Bevan Breagh mountain home in eastern Nova Scotia after 35 summers there. Interment will occur at sunset in a granite tomb blasted into the mountain summit on the Bell estate. The body will be carried by Bell estate members to the high point for a simple ceremony with Stevenson's requiem. Messages of condolence came from Taft and many engineering societies, plus Lord and Lady Byng. An overcast morning may alter the usual sunset ceremony. A short service will precede the ascent to the grave site.
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Associated Press
Sydney
N. S
Alexander Graham Pell
Bevnn Breagh Mountain
Bell Estate
Nova Scotia
Bell
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Howard Taft
United States
James J. Davis
New York American Society of Civil Engineering
American Institute of Mining Engineering
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
United States Engineering Society
America
Lord Byng of Vimy
Canada
Lady Byng
First hostilities in Staunton mine takeover flare up
Staunton Indiana August 4 a clash as guards on duty were fired upon near the takeover area and returned fire. The exchange lasted over an hour with automatic rifles used by troops though officials report no serious injuries. Muskogee Oklahoma August 4 John Wilkinson district 21 union president says the joint United Mine Workers and coal operators conference near Cleveland offers a chance to end the miners strike promptly.
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Associated Press
Staunton
Ind
Mins
Amush
Robert Tyndall
Kirmteh
Muskogee
Okla
Cleveland
United Mine Workers of America
John Wilkinson
District 21
Cgal
Governor Neff Awaiting Decision On Vickers Commutation
Austin Texas August 4 Governor Neff said he had not decided on action regarding commutation of Ernest Vickers sentenced to hang in Fort Worth tomorrow for the murder of J W Lopez a special agent of the Texas Pacific railroad.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Neff
Ernest Vickers
Fort Worth
J. W. Lopez
Texas Pacific Rallromi
Munsey record probed in tariff fight accusation
Washington Aug 4 Frank A Munsey owner and publisher of the New York Herald was charged in the senate by Senator Gooding Idaho Republican with opposing the administration tariff bill to benefit his European investments In steel plants mines glass factories pottery plants woolen mills sugar factories and other industries He urged investigations of the St Louis Globe Democrat Boston Herald Chicago Tribune New York Times Cleveland Plaindealer and Minneapolis Tribune The resolution was reported adversely by Chairman Calder of the senate expenditures committee.
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Associated Press
Washington
Frank A. Munsey
New York Herald
Senate
Senator Gooding
Idaho
Republican Agricultural Tariff Bloc
Europe
Munsey
Gooding
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Boston Herald
Chicago Tribune
New York Times
Cleveland Plaindealer
Minneapolis Tribune
Calder
Senate Expenditures Committee
Bible shipment beats records in war time
The American Bible Society shipped 187000 Bibles from Shanghai to its subagency in Peking, the largest single shipment in the Society's Chinese operations. A year earlier a 688-package consignment was sent via Chinese post to Szechuan, some of which fell to robbers along the Yangtse river, but all books were delivered.
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Associated Press
New York
Peking
American Bible Society
Shanghai
China
Szechuel
Yangtse
Transcontinental flight prep from San Antonio to coast
Lieut. James Doolittle of Kelly Field leaves San Antonio at 7 am for Jacksonville to attempt a coast to coast one stop flight. He will refuel only at Kelly Field and plans to depart Jacksonville Sunday night. The mission tests feasibility of rapid mobilization of the U S air fleet in war emergency.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Texas
James Doolittle
Kelly Field
Jacksonville
Fla
Air Service
United States
Minority report urges acceptance of Ford offer on Muscles Shoals
The Associated Press reports that Republican and Democratic senators on the Senate agricultural committee's minority urged acceptance of Henry Ford's bid to purchase or lease the government nitrate waterpower projects at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. They note the government has invested about 2,000,000 at Muscle Shoals since the armistice and warn that rejecting the offer could let the Alabama Power Company press for a monopoly, amid fuel and transportation emergencies.
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Associateal Press
Washington
Henry Ford
Munele
Hoals
Alabama
Republian
Senate
Norris
Nebaska
Musele Shoals
German Banks Withdraw Funds From Paris Deposits
Paris August 4 German banks in the last 48 hours moved to Holland and Switzerland between 0 and 76 900 000 French francs deposited with American and other foreign banks in Paris. The withdrawals came as France prepared to seize the funds as part of penalties for Germany’s late payment on private debt contracts from before the war.
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Associated Press
Paris
Holland
Switzerland
Amerium
Germany
Oil Prices Cut In Magnolia Crude Slump
Dallas Aug 4 Magnolia Petroleum announces a price cut in crude oil effective immediately. Electra Burkburnett Henrietta Moran Ranger and Stephens county Texas districts see 50 cents per barrel. Augusta Kansas Yale Comanche Curbing Duncan Oklahoma 1.25. Cement Oklahoma 85 cents. Prices near the low record, with full storage tanks cited as a reason for the drop.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
Cement
Oklahoma
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Electra
Burkburnett
Henrietta
Moran
Rangor
Stephens
Strawn
Thrall
Augusta
Kansas
Yale
Comanche
Curbing
Duncan
Ohia
Gas well halts Frisco trains at Bristow Oklahoma
A giant gas well near Bristow 160 feet from the tracks is producing about thirty million cubic feet per hour and spraying, halting passenger and freight traffic on the Frisco line between Bristow and Kellyville, delaying service to Tulow and Oklahoma City as gas fills the valley within a wide radius. Railway officials fear operational risks from the explosive roousfing.
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Associated Press
Bristow
Oklo
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