Two Yankee Bobs entertain nightly in Laredo Mexico
Local note highlights Bobby Uke Henshaw and Bob Robison of Robison & Pierce as two vaudeville stars entertaining at La Bohemia Club Cafe in Nuevo Laredo. They boost Laredo’s profile by nightly performances and periodic radio broadcasts with station W. Co. A. R. of San Antonio.
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Laredo
la Bohemia Club
Rio Grande
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Bobby “Uke” Henshaw
Bob Robison
Robison & Pierce
San Antonio
Bobs
Majestic
Bohemia Club
Baccaro
Nick Baccaro
Caliph of Bagdad a Herald Boss of Glamour and Grudge
The Associated Press reports on a new book by Albert Stevens Crockett about James Gordon Bennett Jr. the Herald editor and publisher. Crockett portrays Bennett as autocratic yet humorous and recounts episodes from his life including shadowing Vanderbilt in Paris and a dramatic Venezuela dispatch episode.
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Associated Press
New York
James Gordon Bennett the
Stanley
Livingstone
Bennett
Albert Stevens Crockett
the Herald
World Traveler Magazine
James Gordon Bennett
Bagdad
Bennet
William K. Vanderbilt
Paris
Commodore
Crockett
Venezuela
Castro
Herald
Harun-al-Rashid
Lincoln sculpture grows cheerful Lincoln in Taft studio
Oregon NL reports Lincoln statue in progress by Lorado Taft at Eagles Nest Bluff studio near Rock River. The sculptor describes shaping a smiling, beardless Lincoln resting his hands on a desk-like support to convey monumental mass and gratitude.
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Associated Press
Oregon
Lincoln
Lorado Taft
Eagles Nest Bluff
Rock River
Ag Lincoln
Washington
Leonard Volk
Boy Wanted Sign Prompts Grocer’s Family News
A brief line from The Progressive Grocer notes a grocer’s wife having a baby girl and a “Boy Wanted” sign in the window for a week, prompting a humorous family moment as Bobby reports the news to his mother.
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Bobby
Married Ladies Social Club entertained by Mrs J R Moore
Social calendar notes a Thursday afternoon event for the Married Ladies Social Club hosted by Mrs J R Moore A Friday bridge luncheon will be given by Mesdames Carlos Richter J J Richter and Ernst O Buenz Mrs R H Traylor hosts the Friday Bridge Club at 3 30 in the afternoon
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Married Ladies Social Club
J. R. Moore
Carlos
Richter
J. J. Richter
Ernst O. Buenz
R. H. Traylor
Mesdames
Carlos * Richter
Tip Richter
1919
Victoria
Kinship and social notes in a small town column
Mrs. Thomas Peyton McNeil and baby visit from the McNeil Ranch to see her mother Mrs. J. W. Mussett. Mrs. A Leaven and Mrs. C Jones of Mexico City expected Saturday, guest of Mrs. D. C. Lysinger. Miss Rosalie Wormser to sing on WOAI tonight. Mesdames Richter and Buenz to host a bridge luncheon at 1919 Victoria.
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Thomas Peyton McNeil
Baby
McNeil Ranch
J. W. Mussett
A. Leaven
C. Jones
Mexico City
D. C. Lysinger
Rosalie Wormser
WOAI
San Antonio
English Opera and Gilbert and Sullivan entertain club
Afternoon program featured Gilbert and Sullivan works including Pinafore and The Mikado with delightful sketches by Mrs. Richter and Mrs. Carlos Richter. Mrs Buenz sang The Moon and I Flowers in the Spring Titwillow and others with notable voice. Mrs Aug C Richter narrated Pinafore while Mrs Travis Bruce Bunn sang Little Buttercup Captain's Song and more. An open meeting is set for May 4 at 4 PM in the High School Auditorium with music and readings and refreshments. President Mrs G L Hatley and delegate Mrs Travis Bruce Bunn will attend the Federated clubs convention in Corpus Christi.
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Gilbert and Sullivan
Travis Bruce Bunn
Corpus Christi
Federated Clubs
6Th District
Difficult Type Of Mining At Red Lake Gold Field
Ontario’s latest gold find at Red Lake is in quartz and requires diamond drill guided prospecting. Heavy up-front costs and skilled gear shape the venture for grub-stakers and prospectors. Access relies on summer motor boats after rail lines, with limited provisions and uncertain ore content beyond the discovered thousand feet of continuous ore along the strike.
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Associated Press
Red Lake
Ont
Ontario
Alaska
Senate approves radio bill establishing federal commission
Washington April 29 Senate Interstate Commerce Committee approves a radio bill creating a centralized federal commission to oversee radio communication. The panel removes any provision for court appeals to compel licensing or revoke licenses, signaling broad regulatory control.
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Associated Press
Washington
President Coolidge
Congress
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
James Brents Hill Named President of the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis
James Brents Hill becomes president of the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railroad. Born in Spencer Tennessee he rose from a 1922 clerk in the executive department to head of the company. He is under fifty and has long experience in railroading. Hill graduated from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville at age twenty.
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James Brents Hill
Nashville, Chattanoga and
St. Loui
Mr. Hill
Spencer
Tenn
George Peabody College
Nashville
Beer War Emerges as Central Theory in Cicero Shootings
A Chicago AP dispatch links a nationwide beer racket to the Cicero bloodshed, naming gunfire that killed a youth prosecutor and two aides as the catalyst for a broad crackdown on gangsters in Cook County. The report frames the alcohol war as a driving motive behind rival gang activity and the recent deadly violence.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Iehenaing
Ag. Ancidental
James Doherty
Thomas Dutty
Cicero
Cook County
Madisonville Trial Yields Mixed Sentences for Defendants
In Madisonville Kentucky Columbus Hollis was found guilty of attacking a Mobile Alabama girl and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Bunyan Fleming and Nathan Bard were tried earlier in the week and received death sentences.
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Madisonville
Mobile
Ala
Columbus Hollis
Bunyan Fleming
Nathan ‘Bard
Land
Columbus Hollins
Nathan Bard
First Carload of Roasting Ear Corn Shipped from Texas
La Feria Texas April 29 The first carload of roasting ears left here last night for Chicago as the destination. Dealers estimate about 1000 cars will be shipped this season from Texas as roasting corn.
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la Feria
Tex
Texas
Express
Chicago
Deposits in on Utah Bank At Issue
Fragmentary notes indicate a debate over deposits in a Utah bank. The readable items show references to accounts and possible legal or financial actions related to the bank in question during an unspecified year.
Wind Windstorm Hits Yuma Movie Camp Wrecks Tent
A severe windstorm destroyed the Metro Goldwyn Mayer camp eighteen miles west of Yuma Arizona injuring James Townword a production manager as hundreds of spectators narrowly escaped when a Chautauqua tent collapsed just before a performance was to begin at the Imperial Valley site.
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Associated: ‘Press
Yuma
Arizona
Metro Goldwyn-Mayner
Imperialey
James
Couples Ought to Wait Longer Says Bryn Mawr Expert
Associated Press reports from Richmond April 29 say Bryn Mawr College expert Brot. Hornell Hart advises that optimal marriage ages for women are 21 to 27 and for men 26 to 38. He spoke at the National Episcopal Congress addressing divorce, sexual conflict, family finances and immaturity.
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Richmond
Hornell Hart
Bryn Maur. College
Fea
Death of Niagara Falls daredevil Bobby Leach
London reports Bobby Leach who survived Niagara Falls in a steel barrel in 1911 died from injuries after slipping on orange peel in the street.
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London
Evening News
Christ Church
New Zealand
Bobby Leach
Niagara Falls
Grayson Man Convicted of Wife Murder in Carter County
Grayson Kentucky April 29 Jerry Stidman a 74 year old farmer was convicted by a Carter county jury of murdering his wife and sentenced to 15 years in prison He claimed robbers killed his wife but showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
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Nazimova
Carewe
Dorothy Mackaill
Son
Grayson, Ky
Jerry Stidman
Carter County
Chicago Policeman Dies From Wounds After Report
Frank Blazek a young Chicago policeman died of pistol wounds and a beating after being found unconscious in a police department car minutes after making a report to headquarters. The attack occurred last night with details still unclear.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Frank Blazek
Police
Turner given life sentence for double murder in Pikeville
William Turner narrowly avoided death and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a jury in the circuit court at Pikeville Kentucky today. He stood trial for the murder of two miners and for defrauding an insurance company of eighty nine thousand dollars.
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Associated Press
Pikeville
William Turner
Dallas salesman killed in Bowman Springs crash near Fort Worth
Fort Worth April 29 C L Wooton aged 45 a Dallas traveling salesman was killed when the car he drove overturned on the Bowman Springs road six miles east of Fort Worth His companion Miss Minnie Haney also of Dallas was slightly injured in the crash
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Texas
C. L. Wooton
Dallas
Minnie Haney
Wooton
Bowman. Springs Road
Here
Women File as Solons in Iowa Primary Race
Two Iowa women enter the April primary despite needing constitutional change to allow women to hold state representative seats. Voters may approve the amendment in November to seat more women candidates. A two thirds of the legislature has struck out the word male in qualification provisions, paving the way for future women officeholders.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Secretary of State
State Superintended of Public Instruction
Hold payment for highways contractors in Texas case
The attorney general's department authorized Gregory Hatcher to withhold warrants totaling 21,666 dollars to the Sherman Youmans Construction Company of Houston for highway maintenance contracts in Houston county. The contract has been tied up in court for some time.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Gregory . Hatcher
Sherman-Youmans Construction Company
Houston
Galveston
State of siege reported at Zitacuaro
Mexico City April 29 reports a state of siege at Zitacuaro after Tuesday clashes between townspeople and the army over religion. Captain Ruiz and one civilian were killed, several injured as fanatical Indians from nearby ranches threaten an attack. Troops patrol streets as district attorney orders arrests.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Zitacuaro
Ruiz
Bishop Zarate Arrested in Mexico for Pastoral Letter
Despatches from Pachuca report Bishop Zarate of Huejutla was arrested by order of the district attorney in Pachuca city for a pastoral letter opposing the religious clauses of the Mexican constitution.
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Zarate
Mexico City
Pachuca
Huejutla
Pachuca City
Birthday salute to Hirohito and events across nation
Hirohito marks his 25th birthday as a public hearing on proposed government wool grading standards is held at the Department of Agriculture in Washington. Today also features the start of national elimination balloon races from Little Rock, Arkansas and the opening of the Progressive Education Association annual convention in Boston.
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Hirohito
Japan
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Little Rock
Ark
Progressive Education Association
Boston
Texas Fugitive Captured After Runaway in Arkansas Town
Joe Maulden, who escaped from Ramsey State Farm in Texas on April 1, was captured in an Arkansas town after a two day pursuit. A suspected assailant wounded Special Agent Hep Causey of the Southern Pacific Railroad during the episode in Beaumont before Maulden’s arrest.
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Associated Press
Pine Butt
ATK
Joe Maulden
Ramsey State
Texas
Bergughy
Hep
Causey
Southern’ Pacific Railroad
Beaumont
Hera
Mussolini vows fascism to rule Italy with iron hand
In a Rome session of the chamber of deputies in late April, Premier Mussolini declared fascism will continue to rule Italy with an iron hand and will not alter its program. He said everything at this moment is prearranged and emphasized the regime’s control of Italy’s future.
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Associated Presa
Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Chamber of Deputies
Dunaway Takes Laredo Post With Magnolia Oil
Magnolia Petroleum Company cements its South Texas reach by acquiring O W Killam properties in Laredo. Don Dunaway, long time chief clerk in land and lease, is promoted and moved from Wewoka to Laredo. T D B Haralson will replace him in Wewoka.
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Dunaway
Laredo
Tulsa
Olla
Mr. Dunaway
The
South Texas
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Don Dunaway
Don Dunaway, Chief Clerk In the Land and Lease Department
Wewoka
T. DB. Haralson
Oklahoma City
Magnolia
Anxiety Over Safety After Radio Loss Incident
Unclear fragment notes safety concerns following a radio loss. Text mentions anxiety and a claim that safety had been compromised as a radio disappeared. Further details are not provided in the readable portion.
Texans Approve 1928 Church Postal Reform Plan
A fractured OCR reads Texans approving a Lutheran church associated proposal with provisions for San Antonio and Buffalo. Final networks to be adopted in 1928.
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Ay Associated
San Antonio
Teal “Lutheran Church ‘of
Apariae
Buffalo ‘Agnodis
Netlows
Scrambled Electricity and the Radio Slopes Al Roat
Fragmentary line notes Good Hardware remarks on scrambled electricity and a radio issue described as sloping al roat. No clear event or person names emerge. focuses on a hardware or technical hiccup language.
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al Roat
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