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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1929
Page
3
The Las Vegas Neon Electric Sign Company has moved to a new site at Third and Charleston Boulevard. Barrett and Clout announced the change as securing recent contracts prompts the partnership to seek another partner. A large sign for the Northern Club is nearly complete and ready for erection.
Jimmy Donohue claimed a world record parachute jump from 19,500 feet in Colorado Springs. The descent lasted 19 minutes and he landed three miles from the release point.
Attorney John Curtis Morgan clinches a Not Guilty verdict for Lois Downs in the Ward murder case. Nan Carroll advises on Curtis’s future, proposes a home and schooling plan, and considers staying with the boy as Morgan visits the governor about a separate commutation. Iris Morgan’s absence haunts the household as a note hints at deeper infidelity.
In Sacramento on August 12 the fire department gong sounded 31 times at headquarters. A man at the scene explained he rang 51 times because he believed the alarm box required that many rings.
Waterloo reports Soudenberg defeated Canadian champion Stanley Tinta to defend his wrestling title. He won the first fall in thirty one minutes five seconds with a flying tackle and the second in four minutes twenty five seconds by a bar arm lock.
United Press dispatch from The Hague reports renewed efforts at the reparations conference as the financial commission adjourns to Wednesday. England demands revisions to the Young plan annuities for Great Britain. French and German ministers speak as Snowden and Ramsay MacDonald stand firm. Private negotiations are expected to intensify to resolve the crisis.
Officials of Boeing Air Transport announced that veteran transcontinental mail pilots Steve Kaufman and Ernest Allison would sail from San Francisco on August 20 to inaugurate the new air mail service between Shanghai and Hankow in China.
In two large laboratories covering 2700 and 1400 acres Michigan and the federal government will study fire fighting. Tests include back firing, explosives, and apparatus under realistic conditions. Start this year with full work in spring 1930 and summer.
A jumble of quotes notes a spider’s web has no commercial value for clothes while a scientist jokes about its weight. The piece mentions discontent with new telephone dial systems and a mad patient captured in a tax office. Chicago police urge spinach for officers. Mexican boxing rises in popularity signaling broader trend.
The clipping suggests a trimmed wool coat with rope sleeves and gale crowd headlines. Names Philippe and Gaston appear. details are partial and fragmented.
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