Why Worry over Boulder Dam Progress This Week
A Las Vegas editorial urges patience as Boulder Dam progress stretches out. It notes planned power allocation and contracts, the President’s signature, and broad public backing, arguing swift action follows careful review. It also recalls the high price of glory for early aviators and praises advertising as vital for business, especially in small towns.
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Boulder Dam
Wilbur
United States
Congress
Coolidge
Hoover
Boulder
Las Vegas
Bly
Vernon given two life terms for train wrecking and robbery
Vernon, from Vernon, California, escaped death in the November 10 train wreck near Saugus and was sentenced in superior court to two life terms as a habitual criminal. District Attorney Baron Fitts sought the death penalty, but the court imposed consecutive life sentences with no parole eligibility. A separate decree granted Grace G. Abear a divorce from Edward Francis Abear.
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Los Angeles
Vernon
Southern Pacific
Saugus
Vivom
Baron Fitts
Grace G. Re
Abe
Deckes
Grace G. R. Abear
Edward Francis Abear
Himon
Salter
Bear
California
Pitts
Sunset drama as Ware and Wilson miss Senate seats
The scene in the Senate chamber shifts from triumph to disappointment as William Leo Ware and William Bauchop Wilson fall short of victory by narrow margins. Ware in the Republican bloc and Wilson among Democrats watched late tallies determine their exclusion, the moment marked by solemn exits and final votes.
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Washington
Senate
William Leo Ware
William Bauchop
Booth
Pennsylvania
Yo. Ware
Wilson
Himbie
Ieave
Vare
Republcan
Mr. Jurtis
Xen
Gore
Shouter
Newberry
Smith
Fragmented Pungent Notes and Local Gleanings
A collage of noisy items from a 1920s era paper, mixing satirical bars in Las Vegas, quarrels over all state teams, curios about a lake sale, garbage disposal progress, a Virginia wedding anecdote, and political reactions to Vare and Wilson. Contains local anecdotes and editorial musings with scattered proper nouns.
All Quiet on the Western Front film heads to Hollywood
Universal Studios builds the World War I epic with Louis Wolheim and Lewis Milestone directing. Cast includes Lewis Ayres Russell Gleason William Bakewell John Wray Pat Collins and Will Irving amid preparations at Universal. Captain I R McLendon joins and claims his battery fired the first American artillery shot in World War I.
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Hollywood
Universal Studios
Louis Wolheim
Erich Remarqu
Katezinsky
Universal Oficials
Lewis Milestone
Universal
Western Front
Lewis Ayres
Russell Gleason
William Bakewell
John Wray
Pat Collins
Will. Irving
Fee
I. R. McLendon
Sixth Field Artillery Division
Wolheli
McLendon
Ameri Legion
Luneville
Sailors linked voyages spread ancient customs across seas
Dr G Elliot Smith argued Phoenician seafarers traveled widely from the Mediterranean to France Spain India China Peru and Mexico influencing coastal cultures with monuments mummification head shaping and swastika use. He contends metal and gem search drove these practices retained with strong tenacity and irrationality. Slang note on speed language ends the piece.
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Sland B. Alfords
G. Elliot Smith
B.C
France
Spain
Mediterranean
India
China
Madajar
South Pacific Islands
Peru
Mexico
Dr. Smith
Hooper and Violet La Due Marry in California Friday Thirteenth
Las Vegas man W. J. Hooper and Violet La Due wed in Los Angeles on Friday the thirteenth of December. The couple, already in California for days, were listed in the Los Angeles Examiner license notice and are expected back in Las Vegas this morning.
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W. J. Hooper
Violet la Due
Las Vegas
Los Angels
Hooper
Flyers Forced to Land in Brazil
Two men crash landed in Brazil after a 36 hour flight from Seville Spain. Major Tadeo Larre Borges of Uruguay and Lieut Leon Challe the French aviator survived a forced landing with no serious injuries as fuel ran low from headwinds.
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England
India
Esterday
Africa
London
Cape Town
Seville
Spain
Montevedio
Uruguay
Wilian
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Tadeo Larre-Borges
Leon Challe
Chain Gang to Clean Alleys in Las Vegas Soon
Las Vegas police plan a temporary chain gang to clean alleys late this week or early next week after equipment arrives. Chief Percy Nash said a current bum shortage will not last, and six forks have been ordered to load a truck with materials cluttering alleys. The vagrancy ordinance allows forced labor, and the plan follows new photo finger print measures.
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Percy Nash
Nash
Las Vegas
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