Wayward Son Harry Hill Faces Matricide Trial in Illinois
Harry Hill, 22, known as Wayward Sen, faces murder charges in LaSalle county for allegedly killing his mother Eliza Hill whose body was found buried in a cellar. The trial, slated for Ottawa, includes forged charges and a disputed will that could funnel $45,000 into trust for him. The case followed dramatic events as investigators uncovered the cellar grave and Hill fled to Seattle before capture.
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Harry 1
Streator, Jr
R. O. Hanson
Streator
Ill
la Salle County
Harry Hill
Ottawa
Eliza Hill
WC. Hill
Young Hill
Hill
Fort
Seattle
LaSalle County
Push irrigation bill to aid 1.5 million acres in Basin
A nine year drive to gain federal approval for the Columbia Basin irrigation project winds toward a part of the current Congress session. The plan envisions storing water in Flathead Lake in Montana and Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho and delivering it via canals and tunnels 134 miles to dry lands, with about 25,000 homes expected.
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Spokane
Shington
Columbia Basin
Washington
Roosevelt
Washi
Congress
Columbia Basin Irrigation League
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
Nicholas Longworth
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Edwood Mead
Interior Department
Senate
House
Flathead Lake
San Montana
Lake Pend Oreille
Scompletes
Hoosier Painters Exhibit Opens in Chicago This January
Indiana artists from the Hoosier Salon will showcase over 400 paintings and sculptures in Chicago for the fourth annual show opening January 28. A six member jury will select works. last year buyers spanned every U.S. section and several foreign countries, signaling broad national and international interest.
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Indiana
Chicago
Iear
Paris Police Raids Continue Amid Legion Visitors
Paris police under chief Ghiapye maintain nightly raids across the city in surprising hours and quarters. The campaign aims to tighten controls as Legion guests surge, with visible impact on the guides and local activity.
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Paris
Upj
Ghiapye
Local Social Notes From Blue Mound Kansas Area
Dozens of brief social items from Blue Mound and surrounding towns note visits at homes in Kansas City and nearby farms. Families such as McGibbon McClintock Boehle and Bowman are mentioned with relatives and neighbors visiting, helping with chores, repairing homes, hauling salt and threshing kafir corn, and noting illnesses and birthdays amid a string of everyday rural life events.
Explorers to be equipped for Alaskan island expedition
Dr. Thomas A Jaggar leads a National Geographic Society expedition to the Pavlov Islands off the Alaska peninsula next summer. The team will include physiography wildlife and botany specialists and will be equipped with amphibian transport and portable comforts to ease travel across land and water. The group aims to study volcanoes and migration routes once used by Siberian peoples, with Mount Katmai and Mount Pelee referenced as historical context.
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Washington
Thomas A.,jaggar
United States Geological Survey
Mount Kilauea Volcanic Laboratory
Hawaii
National Geographic Society
Pavylos
Alaskan
Jaggar
America
Favlor Group
Mount Katmai
Alaska
Siberia
New Quest on for Average Man Would Measure Congress
Washington AP reports Dr. Thur MacDonald plans physical and mental measurements of U.S. congress members to gauge national anthropological status. He aims to compare legislatures across nations, sending letters to ambassadors in about 30 countries seeking cooperation through the state department.
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Congress
Washington
House
Senate
MacDonald
Sciente
State Department
Argentina
Austria
Brium
Bolivia
Brazil
Chil Colongbia
Avtherland
Local social visits and illness noted in Fairview area
Clide Edwards and son of Fairview were quite ill with tonsillitis. Irvine Tuttle spent Sunday evening at the Burk Edwards home. Mr. and Mrs. R E Kirkpatrick of Kansas City stayed several days at the Ed Paasch home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horrell and son visited Baldwin on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hays and children of Lawrence dined with Chas Hubbard. Mrs. Anna Goodyear and Archie of Bellview called at T M Harbor. Mrs. Mary McClintock and son Ed visited the McClintocks. Henry Carson received visitors from Lawrence. Grandma Weel's in Fairview called on Arthur Weeks.
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Edna McGibbon
Kansas City
Tom Harbor
Fred Cowles
Walter’ Burk
Ed Paasch
Bocle
J. Bowman
Sibly
Mary McClintock
Will
Will Walker
Pairview
Marguerite Smith
Harold Marshall
Ed. McClintock
Lawrence
Frank Topping
Franklin
Herbert McClintock
Burk Edwards
Arthur Boehle
Harmony
W. C. Boehle
Harald Marshall
Ed McClintock
Geo. McClintock
Bowman
Irene Dailey
Wrald Rachle
Fill McClintock
Frank Smith
Guy Walker
Jess Angerer
Henry Carson
FL. Scoville
Kansas C
J. A. Smoots
Clide Edwards
Fairview
Irvine Tuttle
R.E. Kirkpatrick
Frank Horrell
Baldwin
Anold Hays
Chas. Hubbard
Anna Goodyear
JSON Archie
Milk Cow in Sweden Doubles Milk Output in 50 Years
An AP report notes selective breeding in Sweden has doubled milk yield per cow over five decades. Dr Ivar Johansson and Prof H Nilsson Ehle highlight better stock selection and cross breeding as key factors. A national institute for cattle research is planned to boost stock improvement.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Ivar Johansson
H. Nilsson-Ehle
Stage Wins Almond-Eyed Heroines Hollywood
Hollywood notes report producers shying from almond eyed heroines pushing oriental actors like Anna May Wong and Etta Lee to stage. Wong plans New York debut in The Living Buddha with possible Los Angeles stint while Lee eyes vaudeville as Wong seeks Broadway success to spur film roles.
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Hollywood. Cal
Hollywood
Anna May Wong
New York
Gilbert Miller
Los Angeles
Etta Lee
Honolulu
Ayna May Wone
Ben Byrne
Anna May
Eshe
Cincinnati
Los Areoles
Eskimo Joy Finds in Accordion and Radio Entertainment
A Westinghouse report by George A. Wendt suggests Eskimos prize radios and accordions as living links to distant dances and whaler tunes. Eskimo women lead performances as police posts and fur trade stations swap phonographs for field recordings the North sees.
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New York
Cook
North Pole
George A. Wendt
Westinghouse Company
Pittsburgh
Wendt
Westinghouse
Westinehouse
KDKA
Canada Wheat Field Harvest Hits Historic Yield
Canada reports a revised wheat crop of 444,282,000 bushels, among the largest dominion yields on record, anticipated to boost exports to 26 countries. The total production sits about 600 bushels above the 1936 figure, while the Canadian yield runs higher by roughly 3,178,455,000?
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Canada
Dominion
City nixes loud train whistles in Missouri town
Iilian Yugoslav and Spanish production haze decreased. May. Cit roix Kan AP. City commissioners announce trains will continue to whistle through the city. A proposed ordinance requiring locomotive whistles was found to conflict with state law.
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Bes
Citroix
Kan
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Gen. Hegeman
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Martinique
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Esquimaux
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H. D. Hill Motor Co
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Arle
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