Lambert Machine Company enters voluntary receivership
The Lambert Machine Company files for voluntary receivership as overhead costs in their large building prove unsustainable. The piece notes labor wage protections, stockholders’ risks, and the potential to lease or sell the building within 45 days. It references 1924 decisions, the stock market era, and broader economic pressures from that period.
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Lambert Machine Company
Putiog
Peti-Men
Coolidge
Mellon
Michigan plans $8,750,000 prison expansion over ten years
Jackson, Mich to consider A. Johnson plan for a new $3,000,000 habitual criminal prison a $2,000,000 reformatory and a $760,000 women’s prison plus $1,000,000 for Marquette prison upgrades. Sites place near Jackson, with two main prisons close together. Marquette capacity would rise to 2,000 inmates from 750. Details on reformatory and habitual prison sites not given.
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Mich
Dec
Michigert
State Prison Commission
A. &. Johnson
Johnson
Marquette
Marshall Alderman to introduce radio interference ordinance
Alderman Charles Wallace plans to introduce an ordinance at tonight’s meeting to curb radio reception interference in Marshall. He also aims to promote a city radio club to assist owners with interference issues, drawing on a Battle Creek ordinance as a model.
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Ushel
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Wallace
Battle Creek
Marshall
Notre Dame
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W. Schroeder
Home Market for Mich. Bean Growers
OWOSSO December 6. Michigan bean growers may gain a home market if the current plant building and expansion trend continues. State canneries number near 100 and plan additions to move beans to Michigan rather than exporting to out of state plants. Experts say Michigan beans have a superior flavor prompting packing concerns to establish plants in the state.
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Owosso
Michigan
Tme
Boston
United States
Millionaire Newsboy Dies After Birthday Box Explosion
Chicago reports Tony May known as millionaire news boy dies from injuries after a bomb concealed in a birthday present explodes as his son Eugene 16 opens it. The blast wrecks a room, knocks the boy through a door, and hurls the neighborhood into panic. Eugene was seriously hurt while May died of the blast. Police seek motives in a second midwest mail bomb incident tied to May’s newsstand business and bonds signed for men under arrest.
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Chicago
W.R
Tony May
We Qillionaire
May
Eugene
Middlewest
Jack Johnson
Johnson
Marietta Woman Admits Plotting Husband’s Death
Mrs. Carrie Gourley of Marietta Ohio has admitted plotting to kill her husband George a grindstone maker to collect his $2500 war insurance. She con fessed in court describing a plan with her son Harry 16 and hoarder Charles Whiting 19. The plan offered Whiting $150 and her son an automobile. The husband, gravely ill after arm amputation, learned of the plot when Whiting confessed at the hospital.
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George
Harry
Charles Whiting
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Gourley
Hia Con
Man Ejected From Church Over Marriage Debate
New York December 8 The companionate marriage controversy between Bishop William T Manning and Judge Hen B Lindsey ended in a magistrate court after Lindsey was dragged from the Cathedral of St John the Divine for interrupting Sunday services. He faced disorderly conduct charges but kept a Albany speaking engagement. Police and detectives mobbed the scene as Lindsey challenged Manning who criticized his views on companionate marriage.
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New York
William T. Manning
Hen B. Lindsey
Denver
St. John the Divine
Lindsey
Manning
Lindsay
Thurehan
Bishop Manning
Albany
Marriage Ground Work for Divorce in Michigan
Michigan statistics show about one in three marriages ends in divorce, with many divorces occurring within two years. Dr. W J. Deacon notes a rise in divorces since 1900, while marriages have grown slowly. war and economic changes affected marriage trends and the five day law reduced Gretna Green style elopements.
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Lansing
Michigan
W J. V. Deacon
State Department of Health
Marttal
Deacon
Gretna
Interior Dept Seeks 68 Million Plus in Budget
Washington Dec 8 The interior department requests 658 552 006 73 for next fiscal year across agencies including 24 423 496 13 for Indians and 15 000 000 for the Hoover Dam project at Boulder Canyon The bill lowers some total estimates and trims the Hoover Dam ask by 2 000 000 with continuations for reclamation parks Alaska and Hawaii the Geological Survey and the General Land Office among others The Indians allocation remains the largest single item amid rising costs and ongoing dam work.
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Hoover Dam
Boulder Canyon
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House Appropriations Committee
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Reclamation Bureau
National Parks
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Hawaii
U.S. Geological Survey
General Land Office
Blue Laws Enforced Yesterday in Vermont Town
In Bellows Falls Vermont the Sunday blue laws were enforced yesterday except for the paper mill. State's Attorney Ernest H Gibson said the laws, nine years on the books, ban business involving money but allow church collections and rail transportation. Twenty eight merchants were previously arrested for Sabbath trade while taxi drivers blocked service and residents shopped across the bridge in North Walpole New Hampshire.
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Ernest H Gibson
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Death notices Arthur C Hay Seattle resident dies
Telegram from Sheldon Hay reports the death of Arthur C Hay at 324 W Bléth St Seattle Washington. Born in Ingham County Michigan he moved to Marshall at eighteen and married Annie McNemary in 1888. Survived by widow Mintle Taffee son James McNamara Stay two grandchildren Elaine and Marilyn of Seattle two nephews Sheldon Hey Marshall Archie Hay Seattle and a sister Mrs.
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Mr. Hay
Emma Taylor
Mason
James.c. Hay
John Hay
Jamies
Eleine
Marilyn
Seattle
Sheldon Hey
Marshall
Archie Hay
Baby Joan Hoover Heads to Washington for Christmas
Eight month old Joan Hoover travels with her mother from Los Angeles to spend the holidays with President Hoover and wife in the White House. Herbert Hoover Jr. recovers in Asheville and the children may remain at the White House for the winter.
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Joan Hoover
Washington
Oppose Root World Court Compromise
President Hoover faces strong Republican and Democratic opposition as at least 20 senators vow to block the Root World Court treaty. White House denies delaying tactics while opponents push to derail ratification in the closing weeks of the current Congress.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Hoover
Senate
White House
Congress
Watson
Doings in Congress This Week
Washington scene as the short session’s second week opens with focus on drought relief. Hoover proposes 395 million, senate committee bills 60 million. Hearings target tariff, Woodcock dry agent plan, and Nye committee on campaign expenditures. Congress mulls appropriations and potential expulsions as hearings proceed.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
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Pennsylvan
Adams urges higher pay and promotion for U S Navy
Secretary of the Navy Adams urges increased officer pay and better promotion prospects in his 1930 Hoover report. He cites Navy shortfall under the London treaty, calls for raising officer strength from 4 percent to 5.3 percent and securing more disciplined career paths amid strained enlisted terms.
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William W. Chance
United Press
Washington
UPI
Secretary of Navy
Adgnis
Hoover
Adams
Navy
Congress Today U P Senate Consider Drought Relief Bill
Congress and committees address a $60,000,000 drought relief appropriation and the Jones maternity bill. Appropriations, post office and treasury, and finance panels hold hearings. Judiciary reviews nominations while executive sessions proceed. House advances interior department funding as immigration measures linger.
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Appropriations
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Interior Department
Weather summary from East Lansing and Detroit notices
The United States and Canada remain mild with little change expected in 48 hours. Cloudy conditions prevail from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic coast with light rains possible. Michigan forecast: cloudy and threatening tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. Detroit readings show a low around 32 and a high near 36.
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