Foster father denies poisoning in ward death case
William D Shepherd testifies he did not poison his foster son Billy McClintock and seeks public vindication. Defense hopes his stand strengthens the case as Chicago health officials link typhoid from infected oysters to the ward’s illness.
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International News Service
Chicago
William D. Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Edward C. Derr
United Press
William Darling Shepherd
Billy McClintock
Shepherd
Billy
William Scott Stewart
Herman N. Bundesen
Bundesen
Bundensen
C. ©. Faiman
National School of Sciences
Mt Clintock
Runaway Sons of Wealthy Found In Columbus
A telegram from Frank Harwood, New York tobacco and civil service firm advertising director, says his and Charles S. Cosse’s sons Warner and Webster have been found in Columbus. They ran away several days ago on a lark and are returning to New York.
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Columbus
Ohio
New York
United Press Today
Frank Harwood
Toledo
Harwood
The
American Tobacco and Civil Service
Charles S. Cosse
Warner
Webster
Mrs. C. B. Stanton Dies at 20 in Mexia
Mrs. C. B. Stanton age 20 of 104 North Red River street died early Tuesday morning. She was the wife of C. B. Stanton proprietor of a Mexia barber shop. The body will be shipped to San Antonio for interment. Survived by husband infant and child and sister Miss Maudie Neel.
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C. B. Stanton
North Red River Street
Second Trial Saves Neck of Condemned Lad
Doy Arnold 18 of Palo Pinto faced life for confessed assault on a Mineral Wells girl. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 5 to 99 years by Judge J. B. Keith at Stephensville after a prior death sentence at Palo Pinto.
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Fort Worth
Doy Arnold
Palo Pinto
Gil
Arnold
J. B. Keith
Stephensville
Pala Pinto
Tails Lead Lions Club Race of Manes and Tails
The Lions club luncheon attendance drive shows a tight race between the Manes led by Lior Poteet and the Tails led by Bill Schmidt. Today's session boosted the Tails, but both groups contend for first. a candidate committee for club president was formed as election approaches. Cotton prices also report steady trading with July at 23.20, October 23.80, and December 23.48.
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Lions Club
Lior
Poteet
Bill Schmidt
Manes
Sam Cox
Don
Caldwell
Wallace Mason
J. W. Prickett
Jack Womack
John Klotz
R. Dol. Morgan
Wallace Welch
Néeting
Lions
Barnett
Poteel
Bass
Riddle and Hollingsworth
M. M. Brown
New York
Rich Kansas man confesses plot to kill wife
Charles B. Davis a wealthy Concordia resident confessed to hiring Kansas City gangsters to murder his wife for 2000. Seven gunmen were arrested or sought as police probed extortion tied to Davis and a claimed motive of gaining property and a second woman. The wife survived the attack.
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Kansas
International News Service
Concorda
Kans
Charles B. Davis
Kansas City
United Press Concorda
Charles Davis
Kansas City Journal-Post
Davis
Journal-Post
Bush Delivers Home Run as Cardinals Beat Athletics 9–2
Yesterday Joe Bush, veteran St. Louis pitcher, hit a homer in the eighth to help win 9–2 over the Athletics, snapping a six game winning streak. Washington closed within a game and a half of the A L leaders with a 7–2 victory over Cleveland as six errors aided the Senators.
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Joe Bush
St. Louis
Athletics
Washington
Indians
Cleveland
Senators
Cuyler
Traynor
Pirates
Lee
Wamby
Tigers
Red Sox
Bib Falk
White Sox
Yankees
Cubs
Reds
Record US farm implement exports rise in April
United Press reports district commerce data show April foreign shipments of agricultural implements totaling 7,960,824 dollars. The figure marks an increase of over 400,000 dollars from the previous month’s level as part of four year high export valuations.
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United Press
Washington
United States
Department For Commerce
Phipps Sells Westminster to Lions Club
The Mexia Lions hosted a noon session at the Lion-Tarian Inn as the attendance race between the Manes and the Tails continued. Dr. J W Phipps of Westminster College spoke on future plans while Lions leader Ernest Pateet chaired the program and Misses Sherrer Preddy and Mrs. Denning performed piano numbers.
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Mexia Lions
Lion-Tarian Inn
William Schmidt
Ernest Pateet
Weaver Barnett
Marion M. Brown
London
England
Lion Poteet
Jessemae Sherrer
Lucile Preddy
Oscar Denning
Sherrer
Poteet
Mexia High School
Navy Crew Wins Intercollegiate Rowing Championship
In Poughkeepsie on the Hudson Navy crew won the varsity race as seven of the competing varsity squads prepared to depart. Four recent graduates were sent to ships and four others ordered to the Pacific Coast for a practice cruise. The Washington crew, also at the same boat house, put up a strong finish and vowed to return next year.
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United Press
Poughkeepsie
Hudson River
Navy
Pacific Coast
Washington
Texas Woman Is Killed by Train
Clarendon reports Mrs. Whit Galeote twenty was killed and her husband seriously hurt when a Fort Worth and Denver passenger train struck their automobile at a grade crossing near Clarendon during the night.
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Clarendon
Whit Galeote
Fort Worth
Seely Seeks More Home Runs After Texas League Honor
Ned Seely of the Mexia Gushers returns from Austin with wife Irene Anderson Seely. He leads the Texas Association with 19 home runs and aims to add at least two more before the half ends, three games away.
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Ned Seely
Texas Association Baseball League
The
Mexia Gushers
Mexia
Austin
Seely
Irene Anderson
Rockwall
Miss Anderson
Noyse City
Association
Gushers Fight for Lead in Texas Association Circuit
With three games left and four clubs in contention Temple Corsicana Mexia Austin and Palestine vie for first place in the Texas Association. Mexia aims to win all remaining games including a home match with Austin while Corsicana meets Terrell in Corsicana and Palestine visits Temple. The odds favor Temple though upsets remain possible.
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Pi—Gushers Lady
Texas Association
Temple
Corsicana
Mexia
Austin
Ter'rell
Palestine
Tokyo police officer fired after beating reporter
Tokyo on June 23 police disciplinary action followed a May Day incident when reporter Yoshiya Kawamura of Yorozu Choho was struck by a policeman while seeking answers about May Day arrests. The officer was dismissed for the attack.
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Tokyo
Yoshiya Kawamura
Yorozu Choho
Merica's Beauty Bill Soars To 50 Million Daily
Chicago June 28 Women spend over 5 million dollars daily on beautification efforts, amounting to nearly 2 billion annually. Dr Nellie Buchanan Cooper links the rise to more women entering the business world and asserts better looks boost self confidence and business success.
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International News Service
Chicago
Nellie Buchanan Cooper
America
First Billion Barrels of Petroleum Produced Worldwide
Chicago dispatch reports a 1857 start for US oil records and notes that it took 39 years to reach 1 billion barrels. The American Research Foundation says current motor vehicle and gasoline engine demand consumes about 759 million barrels annually.
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Chicago
United States
American Research , ‘Foundation
Seventeen Coolidge Residents Charged Under Chicken Ordinance
In Coolidge 17 citizens faced the courtroom over a strict chicken ordinance. Mayor Gamel and the city commission pressed enforcement after a week of chicken incursions. all defendants agreed to obey the law and the charges were dismissed.
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Coolidge
W. J. Hancock
Corporation Court
J. G. Gamel
Coolidge City
Leslie Shepherd
Groesbeck
William Johnson
Mayor Gamel
Gamel
Court bars religious instruction in Mount Vernon schools
In White Plains on June 23 Supreme Court Justice Seeger granted a permanent injunction stopping Mount Vernon school officials from dedicating 45 minutes per week in the fifth and sixth grades to religious instruction. The court ruled the plan unlawful to substitute religious instruction for required general schooling.
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White Plains
N. Y
Mount Vernon
Supreme Court
Seeger
Rsigana Opens New Baptist Church in Corsicana
The first Baptist church in Corsicana opened Sunday to huge crowds. The furnished building cost about 125000 dollars. Rev. Jeff D. Ray of the Fort Worth Baptist seminary preached in the morning, followed by Rev. C. L. Hailey of Nashville for the evening service. Hailey is a former pastor of the local church.
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Corsicana
First Baptist Church
Jeff D. Ray
The
Baptist J Seminary
Fort Worth
C. L. Hailey
Nashville
Tenn
First Church
Coolidge Reveals $200 Million Surplus Pre Vacation
President Coolidge announces a treasury surplus this year of 200 million dollars enabling a general tax cut program for the next Congress. He plans a two month vacation at Swampscott Massachusetts with a summer White House setup.
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Dale van Every
United Press
Washington
Capitol
Coolidge
Congress
Body of Senator Ladd To Lie In Vault Until Wife Arrives
The body of Senator Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota, who died in Baltimore, will be brought to Washington and placed in a vault until Mrs. Ladd can travel to North Dakota for his final interment, per the family’s tentative plans today.
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Washington
Edwin F. Ladd
North Dakota
Baltimore
Cold storage fish holdings rise in April totals
United Press reports that cold storage fish holdings in April reached 22,491,844 pounds, up 1,008,319 pounds from a year earlier. The month saw 4,314,881 pounds of fish frozen, per the Department of Commerce.
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United Press
Washington
Department of Commerce
Only Survivor of Battle of Bunker Hill Recalled
William P. Farnham eighty six of Lynn Massachusetts visits his Revolutionary soldier grandfather’s grave in Milton Mills New Hampshire to refresh memories for the Bunker Hill Day celebration. Farnham recalls a survivor who spoke with him during the event.
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International News Service
Milton Mills
N. H
William P. Farnham
Lynn
Mass
Bunker Hill
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