NRA Violations Probe In Eastern City As NRA Complaints Rise
In Baltimore on August 15 authorities opened a drive into alleged NRA code violations across multiple firms. The grievances cite brutal workweeks, suppression of wages, and improper labor practices at mail order houses, oyster houses, ink firms, hardware outfits, restaurants, tie mills, meat markets, cleaning shops, filling stations, garment makers, and more. Separately, Poland won the first entry in the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race for the Chicago World’s Fair event slated September 1 to 4.
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Baltimore
Blue Eagle
NRA
Oyster House
Hardware Company
Poland
Chicago
Prevention s Better Than Cure
An ad-style note promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Tablets for preemptive and ongoing relief from periodic pain. It claims no narcotics or dizziness, with chocolate coated tablets and a small 50 cent price, urging regular use for stubborn cases and months of relief.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Starve Out Convicts From Tennessee Mines
A strike by 182 convicts at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary mines in Petros Tennessee led officials to declare a starve out. Dr E W Cocke said the action targets a deputy warden who found concealed dirks chisels and hammers. Convicts occupied the mine Monday vowing to stay until the deputy warden is dismissed. Cocke planned to sweat them out by withholding food until they emerge.
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Nashville
Tenn
Brushy Mountain
Petros
E. W. Cocke
Dr. Cocke
Senator Noe thanked for aiding LSU center move
Ouachita parish school board honors Senator James A. Noe of Monroe for promoting and finalizing the contract that established LSU's northeast center. They note his tireless efforts and time, and state he refused reimbursement. a copy of the resolution goes to Noe and to local papers.
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Noe
Baton Rouge
Calvert
Louisiana State University
Louisiana
Ouachita Parish
James A. Noe
Monroe
Monroe Morning World
News- Star
Bridge Bracing Bids Are Asked
Eight hours of work a day and not more than 35 hours a week. Bids open in Baton Rouge at 9 45 a.m. September 5 by the highway commission. Full information and proposal forms available at the state highway office. The general in command of the Salvation Army has control of funds and assets in excess of $100,000,000.
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Batum Rouge
Highway Commission
State Highway Office
Salvation Army
Roosevelt Kicks Off Recovery Conference With Relief Plans
President Roosevelt convened the recovery chiefs to discuss relief funds distribution and progress on farm programs under the farm marketing act. He noted fewer needy transients but some states lagging in supplying funds while awaiting full plan details before his Hyde Park return.
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Recovery Council
Hyde Park
New York
Roosevelt
Oil and Steel Codes Near Completion Under Roosevelt Plan
Washington August 15 Recovery era aims for code fairness as Hugh S Johnson and deputy K A Simpson meet steel and oil leaders for codes on hours pay and business rules. Johnson presses for oil price supervision debate while coal strike tensions and Lafayette county field probes loom as mediation schemes continue.
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Washington
Recovery
Blue Eagle
Steel
Oil
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
K. A. Simpson
A. W. Irvin
United States Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
Simpson
Gifford Pinchot
Johnson
Lafayette County
Oil Production Shows Increase in Oklahoma Output
Oklahoma total crude oil production rose sharply, adding 79,674 barrels per day to reach 2,801,629 barrels daily. Oklahoma City surged to 324,770 barrels per day, while Texas declined to 1,201,964. California exceeded 508,000, and Kansas fell to 130,100 with the Rocky Mountain region at 75,300.
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Tulsa
Okla
Oklahoma
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
Oklahoma City
Texas
California
Kansas
Rocky Mountain
Eastern
September 14 Ballot Date Fixed by Board With One Vote
The board set September 14 as the ballot date with T. T. Jones the sole dissent. Proclamation will be published in the News-Star. A resolution fixed September 18 to reopen parish schools. Also notes a London fatality from a mistaken Royal Air Force gunnery incident off Kneppey Isle. Bloodless filing.
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T. T. Jones
the News-Star
London
Jean Chesterton
Isle of Kneppey
Kent
Royal Air Force
National drive on crime takes serious aspect
Local officers report a swift federal action in the Urschel kidnapping investigation. They found marked money and conducted a thorough identification at a lonely cabin with fingerprints. The swift justice department move is highlighted as instrumental to the case.
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Urschel
Stanley
Justice Department
Arrest Result of Storm Reveals Urschel Prison Hideout
A Fort Worth storm diverted an American Airlines pilot, leading to the capture of Harvey Bailey and the discovery of the Urschel oil magnate ransom hideout. Agents traced a pilot’s diverted course during Urschel’s nine day captivity from July 23 to 31, and located the site with help from Urschel’s descriptions.
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Fort Worth
Tex
American Airways
Harvey Bailey
Charles F. Urschel
Urschel
Department of Justice
Thousands drowned as Yellow River floods in Henan
Kaifeng, Honan Province, Aug 15. One thousand peasants drowned in minutes when dikes along the Yellow River broke and flood waters swarmed over a large area. Kaifeng, with 175,000 residents, faced isolation as floods spread west and east while locals reinforced city walls with sandbags against possible dike failure.
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Kaifeng
Honan
China
Yellow River
Lanfeng
Yellow Sea
Wilson and Sandlin Seek Flood Control Funds
Representatives Wilson and Sandlin of Louisiana urged Secretary Ickes for 50 million dollars for immediate flood control in the south, focusing on the Mississippi River. They also appealed to Secretaries Dern and Roper to back the request.
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Washington
Wilson and
Sandlin
Louisiana
Ickes
South
Mississippi River
Dern
Roper
De Cespedes Receives Recognition Speech to Cabinet
De Cespedes urged full collaboration of public powers and national institutions to uphold laws crafted for a new era of liberty peace and progress, promising a bright future for the young republic.
Machado Family Heads Northward From Cuba to Nassau and Beyond
The Machado family, led by deposed Cuban president Gerardo Machado, traveled north aboard a New York train after landing in Key West from a Cuban gunboat. Waiting family members and Dr Baldo-Mero Grau spoke of relief at Machado's safety in Nassau and noted plans remained uncertain with rumors of a possible reunion in Paris.
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Miami
Fla
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
New York
Key West
Josephine
Sanchez
Luli
Grau
Batabano
Machado
Paris
Obregon
Auto Stolen In Ruston Recovered Near Monroe
An automobile stolen Saturday night from G. H. Sinclair of Ruston was recovered near Monroe by sheriff's department members. The car was found in the woods about five miles out of Monroe on the old Natchitoches road.
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Ruston
Sheriff's Department
Monroe
Natchitoches Road
Getting Up Nights Robs Rest and Energy
An ad claiming a remedy called HOBOan amazen effective aids relief from nighttime awakenings, nervousness, and joint pain by countering acidity. It promotes quick relief and improved functional satisfaction, sold in all drugstores as a kidney anti acid product.
Capone Reported on Way to Joliet Prison
State's Attorney Grover C. Niemeyer leads the rackets conspiracy prosecutions while Police Commissioner James Allman of Chicago declines to comment on Capone's reported move toward Joliet Prison.
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Capone
Joliet Prison
Grover C. Niemeyer
James Allman
Chicago
Believes Capone Still At Atlanta
Washington dispatch reports Superintendent Sanford Bates stated Al Capone remained at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. He said he would be notified of any court writ or transfer and instructed the Atlanta warden and prison bureau to inform him before Capone could depart.
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Washington
Federal
Sanford Bates
al Capone
Chicago
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Oates
Capone
Illinois
Atlanta
Prison Bureau
Bates
Court Opens Six More Boxes in Ballot Probe
Judge Frank T. Echezabal orders six additional ballot boxes opened amid a widening probe into alleged election fraud in New Orleans. District Attorney Eugene Stanley plans to scrutinize all ballots while focusing on Amendment No. 14 allowing $750000 in bonds for Mississippi river ferry systems. Bond opinions say bond issues remain unaffected. Grand jury changes proceed as new panels will hear the case.
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Frank T. Echezabal
Eugene Stanley
Commission Council of
New Orleans
Alexander C. O’donnell
Criminal District Court
Echezabal
State Attorney General's Office
James M. Colomb
Grand Jury
L. K. Nicholson
Times-Picayune
Nobill
Attorney General’s Office
Gaston L. Porterie
Huey P
One Killed Four Injured In Automobile Crash West Of Mineola
In Mineola Texas area Mrs Will H Marshall of Gilmer was killed and four other women injured when the auto they rode in plunged through a bridge and dropped 20 feet down an embankment five miles west of Mineola. The injured are Mrs Morris Torshell of Pittsburg driver Mrs H H Warren and Mrs R L Mattox of Gilmer and Miss May Lightfoot of Pittsburg.
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Mineola
Tex
Will H. Marshall
Gilmer
Morris Thorshell
Pittsburg
H. H. Warren
R. L. Mattox
May Lightfoot
Field Agent Returns From Vacation Trips
After two paid and ten unpaid days off under the government economy program, field agent W. C Davenport resumed duties. He toured Atlanta Georgia Bring Springs Lubbock and Amarillo Texas evaluating crops and reporting they look well.
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W. C. Davenport
Government
Mr. Davenport
Kansas official faces arrest in bond forgeries
Kansas state treasurer allegedly converted 150000 of state funds to Finney, a bond broker, by moving bonds from treasury vaults to Chicago and depositing funds in Eureka bank. Finney, Leland Caldwell, and others arrested on forgery and theft charges. Investigation uncovers about 1 million dollars in forged municipal securities.
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Ronald Finney
Finney
Treasury
Chicago
Bank of Eureka
Kas
Boyd
Kansas Municipal
Train Kills Oakdale Man Near Dallas
A man tentatively identified as C. A. Blanchard of Oakdale Louisiana was killed when a freight train struck him near Dallas on Monday night. He was believed to be asleep on the tracks as the train passed.
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Dallas. Tex
C. A. Blanchard
Oakdale
Dallas
Liquid Tablets Salve Claim Fast Malaria Cure
Ads claim a liquid tablet salve can check malaria in three days with rapid relief for colds headaches and neuralgia within 30 minutes. It markets as a fine laxative and speedy remedy. The phrasing imitates a 19th century patent medicine tone.
Five Day Week Policy Spurs Jobs and Growth at Essolene
Standard Oil of Louisiana and associates publicize a five day week keeping thousands employed and maintaining community wage levels. The policy channels more than $80 million per year into associated companies. They tout Essolube, the refined motor oil, and Essolene, a premium fuel protected by patents, urging patronage at Esso stations.
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Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
Associated Companies
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana and
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana and Associated Companies
Essolube
Hydro
U. S
Esso
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Senator Noe
Automobile Owners
Luther & Reed
Bear Manufacturing Company
Rock Island
Ilinois
S. Grand St
Island
Republic
Havana
Heraldo de Cuba
Bailey
Wilson
DE Cespedes
OH Tou
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Malden
Mase
Standard Oil Company OF Pennsylvania
Essolene
Esso Jube
Atlas Tires
Standard Oil Company OF
New Jersey
Colonial Beacon Oil Company, Inc
Esso, Inc
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