Mail Train Robbers Sentenced in $2 Million Case
Chicago December 11 Herbert Holliday Brent Glasstock and the Newton brothers pleaded guilty in the $2,000,000 mail train robbery. Sentences ranged one year and one day to 26 years. Holliday received the maximum. Glasstock Willis Newton and Willie Newton got 12 years. Joseph Newton 22 received three years. Jesse Newton got one year and one day. Fahy and Murray, the plotters, are already serving 25 years in Atlanta.
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Chicago
Herbert Holliday
Brent Glasstock
Newton Brothers
Leavenworth
Holliday
Kaness City
Brent Glasscock
Willis Newton
Jesse
Joseph
Willie Newton
Glasscock
Willis
Joseph Newton
Cliffe
William J. Fahy
James Murray
Atlanta
Oil production in N Louisiana shows small dip in week
United States crude oil output eased by 1 000 barrels daily for the week ended December 6 to 1 974 800 barrels. California and Arkansas saw declines while North Louisiana dropped 150 barrels. Prices held firm with Gulf Coast grades around 1.25 to 2.85 a barrel depending on grade.
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New York
United States
American Petroleum Institute
California
Oklahoma
Kansas S
North Texas
Central Texas
North Louisiana
Arkansas
Gulf Coast
Southwest
Texas
Eastern
Wyoming
Montana
Colorado
Atlantic
Mid-continent
Pennsylvania
Bradford
Washington and Lee Names Key Thomas Captain
Key Thomas of Charleston West Virginia will captain the 1925 Washington and Lee football team for Lexington Virginia.
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Lexington
Dee
Key Thomas
Charleston
West Virginia
Washington and Lee
Dime Returned From Racine Man After Letter to President
A Racine Wisconsin resident wrote President Coolidge a quirky Christmas note recounting a dime he picked up before the election. He kept it for coffee and rolls and now returns one dime to the president with best wishes for the holidays.
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Washington
Coolidge
Racine
Wisconsin
Cal
Mississippi girl wins health contest at big show
Miss Inez Harden of Mississippi, sixteen, won over 350000 competitors in the health contest linked to the International Live Stock Show in Chicago. She stands five feet two, weighs 11733 pounds, and follows health directions such as ten hours sleep, a quart of milk daily, lots of vegetables, no rouge or powder, and no high heels.
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Inez Harden
Mississippi
Chicago
Local Donations to Goodfellows Below Old Mark
Monroe Good Fellows Fund total stands at 85 today with two weeks left before Christmas. The News Star urges public generosity to aid children lacking shoes and clothing and to fund meals for families in need. Donations listed include 53.00 previously acknowledged and small gifts from several supporters.
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Monroe Good Fellows
Monroe
Good Fellow
News-Star
A. J. Widener
Vincent Holpin, Jr
Smith Bros. Ltd
Film Producer Ince Leaves Four Million Estate
Thom as M. H. Ince motion picture producer died here last month after illness aboard a yacht in San Diego harbor. His will leaves about four million dollars to his widow and three children, with probate to begin this week.
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Los Angeles
Thomas MH. Ince
San Diego
Washington Congressional Schedule Highlights Today
Senate and House meet at noon. Underwood Muscle Shoals bill proceeds in the Senate. House resumes work on the agriculture appropriation bill. Special committee continues shipping board hearings. National rivers and harbors congress wraps its 20th convention. Advisory council of the national conference on outdoor recreation plans the year’s work.
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Senate
House
House Committee
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
National Conference On Outdoor Recreation
Navy seaplane H-16 crash kills five near San Diego
Naval authorities search Point Loma for bodies of Lieut H Rotey and Radio Operator J Wieerth after the H-16 seaplane crashed during serial target practice. Five men died, three officers wounded, with an inquiry ordered by Captain Stanford E Moses.
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San Diego
Calif
Naval
Point Loma
H. Rotey
J. Wieerth
Pacific Ocean
Naval Board of Inquiry
Stanford E. Moses
H. R. Davenport
J. D. Messings
R. Pautz “Ow
Naval Hospital
Exhume skull in New Orleans mystery case
The skull of Mrs. Celeste Delham marked with blood is to be exhumed for examination in St Joseph's Cemetery No 1 to determine if she was murdered or killed herself. Investigators and relatives now favor homicide, believing a struggle preceded her death near Chef Menteur Road.
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New Orleans
Celeste Delham
Corner O’ Hara
Blaze at Pine Bluff Cotton Compress Causes Million Dollar Loss
A fire at St. Louis Compress No. 1 in Pine Bluff Arkansas today caused property loss estimated at about $1,000,000. The building was recently acquired by Pine Bluff Cotton and Warehouse Company.
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Pine Bluff
Arkansas
St. Louis
Southern Shippers in Big Orleans Gathering
In New Orleans on December 11 the Southern Traffic League began an all day session ahead of joint Southeast and Southwest Shippers Regional Advisory Board meetings. W C Ermon of New Orleans presided as delegates from hundreds of shippers and railroad officials discussed traffic matters affecting southern industries during the three day gathering.
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New Orleans
Southeast
Southwest Shippers
Southern Traffic League
W C Ermon
League
Southweast
South
Churchill demands France pay allied governments alike
Winston Churchill in his first speech as Chancellor of the Exchequer urged that payments by European debtors to the United States be matched by proportional payments to Britain. The press and public praise the stance, with France often cited as the key debtor. The Treasury in Washington accepted Churchill's position as obvious and logical after a meeting of Mellon and aides.
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London
A. P
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Great Britain
Europe
United States
France
Washington
America
Treasury
Brush Exchequer
Mellon
Winston
Wadsworth
The
New York Financier and Sportsman August Belmont Dies
August Belmont a renowned financier and sports figure died at his Park Avenue apartment after a brief illness of cellulitis with blood poisoning. He was 71. Burial will be in Newport Rhode Island. Belmont led financing for subways and Cape Cod canal and chaired racing bodies at Belmont Park. He survived by his widow Eleanor Robson and two sons Morgan and Raymond.
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Belmont
Park Avenue
Newport R. I
August Belmont and Company
Eleanor Robson
Morgan
Raymond
Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan
Cape Cod Canal
Alten B. Parker
Mr. Belmont
Jockey Club
West Chester Racing Association
Belmont Park Course
Long Island
Lexington
Tracery
Rock Land
August Belmont
Caroline Slidell Perry
Commodore Matthew Clabraith Perry
America
Schonberg
Miss Perry
Outdoor Recreation Men Hold Meet at Capital
One hundred members of the advisory council of the national conference on outdoor recreation gathered in Washington for the opening session of a two day conference. They aim to formulate a detailed program of work for the coming year as part of President Coolidge’s initiative from the May meeting.
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Washington
National Conference On Outdoor Recreation
Coolidge
El Dorado Oil Promoter Pair Faces Charge
Harold B. Breen and Howard D. Mitchell, oil promoters of El Dorado Arkansas, indicted for fraud and conspiracy to violate federal statutes. Mitchell posted 2500 bond for next court term and appeared in Dallas on December 7. Breen reportedly remains at large as the government alleges a scheme to defraud investors with promised large returns.
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Texarkana
Ark
Harold B. Breen
Howard D. Mitchell
el Dorado
Arkansas
Mitchel
U.S
Dallas
Breen
Orleans Cotton Broker Challenges Georgia Margin Law
Fenner and Beane a New Orleans and New York broker filed suit in federal district court to test Georgia laws restricting future delivery transactions in cotton and other securities. The action seeks to enjoin Solicitor General Boykin and Fulton Superior Court from further prosecutions over alleged violations.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Federal District Court
Fenner and Beane
New York
New Orleans
Boykin
Fulton
Atlanta Commercial Exchange
Fenner
Beane
United States Supreme Court
Man Killed in First Crossing Death Since New Louisiana Ruling
Mack Acosta a truck driver was killed in a crossing accident at Giesmar Louisiana yesterday afternoon when a northbound passenger train struck his vehicle on the Y and M V tracks. Witnesses doubt he fully stopped before entering the crossing. He is believed to be the first fatality since the new law requiring stops at rail crossings.
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New
Louisiana
Giesmar
Mack Acosta
M. V
Acosta
Candler Reconciles With Wife After Separation
Asa G. Candler Atlanta capitalist and Coca Cola founder and his wife Mrs May Little Candler resume domestic relations after a months long estrangement. The reconciliation follows arrests at an apartment raid and the divorce suit is reportedly withdrawn. Mrs Candler returns to the Candler home with their two children.
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Atlanta
Asa G. Candler
May Little Candler
Thomas M. Litte
Candler
Coca Cola Company
Atlanta Constitution
Thomas Little
Petroleum men near close of Ft Worth meet
The American Petroleum Institute closed its fifth annual session in Fort Worth Texas with a plan to spend 100000 annually on a public relations program to publish reliable petroleum information. Nine leaders from major trade groups were named to the public relations committee for one year terms. J C Donnell of Ohio Oil touted his long career and friendship with Rockefeller while recounting humble beginnings and his rise to head Standard Oil of Ohio.
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FT. Worth
Tex
American Petroleum Institute
Mid- Continent Oil and Gas Association
Western Petroleum Refiners’ Association
Association of Natural Gasoline Manufacturers
National Association of Independent Oil Producers
National Petroleum Marketers Association
National Petroleum Association
American Oil Men's Association
The
Chamber of Mines and Oil
Thomas A. O’donell
O'Donnell
Amos L. Beaty
Texas
Mpany
A. C. Bedford
Standard’ Oil Company of
New Jersey
E. C. Larkin
Texas Company
Wm. K. Davis
Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
Neill Maccoull
MacCoull
J. C. Donnell
Ohio Oil Company
John Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Donnell
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Ohio Oil
Death takes Gompers on Amex train
Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor died near San Luis Potosi after a trip home from Mexico City. Conflicting dispatches said he succumbed to illness from a cold and overwork while aboard a special train. later reports suggested he was improving but remained ill.
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Elpaso
Texas
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
San Luis Potosi
el Internacional
el Paso
Mexico City
Gompers
Calles
la Griega
Gompers Leaves Mexico City for U S Border
Samuel Gompers aged 75 leads the American Federation of Labor delegation from Mexico City to the border. He was carried from his hotel on a stretcher due to illness and high altitude, though doctors say his condition is not critical. The party, including 200 labor leaders, left Juarez after the AFL convention.
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Mexico City
Samuel Gompers
Laredo
Pan-American Labor Congress
Gompers
Morones
Ming
San Nicholas
San Antonio
Tex
American Federation of Labor
United States
Texas
International Great Northern Railroad
Gomvers
el Paso
Mexico
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