Suspect Confesses to Crew Lake Store Robbery
Joe Streeter alias L L Stanley 30 native of Galveston Texas confessed to authorities here that he robbed a Crew Lake store December 4. The trio Wall Campbell among 15 held over Junction City Grand Cane bank raids and other crimes. Streeter held awaiting extradition to Arkansas while Wall and Campbell already transferred to El Dorado.
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Joe Streeter
L. L. Stanley
Galveston
Texas
Crew Lake
Nelson Wall
Leonard Campbell
Junction City
Grand Cane
Streeter
Arkansas
el Dorado
Wall
Campbell
Milton Coverdale
D. L. Roper
A. A. Abel
Roy Binion
Richland Parish
Cleve Lovelady
Clay Jones
Coverdale
He Had an Idea and Monday He Cashed in
Chicago report details how John R. Roney’s idea to sell with smaller margins and higher volumes built a 300 unit Consumers' store chain. The sale to Koeger Grocery and Baking Company for 8,250,000 was announced late last night.
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Chicago
John R. Roney
Roney
South Side
Consumers’ Store
Consumers
Koeger Grocery and Baking Company
Special Session Endorsed in Louisiana Meeting
A Ruston mass meeting with 200 plus attendees from 12 parishes urged an early 1929 special session of the Louisiana legislature to address eradication efforts. A resolutions committee was formed to draft a plan, with S. L. Barksdale presiding and Meyer C. C. Goyne and Chu Thompson speaking.
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Ruston
Louisiana
Kidd-Astor Theater
Ruston Chamber of Commerce
Lincoln Parish Farm Bureau
S. L. Barksdale
Cupid Not Daunted by Flu at New Orleans
Miss Dorothy Mendenhall and Dr. Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble Jr. were married in a New Orleans hospital with attendants as witnesses while the bridegroom, ill with influenza, recuperated. The couple from North Carolina planned a Raleigh wedding and Havana honeymoon, pending his recovery.
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New Orleans
Dorothy Mendenhall
Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble, Jr
North Carolina
Havana
Miss Mendenhall
Dr. Noble
Cupid
Good Fellows Seek Funds Before Santa’s Monroe Trip
Arctic donations are required as relief workers compile a complete list of those to be remembered. A brave case highlights the urgent need for money and supplies before Santa visits Monroe.
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Santa Claus
Monroe
Arctic
Texas Oil Country Mystery Over Kidnaping Racketeering Case
Texas Rangers and border patrolmen led a 100 man search across the Trans-Pecos oil country for P. O. Denver Blackie Burcham a restaurant owner reported kidnapped and left to die by rum runners. A youth known as The Blue Punk named the act revenge for a liquor hijacking and said Burcham was bound left to die near a desert water trough.
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Associated Press
Wink
Texas
Texas Tangers
trans-Pecos
P. O
Denver
Blackie
Burcham
Belle Boyd Returning Home to Virginia for Burial
Belle Boyd the Confederate spy will be reburied in Virginia after being laid to rest at Spring Grove cemetery in Kilbourne Wisconsin. She died June 11 1900 while touring with a theater company and had hourly honors from federal soldiers on Memorial Day.
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Kilbourne
Wis
Belle Boyd
Tiny Spring Grove
Virginia
Milbourne
United States
Martinsburg
Shortage reported in Baptist tabernacle fund
Louis ville church officials say a missing about 100000 dollars has been found in accounts of Albert Nisbet the blind treasurer of the building fund Nisbet is ill at home as officials decide on action. The same date Washington House backs treasury post office bill after conferees decision and Coolidge nominates postmasters for Shreveport and Russellville. King George improves per bulletin in London. Swing Johnson Goulder Dam bill passes House 166 to 122 in Washington.
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Louisville
Louisville Times
Albert Nisbet
The
Baptist Tabernacle
Nisbet
Washington
House Today
Treasury-Post Office
House
Senate
Johnson Goulder Dam
White House
Missouri Pacific Sued for $100,000 by Fireman
Tulsa Okla Dec 18 The Missouri Pacific railroad has been made defendant in an alienation of affection suit for $100000 filed by C O McInturff fireman of Claremore Okla. McInturff alleges company officials falsely told his wife he had obtained passes for the transportation of other women from Claremore to Kansas City.
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Tulsa
Okla
Missouri Pacific Railroad
C. O. McInturff
Claremore
McInturff
Kansas
City
Women Volunteers Aid Kansas City Dry Crusade
Comely women join police in closing saloons and gathering evidence for injunctions. Sergeant Duncan notes five young women and plans for fifteen more to participate in the dry crusade alongside plain clothes officers.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Maud Wilson
Carrie A. Nation
Elmer E. Duncan
Freezing Weather Forecast Warns Louisiana Crops Need Protection
The Weather Bureau warns Louisiana farmers to bring in livestock and shield crops as freezing temperatures are predicted for the state by Wednesday morning. The forecast notes the cold air moving from the Rocky Mountain region and Texas Panhandle toward the Gulf coast.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountain
Texas Panhandle
Gulf
Man collapses at doctor after chest wound last night
Had Sal McKinney, 22, collapsed at a local physician's office shortly before noon after receiving a bullet wound in the chest last night. He was rushed by ambulance to St Francis sanitarium from his Car gas residence where he worked for United Carbon after a night of drinking.
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Hadsal McKinney
St. Francis Sanitarium
Cargas
United Carbon Company
Ouachita Poll Tax Payments Lag In 1928
The Ouachita tax office in the Monroe courthouse reports a busy period with three deputies processing poll tax payments. Officials urge immediate payment as only 2 300 payments have been recorded so far, with December 31 looming and an expected total of 7 500.
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Ouachita
Monroe
Court House
Hambones Meditations by J. P. Alley
A short column titled Hambones Meditations by J. P. Alley humorously critiques a man who wants a job yet resents living on the graveyard site, reflecting a local voice and dialect from the Bell Syndicate.
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Hambones Meditations
J. P. Alley
P D Addition in Monroe to Wait Its Turn
Monroe faces a planned post office expansion that will be delayed due to funding. Representative T T Webb of Ouachita parish highlighted the overcrowding to the postmaster general. John H Bartlett, assistant postmaster general, acknowledged department familiarity with the congestion.
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P. D
Monroe
T. T. Webb
Ouachita Parish
John H. Bartlett
Plane Aids Search for Couple in Grand Canyon
A threefold search by air boat and on foot targets Mr and Mrs Glen Hyde of Hansen Idaho two weeks overdue after a perilous river trip from Green River Utah. Major Harmon says a military plane will join with supplies dropped if sighted while P P Papraw and park workers lead a river boat party and Indians along the Colorado between Needles and Bright Angel Point.
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Associated Press
Grand Canyon
Ariz
Colorado
Glen Hyde
Hansen
Idaho
Needles
Cal
Millard Harmon
Marchfield
Riverside
P. P. Papraw
Grand Canyon National Park
Bob Francey
Jack Harbin
Mojave Reservation
R. C. Hyde
Las Vegas
Nev
Hyde
Green River
Utah
Bright Angel Point
Bright Angel
Monroe Voters Show Strong Lead For $100000 Bond Issue
Light turnout in West Monroe as residents vote on a 100000 bond. Early counts in Ward 5 precincts show 55 of 242, 25 of 125, and 46 of 184 registered voters casting ballots by 1 pm. Observers expect a two to one margin if trends continue. Polls close at 6 PM amid last minute opposition flyers.
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West Monroe
Golf Test Shows Fast Tee to Ball Travel Time
In Hamilton Bermuda on December 18 a test measured the time to hit a golf ball and run the ball 250 yards. It found 11 seconds to strike the ball from the tee and eight seconds for the ball to cover 250 yards, with total shot making for a round about seven minutes.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Bolivia and Paraguay Move Toward Mediation in Dispute
The Pan American conference seeks arbitration steps after both sides accept mediation. Dr Victor Mauriua of Peru chairs the committee and will convene once Bolivia confirms acceptance. The aim is to halt warlike actions, with Paraguay urged to demobilize and Bolivia to calm its people.
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Washington
Victor Mauriua
Peru
Bolivia
Paraguay
South America
State Department
Woman Driver Given 250 Fine and 60 Days Jail
Mrs. Esther Arnhold formerly Esther Eason was fined 250 dollars and sentenced to 60 days in jail in city court for driving while intoxicated after repeated offenses. Judge said lighter penalties earlier had no effect and this may be the harshest DUI sentence in city court history.
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Esther Arnhold
Esther Eason
Harvard Student Arrested After Subway Square Fight
A Harvard student, John H. Wisner, 17, of New York City, was arrested after a subway melee in Harvard Square involving about 1,000 people. Boston Elevated starter Hugh MacDonald struggled to control a crowd returning from a hockey game as youths vandalized trains and walls.
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Associated Press
Cambridge
Mass
Boston
Harvard
John H. Wisner
New York City
Harvard Square
Hugh Maconald
Kendall Square
Croy Sieed A.son
Percy Wt
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