Suspect Confesses to Crew Lake Store Robbery
Joe Streeter alias L L Stanley aged 30 native of Galveston Texas confessed to authorities here that he robbed a Crew Lake store the night of December 4. The admission implicates Nelson Wall 29 and Leonard Campbell 22 as part of a larger gang tied to Junction City and Grand Cane bank robberies. Streeter denies other crimes but faces extradition to Arkansas while Wall Campbell and two others are already held in 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
L. Roper
A. A. Abel
Roy Binion
Richland Parish
Crow Lake
Cleve Lovelady
Clay Jones
Coverdale
He Had an Idea and Monday He Cashed in
John R. Roney, who started a small south side grocery in 1903 with a low margin high volume plan, saw his idea pay off as Consumers' stores were sold to Koeger Grocery and Baking for 8.25 million dollars.
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Chicago
John R. Roney
Roney
South Side
Consumers’ Store
Consumers
Koeger Grocery and Baking Company
Special Session Endorsed for Louisiana Legislature in 1929
Ruston residents gathered at Kidd Astor theater with more than two hundred attendees from twelve parishes to back a special session to address tick eradication. A resolutions committee was named to draft a plan for securing the session as leaders outlined Ruston’s interest and urged action.
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Ruston
Louisiana
Thck
Kidd-Astor Theater
Ruston Chamber of Commerce
Lincoln Parish Farm Bureau
Cupid Not Daunted by Fla at New Orleans
In New Orleans on December 18 Miss Dorothy Mendenhall and Dr. Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble Jr. wed with hospital attendants as witnesses while the bridegroom, ill with influenza, rested in a local hospital. They planned Raleigh nuptials and Havana honeymoon as soon as feasible.
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New Orleans
Dorothy Menidenhall
Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble, Jr
North Carolina
Havana
Miss Mendenhall
Dr. Noble
Cupid
Good Fellows Seek Help to Aid Needful in Monroe
The piece notes urgent need for funds as Santa prepares gifts for Monroe from an Arctic origin. Relief workers compile a complete list of those to assist, citing a brave case as an example of the hardships faced.
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Santa Claus
Monroe
Arctic
Racketeering Mystery In Texas Oil Country
Texas rangers and border patrol search the Trans Pecos oil country for P. O. Denver Blackie Burcham missing since last week. A youth known as The Blue Punk links the case to hijacked liquor cargo and says Burcham was tied and left to die as revenge. Evidence at a desert water trough suggests an escape attempt.
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Wink
Texas
Texas Rangers
Border
trans-Pecos
P. O
Denver
Blackie
Burcham
Blue Punk
Belle Boyd to be buried in Virginia from Wisconsin gravesite
Belle Boyd, famed Confederate spy, will be moved from Spring Grove cemetery in Kilbourne Wisconsin to her native Virginia. The Union foe once shot a U S soldier in Martinsburg and evaded officers, with G A R members honoring her grave on Memorial Day.
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Kilbourne
Wis
Belle Boyd
Tiny Spring Grove
Virginia
Jilbourne
United States
Martinsburg
Shortage found in Baptist tabernacle treasurer funds
The Louisville Times reports investigators found about 109000 missing from the building fund of the Baptist tabernacle with Albert Nisbet named as treasurer. Church officials planned action while Nisbet lies ill at his home.
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Louisville
Louisville Times
Albert Nisbet
The
Baptist Tabernacle
Nisbet
Missouri Pacific Sued for $100,000 by Fireman
Tulsa Okla Dec 18 The Missouri Pacific railroad named defendant in an alienation of affections suit for 100000 dollars filed by C O McInturff a fireman of Claremore Oklahoma. McInturff claims company officials falsely told his wife he had obtained passes to transport other women from Claremore to Kansas City.
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Tulsa
Okla
Missouri Pacific Railroad
C. O. McInturff
Claremore
McIinturff
Kansas City
Kansas City Women Join Police in Dry Crusade
Comely and daring women volunteers have joined the police to close saloons and aid injunction cases. Working with plain clothes officers they have bought liquor at several saloons to gather evidence. Sergeant Elmer E. Duncan notes five young women are active and fifteen more are expected to join.
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Kansas City
Maud Wilson
Carrie A. Nation
Elmer E. Duncan
Quachita Poll Tax Slow Despite December Deadline
In Monroe the tax collector’s office reports a heavy workload as deputies process poll tax payments. Authorities urge immediate payment with December 31 as the deadline. Through last night about 2,300 payments had been received, with 7,500 expected.
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Quachita
Monroe
Court House
Freezing Weather Warned Across Louisiana
New Orleans reports freezing temperatures forecast by Wednesday morning. The weather bureau urges farmers to shelter livestock and protect crops as cold air spreads 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 as Physician Dresses Wound
Had Sal McKinney, 22, collapsed at a local physician's office shortly before noon after being shot in the chest last night. He was rushed by ambulance to St Francis sanitarium for treatment. The wound occurred while he was alone in his room in Cargas where he works for United Carbon. drunkenness early the night before preceded the incident.
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Hadsal McKinney
St. Francis Sanitarium
Cargas
United Carbon Company
P. D. Addition in Monroe to Wait Its Turn
Monroe plans a sizable addition to the overcrowded local post office but must await funding. Representative T. T. Webb of Ouachita parish alerted the postmaster general, who then referred the matter to John H. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster general, who stated the department is familiar with the situation.
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Monroe
T. T. Webb
Ouachita Parish
John H. Bartlett
Hambone’s Meditations: A Man Desires a Job
A spoken passage by J. P. Alley portrays a man seeking work and eluding death on a street scene. The dialect captures a streetwise yearning for steady labor and survival in hardship.
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Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
West Monroe Bond Issue Likely Passed in Light Election
Voters in West Monroe consider a $100000 bond issue with light turnout but expected to win by about two to one. Ward 5 precincts show modest early votes while afternoon turnout rises. polls close at 6 p.m. A last minute opposition circulated circulars amid the vote.
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West Monroe
Plane aids search for couple in Grand Canyon
A three-pronged search by air boat and on foot is underway for Glen and Mrs. Hyde of Hansen Idaho two weeks overdue after starting a river trip from Green River Utah on a home made scow. Major Harmon's army plane joined by Grand Canyon National Park staff and local Indians seeks the missing pair with a reward posted by the Hyde family.
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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
Golfer Demonstrates Speed Test in Bermuda
In Hamilton Bermuda on December 18 a golf test showed a top player takes 11 seconds to strike a ball from the tee and eight seconds to drive about 250 yards. The round’s total play time measured around seven minutes.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Mediation Offer Clears Path for Bolivian Paraguayan Talks
The Pan American arbitration conference moves toward conciliation as Bolivia accepts mediation over the Bolivia Paraguay dispute. Dr Victor Mauriola of Peru leads the committee and plans a meeting once acceptance is received. The aim is ceasefire and demobilization to ease regional tensions and aid the conference work.
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Washington
Victor Mauriua
Peru
Bolivia
Paraguay
South America
State Department
Bolivian Paraguayan quarrel sees mediator offer from Paraguay
Washington date line reports Paraguay again proposes the Pan American conference as mediator in the Bolivian Paraguayan dispute as Bolivia remains noncommittal. The developing talks mark a new stage in the regional effort to resolve the quarrel.
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Washington
Paraguay
Bolivia
Woman driver fined and jailed for drunken driving
Mrs. Esther Arn old, formerly Esther Fason, was fined 250 dollars and sentenced to 60 days in jail in city court yesterday for driving while under the influence. The judge said the sentence is among the heaviest for such offenses, noting prior lighter penalties had little effect.
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Esther Arnold
Esther Fason
Harvard Student Arrested After Subway Fight in Cambridge
Harvard student John M. Wisner, 17, of New York City, was arrested after a Harvard Square subway incident in which about 1,000 people were involved. Starter Hugh MacDonald wrestled a teen prisoner from Wisner as the car filled with blows and smashed windows. Wisner faces assault and battery and resisting a police officer charges.
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Cambridge
Mass
Boston
Harvard
John M. Wisner
New York City
Harvard Square
Hugh Maconald
Kendall Square
Therain Pit
Wisner
Percy T. Wisner
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Russellville, Ark
John H.&martin
London
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White House
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Police
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Bell Syndicate
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