Four floor crash at Pickwick Club kills many in Boston
A wall collapse at the Pickwick Club in Boston’s Chinatown traps dozens after a Fourth of July eve dance. Eight believed dead, eighteen rescued, with fears for many more buried under debris as wreckers and doctors labor through dawn.
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Boston
Mass
A. P
Pickwick Club
City Hospital
Dreyfus Hotel
Poston
Chinatown
South End
Merrymaker
St. James Church
Thea
Goree Well Put Haynesville On No La Oil Map
The Goree No. 1 well near Haynesville, drilled by Sid Simmons Drilling Co, kicked off Haynesville’s oil fame on July 4, 1922, yielding 3,000 barrels at 2860 feet. The Cleve Love LaSalle parish discovery echoes that historic moment three years later.
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Goree
Haynesville
Tulles
Louisiana
Wildcat
Goree No. 1
Monroe
Sid Simmons Drilling Co
Cleve Love LaSalle Parish
Hunger Center Is in Brain, Doctors Claim
Moscow researchers from the Physio Psychiatric Institute report finding a brain hunger center. They say damage to it can abolish appetite while inflammation may trigger abnormal hunger. Dr Greenstein notes a skull fracture case where a small cortical lesion removed the wish for food despite normal digestion.
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Moscow
I. N
Moscow Physio-Psychiatric Institute
Greenstein
Tennis Stars Battle in Forsythe North Louisiana Tourney
The Forsythe North Louisiana Tennis Tournament narrowed singles and doubles fields to semi finals with New Orleans and Shreveport players leading. Results from second and third rounds include Hewetson, Brown, Westfeldt, and Beharif advancing, while Waters-Huggins and Scharff-Lemle won in doubles. The banquet at Monroe Hotel named Shreveport as 4th annual host and approved affiliation with the National Lawn Tennis Association.
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North Louisiana
Hewetson
Shreveport
Deault
Morris
Rayville
Frazer
Monroe
Huggins
New Orleans
Haker
Minden
Westfeldt
Titlepage
Swartz
Waters
jLemle
Brown
Willis
Ruston
Chantler
White
Scharff
Bernstein
Beharif
Waters-Huggins
Bower-White
Stewart-Brown
Thomas-Kemp
Scharff-Lemle
Holmes-Breedon
Calhoun
Ritchie-Harrell
Defalt
Hewetson-Chantler
Givens-Carder
Lusk-Lewis
Homer
Morris-Westfeldt
Willis-White
Frazer-Maroney
Monroe Hotel
North Louisiana Tennis Association
National Lawn Tennis Association
Japan plans oil invasion in Saghalien territory
Tokyo reports elaborate plans to develop Saghalien oil fields under a semi governmental company absorbing Hokushinkai. Thirty two trial wells drilled. twenty four producing. daily yield about 15000 gallons. Navy aims to secure fuel oil for two thirds of its needs, despite low grade crude testing.
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Luther A. Huston
Tokyo
Saghalien
Japan
Soviet Russia
Hokushinkai
Mitsui
Mitsubishi Kuhara
Okura
Suzuki
Nippon Oil
Hokushinukai
Irregularities Dominate Wall Street Weekly Trading
Markets showed marked irregularity as a week began with selling tied to high money rates and California quake concerns. A late rally followed on merger chatter and dividend news, but preholiday profit taking and a major stock exchange failure trimmed gains.
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New York
A. P
California
Santa Barbara
Stock Exchange
American Can
Wall Street
Baldwin
Poland
Monroe Observes Quiet Fourth Across City
A subdued Fourth of July in Monroe featured a Missouri Pacific special train carrying boosters and families to Alexandria for parades and games. City streets were largely empty with closures in effect while defense tests and patriotic ceremonies unfolded nationwide under War Department plans.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad
Alexandria
Missouri Pacific
National Guard
Louisiana Training Institute
Monroe
Union Station
156Th Infantry Band
Foisy
Arnold Bernstein
Rickey
George J. Ginsberg
Camp Fire Girls
Alexandria Baseball Association
Ball Park
Missouri Pacific “Boosters
City Park Auditorium
Forsythe Park
Rapides Parish
Reds
Cotton States’ League Park
DeSiard
Lower Grand
London Air Defense Plans 700 Planes In 56 Squadrons
London and the British Isles prepare an aerial defense network of 56 squadrons totaling about 700 planes. The RAF will base units at aerodomes from Biggin Hill to Bircham Newton with Napier Virginia bombers and high altitude craft, aiming to deter an air attack from the south or east.
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London
British Isles
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Biggin Hill
Kenley
Northolt
Hendon
Eastchurch
Manston
Spitlegate
Duxford
Stamford
Hawkinge
Worthy Down
Bircham Newton
Europe
Martlesham Heath
Coolidges Plan Quiet Fourth of July Yacht Trip
President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge will celebrate the Fourth and his 53rd birthday with a private Mayflower cruise from Marblehead. The trip follows a year marked by Calvin Jr.’s illness and death, with a quiet observance planned amid birthday greetings and fireworks in the White House area.
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Swampscott
Mass
A. P
President Coolidge
Executive
White House
White Court
Mrs. Coolidge
Cambridge
Tremont No. 1 Oil Well Leads La Salle Boom
Urania La July 4 Cleve Love's Tremont No 1 well erupts in La Salle Parish delivering two thousand barrels of pipeline oil in five hours and attracting many to Urania as Urania No 7 resumes flow with high oil content. The Tremont well is expected to yield 2 000 to 5 000 barrels daily once resumed and storage tanks are planned.
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R. H. Brooks
Urania
LaSalle
Cleve Love
Tremont No. 1
Ders Rick
Tremont Lumber Company
Urania Petroleum Company
Urania No. 7
Urania No. 6
Rowe-Wallace
Urania No
la Salle Parish
O. Robichaux
Anthony Gibbon
Urania Petroleum Co
Robichaux
Caboose wreck injures Montgomery and others in incidents
G F Montgomery a Missouri Pacific brakeman was badly hurt when a caboose carrying him was wrecked at Collinston. He is listed in fair condition at St Francis sanitarium. Separate wrecks injured Rus ton Polytechnic College student J A Shelby and Missouri Pacific worker Hugh Hyllum near Delco and along River Front drive.
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G. F. Montgomery
Missouri Pacific
Collinston
St. Francis Sanitarium
Montgomery
Monroe
J. A. Shelby
Ruston Polytechnic College
Natatorium
Shelby
St. Francis
Hugh Hyllum
McGehee
Ark
Delco
Elmer Martin
Swartz
Standard Carbon Company
Fire kills seven in Saranac Lake apartment blaze
A three story apartment fire in Saranac Lake New York early today left seven dead and one dying. Victims include Peter Dwyer George Dukett Patrick Martin Kenneth Monakey and an infant of Mr and Mrs George Dukett Two unidentified men and Mrs George Dukett were hospitalized with serious burns. Several others injured escaped.
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Saranac Lake
N. Y
A. P
Peter Dwyer
George Dukett
Patrick Martin
R. Chateaugeau
Kenneth Monakey
Geo. Dukett
Kissless Bride Seeks Divorce From Minister Husband
In St Louis on July 4 a 19 year old woman seeks divorce claiming her husband the minister refuses to kiss her and lives by a self styled Apostle Paul doctrine. The fragment notes a sale of a Bible or item at 1.98 but incomplete.
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St, Louis
By. N. S
Apostle Paul
Bible Marathon Named Annual Yucaipa Event
In Yucaipa California plans were launched to make the Bible marathon an annual event at the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev D Raley and his congregation recently engaged in a continuous reading of the Bible completing the book in sixty nine hours.
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Yucaipa
Cal
Re. D. Raley
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