Bryan defense speech reshapes Tennessee evolution trial
Dayton Tenn July 28 Mrs Bryan released the full text of W J Bryan s address defending the Tennessee anti evolution law. He argues the case has become a national battle between unbelief and Christian faith and urges the jury to decide whether such teaching should be allowed in public schools. The address lists five indictments against evolution including conflict with Bible creation and suppression of moral reform, and questions Darwin s views and the role of science.
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Dayton, Tenn
Tennessee
W. J. Bryan
Daylton
Bryan
Mhan
Charles Darwin
Darwin
Christ
Foruth
Nickel swallowed by child prompts dual surgeries
In Portland Maine a three year old girl Elizabeth Henderson required two operations to remove a nickel stuck in her esophagus after swallowing it during a scuffle with her brother.
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Portland
Elizabeth Henderson
Funeral Set for Bryan in Capital City Friday
Dayton Tenn July 2 Funeral services for William Jennings Bryan will be held at Washington New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Friday afternoon with details pending arrival of his son and daughter. Burial is planned for Arlington National Cemetery, with Mrs Bryan and family arranging arrangements as they travel from California. A viewing will occur on the Richard Rogers lawn with a Dayton Legion guard in attendance.
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Dayton
Tenn
A. P
William Jennings Bryan
Washington
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Grace Hargreaves
California
William C. Thompson
Ruth Owen
Radcliffe
New York Avenue
Thompson
Chattanooga
Arlington National Cemetery
Bryan
Richard Rogers
Dayton American Legion
Mr. Bryan
Owen
W. Sherman Jennings
Mrs. Bryan
Auto Club for Monroe Formed This Morning
An automobile club for Monroe was organized at a Chamber of Commerce meeting this morning. It affiliated with the American Automobile Association represented by Alex G. Cruikshank. John Foster was elected president and Albert Horuff vice president. Other offices to be opened later. The plan includes forming similar clubs in major Louisiana cities.
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Monroe
Chamber of Commerce
American Automobile Association
Alex G. Cruikshank
John Foster
Automobile Club
Albert Horuff
Louisiana
Cruikshank
Shreveport
Alexandria
Natchitches
Lake Charles
Baton Rouge
New Oreans
Commoner denounces Davis in 1924 nomination stance
In July 1924 the Commoner denounced the Democratic nomination of John W. Davis of West Virginia as a Wall Street Attorney. The image shows the Commoner stripped for action in a warlike pose.
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John W. Davis
West Virginia
United States
Wall Street
Gould Widow Marries Earl of Middleton in Montreal
Mrs Guinevere Gould widow of George J Gould heir to much of the Gould fortune wed the Earl of Middleton in Montreal. The couple plans to live in London. Middleton, 37, educated at Oxford, served with British forces in World War I and received two decorations.
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New York
A. P
Guinevere Gould
George J. Gould
Gould
Montreal
Earl of Middleton
Hanson
American Presbyterian Church
London
Oxford
Cook Suspended Over Alexandria Attack During game
Vicksburg Miss July 28 J P Cook Monroe pitcher has been suspended indefinitely by Cotton States League president Scott after he assaulted Alexandria pitcher Lee Withrow during a Sunday game. Cook fined $25 and costs in Alexandria court and released on $500 bail on assault with intent to kill charges set for fall district court.
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Vicksburg
Miss
A. P
J. P. Cook
Monroe
Scott
Lee Withrow
Alexandria
Cook
Brookhaven to be piloted by Brennan
Brennen to manage Brookhaven of the Cotton States League after joining the Truckers yesterday. The former South Atlantic League player will handle first base for Brookhaven as announced in Jackson Mississippi.
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Brookhaven
Brennen
Jackson
Miss
Joe Brennan
Brennan
Truckers
South Atlantic Legue
Settlemyer Sold to Mobile Club in Southern Association
Laurel Mississippi July 28 Pitcher Settlemyer a Lumberjack southpaw has been sold to the Mobile club of the Southern Association. The consideration was not announced. Manager Vick is scouting for another first class twirler to fill the vacancy. Settlemyer will twirl his farewell game this afternoon against Brookhaven in Lumberjack uniform.
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Laurel
Miss
Settlemyer
Mobile Club
Southern Association
Vick
Brookhaven
Mrs. La Follette Declines Senate Seat Bid
Mrs. Robert M. La Follette announced she will not seek the United States Senate seat created by her husband’s death. The statement came from Washington on July 28 as clarification of her political intentions.
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Washington
A. P
Robert M. la Follette
United States Senate
American ambassador Bancroft dies in Japan at 68
Edgar Addison Bancroft the American ambassador to Japan died suddenly at Kaurizawa in central Japan while on a summer visit. He had been ill about three weeks with a small duodenal ulcer after initial indigestion. a Washington specialist advised treatment. Bancroft, a noted lawyer, had served as ambassador since last August and was 68.
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Tokio
A. P
Edgar Addison Bancroft
Japan
Kaurizawa
Ambassador Bancroft
Kaurizwa
Washington
Bancroft
Santa Fe
Eugene V. Debs
Beet That Cannot Be Beat Claims City Fact
G A Burnett of 216 South First Street presented the News-Star with the season’s largest local beet. The garden crop weighed six and a half pounds with a circumference of twenty two and fourty inches. Burnett believes vegetables can be successfully grown in Ouachita parish with proper care.
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G. A. Burnett
South First Street
News-Star
Mr. Burnett
Ouachita Parish
Ten Living Grandparents Claimed For Louisiana Child
Ruston, Monroe, Rye, Athens, and Philadelphia families claim a child has ten living grandparents. Jean Clements Leitch, ten months old, is named in the note with listed grandparents from Ruston, Rye, Athens, Monroe, and Philadelphia, seeking the record.
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News-Star
West Monroe
Ruston
Jean Clements Leitch
A. Cleaton
A. C. Leitch
Rye
N. Y
H. W. Cravens
Athens
W. C Cleaton
Monroe
C. C. Clements
Philadelphia
Cotton Worms Reappear Across Ouachita River Area
Reports of cotton leaf worms, called cotton army worms, spread on both sides of the Ouachita river. Farmers S M Crowell H L Smith W R Flannigan report worms on cotton and fields. Calcium arsenate urged to kill worms and boll weevil with minimal plant damage. Mr Strahan asks farmers to report sightings and discuss control methods and poison adjusting tools.
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Ouachita River
S. M. Crowell
Okaloosa
Parish
H. L. Smith
Mr. Strahan
Bosco
W. R. Flannigan
Jackson Parish
Health unit urges typhoid serum for all parish residents
Dr John Schreiber of Ouachita Parish health unit calls for biannual typhoid serum for every man woman and child. He cites sanitation as key and notes 38 cases last year with eight deaths. He urges immunization drives in Monroe West Monroe and rural areas to prevent spread by carriers and contaminated milk and water.
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Ouachita Parish
John Schreiber
Parish
Louisiana
Monroe
West Monroe
Uncle Sam
Outlook for crops best in three years parishwide
E R Strahan parish farm agent reports crop prospects are better than in the past three years though dry weather has hurt stands in some areas. Cotton yields vary from 50 to 80 percent of normal depending on rain. hay yileds may reach about 50 percent. Fruit crops especially peaches show improvement.
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E. R. Strahan
Two Henry Kirks Believed To Have Lived In City
In Brawley California last week two men died in a so called duel. District Attorney Utley suggests a mistaken identity as the slain man may be Henry Kirk the Honolulu photographer not the former husband of Bertha Kirk. Letters from Tru den and Bertha Kirk spurred the theory while Kirk's father backs a local motive over a woman near Imperial County.
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Utley
Truden
Jacumby
Henry
Henry Kirk
Bertha Kirk
Portland
Honolulu
Associated Press
Kirk
John Truden
W. M. Kirk
Kir'k
Imperial County
Largest liquor seizure in New York harbor history
The 2000 ton steamship Augusta, seized after landing 250000 dollars worth of liquor, carried no customs papers or crew licenses. Acting Captain Charles Wilson and 24 men were arrested as inspectors described the event as the boldest rum running yet. Papers show the vessel was chartered from A M Eversole of Miami by James V Williams of New York for one dollar and half the profits.
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Nework
A. P
Atlantic
New York Harbor
Augusta
Charles Wilson
New Oreleans
New York
Wilson
A. M. Eversole
Miami
Fla
James V. Williams
Two Lakes Linked by 1500-Foot Waterfall Tourists Gasp
Glacier National Park in Montana features Ellen Wilson Lake and Little St. Marys Lake connected by a 1500 foot waterfall. Ellen Wilson Lake honors Woodrow Wilson's first wife and rainbow trout were introduced there. Tourists watch schools of fish tumble down the cataract into Little St. Marys Lake.
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Glacier Park
Mont
Ellen Wilson
Little St. Mary’s
Glacier National Park
Montana
Woodrow Wilson
Coolidge Praises Army and Navy Air Service Progress
President Coolidge says air services in both the army and navy are growing in efficiency and are in satisfactory condition. He cites confidential information showing steady development and has confidence in Major General Patrick’s leadership as chief of the army air service.
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Swampscott
Mass
A. P
Coolidge
Army
Navy Air Services
Navy
Patrick
Army Air Service
Washington
Franklin Parish First Cotton Bale Of 1925 Ginned At Early Date
Winnsboro July 28 Will Jones a Franklin parish farmer produced the season’s first bale, weighing six hundred pounds and selling to L Lowentritt & Company for 25 cents a pound plus a barrel of flour. No early ginning record is known, signaling a strong agricultural year with picking likely to start within a week and parish output estimated at 30 000 bales versus 22 000 last year.
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Winnsboro
Will Jones
Franklin Parish
L. Lowentritt & Company
Winnsboro Wins Fastball Thriller Over Newellton
Winnsboro defeated Newellton 2 to 0 in a pitchers duel at Winnsboro. Munn pitched for Newellton with Townsend nine for Winnsboro and Pruitt behind the plate. Rice singled and Lang doubled in the ninth to provide all the runs.
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Winnsboro
Newellton
Munn
Townsend
Rice
Lang
Taird
Pruitt
Wiggers
Lazarus
No Bones Broken Despite Suspected Backbone Injury
A steel shaft fell sixty four feet striking W. O. Mc Minnis age 31 an employee of Louisiana Light and Power Sterlington around 9 this morning. He suffered slight bruises and was sent to St. Francis sanitarium for X rays which showed no broken bones.
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W. O. McMinnis
Louisiana Light and Power Company
Sterlington
McMinnis
St. Francis Sanitarium
Man near death in wreck at Fenton crossing
Mike Hebert a 53 year old from Fenton is at the point of death with a fractured skull. His wife and his granddaughter Dorot May Foreman six are in serious condition after a track stalled on a railroad crossing and was struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger train. A freight train on a side track diverted the driver’s attention.
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Lake Charles
A. P
Mike Hebert
Fenton
Dorot - May Foreman
Missouri Pacific
Hebert
Mississippi Congressman pays tribute to Bryan in Laurel
Hon T Webber Wilson of the sixth Mississippi district praised William Jennings Bryan in Laurel after his death. Wilson called Bryan a great leader and a stainless soul, dying on the battle front for his beliefs and faith.
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Laurel
Miss
T. Webber Wilson
Mississippi
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Missouri Pacific Wreck Near Oakdale Injures Five
Word reached Monroe of a Missouri Pacific work train wreck near Glenmore yesterday. Two white workers and three black men were slightly injured when two engines and a caboose jumped the track at Oakdale while backing from the loading site. Fred Bruton, 21, was taken to St Francis Sanitarium in Monroe with minor injuries.
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Monroe
Missouri Pacific Railway
Glenmore
Oakdale
Fred Bruton
St. Francis Sanitarium
River Stage Readings by Location and Change
River stages listed for MISSISSIPPI OUACHITA and OHIO basins with values, rises and falls. Cities include Memphis Vicksburg New Orleans Shreveport Alexandria Camden Monroe Cairo. data shows 2.0 fall 0.2 and other shifts.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
RED
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Ohio
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