No Car Shortage on M P Railroad Lines This Year
J Cannon vice president and general manager of the Missouri Pacific railroad says no shortage of cars or locomotives for 1929 grain movement. He cites 6 000 grain cars planned and 4 635 cars now stored in Kansas and Nebraska with 600 undergoing light repairs. The railroad also expects 15 surplus locomotives locally and 25 more in service elsewhere to meet traffic needs.
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J. Cannon
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Kansas Wheat Belt
Cannon
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri Pacific
Western Lines
Seek Reductions in Pontchartrain Bridge Tolls
A federal petition filed by Jahncke Service Inc seeks toll cuts on the Pontchartrain Bridge. Current rates 1.25 per car plus 10 cents per passenger would drop to 1.00 flat. motor coaches 3.00. trucks 1.25 to 2.50 by tonnage. bicycles 0.50. motorcycles 0.25. pedestrians 0.15 for crossing the five mile structure.
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News-Star
New Orleans
Pontchartrain Bridge
Jahncke Service, Inc
Five Mile
Dancing as Medicine in Amazon Region Doctors prescribe dance
In Chicago on June 28 Associated Press reports Renepe Williams of the Capt. Marshal Field expedition describes dancing as a therapy along the Amazon. Doctors and medicine men dose out dancing for the ill and even perform dances themselves for feeble patients.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Amazon
Llewellyn Williams
Capt
Marshal Field
Wisner Social Notes From Wisner June Visitors and Trips
Wisner reports show numerous visits and business trips across towns including Gilbert Winnsboro St Joseph Monroe Natchez Lake Village and Greenville. Local residents and guests such as Mr. and Mrs J B McCoy Mrs R W Hair and D H Porter are noted along with trips for shopping boat races and medical recoveries.
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News-Star
Wisner
J. B. McCoy
Gilbert
E. J. Shipp, Jr
D. H. Porter
St. Joseph
R. W. Hair
Winnsboro
N. S. Brocato
Oak Ridge
O. R. Francis of
Peck
J. B. Thomson
Austen
E. Ezell
Albert Perrington
Monroe
M. C. Dampier
Natchez
Helen, Hazel
Loraine Glasgow
Madge Risher
Truett R. Foster
Lake Village
Ark
E. J. Lynch
L. D. Hoover
Lee Bayou
T. S. Davis
M. S. Mayer
E. F. Good
Ferriday
B. E. Edwards
Marguerite Kiper
Juanita Funderburk
F. P. McKeiver
Y. V. Bondurant
Sicily Island
W. P. Linthicum
Wallace, Jr
R. L. Segrest
William
C. L. Enright
H. B. Womble, Jr
Reconciliations Rise 1000 Percent Says Judge James B. Ruhl
Judge James B. Ruhl of Cleveland Ohio reports reconciliations up 1000 percent this year while he handles about 100 cases weekly.
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James B. Ruhl
Cleveland
Ohio
Forty and Eight Plan Promenade on July Eighteenth
Barkdull Faulk post No. 13 members meet to set July 18 as the next promenade with twenty candidates for initiation. It is likely ten will be initiated July 18 while the rest await a second ceremony. The group backs the July 4 boat races and approves a July 1 boat ride. Parish fair plans are discussed with a pledge to help, though no committee is named.
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Barkdull Faulk Post No. 13
American Legion
Rome eases bathing rules at Adriatic beaches
Government amends regulations to ease restrictions on bathers along Adriatic coast beaches. New code lets visitors enjoy sea and sun without severe limitations, addressing rising tourist avoidance.
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Rome
New Group of Variable Stars Indicated by Harvard Research
Cambridge, June 28. Harvard College Observatory reports evidence for a new class of variable stars. US Persei shows a 907 day cycle with shorter 90 day fluctuations, and TW Pegasi matches US Persei’s light rhythm, suggesting a distinct group.
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Cambridge
Mass
B. P. Gerasimovic
Harvard College Observatory
Harvard
Mr. Gerasmovie
Record of Hunters on European Estates and a Kaiser Hunt
The article profiles a game keeper apprenticed to the Duke of Marlborough and later chief game keeper for Prince Szechenyi’s vast Austrian Hungarian estates. It recalls a hunt with the former German Kaiser in which falcons aided the killing of 5,338 birds and animals in one day, a figure Nash calls a world record.
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Duke of Marlborough
Prince Szechenly
Austria
Hungary
Nash
The Child Who Does Not Eat Half His Dinner
A health advice note explains poor appetite in children may stem from bowel slow down. It recommends a gentle vegetable cleansing and endorses California Fig Syrup as a trusted laxative used with children for thirty years.
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California
Little Hope for Movie Star's Recovery
Los Angeles June 28 Gladys Brockwell screen actress was fighting for her life in a hospital after an automobile accident near Calabasas north of the city. Surgeons reported compound skull fractures and other serious injuries with little hope for recovery. P Stanley Brennan advertising man suffered broken shoulders and severe facial and head cuts as the vehicle overturned.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Gladys Brockwell
P. Stanley Brennan
Calabasas
Here
Brennan
Miss Brockwell
Woman Out of Politics But Finds it on Stage
London report recounts Mrs. Hilton Philipson, once one of ten women in parliament, leaving politics to return to the stage where she first played the private secretary to a politician. The piece notes her career shift after success as a lawmaker and public figure.
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Associated Press
London
Hilton Philipson
Philipson
Itchy Rash Relief Promoted by Tetterine Products
Advertisement touts Tetterine Ointment and Soap as pleasant and fast acting cures for rashes. It claims germs are killed and trouble ends, with ointment priced 60c and soap 25c. Available at drug stores or from Shoptrine Co. Room 13 Savannah Ga.
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Shoptrine Co
Savannah
Exiled heroine Mab Russell shines in new political comedy
The article highlights Mab Russell as the stage heroine in Exiled, described as a comedy of the sociology of politics and the latest work by John G Worthy. It notes her return to the stage and her appeal to constituents as she seeks favor anew.
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Mab
Russell
John Gworthy
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