Typhoid germ case ties Shepherd to McClintock death
Chicago authorities prepare to file true bills against W D Shepherd and C C Farman in the McClintock typhoid case. Farman admits giving germs to Shepherd and discusses plans to kill the heir for a million dollar fortune. Shepherd denies the accusations amid a web of alleged meetings and bribes.
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Chicago
W. D. Shepherd
C. C. Farman
Wm. N. McClintock
R. TE. Crowe
Charles C. Faiman
Bacteriology
Wm. D. Shepherd
Nelson McClintock
McClintock
Farman
Shepherd
Shpherd
Robert E. Crowe
Faiman
Pie
Warren Declines Recess Appointment for Attorney General
John G Sargent of Vermont nominated by President Coolidge to be attorney general after Charles B Warren refused a recess appointment. Sargent, a former Vermont attorney general from Ludlow, is praised as a top New England lawyer and is expected to win swift Senate confirmation.
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Washington
Mar
Charles BR. Warren
Coolidge
John G Sargent
Vermont
Sargent
Capitol
Charles B. Warren
Senate
White House
Ludlow
Plymouth
New England
Warren
Coslidge
Judiciary Committee
Pers Mit
Curtis
Robinson
Tufts Centre
Scour Lake Beach Search for Drowned Pair
A eight man search party scours Lake Pontchartrain beaches near Slidell Louisiana for the bodies of Fred Rose lin and Albert Walls believed drowned during a squall Saturday night. A motor boat tied to a fishing trip was found beached near Le Chef with two life preservers missing. A separate note references typhoid culture and a legal defense by an attorney named Shepherd amid ongoing testimony disputes.
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Slidell
Lake Pontchartrain
Fred Roselin
Albert Walls
le Chef
Shepherd
Faiman
Wheat prices slide further on Winnipeg market
In Winnipeg on March 17 the local wheat exchange saw a dramatic drop with May futures at 1.551 2 per bushel, down 18 cents before noon. The session was chaotic as traders struggled to execute stop losses and liquidate holdings, marking the sharpest one day fall recorded.
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Winnipeg
Horseshoe Tournament crowning winners at Biloxi event
Alfred Bubb of Brooklyn Wisconsin captured first prize in Biloxi Mississippi at the second annual horseshoe pitching tournament. Matthew McKeon of Calamine Wisconsin took second, and William Beatty of Black River Falls Wisconsin finished third amid strong regional competition.
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Biloxi
Miss
Alfred Bubb
Brooklyn
Wis
Matthew McKeon
Calimine
William Beatty
Black River Falls
Nine marriages mark Urania woman's rapid nuptials
Alexandria dispatch reports Mrs. Caroline Frost McDonald Walter s Bronson Burgess Chevallier Gardner White Luigi, aged about 55, with reading difficulties, wed Mr Hatfield after a two day courtship. Her spouses include McDonald Walters Bronson Burgess Gardner White and Luigi, with several divorces and a past orphaned child.
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Alexandria
Caroline Frost-McDonald-Walters-Bronson-Burgess-Chevallier-Gardner-White-Luigi
Hatfield
Urania
Caroline Frost
McDonald
Walters
Bronson
Burgess
Pomp Chevallier
Gardner
White
Luigi
Serbia
Mr. Hatfield
Ouachita Parish
Yeggs Break After Shots Halt Looting
Three men attempting to blow the vault of Evangeline Bank and Trust at Pine Prairie fled after Virgil Johnson fired from a nearby garage window. Wires to the bank were cut, one man watched outside and two inside. burglars left tools behind. Torch stolen from Oakdale lumber yard. Pine Prairie in Evangeline parish about 40 miles southwest of Alexandria.
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Alexandria
la. Mar
Evangeline Bank and Trust Company
Pine Prairie
Virgil Johnson
Johnson
Yeggs
Forest Lumber Company
Oakdale
Evangeline Parish
Negro jailbreaker sent to prison after escape
Maliki Spencer one of three men who escaped the parish jail on February 26 was recaptured hours later and sent to the state penitentiary at Baton Rouge for a term of three to five years on two counts of grand larceny. His sentences run concurrently. The two white escapees remain at large.
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Maliki Spencer
Baton Rouge
Fred Childers
Spencer
Renwick’'s Addition
Lenard
Kid McCoy May Face Extra Terms in Jail
Kid McCoy, a former boxer, already sentenced to San Quentin for Mrs Theresa Mors slaying in August, faces possible 38 more years for aggravated assaults. He was found guilty in superior court on three counts linked to the pistol incident at the antique shop. He could be sentenced Friday.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Mar
Kid McCoy
San Quentin
Theresa Mars
Superior Court
W. G. Ross
McCoy
Albert Mors
Port wine replaces whiskey on two islands
London March 17. Heavy duties have cut whiskey use in England and Scotland. An authority says port wine imports have tripled since the war, while whiskey consumption declines by several million gallons annually.
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London
England
Scotland
Cotton King Visits Here Terms Labor Greatest Lim
Councillor Fred Holroyd of England, a leading cotton magnate with fifty million of Britain’s fifty four million spindles, visited Monroe to discuss a universal cotton standard. He cited labor shortages as a key hurdle for Louisiana replicating North Carolina textile growth and noted his oil holdings in LaSalle parish during a brief American sojourn.
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Fred Holroyd
England
North
Louisiana
Urania Petroleum Co
Holroyd
Britain
America
Germany
France
Italy
Holland
Belgium
Spain
Jardine
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
North Carolina
South Carolina
Greenville
Carolinas
RCUTE
Rabbi Goldman Faces summons Over Ritual Seating Change
Cleveland March 17 Rabbi Solomon Goldman spiritual adviser to the Jewish Center must decide by midnight tonight whether to answer a summons to appear before a committee of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America Charges concern changes in seating of men and women in the synagogue and debate over the 1917 constitution Now led by a new board 26 of 30 members reportedly favor mixed seating Goldman refuses to recognize the committee and says the incident is closed The group may pursue civil action after applying moral pressure first
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Cleveland
O. Mar
Solomon Goldman
Jewish Center
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America
A. A. Katz
Katz
Goldman
Union of Orthodox Rabbis
German Birth Record Thirty-Second Child in Lessau
In Lessau Germany Frau Becker wife of a laborer bore her twenty seventh child a healthy boy. Eleven of the other children survive. Frau Becker is 47 and her husband 48.
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Lessau
Germany
Frau Becker
Dan A Breard To Be Sworn In As City Commissioner
The commission of D A Breard as city commissioner arrived by mail this morning. Plans call for the new official to be sworn in at city hall later this afternoon.
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D. A. Breard
Waste of Money Heard Again in Senate Halls
In Washington on March 17 the senate debated administration spending. Senator McKellar charged four point one two three nine trillion dollars for the coming year as extravagant beyond prewar levels, while Senator Smoot argued a saving of about twenty four point eight million dollars versus the current year.
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Senate
Washington
Mar
McKellar
Tennessee
Smoot
Utah
Coolidge
Warren
Five of Ten Escapees From Parchman Nabbed Near Tchula
In Mississippi, five of ten convicts who fled the Parchman farm surrendered to S T Cole and a posse three miles south of Tchula. Leading figures Nixon Sullivan Vital Fitzpatrick Moran were taken to await guards from Parchman. Stewart returned voluntarily to the farm. The group emerged from woods after a stopped abandoned car. Only one man was armed.
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Tchula
Miss
Mississippi
Parchman
S. T. Cole
Quinn
L. O. Nixon
James Sullivan
Joseph Vital
Thomas Fitzpartick
Calvin Moran
Nixon
Vicksburg
Moran
Sullivan
Tom Stewart
Relative of A B Fall to Testify in Teapot Dome Probe
In Cheyenne on March 17, Judge Kennedy ruled that M T Everhart must testify about a alleged deposit of Liberty bonds for former interior secretary Albert B Fall. Everhart refused to answer, fearing self incrimination as the government seeks to prove a bond transfer between Fall and Sinclair. The proceedings included testimony by A S Roth of the First National Bank of Pueblo regarding a $140,500 Liberty bond transaction with Everhart.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
A. P
M. T. Everhart
Pueblo
Colo
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
T. Blake Kennedy
Teapot Dome
Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Wyoming
Everhart
Sinclair
Pueblo Bank
United States
Gwen J. Roberts
Kennedy
Everhar
A. S. Roth
First Tional Bank of
Pubio
M. 0D
Thatcher
Puebis
M. T
Boy Recants Murder Confession Aiding Mother's Case
Harold Sonny Willis, 14, admitted to the district attorney that his earlier confession accusing him of killing Dr. Benjamin Baldwin was false. He said he acted to help his mother Margaret Willis, who had been sentenced to life and stayed execution pending her appeal.
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Ts Angeles
Harold
Sonny” Willis
Margaret Willis
Benjamin B. Baldwin
Sonny
Dr. Baldwin
San Quentin Penitentiary
Hearoth
Nothi
Cattleman Fading as Texas Cattle Raisers Association Reports
SAN ANTONIO Texas March 17 The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association notes a decline of 680 members over the year as many retire from the cattle business Yet the group counts 2294 members handling 1 299 000 head of cattle with 210 adds The convention gathers cattlemen from Texas Louisiana Oklahoma Colorado Arizona and New Mexico as beef consumption rises slightly while per capita meat use drops about a pound.
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San Antonio
Texas
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Believe Heart Attack May Have Caused Kati Fatality at Rusten
Special to the News-Star reports in Ruston Louisiana that Sam Jones a well known resident was killed when struck by a Rock Island passenger train near Ruston on Sunday evening. An inquest found him likely felled by heart trouble and the coroner’s jury suggested the heart attack as a probable cause. The body was burned at Riser Cemetery south of Ruston after the inquest.
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News-Star
Ruston
Sam Jones
Rock Island
Cnroners
Tus of Peace
J. S. Roane
S. AL. White
le B. Hireod
J. W. Thurman
O. K. Davis
Johns
Cart
Oime
Janes Saiead
Jip
Speeder Fine Raised In City Court Action
The maximum fine for speeding was raised by Judge Charles Schulze to 25 dollars plus costs, plus 5 dollars for every mile over 40 mph. Ouachita parish plans to raise the limit from 30 to 35 mph after protests from visitors. District Attorney David Garrett agrees not to prosecute speeds over 30 but up to 35 pending the parish ordinance.
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Chas. Schulze
Schulze
Ouachita Parish
David Garrett
Moonshine Ring Exposed With Issaquah Judge
Deputy sheriffs accuse Justice of the Peace Robert Hunt and his son of producing illicit moonshine on their Washington ranch during a bench recess. The complaint says Mrs Hunt poured liquor over Harrahan during the raid.
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Seattle Wash
Robert Hunt
Issaquah
Washington
Joe Harrahan
Robert Gibson
St Patrick's Day Parade Draws 25 000 in New York
New York observes St Patrick's Day with a Fifth Avenue parade this afternoon as 25 000 men and women are expected to march. Governor Smith serves as grand marshal and Cardinal Hayes will review marchers from a grand stand atop St Patrick's Cathedral.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Governor Smith
Cardinal Hayes
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Senate calls for FTC probe into cooperative marketing
The Senate adopted a resolution urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate alleged interference and obstruction in the development of a cooperative marketing association. The action was reported from Washington on March 17.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Cooperative Marketing Association
Senate
River Stage Readings Across Mississippi Valley
River stage figures show St Louis at 12.6 with a 0.4 fall and Memphis at 16.6 rising 0.4. Vicksburg 28/8 falls 1.0 and New Orleans shows 0.0 with a 0.7 fall. Red River readings list Shreveport 7.7 fall 0.1 and Alexandria 5.5 fall 0.1. Ouachita readings for Camden 7.8 rise 1.8 and Monroe 15.9 rise 3.2.
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St. Louis
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Red
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
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