Boy Dies After Thanksgiving High School Game Injury
Floyd Smith a 16 year old Bastrop halfback died after sustaining a skull fracture in the Thanksgiving Day game against Monroe at Forsythe Park. Eyewitness accounts varied on how the injury occurred and when Smith left the field. Funeral services are planned for Saturday morning.
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Bastrop
Monroe
Forsythe Park
Floyd Smith
Bastrop High Hoor
St. Francis Sanitarium
Smith
Sevral Monroe
Sawer
Amack
Baltter Womack
Posion
Omack
Womek
Sawyer
Womack
W. L. Bendel
R. B. Leavell
Berlin and Ellin Berlin Welcome Daughter in Private Hospital
Irving Berlin and his wife Ellin Mackay became parents to a seven pound blue eyed girl named Mary Ellin Berlin born yesterday in a private hospital. Franklin P A paced the hospital corridors with news of the birth as Clarence Mackay hunted on Gardners Island and Mrs Joseph A Blake arrived to congratulate the family.
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New York
Irving Berlin
Tin Pan Alley
Ellin Mackay
Mary Ellin Berlin
Berlin
Franklin P. Adams
Berlin-Mackay
Broadway
Park Avenue
Mackay
Atlantic City
Europe
Twister Toll in Haynesville Area Claims Multiple Lives
A late November tornado near Haynesville Louisiana left five dead, one missing, and fifteen injured with property damage near one million dollars. Dozens of oil derricks were toppled including many at the Roxana and Gulf refineries while multiple farms and livestock were destroyed.
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Shreveport
Haynesville
Journal
Baucum
Roxana
Ware Chapel
W. J. Mehaffey
Cotton Valley
Roxana Petroleum Company
Ware
Here
Roxana Company
Dewey Flores
Dalton Smith
Genie Smith
Doyle Crump
Ed Morris
Junior Vaughan
Abbie Lee Vaughan
S. T. Vaughan
T. M. Crump
C. Smith
D. W. Stewart
Laverne Stewart
Ouida Stewart
Angie Smith
Francis Jenkins
Mable Stewart
Lowell Teague
West Teague
Curtis Smith
Physicians’ Office
Ohio Oil Company
Louisiana Oil Refining Corporation
Gulf Refining Company
Wisconsin Genius of Pulp and Paper Lab Not Cashing In
August Gustin, once a leading figure in pulp and paper innovation, recalls his groundbreaking Hemlock pulp process. Despite pivotal work in Austria and at Port Huron, he did not gain professional standing or share in the patent profits, even as his discoveries transformed the industry. The first pulp carload reached Kaukauna, with operators marveling at the hemLock quality before the provenance was revealed.
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Oconto Falls
Wis
Gustin
Austria
Aact
Kellner
Njor
Europe
Mr. Gustin
Port Huron
Mich
Guston
Kauhauna
Fort Huron
Kaukauna
Children Heroes in Rescue After Morehouse Tornado
Eleven children from the Lott family survived a cyclone near Mer Rouge on the Monroe Mer Rouge road. The storm killed the parents and injured all 13 children, with four dead and 11 hospitalized at St Francis sanitarium. Leroy 16 led siblings to safety as Doris 6 died en route. A nurse and local residents coordinated aid, with evacuees arriving by ambulance from Bastrop. The family had moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi a month earlier.
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St. Francis Sanitarium
Lott Farm
Mer Rouge
Monroe-Mer Rouge
Lott
Ove Wares Srey Culu
Leroy
Doris
Dorris
Little Wilmerth
Willie
Mer Rouge-Collinsons
Hugh Clark
Hughes
Met Rouge
Clark
Bastrop
Yazoo City
Miss
Butler
Two Girls Die in Collision Near Winnsboro
Miss Gladys Sowers of Crowville Louisiana and Miss Lovie McVey of Winnsboro Louisiana killed when their auto collided with a loaded log wagon on the Rayville road two miles from Winnsboro. Driver Frank Bronson and Miss Pruitt of Archibald escaped with minor injuries. Survivors say the car swerved left to avoid the wagons but struck a projecting log on the rear.
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Associated Press
Natchez
Miss
Gladys Sowers
Crowville
Lovie McVey
Winnsboro
Rayville
Frank Bronson
Bronson
Miss Sowers
Moss McVey
Car occupants injured when touring car overturns on highway
Four people were injured when a small touring car overturned midway between Swartz and Monroe yesterday noon. Mrs Mae Yaney and Gladys Hicks, seven months old, are in Riverside sanitarium with internal injuries and a fractured skull respectively. Mrs J D McDonald and May Evelyn McDonald remain in St Francis with a broken collar bone and minor injuries. Elbert Yaney and Bobby Hicks were uninjured. The driver Mrs Hicks escaped serious injury though the steering wheel stem shattered. All occupants are Pine Bluff residents en route to Monroe to visit W F Baldwin at the Keystone Carbon Company plant. The wreck occurred after skidding on loose gravel as a cyclonic storm approached.
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J. D. McDonald
May Evelyn
St. Francis Sanitarium
Mae Yaney
Gladys Mae Hicks
Riverside Sanitarium
Swartz
Monroe
Yaney
R. L. Hicks
Pine Bluff
Ark
McGehee
Thanksgiving shootings mar Chicago day amid feuds
Two shootings marred Thanksgiving in Chicago. Three members of the O Donnell clan were wounded in a pool room related flare up, soon after Sam De Salvo a grocer was killed and another man wounded by assassins in a doorway. Police suggested a black hand plot.
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Associated Press
Chicago
O'Donnell
Sam de Salvo
Jimmy de Briscoe
Steel Company President Dies at Home in Pittsburgh
William Larimer Jones president of Jones and Laughlin Steel died at his Pittsburgh home from pneumonia after a brief illness. He had led the firm since its 1922 reorganization and formation.
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Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh
William Larimer Jones
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Bir. Jones
Jones and Loughlin Steel Company
Tornado Toll Tops The South From Arkansas To Louisiana
A severe series of tornadoes swept through Arkansas Missouri Louisiana and Mississippi killing sixty nine people and injuring over a hundred. Heber Springs Kensett Opello Moscow Sheridan Met Rouge Haynesville and Knob View are among the hardest hit towns with multiple fatalities including the Lott family at Mer Rouge and numerous injuries. Rescue and relief efforts mobilized as towns faced widespread destruction and displaced residents.
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Memphis
Arkansas
Ozark Mountains
Missouri
Louisiana
Mississippi
Heber Springs
Kensett
Ark
Ozarks
Opello
Moscow
Sheridan
Eransville
Competion
Mer Rouge
Bob Lott
Monroe
Jess Smith
Haynesville
Tornado Death Toll Rises in Heber Springs Area
Nineteen people die and fifty or more are injured as last night’s wind storm wrecks thirty or more houses in Heber Springs and surrounding towns from Greenbrier to Tyler. Bodies recovered include Roy Morris and family, Parker family, Wiggs family, and several others with several unidentified.
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Heber Springs
Ark
Greenbrier
Quitman
Guy
Pearson
Wilbur
Enders
Tyler
Roy E. Morris
Morris
TORNADO KILLS TWO NEAR NEWPORT ARKANSAS
A tornado west of Newport blew over homes near the White River killing Mrs. Mary Tucker, 65, and Robert Tucker, 23. Six family members were trapped in rubble but survived with no other injuries.
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Newport
Ark
White River
Mary Tucker
Robert Tucker
Raccoon Arrives At White House For Thanksgiving Dinner
A live raccoon sent from Nittauma Mississippi arrived at the White House to share honors with Reker’s purse turkey. The problem of what to do with the animal concerns President Coolidge as of yesterday in Washington Navy.
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Washington, Navy
Coolidge
White House
Vinie Joyce
Nittauma
Mias
Toll tragedy claims Lott family in deadly collapse
A house collapse kills Mr and Mrs Lott aged 40 and 33 and their children Doris 6 and Wilmerth 4. Doris dies en route to hospital from a 6x6 timber collapse. Four are dead in the family of 15 and two in sanitarium with critical condition. Read list of injured and deceased among other families.
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Lott
Bob” Lott
Doris
Wilmerth
Willie
St. Francis Sanitarium
Lillian
Georgia
Leroy
Johnnie Ables
Sallie
Shelby
Ouida
Lexter
Robert
Esther Lott
Lizzie Payton
Albert Cleveland
Dessie Reed
Annie Potter
Susan Diggerson
Permilla Potter
Nettie Lee Williams
George Campbell
Laney Williams
Will Dickerson
Lott Family Survivors Recall Mer Rouge Storm
Survivors from the Lott family tell at St Francis sanitarium of the deadly storm that razed their Mer Rouge area home last night. The father and mother died instantly, two children died later, with two more believed near death. The oldes tchild recounts how Papa protected the family and had $30 saved for buying shoes, while another $10 remained in his pocket.
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St. Francis Sanitarium
Lott
Mer Rouge
Wilson to push oil pollution bill after committee meets
Representative Riley J. Wilson plans to present an updated oil pollution bill for hearing before the Rivers and Harbors Committee, likely in January. The measure, shaped by a 1924 oil pollution act and engineer survey findings, aims to curb pollution in the Ouachita and other rivers.
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Riley J. Wilson
Congressional
Ouachita
Congress
Arnold Bernstein
Committee On Rivers and Harbors
Representative Wilson
Eee
Nginee
LL. B
House
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Boeing
Twister
Wisconsin
Genius OF Pulp and Paper Laboratory
Morehouse
The
News-Star
Gravall Road
St. Francis Hospital
Donald Wilson
Warl Anders
Cora Dalton
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