Fourth Cuban government faces upheaval as officers demand Cespedes
Dr Ramon Grau San Martin, provisional president, pledges to fulfill the revolutionary program while 300 ex Army officers press to restore Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. unrest spreads in Santiago with rumors of armed bands and merchants closing shops as crowds in Havana denounce Wall Street influence and U.S. marines.
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Havana
Ramon Grau San Martin
United States
Cuba
Raymon Gray San Martin
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Santiago
Mario G. Menocal
Central Park
Wall Street
Cuban
Sumner Welles
Maine Votes on 18th Amendment Repeal in Dry State
Maine ballots on September 11 vote to repeal Prohibition by ratifying the 21st Amendment. Observers expect Maine to become the 26th state to repudiate national prohibition and push repealists closer to ending the 18th Amendment. Colorado Minnesota and Maryland also prepare to vote on Tuesday.
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Maine
Colorado
Minnesota
Maryland
Portland
U.P
Beer Barrel Resented at Waterville Poll After Objections
In Waterville Maine a beer barrel pedestal was used as a ballot box in a repeal election ward. Dry workers protested the low ballot box height and the barrel was rolled into the ward room. After objections the barrel was turned around to conceal the label and voting continued.
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Waterville
States Vote Across Nineteen Thirty Six Map
The piece lists election dates for multiple states including Colorado Minnesota Maryland Idaho New Mexico Virginia Florida Ohio Pennsylvania North and South Carolina and Utah with vote timing and notes a wets losing two states yet prevailing. It recalls Maine as a dry stronghold and references Neal Dow and Brann on prohibition policy and recent beer sales allowance.
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Colorado
Minnesota
Maryland
Idaho
New Mexico
Virginia
Florida
Ohio
Pennsylvania
North
South Carolina
Utah
Maine
Kansas
Neal Dow
Louis J. Brann
Colorado Drys Open Last Minute Campaign Push
Colorado drys and repealists closed their campaigns ahead of the September 12 ballot on the 71st amendment. Prohibitionists urged strong turnout though recent wet victory predictions expect repeal by a large margin based on 1932 state liquor law repeal.
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Denver
Colo
U.P
Colorado
Wet Triumph Is Seen In Maryland
Maryland voters prepared to decide on repeal tomorrow with observers predicting a wet victory. Superintendent Crabbe of the Anti-Saloon League cautioned that a low turnout could tilt the result, saying a wet result would come if people fail to vote in large numbers.
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Baltimore
U.P
Maryland
Crabbe
State Anti-Saloon League
Memorable Mon roe tales of grit and humor
A rambling column recalls Henry Stein the Legionnaire who limped to Shreveport with a broken leg yet completed the convention and had his limb repaired at a friend’s shop. The piece then shifts to lighter vignettes about Sam Turner’s mustache, Edgar Forsheim’s hay fever, Walter Beil and Frank Jones at a Black Bay fish fry, a playful sign reading FOR SALF, and a corn cob pipe trade group code ensuring 40 hour weeks and minimum wages.
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Monroe
Henry Stein
Legionnaire
Shreveport
Sam Turner
Edgar Florsheim
Walter Beil
Frank Jones
Black Bay
Jones
Bell
Uncle Sam
NRA
Manufacturers of Corn
Johnson
Prominent Woman Dies In New Orleans
Mrs. Josephine De Vresse de Solis, 68, widow of Don Pedro de Solis late consul general of Spain in New Orleans, dies at her daughter Mrs. Charles C. Cobb’s home after several weeks illness. Native of New Orleans, daughter of Sieur Louis Constant de Vresse of a noble French family.
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New Orleans
Josephine de Vresse de Solis
Don Pedro de Solis
Spain
Charles C. Cobb
Divine and wife slain in Grace Fork murder case
Neighbors found Nev A M Eddy and his wife murdered in their Grace Fork home. Eddy, pastor of Mt Hope Church of God, was shot in bed. his wife fled wounded, later shot again. A shotgun beat her to death. weapon identified as borrowed from a neighbor by Eddy's son Ralph, 16, who is missing. A 3 year old adopted boy slept through the tragedy.
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Ripley
W. Va
Nev
Ralph
Eddy
Mr. Eddy
One Man Drowned When Skiff Capsizes in River
A skiff overturned on the Mississippi River south of Greenville Mississippi killing N Shamoon 50. Two other men escaped to shore. Shamoon's body was recovered.
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Greenville
Miss
Mississippi River
Here
N. Shamoon
Fraud charges placed against vote officials in New Orleans
New Orleans prosecutors charged 162 election officials in criminal court for ballot box irregularities tied to last November's statewide constitutional amendments. The action brings the total charged to 213 officials in New Orleans, tied to the election investigated by District Attorney Eugene Stanley.
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New Orleans
Eugene Stanley
T. Semmes Walmsley
United States
Huey P. Long
State Board of Liquidation
Louisiana State University
Five Persons Are Killed In Southern Accidents
A weekend tally reports five deaths from plane and auto crashes in the south. In Georgia four died, including Lawton Crawford, his wife, and Miss Mary Emery in Savannah, and Reece M. Mealor in a Savannah highway crash. J R Streetman of Marianna Florida died in an Opelika Alabama plane crash.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Savannah
Alabama
Lawton Crawford
Mary Emery
J. R. Streetman
Marianna
Fla
Opelika
Ala
Reece M. Mealor
Chattanooga
Tenn
Southern Cotton Meeting Called in Columbia
South Carolina awaits word from ten cotton states invited to a mass meeting in Columbia tomorrow to discuss boosting the price of cotton. Governor Ibra C. Blackwood said he may call a winning holiday if prices do not rise. He sent telegrams to the invited states.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
Ibra C. Blackwood
Storm Over Public Accounts Job Prompts Tax Reform Push
A Baton Rouge sourced report from the Louisiana tax reform commission urges immediate reforms to taxes and state finance. It favors abolishing the supervisor of public accounts office and transferring duties to the state auditor, plus creating a permanent school fund funded by special taxes.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Tax Reform Commission
Tax Reform Commission
Supervisor of Public Accounts
Alice Lea Grosjean
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Loyalty pledge drive in Monroe NRA canvass nets thousands
In a Sunday canvass by 300 women across Monroe and West Monroe 4104 blue eagle pledges were turned in to the Chamber of Commerce with an expected 9000 total. West Monroe reports 1677 cards with 350 signed by African Americans. white and Black residents joined house to house efforts aided by churches.
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Monroe
West Monroe
NRA
Chamber of Commerce of
Roosevelt
Chamber of Commerce
S. H. McClary
Local residents hurt in Mishap near Nacogdoches
A head on collision at a highway intersection four miles north of Nacogdoches Texas injured eight people. Among the injured were General W E T Ogletree and Captain P G Bell both about 70 from Logansport Louisiana, and Mrs J G Kugler Katherine Kugler and Phenathy Stubblefield of Monroe Louisiana along with H L Skeeters of Appleby Texas and two others.
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Nacogdoches
Tex
Here
W. E. T. Ogletree
P. G. Bell
Logansport
Confederate Veterans’ Affairs
J. G. Kugler
Monroe
Katherine Kugler
Man to Face Murder Charges After Marble Machine Shooting
Paris Texas reports County Attorney J. M. Braswell prepared to file murder charges against a man suspected in the shooting death of 24 year old James Rollings during an argument over a marble machine. The suspect was arrested on Saturday and had not yet spoken.
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Paris
Tex
J. M. Braswell
James Rollings
Desperate convicts scatter after prison riot at Angola
Eleven armed escapees fled during a baseball game at the Louisiana State Penitentiary near Angola. Three men were killed and several wounded in the riot. A massive posse hunted through cane brakes, marshes, and rural areas into central Louisiana and toward Mississippi, with bloodhounds failing to regain scent.
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Angola
Louisiana
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Bloody Break Staged At Angola Prison Break News
A powerful posse battled heavily armed convicts in a dramatic Angola Louisiana breakout. Two guards were killed and a camp captain critically wounded as hundreds of guards and police pursued fugitives across a wide area.
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Louisiana State Penal Farm
Angola
Mississippi
Balloonists Van Orman and Trotter Found Safe in Ontario
American balloonists Ward T. Van Orman and Frank A. Trotter, missing for over a week after the James Gordon Bennett cup race, were located between Sudbury and Arbutiti Canyon in northern Ontario. They were ill from hardships and had cut a telephone pole to signal rescuers.
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Sudbury
Ont
Ward T. van Orman
Frank A. Trotter
Chicago
Arbititi Canyon
Ontario
U. S. Goodyear
W. T. van Orman
Frank Trotter
F. A. Trotter
James Barrett
Barrett
Overcoats Issued as Temperature Drops in Springfield
In Springfield Massachusetts on September 11 first season frost triggered overcoats for men in C C C camps as temperatures plunged to 35 degrees night before light frost reported across several areas and marked first of the season.
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Springfield
Mass
Assurance of Help Keeps Ouachita Junior College Open
Local authorities pledge continued operation of Ouachita parish junior college despite the L S U contract cancellation. A joint statement by Joe Renwick Arnold Bernstein John Breard T O Brown and C C Bell commits parish, city officials and business interests to cooperate to run the college as scheduled with Sept 20 opening and support from Monroe and West Monroe communities.
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Ouachita Parish Junior College
L. S. UL
The
State University
Parish School Board
Parish Police Jury
City of
Arnold Bernstein
Louiseiana
T. O. Brown
John M. Breard
C. C. Bell
West Monroe
Brown
C. C. Calvert
University
Calvert
Parish
Mone
Rogers Says: Little Nations Should Not Be Little
Santa Monica dispatch quotes Rogers arguing that small nations should not remain small as big powers flex naval might. He compares Cuba and the United States with Britain, warning against warlike proclamations and urging stronger national stature for smaller states.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Cuba
Mississippi
United States of America
George
New York Harbor
America
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