Killer leads to slain girl's grave in Gary
Police traced the kidnapper to Chicago after the 10 year old Annie Tomicik was found buried near Gary Indiana. Peter Vergolini a 30 year old Italian immigrant confessed and led officers to the grave. He said he lured the girl with a ride in his car and then killed her and buried her in scrub woods. He remained jailed at Crown Point as the grand jury convened.
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Annie Tomicik
Peter Veigolini
Vegolini
Crown Point
Vergolini
Chicago
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Scrub Woods
Roosevelt Named by GOP for Governor in New York
Rochester, N Y Sept 25 Theodore Roosevelt assistant secretary of the navy was nominated for governor by the New York Republican state convention on the first ballot. He held a majority over three rivals Col William Hayward Guy B Moore and Arthur Tompkins with votes Roosevelt 583 Hayward 187 Moore 101 Tompkins 184.
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N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Col. Roosevelt
Tee
Col. Wm. Hayward
Guy B. Moore
Buffalo
Supreme Court
Arthur&. Tompkins
Roosevelt
Hayward
Moore
Tompkins
Fliers Rest for Final Hop to Seattle Field
Cloverfield California dispatch reports Lieutenant Lowell H. M. Smith and army air corps team rested at Santa Monica before resuming the around the world flight. They plan a hop to Crissy Field in San Francisco as the next leg on their northward route toward Seattle.
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Seattle Field
Cloverfield
Santa Monica
Calif
A. P
Lowell HM. Smith
Crisay Field
San Francisco
News-Star Want Ad Proves High Reach For Sellers
Daily business notes that the News-Star want ad page delivers strong results for sellers. A Monroe realtor sold five houses after small ads, and local resident Charles G. Bennett used the page to advertise property and secured a New Orleans lead that closed. The paper urges readers to place ads before 10 am via phone.
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News-Star
Monroe
Charles G. Bennett
New Orleans
Jovial Priest Behind Bars Amid Poison Plot Fallout
In Nashville Illinois Rev Lawrence M Hight shows no distress in jail over the wife Anna and Elsie Sweetin’s husband’s deaths. Elsie Sweetin in Salem Illinois worries over her three children and desires care for them at a Masonic orphanage while her father-in law pleads for their future. The elder Sweetin expresses concern he may never see his daughter-in-law again as she faces the charges.
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Ibls
Lawrence M. Hight
Anna
Elsie Sweetin
Hight
Salem
Sweetin
Elsie
Mr. Sweetin
Mrs. Sweeten
Mr. Sweeten
Wilford
Sepa
Flight plan outlines coast route to Crissy Field
The dispatch describes pilots aiming to depart at 10 a.m. along the coast toward Seattle as the flight’s official terminus. Favorable weather would allow arrival at Crissy Field around 3 p.m.
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Ress
Seattle
Crissy Field
Cyclone Hammers Southern France and Leningrad Flood Toll
A French cyclone devastates southeastern France with Orange hit hard the Rhone floodwaters wash away railway tracks and a bridge collapse. two bodies recovered and more feared dead as ministers rush to scene. In Leningrad nineteen dead after a great gale floods the Neva with food shortages and price controls looming as authorities warn merchants.
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A. P
France
Orange
Marseilles
Rhone
Peytral
Leningrad
Russia
Neva
Winter Palace
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Moscow
Mountain Town Swept by Slide in Tessin Canyon
A landslide in Someo, Tessin Canyon, near Borne Switzerland, last night destroyed twelve houses and buried them. Fifteen people were killed and twenty houses were ruined after a heavy thunderstorm prompted the disaster.
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Borne
Switzerland
Someo
Tessin
Upturn Noted in Record for North La's Oil This Week
New York reports the US daily average gross crude oil production declined 2 600 barrels for the week ending September 20 to 2 038 850. National and regional shifts show increases in North Texas and Gulf Coast areas while central Texas and Arkansas fall. Prices vary by grade and region with Gulf Coast crude quoted at 1 25 a barrel for grade A and 1 05 for grade B.
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American Petroleum Institute
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Celebration of First Congress Anniversary in Philadelphia
Philadelphia marks the 150th anniversary of the First Continental Congress and the 206th of the Carpenters' Company. A two day program begins at Carpenters Hall and ends at Valley Forge with a parade, a reenactment by Scottish Rite masons, and an honorary Carpenters Company membership certificate to President Coolidge.
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Carpenters’ Company
Carpenters Hall
Histor
C Valley Forge
United States
Congress
Independence Hall
Continental — Congress
Free Masons
Carpenters Company
Coolidge
George W. Pepper
Whiskey Shipment Seized Near St Louis
A freight car containing 10 000 quarts of whiskey valued at 100 000 dollars was seized on a Missouri Pacific side track at Chaminade station near St Louis. The cargo, reported from Mandeville and Bayou Lacombe near New Orleans, was billed as lumber.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Chaminade Station
Here
Mandeville
Bayou Lacombe
New Orleans
Dawes Begins Three Day Minnesota Campaign Tour
Charles G. Dawes arrived in Leroy Minnesota en route to Minneapolis to start a three day campaign featuring seventeen speeches. With two exceptions all addresses were to be delivered from the rear platform of his special train.
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Dawes
Minneapolis
Leroy
Minn
Charles G. Dawes
Minnesota
Close in on Ferguson injunction fights Texas race
In Austin a Texas injunction suit seeks to disqualify Democratic gubernatorial nominee Miriam A Ferguson. After near two hours of counsel arguments, the case challenges the governor candidate and questions the impact on the Democratic ticket as the trial proceeds.
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Austin
Tex
Miriam A. Ferguson
W. Stephens
Charles M. Dickson
San Antonio
Beeman Strong
Houston
State Democratic Committee
Texas
Strong
James E. Ferguson
Osie Speer
Ft. Worth
Business Sessions at Klonvocation in Kansas City
Two business sessions were on today’s program for delegates at the imperial klonvocation in Convention Hall. Reports from committees and officers including Imperial Wizard Evans filled yesterday’s agenda. Evans is slated to address tomorrow’s closing session on the Future of the Klan.
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Kansas City
Imperial Wizard Evans
Evans
Gold Strike Reported in Amador County California
A rich gold strike was reported at the Central Eureka Mining Company property in Sutter Creek Amador County located east of Sacramento. The San Francisco Chronicle says a small group of San Francisco men controls the mine and dispatched the report.
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San Francisco
Central Eureka Mining Company
San Francisco Chronicle
Sutter Creek
Amadore County
Sacramento
California
Fatal Rock Island wreck near Ruston kills two
A freight train collision on the Rock Island line six miles north of Ruston at Hilly claims two lives. Engineer Tom Finn of El Dorado and a unnamed fireman died almost instantly. The wreck blocks the track and passengers are being moved by local trains as authorities await further details and body transport. Finn was a longtime Rock Island employee with ties to Ruston.
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Rock Island
Ruston
Little‘own
Hilly
Nivon
Tom Finn
el Dorado
Finn
Louisiana
Coushatta Road Builder Killed in North Louisiana
W Buford Butler a 38 year old road contractor and farmer was shot and killed seven miles north of Coushatta La while returning home from a business trip to Shreveport Kirk Hughes a 48 year old farm tenant was arrested in connection with the death and moved to another parish after reports of mob violence Butler was widely known in state road building authorities said the coroner heard Hughes had threatened Butler over alleged attention to his wife
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W. Buford Butler
Shreveport
Kirk Hughes
Butler
Hughes
Start Censorship of Questionable New York Productions
Police censorship moves hit two Broadway shows after complaints. The first play trimmed realistic Marine life scenes and softened dialogue as producer directed edits. At Music Box Earl Carroll refused any lines or costume changes despite inspection by detectives.
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France
Dolphin
Music Box
Earl Carroll
Weather Map Triggers Heavy Short Covering in Cotton Market
New Orleans September 25 The New Orleans Cotton Exchange buzzed as the weather map showed more rain in the eastern belt. Heavy short covering sent October prices soaring from 22.20 to 23.45, up 125 points.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Last Mother of Civil War Veteran Dies in Bloomington
Mrs Ellen Buskirk aged 100 died after a weeklong illness in Bloomington Indiana. She celebrated her 100th birthday on January 22 with open house and was known as the last remaining mother of a Civil War veteran.
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Bloomington
Ind
Ellen Buskirk
Laborites at Court Regalia Sparks League Debate
London dispatch says the Labor Party plans a 21st annual convention to condemn ministers and wives attending King George's courts in full regalia. Resolutions urge rational attire or staying away, while party talks nationalizing mines and electric power. Conference opens October 7 with all government members expected.
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London
A. P
England
King George’s
Queens Hall
Labor Party
Miinisters
Downing Street
George
Number 10
Judge Indicates Divorce Granted for Packer's Son Wife
Judge Joseph Sabath indicated he would grant a divorce to Mrs. Marion Atchison Swift from Edward F. Swift Jr., son of a Chicago area packer. Mrs. Swift alleged cruelty. she testified after arriving from New York with her father R. Atchison. Swift did not attend but was represented by counsel. agreement terms include $400 monthly support until she remarries.
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Chicago
Ills
Joseph Sabath
Marion Atchison Swift
Edward F. Swift
Packer
Four Bandits Escape in North Carolina Surprise Flight
New Orleans dispatch reports four bandits surprised by police in the act of cracking a safe at the World Bottling Works office, Royal and Montegut streets. They fled in an automobile driven by a fifth member, shortly after 1:15 a.m. today.
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New Orleans
Royal and Montegut *Ieels
Ex Mayor C A Downey Dies After Hip Injury
C A Downey aged 84, longtime Monroe leader and former mayor, died five weeks after a kitchen fall broke his hip. Survived by wife and four daughters, he remained active in city affairs until the accident. Funeral plans pending, with services likely at St Matthews Catholic Church and burial in the local Catholic cemetery.
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Monroe
Catalpa Street
Downey
Ity
Forsythe
Downing
L. R. Powers
Frank Roddy
Harry N. Black
Nena Downey
St. Matthews Catholic Church
Censorship Moves Over New York Stage as Mayor Acts
New York Mayor Hylan seeks police censorship of the theater after a Navy report condemns the play The Price of Glory for profanity and negative depictions of the Marine Corps and Army. The production by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson portrays war with charged language and a mostly male cast.
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Hyland
Naval Intelligence Bureau
Naval Intelligence
Peterkin
Charles P. Plunkett
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hylan
Laurence Stallings
Marines
Maxwell Anderson
New York World Staff
Charmaine de la Cognac
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