Santa Barbara Earthquakes Ravage City Center
A sequence of tremors struck Santa Barbara at 6:44 am causing widespread destruction. Loss estimates range from 7 to 30 million dollars with about 12 lives feared. Water supply by by pass dams was secured and rebuilding plans, led by financier William G. McAdoo, contemplate a two and a half million dollar revolving loan fund.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Channel City
State Street
Sheffield
William G. McAdoo
Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce
McAdoo
Father of President Undergoes Operation at Home
Plymouth Vermont June 28 Col John C Coolidge father of the President underwent an operation in his dining room to relieve bladder pressure. Dr A W Cram said the 38 minute procedure used local anesthesia and proceeded without complications as Coolidge aged 80 kept his heart action steady and joked with the doctors. He refused to move to another room and had been ill since May 1 after a Beaton visit for examination. doctors diagnosed heart block prior to the procedure.
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Plymouth
John C. Coolidge
United States
A. W. Cram
Bridgewater
Coolidge
Coupal
F. L. Chute
Cram
Colonel Coolidge
Beaton
Chute
White
Massachusetts General Hospital
Judge Shaw Delivers Bench Sermon in Pulaski Case
Winston-Salem judge fined Charles Pulaski twenty dollars and costs for larceny and destruction of a Bible. The judge ordered the cost paid to the Salvation Army and the twenty dollars used to buy testaments for distribution to city men. Pulaski stole a Bible from Salvation Army and burned it at a Billy Sunday meeting.
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Winston-Salem
Judge Shaw
Forsyth Superior Court
Charles Pulaski
Shaw
Salvation Army
VY Tabernacle
Billy Sunday Club
Seeuer
Te Mee
Montana rocked by two major earthquake shocks
Tremors shook nearly two thirds of Montana with quakes at 6.23 and 7.05 pm causing panic in Billings Butte Anaconda Great Falls Missoula Livingston Helena and other towns. Reports of property damage towns and buildings damaged but no loss of life. Separate tremors reached Thermopolis and Spokane with widespread sensation.
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Billings
Mont
Montana
Butte
Anaconda
Great Falla
Missoula
Livingston
Helena
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul's
Harlowtown
Three Forks
Lombard, Mont
Great Falls
Bozeman
Thermopolis
Wyoming
Bonners Ferry
Sand Point
St. Mary’s Idaho
Baker
Ore
Yellowstone Park
Albright
Manhaten
Spokane
Wash
Gonzega University
Seattle
Rosebud
South Dakota
Moonshiners Slay One Officer Wound 3 Others
Johnson City Tenn June 25 Deputy Sheriff Hunter Rollins was killed and three other officers were wounded in a gun battle with moonshiners on Point Creek Greene county near the North Carolina line. The wounded were S W Shelton Buckshot wounds in head and arm Manley Rollins arm Perm Carter leg. Sheriff D P Shepherd and Deputy Hartsell were uninjured. The officers returned fire after a raid that destroyed two stills. the fight lasted about twenty minutes. A posse of over a dozen officers searched the mountains that afternoon.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Hunter Rollins
Point Creek
Greene County
North Carolina
S. W. Shelton
United States Prohibition
Manley Rollins
Perm Carter
D. P. Shepherd
Hartsell
Ku Klux Klan Parade Scheduled in Washington Aug 8
Washington reports confirm a large Ku Klux Klan parade planned for August 8 on Pennsylvania Avenue as part of a national convention. Officials say 150 000 to 200 000 paraders will appear with faces visible under hats, and President Coolidge is pressed to decide whether to review and address the event.
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Washington
Ku Klux Klan
Knights of the Invisible Empire
Invisible Knights
Pennsylvania Avenue
Police Cealthsink
Police Department
L. A. Mueller
Narehe
Coolidge
Invisible Empire
Second Death From Explosion in Rowan
Salisbury June 28 Henry Hodge a State College student died at Salisbury Hospital from injuries from a threshing machine boiler crown sheet blowing out at Lisk farm 16 miles east of Salisbury He was blown 75 steps suffered a broken arm and lacerations and steam blistered his body Charlie Morgan killed in the same explosion was buried at Corinth church Several others injured are reported improving Coroner T W Summersett found no inquest needed and attributed cause to rust on the crowd sheet of the old boiler
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Salisbury
Henry Hodge
State College
Salisbury Hospital
Lisk Farm
Young Hodge
L. C. Hodge
Richfield
Charlie Morgan
Corinth Church
Morgan Township
T. W. Summersett
Defense To Call Many Experts in Evolution Trial
Dayton Tenn June 15 A list of scientific experts to testify for defendant John T Scopes in the Tennessee evolution case was announced by Dudley Field Malone The witnesses include Henry Fairfield Osborne Edward Grant Conklin Kirkley Mather L F Rettger Maynard Metcalfe Arthur Miller Henry Higgins Lane Edward L Rice J G Lipman and Ward J MacNeal All are active in Christian denominations and support the defense claim for free speech in teaching evolution.
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Dayton, Tenn
John T. Scopes
Tennessee
Dudley Field Malone
New York
Henry Fairfield Osborne
Columbia University
Bryan
Edward Grant Conklin
Princeton University
Congregational Church
Michael I. Pupin
Kirkley F. Mather
Department of Geology
Harvard University
United States
Baptist Church
Baptist Sunday School
Newton
Mass
L. F. Rettger
Yale University
Maynard M. Metcalfe
Oberlin College
Ohio
Arthur M. Miller
University of Kentucky
Miller
Scopes
Kentucky
Henry Higgins Lane
University of Kansas
Edward L. Rice
Ohio Wesleyan University
da and
J. G. Lipman
Rutgers College
New Brunswick
N. J
Ward J. MacNeal
Post Graduate Medical School
New York City
Malone
Dayton
Georgia to Battle Over Evolution in Public Schools
Georgia lawmakers brace for a new clash as Rep Will H Stanford of Lowndes announces a measure to bar the teaching of evolution in any institution receiving state funds. The plan mirrors Tennessee law and follows a failed prior attempt. Stanford argues evolution conflicts with state law and constitutional protections, though he doubts passage.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Will H. Stanford
Lowndes County
House of Representatives
Tennessee
Stanford
Shepherd Refuses New Trial in McClintock Estate Case
Chicago June 27 William Darling Shepherd freed of murder charges in the death of his foster son William Nelson McClintock plans to contest probate of the estate under the will. Miss Pope the fiancee of McClintock is set to receive an $8000 annual and several cousins may oppose Shepherd in probate court. He was assured he would not be prosecuted for killing Mrs Emma Nelson McClintock. Shepherd, jailed since March 1, left jail with his wife at their Kenilworth home after the acquittal.
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Chicago
William Darling Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Miss Pope
McClintock
Shepherd
Emma Nelson McClintock
Julie Shepherd
Kenilworth
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Arlington Hotel
Arlington
Harry Afford
The
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Ole Hanson
New California
Col
John Coolidge
Jardine
Horace M. Albright
Idaho
Oregon
National
Konvention
Rowan
Ant
Darrow
Young McClintock
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