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Newspaper
Mount Pleasant Daily Times
Location
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1929
Page
1
A St. Ignace doctor and a Sault Ste. Marie physician were arrested a few days apart for issuing prescriptions to drug addicts. The note laments the spread of narcotics across the United States, urging public action, while a column of assorted quotes and anecdotes follows.
Dr. James Howard Snook, condemned to the electric chair for murdering Theora Hix, waits for a Monday hearing on two new trial motions. His lawyers claim juror bias and undue influence, with Judge Henry L. Scarlett presiding as the date for possible execution looms in Thanksgiving week.
Oxford England August 16 Two American sisters Jessie Hendrick and Katherine Hendrick of New York City become the first American girls to obtain law degrees from the University of Oxford. Both graduates of Erasmus Hall and Bryn Mawr, they join the Middle Temple and will be admitted to the bar in November. Father Frank Hendrick is a New York lawyer.
The Buffalo Evening Times reports US coast guard crews have removed all machine guns from dry patrol boats on the Great Lakes after Canadian protests. Disarmament affected 145 boats between Youngstown New York and Detroit Michigan with future cutters armed only with revolvers and one pounder guns.
In Shelbyville Indiana on August 16 Dr. R W Gehres suffered severe burns when a tank of ether exploded during the administration of a sleep producing formula. He could not continue the case and another doctor took over. The patient escaped injury.
Reports from Harbin and Hong Kong describe fighting between Chinese and Russian forces on the Manchurian Sino Soviet frontier. Russian casualties cited include twelve dead and four Chinese killed in a clash near Pogranizhiyana on the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Kansas City is told that Mrs Magnie W Armistrong quit teaching ten years ago to join a bond house. She manages her home educates a daughter plays golf drives her car and now sells about $2 500 000 in bonds each year. Her largest sale reached 240 000.
Michigan’s new permanent crime commission organized for its first session to survey the court system law enforcement agencies and penal institutions. The nine member body adopted rules and stated it would not amend the criminal code, though minor changes may be considered.
Grand Rapids city commissioners rejected a plan to close Lyon Street for an $8,000,000 furniture temple. Gustav A. Hendricks, linked with State Treasurer Frank D. McKay, promoted the project and a real estate firm offered over a quarter of a million for the site. The committee noted the site would block Crogs Street becoming a main throughway, despite the project’s industry benefit. Commissioner George Weldman criticized the decision.
Two youths, William Bryer and Casmere Holman, were captured by local police after holding up Detroit Edison offices and escaping with 3500 dollars. They were arraigned with bail set at 100000 each and a September circuit court term scheduled. A third man, wounded, is said to be involved according to police, who report one suspect confessed but denies the third man’s involvement.
In Tippecanoe Superior Court at Lafayette Indiana Mrs Rose Cadwallader charges Arthur Caldwellwallader with marital strife after he drank beer at home and during church visits. They wed June 29 and separated July 28, details show strain over alcohol and family life.
Fires swept eastern Washington and northern Idaho as a 12 000 acre Chelan National Forest blaze drew all available men. The Barnaby Creek fire across the Columbia from Kettle Falls burned about 40000 acres of timber with three homesteads a Red Hand Lumber camp and a ranger’s station destroyed despite 1000 firefighters efforts.
The former president and first lady, after leaving the White House, settle into Northampton Massachusetts with same daily routine. Mrs Coolidge shops by first name with clerks and uses the large chauffeur driven car despite minor changes like a smaller vehicle when needed. The couple maintains a steady pace of local errands and social visits while resuming community ties.
Lansing Aug 16 UP Seven of the 71 state accounts are in the red by 1,323,543 in the general fund and 1,269,656 in highway funds. Primary school fund remains the largest asset at 20,074,260 but will be paid out to counties in September.
Moscow reports the Land of the Soviets plane crash in a Siberian forest near Chita. All four crew members were unharmed. A new aircraft is prepared to attempt the Moscow to New York route as aviation and military experts investigate the crash cause.
Moscow reports the Graf Zeppelin has left Russia as it climbs toward Siberia en route from Friedrichshafen for an around the world flight. Commander Hugo Eckener chooses a northern path above latitude 60 as storms threaten the airship on its 6,000 mile stretch toward Tokio amid typhoon conditions along the Japanese coast.
Applications for work in the sugar factory for the coming campaign are now being received at the factory office. Call at Time Ledger's office, Columbia Sugar Co. Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Ban 220-22 AA Advertisement.
Bay City dispatch reports a U S Prohibition Bureau summary showing Michigan district arrests totaling 2 398 with revenues of 1 590 000 from fines seized property and automobile seizures. The 12 month period ends June 30 1929 with 1 976 federal court prosecutions and 406 years seven months of sentences.
Thomas D'Oyley Bulkeley of Bedford Park was angered when Brighton police addressed him as Mister in a court summons for a driving offense. In court he pressed why letters were not addressed as ESQ. The magistrate refused to answer and fined him forty shillings about nine dollars sixty.
Kansas City report says Everett Parrish, a fruit seller, dodged a shotgun wielding customer over tomato prices and leaped from a second story window, suffering severe bruises.
The Fox No 1 well in Isabella county’s Chippewa township shows a check flow of 550 barrels in the first 36 hours. Drilled to 3590 feet, the well lies near section 18 and offset Bailey-Hall No 3. Gas pressure remains strong with an estimated 45 barrels daily. drilling continues through pay sands amid quicksand depth challenges.
Washington Aug 16 A decision on whether Joh M Heath of Detroit will be prosecuted by the state of Michigan or the federal government is expected soon. United States District Attorney John FR Watkins and James Chenot Wayne county prosecutor met with department officials and returned to Detroit without a ruling. Heath a wealthy elevator engineer is accused of staying Richar Sandlands coast guardsman in connection with liquor operations of the seized yacht Margo.
The American four mast schooner Charles D. Stanford from Norfolk to Bermuda was blown off course by a southwest wind nine days at sea. After multiple near Bermuda landings she was finally towed into port by the tug Powerful with the crew unharmed.
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