Graf Zeppelin completes 6600 mile Asia to Tokyo flight
The German dirigible Graf Zeppelin landed at Kasumigaura near Tokio after a 6600 mile nonstop northward Asian crossing. With 20 passengers and 40 crew, the airliner achieved 201 hours 50 minutes on the leg from Friedrichshafen, surpassing expectations and setting up a Tokyo to Los Angeles leg.
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Tokio
U.P
Kasumigaura
Asia
Germany
Friedrichshafen
Hugo Nekener
Los Angeles
Pacific
Eckeher
Tuberculosis fight praised as state work grows
The article honors the Howell Sanitarium and the Michigan Tuberculosis Association for reducing deaths from the white plague and details patient stories including Dan McInnis. It also discusses Governor Green, his stance on a third term, and the value of delaying pre election campaigning to keep state business steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howell Sanitarium
Michigan Tuberculosis Association
Dan McInnis
Harry Chandler
Monterlm County
McGinnis
Dan
Jie
Michigan
Green
United States
Plans Complete for Michigan Potato Growers Meet
Cadillac August 19 plans for the eleventh annual Michigan Potato Growers Exchange convention were finalized. Nationally known speakers include K B Gardner U S Department of Agriculture on Some Business Aspects of the Cooperative Marketing of Potatoes and Prof Theodore Macklin of the University of Wisconsin on Latest Developments in Cooperative Marketing. Robert Addy of the Michigan State Farm Bureau will act as toastmaster at a Wednesday banquet. Thursday focuses on business affairs including officer elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadillac
U.P
Michigan Potato Growers Exchange
K.B. Gardner
United States Department of Agriculture
Theodore Macklin
University of Wisconsin
Robert Addy
Michigan State Farm Bureau
Chester Way
American Farm Bureau Federation
Trial Hearing Postponed for Dr Snook in Colu mbus
Hearing on a motion for a new trial for Dr James Howard Snook, convicted of murdering Theora Hix, was postponed to 9 30 a m tomorrow to give defense counsel more time to prepare. The motion claims jurors were biased and mob influenced. the verdict carried a mandatory death sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, CO
U.P
James
Howard Snook
Theora Hix
Big College
Gil Inamorata
Snook
Michigan farm horses show a great decrease
Michigan farm horses declined by 17 000 over the past year driven by a shift to machinery. Prof. Ralph S. Hudson cites farmers lack of sources for horses and increasing reliance on western ranges for stock while Iowa reports tractors rising and horse numbers dropping from 814 135 in 1928 to 787 778 in 1929.
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East Lansing
Aug. LY
U.P
Michigan
Dobbin
Ralph S. Hudson
Michigan State College
National Horse Association of
Chicago
Des Moines
Iowa
J. W. Long
Hazing Tradition Replaced at Iowa University
Hazing at the University of Iowa ends as a past tradition. A committee led by Hermerson W. Nelson of Cherokee will greet freshmen, help with registration and assist in securing board jobs and housing.
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Iowa
Search for missing boy ends after six hour sweep
In Smith Center Kansas on August 19 a 9-year-old boy Melvin Nelson was lost in a weed patch a hundred yards from home. A search party of about 100 men and women combed the area for six hours before locating him safely.
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Smith Center
Kas
Melvin Nelson
Advertising Gains Show Increases in Business
New York Aug 19 Advertising activity across the United States measured by newspaper advertising volume rose in June from midsummer 1928. Newspapers in 68 large cities ran 189 431 781 lines, up 5 percent from June last year. Only 12 cities fell, scattered across the east, middle west and south.
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New York
U.R
United States
East
Middle West
South
Steady Rain Halts Forest Fire Sweeps in Pacific Northwest
Rain across the northwest slowed and began to control major fires in Washington Oregon Montana and Idaho. Western Washington blazes weakened as rainfall began around dawn and Chelan Wenatchee Colville forests came under control. The Bald mountain fire in Idaho spread ahead of winds affecting 10 000 acres and advancing toward Clearwater.
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Seattle
Wash
U.P
Northwest
Washington
Oregon
Montana
Idaho
Yakima
Wenatchee Chelan
Colville
Barnaby Creek
Nettle Alls
Bald Mountain
Solway Forest
Clearwater
Federal farm aid assists California grape and raisin trade
The Federal Farm Board funds $9,000,000 for Sun-Maid raisin growers of California, half from the board and half from California bankers, with additional financing for the fresh grape crop through the Federal Food Stabilization Corporation. The move aims to ease the hard-pressed raisin industry near Feesho and signals the board’s broad agricultural relief program under Hoover.
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Washington
U.R
Federal Farm Board
California
Hoover
Farm Board
Congress
Federal Food Stabilization Corporation
Feesho
Florida
Chicago
National Wool Marketing Corporation
Inmate Drives to Smith County Poor Farm
An inmate speeds a car over a hill to the Smith county poor farm. A garage sent Arthur Nelson county clerk a bill for repairs and labor on dependent s car totaling 21 50.
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Smith Center
Kas
U.P
Smith County
Arthur Nelson
Trains Crash Across States Leave Dozens Dead
Seventeen people killed and more than 60 injured in four railway wrecks Sunday in Michigan Oklahoma Ohio and New York. Two trainmen died near Owosso Michigan and a third was injured in a rear end collision. In Oklahoma 14 perished in a Frisco wreck and 11 Negro passengers burned in a day coach disaster. A Pennsylvania excursion near Condi Ohio injured many while no fatalities reported.
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Michigan
Oklahoma
Ohio
New York
Owosso
Condil
WU P
Grand Trunk
Here
Walter S. Heathe
Ernest Drew
Battle Creek
James H. White
Port Haron
Morrice
Henryetta
Okla
U.P
Condi
Pennsylvania
Britton Meets Sherman In Grand Rapids Tonight
Jack Britton former world welterweight champion faces Morris Sherman Detroit welter champion in a ten round bout in Grand Rapids tonight. Britton 44 with 26 years in boxing has drawn comparisons to Young Griffo. Sherman earned the welter title by beating Wirth of Lansing two months ago.
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Grand Rapids
Jack Britton
Morris Sherman
Detroit
Michigan
Britton
Griffo
Sherman
Wirth
Lansing
Michigan Solon Wins Long Fight Over War Graft
Michigan Representative Roy O Woodruff of Bay City helped secure a DC Superior Court verdict in a contract dispute over postwar government surplus lumber. The court ordered John L Phillips and associates to repay about 2.88 million dollars to the Federal Treasury.
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Michigan
Solon
Roy Woodruff
Supreme Court
Roy
Woodruff
Bay City
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
John L. Phillips
Phillips
Heath to face new charge in agent death
Detroit Aug 19 A manslaughter charge likely will be filed against John M Heath over the death of federal prohibition agent Richard Sandlands. Prosecutors may shift the case from assaulting a federal officer to manslaughter after Heath's boat incident in which Sandlands died after grappling on the water Heath escaped.
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Detroit
U.R
John M. Heath
Richard Sandlands
Prohibition
Joan R. Watkins
Washington
Sandland
Heath
Sandlands
Altho
Border clashes in Ching Russian war continue
Fighting between Chinese and Russian troops in Chinese territory was reported by American consul George QO Hanson in Harbin. He said Chinese casualties totaled about 220, with clashes near Dahasy Pogranichnaya and Manchurian stations as 10,000 Soviet troops crossed the border.
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Washington
U.P
State Department
George QO
Hanson
Harbin
Manchuria
Manchurian
Dahasy
Pogranichnaya
Statement Department
Myrle Meyers
Mukden
Tsittsihal
Mancht- Hi
Chalamnor
Freighter Sunk After Collision With British Tug
In the North Sea near Grimsby the Spanish freighter O Gonno sank within 16 minutes after a collision with the British tug King's Cross. Of 25 crew aboard, 15 died, 10 were rescued, and one body was recovered. Survivors described the sudden, chaotic disaster and efforts to launch lifeboats amid darkness.
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Grimsby
England
U.P
North Sea
Humber River
King’s Cross
Edoardo
Ezequiel Gandina
Michigan Laymen Meet at Kalamazoo Conference
Kalamazoo hosts the Michigan Conference Laymen’s association session with church program talks on finances organization and revival. Key speakers include George W. Dixon E Berti Smith and Postmaster B. A. Densmore plus a joint session with preachers and Bishop C. W. Burns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Methodist Episcopal Church
Archie McRae
Muskegon
Smith Burnham
Western State Teachers College
Adv Ney
Whitworth
Ground Rapid
George W. Dixon
Chicago
Methodisteneral Conference
A. Densmore
Mason
E. Berti Smith
Charles Wesley Burns
CG. R. Culver
St. Johns
Jaymien
T. O. Huckle
Cadillac
Jacob Kindelberger
Huckle
Densmore
Culver
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Asiatic Wilds
Giant Air Liner
Dr. Snook
Nazing
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Blanche Wilcox Noyes
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