Rumblings of 1930 Michigan Senate race begin to form
Discussion grows over who might challenge Senator James Couzens in 1930 with out of state counties seeking a successor. Names mentioned include former governors Sleeper Osborn Green and veterans Jams Vincent Woodruff Mott and others. Pre campaign rumblings have started with no clear frontrunner.
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James
Arthur Tuttle
Couzensy
Judge Tuttle
United States
Detroit
Albert Sleeper
Chase S. Osborn
Frank Jams
Upper Peninsula
Head
Military Affairs Committee
Bird J. Vincent
Saginaw
Roy O. Woodruff
Bay City
CG. S. Mott
Flint
Fred W. Green
Gaveener
Tax Reduction Debate Prompts Treasury Surplus Use
A debate centers on using a treasury surplus of over 185 million dollars to cut the national debt rather than repeatedly lowering federal taxes. Advocates argue debt reduction benefits the economy more than ongoing tax cuts, given the government’s heavy indebtedness.
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United States
Our Day Gee Gee Worries Over City Ban Effects
Report notes Livingston county supervisors banned bathing suity from streets raising concerns about attire for the poor. A Chicago boy named Orange Apple was injured after slipping on a banana peel and falling on the sidewalk. Rumors claim he was picked up with a salad fork. A Soo couple was refused a marriage license with a complication of a half sister relationship to the groom.
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Gee Gee
Livingston County
Orange Apple
Chicago
The
Soo
Guandfather
Two More Big Producers Brought In Detroit Police Offer Reward
Detroit police announce a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Benjamin Evangelist and his family killer. Circulars with fingerprints and details will be sent nationwide as detectives enter the ninth day of the search. Fingerprints found on the front door latch were encrusted with blood at the St Aubin avenue home.
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Detroit
U.R
Benjamin Evangelist
United States
Canada
Evangelist
Canadian County Board of Auditors
St. Aubin Avenue
Free Flint man in prison for arson to save brother
Louis Chimovich, jailed for arson after a 1927 Flint store fire, is to be freed after serving two and a half years. He refused to incriminate his brother Nathan, who was initially freed for lack of evidence. Gov Geen will grant release as the average Michigan arson sentence nears.
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Lansing
U.P
Louis Chimovich
Louis
Nathan
Flint
600 4-H club members wrap up Michigan week
More than 600 southern Michigan boys and girls returned home after attending the 4-H club week events. The closing banquet at the old armory featured remarks from Professor H C Rather of the farm crops department.
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East Lansing
Southern Michigan
State Board of Agriculture
Armory
H.c.rather
Farm Crops Department
Larsen Style Shop Summer Coats Invitation
Advertises summer coats available at customers own price from Larsen Style Shop.
Puzzle of Kinship Tangles Inaper in Courtroom Debate
The text describes a complex family link: a grandfather remarries his daughter in law, making the boy in question the girl's grandfather's son and half-brother to the girl's father. Prosecutor suggests a cousin relationship through the mother, implying the boy might be the girl's uncle. The remark ends with a critique of intellect used for snobbery.
Local Golfers Defeat Alma In Club Challenge
Twenty two Mt. Pleasant Country Club members invaded Alma and defeated the Almaites 19 to 12. Elmer Theisen shot 78 to lead the locals while Alma hosts plan a return match on August 8 at their course.
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Mt. Pleasant
Soviet Trade Being Closed in Manchuria
Washington reports that Soviet trade organizations in northern Manchuria are being closed by Chinese authorities. American Minister MacMurray at Peking forwarded a Harbin consul message noting Chinese action against Russian directors of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Sixty communists had been arrested by July 10.
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Washington
U.S
Manchuria
Ane
State Department
MacMurray
Peking
Harbin
Mail Train Robbers Found Guilty in Evergreen Raid
Virgil Litzinger and John Flannery of the Limpy Cleaver gang were found guilty in federal court of seven counts each for the Evergreen mail train raid that netted 133000 dollars. The verdict announced today sets 25 year terms on the first two counts and 57 additional years concurrent with those sentences.
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Chicago
Virgil Litzinger
John Flannery
Leavenworth
Kan
Comedy wedding ends in deadly fire during UK festival
At a mid-summer festival in Gillingham England 12 died and three more were expected to die after a fire swept a four story dummy house during a stage wedding parody. Ten victims suffered severe burns and were barely recognizable. The event drew about 5000 spectators including actors' families. The groom was Deputy Mace and the bride was F Worral.
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Gillingham
Kent
England
U.P
F. Worral
Jack
Tabrett
Mace
Charles Wilson Appointed 70 New Farm Board Member
White House announced the appointment of Charles S. Wilson, former New York state agricultural commissioner, as the seventh member of the federal farm board. Wilson, a Hall area dairy farmer and Cornell graduate, heads the New York horticulture society and was backed by over twenty farmers groups. One more member remains to be named before the board’s first meeting Monday.
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Charles S. Wilson
New York State
New Federal Farm Board
White House
Wilson
Hall
N. Y
Cornell University
New York Horticulture Society
Dairymen’s League of New York
New York Fruit Growers’ Co-operatives
New York State Grange
Aged woman hitch hikes to Michigan from West
July 12. Mrs. Carolyn Spence a 61 year old autheress finished her long mostly foot journey from San Francisco to Manister Michigan to gather material for her autobigraphy The Lonely Trail claiming to have written 400 pages She carried only a few necessities and a large framed picture of Christ on the Mount She plans to travel back to California in the fall after visiting Bear Lake relatives and earning money as a housekeeper in Michigan She left Los Angeles in June.
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Manister
Carolyn Spence
San Francisco
Calif
Christ
Bear Lake
California
Los Angeles
Geologist to Speak on Oil Fields Monday
Honorable R A Smith state geologist from Lansing will discuss The Oil Fields of Michigan at the College Auditorium Monday evening July 15 at 8 00 o'clock Admission is free and the public is invited.
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R. A. Smith
Fron’. Lansing
Michigan
College Auditorum
Oil Royalty Public Auction In Midland Michigan
An oil royalty is set for public auction in Midland Michigan. Readers are advised to watch the paper for the auction date and note hand bills advertising the event.
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Midland
Michigan
Joslin No. 3 and Roebuck No. 1 Well Flows in Chippewa
Joslin No. 3 in Section 12 Chippewa township produced 960 barrels per day after reaching Dundee sands at 3 531 feet. The well, third on the lease operated by Chippewa Gas & Oil, first showed oil June 13 with 44.6 gravity. Roebuck No. 1 in Section 13 northeast quadrant struck Dundee at 3 521 feet with oil and gas flowing. gas estimated over 1 000 000 cubic feet, oil flow lasting over 40 minutes.
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Joslin No
Section 12
Chippewa Township
Chippewa Gass & Oil Company
Traverse Formation
Mt. Pleasant
Section
Chippewas Township
Dundee Sands
B. Donheiser
Pure Ol Company
Dundee
Romanian Army Graft Report Spurs Audit in Bucharest
In Bucharest on July 12 a report details the Romanian army paymaster using fake officers and mythical horses to skim funds. Premier Maniu orders a special commission to audit expenditures, exposing the budget balancing method.
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Bucharest
U.P
Maniu
Lakeview Well Drilling Reaches Dundee Formation Depth
Drillers at the John Bale well south of Lakeview report 8 660 feet depth. Ernest Snyder says the new formation resembles the Dundee layer, lighter in color, with oil indications from bailings but likely drippings from prior evidence. Owners plan to drill deeper until water or oil is found and may add three more nearby wells.
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Lakeview
U.P
John Bale
Ernest Snyder
Toledo
Dundee
Auto Tariff Cut Plan Is New History
Washington July 12 U P Leaders of the automobile industry recommended to the senate finance committee reductions in duties on automobiles. A 60 percent cut in passenger car tariffs from 25 to 10 percent was urged with Ford advocating elimination of the duty. The plan aims to keep 25 percent on motor trucks while lowering passenger car rates. Democratic members showed mixed views while Republicans favored the industry’s recommendation though not final.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Ford
Ford Company
U.P
United Press
Ford Motor Company
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Alvin Macauley
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Alfred P. Sloanix
General Motors
Astho
Cloudburst in Turkey Triggers Coastal Flood Deaths
Berlin July 12. Unconfirmed dispatches from Constantinople report that about 100 people were drowned east of Trebizond by coastal floods caused by a cloudburst.
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Berlin
U.P
Constantinople
Bornaerts
Trebizone
Fisk Singers To Appear Tonight At Central State
The Fisk Jubile Singers of Fisk University perform a concert at 8 15 p m in Central State Teachers college auditorium. They feature Negro spirituals and American folk songs including Swanee River Old Black Joe Kentucky Home and more. Walter Damrosch praised their pure intonation and blending noting their service to music in interpreting old colored songs.
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Fisk Jubiles Singers
Fisk University
Central State Teachers College
America
Swanee River
Kentucky
Walter Damrosch
Paderewski
Damtosch
Antin Bowler Damaged In Arctic Ice Flow
Chicago July 12. The Antin Bowler amphibian suffered ice floe damage in Ungava Bay but was slated to resume its Berlin flight today. Pilot Robert Wood and crew mates Robert Gast and Parker Cramer reported the ice jam forced the Berlin plane against rocks, puncturing a hull hole three feet above the water line. Native workers and crew battled to save the ship as weather favored the next leg from Port Burwell to Mt Evans Greenland.
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Chicago
U.P
Ungava Bay
Chicago Tribune
Berlin
The
Tribune
Robert Wood
Robert Gast
Parker Cramer
Wood
Port Burwell
Mt. Evans
Greenland
Strikebreakers to Run Idle New Orleans Streetcars
Hundreds of strikebreakers awaited to operate New Orleans Public Service lines as the city’s longest railway strike nears a resolution. Police and U S marshals prepared to enforce an injunction against protesters while strikebreakers would replace 2,000 union workers amid past riots and injuries.
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New Orleans
W.P
Hat Sale at Larsen Style Shop Friday and Saturday
A Larsen Style Shop advertisement announces a sale featuring a group of 50 hats available on Friday and Saturday. The notice provides location details as 189-190-AA and emphasizes a limited, time framed sale event.
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Larsen Style Shop
Endurance plane Angeleno nears 250 hours aloft Culver City
Culver City California July 12 Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart push the Angeleno biplane toward 250 hours in the air at Culver City airport. The motor ran noisy after 10 days aloft but quieted, while oil pump troubles sparked a hospital scare that was declined.
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Culver City
Calif
Loren Mendell
Pete Reinhart
Angeleno
Pacific Coast
Mendell
Reiniart
Cit Tax Referendum Signatures Surpass Requirement
In Lansing 122000 names were submitted to call for a cigarette tax referendum in the 1930 general election. With nearly double the required 68000, clerks review proceeds with a 90 member force and completion expected by Monday. Attorney General Bricker to rule on referendum validity after canvass.
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Lansing
U.R
Sidney A. Schulte
Secretary of State
Schulte
Wilber M. Bricker
Excavation Opens On Ancient Burial Mound In Indiana
Archaeologists resume work in southeastern Indiana along the Whitewater river valley to locate an undisturbed prehistoric burial mound. Led by Frank M. Setzler of the University of Chicago, the dig aims to uncover artifacts to piece together the history of an unknown tribe with mound systems similar to cairns. The Indiana historical bureau and historical society back the project with Smithsonian support.
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Indianapolis
Whitewater River
Indiana
Frank M. Setzler
University of Chicago
Irndiana
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