Schmeling Awarded World Heavyweight Title On Foul
International News Service reports Max Schmeling received the world heavyweight championship crown from the New York Boxing Commission after defeating Jack Sharkey on a foul. The decision was not unanimous as William Muldoon dissented. James A. Farley urged another title bout at Madison Square Garden before the season ends. Sharkey’s representative offered a rematch with a 12 1 2 percent gate cut.
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New York
Max Schmeling
New York Boxing Commission
Jack Sharkey
William Muldoon
Muldoon
Schmeling
50 Year Old Apple Preserved in Cloves At Portland Home
A 50 year old Gloria Mundi apple remains in good condition on the mantle of T. E. Zieber in Portland Oregon. The fruit is preserved with cloves stuck into its surface, keeping it intact for half a century.
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International News Service
Portland
Ore
T. E. Zieber
Parker sets long attendance record in Missouri Assembly
Kansas City report notes Jones H. Parker, speaker of the Missouri House, has attended every session since 1881. The longtime official, who began as a page, claimed a remarkable attendance record. Also mentioned is the first all Spanish speaking picture shown in Madrid.
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International News Service
Kansas City
Assembly
Jones H. Parker
Missouri House of Representatives
Parker
Madrid
National Farm Outlook on Freight Rates and Policy
Arthur H. Jenkins analyzes freight rate chaos affecting agriculture as the Supreme Court overturns key rulings on rate structure. The Hoch Smith resolution, intended to push down farm costs, is invalidated, leaving Congress to consider new laws or constitutional amendments to redefine just and reasonable rates.
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Arthur H. Jenkins
Farm Journal
Central Press
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
O’fallon
Hoch-Smith
Congress
I. CC. C
Marriage Rate in Pennsylvania Remains Low Despite Increase
State data show 70 507 marriages in 1929, a rate of 14.2 per 1000, up from 1928 but below prewar figures. The bulletin links marriage trends to economic conditions, noting postwar spikes and depressions during the 1920s and 1927 as key influences.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Bureau
Bulletin
The
Europe
Mt Shasta Snow Deepens Water Supply Projection
Mountain snow on Mt Shasta at Horse Camp is fifty inches deep with a 38 inch water content, measured by J. M. Olberman and Howard Simcox, informing a strong summer water supply prospect for the upper Sacramento River valley near Shasta City.
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International News Service
MT. Shasta City
Val
Sacramento River Valley
Prospect
J. M. Olberman
Howard Simcox
Mt. Shasta
Horse Camp
Market Recovery Lifts Wall Street After Selloff
The stock market regained poise as broad buying demand emerged, reducing liquidation and sending major shares higher. Volume dipped to 1,651,000 by noon from 3,315,000 the day before, with notable gains in American Can Consolidated Gas Case Auburn Auto United Aircraft Vanadium Steel Westinghouse and Electric Power and Light while Motors lagged.
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W. S. Cousins
New York
Wall Street
American Can
Consolidated Gas
Case
Auburn Auto
United Aircraft
Vanadium Steel
Westinghouse
Electric
New York Central
Motors
Heavy short-covering drives price level of leading stocks
The price level of leading stocks rose as professionals covered short positions aggressively. Strong buying by traders indicated confidence in near-term gains and signaled a pivotal market shift.
Soviets Arrest Bogus Grand Duchess and Heir in Counter Revolution
The GPU arrested a young woman claiming to be Anastasia and a man claiming to be Alexei with 34 followers of a holy sect near Voronezh for counter revolutionary activities. They allegedly praised the Czar and supported the supposed Czarovich, identified as a Czarist army officer. Anastasia's real name said to be Anna Sazonova. Also noted: Stephen Hutnick Jr. moved home after adenoids and tonsils operation from New Castle Hospital.
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Moscow
Anastasia
Nicholas II
Alexie
GPU
Voronezh
God Save the
North Caucasus
Czarovich
Simon F. Miroschnikov
Deniken
Kiev
Anna Sazonova
Stephen Hutnick, Jr
East Clayton Street
New Castle Hospital
Socialites Join Ranch Herd to Summer Range North of Mineral
In Red Bluff California five familiar social figures absent from tea tables led a 200 head cattle drive from the Ford and Barker ranch at Paynes Creek to summer range near Mineral. Mrs. Ted Ford served as boss cow girl with assistants Miss Betty Champlin Edythe Engelbretsen Katherine Barker and Marjorie Gardner. The group, skilled in range riding, managed cattle and a crew of men with ease.
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International News Service
Red Bluff
Cal
Ford and Barker
Paynes Creek
Mineral
Ted Ford
Betty
Champlin
Edythe Engelbretsen
Katherine Barker
Marjorie Gardner
Youngstown Population Figures For 1930 Released
Washington June 19 The 1930 population shows Youngstown Ohio at 170 004 up from 132 358 in 1920 Tulare California January 19 Mrs R E Auchard of Three Rivers found a rattlesnake on her dining room table she killed it after chasing it with a shovel
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International News Service
Washington
Place
Youngstown
Ohio
Tulare
Cal
R. E. Auchard
Three Rivers
Man Bets on Barrel Ride Over Niagara Falls
The piece notes a man planning to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel with unclear future plans. It cites the Hamilton Spectator and mentions other oddities such as radio loudspeakers on farms replacing scarecrows and past tulip bulb speculation in Holland and France.
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Niagara Falls
The
Hamilton Ontario Spectator
Florence
Ala
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National Farm Outlook
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J. A. Brest
Memphis, Tenn
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Stuyve
Peabody
Bionk
Treyll
Alfred Lingle
William F. Rusell
John Stege
John Alcock
Ri. Ht
John Egan
Stege
United States Rubber Company
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Roumania
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