Senate slush fund probe spurs limit on primaries
A proposed Senate rule by Senator La Follette would bar candidates who spend more than 25000 in a primary. The move follows Representative Ware’s role in spending 619000 to win Pennsylvania’s costly senatorial primary. The rule aims to curb campaign spending before Congress adjourns.
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William K. Hutchinson
Swentenes
Ens Service
Spondent
Washington
William S. Ware
Pennsylvania
Senate
America
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Senate Rules Committee
Unness
Vare
Seven year old boy killed by auto on Butler road
Jack Hiles, seven, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hiles of 1280 Huron avenue, died Friday evening at Shenango Valley hospital from injuries when a hay wagon behind which he rode pulled away and a car driven by John L. Wise could not stop. Wise, with family, was en route to Cleveland, Ohio, at about 4:50 p.m. when the boy leaped from the wagon into the automobile’s path.
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Jack Hiles
W. J. Hiles
Huron Avenue
Shenango Valley Hospital
Butler Road
John L. Wise
Butler
Eagle
J D. Henninger
Wise
Coolidge Presses Congress on Cooperative Marketing Bill
President Coolidge urges passage of a 100.6 million cooperative marketing bill as farm relief fights renew in Congress. Western Republicans show resistance and Senator Watson seeks to push other business, with Democrats framing the move as a political tactic amid party rifts.
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Coolidge
Congress
Senate
Watson
Indiana
President Coolidge
Four Enter Levin Store in Moravia Street Hold Up
Four gunmen robbed the Levin store at 1330 Moravia street and Gardner avenue before nine this morning, taking a large sum. Nathaniel Levin estimates loss between six and nine thousand dollars as police pursue suspects. The Cadillac car used, with Pennsylvania plates 992-598, was abandoned nearby. stolen plates from Adamsville and Pittsburgh were found in the car.
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Samuel Levin
Moravia Street
Gardner Avenue
Nathaniel Levin
Pennsylvania
Long Avenue
Belmont Avenue
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Gaston Park
Adamsville
Greenville
Charles Longstreth
Pittsburgh
Baird Denies Linked to Prohibition Unit After Resignation
Frederick Baird, who resigned May 31 as federal prohibition administrator, denied Rep. La Guardia of New York that he remains connected with the prohibition enforcement unit. He argued La Guardia is misinformed and said he left to focus on railroad work with the Bessemer and Lake Erie.
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Pittsburgh
Frederick (. Baird
Rep. la Guardia (S
New York
Prohibition
la Guardia
Baird
Philadelphia
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad
C. Andrews
Fate of Russell Scott to be decided tonight in sanity trial
Chicago June 26 The fate of Russell Scott may be known as early as tonight. A second sanity trial is under way after a yearlong insanity finding and commitment to Chester asylum. A Detroit witness may testify that Scott was a narcotic addict as prosecutors and defense lawyers prepare closing arguments.
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International News Service
Chicago
Russell Scott
State Hospital
Scott
Chester Asylum
Joseph Maurer
Cook County
Detroit
Rita Scott
Cleveland
Russell
William Scott Stewart
Marriage Licenses Robert Goss Ellwood City
Robert Goss and Virginia Crowl obtained a marriage license in Ellwood City area, with filing noted in New Castle region. The notice highlights family health and openness regarding marital records alongside classified ads for used cars.
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Robert Goss
Ellwood City
Virginia Crowl
New Castle, R. 1
Five Hundred Dead in Mexican Flood at Leon
Five hundred bodies have been recovered from flood waters in Leon Mexico City reports say. President Calles appeals for aid as government and Red Cross continue relief work. About five thousand in Leon lack food and shelter.
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International News Service
Mexico City
Leon
Calles
Red Cross
Three Trainmen Die in Kingston RI Wreck
A boiler explosion on a New Bedford freight locomotive near Kingston Rhode Island collapsed tracks and toppled seven Pullman cars. Three crew members were killed and two others seriously injured while 150 passengers suffered minor injuries. The Cape Codder express, running NY to Hyannis, was derailed as the wreckage blocked the main line of the New Haven Railroad.
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International News Service
Kingston
R. I
New Bedford
Mass
New London
Cape
Victor Doyne Found Guilty In Bank Embezzlement Case
Victor Doyne president of First State Bank was found guilty by a jury on charges of embezzlement and false ledger entries. He testified that others made the entries while Judge Henninger of Butler presided. Other similar cases were pending with likely continuances.
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Victor Doyne
First State Bank
Doyne
Henninger
Butler
Death notices for William Martin and John Andrejecik
Two death notices list William Martin aged 80 of Volant with date of death by Jack Hiles and John Andrejecik aged 54 of 532 Lyndal Street with address 1230 Huron Avenue in the same record.
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William
Martin
Volant
Nue
John Andrejecik
Lyndal Street
Evangelist McPherson Fails to Find Prison Shack in Mexico
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and her party conducted overland searches across desert terrain into Mexico for the shack where she says she was held captive for ransom. Despite more than 100 miles of travel and repeated expeditions led by Capt. Herman Cline and Deputy D A Joe Ryan, no trace was found and McPherson said memory failed.
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International News Service
Douglas
Ariz
Aimee Semple
McPherson
Mexico
Herman Cline
Joe Ryan
Los Angeles
Trains Hit Car. Mother and Father Injured. Daughter Dead
Mr and Mrs Harry Watts of Geneva Pa and their nine year old daughter were injured after express train No 13 struck their light touring car at a grade crossing between Atlantic and Adamsville. The girl died en route to Greenville hospital. The parents were treated for shock and minor injuries.
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International News Service
Greenville
Harry Watts
Geneva
Erie
Atlantic
Adamsville
Watts
Longo Is Given Eighteen Months For Rheumatism Remedy Case
Joe Longo faced Judge Hildebrand for making liquor claiming a rheumatism cure. The exchange touched his two barrels of mash and bathing with it. Longo, not a citizen, received a $200 fine and costs and 18 months in Allegheny county workhouse.
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Joe Longo
Hildebrand
Longo
Allegheny County
Four Held As Suspects In Hooded Raid At Jenny's Creek
Williamson June 28 Four men are already in custody with state police expecting more arrests today in the Jenny's Creek raid on James Johnson home. Seven armed hooded men entered to punish alleged improper conduct with a woman while Johnson his wife and fourteen children slept. Mrs Johnson was wounded but expected to recover. They dragged Johnson outside beat him with a pistol and switches. Blain Messer Flem Field and Constable Noah Field were arrested as they were about to board a train. All deny involvement. Tony Fields earlier arrested after bloodhounds traced him to the store where he works.
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International News Service
Williamson
W. Va
James Johnson
Jenny's Creek
Johnson
Tony” Fields
Plan for New Polar Flight
International News Service reports Detroit Arctic expedition plans a new land search next March. Supplies and equipment will be shipped to Point Barrow this fall. Mayo, on the expedition board, confirmed the plan after Major Lamphier and Captain Wilkins suggested there may be inhabited land northeast of Point Barrow.
Evangelist Aimee McPherson Linked to Arizona Stop
B F Greenwood a Tucson building inspector says he saw evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in Tucson weeks ago while boarding a train en route to Los Angeles. McPherson denied being in Tucson and said she was fighting for her life as she called the claim bold.
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International News Service
Golden State Limited
Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Tucson
Ariz
B. F. Greenwood
Greenwood
Aimee
McPherson
Release of Famous Band Leader On Bond
Meyer Davis, a renowned Washington band leader, is released on $3,000 bond after being charged with manslaughter and reckless driving by Maryland authorities. His attorney denies drinking or reckless driving. the incident involved a collision on the Baltimore Washington pike that killed Bernard Booker, assistant general counsel of the Philadelphia Transit Co., who was in Davis’s car.
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International News Service
Washington
Meyer Davis
Liberty Today
Maryland
Davis
Baltimore-Washington Pike
Bernard Booker
Philadelphia Transit Co
Booker
Aimee McPherson Returns Home Under Guard
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson arrived in Los Angeles under special guard with her mother and children after a mysterious surf disappearance on May eighteen and a Mexico recovery. Guards escorted the train to avoid demonstrations amid rumored death threats directed at her and her mother Mrs Minnie Kennedy.
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International News Service
Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Ocean Park
Agua Prieta
Mexico
Evangelist
Minnie Kennedy
Two Local Women Return Soon To Liberia
Miss Ruth Bender of 804 Harbor Street and Miss Florence Brisbane of Lathrope Street sail in September for Liberia West Africa to resume teaching at a Mission school. Both are instructors who complete a two year furlough, having served three years in Liberia under the mission board.
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Ruth Bender
Harbor Street
Florence Brisbane
Lathrope Street
Liberia
West Africa
Miss Bender
Miss Brisbane
Mission Board
Fire Whistle And Bells To Greet Independence Week Signals
Mayor Dunlap authorized a committee to plan Independence Week in New Castle from June 28 to July 5. Rentz, chairman, urges daily flag display. At 11 am Monday June 28, George Rigby of Carnegie Steel Co. will sound the fire whistle and Chief Lynn arranges bells to ring 1-5-1 twice, marking the Declaration of Independence anniversary. The whistle will blow at the same signal.
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W. H. Dunlap
New Castle
Mr. Rentz
Thomas Jefferson
Continental Congress
George A. Rigby
Carnegie Steel Co
Charles Lynn
Mother Chloroforms Two Sons And Self
Mrs Martha Howard of Glen Brook Connecticut is in a Spring Lake New Jersey hospital in critical condition after attempting to kill her two sons Lawrence eight and George twelve by chloroform and then taking some herself. Police said she did so amid brooding over her life since the death of her brother.
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International News Service
Spring Lake
N. J
Martha Howard
Glen Brook
Court Declares Stewart Stays in Commission
Philadelphia June 26 Supreme Court Justice Schaffer ruled that John L Stewart public Service commissioner can continue in office after Gov Pinchot sought to oust him. The decision sustains Stewarts demurrer to a writ of ouster filed by the attorney general. The case arose after Pinchot failed to have the nomination sent to the Senate and the Senate confirmed Stewart.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Supreme Court
Schaffer
John L. Stewart
Public Service
Gifford Pinchot
Stewart
Commonwealth
Pinchot
Senate
Attorney General
Weather Whiplash in Spring as June Feels Like April
The speaker notes odd weather with June behaving like April. April saw drought and heat worrying farmers over blight and drought harming spuds and hay. Now past three weeks bring heavy rain, cooler temps, and a sense of summer delaying frost and pumpkins ripening.
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Marjorie Rambeau
Boy
Auto
Butler Man
Acci
Levin
Moravia ST
Enforcement Bureau
Rhode Island
W. J. Moulton
Providence
John J. Mulvaney
George ©. Hathaway
Padanaram
Charles Bennett
New Haven, Conn
Chester Frazier
Victor Doyno
Huron Ave
Shack
Drug Farmer
Able Land
Point Bar- Tow
Arizona
Aimee McPherson
Africa
West
Arthur Memeter
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