Indian Brave Halts Wheels Of Court To Borrow Half a Dollar
In Dalles Oregon a Warm Springs Indian named Indian Spencer halted a court session by asking Judge Fred W. Wilson to lend a half dollar. The courtroom scene drew laughter as the judge permitted the borrowing, calling it a family affair. The incident interrupted a bootlegging case where District Attorney Frances V. Galloway was presenting the opening.
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Dalles
Gre
Fred W. Wilson
Frances V. Gallaway
Spencer
Warm Springs Reservation
Fred Wilson
Wilson
State of
Oregon
Galloway
Fred
Mr. Galloway
Jodge Wilson
Manual Training Is Eliminated In All Sixth Grades
The city school system will stop teaching manual training and domestic science in sixth grade across elementary buildings including Oak Street Lincoln and Garfield. Rooms previously used for these subjects will be repurposed for regular elementary work. These subjects will be taught only at the Benjamin Franklin junior high school starting next year as first year manual training and domestic science move to seventh grade to centralize the program.
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Oakstreet
Lincoln
Garfield
Benjamin Franklin
Wampum News items note improving patient and local visits
Wampum News reports Mrs. W. H. Henry improving at West Penn Hospital after surgery in Pittsburgh. The column lists numerous local visits and travel: Wiss Blanche Allen heads to Chicago then Jackson Michigan to see Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Neumann, sister of Miss Allen. Many residents travel to Pittsburgh or Beaver Falls and Ellwood City, with calls from D. M. McDonald and families, Mrs. Hoover of St. Cloud Florida visiting relatives, and others from Monigntown, Palestine, Mahoningtown, and New Castle visiting kin or returning from trips.
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W. H. Henry
West Penn Hospital
Pittsburgh
Wiss Blanche Allen
Chicago
Jackson
Michigan
Wampum
H. L. Davis
Lee Roy
D. M. McDonald
New Castle
W. F. Vegeler
William
J. Hoover
St. Cloud
Fla
M. Stapf
E. T. Algiar
Beaver Falls
Frank Inks
Crafton
P. Robertson
Ww. F. Vogeler
Margarets
Dorothy
W. H. Grinnen
Eleanor
Youngstown
Frank Gibson
Paul
Mahoningtown
Gibson
Robert Freed
Lee Guitdoo
Ellwood City
C. L. Repman
Jardsburg
A. P. Vance
Henry
George Tys
Robert
Robert *Reed, Jr
Bobby
Moningtown
Canadian Prisoner to Receive Forty Lashes
Ernest Marthy, a 23 year old prisoner sentenced to ten years at Sandwich Ontario, will endure forty lashes. Judge Coughtin decreed twenty lashes upon arrival at the prison and twenty more upon departure. The whipping will be given on the bare back with twelve leather thongs. Marthy was convicted of a brutal assault on Henry Aillie, 65, a farmer.
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International News Service
Detroit
Jime
Ernest Marthy
Sandwich
Ont
Canada
Coughtin
Martin
Twanty
Henry Aillie
Frew Furniture Co Advance July Clearance Sale
Frew Furniture Co announces an advance July clearance sale with prices cut to the core. Consumers are warned of substantial savings on a variety of Buf feu styles as every price is reduced.
Radio Warnings Save Ships From Bay of Bengal Cyclone
In Calcutta on June 28 wireless records traced the approach of a Bay of Bengal cyclone. Observations at the Calcutta sea observatory and Fort William wired broadcasts sent warnings every three hours. Eight large ships diverted, and 450 wireless stations in Bengal picked up the news of the storm, one of the worst known in the bay.
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Calcutta
Bay of Bengal
Selamograph Observvatory
Fort William
Bengal
Weather at Fort Blair Described by Record Rain and Wind
A fragment notes eight inches of rain at Fort Blair and an average wind velocity around 100 miles per hour. It provides no date or broader context but conveys extreme storm conditions and localized impact.
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Fort Blair
Boston mayor offers $500 prize for street cleaning plan
Boston Mayor Curley announces a 500 prize for the best technical plan on cleaning streets and collecting garbage and ashes. The contest is open to Massachusetts Institute of Technology students and is aimed at a procedural shift from contract labor versus city forces, with essays submitted to Budget Commissioner Chan J. Fox.
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Boston
International News Service
Mass
Curley
Currey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chan. J. Fox
Irish Free State Fate Hangs In Balance
Dublin dispatch notes the Irish Free State’s fate in question as Provisional leaders hold urgent talks. Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith meet to plan steps to safeguard Irish freedom amid ongoing negotiations and uncertain outcome.
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Irish Free State
Cinternational News Service
Dublin
Michael Collins
Clance
Arthur Griffith
Money appropriated for Moon Explorer at Clark University
Worcester Mass June 28 The trustees of Clark University have voted a special appropriation in order that Professor Robert H Gad
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International News Service
Worcester
Mass
Clark University
Robert H. Gad
Goddard’s Moon Rocket Aims at Moon Reach
Professor Goddard and his Moon Rocket attract nationwide attention as he plans to extend his work exploring the uppermost versions of the air and hopes to reach the moon with his invention.
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Ddard
Professor Goddard
Bordeaux mixture used as bug killer in potato fields
Washington report says the potato leafhopper pest threatens crops but Bordeaux mixture, after two years of study by the department of agriculture, can repel the leafhopper and prevent hopperburn as a preventive remedy. The official noted that this chemical control offers a remedy for crop protection.
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International News Service
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Copperheads Are Friendly Visitors Near Weatherly
Weatherly Pa June 25 P Rice superintendent Tidewater Pipe Line company and wife near Penn Haven report daily visits by snakes. The reptiles include copperheads rattlers and boas of large size attracted by fresh paint on the Rice home and nearby railroad bridges. The Rices are unfazed noting snakes cross the kitchen floor without incident. Recent visits include a large copperhead two blue-neck snakes about five and six feet long and a rattler with ten rattles.
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Weatherly. Pa
P. Rice
Tidewater Pipe Line Company
Penn Haven
Lehigh Valley
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Wampum News
Frew Furniture Co
Pri
Kroehler
Daven-O
Coolmor
Copperheads
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