Old Timers Recall Oshkosh Yacht Club History and Clubhouse
Old timers and early sailors recount Oshkosh Yacht Club history from the Washington boulevard site to the 1908 clubhouse. The city bought and sold the lot, with memories of Homecoming celebrations, 10,000 lakefront attendees, and shifts in yacht racing from river starts to the new clubhouse.
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Yacht Club
Oshkosh Yacht Club
Washington Boulevard
Richard Harney
Harney
H. A. W. Tabor
Colorado
Peter McCourt
Mr. Harney
Senator
Tabor
William Waters
Lake Front
Oshkosh
Inland Lakes Yachling Association
Omaha
Leander Choate
Jake
Lantport Place
Captured After 80 Mile Chase On Highway 47
Fond du Lac Wisconsin report describes a high speed pursuit on Highway 47 ending with the suspect captured after careening along the road. The chase involved reckless driving, passing traffic and a police motorcycle forced into a ditch, with relatives alerting officers to guard the man.
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Fond du Lac
Wi Lens
Child's Plea Wins Father's Reprieve
A 10 year old child pleads to governor Tara Jackwood to spare O B S Howell of Siumter. The plea secures 20 more days to live after a death sentence in Aewera peRRhLHVE is stayed.
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Columbia
Tara Jackwood
Ife
O. B.S. Howell
Siumter
Howell
Aewera Perrhlhve
Clemency Plea Shifts Executions Schedule for Howell
Howell, a filling station operator, is to be executed in the electric chair on April 8. His daughter Gladys visited the governor pleading for clemency, asking for life for her father. The governor granted a reprieve, delaying the sentence until April 2.
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E. Hart Willams
Howell
Gladys
Peniventary
Hoover Says Small Savings Cannot Balance Budget
President Hoover argued that even with cuts totaling about 1.3 billion for post office and other measures, the 4.1 billion dollar budget cannot be trimmed enough to avoid higher taxes. He urged the public to support Congress in tightening receipts and expenditures while warning that deficits loom and sacrifice is needed to fund government and defense.
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Washington
Roever
Congress
Borah
Idaho
House
Tiis
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Deserted wife must choose between husband and lover
Rita M Johnston 24 elopes from Missouri with M A Metger 32 to Rockford. She decides to return to her legal husband Frank P Johnston after six days apart, while Metger remains jailed. Johnston arrives after wife’s arrest and waits outside the prosecutor’s office as the case plays out.
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Rockford. TH
u.Pl
Rita M. Johnston
Frank P. Johnston
St. Louis
Desert M. A. Metger
Rockford
Metger
Missouri City
Johnston
St. Loui
William D. Knight
St. Lonaum
New York Democrats to Speak From Milwaukee Broadcast
The New York chairman of the Democrats will address delegates and national figures via WTMJ in Milwaukee. The broadcast, set to begin at a specified time, will connect New York with the convention scene and major party discussions.
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New York
WTMJ
A. D. Roosevelt Demecse
Val Br
AL MJ
Milwaukes
Slander suit filed in Oaks case against Rettack and Oaks
LaVern Rettack former policeman sues George F. Oaks councilman for $10,000 alleging defaming his name with statements made December 26 1931 in a Sixth Street soft drink parlor. Oaks previously faced a criminal slander charge pled nolo contendere with a $15 fine.
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LaVern Rettack
George F. Oaks
D. K. Allen
Retzack
Northwestern
Mr Oaks
Herman Steckbaum
Sixth Street
Brough
Gaks
Rebza
Police and Fire Commission
Oaks
Police and Fire Board
Crusading Minister Acquitted of Murder Charge in Fla Raid
In Palatka Florida Reverend Earl H McGaha a crusading Christian minister was acquitted of a first degree murder charge in the fatal Christmas Eve raid on a still in which Joan W Malone was killed Jurors had just received the case after a prior hung verdict The minister had faced manslaughter charges before a coroner s inquest and grand jury indictment He testified that his gun discharged accidentally when he tripped during the raid
Mural hints time when judge lent $500 to Sholes
Judge John C. Karel recalls a Milwaukee mural showing Christopher Latham Sholes handing a typewriter to a woman, symbolizing a loan of $500 in 1889 that Sholes used to perfect the invention. The mural notes Sholes later lost the claim in patent battles and the judge’s money vanished.
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Milwaukee
John C. Karel
Milwaukee County
Harel
Sholes
Karel
Unemployed man declines Bible reading offer weekly
Washington untitled Dr. Frederic F. Walter an unemployment protester declined a church offer of ten dollars a week to read the Bible cover to cover with potential for a future income of six hundred dollars per year. The case centers on his stance against accepting paid religious duties while seeking steady work.
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Washington-Tur
Frederic F. Walter
Hutter
Wolke
Dass
Beaten Inventor of Formula Faces Severe Scrutiny
A garbled report describes an asserted inventor of a formula being beaten and robbed of a fee. The incident left the claimant unconscious near Los Angeles, with Mrs Otis Hood present and authorities investigating the hazy events surrounding the home.
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Angeles
Otis Hood
Brent
Tod
Woman Hitch-Hiker Ill in Minneapolis Hospital
A woman described as a hitch-hiker named Tha Jen sen, of Minneapolis, is hospitalized and receiving care as authorities work to communicate with her. Witnesses say she gave an address and claimed employment in Minnesota, stating she had been in a Sanatorium in New Mexico for four months and was returning.
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Hitch-Niker
Tha Jensen
Minneapolis
Csi
New Mexico
Norfolk Intermediaries in Lindbergh Baby Case
Norfolk negotiators and police pressed for safe return of Charles A Lindbergh Jr as investigators tracked leads on Harry Fleischer and Abie Wagner. A Norfolk minister and two intermediaries urged secrecy while pursuing negotiations amid reports of a possible contact in Hopewell New Jersey.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Police
S. W. Tronmonger
Is Department
Leon Nowitzky
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
H. Dobson-Peacock
Guy H. Burrage
John Hughes
New Jersey
Lindbergh
Washington
Hopewell
Harry Fleischer
Detroit Purple Gang
Washington Street
Fleischer
Greoup
Trey
N. J
H. Norman Schnkopf
Abie Wagner
Central
Neviv
Col
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Schwarzkopf
House votes excise taxes on oil and coal
The House debated amendments to a revenue bill adding excise taxes on lubricating oil grape concentrates wort malt and malt syrup and proposed import taxes on matches and coal. Seiberling's amendment to tax matches was withdrawn while Boland proposed 10 cents per 100 pounds on anthracite and bituminous coal. Leaders urged restraint as agreement was reached to proceed.
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Ley
Crisp
Seiberling
Republican
Ohio
Russia
Sweden
Sways and Means
Boland
Pennsylvania
Representative Linthicum
Maryland
Linthicum
Bell County
New York University
Columbia
Harvard
Colby
University of Cincinnati
Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati
Rabbi David
Max Eichorn
Hebrew College
Parsons
Llinois
Hawley
Oreron
Ways and
la Guardia
New York
House
Michener
Michigan
Rainey
Fulmer
South Carolina
Rankin
Mississippi
Georgia
Middlesboro hearing on peace bonds for students ends early
Attorney Smith says failure to post peace bonds could mean jail or immediate return to Tennessee for safety. Most students leave voluntarily after a tense courtroom scene. one girl departs with officials. Crowd of 200 in Cumberland Gap disrupts hearing, moved to Middlesboro where lawyers are sought. Students, including Gabriel Carvitt and Margaret Bailey, paid their own way. professors assisted. Carritt alleges deputy rough handling of a girl. Hall spokesman Pauline Daum says students wish to stay, but law forces bus departure as drivers start the meter.
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Smith
Middlesboro
Tennessee
Cumberland Gap
John
RB. Neil
Covington
Neil
Gabriel Carvitt
Columbia
E. FP. Carvitt
Oxford
Margaret Bailey
Forrest Bailey
American Civil Liberties Union
Bob Hal
Carritt
Pauline Daum
Hall
Speaker says half of Wisconsinites stay away from polls
In La Crosse Wisconsin Mrs Agnes Charbonneau of Superior candidate for delegate at large to the national convention told a Thursday night audience that one half of the states citizens do not vote and that such nonparticipation hurts the Republican party She likened a nonvoting mother to a mother neglecting her children and urged residents to vote for the sake of jobs homes and the future of Wisconsin.
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la Crosse
Wis
Wisconsin
Agnes Charbonneau
Superior
Amendment Vote to Decide Retention of Beverage Taxes
A 2:45 PM vote will determine if oil wort grape concentrates and malt syrup taxes remain in the bill. The outcome will affect tax provisions within the proposed legislation.
Armistice Dickerings Near Break over Japanese terms
Disputed armistice talks at Canton show a nationalist committee of 20 urging continued armed resistance to Japanese terms, vowing a united front nationwide. Meanwhile Moscow shifts technicians east to bolster far eastern defenses amid frontier strengthening. Japan threatens withdrawal from the League of Nations if pressured on Shanghai and Manchuria, with requests to delay any decision until the League commission reports.
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Canton
Nanking
Kuo-Min
Chen Chi Tang
Li Tsung Jen
Pai Chung Hsai
Russia
Eugene Lyons
United Press
Moscow
Soviet Far East
Izvestia
League
Miles W. Vaughn
Tokio
Japan
League of Nations
Shanghai
Eric Drummond
Naotake Sato
Geneva
China
Manchuria
Eric
Nagaoka
Paris
League Council
League of Nations Investigating Commission
League Commission
Far East
Burglar Rings "Paid Out" At Home Park Grocery
A burglar who took $6.38 from the Home Park grocery cash register Friday listed the deduction on the machine as paid out. The incident reads as a simple theft in a local storefront, with no further details on suspect or motive given in the readable text.
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Waterloo
Home Park
Oshkosh to Join Christian World in Songs of Rejoicing
Oshkosh with 50 churches prepares Easter Sunday observances as services abound from sunrise to evening. Catholic masses run morning, joint Knights Templar service at 3 pm at First Evangelical, Lutherans and Methodists plan cantatas and pageants in multiple churches, with hundreds expected and city population around 40 000 drawn to church.
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Oshkosh
Christ
First English Lutheran Church
St. John’s
Tenth Street Methodist
Trinity Lutheran
First Baptist
Plymouth Congregational
Jackson Drive
Bethlehem Lutheran
Algoma Methodist
Peace Lutheran
First Methodist
St. Pehn’s Tutheran Church
Fond du Lac
Knights Templar
First Evangelical Church
Lyndon Glyde Viel
Jamaica Ginger Case Convicts New York Distributor
Abraham Michaels of New York, head of the Interstate Drug Company, was found guilty on two counts by a federal jury in Wichita. The Jamaica ginger extract case targets wholesale distribution for beverage use, blamed for paralysis cases two years ago. Sentencing scheduled. several retailers already serving sentences. motions for new trial filed.
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Wichita
Kan i
Kansas
Abraham Michaels
New York
Interstate Drug Company
Southwest
Richard J. Hopkins
Child Dies After Auto Crash Near Oostburg
In Sheboygan county 6 year old Nalda Deblacy of Oostburg died in a hospital from injuries suffered when struck by a car driven by Hazel Joslin Cedarburg a school teacher at Amsterdam. The driver reported the accident and was not held. No inquest is planned.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Nelda Deblacy
Elmer Deblacy
Oostburg
Hazel Joslin Cedarburg
Amsterdam
Short Ernest S. Zehms
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Guenther
Darsey Krew
Ana Arthur
Charles Haverland
Peart
Clifford Rossey
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Haltivcare
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United Press Staff
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