Fire sweeps Study Club in Detroit disaster
A fatal fire at the Study Club on Vernor Highway Detroit kills fifteen and injures over fifty. Patrons and workers crowded the first floor and stairway as flames cut off exits. many seek safety in a rear dressing room where several died or were trapped. Investigators find no incendiary link but blame draperies and decorations.
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Detroit
Mich
James McCube
Hanes
Marty Cohen
Robert Jackson
Ceremionies
Morni Cohen
Civcl
Vernor Highway
Woodward Avenue
Cluh
Lido
St. Mary's Hospital
Savor Hotel
Score
Zehaid
Savoy Hotel
Beatrice Heath
Study Club
George Buckingham
Flint
al Handler
Louis Kanta
Receiving Hospital
Rose
Rosie
Ochs
James
George W. Brown
Missing heiress Edith Wolfskill found dead near ranch
Fairfield California reports the body of Edith Wolfskill aged 65, heiress to an $800000 estate, was found near her ranch as investigators probe possible foul play and cause of death remains undetermined due to advanced decomposition. Private detectives and a Los Angeles trust officer pursued leads while a ranch search continued. A mistrial in a separate embezzlement case involved Mrs. Koehn and Mrs. Steuck after a jury member was subjected to inflammatory talk.
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Fairfield
Calif
Edith Wolfskill
John R Thornton
Donald Glashoff
Miss Wolfskill
Wolkskill
Los Angeles
Abe
Lake Curry
Miss. Wolfskill
Glashoff
Charles Koehn
School Street
C. M. Genal
Lorenz W. Sperling
Koehn
Reinhold L. Steuth
John F. Bluwin
Genal
Keefe
State of
JL. W. Hull
Girl Killed and Six Injured in Wisconsin Automobile Crash
A thirteen year old girl, Margaret Schneider, was killed when a car overturned after a collision on Highway 29 near Stanley Wisconsin. Six others were injured including Zita Mohr a school teacher and Patty Walter the driver. The occupants were taken to Chippewa Falls and Marinette hospitals with one seriously hurt and possibly fatally so.
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Stanley, Wis—i
Margaret Schneider
Joseph Walter
Melvin Patron
Chippewa Falls ‘Hospital
Cottrell
Marinette
Bad Boy Shires Ready to Repent If Given Chance
Art Shires of the White Sox, suspended for fighting with manager Lena Blackburne, is open to reconciliation as his fiance reveals. The major leagues were idle due to weather with Cubs and Giants off, and Brooklyn St Louis not playing because of wet grounds. Abe Mitchell won the Thousand Guineas professional title at Wentworth by 8 and 7 over P H Rodgers.
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Shires
Chicago—P
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Cubs
Giants
Wrigley Field
New York
Paseball
Art Shires
White Sox
Lena Blackburne
Lou Barbour
Wentworth
Eng
Pi Abe Mitchell
P. H. Rodgers
St Anne’s Old Club
Temperance Principle of Personal Value Highlighted by Hoover
President Hoover told the National Convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Indianapolis that too many rely on law to enforce abstinence. He urged the cause of temperance rests on individual conviction of personal value in all things.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hoover
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Presbyterian men’s rally draws 500 plus supporters in Milwaukee
More than 500 men from across Wisconsin are expected in Milwaukee on October 1 for a Presbyterian church rally. Principal speakers include Dr. John A. Acheson of Macalester College and Dr. William F. Weir of Chicago. Delegates will travel from numerous cities including Madison Racine Waukesha Fond du Lac Sheboygan Kenosha Janesville Beloit Portage Baraboo Reedsburg and Oregon.
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Milwaukee
The
Presbyterian Church
John A. Acheson
MacAlester College
St. Paul
Shipbuilders funded plan to send Shearer to Geneva conference
Clinton L. Bardo testified that three American shipbuilding firms paid William B. Shearer $25,000 to act as an observer at the 1927 Geneva naval limitations conference. He said the aim was to gauge effects on the U S shipbuilding industry and report proceedings not in newspapers.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Clinton L. Bardo
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
William
Shearer
Geneva
Bardo
New York
Hunter
F. P. Palen
Newport News Shipbuilding Corporation
S. W. Wakeman
Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Corporation
Robinson
Lindbergh’s Caribbean flight faces squalls to Cuba coast
Col Charles A. Lindbergh and Pan American Airways party land at Camaguey Cuba after leaving Havana at 12 17 pm amid heavy rain and isolated squalls. The party includes Mrs Lindbergh and officials. Jose Miguel Tarafa, son of a Cuban sugar magnate, joins as passenger. Lindbergh later proceeds to Santiago with a large crowd welcoming him at the field.
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Camaguey
Cuba
Charles A. Lindbergh
Santiago de Cuba
Dutch Guiana
Havana
Sylvester MacDowell
United Press
Lindbergh Mane
Pan-American Airways
Col
St Camaguey
Santiago
Lindbergh
U.P
Miami
Jose Miguel Tarafa
Glenn Curtiss
Lindberg
Caribbean
Central America
Julio Morales Cuello
Pres
Gerardo Machado
Rafael Sanchez Aballi
Hayti
Sylvester McDowell
Colonel Linbergh
South America
Florida Straits
Colonel Lindberth
Peacox Confession Lowers Murder Intent Claim
Detective testified that Earl Peacox did not intend to kill his wife, stating the confession described a fatal accident during a family row. The defender argued the omitted portion could affect the verdict in the first degree murder case.
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Peacox
Iain
Earl Peacox
Michael Silverstein
Mt. Vernon
Sidney Syme
Silverstein
White Plains
Bancorporation Named Defendant in Combine Suit
Tes Moines Iowa Bancorporation a Minneapolis financial institution was made defendant in a 4000 damage action alleging unlawful combination in restraint of town trade filed in Polk County District Court by A D Pugh attorney Des Moines.
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Tes Moines
Northwest Bancorporation
Financial Institution of Minneapolis
Polk County
A. D. Pugh
Des Moines
Chicago to Be Inland Port Connecting Great Lakes to Gulf
Conference of fifty western port representatives and Chicago officials urged rapid deep water links from the Great Lakes to the Hudson. New Orleans officials praised Chicago as freight hub and called for a nine foot channel between Chicago and St Louis. Leonor Loree proposed Army survey of Great Lakes to Hudson navigation to lock in public support.
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Chicago
New Orleans
United States
Cnicago
Tiley S. McChesney
Board of Commissioners
St. Louis
Lieut
Go. B. C. Allin
Naval Rese Aviation
Rockaway Beach
E. A. Albrecht
Milwaukee Harbor Board
Frank §. White
San Francisco
Hoover
Army
Great Lakes
Hudson River
Leonor F. Loree
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
Lake Erie
Mr. Loree
Tidewater
Loree
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence River
Lake St
Champlain
Champlain Canal
St. Lawrence
Eyewitnesses Recall Detroit Cabaret Fire Tragedy
Eyewitness accounts from Beatrice Heath George Buckingham and others describe the Detroit cabaret fire that killed sixteen and injured over fifty. Burned stairways trapped patrons as flames swept through private rooms and the dining area.
Hunters Decide To Obey Injunction In Trempealeau
In Trempealeau Wisconsin hunters suspend trespass on Delta Fish and Fur Farms land as a temporary injunction bars entry in the Mississippi bottoms. They have twenty days to file an answer. absence will make the order permanent.
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Trempealeeau
Enhusia
Trempealeau Marsh
Delta Fish and Fur Farms, Inc
Mississippi
Weather notes show a warm, cloudy spell across regions
The report from the Daily Northwestern notes a fair to partly cloudy pattern with gradually rising temperatures. Winds come from the southeast across Upper Lakes and Michigan, with no precipitation and a low of 32.
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IBS
Associated Press
Wiscnsin
Sonth
Upper Lakes
Michigan
Superior
Upper Michigan
Northwestern
Census reveals cotton spindle hours for August report
The census shows August cotton spindle hours reaching 128,928,914, a drop from July's 1,744,243,369. The release highlights overall production activity and compares monthly totals.
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Washington
Tea
Wisconsin Legislature Ends Long Session with Reforms
The Fifty-ninth Wisconsin Legislature adjourned after 255 days, establishing a state budget system and a salaried highway commission. It repealed the state dry law while keeping blue laws, authorized a new state office building and a convalescent hospital in Madison, and vetoed an income tax bill though some utilities faced tax imposition. Governor Kohler faced opposition from Progressive leaders amid a court ouster bid over campaign expenditures.
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Willard R. Smith
United Press
Madison
Wis
Fings
Wisconsin
State Highway Commission
Walter J. Kohler
Prohibition Enforcement Department
Koller
la Follette Frogressives
Asconsin Supreme Court
Hints of murder woven into Clark County fire case
Neillsville Wis P hints of murder and incendiarism colored the Clark County death of a 31 year old farm worker. A coroner jury ruled Peter Probus died from fire of unknown origin at his employer’s Thorp area farm last Tuesday night.
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Neillsville
Wis
Clark County
Peter Prokus
Tronwood Mich
Thorp
Probus
Atorney Victor Mehs
Frank Penesrz
Kentucky Textbook Case Set for Oct 2
Frankfort Ky Trial of Governor Flem D Sampson on a charge of receiving gifts from publishers of textbooks seeking adoption for state use was set for Oct 2 by Circuit Judge Rena Williams.
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Frankfort
Flem. D. Sampson
Rena Wiilliams
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