Temple School and church events highlight town week
Brother Foulon preached at Fairman Baptist church most of the week while another minister filled in. Sunday School at Temple drew about 40 and 28 attended at another site. A surprise basket banquet for Miss Stella Meyers occurred at Temple School with nearly forty present. The slate of local visits included Eunice Snyder, Opal Belcher, Nora Bradford, and others as families connected through Will Snyder, Mat Belcher, and Russell Collins. The bill by Rep. Rollo Robbins to amend the motor vehicle act to allow plates showing truck weight was passed by the House.
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Brother Foulon
Fairman Baptist Church
Charley Pugh
Will Snyder
Anna Wickersham
Mat Belcher
Vandalia
Jake Bowen
Eunice Snyder
Opal Belcher
Nora Bradford
Temple
Doris
Dorothy
Eunice Gerrish
Mary Ella Collins
Wisher School
Mr. Foulon
Eunice
Temple School
Stella Meyers
Miss Meyers
Russell Collins
Emily Sunday
Wm. Gersh
Charley Bopp
Will Cavins
Ed Belcher
House
Rollo R. Robbins
Augusta
Secretary of State
Hoover orders scrutiny of federal appointments reshuffles
President Hoover declares strict fitness testing for all federal applicants and denounces Republican organizations in Mississippi South Carolina and Georgia. He vows to replace corrupt leadership with trusted Republicans and to require advisory committees in several states to oversee appointments.
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Hoover
Mississippi
South Carolina
Georgia
Texas
Alabama
Florida
Brookhart Committee
Senate
White House
Post Office
Republican Party
South
Arkansas
Louisiana
Wall Street Stock Market Plunges Then Recovers
AVeritable earthquake hit the stock market early in the week as call money rose to 14 percent triggering a first class money scare. The market crashed with frightened traders selling at any price. When call money hit 20 percent, the highest since 1920, records and bank accounts were smashed before bargain hunters and institutions drove a partial recovery.
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New York
National City Bank
Exchange
J. B Morgan
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve
Call Money
Wall Street
Hoover appoints Gilchrist and Fuqua to lead chemical warfare and infantry
President Hoover names Col. Henry L. Gilchrist to head the chemical warfare service and Col. Stephen d. Fuqua to lead infantry, succeeding Maj. Gen. Fries and Maj. Gen. Allen as their terms expire. Both Fries and Allen revert to colonels and may retire as major generals on age or application. The picks, ranking as major generals for four years, follow a rotation policy praised by Secretary Good.
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Hoover
Henry L. Gilchrist
Medical Corps
Amos B. Fries
Chemical Warfare Service
Stephen d. Fuqua
Robert H. Allen
Infantry
Fries
General Allen
Gilchrist
Fuqua
Good
Airplane disaster claims pilot and three as foggy crash near Mount Gretna
A Ryan monoplane flying from Columbus to New York crashed into a tree in dense fog on South Mountain between Colebrook and Mount Gretna, Pa. The pilot and three passengers died. witnesses described a waver, a roll, and a plunge into thickets as Pennsylvanian National Guard crews arrived.
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Ryan
Columbus
New York
South Mountain
Colebrook
Mount Gretna
Pennsylvania National Guard
Reparations Conference Discusses Figures in Paria
iE preliminary work of the rep arations commission in Paria has been completed and the conference has settled down to a discussion of the actual problem of figures. Chairman Owen D Young said the work of the committee had reached a point where we must consider figures before proceeding further in order to.
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Paria
Owen D. Young
Short Monaco revolt ends with royal repeal of elections decree
A 25 minute comic opera style revolt in Monaco saw 600 citizens march on the Prince Louis castle and force abdication of decrees including the cancellation of municipal elections. They celebrated later in a cafe.
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Principality of
Monaco
Prince Louis
Louis
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