Earthquake devastates Palestine region. relief efforts mobilized
A massive earthquake in Palestine and Transjordan kills thousands and injures many more while destroying towns from Nablus to Amman. Rescue aid by British aviators and organized relief work follows as Pope Pius XII signals support.
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Edward. W. Pickard Andreds
Palestine
Transjordania
Jerusalem
Hebrew University
Dome of the Rock
Mount of Olive
Jericho
Winter Palace
Trans- Jordania
Pope Pius
Victoria
Gottleuba
Muglitz
Elbe
Saxony
Red Cross
Reichsbanner
Alps
Italy
Irish Free State minister murdered near Dublin church
EYIN CHRISTOPHER O HIG GINS vice president of the Irish Free State and minister for Justice was assassinated as he rode to a church in Booterstown Dublin. Three gunmen fired into his car and he died hours later after murmuring a farewell and forgiveness. Authorities arrested ten men linked to irregular groups.
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Eyin
Christopher O'Higgins
Irish Free State
Booterstown
Dublin
O'Higgins
Collins
Ireland
Free State
Cosgrave
King George
Duke of Abercorn
Northern Ireland
Warnon de Valera
George Plungett
Farmers Back McNary Haugen Bill With Revisions Urged
Delegates from 15 Midwestern states attending the Northwest farm conference in St. Paul voted to support the McNary Haugen farm relief bill until it becomes law but urged revisions to meet President Coolidge's objections. drafted by Congressman Charles Brand of Ohio, the resolutions call for the President to appoint the federal board nominees and for broader product coverage beyond the five named in the vetoed bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Coolidge
Charles Brand
Ohio
Federal Board
Western stock co op plan eyed for cattle trade
Representatives of the Western Stock Marketing association outlined a plan to extend cooperative marketing to cattle and seek government aid. The idea would hold cattle for price thresholds, pressure packers to bargain on ranches rather than Omaha and Chicago markets.
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Coolidge
Western Stock Marketing Association
California
Omaha
Chicago
White House
National Women’s Party
Colorado Springs
North Dakota
Polish marshal dissolves senate in coup to restore dictatorship
Marshal Pilsudski has sent troops into the senate and ordered its dissolution after it failed to pass laws without debate. He had tried a democratic rule for ten months but returned to absolute dictatorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Cromwell
Pilsudsky
Poland
Senate
Pilsudski
Prohibition Chief Warns Doctors and Druggists on Liquor Sales
Commissioner Doran told district officials in Washington that physicians and retail druggists must not be harassed in medicinal liquor sales. He said enforcement agents should not practice medicine or pharmacy and doctors and druggists deserve chance to explain irregularities before permit actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doran
Washington
Ford Libel Suits Hinge on Ford Apology
The fate of two 1 million libel suits against Henry Ford rests on his public retraction and apology for anti Jewish articles in the Dearborn Independent. Aaron Sapiro said settlement talks were under way. In Washington a mass Jewish meeting urged acceptance, but a majority chose to wait to see if Ford acts as he spoke.
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Man
Ford
Admiralty
United States
America
England
Japan
Gibson
Washington
Bridgeman
Viscount Saito
Mr. Gibson
Hether
Henry Ford
Dearborn Independent
Aaron Sapiro
Dean of American stage dies in San Francisco at 73
Andrew’s death in San Francisco brings nationwide regret as the dean of American theater, renowned for clean intelligent acting and dedication to public entertainment, passes at seventy three. Gregory Kelly, another popular actor, dies in New York after months of illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohndrew
San Francisco
Gregory Kelly
New York
Anti-Saloon League Aims to Sweep Prohibition Candidates
Scott M'Bride general superintendent declares the Anti-Saloon League will work to elect a bone dry congress next year. He notes constitutional lawyers doubt any Volstead Act modification would withstand the Supreme Court. The 1928 campaign will target all districts, opposing nonfriendly and backing prohibition allies to the full extent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott M’bride
Anti-Saloon League
Supreme Court of the United States
Candates
Illinois News Nuggets Span Crime Fire and Church Moves
A roundup from Rockford to Danville reports a Hayload fall fatality and a Rock Island arsenal fire that destroyed a hay occupied stable. Other items note a bank official killed near Galesburg, a Milan tragedy, clergy appointments in Urbana Dresden and Dixon, a nurse fatality from a dog bite, and tax worries in DuPage County. The report also mentions horse pulling contests, church ethics committees, and academic scholarships at the University of Illinois.
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Jacob Margason
Rockford
Mary Blake
Buda
Dale Monson
Galesburg National Bank
Galesburg
James G. Grosswhite
Milan
Grosswhite
Dan D. Beckwith
Danville
United States
St. Louis
Beckwith
Dan
Illinois
E. T. Robbins
University of Illinois
Rock Island Arsenal
John Mitchell Page
University Episcopal Church
Urbana
Dresden
Germany
Lev
Morton Stone
Beverly Hill
Chicago
National Soldiers
James Mangle
Mangle
Milton A. Becker
Dixon
Miller
Lee County
W. A. Stover
Springfield
Becker
DuPage County
Board of Review
Nicholas W. Lies
Evanston
Evanston Home Owners’ Protective Association, Electing HH. C. Taylor
Century Club
Too Sheridan Road
Chicago Methodist Ministers
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals
Washington
Rock River
Ilinois
Tinois
Lexington
College of Law
A. J. Harn
Robert V. Baker
Oak Park
Warren W. Kriebel
Champaign
Paul H. Ferguson
Willow Hill
Bernita Long
Canton
Vaille Dry
Freeport
Orville Foreman
East Alton
Casil H. Friedman
Herbert
Kamin
Peoria
Cowboys Become Farmers in Changing Western Economy
Novelist Mary I Roberts Rhinehart argues in her book Lost Ecstasy that the traditional cowman faces a losing struggle against restricted range, sheep numbers, and economic shifts. She notes rising eastern beef demand and Midwestern grain sales push cowmen toward farm work, clerking, or truck driving as the old cattle era ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mary I Roberts Rhinehart
Middle West
Wyoming
Montana
Chicago
Idahonea Twin Buttes Cave Explored as Largest in U S
Exploration of what may be the nation s largest lava cave begins at Twin Buttes west of Idaho Falls. Boy scouts and the Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce lead the expedition into a vast lava tunnel with dramatic rock formations. If confirmed, the cave would boost southeastern Idaho as a premier scenic and natural wonder site larger than Mammoth Cave.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
United States
Twin Buttes
Boy Scouts of
Nature
Kentucky
Mammoth Cave
Oregon
Columbia River
Town Limits Oil Wells to Save Its Buildings
Oxford Kan. A city council ordinance caps drilling to one well per city block to protect structures. Property owners receive prorated royalties based on their block square footage if production occurs. A feverish oil boom led to leases on nearly all private property, with the opera house torn down and wells begun, prompting the halt.
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Oxford
Kan
Opera House
Apell
Australian Bushmen Face Vanishing Population
A Sydney Commerce Department report notes the Australian bushmen near extinction with a death rate of five per 100 annually. A recent census tallies 52,296 individuals, highlighting rapid cultural and demographic decline.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Sydney
Illinois Weekly Industrial Review highlights major plans and projects
Entries list large capital works across Illinois towns including Watseka 38000 for courthouse expansion Litchfield paving Hardin bridge over Illinois River Trawrenceville cornerstone United Brethren Church Windsor new water system Abingdon Clay Products plant O Fallon streets Lake Geneva theater Richmond hotel improvements Morton Grove paving and permits 35900 Litchfield gas mains Genese electric gas compressor Eldorado Route 1 paving Blandinsville Main Street paving Bloomington deep well water system Soldiers Orphans Home Cairo downtown street work Blue Island Rock Island Railroad track upgrades Alton new highway to Greenville
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Watseka
Iroquois County
Litchfield
Springfield
Hardin
Illinois River
Trawrenceville
New United Brethrens Church
Windsor
Abingdon—Clay Products Company
O’fallon
Lake Geneva
Richmond
Morton Grove
Hillsboro
Genese
Eldorado
Harrisburg
Blandinsville
Bloomington
Bear Creek Milk and Local Family Notices
Milk ad offers guaranteed fly spray at 70 cents per gallon. Community notices report several family visits and gatherings including Chriss and family, Ballance and kin, Payne newborn daughter born July 17, and Velma and Beulah Jones visiting grandparents. Shumway relays news that Paul Burness, Albert Brown’s son-in-law, broke his leg playing ball Sunday.
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Smith & Crawford Hdn
Vernon
Wm. Chriss
Col Chriss
Radford
Chriss
Ed Chriss
Jasper Benefiel
Chas. Ballance
Cora
Stephen
Edw
Payne
Frank Lake
Amon Sterling
Velma
Beulah Jones
Iowa
Shumway
Paul Burness
Albert Brown
Lesson-Sermon Theme in Christian Science Churches on July 17
The weekly Lesson-Sermon centered on LIFE from the Bible and Science and Health. It cites Proverbs 16 22 and Matthew 6 24 25 urging reliance on divine Life over material care. The text argues true freedom comes from spiritual understanding not controlled by bodily needs.
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Christ
Mary Baker Eddy
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Pacific
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Stanford University
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James T. Shotwell
Columbia University
Robert Dollar
Dollar StA&mship Company
Carrie Chapman Catt
Stephen P. Duggan
Institute of International Education
Edward J. Hanna
Geneva
Great Britain
W. G Bridge
Lowden
Wisconsin
Dixon Bible Conference Group
G. Campbell Morgan
London
W. L. Waldorf
Clarence HM. Massee
Heston
Daniel B. Poling
New York City
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Fairmount
Resno
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