Valentine Day Massacre remember as Chicago gang war hits
On February 14, 1929, seven Moran gang members and associate Dr. Rinehart Schwimmer were murdered in a North Side Chicago garage. Four attackers in police attire executed the line of victims with machine gun fire, while lookouts warned Moran’s rivals. Seven men died, including Frank Gusenberg who succumbed later in hospital.
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Chicago
St.Valentine’s Day
Scarface
al Capone
George
Bugs) Moran
Moran
Rinehart Schwimmer
Pete Gusenberg
Johnny May
James Clark
Adam Hyer
Albert Weinshank
Dr. Schwimmer
Frank Gusenberg
Pete
Link Between Science and Religion and the Christian Science Textbook
The piece argues that science and religion converge through the Christian Science textbook SCIENCE and HEALTH, presenting it as proof of life’s solutions through reason and revelation. It notes public reading rooms offering free study of the Bible and Eddy works, with a coupon for purchase.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Education costs surge in Arizona over decade
The 10-year period saw school operating costs rise 225 percent from 1939-40 to 1948-49, with elementary teachers earning about 130 percent more and high school teachers about 150 percent more. Enrollment grew 39 percent, boosting per student costs, while university funding also tripled. Analysts cite higher wages, fixed costs, inflation, and construction as key factors.
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M. L. Brooks
State Department of Public Instruction
Arizona Education Association
Arizona
Safford Elects Seven Town Councilmen
Safford sets April 18 for a primary to choose seven Common Council members. Voters must register by April 7 and check registration status at the Town Hall. Nomination petitions are due March 7 and require a financial agent named at filing.
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Safford
Common Council
Gunmen Use Death Valley As Hideout
FBI agents and sheriff's deputies pursue two young marines identified as Murray Cretz and Douglas Bright after holdups in Tonopah and Santa Paula. The pair deserted posts at Camp Matthews, seized firearms, and fled west with a 1949 sedan, leaving another car behind.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Death Valley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sheriff
Murray Cretz
Brooklyn
N. Y
Douglas E. Bright
Nederland
Tex
Tonopah
James Udal
Bishop
Walter E. Moore
Reno
Patrice Ramirez
Santa Paula
Calif
Camp Matthews
Bates and Russell in Sixth District special election
In Haverhill Massachusetts voters head to the polls for a Sixth Congressional District special election to replace the late George L Bates. Naval Lt Commander William H Bates Republican and former Cambridge Mayor Richard M Russell Democrat vie to succeed the patriarchs of their families amid high profile party involvement. United States cotton production has shifted west with Texas Arizona and California now producing nearly half the crop.
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Haverhill
Mass
William H. Bates
Cambridge
Richard M. Russell
Bates
United States
George L. Bates
Washington
Russell
William E. Russell
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
Leverett Saltonstall
Martin
Tobin
Dever
Texas
Arizona
California
Safford Plans Sewer Action
Safford prepares a public sewer expansion plan affecting unserved original corporate limits and recently annexed districts. A 33 000 foot main, disposal line, and $2.40 per foot plus $42 connection costs total about 114 117 dollars, with protests due 15 days after tomorrow.
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Phoenix Gazette Safford
Graham County
Phoenix Engineering
Headman, Ferguson and Carollo
A. J. Kline
Graham County Electrical Co-op elects trio to board
At the Graham County Electrical Co-op annual meeting in Thatcher on February 14 W B Mattice of Pima William M Webster of Central and C P Gould of Safford won three year terms on the board Gould and Mattice were re elected More than 400 members heard William Ricketts field representative on applications and loans speak on rural telephone and Dan Jones field representative on electricity on the farm both from Washington De
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Phoenix Gazette
Thatcher
W. B. Mattice
Pima
William M. Webster
Central
C. P. Gould
Safford
Graham County Electrical Co-op
Gould
Mattice
William Ricketts
Dan Jones
Washington
Two Dead As Cars Crash On Highways
Arizona traffic toll rises to 47 for 1950 with two fatal crashes. Grace Nelson 43 of Chandler died from a broken neck after a Baseline Road crash west of 16th Street. William Graham Olsen 44 of Los Angeles, Arden Farms chief engineer, died from head injuries when his coupe struck a parked truck south of Tucson.
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Arizona
Grace Nelson
Colorado Street
Chandler
William Graham Olsen
Los Angeles
Arden Farms Company
Arizona Highway Patrol
Neon
16Th Street
Baseline Road
Lester Sanford
Arizona Hardware Company
Nelson
Sanford
Olsen
Tucson
Property sales rise in Graham County records
SAFFORD Feb. 14 The Graham County Recorder's office reported January fees totaling 294.10. The office recorded 257 instruments including 66 real estate deeds 16 realty mortgages 42 sales contracts 13 chattel mortgages and 34 service discharges. A year earlier there were 43 deeds.
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Safford
Graham County
Two Men Questioned Over Phoenix Bank Robbery Link
FBI agent Henry Hawkins said two Phoenix area men were questioned at the request of Torrance County authorities over a $116,250 Phoenix bank robbery last Wednesday. The pair were seized during a Mountain Air fight and photographed. Phoenix FBI later confirmed at least one man was elsewhere at the robbery time.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Henry Hawkins
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Phoenix
FBI
Torrance County
Hawkins
Mountain Air
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Bugs Moran
Science and Health
Christian Science Reading
Christian Science Reading Room
Heard Building
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AEA
Valentine
Second Ave
West van Tue Buren
Truman
W. G. Cunningham
East Weldon Avenue
Marvin H. Lohman
Cheery Lynn Road
Lohman
Arden
Jesus Burruel
Simon Burruvel
Gazette News Bureau
van Buren
Hamilton
Ronson
Rogers
Parker
Sheaffer
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