Civil Service Exam for Motor Boat Operators
The United States Civil Service Commission schedules an exam this week to fill motor boat operator posts on the Detroit and St. Clair rivers and Lake St. Clair. Workers will serve under the Bureau of Prohibition via the Detroit Collector of Customs, handling fast boats, repairs, and smuggling interdiction with entry salaries starting at 1860 dollars.
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Fire Destroys McFadden Summer Home at Flossmoor
A vacant McFadden summer home in Flossmoor burned last Monday evening, with flames reaching thirty feet and collapsing the main walls by midnight. Firemen kept nearby property safe as large crowds watched, and insurance coverage is reported. The farmhouse style structure, used only in summer, contained furniture left inside. The loss is estimated around $6,000. Homewood News.
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Flossmoor
Homewood Fire Department
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Homewood News
Read and write lessons touted by French War Minister
A unique program teaches totally illiterate people to read and write in ten lessons of two hours each. An unnamed woman devised the method, which has gained official attention from the French minister of war.
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Must Be Done First by The Boston Transcript
Quote notes the challenge of keeping a good man down versus the greater difficulty of getting him down. It reflects on moral resilience and perseverance in the face of obstacles and skepticism. The line frames ambition and integrity as forces that resist suppression.
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Boston Transcript
Up-to-Date Lamb in Vimna Fayas Runs Forty Miles
A long-legged lamb in the Vimna fayas is noted for speed, capable of running forty miles an hour. The description reflects a curious, lively animal observed by locals as part of rural lore and ongoing farm life.
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Bead Trade Slumps Hit Gablonz Industry
Declining American demand for beads and inexpensive glass novelties hurts the Gablonz industry in Czechoslovakia, dampening production and market sentiment.
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Gablonz
Czechoslovakia
Joliet Plans Electric Chair At Stateville Penitentiary
Under State Architect Lindstrom the state builds its own electric execution chair at Stateville Joliet replacing hanging for crimes after July 1 1927. The design includes a button sequence to activate the current but only one button will complete the circuit. Attorney General Carlstrom says the multi button plan is illegal and an official executioner will be named. No sentences have been imposed yet but preparations for the first execution proceed.
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Stateville
Joliet
Carlstrom
Ambassador to Cuba Named Col Noble Brandon Judah
Col Noble Brandon Judah of Chicago is appointed ambassador to Cuba succeeding Gen Enoch H Crowder who has recently resigned. Judah takes the post amid a shift in diplomatic leadership with Cuba as the new assignment for the diplomat.
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Col
Noble Brandon Judah
Chicago
Cuba
Enoch H. Crowder
Four Army Flyers Die in Plane Crashes
In Pennsylvania and Texas two airmen are found dead after crashes. Pilot E. R. Emery of Newark Ohio and Mechanic William D. Zolman of Fredericktown Ohio died near Burgess Field in Fayette County. In Dallas Love Field two aviators, instructor Jack Gage and student J C Gillespie, burned to death after their plane fell 350 feet. A Vienna actress decided against a flight after a German seaplane failed to take off for America.
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Newark
Ohio
William D. Zolman
Fredericktown
Fayette County
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Zolman
Washington, D. C
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Eugene Bayley
Dallas
Texas
Love Flying Field
Jack Gage
J. C. Gillespie
President Coolidge Drafts Domestic Policy Message
President Coolidge is writing his forthcoming message to Congress focusing on domestic prosperity and tranquility. He drafts in his study with stenographer Edwin C Geiser and has held numerous cabinet and commission meetings with lawmakers likely to discuss farm relief flood aid transportation taxes and tariff policy.
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Society Takes to Matrimony in New York
The compendium of the four hundred plus reports 1,022 weddings this year up from 874 last year among the socially elect in New York society circles.
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