Scopes Guilty in Tennessee Antievolution Case
Dayton Tenn Thomas Scopes found guilty of violating the Tennessee antievolution law and fined 100 dollars the minimum. His counsel appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court as trial costs and expert witnesses expenses mounted. The verdict sparked a bitter exchange between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow over biblical literalism and creation. Bryan defended the Bible as written, while Darrow pressed questions about Adam and Eve and the flood.
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Dayton, Tenn
Thomas Scopes
Tennessee Supreme Court
Raulston
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Clarence Darrow
United States
John Thomas Scopes
William Jennings Bryan
Jonah
Eden
Darrow
Eve
Adam
Cain
Joshua
Mr. Bryan
Minute Men Protest Klan's Use of the Name
In Somerville Massachusetts the American Minute Men protested the Ku Klux Klan of Colorado using the Minute Men of America name. The action highlights civic opposition to co opted historical terms by extremist groups.
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Minute Men
Klan
Somerville
Mass
Minute Men of America
Ku Klux Klan of
Colorado
Kentuckians Stage Duel Ends in Fatal Shots
Henderson, Ky. John W. Bratcher thirty nine of Henderson and Jim Shuck twenty five of Geneva shot each other to death at a country clubhouse near here after a quarrel.
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Hienderson
John W. Bratcher
Hirty
Jim Shuck
Geneva
Two Die at Railroad Crossing in Minnesota
St. Cloud Minnesota local crash results in death of Mr and Mrs Walker s Rodgers of Oxbow Saskatchewan when their light sedan is struck at a railroad crossing by a train.
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Minnesota
St. Cloud
Minn
Rodgers
Oxbow, Sask
Portugal President Seeks New Cabinet Leader
President Gomes seeks a new cabinet head after accepting the resignation of the Silva government. He faces a difficult search to form a stable leadership for Portugal.
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Portugal
Lisbon
Gomes
Silva
Rockefeller Gift to Fund Physics-Chemical Institute in Spain
Madrid reports the undersecretary of instruction announced a donation of $420,000 from the Rockefeller Institute to support the erection of a physics chemical institute in Spain. The grant signals strong support from American philanthropy for scientific education abroad.
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Madrid
Rockefeller Institute
Increase in Incomes From American Farms
Farmers reported a gross income from agricultural production of $12,136,000,000 for the year ending June 30, last year, the highest since 1921. Excluding livestock and inter-farm sales, gross income from sales reached $9,777,000,000, with expenses at $6,486,000,000 and net cash income from sales at $3,291,000,000, up from 1924.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Money and its varied use across races
The article discusses how money is universally common yet differ in its use among different races. It notes that hundreds of races have never used it and others hold very different ideas about its purpose.
Ambition's Call Among Fellows Not Rome
A fragment quotes Carenar favoring being first among peers over being second in Rome, reflecting a theme of ambition and leadership. The line contrasts personal prominence with prestigious but secondary status within a setting of peers.
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Rome
Carenar
Foreign Investments Total Billions in 1925
The Department of Commerce estimates total foreign investment at just over 9.5 billion dollars excluding amounts owed by foreign governments. The value of foreign securities publicly offered in the U.S. in the first half of 1925 reached 551.591 million dollars, up from 379.7 million in the same period last year, notes Theodore R. Goldsmith.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Theodore R. Goldsmith
Finance and Investment Division
Borglum to Carve North Carolina Confederate Memorial
The Raleigh News and Observer reports a Borglum planned Confederate memorial along Granite Cliffs overlooking Chimney Rock in Rutherford County North Carolina. After his Stone Mountain project, Borglum will sculpt the North Carolina statue, the paper states.
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Borglum
Old Dixie
Raleigh
N. C
Raleigh News and Observer
Stone Mountain
Georgia
Gutzon Borglum
Chimney Rock
Rutherford County
North Carolina
Borgan
North Carolna
Fire Wipes Out Seven Buildings in Detroit Blaze
A brisk wind fanned a blaze on Gladstone Linwood avenue in Detroit destroying seven apartment buildings and one residence. Loss estimated at 300000 dollars. The report notes furs likely imported from Buenos Aires including fox nutria shunk guanico and yuicuna.
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Detroit
Mich
Gladstone-Linood Avenue
Buenos Aires
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