Raiders Still Hold Water In Owens Valley Cut
Los Angeles faces a water crisis as raiders opened Owens River gates 200 miles north near Lone Pine, diverting flow from the city aqueduct. Authorities seek state troops. two raiders named Mark Watterson and W. B. McCarthy. Water losses rise. reservoirs hold enough for 90 days.
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Los Angeles
Owens River
Lune Pine
Owens Valley
Richardson
Inyo County
William Deby
John Soa
Mark @. Watterson
Bishop
W. BR. McCarthy
Jaro County
William Mulholland
City Water Department
Collins
Inve County
Acc
E.A. Lahy
Electric Construction Department
City Power and Light Bureau
Radio show exhibits ship in time for Chicago event
Two New York radio firms chartered four drawing rooms aboard the Twentieth Century Limited and dispatched their displays to Chicago for the third annual radio show opening today amid fears of delays.
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Pullmans
Chicago
New York Radio Corporation
Twentieth Century Limited
Senoritas Invade Bull Ring In Women’s Sport Debut
In Mexico City on Sunday three young women in bull ring attire fought in an amateur event. Each of the senoritas dispatched two bulls in a small ring proving women can excel in the bullring. The display highlighted grace and daring in a masculine arena.
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Universal Service
Mexico City
Sentiment Divided on Removing Hats in Elevators
Readings from San Antonio show varied views on removing hats in presence of women and in elevators and trains. Residents including hotel staff and city officials weigh politeness, habit and respect, with some calling it a nice custom and others noting practicality and differing expectations.
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Ralph Ormesher
Robert E. Lee Hotel
Mx Everett
Emil
Buddy” Merer
Bexar County Court House
Buddy
Hell
Hfe
Ellevator
Joe Galloway
City Hall
Charles Shelton
Shelton
Rose Mendicine
United Sta Marshal
Mendicine
Charles F. Tucker
West Misstletoe Avenue
Gladys McGinnis
United States District Attorney's Office
Delight Stone
Gladys Lane
Miss Stone
Miss Lane
Gladys Snell
Robert E. Lee
Rose Capland
St. Anthony Hotel
Aign
Concha Cardona
Robert E. Tee
Jack Hale
St. Anthony
Finan
Victory
Bt Anthony
Anna Mae Johnson
Hazel Grounds
Georgia Turris
Jumble of jokes and notices from a 1920s column
A collage of light verse items and witty quips about sports figures like Bud Houser the discus thrower. It also includes satirical takes on prohibition enforcement, local club life, a Modernized Mother Goose sketch, a condolence note, a propulsive Siren’s Call piece, and brief notes about the Mexican president Obregon planning retirement to raise bananas on a western farm.
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Obregon
Mexico
Sestern Mexican
Oil Output Rises in Cotton Valley Fields
Shreveport reports increased production in the cotton valley field raising oil output in Louisiana and Arkansas by 14 751 barrels with an average of 187 815 barrels per day for the week.
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Shreveport
Cotton Valley
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mexico Plans to Improve Telegraph System with Printers
H C Barry representative of the Mexican government states printers will be installed in offices of larger cities to cut operating costs by over 50 percent and speed message sending. Accompanying him are engineers H K Carroll and G C Maxxon. Initial 24 printer sets to be installed in the south with about 100 later, enabling night letter service and shifting old telegraphers to supervision roles.
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H. C. Barry
Gwater
H. K. Carroll
Kleinschmidt Electric Company
G.C. Maxxon
Mexico
United States
San Antonio
Barru
Western Union
Couzens Takes Off Lid in Liquor Expose
The investigation centers on a 1920s tax decline of 22 million dollars with about 2 million placed in tax exempt securities and the remainder claimed as depreciation in business to reduce tax due.
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Couzens
Tee
Enforced School Vacations Due to Ruling Details
The article notes a delayed situation and postponement of exclusion work until noon. Other schools comply with the ruling, though completion may take several days. It cites Miss Stone on white students showing more tardiness and records vaccination of about 5000 children last year, roughly 100 more than previously.
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Miss Stone
El Paso Fires Cause 75000 Dollar Hotel Damage
Nov 17 dispatch reports two early Sunday fires in El Paso destroying the Normandie hotel and damaging the Angelus hotel on the fourth floor. Louis M. Blenner, a retired soldier, suffered severe burns. J L R Marsh, Sacramento labor delegate, clung to a third story sill amid flames before rescue.
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EL Paso
Louis M. Blenner
Normandie
Andy
Angelus Hotel
J. L. R. Marsh
Federated Trades Council
Sacramento
Cal
Lambert's Brother Visits San Antonio in Texas
The Lambert party, including Mrs Lambert, tours San Antonio and praises Texas fruit and the city. They will stay about a month and plan to be entertained at a ranch lodge near Bulverde and at Medina Lake, with a possible coast duck hunt.
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Texas
California
San Antonio
Bulverde
Medina Lake
State Delays Baldin Case as Governor Weighs Action
The Baldwin case hangs in San Antonio as Adjutant General T. L. Barton answers questions about keeping the defendants in place until the governor orders removal. Barton is testifying on Monday as a witness in the Baldin matter.
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San Antonio
T. 1
Barton
Baldwil
Direct voting for president probable in many states
The article notes probable direct presidential voting in several states while 28 million voters stay away. It cites a constitutional amendment in one state allowing fines for abstaining on election day and reports campaign spending by Republicans Democrats and La Follette.
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Page One
Coolidge
Republican Party
Democrats
la Follette
Memphis Officers Seek Demented Boy in Nationwide Search
Memphis police issue a nationwide search for Howard Co. Tad a demented youth missing since September 1924 last seen by a motorist in Patterson Louisiana November 1 The boy's mother is grief stricken and has posted a 160 reward for information leading to his location Conrail is 24 years old five feet ten inches tall 165 pounds fair complexion blue eyes medium brown hair description provided by Memphis police
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Memphis
Howard Co
Tad
Patterson
Conrail
Bandits Rob Al Tearney’s Cafe. $12,400 Stolen
Seven robbers invaded the Pershing Paleos Cafe and ballroom in Chicago. They bound a watchman, gagged him, blew open the safe, and escaped with 12,400 dollars. The watchman was hooded and unable to describe the men.
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Chicago
Pershing Paleos
al Fearney
Kerrigan Narrowly Escapes Motor Mishap
Chicago gossip notes report film star J Warren Kerrigan escaped serious injury when a car he rode in broke a front axle and threw him against a sidewall. In Atlanta brief, slow sales of winter clothing continue with top coats moving slowly amid the slump.
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Ney
Lind. Warret
Igo
E-Serious
Hers Yester
Atlanta
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