Three Shanghai men chase ghosts at Sung Huang hill Kowloon
In Shanghai three skeptics H Richmond Curley J B Borman and Alexander V McDonough sail to Hongkong Kowloon to debunk the Sung Huang hill haunt. Local Chinese accounts recount moans cries and white robed figures as alleged evidence of supernatural activity. A Cantonese leader Lo fai ching vanished after a doomed ascent with his head later found in the bay.
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Shanghai
Hongkong
Sung Huang Hill
Kowloon
H. Richmond Curley
J. B. Borman
Alexander V. McDonough
Curtey
Lee Chai-ling
Tlement
Lo Fai-Ching
Noo
Birthday Reflections Show Age and Attitude Across Generations
A 1928 Western Newspaper Union piece contrasts Mrs. Brown who refuses to reveal her age with Mrs. Groves who boasts about it. It notes Mrs. Brown’s quiet aging and Mrs. Groves’s celebration of birthdays as milestones, and follows little Jean’s eager anticipation of growing up and attending school.
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Jean
Western Newspaper Union
Unusual Murder View From Baumes Commission Chief
Senator John Knight, chairing the Baumes crime commission statistics subcommittee, calls murder in New York state a relatively unusual crime after two years of investigation, reporting findings from the commission.
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New York
Albany
New York State
John Knight
Baumes Crime Commission
Knight
Victim of Crime: NY Subcommission Details Domestic Felonies
A New York subcommission report notes that murder makes up about one half of one percent of felonies while the bulk of prosecutions involve ordinary cases. It cites 1925 1926 1927 crime totals for murder manslaughter assaults robberies burglaries and cites Baumes life sentence provisions for four felonies.
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New York State
United States
Leopold-Loeb
Hall-Mills
Snyder-Gray
New York City
New York Furniture Merchant Seeks Injunction Over Sarcastic Shoes
A New York furniture dealer placed his own shoes in a shop window with placards mocking them. The outspoken display led to the dealer obtaining an injunction to stop further public mockery and sales.
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New York
Dad Claims Boy Five Is Among Young Auto Drivers
Columbus Indiana report says Donald Ford five son of Mr and Mrs Walter Ford ranks as one of Indiana’s youngest auto drivers. Before turning five last February he started his father’s engine and learned stop and go signs. A rebuilt car enables him to reach pedals and drive daily with supervision.
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Columbus
Ind
Donald Ford
Walter Ford
Indiana
Donald
Where Icebergs Form And Drift From The Far North
Icebergs originate from large glaciers in the Far North and drift southward across common steamship lanes. Some carry Arctic fauna found aboard, though only about one ninth stays above water. Reports note icebergs with as much as 300 feet exposed above the surface.
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Western Newspaper Union
Plaything of fate Misses Stone seek vanished millions
From a prominent Pennsylvania lineage to a sunken barge on Sherman Creek New York the Misses Isobel and Peggy Stone daughters of the late Gov. William M A Stone see a fortune vanish. The estate settlement left them with 3000 and little hope of recovery while Isobel turns to radio singing to support herself and Peggy who is a sculptress.
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Pennsylvania
Isobel
Peggy Stone
William M. A. Stone
Sherman Creek
Dyckman Street
New York
Governor Stone
Peggy
Kansas Board Estimates Record Winter Wheat Yield
The State Agricultural Board's August report puts Kansas winter wheat at 179,044,000 bushels, an all time high with 17 bushels per acre on 10,632,000 acres. Corn also strong with an estimated 181,521,000 bushels on 6,723,000 acres.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
French Noble Honored New Orleans Street Namesake
The article notes Baron Francisco de Carondelet, governor and canal advocate, as the namesake behind Carondelet Street and surrounding Canal, Baronne, and related streets. It details his 1747 birth in Flanders, Louisiana governorship, canal plans linking the Mississippi to Lake Pontchartrain, and his lasting civic legacy despite a yellow fever interruption.
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New Orleans
Carondelet Street
Cotton Exchange
Carondelet
Graavier
Henry G. Hester
Francisco Buig Hester de
Louisiana
Baron Carondelet
Mississippi River
Lake Pontchartrain
Canal Street
Baronne Street
Fresno Justice Marries 5,000 Couples Since 1908
George Washington Smith, justice of the peace in Fresno California, celebrates his 5 000th wedding as a marrying justice. He began in 1903 and keeps a running record of ceremonies. The peak year was 304 marriages, the most in a single month was 49, and eight couples wedding on one day.
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Fresno
Calif
George Wash‘ington
Smith
Wichita Teen Killed by Lightning in Plains Field
Merle Blurton 17 of Wichita died when struck by lightning near Plains while harvesting. He was an intermediate school football and track star. In Topeka the Kansas public service commission ordered Wichita Gas Co to file an amended rate schedule cutting domestic natural gas charges.
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Harry S. New
Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Musketon
Mich
Muskegon
Post Office Department
Chicago
Mr. New
Wichita
Merle Blurton
Plains
Blurton
Topeka
Kansas Public Service Commission
Wichita, Gas Company
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Charles Sughroe
Junior
Chuckie
Middle West
Air Mail
Greater
Lloyd Hahn
America
Thiler
Falls City
Omaha
Amsterdam
Hahn
Dad
Isobel Stone
State Agricultural Board
Clyde M. Reed
J. D. M. Hamilton
Charles F. Scott
D. A. N. Chase
Frank Ryan
Fred Voihand
Ben Paulen
W. R. Stubbs
C. M. Reed
Board of Trade
H. J. Bailey
Myrtle Hein
Yates Center
Neosho River
Syracuse
Erwin P. Barber
Clay Center
John Henry
Lindy
Kenneth
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