World Happenings Of The Current Week
Five lives ended when an automobile plunged through a fence at Lowell Massachusetts and struck railroad tracks. A new university will be established in Kansas City Missouri by the Methodist churches with Chamber of Commerce aid. Navy Day observances approved by Coolidge and Wilbur for October 27. Six men held up a U S mail truck in San Francisco and escaped with eight pouches of mail.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Lowell
Mass
Aiew University
Kansas City, Mo
Methodist Episcopal Church South
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
City Chamber of Commerce
Coolidge
Wilbur
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
San Francisco
Market Street
Prohibition Authority Reorganization Shakes Top Enforcement
Washington. D C. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes loses all enforcement authority on September 1 as 24 prohibition administrators take over duties. Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair issues the order, directing transfer to Assistant Secretary Andrews with Haynes serving advisory role. The shift removes oversight of manufacturing and handling of intoxicating liquors from Haynes to the new directors and administrators at 22 U S points and overseas territories. Haynes remains in Washington as adviser and head of retained operations.
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Washington, D. C
Haynes
Prohibition
Andrews
The
Treasury
Internal Revenue
Blair
United States
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Washington
Wall Street of Rockaway Sees Booming Boardwalk Frenzy
Thousands crowd the New York oceanfront as a boardwalk plan spurs a land boom. Front foot values leapt from $10 to $10,000 as speculators chase rapid wealth with Assemblyman Brunner delivering a rumored $6.5 million in business last week.
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New York
Rockaway
Ocean Front
Assemblyman Brunner
Tennessee anti-evolution case to seek federal injunction
John Randolph Neal of counsel for John T. Scopes said he would file a taxpayers petition in United States district court to enjoin enforcement of the Tennessee law. He planned to leave for New York to confer with Dudley Field Malone Arthur Garfield Hays and other attorneys after filing.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
John Randolph Neal
John T. Scopes
Tennessee
Chattanooga Times
United States District Court
Neal
New York
Dudley Fig d Malone
Arthur Garfield Hays
Big Lamb Deal Closed in Baker Denver Buyer Brackenburg
A sale of 5000 lambs announced Monday stands as one of the season’s largest deals. Chris Lee sells to Brackenburg Commission Company of Denver. The price was not disclosed but noted as a season high. Paul Pollmans of First National Bank called cattle business improving.
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Baker
Chris Lee
Brackenburg Commission Company of
Denver
Paul Pollmans
First National Bank
Arctic navy expedition answers five questions by radio
Chicago journalists probed the MacMillan Arctic expedition via Zenith Radio on 140 meters. Five questions were answered in twenty minutes and faint phonograph music was heard from the expedition before questioning began.
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Chicago
Arctic Circle
MacMillan Arctic Navy
Zenith Radio Corporation
Boots Save Girl's Life on Lightning Strike
A 14 year old girl from Yerington Nevada survived a lightning strike after wearing rubber boots on her father's farm. The bolt knocked her unconscious for about 20 minutes before a doctor revived her, who says the boots lessened the bolt's full force.
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Reno
Nev
A. Aeschelman
Yerington
Two Die in Air Crash Near Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City aviator Karl Wheeler and an unidentified passenger died in a plane crash Monday when their aircraft fell a few miles north of the city. both were burned.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Karl Wheeler
Here
Farm Expansion Urged in Tacoma
Unanimous Tacoma chamber resolution backs simultaneous growth of agriculture and other industries in Washington. Speakers urge rapid cultivation of all arable land, renewed emphasis on marketing farm products, and federal state action on reclamation and timber taxation to aid private timber growers.
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Tacoma
Wash
Washington
Washington State Chamber of Commerce
A. S. Goss
State Grange
E. L. French
Vancouver
State Department of Agriculture
French
Chamber
A. Scollard
Chehalis
Scollard
Scolard
Frank HI. Lamb
Hoquiam
Lamb
Northwest
Oregon and Salem News Digest Quiet Market Notes
Apple dealers report more inquiries than sales in Sood River. Salem sees long service at state land board as George Brown marks 30 years. Tangent laborer James Speirs receives first motor vehicle title under new registration. Pendleton reports drought damage to trees from red spider. St Helens ships 2,000,000 feet of lumber. three steamers sail for California. Salem building permits in July exceed 1924 by about 97,000. total proposed expenditures reach 189,730. Hood River files water appropriation for domestic use. Three boys at state training school fall ill from tainted well water near Woodburn. Warren resident Edwin Mattson drowns at Columbia Beach. Harrisburg Junction City highway section to open August 7, paving near complete. Rebuilding plans for a Retger Street building with a J C Penney store noted. OregonPenitentiary flax mill operates with 60 convicts. flax industry compares to Ireland. Harvey Robbins dies at 92 in Hood River area. East Side Mill & Lumber fire burns timber near Keasey. Threshing starts in Yaquina and Siletz valleys. oats and rye yields seen as bumper. Lost Lake road work to begin with a 70-foot bridge over outlet canyon. Penitentiary crackdown on stills shows limited impact. multiple stills found. Utah-Idaho Sugar examines Willamette soils for beet production viability.
Coal Suspension Looms In Atlantic City
Atlantic City reports a looming coal suspension as miners and operators clash over wage increases and the check adoption. John L. Lewis told Samuel D. Warriner that further talks are futile unless operators drop their opposition to raises and the check.
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Atlantic City
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Samuel D. Warriner
Tuna Taken at Yaquina Newport First of Its Kind
A large silver tuna caught in Yaquina bay by B F Wilkins with a gill net Saturday night drew comment from fishermen and sportsmen as the first ever taken here. Two large pearls were taken from its head and exhibited by Mr Wilkins. The tuna, not native to these waters, sold for 60 cents per pound.
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Newport
Yaquina Bay
B. F Wilkins
Wilkins
California
Aviators Set World Nonstop Record Landing In Chartres
French aviators Drouhin and Landry landed at Chartres airdrome after a 4400 kilometer flight lasting 45 hours 11 minutes 59 seconds to establish new world records for non stop distance and duration.
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Chartres
France
Drouhin
Landry
Arctic collector Koelz leads MacMillan expedition for Nat Geo study
Dr. Walter N. Koelz, renowned whitefish specialist with the MacMillan Arctic expedition, will collect fish birds and mammals for the National Geographic Society. He has described ten whitefish species and built a 30 000 fish collection at the University of Michigan Museum. He outlines packing preservation and transport challenges for specimens aboard the Bowdoin and Peary.
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Washington
Walter N. Koelz
MacMillan
National Geographic Society
Koelz
Waterloo
Mich
Chelsea
University of Michigan
United States Bureau of Fisheries
Great Lakes
Doctor Koelz
L.janaeus
United States
Canada
Ann Arbor
Nipignon
Winnipeg
Lake Agassiz
North America
Arctic
Gap
Rod
Man uses radio to pick Spokane home amid static
Frank Stoop buys a Spokane house he calls the ideal radio home after testing more than a dozen neighborhoods by radio. He checks daylight and night reception, discarding options with thick static and finally finds the right place. His search ends with satisfaction in a city residence.
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Spokane
Wash
Frank Stoop
Stoop
Ancient Oxford Court Set to Sit Again
An Oxford undergrad faces trial in ordinary courts for a manslaughter linked to a motor accident. A renowned law don urges reviving the ancient University Court of the Lord High Steward to punish offenders, noting the system’s long history since 1404 and its unique juror rules.
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Oxford
England
Lord High Steward
Uiversity
Six divide twelve million in Detroit dinner
Six men, once nearly broke in 1900, gathered at the Detroit Golf Club to celebrate Eureka Vacuum Cleaner founder Fred Wardell. They divided twelve million dollars in accumulated profits from the company.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit Golf Club
Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company
Fred Wardell
Massacre cave in Japan holds 11111 Christian heads
Dr Earl R Bull reports finding a cave in Amakusa with a stone boulder bearing a record of 11111 Christians buried in 1637 after widespread persecution. Inscription claims 88883 Christians were slain. Officials separated heads from bodies to thwart any resurrection.
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New York
Earl R. Bull
Methodist Episcopal Church
Loo
Choo Islands
Japan
Amakusa
Cotton farmer seeks four dollar damage from plane landing
Washington. O. FP. Shell, a North Carolina farmer, informs the War department his cotton field cannot be used for landing airplanes. He demands $4 for crop damage from a May 14 forced landing by Pilot Brown from Langley field. He reports hot words with Brown and says Brown would not recommend more than $1.30. Shell is a longtime engrossing clerk in the North Carolina legislature.
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Washington
O. FP
Shell
North Carolina
War Department
Brown
Langley Field
Virginia
Simmons
Mrr. Brown
Bhell
Nome sourdough Gibney buried in coffin from his former bar
Barney Gibney a 69 year old Dawson Yukon River Nome and Teller resident dies after a three year illness. Born in Wintteburg New York he is famed as a benevolent Northland figure who kept a mahogany bar through prohibition and requested it be made into a coffin.
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Nome
Alaska
Barney Gibney
Dawson
Yukon River
Teller
Gibney
Wintteburg
N. Y
Northland
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