Congress opens with Hoover address and naval spend plan
President Hoover's annual message outlines budget figures for 1939, calls for tax relief, tariff reform, and commissions on banking and Haiti, with emphasis on enforcement of prohibition amid a broad defense and public works agenda. Senate battles Vare seat as Russia Manchuria row intensifies and leadership gathers for business advisory group.
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Edward W. Pickard
Hoover
Senate
House
Administration
London
United States
Muscle Shoals
Haiti
Congress
Army
Navy
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
Klein
Commerce Department
Tinkham pushes probe into lobbying sources and revenue
Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts presses the senate committee on lobbying to broaden an inquiry beyond tariff groups to include Anti-Saloon League and other prohibition influence bodies. Chairman Caraway says public hearing could be granted. A bill would require registration of people trying to influence legislation under penalties for violators.
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Tinkham
Massachusetts
Senate Committee
Anti-saloon League
Caraway
Rhine zone liberation cheers mark end of occupation
In ObLenz Germany crowds celebrate a twenty four year anniversary as bonfires torches and banners fill the streets. Allied troops depart and German authorities move in bands play and rejoicing occurs. The British occupational troop final withdrawal is announced for December 12 1929.
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Oblenz
Germany
Rhineland
Union
Lion Attacks Farm Manager in East Prussia Yard
A farm manager at Druecklar choeschen East Prussia was struck in the back by a fleeing African lion after cursing at the animal. He returned inside to view through a window and saw that three lions had appeared, causing alarm among the cows.
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Berlin
Druecklarchoeschen
East Prussia
DIES AS HE SEEKS REVENGE ON BEAR
Edmonton rangers discover the body of P H Goodall ex officer and Jasper park warden in the Tonquin valley snow near his cabin. He pursued a grizzly with a noted malformed front foot. The cause of death remains undetermined with tracks erased by snowfall.
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Edmonton
Alta
Forest Rangers
Tonquin
Canadian Rockies
P. H. Goodall
Jasper National Park
Goodair
Arm Hits Mail Box on Truck Die Young Man Killed
Roland Fatthies thirty one of Potter Wisconsin died after his arm struck a rural mail box on a fence post while riding a truck toward a highway 51 work crew near Random Lake. He had ridden to greet his brother and was on holiday.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Roland Fatthies
Potter
Fatthies
Random Lake
Arnold
Rattler Hitchhiker Roams Texas Auto Route
Goose Creek Texas reports a 16 inch diamond backed rattlesnake riding on a motorist's car near a filling station. The driver O Jordan of Pelly traveled about 500 miles with the snake curled on the battery box before the attendant noticed it.
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Goose Creek
Texas
West Texas
1. O. Jordan
Pelly
Mortgage on Wisconsin Farm Sells After 50-Year Lien
An old pioneer farm near Juneau Wisconsin was auctioned with an unsatisfied mortgage of 1000 dollars that had stood for fifty years. The mortgage on the farm home was finally settled when the property changed hands.
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Wisconsin
Juneau
Wis
Here
Man Eats Whole Sheep on Sixty Fifth Birthday
Thomas Haworth of Woodbine cottage Padiram celebrated his sixty fifth birthday by eating a whole sheep in a single day. The sheep was a gift from friends and the feat has become a local curiosity.
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Padiram
England
Woodbine Cottage
Thomas Haworth
Sammy Christmas Corporation Brings Joy to Trough Trough
In 1929 a plan to aid the poor trough area sparks a cooperative effort led by Sammy, an errand boy, with support from Mr. Munson and Mrs. Bennett. Donations flood in from uptown merchants and the Mission Sunday school, funding a grand Christmas tree, clothing, shoes, toys, and a pay raise for Sammy.
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Sammy
Bennett
Ammy
Santa Claus
Mr. Munson
Sammy Christmas
Sammy Christmas Corporation
Western Newspaper Union
Unreadable OCR Snippet Prompts Sparse Summary
Fragmentary text from a newspaper page yields no clear event, names, or places to summarize. The legible words do not form a coherent report or identifiable record for a headline or summary.
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House of Representatives
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Laura G. Fraser
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Peedy
William 8. Vare
Pennsylvania
Vare
Ware
Privileges and Elections Committee
W. B. Wilson
Stimson
Great Britain
China
Russia
Manchuria
Maxim Litvinoff
Moscow
South America
Ing Victor Emmanuel
Helena
Italy
Pope Pius
Vatican
Dino Grandi
Count de Vecchi
Holy See
Vatican City
Charlemagne
Cardinal Gasparri
Merry del Val
St. Peter’s
Henri Deterding
Holland
Royal Dutch Shell
Chicago
American Petroleum Institute
Harry F. Sinclair
Institute
Howard L. Doheny
Deterding
Nature
B. B. Reeser
The
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Bear
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Texas Auto
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