News of the Week Cuts and Colorful Washington Wrap
Injunctions against Secretary Hoover over Alaska salmon issues were dismissed for want of prosecution. Kellogg meets Yugoslav minister on Yugoslav debt. Col George Sjams resigns. 294 Indian Bureau field staff to lose jobs July 1. Coolidge backs selling ships to Emergency Fleet. bonus loan cautions issued. Equal Rights Amendment drive launched. Wright to handle White House social affairs. One killed at Mitchel Field by bomber propeller. a toy cannon injures a boy in Urbana. Shepherd acquitted of murder. Auto Knitter arrest over mail fraud. Coolidge opens summer White House in Swampscott. Kiwanis elects Hi Moss. Montreal to host 1926 convention. Cambridge mayor plans reception. Scopes defense counsel in Dayton. Gillis Theater fire kills and injures patrons in Kansas City.
Morgan Returns to Desk as Wife Recovers at Glen Cove
In a sign of gradual improvement Mrs. J P Morgan wife of the financier suffering from sleeping sickness at her Glen Cove home, enabled her husband to resume duties at his banking house in New York for the first time since illness began.
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J. P. Morgan
Glen Cove
New York
Gas tax money for Ohio gravel roads
Governor Vic Donahey endorses using two cent gas tax receipts for building new gravel roads and urges avoiding costly highway widening. He also orders a highway safety program with white crosses marking fatal crash sites to curb reckless driving statewide.
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Columbus
State Highwayway
L. A. Boulay
All Division Highway Engineers
Vic Donahey
Highway Department
State Highway Department
Buckeye Briefs Mixed Ohio News From Buckeye State
A string of brief reports from across Ohio covers a child dieing after a truck accident near Ashtabula, a six year old firing a gun killing his infant brother in Brilliant, Logan preparing a Knights of Pythias building, and a widow dying of heart disease at Uhrichsville. The nude body of a young woman was found in the Ohio River near Clermont County. Fish deaths from river pollution in Hocking River near Nelsonville. A street fight in Cincinnati ends in a man’s death from a fractured skull. Veterans push pensions at an encampment in Delaware. Dr Clyde L Smith named marshal for a Seattle Knights Templar parade. Teens Warren and Tiffin youths found after long search. Warren population estimate and future growth noted. A 78 year old woman in Tiffin attempts suicide. rescued. Dayton Civitan delegates back Carrington Marshall as president. Toledo identifies bank robber Dutch Anderson linked to a bank heist. Fremont men swear at the wrong man during a truck incident. fines levied.
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Jas
Smith
Peck
Granger
Thomas
Kiwanis
Circuit Judge Houghton Sentences Craven for Double Slaying
Circuit Judge Houghton of Bay City Michigan sentences Isaac Craven, who confessed to killing Frank Cady and his wife Anna, to life imprisonment at Marquette prison, delivered 24 hours after the crime.
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Houghton
Bay City
Hich
Isaac Craven
Frank Cady
Anna
Marquette
Crabbe Explains Ben der Act on Prohibition Agents
Attorney General Crabbe states under the Ben der act agents may be hired for any length of time and kept in office as long as fines cover salaries. The act requires salary pay not split-fee. while hiring agents to cover salaries evades the law, Crabbe says the practice is legal.
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Crabbe
Columbus
Central Montana Quakes Cause Fear and Damage
Isolated Montana towns report forty one shocks as tremors hit Three Forks White Sulphur Springs Wilsall Bozeman and Anaconda. Rail lines blocked along Lombard while two towns suffer serious damage. no deaths and few injuries reported. Meagre county losses reach about 500000 with White Sulphur Springs and Three Forks hardest hit.
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Mont
Montana
Three Forks
White Sulphur Springs
Wilsall
Boze- Man
Anaconda
Lombard
Rocky Mountain Range
Idaho
Washington
Wyoming
Meaghe
Gallatin Valley
Chaplin Announces Birth of Son Charles Chaplin Jr
Los Angeles reports the birth of a six and three quarter pound son to Lita Grey Chaplin wife of Charles Spencer Chaplin. The baby at the Beverly Hills mansion is named Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. Chaplin wed Lita Grey in Empalme last November 27 amid secrecy and public interest.
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Cal
Lita Grey Chaplin
Charles Spencer Chaplin
Chaplin
Beverly Hills
Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr
Lita Grey
Empalme
Lillian Spicer
William Curry
Curry
Lita
White Laundry Opens in Chinatown Stirring Chicago District
A white man opened a hand laundry in a Chinatown thoroughfare in Chicago, triggering a bombing that shattered the Continental Laundry front and damaged walls. Police arrested Sim Hom nearby, who denied knowledge of the blast as Chinatown regained calm.
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Chicago
Continental Laundry
New Enterprise
Sim Hom
Chinatown
Robbery on Money Car Near Church in Cincinnati
Two armed bandits stopped a crew carrying receipts between car barns and took a cash box totaling between 1800 and 1900 dollars in view of about six churchgoers. A separate report notes F M Stites, 22, conductor, died after falling 75 feet from the Kentucky and Indiana bridge near Louisville while a train change was being made. He lived in New Albany.
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Cir
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F. M. Stites
Kentucky and Indiana
New Albany
Hig
Coast Guard
Stites
Letters of Courtesy Build Influence and Connection
A narrator explains learning from someone who used personalized letters to influence business, politics, and society. He notes handwritten notes, careful tailoring to individuals, and timely kind acts create lasting respect. He now writes daily informal, sincere letters to encourage young scholars and community members.
Just Like a Man Mae
A short observational note mentions Mae visiting someone twice one time for dinner and again with no reason stated, reflecting on life.
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Mae
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