Bath tragedy and flood threats dominate national roundup
A Michigan town near Lansing saw 44 dead including 37 children after Andrew Kehoe exploded a dynamite mine at a school. Officials warn floods threaten the Mississippi basin with Melville and Bayou des Glaises among affected areas while Chicago and New Orleans plan a regional flood conference. Violent storms, dam failures, and deadly weather toll towns in Illinois Indiana Wyoming.
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Bath
Lansing
Mich
Andrew Kehoe
Kehoe Himelf
Kehoe
Mississippi Valley
Thompson
Chicago
Miller
St. Louis
O'Keefe
New Orleans
Army
Davis
Coolidge
Commerce
Hoover
Congress
Red Cross
Melville
Atchafalaya River
Mississippi
Weather Bureau
Tensas Basin
Atchafalaya
Tensay Isin
Bayou Des Glaises
Two Children Take Long Hike From Massachusetts to Lewiston
Aurore Coulombe fifteen and Georges Coulombe Jr. thirteen travelled from Sagus Center, Massachusetts to Lewiston over two days to join their mother at 215 Lincoln Street and a younger brother at Healy asylum. They planned since July, watched road signs, carried only clothes and matches, and after hardships arrived to reunite with family.
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Lewiston
Maine
Aurore Lina Coulombe
Georges Coulombe, Jr
Sagus Center
Mass
Lincoln Street
Laurent
Healy Asylum
Brother
St. Mary's Orphanage
Willie Coulombe
Massachusetts
Lewetin
Portland
Lynn
Continental Mill
Marines Clash With Lib eral Guerrillas In Nicaragua Fight
Marines at La Paz Centro near Leon engage Lib eral guerrillas in a battle that leaves Captain Richard B. Buchanan and Private Marvin A. Jackson dead and several Marines wounded. About fourteen Liberals are killed. Brig Gen Logan Feland praises the detachment for bravery under extreme odds.
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la Paz Centro
Leon
Richard B. Buchanan
Marvin A. Jackson
Logan Feland
Marine Corps
Buchanan
Britain and Russia Mutual Relational Rift Deepens
Britain and Russia teetered toward a break after Moscow protested a raid on the Soviet trade headquarters in London and demanded strict treaty compliance. The note cited potential loss of commercial ties and claimed the raid violated the 1921 agreement, while Joynson-Hicks presented the government’s account in the Commons amid unresolved police documents.
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Britain
Russia
Moscow
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
London
Great Britain
House of Commons
William Joynson-Hicks
Home Secretary
Governor Wood Ends Philippine Revolt on Panay Island
Governor General Wood addressed a dangerous affair in the Philippines by visiting Panay island where entrancherated fanatic followers joined a revolutionary movement. He persuaded the excited natives to disperse and had the leader sent to an asylum in Manila.
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Overnor
Wood
Philippines
Entrancherade
Panay Island
Manili
Indianapolis Mayors Tied to Klan Corruption Probe
The Xposure of alleged Indiana political corruption by the Ku Klux Klan grows after the arrest of Indianapolis Mayor Duvall and Controller Buser on conspiracy charges. Duvall faces six affidavits alleging violations of the corrupt practices act and related offenses.
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Indiana
Duvall
Buser
Indianapolis
Cleared of Deserting Marines in Civil War
John Tracy, 90, of Pittsburgh is vindicated after Act of Congress and President Coolidge grant him a pension of 50 dollars a month. He disappeared in 1864 on a ten day furlough to Baltimore, later recalls being shanghaied and left in oyster dredge clothes before wandering back as the war ended.
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Idge
House of Delegates
Association
Internal Revenue Department
Treasury Department
Congress
Hidgeo Noguchi
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
William 8. Thayer
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Coolidge
John Tracy
United States Marine Corps
Tracy
Engineer Thrown Ten Feet by Live Wire Blast
New York. Fred Gollins, a 42 year old Long Island railroad steam locomotive engineer, was severely burned after stepping on an exposed feed wire in the Bushwick cut at Bushwick avenue and Pilling street in Brooklyn. His shoe contacted the wire and he was hurled ten feet from his cab as he investigated a trouble source in his locomotive.
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New York
Fred Gollins
Long Island Railroad
Bushwick
Bushwick Avenue
Pilling Street
Brooklyn
Collins
Has Speedy Craft to Cross the Ocean
Ettore Bugatti plans a semi submersible craft aiming to cross the Atlantic in about 50 hours. The 82 foot long boat will run half submerged with a central cabin and ventilation tube, four independent motors, and a 2400 horsepower power plant for eight people.
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Rome
Europe
United States
Ettore Bugatti
Alsace
France
Bugatti
Mussolini
Prince of Wales Builds Fine Hunting Stables at Craven Lodge
Melton Mowbray England reports the prince of Wales has developed a premier hunting stable complex. Since 1921 he has trained under Capt George Drummond and grown from owning a single aged mare to a fleet of fourteen hunters including Prospect Two Just an Idea Son and Heir March Maid Hard to Find Pikeman and How's That. His hunting flat overlooks the modest entrance and plasterless staircase to the royal suite.
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Pany
George Drummond
Royal Stables
Craven Lodge
Melton Mowbray
England
Prospect
March Maid
Pikeman
Prince
Man Ordered to Marry Now Held for Bigamy
Henry Manning twenty eight was arrested in Mount Vernon on bigamy charges after Boston authorities alleged he already had a wife and four children there. He had been ordered to wed Virginia Pothier forty three by City Judge Jacob Bernstein last November, a ceremony performed by Acting Mayor Harry D. Whittle. Manning was held in two thousand dollars bond.
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Mount Vernon
N. Y
Henry Manning
Virginia Pothier
Jacob Bernstein
Boston
Manning
Miss Pothier
Bernstein
Harry D. Whittle
Colorado Battleship Runs Aground As Fleet Reaches Hudson
As the United States fleet of 122 warships neared New York Harbor the battleship Colorado grounded off the Battery. A high tide and a flotilla of tugs aided in refloating the enormous vessel.
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United States
Hudson
New York
Colorado
Ignorance Blamed for Malnutrition in Children
Washington reports investigations by the children’s bureau show one fourth to one third of U S children are malnourished. Ignorance and lack of parental control, more than poverty, drive improper feeding, irregular meals, and inadequate sleep, leading to lowered vitality and higher child mortality.
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Washington
Children's Bureau
United States Department of Labor
United States
Will funds go to cemetery upkeep in Hessen
By the will of Simon Oppenheimer filed in the surrogate's office the income of a $1000 trust fund is left to the mayor of Burkheim Hessen Germany for cemetery upkeep.
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New York
Simon Oppenheimer
Burkheim
Hessen
Germany
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B. F. Mahoney
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Spirit of St. Louis
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Edward W. Pickard
Illinois
Everal
American Medical Association
Cool
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House of Representatives
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United States Circuit Court of Appeals
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Doumergue
Briand
Chamberlain
Rhineland
AVAL
Japan
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Osservatore Romano
Vatican
Colosseum
Elena
Nathan
Italy
Sam Bernard
Carlsbad
Columbus
Maurice Monvet
Maurive
Lausanne
Switzerland
Prince of Wales
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