Jacques Turns Large Realty Deals On East Coast
A Cocoa Florida dispatch reports Lancelot Jacques Sr. of Smithsburg as a leading East Coast real estate operator. Cocoa realtors claim he can cash in hostings profitably at current market values, well over half a million dollars. Maryland buyer Lancelot Jacques Jr. of Hagerstown purchased property on Marion Island from Wilkan and Tuomer Fertilizer Company in Jacksonville.
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Tampa
Fla
Timow
Cocoa
Lancelot Jacques, Sr
Smithsburg
Florida
la Cocoa Realtors
Cocoa, Fla
Finrlia
Inexias
Jacques
Maryland
Marritt
Lancelot Jracquen
Hagerstown
Kate C. Mages
Wilkan & Tuomer Mertilizer Company
Jacksonville
Stable burns during storm near Pittman home
Lightning struck the rear stable in Hancock during a soaking rainstorm, destroying the stable building and several small wagons and causing about $idd in damage. Pittman’s horse and cow were in pasture. Neighbors fought flames with buckets and garden hose. Gurley Jones’s house across the alley was struck during the storm.
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BE. B. Pittman
Falrew
Hancock
Gurley Jones
Granted Divorce for Bessie Irene Hovis by Judge Fi dag Wagamay
Bessie Irene Hovis was granted an absolute divorce from William Hovis by Judge F id Wagamay in the court. The ruling finalizes the dissolution of the marriage and assigns no further conditions or disputed terms.
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Bessie Irene Hovis
Fid. Wagamay
William Hovis
Hoists Flag Over Ranches in Puebla State T
Mexico City dispatch reports former U S consular agent W O Jenking captured by Mexican bandits in 1919, leading to international tension. The flag was raised over his ranch properties in Puebla State, and disorders are feared as Mexicans view the act as a taunt.
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Mexico City
Pueblo
Kay W. O. Jenking
United States
Puela
Diay
Puebla
Rotary Head Takes Fling at the Klan
Everatt W. Ji of Oklahoma City opened Rotary International’s sixteenth annual convention with a speech condemning the Ku Klux Klan. He warned of hate and urged mindful service as a remedy to a world filled with revenge and oppression.
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Rotary Head
Cleveland
Ku Klux Klan
Everatt. W. Ji
Oklahoma City
Okla
Rotary
Panalup
Scotch shipments to United States tied to prohibition repeal talk
Vancouver June 16 John McNish, director of a Scottish distillery, said that rum row along the Atlantic coast is nearly ended, but U S prohibition agents face an almost impossible job keeping liquor out. He noted that up to six months ago more Scotch whiskey had been sent to the United States than at any prior time after prohibition began.
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Vancouver
B.C
John McNish
Scotland
Atlantic Coast
United States
Jones
Coolidge Faces Break With Congress On Economy Plan
President Coolidge launches the 1926 27 economy program seeking drastic cuts in government spending and possible tax relief. Budget Director Lord calls for a two year plan while Congress clashed with administration over revenue cuts, treasury figures show a large surplus and borrowing concerns loom.
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Coolidge
Congress
Washingtno
H. M. Lord
Plana
Lord
Treasury
Mellon
Treasury Ly Agalnat & Revenue
Consul reports attack on American Baptist Hospital in Wuchow
Washington reports anti foreign agitation in Canton and Wuchow causing unease. A mob in Wuchow on June 8 yelled foreigner slurs and pelted the American Baptist Hospital with stones. Consul Jenkins notes three crisis phases in China as rival powers maneuver toward 1925 end.
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Washington
Ganton
Jenkins
Stta
Canton
Sun Yat Sen
Alanghal
Yangised
China
Peking
Cumberland Pastors Fight Pari Mutuel Proposals
In Cumberland Maryland on June 16 the Cumberland Ministerial Union unanimously passed resolutions opposing the pari mutuel betting plan slated for the Cumberland track in October. A committee met with fair management urging reversal but management refused to act. Nineteen ministers signed the protest.
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Cumberland
Cumberland Ministerial Union
Cumberland Track
Showers Help Cool Atmosphere Today
Slight rainfall after midnight cooled the air but crops in thin sections still need a soaking rain to show growth. At sunkea the thermometer at Keadya villa read 68 degrees, the same as yesterday, with today’s noon reading near 90 and a likely rise to about 96 later.
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Sunkea
Keadyavilla
Big Shipment Of Gold To Italy
New York reports a shipment of 491 080 000 in gold to Italy, the first such transfer from the city since the war. Equitable Eastern Banking officers call it a commercial transfer with no link to a 50 million dollar Italian exchange credit. A man from Franklin Street, David Hummehouss, is held on non-support charges with a $500 bond after a hearing before Judge Leon R. Yourtes. In Braddock, eighth grade students stage a pirate at Birdtouk tonight.
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New York
Jung
United States
Italy
Equitable Eaatern Banking Corporation
J.T. Morgan & Co
Davia Hummehouss
Franklin Street
Grant
Leon R. Yourtes
St Nazaire Memorial Backed by Whitney Casting
St Nazaire Memorial supporter Robert Brindle of Hagerstown reports Mrs Harry Payne Whitney has returned from France with a bronze casting design for the St Nazaire Memorial to honor American troops landing in 1917. The dedication on June 26, 1926, ninth anniversary, will take on an international flavor.
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Robert Ioover Brindle
East Worth Street
Hagerstown
Nazaira
St. Nazaire Association
New York
Harry Payne Whitney
France
St. Nazaire
Plan to end Rift warfare in Morocco approved by cabinet
Paris June 14 The French cabinet approved Premier Pain. Jayes plans for a quick termination of the Filan war torn in Morocco and it was announced French war ships had been stationed off the Rift flank east today. Painiove arrived from Marseille where he visited the French front five minutes before the cabinet session began.
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Paris
Pain
Jayes
Morocco
Rift Flan
Painiove
Marseco
Hartman to Die in Chair in Pennsylvania
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania June 16 a new trial for Philip A Hartman for a first degree murder was refused by Judge McPherson. Hartman already convicted for killing State Trooper Francie Haley during an escape after a bank robbery. He surrendered after three days at Heading, signed a confession, and his only defense was his attorney’s address. The jury returned a first degree murder verdict after a week trial. Five workers were killed and several injured by an explosion at a pottery near Oporto.
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Gettysburg
Philip A. Hartman
McPherson
Adama
Hartman
Aineville
Francie J. Haley
Abbottstown
Heading
George J. Benner
Miss Pope On Stand Again At Chicago Trial
Miss Pope resumes testimony in Chicago as attorneys argue admissibility of more evidence in the William D. Shepherd murder case. The 16 year old foster youth was slain amid claims tied to a romance with the young millionaire William N. McGintock. Pope describes Shepherd's changing attitude after she learned she was advanced to Billy and that he had studied typhoid germs.
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Chicago
Tig Shepherd
Isabella Pope
Willian N. McGintock
Miss Pope
William D. Shepherd
Awyer
Sheperd
Billy
Shepherd
Charge Double Rates For Bodies
Washington June 16 Ex pros companies are justified in maintaining charges for the shipment of bodies which are double the local passenger rates the Interstate Commerce Commission held today in dismissing a complaint brought by undertaking associations.
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Washington
Expros
Rocal Pensenger
IntérmMate Commerce Commission
Japanese orders four more destroyers in China action
The Japanese government, impressed by the gravity of the Chinese situation, ordered four additional destroyers to Wall Toc Chima to fight.
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TORO
Bolt Strikes Equitable Building in New York Storm
A lightning bolt struck the Equitable Building in Manhattan during a severe electrical storm. Fragments of stone toppled from the coping, crashing onto Nassau Street and Gedar Street, narrowly missing a patrolman and frightening passersby.
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New York
Equitable
Financial District
Nassau
Gedar
Prohibition Split Marks Jersey gubernatorial Race
New Jersey political feud centers on prohibition and religion with Walter Edge leading the Republican camp. Senator McCran seeks the nomination amid anti saloon league backing Arthur Whitney and judge Cornelius Daretus opposing, while Doremus faces a bid to unify the dry faction and unseat the current administration. Harry Moore stands as Democratic contender in the contest.
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Newaric
Walter 4. Edge
New Jersey
Republican Orgatizaation
Anti-Saloon League
Cornelus Daretus
Ridgewood
Whitney
Edge
Doremus
McCraw
McCran
Harry Moore
Jeravy City
Nopposel
Chang's Troops Arrive Near Peking Amid Tientsin Order
A contingent of Chang Tao Lin's troops arrived from Tientsin and set up headquarters north of Peking. The orderly transfer under Chang Tao Lin, the Manchurian war lord, has reassured residents as Wa forces move into the area.
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Peking
Chang Tao Lin
Tentsin
Tientsin
Tragedy On Rail During Big Storm
Nineteen people are known to have died when a Lackawanna special wrecked near Rockport Sag two miles west of Hackettstown New Jersey during a violent storm. Fifty two were injured with many treated at Easton Pennsylvania Philadelphia hospitals and Morristown and Dover facilities. Initial reports blamed a lightning strike and a landslide that undermined the rails.
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Hackettstown
N. J
Lackawanna
Rockport Sag
Here
Easton
Warren General Hospital
Phillipsburg
Morristown Memorial Hospital
Dover General Hospital
Board of Public Utility
Gamminstonera
Lackawanna Railroad
Agin
Pally
Basten
Irs
Antonio “Wecelardt
Als
Hirhats Lahrner
Checago
Telecine Estivial
Bron Janis
Seranion
Kant
Ask Carl Chien
Saray J. Banker
Guisainis Wassertigers
Airs
Elfl Flanker
Chicago
Girl's ordeal ends on stand in New York court
Dorothy Perkin testified she had only sips of gin and was sober after cross examination by the state and judge Meinike in General Sessions Court as the district attorney sought to reconstruct the shooting scene involving Thomas Templetop, the driver.
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New York
Meinive
Lotay
Dorothy Perkin
Thomas
Templetop
McIntyre
McDonald
Dorothy
Fires Started by Strikers Add to Looting at Sydney
Incendiarism and looting tied to a miner strike near Sydney escalate despite 600 troops and a mineral police presence. A bank head screen at Tub colliery, New Aberdeen, was destroyed. homes of two former employees were burned, and private mines at Bras D'Or and Florence looted. Troops patrolled, searchlights crept through the night, and the fires spread to a carpentry shop before control.
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Sydney
British Empire Steal Corporation
New Aberdeen
Uve Company
Bras D'Or
Florence
Mora
Man Offers Body After Death to Raise Funds in Baltimore
The text reports Dr. John H. Snoke of Johns Hopkins Hospital rejecting an offer from K L Dudding of Washington DC to purchase Dudding’s body after death for medical study. Dudding, a former prisoner, claims he once faced poisoning during incarceration and argues his body could fund prison relief efforts, though the details are garbled.
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Baltimore
Luna
John H. Snoke
Johns Hopking Hospital
K. £. Dudding
Washington, D.C
Dudding
Himaatt
Dent
Prisonners
Belle
Odd
Mintake
Aftarwarde TV
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Wm. D. Shepherd
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Chang
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