Birth of the Scopes trial in Dayton Tennessee
Dayton Tenn June 30 reports Scopes case originated in a store argument dis eo myth by 'oom w. é¢ suit Test case was to test the Tennessee anti evolution law. Rappleyea said the American Civil Liberties Union financed and that the test case was held for publicity. A telegram to the union and a letter to officials launched the case. Scopes was later arrested and the world focused on a Tennessee town.
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Dayton
Tenn
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Rhea County Bofra
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Oa. White
Cols. Sco Tiot
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American Civil Liberties Union
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Iha
Chattanooga
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White
Scopés
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Rhea Central High School
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Rhea County
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Board of Education
Scopes
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Wanderer Suffers Mosquito Bites in New Orleans
Leslie Moore, 21, of Detroit, was sent to a hospital after arriving exhausted at the tenth police precinct station. He had ridden trains for four days with no food and survived on mosquitoes bites during the hunger ordeal. doctors report he is improving.
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Leslie Moore
Detroit
Mich
Tenth
Woman Leads in Special Race for Congress in Massachusetts
In Lowell on June 30, Edith Nourse Rogers led in the first town reporting in the fifth Massachusetts district special election to fill the Rogers vacancy. Rogers received 102 votes to Eugene Foss’s 21 as Foss trailed in the early results.
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Lowell
Mass
R.P
Ghirley
Massachusetts
United States
Hn Jacob Rogers
Edith Nourse Rogers
Eugene Foss
Manchester spinners vote to reduce hours for American yarns
Mee spinners in Manchester vote overwhelmingly to adopt reduced production by shortening the working shed hours by 234 hours per year. The Federation of Cotton Spinners had urged mills using American yarns to adopt the policy.
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Manchester
Eng
Federation of Cotton Spinnerson
MacMillan's Ship Heard In Rochester Chronicle
C E Dengler radioed from Rochester that Donalé B MacMillan's ship Sweem is bound for the Arctic. Bowdoin reported off Labrador about 1,256 miles from Rochester.
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Sweem
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Labrador
Reochester
Nine Die in Moscow Express Derailment At Taiga
Nine people were killed and thirty two injured when the Chita Moscow express derailed yesterday at Taiga about one hundred miles east of Novo Nikolayevsk on the Trans Siberian line.
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Taiga
Novo Nikolaevsk
Wharves Reopen Under Government Guarantees Canton
The Thain customs house and wharves reopened in Canton today after the provincial government guaranteed safety and protection. Cotton futures and prices are referenced from New Orleans and New York markets, with July and December contracts noted.
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Canton
A.P
New Orleans
Santa Barbara Earthquake Witnesses Chronicle Shaken City
Stanford seismologist Dr. Bailey Willis predicted the quake that hit Santa Barbara as the tramblors twisted eight miles of Southern Pacific track. Los Angeles observer Dr. Frederick Vining Fisher saw the event from a moving train window. hotel damage and a gas storage tank fire followed.
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Stanford
Santa Barbara
Palo Alto
Southern Pacific
Frederick Vining Fisher
Los Angeles
Speculators Push Prices Higher On Opening Stock Market
Speculators for advance control return to the New York market with earthquake fears eased. Public utilities motors rubbers and high priced industrials lead the gains as General Motors General Electric and Electric Power advance. American Can spikes then slips after dividend news. Woolworth hits a record top while United States Rubber Fisk and others rise. Southern Railway declines on profit taking. Foreign exchanges show mixed movement.
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Electric Power
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Géneral Cigar
United Cigar Stores
du Pont
Independent Oil and Gas
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Ward Baking
Southern Railway
Castle Rock Sentinel Swept From Santa Barbara Coast
A coastal quake yesterday washed Castle Rock from the Santa Barbara shore into the sea. The sentinel, known to locals and visitors, vanished beneath the waves as residents reported the event.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Santa Beach
Olf
Anti-Jewish Movement Reported Across the Country
A government minister has ordered a crackdown on an anti Jewish movement said to have sprung up in various parts of the country. The war ministry seeks representative measures to address the unrest as authorities closely watch the spread of the movement.
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SOPTA
Phie
Allarrisons
Megsyures-Agsitiet
Kirkwood Slumps in Scotch Match at Glew Eagles
Joe Kirkwood, American professional, slumped to an 80 in the first qualifying round of the Glew Eagles thousand guineas tournament at Glen Eagles, Scotland, after a brilliant yesterday.
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Kirkwood
Glen Eagles
Scotland
Joe Kirkwood
United States
Scopes Vanishes Again in Tennessee Evolution Case
Dayton Tennessee June 30. Professor John T Scopes, hailed as both hero and goat in the Tennessee evolution trial, again disappeared from public view as defense backers sought him for a conference with attorneys in Chicago. He had just left for Chattanooga and has not reappeared, eluding photographers and reporters who chased the case.
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Tenn
A.P
John T. Scopes
Tennessee
George W. Rappleyea
Chicago
Scopes
Chattanooga
Newap Mén
Kentucky
Mother Loses Her Race Against Death in Merida Child
In New Orleans on June 30 a Merida Yucatan couple brought home their 20 month old daughter Enrisueta after she died aboard the steamer Bakke while en route to quarantine. The child fell ill in Merida and could not be saved by local doctors.
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Jose
Merida
Yucatan
Enrisueta
New Orleans
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