Three Babies Die in Illinois Redemption Home Poisoning
At the Springfield Redemption Home three babies died and five others under four years old were gravely ill from suspected food poisoning. Rose Ann Norbeck and Betty Bergman died, another death followed, and food from Sunday breakfast was blamed. The home’s matron and housekeeper also fell ill.
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Springfield
Springfield Redemption Home
Rose Ann Norbeck
Betty Bergman
Minnie Manley
Alice Pauk
Bergman
Norbeck
Henrietta Hunt
Nome
Ross Ruinher
Letha Miller
Margaret Miller
Grace Reeves
Paul Wiltsang
Radical activities resume in China amid clashes in Canton
June 20 report from Pewanghai notes resumed radical activity in Canton triggering police confrontations with demonstrators. In a clash during an attempt to break up a parade a demonstrator was killed, prompting followers to march to government offices demanding accountability for the death.
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Pewanghai
Canton
Beverly Hills Mayor Will Rogers Improves After Operation
Beverly Hills Mayor Will Rogers, a noted film cowboy, shows improvement in hospital after a serious operation. He spent a comfortable night and doctors report strong recuperative powers.
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Los Angeles
Will Rogers
Beverly Hills
Cowboy
Tolstoy Aids Young Authors In Hollywood Move
Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of Leo Tolstoy, announced in Hollywood that with producer approval he will devote his life to helping aspiring writers break into films. He praised story value as a rising star in the screen industry.
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Hollywood
Calif
Ilya Tolstoy
Russia
Leo Tolstoy
Butte Papers Suspend Publication In Printer Strike
Local papers Butte Miner Daily Post and Anaconda Standard will suspend publication with today’s editions after printers demand higher wages and shorter hours. Anaconda Typographical Union rejected arbitration and voted for a 2 PM strike, prompting the shut down of the three papers.
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Butte
Butte Miner
Daily Post
Anaconda Standard
Anaconda
Anaconda Typographical Union
Two Major League Games Postponed By Wet Grounds
Washington at Philadelphia and American New York at Poston were postponed due to wet grounds. Chicago game score shows Meadows and Gooch with 12 runs on 4 hits and 0 errors while Carl Gonzales pitched shutout innings.
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York
Poston
Ashington
Philadelphia
Chicago
R.h.egh
Meadows
Gooch
Carl Gonzales
Crosses Atlantic in 33-foot Boat
Captain Thomas Drake of Seattle arrives in Plymouth after solo crossing of the Atlantic in his 35 foot Pilgrim. He left Charleston on April 27 and, due to bad weather, sailed directly to Plymouth avoiding the Azores. Drake says he slept through the crossing except during storms.
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Plymouth
Eng
Thomas Drake
Seattle
Wash
Atlantic
Drake
Charleston
S. C
Azores
President Coolidge Praises Disabled Veterans Aid
In a letter read at the Disabled American Veterans convention in El Paso Texas on June 20 President Coolidge lauds the group for aiding wounded veterans and vows continued government support The letter cites over one billion dollars in compensation payments 323000 current claims 128000 trained or placed rehabilitating programs cost 650 million for rehab and 64 million for modern hospital buildings with 28708 beds and 76000 patients served.
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el Paso
Tex
Coolidge
Inquest Opens Into Death By Deadly Poison
An inquest opens in Salt Lake City into the death of Mrs. Cla rinda Little of Alpine Utah after she drank a curative solution sold as medicine. The poison was sold by a clerk at a Mabey Pharmacy, not a registered pharmacist, to two nieces who asked for quinine. Prosecutors weigh involuntary manslaughter charges against the clerk who logged mice in the poison book.
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Salt Lake City
N. H. Tanner
Clarinda Little
Alpine
Utah
Charles R. Mabey
Pur nell warns girls at Shiloh colony to withhold truth
In St. Joseph Michigan on June 20, Mrs Augusta Fortney Flynn testified in the dissolution suit against Benjamin Purnell leader of the House of David. Flynn quoted Purnell warning that the colony’s truth must not be told to outsiders and called them beasts to be destroyed.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Benjamin Purnell
House of David
Shiloh
Purnell
Augusta Fortney Flynn
Ataloa Indian singer returns to Chickasaws to preserve songs
Ataloa a Muskogee Oklahoma singer known on the concert stage returns to her people the Chickasaws to preserve tribal melodies legends and harvest songs that are fading. She will stay indefinitely at Bacone College for Indians to work with churches and clubs in New York having urged her to help her people.
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Muskogee
Okla
Ataloa
New York
Bacone College For Indians
Pope Praises US Bishops On Mexico Church Aid
In Rome the Pope lauded the American episcopacy for informing public opinion about the Catholic Church in Mexico and supporting its Mexican colleagues. He expressed sorrow for Chinese suffering due to external doctrines and pledged ongoing support for the Chinese people. London report adds Hsuan Tung condemning rotten generals and foreseeing a future emperor in united China with Britain and Japan’s help.
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Rome
Pope Pius
Catholic Episcopacy
United States
Mexico
London
China
Hsuan Tung
Tientsin
Daily Express
Chang Tso-Lin
Hsuan
England
Japan
No Possibility of Aerial Attack
Major General Amos A. Fries, chief of the U S Army chemical warfare service, says enemy planes would not reach the United States except on carriers and would be deterred by navy forces. He notes Lindbergh and Chamberlin could barely cross Atlantic and could not return.
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Cleveland
Lindbergh
Chamberlin
Amos A. Fries
Chemical Warfare Service
United States Army
Sojourner’s Club
General Fries
Sojourners Club
Masons
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Three Foster Children Drown In Cow Creek Tragedy
In Redding California on June 20 three children Bertha Irene Foster 15 Frank Clifford Foster 13 and Marion Irma Foster 11 drowned when their mother Maude Foster fell into Cow Creek. A fourth child survived the harrowing escape. The incident occurred near the town as rescuers pulled Mrs Foster to safety and recovered the bodies.
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Redding
Calif
Maude Foster
Cow Creek
Here
Bertha Irene Foster
Frank Clifford Foster
Marion Irma Foster
Supreme Court Awards 250000 for Blindness in 1921 Plunge
Dr Joseph D Yocum of Middletown New York wins 250000 in a sealed verdict opened today in the supreme court for total blindness from a bolt on an interborough subway train door mechanism that detached and struck his left eye. The 50 year old former surgeon at the skin and cancer hospital and Presbyterian hospital sued for half a million dollars. He earned degrees from Leland Stanford Columbia and Harvard and served in the World War with French British and American forces performing over 3300 major operations on soldiers.
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New York
Joseph D. Yocum
Middletown
N. Y
Supreme Court
Interborough
Yocum
Leland Stanford
Columbia
Harvard
Giant three motored mono plane arrives in Tucson
The three motored mono plane, carrying Lieutenants Lester Maitland and A F Hegenberger, arrived in Tucson from Kelly Field San Antonio shortly after 11 o clock today. They plan a San Francisco to Honolulu flight next month.
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Tucson
Ariz
Lester Maitland
A. F. Hegenberger
San Francisco
Honolulu
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Chinese warlord asserts northern forces number five hundred thousand to six hundred thousand
Marshal Chang Tso Lin, stalled in Peking, declares in a speech that northern forces total 500000 to 600000 and are determined to fight the Reds until they are exterminated.
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Shanghai
Chang Tso-Lin
Peking
China
Student given life sentence for envoy murder in Poland
Warsaw reports Boris Kowceda a Russian student was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Russian envoy M. Virkoff at a Warsaw railway station on June 1. The tribunal rejected the death penalty as unnecessary to curb an epidemic fear, noting Kowceda’s claim of avenging Russia's victims and citing mitigating factors including youthful age and good character.
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Warsaw
Poland
Boris Kowceda
Peter Virkoff
Koweeda
Kowceda
M. Virkoff
Russia
Hundred to One Shot Wins Race at Blue Bonnet Track
Antimony, a 100 to 1 long shot, won the second race of the third day of Blue Bonnet’s summer meet in Montreal. The five and one half furlong sprint carried an $800 purse, with Antimony paying $27.40 on a $2 bet. Owner is W. H. Trenhol of Montreal.
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Montreal
Blue Bonnett's
Antimony
W. H. Trenhol
Gun smuggling plot halted as rifles seized near San Pedro
Federal officers stopped an alleged plan to smuggle a truck and trailer load of rifles and ammunition toward Mexico. Three men, including John B. Mannersen, Gilermo Rosas, and Ralph O. Sanders, were detained in Los Angeles on conspiracy charges. A chartered fishing schooner failed to appear for the cargo. An insurance broker tied to the shipment said the hardware was insured for 40 000 with 5 000 in expenses. More arrests were anticipated.
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Los Angeles
San Pedro
Mexico
Santa Barbara
John B. Mannersen
Pacific Arms Company of
San Francisco
Gilermo Rosas
Anu
Ralph O. Sanders
Lucian Wheeler
Federal Department of Justice
Mannersen
Carony
American Falls Reservoir Nears Full Capacity
Boise June 20 AP American Falls reservoir is within less than 100000 acre feet of its 1700000 acre foot capacity as of June 18 the storage total 1613440 acre feet during the week adding 120030 acre feet Jackson Lake reservoir rose by 16580 acre feet to 703390 acre feet in storage.
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Boise
American Falls
United States Reclamation Service
State Department of Reclamation
Jackson Lake
Lindbergh Plans Westward Hideaway After New York Frenzy
New York dispatch reports Charles A. Lindbergh hoping to vanish from public view in a small western town after a week of attention. His bodyguard Arthur Wellander says the aviator will seek rest away from crowds once the frenzy subsides.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Arthur Wellander
Colonel Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Africa
Wallander
Middle West
St. Louis
Police Academy
High Honors to American Fliers for Trans Atlantic Flight
Vienna conferred the Goldenen Barenzeichen Der Republic on Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles Levine for their New York to Germany trans Atlantic flight. President Hainisch awarded the honor in a formal ceremony marking the achievement.
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Vienna
Austria
President Hainisch
Austrian Republic
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Charles Levine
Republic
New York
Germny
United States Proposes Expanded Naval Tonnage Limits
The United States proposed a three power extension of the 5-5-3 naval limitation to cruisers destroyers and submarines at Geneva conference. Gibson outlined new tonnage limits for US Britain and Japan with scrapping goals and phased replacement plans.
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Geneva
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Coolidge
Hugh Gibson
Gibson
France
Italy
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