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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1930
Page
3
The body of Mrs. Ida May Galbraith a 63 year old nurse was recovered from Lake Michigan at the foot of Hollywood Ave Chicago. Police say she took her own life taping her lips to prevent an in voluntary scream with her head wrapped in cheesecloth and mouth sealed.
From Tonopah Nevada on June 25 a green bodied caterpillar swarm with a saw like tail advances between Luning and Mina destroying greasewood and sagebrush vegetation experts say it is unlike any prior visitor. A motorist reported the line of insects stretching about 75 miles with fifteen legs on each side aiding movement.
Park H. Pollard of Cavendish cousin of Calvin Coolidge was nominated by the Vermont Democratic Party at the biennial caucus in Burlington. Pollard stated he would repeal the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act.
A fragment notes rapid movement and hints at the origin of a post under investigation. The readable portion suggests haste and a location hint but lacks clear names or dates, leaving the exact source and context unresolved.
A wrecked air mail plane linked to Maurice Graham was found in the Cedar City area Utah after a January 10 disappearance. Parachute with Graham’s name and his jacket were located near the cockpit, though the mail compartment remained intact and the plane lightly damaged.
Two masked robbers held up a large dice game in a downtown Atlanta hotel, escaping with about 2300 dollars. They entered using the alias of a local figure known as a Big Shot, tore a telephone from the wall, and locked the room for two hours before a bell boy freed the players. Several gamblers were searched, but one man’s shoes with hundreds of dollars remained missed, and police only heard rumors with no official complaints.
A dense schedule of radio programs across eastern stations including WEAF WJZ WBZ KDKA WABC and WGY. Programs cover music drama concerts news talks and serials with varied times from 5:45 to 12:00. Listings include station callsigns and program titles such as Shilkret Concert Orchestra Old Counselor and Amos n Andy with multiple affiliate stations per item.
Mostly fair tonight and Thursday. Local observations show high temperatures yesterday and low last night with departures from normal noted for the month. The report comes from the U S Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau station at Thomasville indicating a stable warm weather pattern.
Weather conditions show little change from yesterday with low pressure over the north Atlantic states and western Plains while high pressure sits along the Gulf coast and Pacific. Light precipitation occurred in the Upper Valleys and southern Appalachians with cooler readings from the Rockies to the Pacific. No major changes expected in the next 36 hours.
Fire at Chicago area Municipal Airport destroys two hangars Universal Airlines and Grey Goose Air Lines, injuring no one. Twenty seven planes including twelve tri motor passengers are lost, with a machine shop valued at three quarters of a million dollars and power lines knocked out. Flights to Chicago planned from Cleveland Kansas City St. Louis and Tulsa to resume with dawn departures.
In Valdosta Georgia Tobe Folsom aged 19 was acquitted of a murder charge in the death of Stanford Cothron a 17 year old farm youth beaten on a highway near the city on April 24 The jury deliberated 45 minutes before verdict Folsom denied any knowledge of the slaying and said he and Jelks Crosby and Claude Adams merely found the body Josua Spires a farmer testified for the state that he saw the slaying Crosby and Adams were indicted but not tried
Federal prohibition cleanup in northeastern Alabama led to about 100 arrests on illegal alcohol charges including 10 women. Agents seized several stills and hundreds of gallons of whiskey mash during the operation centered in Birmingham and nearby counties.
In Atlanta on June 2 hospital staff treated several insects removed from patients. Mrs H L Watts had a bug extracted from her ear, J G Foster had a fly removed from his ear, and a washer was removed from a little boy. Milton Bedford seven swallowed a washer from a truck but recovered and left after examination.
Clarence Corp was assaulted in a Kansas City park when two men struck him with a club and robbed him of 84 along with his docket, trousers, shirt and underwear. He fled, wrapped in newspapers, and later spoke to police while still overheated.
Berlin harbor pilots for inbound motorists have become popular with visitors. The National Automobile Club has added 15 pilots, increasing total stations to 24. Motorists can surrender driving to a pilot familiar with the city to reach their destination calmly.
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