King Ben Admits He Is a Bigamist in Colony Trial
King Ben Purnell, former head of the House of David colony, confessed to bigamy during the Michigan case to dissolve the religious group. He admitted marrying his then wife Queen Mary before divorce from a prior marriage and said he wed Ange Line Brown at age 16 without a divorce from the earlier partner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Joseph, Mich
Ben” Purnell
House of David
Selony
Parnell
Mary
Ange Line Brown
Mary Stoll
Washington youth takes golf seriously across 17 hour night run
Owen Evans a 19 year old Washington golfer from West Potomac Park played on the same course from 4 30 p m until 9 30 p m the next day tallying 20 laps in 17 hours. He consumed two chocolate bars and a quart of milk between sessions and wore the same shoes with only one blister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Owen Evans
Evans
South
West Potomac Park
Purnell Says No Divorce From First Wife Before Remarriage
In a sworn session, Purnell stated he did not obtain a divorce before marrying Mary Stollard, claiming his attorney advised him he did not need one. He admitted being an ignorant youth at 18 when he courted Stollard, while questioning remarks noted an aged witness being taken to rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purnell
Mary Stollard
Mary Stellara
Five Best Features Via Radio in 1927 lineup
United Press via WEAF lists five feature programs for 1927 across stations. Elite Spivak and Alfred Heather host from Toronto and Detroit. Programs include a Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Municipal Band, and other city broadcasts with EDST and EST time slots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press Weaf
Serrie
Erstr
Pest
Philco
CNRT
Toronto
Elite Spivak
Alfred Heather
WGHP
Detroit
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
WRAL
Baltimore
Baltimore Municipal Band
Septenis Orcheatra
WEAE
Baltimore Municips
WBAL
Elle Spivek
Detroit Symphony Oych
Broun Quits Job as World Writer
New York World readers saw today the folio announce the column It Seems to Me by Heywood Broun will no longer appear. The paper notes the World has long favored full expression of individual opinion from its special writers who contribute under such columns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York World
Heywooed
Broun
Mother Bathing Baby Faints, Child Drowned
In Connellsville Pennsylvania on August 12 Grace Spence four months old drowned after water shallowly splashed as her mother fainted while bathing her The mother Mrs Charles Spence regained consciousness but the infant died and Mrs Spence remains ill from the shock
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Connellsville
Grace Spence
Charles Spence
World omits Heywood Broun Sacco Vanzetti pieces
The World censored columns by Heywood Broun after he voiced strong views on the Sacco Vanzetti case. Broun refused to change topics. the World removed Broun’s articles and announced he would cease writing there though under contract for years more.
Jail substitute offer shocks state protest in Michigan
Detroit dated note reports R N Holsapple Michigan Anti-Saloon League leader offers E 5 Shumaker Indiana League chief to serve a week of his sentence at the Indiana State farm as protest against a Supreme Court ruling. He claims judges may err. Also reports Lemuel Rudy aged 3 dies from a fall through a haymow in Hollidaysburg Mercy Hospital Altoona Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
R. N. Holsapple
Michigan
Anti-Saloon League
Shumaker
Indiana League
Indiana State Farm
Indiana Supreme Court
Indiana
Mossapple
Supreme Court
Supreme
Haymow
Altoona
Lemuel
Edward Rudy
Burg
Mercy Hospital
Society Attends Jamestown Party and Related Local Notes
Jamestown society spans showers and club events. Mrs James Weiss hosts a variety shower for Gertrude Weise who soon marries Earl Pielde. prizes go to Mrs Roger Bishop and Mrs Jennie Fields. Also covered are a mother’s birthday party arranged by Miss Louise Cogswell, Country Club dinners, Paradise Club at 438 Prospect Street, and the 55 member Fogle family reunion at Hasson Park near Oil City noting attendance decline and next year’s date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
James Weiss
Gladys
Leah Weiss
Columbia Avenue
Mzs
Gertrude Weise
Earl Pielde
Roger Bishop
Ithaca
Jennie Fields
Harriet Wentz
Warren
Lucille Weiss
Mrs. Bishop
Miss Wentz
Miss Weiss
Harry F. Cogewell
Cogswell
Louise Cogswell
Miss Cogswell
Marion Bartlett
Betty Hubley
Fogle
Hasson Park
Oil City
Pleasantville
Buffalo
N.Y
Butler
Ridgway
Titusville
B. F. Fogle
Simon Fogle
K. F.isher
George Fogle
Births at Maternity Hospital Reveal Two New Daughters
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Wells of North Warren welcomed a daughter weighing 4 pounds 12 ounces born at 7 30 pm yesterday at the Maternity Hospital. Mr and Mrs Vernon No 4 announce a son weighing 6 pounds 7 ounces born at 2 30 am today at the Maternity Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Wells
North Warren
Mrs. Vernon
Maternity Hospital
Friday August 12 Radio Schedule Highlights Across Cities
United Press lists Friday’s radio lineup with multiple stations from WBAL to WEAF and WEAS. highlights include Royal Science News, Dominion Hour of Music, and orchestral performances from Jack Denny and Friedman's Orchestra plus sports updates from United Press Baseball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WBAL
Baltimore Ras
Wbal- Salon Orchentre
Royal Sience News
Merry Milkmen
Seeaz Fae
Ho Broetem
Qecherira
Haneda
Win
Taost
Cen
Dominion Hour of Music
Jack Denny
Orchestre
WOR
Newark
di Trhremen
Walders
United Press Baseball
Broadway
Indermyer and Tuckerman
Rohestra
Wie
New York
Friedman
Orchestra
Ferserthoughts
Roxsl Steoomrephers
Philco Hour
Lao
The
Granadas
LO M
Fennsylviena Root Cirele
Whitehill_ Trim
Cowboy Joe
Zereanm
Teonard
Frogreras
Philadelphia
Ccm
Manelted
Besebell
Joseph Thomas
Harstone
LaFrance Orchestra
Disney Music
Taina
Uman
Phazers
Wither
Sfringfield
Sas
Breglio
Sion
Bastoet
Promracy
Frederick ‘Shnttleworth
Ehestre
Lander Leaguers at Meadville Meet
Perry Swan son and Martin Carlton visited friends in Kane Sunday. Several from here attended the Busti picnic. Mrs. Nicholas Jacobs and Dorothy visited the former’s mother in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Proctor with Ivan and Christine visited relatives in Lakewood. Lodwick family in Titusville attended Sunday. Epworth League convention in Meadville noted with several attendees. Regular WCTU meeting held with seven members. old officers reelected. Donald Lindell, six, died after cancerous stomach growth. leaves parents and two sisters. Jamestown visits noted. Forbes Robertson family involved in charity performances of Twelfth Night in London. possible farewell appearance. Insurance ad for Tribune. Wisconsin governor accusation of seeking money for signing bills discussed in senate. adjournment planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Titusville
Mitchel Mahan
Phillip Lyons
Marion Ludwick
Edith Griggs
Florence Johnson
Elizabeth Carlson
Epworth League
Meadville
Rey
W. H. Sloan
Martin Cowles
Jamestown
Goldie Willey
Warren
Lillian Lindell
Victoria Lund
Charles Babcocker
William
Sarah Carlson
Lindblad
N. Y
Christine Wall
J. D. Proctor
Speeder fined. four fined for overtime parking at police court
Last night patrolman Lawrie Utter arrested one speeder who was fined 13 dollars including costs before Justice Watts N. Davis in police court. Four motorists paid fines for overtime parking today, two at the police session and two at Davis' office this morning. Gas tax receipts for the six months ending June 30 totaled 6,101,697 dollars, up 808,369 from 1926. Total year collections to June 30 were 12,616,861, compared with 11,153,866 the year before. County shares for the six months amounted to 1,525,424, while 40,516 of the three-cent tax was collected from new businesses. At the library, Bebe Daniels stars in Senorita at Library Theatre tonight, with vaudeville, a Len Turpin comedy, and Pathe News.
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Lawrie Utter
Watts N. Davis
Davis
Samuel Lewis
Lewis
Desers
Bebe Daniels
Warren
Library Theatre
Death Notice of Mrs J H Bratton of Angola
Warren dispatch reports the death of Mrs J H Bratton, 65, of Angola, at Buffalo General Hospital at 6 30 AM after a lengthy hospital stay. She is survived by her husband, a son Fred of Detroit, and four nieces. Funeral services are scheduled for Monday afternoon with burial in Angola cemetery.
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J. H. Bratton Warren
J. H Bratton
Angola
Buffalo General Hospital
Bratton
Fred
Detroit
Michigan
A. R. Hartian
Carl E. Nelson
Charles Hamme
Claude E. Fiero
Warren
Burie
Angola Cemetery
Weather deficit records in Harrisburg for August
Harrisburg reports a persistent temperature deficit in August with the United States Weather Bureau noting a 50 degree shortfall thus far this month. Elton Peterman, assistant observer, said yesterday's deficiency was eight degrees and the weekly total reaches 19 degrees to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
United States Weather Bureau
Elton Peterman
Stock Market Roundup By Kay Richards and Oe Member
In today s stock market notes from the New York Stock Exchange firm Kay Richards and Oe the report lists price movements and notable activity. Investors scan sessions for shifts in shares, bonds and market indicators amid routine trading at the exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kay, Richards
New York Stock Exchange
Roomas
Warren Bavings Bank
Industrials and oils listed by company names in OCR fragment
An OCR fragment lists numerous industrial and oil company names and abbreviations, including American Can, American Locomotive, American Sugar, Canadian Pacific, Chesapeake Ohio, Chicago, Kansas City Southern, Kennecott Copper, Gulf States Steel, Hudson Motors, Packard, Pan American Petroleum, Phillips Petroleum, Reading, Shell, Sinclair, Standard Oil, Union Oil, Westinghouse, Woolworth, Willys Overland, and others, in a long scrambled catalog-like sequence. The text resembles clipped listings of firms across the oil, steel, and manufacturing sectors, with scattered percentages and garbled punctuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wee
American Car Foundry
American Steel Foundry
American Sugar
American Sum Tobacco
American Tel
American Woolen
Anaconda Atchison
Atlantic Gulf
Atlantic Rifinins
Briggs Spomulactais
Cahifornix Petronum
Canadian Pacific
Sen Tsang
Cerro de Pasco
Chesapeake
Ohio
Chicago Rock
Chicago
Milwaukee
Chile
Chrysler - Goca
Cols - Col
Crucible Steel
Dede
Brothers Common
Freeport
Texas General Agphot General Eleetric General Mitues
Great Notchers
Great Northern Rwy
Gulf States Steel
Hudson Motors Hopp Motors
If and Gas
International Combustion
International Niche
Jordan
Kansas City
Kennecott Copper - Lehigh
Mack ‘Truck
Marland Oi
Middle Suites
Skelly Oil
Southern Pacific
Southern B. R
Studebaker - Texas Corp
Tidewater Associated
Trans Con
Union O
California
U. S
U. S. Steel
Vanadirm
Westinghouse Electric White Motore
Woolworth
Willys Overland
Epper
Stocks Lower Under Pressure in New York Market
In New York on Aug 12 a stock exchange firm failure triggered a broad downturn as Manhattan Electrical Supply fell from 64 7 3 to 50 1 2 amid persistent selling. General Motors traded active early, rising to 224 before drifting to 216 1 2 as traders cited news of the store dividend and tightening loan conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stock Exchange
Manhattan
Manhattan Electrical Supply
General Motors
Slayer of Stepson Goes to Death Chair
F M Snow was executed in the electric chair at State Penitentiary Montr ville Tex for the murder of his stepson Bernie Connally. He was strapped in at 2 am and pronounced dead at 12 12 am. Snow confessed to also killing his wife and mother in law after arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Penitentiary
Montrville
Tex
F.M. Snow
I Bernie Connally
Snow
Lnter
Leaders Speak Continues on Sacco Vanzetti Case
Assistant Attorney General Donovan, on a personal visit, refused to comment on the Sacco Vanzetti case beyond saying the federal government has no role. He suggested matters are for Governor Fuller and the state, not federal authorities, to decide. Davis, secretary of labor, arrived saying Colidge not seeking re election, and that DOL survey shows labor leaders regret Colidge’s nonrun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Davis
Colides
Donovan
Sacco-Vanzetti
Fuller
Department of Aution
Federal Administration
Department of Jahor
Colidge
Labor
Mr. Coolidge
Mooseneart
Market Advertisements Circulate in Regional Papers
An assortment of classified notices appears listing advertisers such as The Tritone, Standard Oil of Kentucky, Standard Oil of New York, Stewart Warner, Curb Market, African Marcoabo, Continental Oil, Durant Del, General Mines Idaho Copper, New Bradford Oil, New York Oil, Pittsburg Market, Arkansas Grain, and Lone Star. The items suggest regional commerce and industrial brands featured in a newspaper page segment.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ben
Sacco
Vanzetti
Heywood Broun
Halon Pulitzer
Braun
Atest
Tribune Spst
Milton Caughey
Brockaay
Calcutta
Paradise Club
E. J. Gough
Prospect Street
Sliss Winifred Gough
Diss Madeline Dove
Brie Spivak
Siolinist
Heather
Senor
San
Temsr
Ws5b
Atlanta
Wideawake
Orchetrea
WEAS
Paula Schlueter
Soprans
Osro Orchestra
Popelar
Sane
WFAA
WEAF
Schubert Chevallin
WOC
Davenpfow
Ag- Toker
Des Moines
Mike
Otherr
Hee
Bard
Hibenk Fentie Ville
Lander
Lastworth League
Hours of
Wisconsin
Jonnsfer Forbes Robertson
London
Forbes Robertson
Sir Johnston
Lady Forbes Robertson
Tribune Insurance
Madison
Wis
Fred KR. Zimmerman
Wisconsin Senate
J. Jh. Carroll
Glidden
Wic
Carroll
Walter 5
Goodland
Gene
Wn hovsoUgition
Carrell
Senate
Ahs
Edinger's Electric Shop
Penne. Ave
East
Baird Tire Shop
Market St
Goodyears
Tago
N. I
Stewart Warner
Siegfried Inc
WITM
Jong
Castile
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