Rum running fuels Florida coast as bootleggers paradise
A Chicago Daily News report described a booming liquor trade along the Florida coast during Prohibition. Nassau and Havana ports supplied vast ships of liquor to the United States, with clearings reaching millions of gallons and routes through Key West Miami and Newark. The piece quotes an investigator and bootlegger guide Terry detailing shipments to Chicago and the ease of evading inspectors, highlighting lax enforcement and limited patrols along 1,200 miles of Florida coast.
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Associated Press
Chicago
South Atlantic
Chicago Daily News
Florida
Nassau
United States
Miami
Havana
Atlantic
Terry
Haryana
Key West
U. S
CBIR
New Jersey
Jersey
Newark
Bahamas
Washington
Westnd
Grand Bahama
London
Glasgow
America
Col
G Nutt
Courier delivery deadline and reprint policy note
The Courier will be delivered before 6:80. If not received by then due to an error, call 3100 for a copy. Phone calls should reach the office before 6:20 p.m.
Alice Robertson seeks light underwear plan at Fort Gibson
Former congresswoman and welfare worker Alice Robertson visited Soldiers Memorial Hospital to quell a mutiny among troops about a Fort Gibson picnic. Rebels blamed her bonus vote. Robertson proposed a light underwear campaign to ease tensions amid hot weather.
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United Press
Muskogee
Okla
Alice Robertson
Soldiers’ Memorial
Fort Gibson
Alice
Robertson
Sam
Beard 15 Feet Long Chief Attraction at Salesmen's Meet
Langseth from Barney North Dakota, aged 77, drew crowds at the International Association of Specialty Salesmen convention in Chicago with a 15 foot beard braided in a bag under his vest. He said he started growing it at 16 and has earned a gold medal in a whisker contest at the 1949 Sacramento celebration.
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Chicago
Huans
W. Langseth
Barney
N. D
International Association of Specialty Salesmen
Langseth
Thad
Sacramento
Ford Buys Old Inn for Historical Museum
Sudbury July 10 Henry Ford, the Detroit automobile maker, has purchased Ye Wayside Inn famed by Longfellow. Reports say Ford paid about 100000 for the relics and antiques housed in the ancient inn, which has operated since 1666, and it will be converted into a historical museum.
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Sudbury
Mays
Henry Ford
Detroit Automobile
Ford
Experts to Op e Qutcorn Hog and Wheat Situations
Fourteen economists and statisticians will meet in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday at the invitation of Secretary Wallace to issue a statement on the immediate outlook for corn, hog, and wheat. Attendees include B Wisenow, G F Warren, F A Pearson, H W Morehouse, Carl Snyder, B M Anderson Jr, E W Wentworth, H A Wallace, H G Moulton, E G Nourse, W Grimes, J F P Ebersole, WE King, among others.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Wallace
Department of Agriculture Today
B. Wisenow
Chicago
G. F. Warren
F. A. Pearson
Carnnell University
H. W. Morehouse
American Farm Bureau Federation
Carl Snyder
New York Federal Resenue Bank
M. Anderson, Jr
Chase National Bank
New York
E_ W. Wentworth
Armour & Co
H. A. Wallace
Des Moines
H. G. Moulton
E. G. Nourse
Institute of Economics
WE Grimes
College of Agriculture
Manhattan
Kan
J. FP. Ebersole
Federal Reserve Bank
Minneapoli
W King
National Research Institute
Girl Faces Prison for Helping Sweetheart Break Jail
Kansas City, July 16. Routh Randall held on charges of smuggling hack saw blades into the county jail to aid her bandit sweetheart James Ingram. Four 10 inch blades were found hidden in her clothing after a sheriff tip. She could face two to ten years in prison.
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Kansas City
Randall
Cherizes
James Ingram
Ingram
Isha
Aged Woman Fatally Burns Before Move to Adel Home
Mrs. Matilda Grossman, 72, fatally burned in Des Moines as she searched for water while packing to move to her son’s new Adel Indiana home. Her clothing caught fire. she died before help arrived and her body was found by the milkman during his rounds.
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Des Moines
Fury
Matilda Grossman
Adel
Lavish French Bride charged with murder of Egyptian prince
London July 10 United Press reports Princess Marie Marguerite Fahmy a French girl is charged at Bow Street with murdering her husband Prince Alykamel Fahmy Bey a prominent London nobleman found dead in his Savoy hotel suite with multiple gunshot wounds. Scotland Yard detained the bride after the discovery but she was later bound over for murder.
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United Press
London
Marie Marguerite Fahmy
Bow Street
Alykamel Fahmy Bey
Savoy Hotel
Charing Cross Hospital
Scotland Yard
Prince Alskamel
Savoy
New York Broker Expelled for Fraud and False Pretense
Harvey A. Willis head of Harvey A. Willis & Co. stock brokers was expelled from the Consolidated stock exchange. The exchange committee charged him with fraud and false pretense by using two opposite transactions to nullify client orders and divert them to his own account. Willis had been a member since December 12, 1917.
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New York
Harvey A. Is
Harvey A. Willis & Co
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Exchange
Ways and Means
Consolidated Exchange
Harvey A. Willis
Willis
South Dakota Man Elected Grand Exalted Ruler of Elks
Watertown South Dakota James G McFarland was elected grand exalted ruler at the Elks convention in Atlanta Georgia Boston named as the 1924 convention city George Winslow Utica New York named grand esteemed loyal knight John K Burch Grand Rapids Michigan named grand treasurer Louis Bolsemene East St Louis named board trustee member per Gov H W McMasters presenting the nomination
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Atlanta
James G. McFarland
Watertown
S. D
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
H.W. McMasters
South Dakota
Boston
George Winslow
Utica
John K. Burch
Grand Rapids, Mich
Louis Bolsemene
East St. Louis
Board of
Grand Trustees
Ban on Stockyards Charges Delayed to August 1
Washington July 10 An agricultural department order delaying effect of re weighing and yardage charge bans at the Chicago and Omaha stockyards to August 1 to allow time for filing new tariffs by the Union Stockyards company of Omaha and the Union Stockyards and Transit Co of Chicago.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Omaha
Union Stockyards Company
Atl’ Qmaha
Union Stockyards & Transit Co
Mrs Buzzi Faces Death Penalty Amid Appeals
New York reporting that Mrs Anna Buzzi joked with relatives in her Auburn prison cell as she awaited execution for the murder of Frederick Schneider. Her attorneys vow to appeal for commutation to life, hoping Gov Smith will grant clemency if the appeal fails.
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New York
Anna Buzzi
Auburn Prison
Frederick Schneider
Britain to Act Independently on Reparations Policy
London July 10 British cabinet plans independent handling of Germany reparations breaking joint action with France and Belgium. Premier Baldwin to announce in commons Thursday a move to sever ties and negotiate with the Cuno government while Labor MPs push for pledges against any action that could lead to war.
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United Press
London
Stanley Baldwin
House of Commons
Britain
France
Belgium
Germany
Cuno
Miller
International News Wire
Ramsay MacDonald
Courtney Funeral to Be Held at Greene Presbyterian
Mrs. M. Courtney 76 died after a weeks illness. Funeral will be Wednesday at 10:30 a m in Greene Presbyterian Church with burial in Rose Hill cemetery. Survived by three daughters and four sons. She lived in Graene Ia over 40 years.
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Boyd
Guy
Will
B. Moscot
Pomona
Cal
Swant
Webster
John
Portland
Ore
Sam
Cedar Rapids
Last Chance Saloon Endures Fire in London Landmark
Oakland dispatch reports fire damaged an adjacent building while the Last Chance Saloon in London withstood the blaze. Johnny Heinhold directed firefighters and protected the saloon with an umbrella as water flooded around the site. Jack London mentored a homeless youth who learned writing there and later forged a lasting legacy tied to the bar.
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International News Wire
Oakland
Cal
Jack
Johnny Heinhold
Johnny
Jack London
Tack
Dack
London
Tohnny
50 Chicago Brokers Shut Shop and Flee When Probe Begins
Chicago reports that over 50 brokerage houses have closed and their proprietors fled the state as a grand jury investigation into bucket shops proceeds. Assistant State Attorney Robert McMillan said brokers chose to quit rather than have methods examined. The firms were said to handle about $60,000,000 in annual business.
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Chicago
Robert McMillan
YWCA Building Contract Set at Sixty Six Thousand Five Hundred
The YWCA will erect a new home at Part avenue and Lafayette street with a base bid of 66 500 awarded to the H A Maine Co. Work begins within a week and must finish by December 1. Total project cost targeted near 150000 with interiors and services to follow for occupancy in early summer 1924. Mrs. J B Sedgwick chairs the building committee. C W Chapman leads the board of trustees.
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Part Avenue
Lafayette Street
H. A. Maine Company
Maing
Fugitive With Nitroglycerin Nabbed After Train Raid
Harry Roof, wanted for mail robbery by postal authorities, was captured by Sheriff F. T. Kennedy after a raid on a freight train near East Dubuque. Roof leapt into a deputy's arms while attempting to flee and was found with three ounces of nitroglycerin and three dynamite caps. He will be returned to Kansas City authorities who have hunted him for three years.
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Dubuque
Harry ¥. Roof
Sherliff F. T Kennedy
East Dubuque
Roof
Kennedy
Kansas City
Major Sugar Firms Cut Price to Eight Fifty Per Hundred
Three leading companies National Sugar American Sugar and Warner Sugar cut refined sugar by 25 points to 8.50 per hundred pounds today in New York. Feueral Sugar made a similar cut yesterday.
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New York
National Sugar
American Sugar
Warner Sugar Companies
Feueral Sugar
Theosophy Leader Must Pay Damages in Love Suit
California Supreme Court upholds a San Diego jury’s 100000 dollar award against Katherine Tingley, Purple Mother of the Theosophical Society, for alienation of affections of Dr. George W. Mohn. The ruling reverses an appellate finding. The case began after allegations that Tingley used undue influence post 1905 to estrain Dr. Mohn from Irene M. Mohr.
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San Francisco
Cal
California Supreme Court
Katherine Tingley
American Theosophical Society
Irene M. Mohr
San Diego
George
W. Mohn
Leviathan’s Cherbourg Arrival Sends 800 Aboard to Paris
The Leviathan reached Cherbourg on July 10 with 800 passengers sent to Paris by special trains. The voyage began in New York July 4 as a U S passenger liner flag ship. Officers faced rumors of potential warrants amid deserter claims from British ships. The trip's round cost roughly 8400 000 with 120 000 for fuel.
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Cherbourg
Leviathan
Paris
Southampton
Leviathan Iett
New York
Kla
Stars and Stripes
Scotland Yard
Wer
Hartley
AIK
Trance
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Daugherty
Associated Dress
Washington, D. C
Shipping Board
Treasury
Bank founders deny fight financing caused Great Falls bank failure
Great Walls July 10. George H Stanton president of Stanton Trust & Savings Bank says financing of the Dempsey Gibbons heavyweight bout did not cause the bank to fail. L Q Squeiton, state bank superintendent, also disputes the claim. Stanton helped raise part of the 1.1 million paid to Dempsey. bank blamed on postwar conditions and depositor mistrust after other local bank closures. First State Bank of Shelby, backed by Jim Johnson, also closed as state examiner took control of Stanton Trust.
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Great Walls
Mont
Dempsey
Hbbons
Shelby
Stanton Trust & Savings Bank of
Great Falls
George H. Stanton
L. Q. Squeiton
Stanton
I Johnson
First State Bank of
Jim Johnson
Dempsey-Gibbons
Skelton
Hare
Stanton. Trust & Savings Bank
Three Iowans Named U of I Fellowships
Three Iowa students are among 62 recipients to hold fellowships and scholarships in the University of Iowa graduate school next year. The awardees include J. H. Carothers in chemistry of Des Moines, B. P. Reinech in mathematics of Dubuque, and N. A. Pettinger in agronomy of Creston.
Immigrant Who Began in Steerage Now Serves Cabinet
Forty two years ago a Welsh immigrant arrived penniless at New York Harbor from England. Today James J. Davis, then penniless, is secretary in President Harding's cabinet and occupies the former Kaiser’s suite aboard the Leviathan on its maiden Atlantic voyage to study immigration methods.
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England
New York Harbor
James J. Davis
Latern
Harding
Maughan Plans Another Coast Flight Attempt
Lieut. R. L. Maughan, army aviator, will depart from St. Joseph for Dayton to retry a dawn to dusk transcontinental flight once weather allows. His damaged plane has been repaired after an engine fuel pipe stoppage caused a forced landing near here. a cow avoided collision as he landed just miles from success.
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St. Joseph
R. L. Maughen
Dayton
Beon
Maughan
Vision Tragedy of Navy Locals in Lake Erie Flight
Cedar Rapids mourns Lieut Louis J Roth who died in the balloon accident over Lake Erie. Lieut T B Null sacrificed himself trying to save Roth, a crash detailed by fragments of the log and lake searchers. Roth’s body to be buried in Cedar Rapids with Legion honors. Arlington cemetery option declined.
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Associated Press
Port Stanley
Ont
Park Stanley
Lake Erie
Lieut
T. B. Null
Lieut. Null
Lisut
L. J. Roth
Null
Roth
Sons- Cedar Rapids
Louis J. Roth
Cedar Rapids
Louis Roth
Navy Department
National Cemetery
Arlington
Cleve
Cleyve— Land
Ax Hai
Navy
Hanford
Knepper Fails to Qualify in Open Championship Golf
Rudolph Knepper of Slout City shot 89 80 169 over 26 holes in the second day of Open Championship qualifying at Enwood, Ia. He failed to advance as Emmet French of Youngstown led with an aggregate 258 after 36 holes.
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R. Knepper
Enwood
Rudolph Knepper
Slout City
Emmet French
Youngstons
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