Thrilling Car Plunge Rouses Clarke County Youth
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Barr escaped a fifty foot fall down an embankment after his car locked on a hill near Millwood road. The machine overturned twice and Barr crawled out with a slight cut and bruises, while the wreckage lay at the bottom. He was alone in the coupe.
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Cars From Far Places Reported In Town
A fragment notes automobiles arriving from distant regions with several units from Kansas and California. The passage mentions many cars in town near the year and references three vehicles from various origins, with details cut off in this OCR snippet.
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Johnson Is Told To Put Up or Shut Up
A Pacific coast baseball meeting adopted a resolution calling on Ban on to rebut charges of wrongdoing. The resolution urged the president of the American Be to present rebutting witnesses or face denial of the accusations.
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Three Die as California Wreck Leaves Dozens Hurt
ROAND OAK December 4. Three are reported dead and six others are killed while more than a score are injured in a California rear end collision near Oakland. Details are sparse as the AP dispatch notes a Sacramento report.
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Train and streetcar collision injures commuters in city
A Sacramento train ploughed into the rear of a Frisco bound electric streetcar on Twelfth Street today. The collision involved a commuter-filled train and caused injuries among riders.
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Farmers Need Markets Says Coolidge
Washington December 3. President Coolidge declares in his annual message to Congress that the great need of farmers is markets and urges economy to enable another tax cut. He argues against artificial price support and notes a recovering agricultural sector with rising crop values and shifting production costs.
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Contractor Testifies In Forbes Trial
Chicago December 3 Arthur Crump of Philadelphia testifies in the Forbes Thompson Veterans Bureau conspiracy trial. Crump linked Detroit Construction Co. to the first Veterans Bureau hospital contract for the Northampton Mass. hospital site. Letters and memos were introduced as evidence as Judge Carpenter weighed admissibility. Crump admitted refusing an interview to Forbes and Thompson counsel on advice of the Philadelphia DA. The Pontiac company, affiliate of Jas. 5 Company St Louis, surfaced as an open shop subsidiary. Mortimer remains the principal government witness. Crump’s testimony paused for travel home.
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German factory owner confesses to mass family killing
Det Angerstein, director of a Siegen cement plant, confessed to murdering eight relatives in Wassgerstein after money troubles. Police say he killed his wife, her mother and sister with an axe and hunting knife, then set the house ablaze and wounded himself.
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Whittier the Bachelor Poet Stays Unmarried
The poet Whittier stood among Americans famed for lifelong bachelorhood. In a long life as editor author legislator reformer and poet he gave no sign of aspiring to marriage.
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Clock as Money Box savings gift shocks readers
A U S savings bank offers a clock to every new depositor. The device fuses a clock and a safe, requiring a coin to be inserted before rewinding each day, forcing daily savings contributions. The piece labels the invention as a peculiar zombified timepiece from London Tit Bits.
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That Ought to Deter Her
A woman who spent days out with friends was chaperoned by her six year old son. On returning home bored with the day, the boy told her that if she continued taking him along, people would think she had married a dwarf.
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Legend of the Raven Tale of a disobedient bird
A fragmentary legend explains why the raven became black. Apello sent the bird to fetch water but found a fig tree and delays arose. The bird returned with an explanation to the god, citing drinking from a sacred fountain as the cause of its color change.
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Spanish Princess Marie de Bourbon Arrives in Los Angeles
Princess Marie de Bourbon, daughter of Prince Francisco, arrives in Los Angeles after two years in New York City. The Spanish royal, connected to King Alfonso, plans to pursue acting on movie sets in the city.
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