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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1929
Page
6
Leonard R Yeager 31 and Thomas Lowry convicted of murder were hanged at the city jail in Missouri. Yeager killed a tailor during a hold up on November 17 and Lowry killed Motorcycle Patrolman Eugene Lovely during a speeding arrest on September 25 1926. The double execution was swift with few witnesses present.
President Coolidge on the special train passed through Jacksonville en route to Mountain Lake where he will speak. A planned reception by Mayor Alsop Jr. was cancelled as the train routed through outskirts. The stop at Moncreff allowed Coolidge and aides to view the city from the observation platform. Former Gov. Smith's future work discussed on radio, described as becoming a book agent.
A blaze of mysterious origin heavily damaged a four story brick building at 701 to 725 Fulton Street in Chicago. The fire caused about 500000 dollars in losses and drew 48 firefighting apparatus. The structure housed offices for several tool manufacturing firms.
Medical advisory warns that influenza weakness leads to bronchitis sinus trouble pneumonia and meningitis in vulnerable groups. Vicks VapoRub is recommended for external use at first signs of a cold along with bedtime laxative hot lemonade and hot towel applications to boost vapor inhalation.
Henderson Kentucky February 1 Five members of two Louisville Railway Express crews and a Louisville employee were killed when passenger train 146 crashed head on with a freight eight miles from Henderson about 3 35 a m The wreckage burned and six men were burned with three bodies recovered The conductor L A Root survived and was treated in hospital in serious condition
Philadelphia police report Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Gay found seriously wounded in their Mayfair House apartment. Gay with head and stomach wounds, stated he whispered to an employee nine hours earlier to come quickly after he shot himself. Mrs. Gay had a head wound.
Mrs. Thomas Sim Lee hosts a luncheon in honor of Mrs. Ernest Sty and Miss Clara Wood of Winchester. Mrs. Lee plans another luncheon on February 3. Various local residents are noted visiting Washington, recovering from illness, or traveling to Miami and Atlantic City.
Cecil, famed World War I ace and air mail pilot from McKeesport, died when his plane vanished in fog near Pittsburgh and crashed on a Monongahela valley peak. He had flown from Cleveland to Burgh and back, a snowstorm noted, with his body found in the cockpit. He was a Villas Grove native who had been based in McKeesport after joining the mail service.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh departed Curtis Field at 6 45 am for Florida to prepare for a Monday flight that will inaugurate a new air mail route up the Panama Canal coast.
A dramatic mid 20th century newspaper fragment reports a man and a woman hanged for murder in Louisiana. Witnesses describe the execution as grim with a rope around the neck and a cloth covered face as a priest administered last rites.
At Courthouse Franklin Louisiana February 1 Mrs Adam LeBouet and Dr Phain J Lee faced execution after final preparations. The condemned slept fitfully. a nurse kept vigil. Gov Huey P Long refused to intervene despite family pleas.
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