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...Radioactor Phillips ("Seth Parker") Lord. Publisher John B. Gallagher of the Louisville Herald-Post and Banker Charles Bradley of Newark, N. J. There were five death sentences to be commuted to life imprisonment. A blind magistrate who had robbed a Baptist church was to be paroled. So was a Paducah woman who had murdered with dynamite. The Governor reduced 150 prison sentences and closed his executive journal with clemency for a 'legger...
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...Oliver D. Ferguson of Paducah, Ky., appeared to have fought for Harvard with the most brilliance. He had kicked one policeman in the stomach, another in the chin. Not until a police club gashed his forehead could he be thrust into the patrol wagon. Policemen described him as "very strong...
Meanwhile a private concern, the National Potash Co., has discovered that oil wells at Paducah in western Texas yield 22% of potash. They sank a 1,600-ft. well, hoping for a yield of clean potash, but got too little for profit. They will sink five more test wells, they said last week...
...Kentucky, contiguous to Tennessee, Miss Lela V. Scopes, like her brother an Evolutionist, was refused reappointment to her position in the Paducah schools. Smiling, she announced that she had signed a contract to teach in the Highland Manor School for Girls at Tarrytown...