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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0479]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Landslide knocks train off tracks wreckage of a crack north bound Kansas City Southern Passenger Train, which was knocked from the tracks by a landslide and plunged over a 25-foot embankment into a river near Sallisaw, Okla., Jan. 5. Engineer E Benjamin, De Queen, Ark., was killed, and Mrs.Ed Brennan, Kansas City, A passenger slightly injured. Approximately 20 other passengers escaped injury."
Date: January 6, 1932
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0446]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "If you think the first-of-the-month influx of bills is something to worry over, give a thought to William J. Cordell, secretary of the state election board, whose life these days is just one bill on top of another."
Date: January 28, 1932
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0236]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Instructed by Sam Hooker, district judge, that there is "no limitation on power of this grand jury," these 12 men went into session Monday morning for a general investigation of city, county and sate affairs and the oil field that is expected to last three weeks."
Date: January 4, 1932
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0167]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "closes on movie bill "The Cheat " Jan. 30,1932 , having been set afire with kerosene by Japanese bluejackets seeking to smoke out Chinese "snipers."
Date: January 30, 1932
Creator: Oklahoma Publishing Company
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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