Palm Beach Tourists Arrive As Season Opens
Palm Beachensis enters a new season as tourists descend on the town. Hotels plan high rates with rooms and meals averaging twenty dollars daily, while many houses on Royal Palm Way Worth Avenue and Ocean Boulevard are leased or occupied by winter visitors. West Palm Beach counts 12,000 to 15,000 residents as it serves as county seat and hosts seasonal wealth.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Solomon
Mecca
Ocean Front
Royal Palm Way
Drazallan Avenue
Worth Avenue
Chilean Avenue
Ocean Boulevard
Renta
Lake Worin
West Palm Beach
Royal Poinciana Hotel
Clematise Avenue
Palm Beach County
Mailroom Murder Shocks Boston News Bureau
George A. Willis, superintendent of messenger boys, was robbed and murdered in the basement of the News Bureau building while carrying the payroll from the paymaster to the messengers’ room. He was shot through the mouth during the assault in the boiler room.
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Boston
Mass
George A. Willis
Messenger Boys
Boston News Bureau
News Bureau
Willis
Ku Klux Klan Faces Mixed Support in Midwest
In Missouri and Kansas, the Ku Klux Klan remains a visible topic with denouncements and steady public interest. Newspaper personals show repeated appeals by alleged widows and mistreated wives seeking aid, though no responses from the Klan have been recorded.
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Kansas City
Missouri
America
Ku Klux Klan
Middle West
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Jayhawker
Japanese Loafing and Spending Money Says Honolulu Paper
Honolulu reports S Yamamoto president of Motoshige Shoten describes Japan as in a wild orgy of spending and loafing. He cites high prices, workers earning large pay, carpenters in Tokio working short days, and profiteering by wholesale houses with 50 to 100 percent margins.
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Honolulu
Japan
S Yamamoto
Motoshige ‘Shoten
Tokio
Yamamoto
Islands
Chicago society figure Dee Rothschild dies after illness
Mrs. Maurice I. Rothschild 15 wife of M. L. Rothschild Clothing Co and daughter of the late Nelson Morris dies in Chicago after a week of illness. The Rothschild family has prominence in the citys packing industry and Chicago history.
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Chicago Dee
Maurice I. Rothschild
M. L. Rothschild Clothing Co
Nelson Morris
Chicago
Five Robbers Shoot Bank Messenger in Darby Heist
In Philadelphia on December 16 a gang of five motor bandits shot and lightly wounded Harry McKee a First National Bank of Darby messenger and robbed him of twenty thousand dollars he was carrying.
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Philadelphia
Harry McKee
First National Bank of
Darby
Courtroom details reveal Mrs Ford's plot to murder husband
Detroit reports Mrs May Blemm Hallett Ford explained to detective lieutenant posing as a gunman how she hired a Toledo man to abduct and kill her husband Ney J Ford. She described luring steps, a staged crime scene, and a predated psychiatric ruse. hearing adjourned with motion to adjourn debated.
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Detroit
Mich
May Blemm Hallett Ford
Edward Kunath
Kansas City
Ney J. Ford
Kunath
Girl Resists Abductor in Toledo Street Attack
Ten year old Jane Nelson fought back by digging fingernails into the attacker’s face and causing him to release her before fleeing. The downtown assault occurred late last night leaving police seeking the suspect.
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Toledo
Jane Nelson
Wool Market Steady with Mixed Domestic Prices
Markets New York December 15 Wool market holds near steady with domestic fleece at 57 cents for B3, pulled basis T8e at $1.20, Texas scoured between $1.05 and $1.35, and territory staple scoured at $1.25 to $1.40.
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New York
Texas
Produce and grain prices cross state lines
Cincinnati and Toledo market notes show unchanged produce in Cincinnati with grain close values in Toledo for wheat corn oats rye and barley. Chicago prices list butter and eggs with varying receipts and grade ranges.
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Toledo
Dee
Timothy
Live Stock Receipts and Prices From Pittsburg and Chicago
Live stock markets report Pittsburg and Chicago cattle hogs and sheep receipts. Pittsburg notes cattle steady and hogs down 15 20 cents with various price ranges. Chicago lists cattle receipts 7000 market down with prime to common price bands and hogs steady with tops around 8.10. Sheep markets steady with fat lambs 14.50 to 16.50 and feeders 13.75 to 14.75.
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Pittsburg
Cincinnati Cattle Market Steady Across Classes
Cincinnati buyers report steady trade on December 15 with cattle receipts around 1200 and hogs about 6000. Steers bring 7.50 to 9.50, calves 10.00 to 11.50, hogs 8.25 for good to choice, sheep 5.00 to 6.50, and lambs 13.50 to 14.00.
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Cincinnati
Bryan counsels Harding on European debt deals
Washington December 15 William Jennings Bryan visited the White House just before a cabinet meeting but offered no solution to Europe’s tangle. He urged journalists to advise the president through newspapers and said if Europe is truly disarmed negotiations could begin to cancel European debts to the United States.
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Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Harding
White House
Bryan
America
Europe
Girl Held Insane After Tests By An Expert
Dorothy Gordon is described as mildly insane by alienist Dr. Isidor Corriat who filed his report with Judge Braley in the Massachusetts supreme court. The hearing concerned William D Jardiner uncle of the girl and a petition for her release from the insane asylum.
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Boston
Mass
Dorothy Gordon
Isidor Corriat
France Threatens to Act Alone in Land Seizure
Paris reports Premier Poincare threatened independent action against Germany and occupation of parts of the Ruhr basin in a declaration to the chamber of deputies this afternoon.
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France
Paris
Germany
Ruhr
Poincare
Chamber of Deputies
Mussolini plan links Allied debts to Germany indemnity bonds
Premier Mussolini's reparations plan, released after a cabinet meeting in Rome, proposes paying the allied debts owed to England using German indemnity bonds.
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Rome
Mussolini
England
Bat Intruder Dashes Through Nightie in Martin's Ferry
A bat invaded a bedroom occupied by a local couple. Wisley tried to oust it with a broom but only struck the man. The chase ended when the bat fled into the hall and dove under the man's nightie, waking neighbors with the commotion.
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Martin's Ferry
Wisley
Papa
Dry agent warned over bootleg murder fund claim
B J Licciardi a dry agent based in Toledo was warned by letter that a fund of 2000 had been raised to murder. He works from a justice court on a 25 percent share of bootleg fines and sought exclusive arrest rights claiming he could clear bootlegging in a few months. He earned nearly 300 for two days of arrests this week.
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Toledo
B. J. Licciardia
Justice of the Peace
Licciardi
Liecciard
Jury Deliberates in Irwin Clergy Paternity Case
In Sidney on December 5 the jury nears verdict in the Rev. L. W. Irwin case charged with fathering a child by his 11 year old stepdaughter. State counsel cite likeness and testimony corroboration while defense questions the girl's story and praises the pastor's spotless reputation.
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Sidney
L. W. Irwin
Tody
Irwin
Lodge Prohibition Fight Moves to Senate
The long heralded contest of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts by prohibition opponent John A. Nicholls was carried this afternoon to the senate.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
John A. Nicholls
Senate
Wheat Insurance Proposed to Guard Farm Prices
In Washington on December 15 a bill was introduced in the House proposing a bureau of wheat price insurance within the agriculture department. The plan would let American farmers insure against a ruinous price for their wheat crops.
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Washington
Bureau of Wheat Price Insurance
Department of Agriculture
American
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