MacMillan Ships for Ninth Arctic Voyage from Boston
Lieutenant Commander Donald B MacMillan sails aboard the Peary on a ninth Arctic voyage aiming to hydrographically survey unknown northern lands between the pole and Alaska. The crew plans to search for Amundsen if he is missing and may raise the U S flag if land is found.
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Boston
Donald B MacMillan
Charlestown Navy Yard
Arctic
MacMillan
Wiscasset
Maine
Bunker Hill
Crocker Land
Roald Amundeen
Etar
Oroesmand
MaccMillan
Amundsen
Cape Columbia
United States
Peary
Charles EB. Byrd
Navy
North Pole
Alaska
Ellesmere Island
Gran Island
Baffin Island
Labrador
Greenland
Far North
Axel Heiberg
Peary and MacMillan
Washington
Paraus
Ottawa
North American
Arctic Circle
Utah
Wilbur
State Refuses to Sponsor Star Witness in Shepherd Trial
Chicago June 17 The state urges Judge Lynch to question Charles Farman, called a potential star witness, while prosecutors reveal Farman’s credibility is in doubt. The judge flags further review and will reconvene tomorrow. Patrick J. McMahon, alias John P. Marchand, testifies about a letter to Faiman’s National University of Sciences.
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Chicago
William King Shepherd
Willam Nelson McClintock
Charles C. Farman
Robert B. Crowe
Fatman
Thomas J. Lynch
William Scott Stewart
W. W. O’brien
Lynch
Faiman
Crowe
Stewart
O'Brien
Olson
Shepherd
Harry Olson
Municipal Court of Chicago
Young McClintock
Farman
National University of Sciences
Patrick J. McMahon
John P .Marchand
Marchand
Lighting Kills Two and Injures Twenty-Four
Lisbon reports a deadly incident with two fatalities and twenty four injuries among workers and bystanders. The event involved a stretch of box works and affected men women and children. Further details on cause and victims were unavailable.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Jane
Youngest New York homicide suspect found guilty
Seventeen year old Dorothy Perkins was convicted of first degree manslaughter in a New York homicide trial. The jury deliberated two hours and fifty nine minutes before returning the verdict as Perkins fainted upon it being announced. The case now proceeds to sentencing with potential 10 to 20 years in prison.
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New York
Dorothy Perkins
Dorothy
Thomas Templeton
Imol
Lash
McIntyre
Third Cromwell family member drowns at sea
New York reports the third Cromwell family member to die at sea, Elizabeth Mary Cromwell, a debutante and Junior League member, fell overboard the Holland America Veendam en route to Europe. Her parents and relatives described her as a cheerful, normal young woman with no known mental distress or entanglement.
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New York
Cromwell
Elizabeth Mary Cromwell
Exclusive Junior League
Wireless
Veendam
Europe
Lincoln Cromwell
Dorothea
Gladys Cromwell
Red Cross
Wreck death toll set at forty four in New Jersey disaster
Rockport crash of a Delaware Lackawanna and Western special immigrant train killed forty four with twenty three bodies in Easton eight Hackettstown seven Dover three Morristown and Phillipsburg three others dying in hospitals. Investigations by county officials and a public utilities commission focused on cause while passengers from Chicago formed an excursion to Germany.
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Hackettstown
N. J
Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Rockport
Easton
Dover
Morristown
Phillipsburg
Warren County
8. C. Smith Jr
Justice of the Peace
B. J. Wildrick
G. W. Cummings
Belvidere
William Fischer
Public Utilities Commission
Chicago
Germany
Republic
Ralfs
Brown to Tour Asia This Fall
Mrs Izetta Jewel Brown of Kingwood former Democratic candidate for the U S senate announced in Clarksburg that she would tour Asia this fall. She will be accompanied by her sister Mrs D C Godwin wife of Commander Godwin U S Navy.
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Izetta Jewel Brown
Asia
Clarksburg
W. Va
Jane
Kingwood
United States Senate
D. C. Godwin
Commander Godwin
United States Navy
Insanity Plea Planned in Grace Grogan Young Case
Los Angeles dentist Thomas W. Young faces renewed defense strategy as his attorneys announce plans to enter an insanity plea after a long investigation into the February 21 murder of Grace Grogan Young. Witnesses link trips to a ranch with alleged pleasure visits before the body was found in a Beverly Glen cistern.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Grace Grogan Young
Thomas W. Young
John Gray
Grogan Ranch
Washington
Young
Alexander B. Young
T. W. Young
Grove City College
Western Theological Seminary
Pittsburg
Consolidation of Coal Mining Advocated for Economy
Chicago reports a National Coal Association session endorsing mergers as a path to cheaper coal. Leaders including Harry A. Gandy and Robert K. Cassatt cite overhead savings, supply stability, and modern plant benefits, while noting labor, credit, and monopoly risks.
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Robert K. Cassatt
Philadelphia
Casasti
Convicted Bell Hop Linkford Sentenced in Volstead Case
In a busy June session in the United States district court, Houston Linkford, a Negro bell hop at the New Altamont Hotel, was found guilty of conspiring to violate the Volstead Act and received two years in Atlanta federal prison. Grace Brewer testified as the principal witness and faced related state-case charges.
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United States District Court
Houston Linkford
New Altamont Hotel
Linkford
Atlanta
Grace Brewer
Mercer County
Roanoke
Bluefield
Sinkford
Herbert K. Clark
First National Bank
Matoaka
McClintic
Louis Feldman
Sol Feldman
Sophia Feldman
Michael Colgn
Baltimore Legal Party
Infield
Michael Cohen
Cohen
Louia Feldman
Ted H. Lusk
Herndon
Wyoming County
Alma Hawks
McDowell
McDowell County
Margarette Jocinsky
N. B. Hensley
Victor Munday
Clarence Sanda
National Training School
Washington, D. C
A. Milam
G. W. Cox
Wrom Ryugning
Charley Beaman
George Mitchel
Amos Hale
Harry Hamner
Kimball
B. Belcher
E. T. Rose
J. W. Blakely
Welch
Movernent
Mavor
Tara
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M'Millan
Capt. Amundsen
George BE. Fosberg
Grace
Ansions
Harry A. Gandy
National Coal Association
America
Gandy
W. H. Cunningham
Ton
Association
Russell B. Cooper
Johnstown
Cooper
Pennsylvania State College
Carnegie Tech
Mr. Cassatt
Matoaka Bank
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