Tufts Money Deposits Questioned in Supreme Court Trial
Attorney General J Weston Allen cross examined District Attorney Nathan A Tufts in a high profile case before Chief Justice Arthur P Rugg and four other justices. The inquiry focused on Tufts sources of large deposits made since 1917 across several banks where he held accounts.
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J. Weston Allen
Nathan A. Tufts
Tufts
Arthur P. Rugg
Supreme Court
Middlesex County
Boston Women Refuse Age Disclosure in Police List
Women active in Boston social and political life oppose age printing for residents over 20 on April 1. Officials promised the list within two weeks, but the claim failed to deter them. Separately, a romance tale unfolds as a movie star and Lou Tellegen clash over separation claims.
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Boston
Tellegen Files for Separation From Geraldine Farrar
Lou Tellegen actor sues for separation from wife Geraldine Farrar opera singer on desertion charge. His attorney says a letter from Farrar's lawyers a week earlier offered to discuss differences in the law office.
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New York
Lou Tellegen
Geraldine Farrar
Tellegen
Miss Farrar
Caruso Left Large Wardrobe and Valuables for Italy
Caruso's close friend Sperco says the tenor packed 200 pairs of shoes 200 suits and a costly furniture suite worth 300000 plus gold coins vases and pottery. Thirty eight trunks carried the belongings to his native land. A memorial service is set for Sunday at Campbell Funeral Church Broadway and Sixty sixth street with Met Opera members attending.
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New York
Caruso
Italy
United States
Constantino J. Sperco
Harrison’street
Vanderbilt
Campbell
Broadway
Sixty-sixth Street
Antonio Stella
Metropolitan Opera Company
Deputy Mistaken for Illinois Governor Sparks Berkshire Stir
In Pittsfield a Berkshire deputy tracked a man he believed was Governor Len Small. The supposed lookalike, under surveillance for embezzlement warrants, turned out to be not the governor, and no reward was offered. The hunter will not reveal the man’s assumed name.
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Pittsfield
Sheriif Frank A. Minkler
Great Barrington
Len Small
Illinois
Berkshire
Minkler
Pee
Berkshires
Mester
Springfield
Harding returns to campaign from vacation in New Hampshire
President Harding ends vacation today to campaign in New Hampshire. He cites disarmament as the nation’s top goal, speaking at Colebrook North Stratford and Berlin. The trip includes meetings with voters on the mountain air and calls for national effort.
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Lancaster
N. H
Harding
Gorham
New Hampshire
United States
Colebrook
Lentz Fails to Beat Ruth's Record in Surf Casting Duel
Harold G. Lentz, the world champion surf caster, throws four distances 892 402 440 and 438 feet in a challenge against Babe Ruth's 450 foot record. One long throw over the center field fence failed to count as a record due to a line break, though Lentz believes wind held him back.
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New York
Harold G. Lentz
Ruth
Lentz
Bank officer linked to defunct Dimond brokerage firm
An official of the Cosmopolitan Trust Company named as active silent partner in Hugh J. Dimond & Co., which closed, with Daniel J. Lyne appointed trustee for creditors. Dimond asserts a dummy partner and that he and a bank official are responsible for the company’s collapse. Liquidation plans aim to avoid bankruptcy, with accountants to finalize losses and settlements.
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Cosmopolitan Trust Company
Hugh J. Dimond
Hugh J. Dimond & Co
State Street
Daniel J. Lyne
Washington Street
Dimond Company
New York
Boston
Cosmopolitan Trust
Certified Public Accountants
Dimond
Germans beat U S laws on seamen flee to interior
Washington report states Germans ship to American ports as seamen paid one cent a month. Shipping Board Chair Lasker advised Secretary Davis in a public letter. Davis believes Germans land as seamen then escape inland.
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Washington
Lasker
The
Shipping Board
Davia
Davis
Baby blimp dumps crew after river excursion
In Scarsdale New York on August 5 the towing dirigible H-1 dropped its three crew members into a marsh on Barren Island near Rockaway naval air station. The craft climbed to altitude and, driven by the wind, completed a 50 mile unpiloted journey before landing safely in a field near Scarsdale.
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Scarsdale
N. Y
Rockaway Naval Air Station
Navy blimp's crash on Jamaica Bay island injures crew
A navy airship on a test flight crashed on Barren Island in Jamaica Bay after an engine failure. The craft narrowly missed a church steeple as it descended. Crew members were flung from the blimp and later taken to a hospital with non serious injuries as aviation mechanics prepared to dismantle the ship for transport back to its hangar.
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Barren Island
Jamaica Bay
Ford to Note Quincy Plant
Mayor Bradford of Quincy said Henry Ford will consider the proposal to acquire the Victory plant as an adjunct to Ford interests. G Seibold, Ford's general secretary, replied that the suggestion will be studied. Bradford based his bid on Ford seeking an Atlantic seaboard assembly base for Detroit operations using Erie Canal shipments.
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William A. Bradford
Quincy
Henry Ford
Victory
G. Seibold
Baseball scores across leagues result lopsided games
In the American League Boston defeated Chicago 10 to 1 while Washington beat Cleveland 4 to 1 New York toppled Detroit 7 to 1 and Philadelphia downed St Louis 4 to 2 In the National League Boston won 6 to 1 over Chicago Pittsburg 8 to 5 Philadelphia over Brooklyn 6 to 1 Cincinnati 1 beat New York 2 to 1 and St Louis lost to New York 2 to 1.
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Chicago
Washington
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Apple trees bloom twice in Beck and a 14 year old bride to be in Clinton
In Beck with avenue apple trees bloom twice this year with apples forming from last spring blossoms. In Clinton a 14 year old girl Christina Latino plans to marry Labor Day, saying she can care for babies cook sew tend garden and manage hens. Her brother Joseph is missing for three years and she hopes he returns for the wedding.
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Westfield
Joseph Grubert
Beckwith Avenue
Clinton
Christina Latino
Christina
Trousseau
Joseph
Woodlawn Street
Driverless Radio Car Sparks Dayton Exhibition
Dayton officials watched a miniature driverless car roll past traffic signals at McCook Field. A radio controlled car, propelled by a radio in a second car 100 feet behind it, was publicly demonstrated as the first of its kind by the Radio Air Service.
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Dayton
McCook Field
Radio Air Service
Bill to promote Sergeant York to captain with retirement pay
Senate move by Senator McKellar would upgrade Sergeant Alvin York of Tennessee to captain and grant retired pay. York, famed for single handedly capturing German soldiers, is reportedly in financial need.
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Washington
A _ Dill
Alvin York
Tennessee
Senator McKellar
York
Letter Restricts Tellegen From Wife and Home
A letter bars Tellegen from approaching his wife and entering her home. He reported changes in residence and was denied admission, his counsel says. Servants said his wife was out of the city.
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Tellegen
Anniversaries and World War I Milestones Recalled
Daylight notes and a list of historical events: Mauretania fled to Halifax in 1914 to escape a German cruiser, Austria declared war on Russia in 1914, Italians pushed Austrians from eastern front fortifications in 1915, and a year ago US troops entered Denver to quell trolley strike riots. The Commons passed an Irish coercion bill.
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Mauretania
Halifax
Austria
Russia
U. S
Denver
Commons
Forecast for Boston and vicinity shows showers possible
The forecast notes increasing cloudiness for Boston and nearby areas with likely showers Saturday night and Sunday. Temperature remains largely steady with moderate southwest winds. Northeastern regions anticipate partly cloudy conditions Saturday with cooler interior weather and unsettled showery patterns moving eastward.
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Boston
Washington
Atlantic States
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Weather Outlook Promises Fair Skies Then Unsettled Tonight
Forecast calls for continued fair weather through today with warmth matching yesterday. Expect a shift to unsettled conditions later tonight as a front moves in.
Weather data snippet with average temps and codes
A fragment summarizes yesterday and last year's average temperatures both listed as 68 degrees. It includes unreadable station codes and stray numbers, with no clear location or date context.
Harvey in Supreme Council Ahead of France Meeting
London August 5 Colonel George Harvey prepared a memorandum for the press outlining why he attends the supreme allied council sessions and what he hopes to achieve at the conference before departing for France.
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London
United News
France
Supreme Allied Council
George Harvey
Harvey frames Harding pledge as guiding tariff and peace aims
Harvey states the original Harding pronouncement guides his actions at the meeting. He says the war era economic issues affect U S prosperity, directly or via Europe, and backs an open door policy and equal commercial opportunity to restore normal world activities. He hopes European nations resolve the Silesian dispute to remove a key obstacle to a lasting peace.
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Harvey
Harding
United States
Europe
Boarder Confesses to Murder of Pool Room Proprietor
Stoughton August 5 chief said Adolph Doskewicz, a boarder at Leon Statkus's Perry street home, confessed after police grilling to the murder of the pool room proprietor on Wednesday night. He hid in the parlor and shot Statkus as he answered the door after removing the doorbell from inside.
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Stoughton
Vanston
Adolph Doskewicz
Leon Statkus
Perry Street
Boarder
Statkus
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