Schepps Safe If He Talks in New York Transfer
The district attorney plans to use Schepps testimony in a broad graft case. A fugitive is to be moved to New York with officers Rubin Stewart and Thomas. Becker's hush money and a secret safe deposit vault are under scrutiny as prosecutors seek indictments against Becker, Shapiro and associates.
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Schepps
New York
R.G. Rubin
Stewart
Thomas
Hot Springs
Whitman
Pettit
Scepps
Bernard Sandler
Manchester
Becker
Automatic Price Reductions Tracked on Garment Tags
The system marks each item with the sale start date and records all further reductions on the tag. Shoppers can read the price history directly to see whether a garment has been reduced and by what amount.
First Rice Reductions Prompt Early Sellout
The note hints at a unique method to keep rice prices ultra low, suggesting demand may exhaust stocks before the planned reductions start.
Graft Directors Named In New York Police Probe
William J. Burns identifies three men as possible directors of a graft ring profiting from gambling and disorderly houses in Manhattan. He cites two police inspectors and a minor official among those linked to the scheme, with a large split of tainted funds found in the hands of a three-man trio. Burns and District Attorney Whitman plan further action as the Curran committee prepares its inquiry.
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West Side
Rose
Webber
Wallon
Richard G. Barter
Rosenthal
Becker
Sam Paul
East Side
Max Hochstein
Martin Engel
William J. Burns
Whitman
Burns
Emory R. Buckner
Buckner
New York
Democratic Party
Forty-second Street
Broadway
Metropole
William J. Flynn
Secret Service
Police Department
Flynn
Mr. Whitman
Jack Rose
Manhattan
T Cay
Curran Committee
Board of Aldermen
Baltimore
Central
William Gebhardt
Margaret Shipley
Howard J. Mason
Margaret
Louisa Barry
Gebhardt
H. G. Pflammer
Army Aviators Fight Hazard in Obedience Flight
Duxbury August 12 two army aviators Lieutenants Harry H Arnold and Roy C Kirtland were forced to descend at Duxbury after a dangerous 45 minute head wind flight from Marblehead to Bridgeport Conn in the new government hydro aeroplane they pursued despite warnings from experienced airmen and remained there overnight.
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Marblehead Bay
Arnold
Boston
Boston Light
Cape Cod Canal
Housatonic River
Milling
Scituate
Brant Rock
Duxbury
Plymouth
Fanny Davenport
Marblehead
Bridgeport
Conn
Harry H. Arnold
Roy C
Kirtland
Red Army Wins First Battle in Connecticut Campaign
The Red Army, including Massachusetts regiments, defeated Blue forces on Milford Turnpike five miles from Red Army HQ in Orange Connecticut. The engagement lasted over three hours starting yesterday noon, with Seventh, Twelfth, Sixty-ninth and Seventy-first New York Infantry on the Red side and Forty-ninth and Twenty-third New York Infantry and Squadron C of the New York Cavalry on the Blue side.
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RED Army
Orange, Conn
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Milford
New York Infantry
Blue Army
Forty-ninth
Twenty-third
New York Cavalry
Milford turnpike battle follows skirmishes by New York units
Two skirmishes by the First and Second Battalions of the Seventh New York Infantry under Lieutenant-Colonel Weld captured two companies of the Forty-ninth New York. The captives were held until the main engagement ended and released by umpire order amid battlefield confusion.
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Red Army
Second
Massachusetts Infantry
Baron DeBode
Gage
Avalos
Walter Krueger
United States
Dix
New York
Bliss
Milford Turnpike
Seventh New York Infantry
Weld
Forty-ninth New York
Sharge
Ninth on Outpost Duty by Joseph M Coburn
The Ninth Regiment’s First and Second Battalions broke camp at Orange Connecticut and moved toward the front for outpost duty. The Third Battalion and Staff were to follow by morning. Soldiers reported high spirits despite heat and ready for possible contact with enemy.
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Massachusetts
Orange
Conn
Ninth
Naugatuck
Sixty-ninth
New York
Attachments filed to reach bank deposits in Pepperell
Mrs. William Atkinson filed suit in the East Cambridge Court seeking attachment of deposits worth 10000 held by the First National Bank of Pepperell and Pepperell Savings Bank in the names of Mrs. W C Perry. Both women are out of town and the families previously conferred as neighbors.
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Pepperell
William Atkinson
East Cambridge
W. C. Perry
First National Bank of Pepperell
Pepperell Savings Bank
Bulgarian barber kills wife and infant then himself
In Brockton on August 12 Stephen Kostoff, 22, a Bulgarian barber from Campello, shot and killed his wife Helen M. Gillis, 17, and their 3 month old son Arthur before taking his own life with an automatic revolver. Mrs Gillis found the bodies.
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Brockton
Stephen Kostoff
Campello
Helen M. (Gillis
Arthur
Jealousy Fueled Triple Domestic Tragedy Ends In Death
In a second floor bedroom Kostoff killed his wife and baby then shot himself after sending his mother-in-law away. Agnes Gillis and Paul Gillis slept nearby but heard nothing. Kostoff, who had separated from Helen Gillis due to jealousy, had remarried with a child born recently. Medical Examiner Paine noted the killings appeared premeditated.
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Kostoff
A. B. Paine
Gillis
Agnes Gillis
Paul Gillis
Helen M. Gillis
John W. Gillis
Torrey Street
Easton’ Road
How Thin People May Put On Flesh
Advertisement promotes a weight gain remedy claiming 4 to 5 pounds gained in the first week and improvements in health. It lists a preparation with tincture cardamoms compound, salogyn fluid, and elixir of calisaya to be taken before meals, with caution about its flesh-adding effects.
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Calisaya
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Newsie
Jack” Sullivan
Sullivan
Grand Jury
William Shapiro
Gib the
Washington St
Reds
New York Brigade
Anl
Lower Plains
Fouloig
Tasker H. Bliss
Stratford
Derby
Henry R. Keach
Tremont Street
Majestic Theatre
Galap Etei
Cana
An Ito
David J. Ingraham
Winter Street
Vorenberg
Marblehead Harbor
Thompson
Charles E. Parker
Four Corners
Peck Hill
Joseph M. Coburn
Bears
Castoria
Snow
Thos. Snow & Son
North Market St
Sanfords Ginger
Forest
Medford
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