Wedded and courted daughter tale unfolds in court
In Clinton Massachusetts Aug 23 Edward R Coldbrook testifies Judge Smith that Thomas P Beardmore a Worcester auto salesman arranged to marry Coldbrooks daughter Miss Edna S Coldbrook a Worcester nurse Though Beardmore was married and sued for non support Coldbrook says the couple planned a fall wedding and an England move Beardmore allegedly used another name to run his business and refused to reveal Miss Coldbrooks location prompting a police search and a near confrontation in the courthouse hall.
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Clinton
Thomas P. Beardmore
Worcester
Lancaster
Edward R. Coldbrook
East Brookfield
Jonath
Smith
Mr. Coldbrook
Edna S. Coldbrook
Coldbrook
Beardmore
Papa
England
R. E. Hunt
Beardmore Found Guilty In Non-Support Case
Beardmore did not deny the Coldbrook account but sought dismissal. Judge Smith ordered him to pay his wife $15 weekly and post $300 surety. Lacking bonds, he was jailed. The Coldbrooks appeared unexpectedly, via Mrs. Jessie Bisson Beardmore’s attorney, P I Cannon.
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Beardmore
Mr. Coldbrook
Blame Cast on Volstead in Divorce Petition
Mrs Barbara Korblock cites Representative Volstead of Minnesota in her divorce filing at Edwardsville New Jersey location. She says her husband once drank before prohibition and later misused the home turning it into a moonshine operation. Her petition alleges the new drink made him ill tempered cruel and abusive.
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Edwardsville
Volstead
Minnesota
Barbara Korblock
Searles Mansion to be sold for unpaid taxes at Block Island
The huge Edward F. Searles mansion in Block Island, once owned by the Methuen millionaire, will be auctioned by town authorities for several thousand dollars in unpaid taxes. The landmark estate has long stood boarded up with little explanation for its minimal occupancy.
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Block Island
Edward F. Searles
Methuen
Mass
Searles
Festival of Flowers Pageant by Hecht Neighborhood Girls
About 100 girls from the Hecht Neighborhood House staged an outdoor pageant called The Festival of Flowers on the lawn of the women's gymnasium at Charles and Cambridge streets. Dressed as fairies with golden wands and flower garlands, they danced sang and performed monologues amid willows and greenery, entertaining families.
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HECHT
West End
Charles and
Cambridge Streets
Gliding over two hours sparks talk on new aircraft
In London a German student glided motorless for more than two hours. Frederick Handley Page doubts military value but sees potential for balanced machines possibly with engines. He notes wind and hill constraints limit gliders and compares gliding to a gull’s coast.
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London
Frederick Handley-Page
Handley-Page
Dover
England
Paris
Ballot Law Commission Considers Dodge Case
William Lyman of Hul protests George A. Dodge of Hull for the Republican House seat. The State Ballot Law Commission heard the case after a yesterday afternoon hearing, contending Dodge is a Brookline resident and not eligible to run.
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Hull
Dodge
Brookline
Frederick W. Beaker
East Boston
Supreme Judicial Court
Suffolk County
William Lyman
Hul
House of Representatives
George A. Dodge
State Ballot Law Commission
Lyman
Whipple Rally Praised as Best Democratic Hope in Worcester
Charles D. Campbell hailed Sherman I. Whipple as a great Democrat at a Worcester rally. He noted Whipple’s long party service and past support for regular nomination and progressive policies. Campbell contrasted Whipple with Colonel William A. Gaston and announced Whipple’s upcoming noonday rallies in Brockton Hyde Park Readville and Quincy.
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Charles D. Campbell
Sherman I. Whipple
Worcester
Old Bay State
Mr. Whipple
Massachusetts
United States
David I. Walsh
William A. Gaston
Whipple
Boston
Brockton
Hyde Park
Readville
Quincy
Sherman L. Whipple
Brookline Town Hall
Watertown Square
Waltham Common
Billie Burke to Star in Tarkington Play Rose Briar
Miss Billie Burke wife of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr is reading a new play by Booth Tarkington titled Rose Briar Tarkington is summering in Kennebunkport and has read the script with Burke Mrs Burke and Tarkington say the drama focuses on city life and will be rehearsed in a few weeks.
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York Harbor
Billie Burke
Florenz Ziefeld, Jr
Booth Tarkington
Indiana
Clarence
Kennebunkport
Ziegfeld
Tarkington
Jfefelds
Germany Declines Austrian Economic Union Invitation
Berlin reports Germany will not join with Austria in an economic union. Chancellor Seipel discussed the proposal with President Ebert and Chancellor Wirth, but Germany expresses sympathy yet declines any union at this time. A future possibility was hinted.
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Berlin
United News
Germany
Austria
Vienna
Seipel
Ebert
Wirth
Father Rescues Child From Sand Pit
In Haverhill on August 23, eight year old Lillian Bonin daughter of Alfred and Mrs Bonin of 115 Hilldale avenue was buried by a sand bank that caved in. Her father recovered her from the pit and immediate rescue work saved her from being buried alive as she was smothered under three feet of sand with no part of her body visible.
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Haverhill
Lillian Bonin
Alfred Bonin
Hilldale Avenue
Savd
Missing Couple Abandon Wife and Child
Herbert C Eldridge a prosperous farmer is believed to have eloped with fifteen year old Miss Mer Frazee of Groton The pair have been missing since Monday Police opened an inquiry Frazees mother lies at death door from grief after being told her daughter was seen with Eldridge in his sedan following the girl s father s death from lockjaw said to have died after a tree fall
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Ayer
Herbert C. Eldridge
Mer. Frazee
Groton
Six Injured in Wakefield Auto Collision
Frank E. Anderson of 18 Branch street Lowell was painfully injured and five others suffered cuts and bruises when the car he drove collided with another vehicle yesterday evening at Cordis and Vernon streets in Wakefield.
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Frank E. Anderson
Branch Street
Lowell
Anderson
Cordis
Vernon Streets
Wakefield
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Ballot Law Commission
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