Deserter Prisoner Escapes Fort Jay New York
Harold Stern a 22 year old deserter from the American Army of Occupation vanished from Fort Jay on Governor's Island after noon taking two .45 caliber army automatics. The escape, the island’s second and first in five years, led to a major search by 2d Infantry and city police with aid requested from New York and Boston. Stern, once a Castle William inmate, was last seen checking in for lunch at noon.
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Escape on Prison Island Baffles Officials
The article details Stern a prisoner considered dangerous posing a possible 15 year sentence if recaptured. Authorities note his slim build 160 pounds 19.5 feet tall with dark brown hair gray eyes and ruddy complexion. He was last seen in a fatigue suit stamped with the letter P and may have fled disguised as an officer.
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Deserted for a Belgian girl ends/ Roxbury mother claims
Mrs Elizabeth A Stern of 876 Dudsley street Roxbury believes her son 22 will try to return to Germany over an infatuation with a Belgian girl met in Coblenz. Stern deserted in Germany for the girl and told his mother in New York while awaiting court martial his love for her. He enlisted young, served in the medical corps attached to the artillery.
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Radio shows two messages on same wavelength
In New York on January 17, Dr. Frank B. Jewett demonstrated simultaneous telephone and telegraph signals on one radio wavelength using a single transmitting set and antenna. The test relied on an electrical filter by Dr. G N Campbell to separate frequencies, enabling clear reception without interference.
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Newlyweds Denied Rooms Because No Baggage in Boston
A Brockton couple married that evening could not secure lodging in Boston hotels due to baggage rules. At East Dedham street station Lt Munroe and Sgt Clarke attempted to help by using their influence to secure a room at the Arlington Hotel, reporting later that their effort succeeded.
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The Voice in the Night by Hugh Pendéxtér
Another Fanchon Mystery featuring Jeff Fanchon will be published in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The forthcoming story promises a new twist as investigator Fanchon unravels a dark nocturnal riddle.
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Writs Of Murdering Her Sister In New Jersey
Long Branch New Jersey January 17 Mrs Hermione Rentatian thirty calmly confessed to police that she shot and killed her sister Genuine Wessels twenty seven as she slept Sunday morning fearing she was stealing the husband Frederick Rentzman a chauffeur.
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Germany
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New York
Woman kills sister over jealousy in New York visit incident
Mrs Rentzman shot her sister in the bedroom while her husband was away in New York. The motive stemmed from extreme jealousy over the sister living with the couple, leading to plans to kill the child and herself before police intervention. England hosts a large engineering Works run entirely by women.
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Proposal for an international tribunal on China's foreign concessions
Secretary Hughes proposed an international tribunal to judge private foreign concessions in China at the Washington Nine Powers Conference on the far eastern question. The suggestion was presented during the January 17 meeting by the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
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Hughes plan sparks debate at international commission
The commission weighs the Hughes plan backed by Great Britain and Italy and opposed by France. It would have the body examine foreign concession disputes and report back to home governments to modify concessions while the American plan aims to curb exploitation of China by foreign interests. Action on the proposal is postponed for further discussion tomorrow as Japanese delegates seek time for review and French objections center on prompt functioning of a proposed tribunal.
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Smoker Tonight Welcomes MIT New Architecture Professor
Professor Albert Ferran arrives from Paris to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as professor of architectural design. Students and faculty host an informal smoker in the Rogers Building Common Room. Ferran was born in California to French parents, studied in Paris, earned a Beaux Arts degree in 1910, and won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1914.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Ecole Des Beaux Arts
Boston News Boys Serve Coffee and Cakes to Unemployed
This evening at 6 o'clock Boston news boys will take charge at the Stepping Stone, 81 Howard street, and serve 100 or more of the unemployed of Boston with coffee and cakes.
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Wage clash forecast as miners and operators seek cuts
In Shamokin Pa a tri district miners convention adjourned after the operators policy committee warned that full time production cannot be kept up unless wages are reduced. The forecasted wage dispute stems from talks between miners and mine operators during the opening day.
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