Brookline Fourth Celebrations Highlight Sports and Shows
Brookline hosted a varied program at Cy press Street Playground featuring athletic events, band concerts, patriotic exercises, and motion pictures. S. K. Nakon directed the day's activities with assistance from other officials. James H. Donovan arranged the movies. Afternoon events showcased top sprinters led by Shelburn, the intercollegiate champion.
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Brookline
Cypress Street Playground
S. K. Nakon
James H. Donovan
Cypress Street
Shelburn
Boy Hero Dies Trying to Save Father's Life
SUNBURY Ontario July 4 Six year old Bobby Brown died trying to rescue his father Robert Brown from drowning in a creek at a family picnic The father was stricken with cramps and both father and son sank to the bottom while the boy s grandmother watched unable to help
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Sunbury
Ont
Bobby Brown
Robert 5. Brown
Stillman facing million cost over alleged Leeds affair
Attorneys for Mrs. Ahne Urquhart Potter Stillman say James A. Stillman spent about 1 million tied to alleged friendship with Florence H. Leeds, a former chorus girl named by Mrs. Stillman. The figure comes from bills, slips and witness statements covering 3 years and 8 months.
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New York
Ahne Urquhart Potter Stillman
James A. Stillman
Florence H. Leeds
Million-Dollar Ledger in Leeds Case Reveals Vast Funds
A ledger lists two trust funds of 150000 each for Mrs. Leeds and her son Jay Ward Leeds. The 911000 total includes maintenance for clothing and household expenses since 1917, jewelry, a Park Avenue co operative unit, redecorating, pin money, two cars, and multiple residences. Attorneys expect further testimony to push the sum beyond a million dollars.
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Leeds
Jay Ward Leeds
Stillman
Stonybrook
L. I
Miami
Fla
East Eighty-sixth Street
Sam
Thrift Probe Aims at Mrs Leeds Bank Records
A plan to subpena bank records seeks to prove Mrs Leeds kept accounts in six figures at multiple trust companies. Meanwhile Mrs Stillman’s lawyers deny any suit for alienation of her husband’s affections.
Amusing Acts on Keith's Bill Opens Week
Keith presents a balanced program featuring the Marx brothers in headline act plus a one act musical sketch by Kramer and Boyle with six dancing girls. Quadruple mind concentration by Tameo Kajiyama draws notice along with a snappy Marie Walsh and Irving Edwards dance and song symposium. Florence Ames and Adelaide Winthrop star in Alice in Wonderland with Brent Hayes on banjo as James Walthour and Flo Princeton headline a bicycle routine. News weekly shown in moving pictures.
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Keith
Marx Brothers
Kramer
Boyle
Tameo Kajiyama
Marie Walsh
Irving Edwards
Alice In Wonderland
Florence Ames
Adelaide Winthrop
Brent Hayes
James Walthour
Flo Princeton
Ex Chief and Mrs Corey Mark 50 Years of Marriage
Ex Chief Alonzo Corey of Brookline and his wife celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They wed in Lynn with Rev. Thomas E. Vassar. Mrs Corey was Elizabeth Hunt. Their son Matthew Corey, a theatrical man, joined from New York for the celebration. Chief Corey served Brookline from 1875 until last year.
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Alonzo Corey
Brookline
Reports of Dublin conference stir London optimism
London reports suggest optimistic augury from a Dublin conference between Eamonn De Valera and four Southern Unionists. Westminster sources note a shift from doubt to belief that De Valera may visit London, with possible implications for future events.
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London
Westminster
Dublin
Eamonn de Valera
London Times
de Valera
Arrest in bombing case shocks Palmer community
Ginale Ignazio of Thompsonville Conn. was arrested in West Warren and jailed on arson charges after a bomb exploded in a two family house basement last night. The blast wrecked the building and started a fire. Ignazio, identified as one of two men seen fleeing, was burned but has not spoken. No injuries reported as the families were away.
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Ignazio
Meuse
Charles Diguivan
Navy motor gig burns injuring Foote and crew
In San Francisco Bay the motor gig from Commander Percy W. Foote aboard the U S S Salem burned to the water’s edge just before midnight. Foote and two of the five men aboard were severely burned as they were returning to the Salem from shore.
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San Francisco
Percy W. Foote
Salem
San Francisco Bay
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