Denby Narrowly Escapes Plane Crash Over Great Wall
Secretary Edwin Denby of the American navy survived a midair crash near the Great Wall of China after the plane’s fuel line failed and pistons stopped. The wrecked craft, a Chinese government aircraft, carried Captain Robert Bruce, Commander George Simpson, and Charles Dolan. all escaped uninjured and reached Nankow station before a special train returned them to Pekin.
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Peking
Associated Press
Edwin Denby
Great Wall
Denby
Wu Pei Fu
Chang Tso-Lin
Pekin
Robert Bruce
George Simpson
Charles Dolan
Boston
China
Secretary of the Navy
Dolan
Nankow
Prohibition Agent Testifies on Boston Moonshine Purchases
Lamy Rivoire, a prohibition agent, testified before U S Commissioner Hayes that he bought moonshine twice last Saturday and Tuesday for two dollars from Anthony Fraine, a drug store clerk on East 4th Street. Fraine allegedly offered a stronger batch for ten dollars. The hearing adjourned to Monday as defense prepares witnesses to challenge the agents' evidence.
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Lamy Rivoire
Prohibition
United States
Hayes
Anthony F. Fraine
William J. Costello
East 4Th Street
South
Boston
Fraine
Rivoire
Maguire
Costello
Stearns
First Conviction in Local Rail Strike Sets Stage
Frank Davis, a member of the striking railroad union and the first man arrested in the Boston strike area, was convicted of sauntering and loitering to obstruct foot traffic and fined $1 plus costs by Judge Sullivan in Municipal Court. His counsel said an appeal would go to the Supreme Court.
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Frank Davis
Boston
Sullivan
Davis
Supreme Court
Leather Men Take Sail to Nantasket
Delegates from across the United States sail on a specially chartered steamer for the 18th annual National Leather and Shoe Finders' Association convention. A brief business session precedes a day of pleasure as M Seidman, tax consultant for the American Business Men committee, urges lower surtaxes to boost treasury collections and curb tax avoidance.
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United States
National Leather and Shoe Finders’ Association
Massachusetts Bay
Marblehead
Nantasket
Committee of American Business Men
New York
Treasury
Prison term for Miss Elizabeth Kenney forged larceny case
Miss Elizabeth Kenney 31 of Northfield formerly assistant to Town Treasurer Warren J Wright and house keeper for years was sentenced in Franklin Superior Court by Judge William A Burns to not less than five years and one day and up to eight years for larceny and two years for forgery and uttering in the Sherborn prison for women. She changed her plea to guilty and had been jailed since March 4 after failing to post $20,000 bonds.
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Greenfield
Elizabeth Kenney
Northfield
Warren J. Wright
Franklin Superior Court
William A. Burns
Pittsfield
Frank J. Lawlor
Miss Kenney
Burns
Sherborn
Franklin County
Barton Talk at Rotary on Faith and Simplicity in Business
Bruce Barton spoke at the Rotary Club of Boston luncheon praising simplicity and faith in work and life. He lauded Henry Ford for childlike simplicity and belief in progress, compared Cardinal Gibbons to Ford, and noted qualities shared by President Harding and Theodore N. Vail. He quoted Scripture about Jesus returning to Nazareth amid unbelief.
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Rotary Club of Boston
Boston City Club
Bruce Barton
Boston
Foxboro
Henry Ford
Mr. Barton
Ford
Cardinal Gibbons
Barton
Harding
Theodore N. Vail
Jesus
Nazareth
Three Die In Auto Crash Near Montreal
Three people died when an automobile plunged over a bridge on the King Edward highway near Montreal. The victims were J. Gut man Mrs Bernstein and Miss Mil houser all of Lake Placid New York. An unidentified woman and Mr Bernstein were reported fatally injured. The group was en route to Montreal for a sightseeing trip.
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Montreal
King Edward Highway
Here
Lake Plack
N. Y
J. Gutman
Bernstein
Milhouser
Isle of Shoals and Celia Thaxter Remembered
The Isle of Shoals, discovered by Captain John Smith in 1614, gains enduring fame through Celia Thaxter. Her childhood at White Island and later life on Appledore shape literary images and local lore. Whittier, Annie Fields, Lowell, and others link the islands to poetry and friendship amid stark coastal beauty.
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John Smith
Isles of Shoals
Smith
White Island
Celia Thaxter
Isle of Shoals
Isle of Appledore
Appledore
Whittier
Annie Fields
James Russell Lowell
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Jordan Marsh Company
Columbia
Columbia Shetland Floss
Iceland
Germantown
Saxony
Navy
BY William Justin Mann
Palm Beach
Voile
Dimity
Val. Laces
Aluminum
Oxfords
Purple
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