First Aerial Lighthouse In America Planned For New York
An aerial light house said to be the first permanent of its kind in America will be inaugurated Monday at sunset at College Point Long Island at the mouth of Flushing Bay. The 14 inch high searchlight will operate from sunset to midnight and be aimed northward until a machine approaches then swung to the wind to aid landing.
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New York
America
College Point
Long Island
Flushing Bay
Great Soft Coal Output Reported
Washington May 14 Reports on bituminous coal production indicate a weekly output of 4,500,000 tons, a total greater than at any time since the miners walked out on April 1 in all unionized producing districts.
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Washington
Geological Survey
Veteran fears wife will not return after affair claim
Howard Nickerson a 28 year old Rainbow Division veteran says his wife Edwina left him over a week ago and he fears she will not come back. He told a Post reporter the earlier tale of her calling Friday night and offering another chance was fabrication.
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Howard Nickerson
Rainbow Division
Edwina
Post
Man seeks missing Edwina amid growing publicity
Nickerson, grieving husband, admits he created a publicity push to locate Edwina. He claims a government reward of about 600 is available and vows ongoing publicity until she returns or legal action begins. He waits nightly for her, but recently faced empty hope and resignation.
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Edwina
Nickerson
Symphony Hall concert features Agide Jacchia orchestra
In Symphony Hall tonight Agide Jacchia and his ensemble perform Stars and Stripes Forever and a broad program including Overures and selections by Wagner Grieg Tchaikovsky Handel and Rimsky Korsakov with soloists Georges Mager and others amid a hump of arranged pieces and orchestral transcriptions.
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Agide Jacchia
Symphony Orchestra
Gomez
Wagner Trybec
RIN
Hill
Georges Mager
Opreer Cdc
Phe
Uens
Sass
Handel
Fungarian
Arare Y
Teampest
Rimeky-Korsakoff Traye
Marche
Aging Blacksmith Still On Job At Age Eighty Six
Fall River dates reveal John Borden Brayton a lifelong blacksmith born March 9 1837 in Tiverton Rhode Island who began at age 12 and remains active at 86. His tale includes orphanhood a whaling voyage aboard the Maringle and escape from a ship to New York then a Pampero voyage.
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Fall River
John Borden Brayton
Broadway
Dwelly Street
Tiverton
R. I
South Dartmouth
Weaver Osborne
Dartmouth
New Bedford
Jonathan Bourne
Hawaiian Islands
Islands
Skinner
Tit
New York
John B. Brayton
Charlestown man dies after fall down hotel stairs
John McDonnell aged 38 of Charlestown fell on the seventh step at City Square Hotel Chelsea street and struck his head, dying two hours after admission to Haymarket Relief Hospital from a fractured skull.
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City Square
Chelsea Street
Charlestown
John McDonnell
Essex Street
Haymarket Relief Hospital
Exeter receives $10,000 gift for portraits collection
A Philadelphia friend of Phillips Exeter Academy donated 10,000 dollars to the school. The fund’s interest will buy oil paintings of distinguished alumni or professors and students closely tied to the academy’s history.
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Phillips Exeter
Exeter
N. H
Philadelphia
Phillips Exeter Academy
Baby Surprise Wins Omaha Society Prize
In Omaha on May 14 a real live baby boy won a society contest prize, triggering laughter and tears. the winner and several participants were thrilled, but none of the members offered to take the infant home, despite many women not having children.
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B. H. Harms
South 52d Street
Omaha
Christ Child Society
Mrs. Harms
Admiralty reduces British naval officers under Washington accord
London May 14 The admiralty publishes orders to retire 1835 of about 9450 officers after the Washington armament conference. No admirals will be retired, many line officers including 119 captains and 10 commanders leave, while lieutentant commander's grade remains intact to preserve future strength.
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London
the .A.P
Admiralty
House of Lords
House of Commons
Unidentified man dies at Relief Hospital
A 51 year old man found unconscious on Tremont Street Saturday night died at Relief Hospital the following morning and remained unidentified as of last night. He weighed about 160 pounds with a ruddy complexion brown eyes and sandy hair. He wore a dark suit and soft hat.
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Tremont Street
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Japan
China
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Lincoln Motor Cars
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Commonwealth Ave
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Leland
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Fruit Puddine Co
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Boston
Romero
Juliet
Radcliffe
Radcliffe Idler Dramatic Club
Kathleen Middleton
England
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Romeo
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Selec
Guerlain
H.L.O Connor
Pluto
French Lick Springs
Indiana
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