Bethlehem announces purchase merger of major steel firms
York dispatch reports Bethlehem Corporation announces acquisition of Midvale Company and Cambria Steel, with ownership transfer involving the ordnance plant at Nicetown and related properties. The deal values par stock at about 97.65 million dollars, largely issued to the Midvale Company for distribution to its shareholders.
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York
Bethlehem Corporation
Etc
Mid- Steel and Ordnance Company
Ordnance
Nicetown
Cambria Steel Company
Midvale Company
Cambria Com
Bethlehem Company
Midvale
Farmer Held for Wounding Four Boys in Vermont
Abner Davis, a Vermont farmer, is to be tried for assault with intent to kill at the December term of Lamoille County Court. Davis, free on bail, claims the four boys were molesting his family on Halloween. The youths were passersby on his farm when a shotgun attack occurred. Gerald McGeon, 15, was wounded in the back. James Moran, 29, was shot as he fled. Wort McDonald and George Bartlett suffered lighter injuries. The two severely hurt boys were taken to a Burlington hospital and are nearly recovered.
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Hyde Park
Abner Davis
Laroille
Davis
Davis Farm
Gerald McGeon
James Moran
Purlington
Wort McDonald
George Bartlett
Lane and four others certified for Boston City Council
John J. Lane former secretary of the Boston Red Sox is among five more candidates certified for council places by the Boston Election Commissioners. Also certified were John T. Gibbons George G Conway Senator John J Carey and William C Healey editor of the City Record. The tally brings the field to 19 for three seats in the December 12 election with final certification due later today or Monday.
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John J. Lane
Boston Red Sox
Boston Election Commissioners
John T. Gibbons
George G. Conway
John J. Carey
William C
Healey
City Record
Peters
Childers Executed by Firing Squad in Dublin
Dublin's Portobello barracks carried out the death sentence on Erskine Childers, anti-government leader, for possessing an automatic pistol without authority. The 7 o'clock execution followed a November 17 court martial amid habeas corpus efforts. Childers, husband of Mary Alden Osgood, was a noted Sinn Fein editor and De Valera ally. The case sparked polarized debate on military authority and internecine Irish politics.
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Associated Press
Erskine Childers
Irish Free State
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Portobello
Richard Mulcahy
Minister of Defence
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Ward
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Boston
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Gladstone
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Glendalough
County Wicklow
Trinity College
Cambridge
England
House of Commons
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Charles Russell
Ireland
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Sinn Fein
Mary Osgood
Reprisals Feared After Childers Death in Ireland Turmoil
London observers warn that the execution of Erskine Childers may spark a bloodier round of interregnum violence in Ireland. The British patriot and author of The Riddle of the Sands is noted for his shift to Irish partisan struggle and his American wife, a Putnam descendant, who once steered a yacht to arms-dropping shores near Dublin in 1914.
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London
Associated Press
Erskine Childers
England
Michael Collins
Childers
Putnam
Ireland
South Ireland
Dublin
Obituary of Erskine Childers Executed in Dublin
A 62 year old woman, described as wife of Erskine Childers, chief lieutenant of Famon De Valera, was executed in Dublin yesterday by order of a court martial. He reportedly served with distinction in the Boer War and won the distinguished service cross in some noted campaigns.
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Erskine Childers
Leutenant
Famon de Valera
Dublin
Kilroy and 70 Irregulars Captured by Free State Forces
Dublin dispatch reports General Kilroy with 70 irregular fighters captured by General McKeown of the Free State during the ongoing conflict. The event marks a setback for Kilroy's faction as Free State forces tighten control.
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Free State
Kilroy
McKeown
Newport
Co. Mayo
Dublin
Associated Press
Irish government troops move to Newport to end Republican rule
A London despatch on Thursday announced the departure of Irish government troops for Newport to terminate Republican military rule there. Newport, population under 600, had been held for some time by General Kilroy. The advance follows a march near Mayo where Free Staters lost ground.
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Ni Mayo
Mayo
Konmenae
London
Newport
Kilroy
Be langer Accused of Hiring Man to Slay Weber Case
District Attorney Charles H. Wright presents that George E. Belanger sought accomplices to hold up Wallace L. Weber before using Albert J. Duhaim e as the gunman in the fatal Dawes Street holdup. Witnesses Day Dagenals and Ducharme testfied Belanger’s plot and mastermind role. Also a note that cricket was banned in medieval England.
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Springfield
Charles H. Wright
George E. Belanger
Wallace L. Weber
Dawes Street
Weber
Albert J. Duhaime
Harold G. Day
York Street
Belanger
Frank Dagenals
Henry M. Ducharme
Ducharme
Inmates Seek Thanksgiving Pardons or Paroles
Over 60 prisoners request pardons or paroles from Governor Cox hoping for Thanksgiving release. The applications go to the board of parole and favorable cases will be reviewed by the Governor and Council next Wednesday.
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Cox
Board of Parole
Council
Ostrich Egg Omelet Served at Highland Hotel
Springfield report says Fred K Woodbury hosted a Spanish omelet supper using two ostrich eggs weighing three pounds each. The eggs came from an Arkansas ostrich ranch and about dozen guests praised the flavor of the feast.
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Springfield
Fred K. Woodbury
Highland Hotel
Arkansas
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