Legion Parade Highlights New Orleans Convention
A massive 40 000 strong Legion parade through New Orleans wowed crowds with foreign dignitaries, colorful uniforms, and bands from Massachusetts to Vermont. Notables like Judge Landis and Samuel Gompers attended as the Legion pressed for adjusted compensation while a festive, Mardi Gras like atmosphere surrounded the event.
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Hugh
Andrew J. McShane
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Legion
Samuel Gompers
MacNider
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Connecticut
New Orleans
Isadora's Pet Poet A Regular Cave Man
Fragmentary lines describe a scene at Copley Plaza with Mr. Serge and a demonstration about the Yessesine-Duncan family head. The excerpt suggests a quirky, possibly satirical act involving Isadora and a pet poet.
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Isadora
Serge
Copley Plaza
Miss Duncan Shines In Honeymoon Suite
The fragment highlights Miss Duncan praised as a great dancer in a honeymoon suite show. Serge, her husband, is described as meek and silent while she steals attention with her auburn hair and stage presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncan
Serge
Dietograph unveils device to restore hearing
Dietograph Products Corporation announces a new device in New York City designed to enable people with partial auditory nerve function to hear clearly. The invention aims to provide hearing comparable to those with normal auditory capability, offering hope to many sufferers of deafness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dietograph Products Corporation
Suite 1300
West 42d Street
New York
First Snow Fall With Cold Wave in New England
The region reports temperatures near freezing as a cold spell continues for another day. Gale conditions disrupt outdoor activities and fuel shortages strain indoors. Coastal shipping faces rough seas while small fishing craft head to port. forecasts warn of a further plunge to freezing before breakfast.
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New England
Weather Bureau
William A. Burnham Dies in New York
William A. Burnham aged 70 died suddenly in New York from a stroke of apoplexy. His widow Sarah Ram sen Burnham was en route from Jeanets Springs West Virginia. A retired Harvard graduate of 1874 he came from a family prominent socially in New York and Boston.
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New York
William A. Burnham
Boston
Sarah Ramsen Burnham
Jniet Springs
W. Va
Burnham
Harvard
Turns Night Into Day Lamp by Hoffstot
W H Hoffstot, 480 Factory Building Kansas City MO, announces a new lamp claiming the most powerful home light. It outshines three hundred candles or ten electric lamps, costs one cent nightly, and is safe. he offers free trials and seeks local readers to refer customers and agents.
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W. H. Hoffstot
Kansas City
Farrar Sale Nets $40 000
New York October 18 The four day sale of Geraldine Farrars operatic costumes and belongings finished with receipts of 40843 50 about one fifth of the cost price. Final days saw many costumes sold with modest prices for court robes and gowns. Butterfly kimonos fetched 55 to 160 while a door plate and a rabbit's foot brought 22 50 each.
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New York
Geraldine Farrar
Miss Farrar
Banking system called menace by editor in Worcester
Worcester on October 18 Frank P Bennett editor of the United States Investor of Boston declares the banking system a menace and danger to the Federal Reserve system in an address tonight before a local group.
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Worcester
Federal Reserve System
Frank P. Bennett
United States Investor of Boston
Law on National Banks and Federal Reserve Members
Mr Beninett warns that the danger lies in a provision forcing national banks to join the Federal reserve system and allowing trust companies the option to become members. The English text discusses potential consequences for Massachusetts institutions.
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The
National Bank Cashiers’ Association of Massachusetts
Beninett
Federal Reserve System
Cadet Robinson Trial Opens Today
Midshipman Brute Robinson of Chandler Arizona will be placed on trial before a naval court martial in Annapolis Md. The court convenes at 1 p.m. for charges of hazing fourth class men. The panel has been idle for two days after finishing the Hawkins trial.
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Annapolis
Robinson
Chandler
Arizona
Naval Court
Marttal
Tomorow
Stuart H. Hawkins
Springfield
Mags
Wilson
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Plains
Mexico
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Doyle In Command
William H. Doyle
Bay State
John F. Herbert
Leo M. Harlow
Frank Good
Bay
Green Mountain
France
N. E. States
American Legion Convention
Kenesaw M. Landis
Organized Baseball
Chicago
Post
Nishninovgorod
Moscow
Isadore
Dungan
Somebdy
Yessesine
Russia
Isadora Luncan
Izzy
Gilchrist CO
Fenctions
Farrar
Art Dept
Dorondo
Madeira
Dieders. Co
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