American Women Dominate March Best Sellers
James W. Dean surveys March top sellers highlighting five works by American women Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kathleen Norris, Iona Gale, and Gertrude Atherton. He criticizes contemporary fiction, notes titles like Faint Perfume and Black Oxen, and surveys other authors and works among the era’s popular reads.
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James W. Dean
New York
America
Wom
Dorothy Canther
Mary Roberts
Hodgson Burnett
Kathleen Norris
Iona Gale
Gertrude Atherton
Counterfeit ten dollar Federal Reserve notes warned
Treasury Department notice warns banks and merchants to watch for new counterfeit ten dollar FRN from Atlanta with letter A and plate 22. It bears McAdoo signature and Jackson portrait, appears photographic, with red and blue silk threads. Seal numbers look off and blue coloring evident. paper stiffness and glazed print should alert.
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Treasury Department
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
McAdoo
Jackson
Judgment Sought for 176.67 in Local Suit
Barry Silverstone administrator won a $176.67 judgment in Common Pleas yesterday against J. M. Bistey of this city. The suit arose from an alleged money owed by the defendant to the plaintiff, entered on a counsel agreement.
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Barry Silverstone
J. MM. Bistey
Common Pleas
Cefendar
Children at Hall Home to Present a Play Tonight
Easter week activity at the Hall home on Main street features the first dramatic club production titled Mrs Coulson's Daughter. Catherine Kominos presides as president and Ella Rusaiil manages property with Miss Melvin directing a cast including Sophie Ulakowski, Georgia Nordaby, Matilda Sherwood, and Grace Nordaby among others. The play centers on an orphan and a wealthy girl whose paths cross in a rural town, leading to humorous incidents.
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Main Street
West Nd
Dramatic Club
Catherine Kominos
Ella Rusae
Miss Melvin
Matilda Sherwood
Minnie Hayes
Marion Barnhart
Lizzie Gang
Rose Uegelick
Mrs. Little
Elizabeth Janowski
Mrs. Pleton
Anna Zavatsky
the Orphan
Grace Nordaby
Caroline Coulson
Grace Richardson
Grace
Helen Beden
Ruth
Elis Russell
Myrtle
Election honors in Hartford are evenly divided
Hartford April 3 In city and town elections five Republicans and five Democratic aldermen were elected giving Democrats thirteen to seven majority in the common council as eight of the ten holdover aldermen this year were Democrats. The question of abolishing the present district school system and placing all public schools under a consolidation system was defeated 14,000 to 7,000. Republicans sent Majority to the High School committee which will have three Republicans and two Democrats. Of the three places on the Board of Education filled today, three went Republican. Of the seven constables four are Republicans.
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Hartford
Common Council
Board of Education
Jere
Milford Man's Auto Hits Stratford Girl
Milford man Daniel McCarthy reports his car struck Miss Jone Greer while she ran to board a Woolley car at the foot of Barnum avenue hill. She was shaken but not seriously injured and attended by a factory physician at General Electric.
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Stratford
Daniel McCarthy
Grove Street
Milford
Jone Greer
Barnum Avenue
Woolley
Mis Greer
McCarthy
General Electric Company
Middle States Head Indicted for Theft in Cleveland
In Cleveland on April 3 a grand jury indicted George J MacKay 44 former head of the Hale company for theft totaling £36 706. His wife Elsie MacKay is charged with embezzlement of £74 400. MacKay was arrested in St Louis after a six month nationwide search and remains jailed on $46 000 bail.
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Cleveland
Cheorge J
MacKay
Tales Hales Company
Aira
Elsie MacKay
St. Louis
Army Planes End Porto Rican Trip of 6000 Miles
Six Army airplanes that left San Antonio a month ago on a 6000 mile flight to Porto Rico and then to Washington landed at Bolling Field. Secretary Weeks greeted the pilots and directed official credit for the remarkable pioneer journey. Air service officials said the Navy? was navigated by land planes over water and land with no accidents, proving aircraft could support national defense. Captain Thomas G Lanphier said Porto Rico could be a base to strike an enemy fleet near the Panama Canal, showing air concentration within 24 hours and a 300 mile bombardment radius. A drifting buoy finally washed ashore on the Scilly Islands after twelve months at sea.
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Washington
San Antonio
Texas
Porto Rico
Bolling Field
Army Air Service
Weeks
Air Service
Thomas G. Lanphler
Panama Canal
Atlantic
Questionairre to Married Women Reveals Spoonings Popularity
New York April 8 The Bureau of Social Hygiene led by John D Rockefeller Jr reports from 1000 married women nationwide on spooning before marriage. Of 1006, 872 said they were happy, 41 percent of the happy group did not spoon, 57 percent did and 22 percent spooned only withfiance s. 69L college graduates 74 percent admitted practicing birth control.
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New York
Bureau of Social Hygiene
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Katharine Bennett Davis
Bureau
Jane
Avis
Days
Westport Girl Is Wedded to L A Wagner
Miss Henrietta Wysman daughter of Mrs Carolina Wysman Norwalk and Leonard A Warner Jr son of Mr and Mrs Leonora Wagner Westport were married in the Phasonage of the First Avenue Methodist Episcopal church in Norwalk yesterday. The ceremony was per-
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Westport
Henrietta Wysman
Carolina Wysman
Norwalk
Leonard A. Warner, Jr
Leonora Wagner
State Street
Fast Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Wedding couple to reside in Westport after trip
The couple wed and left for a short trip. After their return they will live in Westport. The groom and bride were formed by Rev. L Earl Shaffner, pastor of the church. Sir William Bird plans in parliament to require a stamp on imported eggs showing the date of the egg's birthday.
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L. Earl Shaffner
Westport
London
William Bird
Vince
Monument to Colorado Miners Proposed in Denver Will
A monument to Colorado pioneer miners, including the late Senator Samuel D. Nicholson, is to be erected at Washington Park in Denver after his will provides for it. The Associated Press reports the plan as part of thewill’s bequests to honor mining history in the state.
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Karstens
Henry Waleworth Kinney
Christ
Giovanni Papini
Dorothy Canfield
Bill Tilden
Ynseed Ercun
Pan
Wendy
Tyergn
D.C
Autcor
D. C
Lee Wilson Dood
Sadie
Gure
Eth M. Witt
Sahara
Blackguard
Maxwell Bodenheim
Helen Jerome
H. T. Mencken
Denver
Colo. Amil
Associated Press
Colorado
U. S
Samuel D. Nicholaon
Fishy Ashington Park
President Harding Attends Exhibition Game in Augusta
President Harding and Mrs. Harding witnessed an exhibition Detroit Americans vs. Toronto club game at Warren Park Augusta. They were escorted by former Judge Landis and a small party, enjoying the baseball outing in the spotlight of national fans.
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Augusta
Apel G
Harding
Warren Park
Detroit Americans
Toronto
International League
Landis
Citizens to Battle Fifteen Feet of Snow
City officials announce a shovelling bee to clear snow drifts up to 15 feet deep. Residents urged to use shovels as street sweepers and plows fail. Snow measured six inches at the latest fall with temperatures around 14 below zero. Thick drifts blanket Mackinac and Beaver Island.
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Sally Stg
Marie
Mioh
Associated Press
Suver
Mackinac
Beaver Island
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Scilly Islands
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L. A. Wagner
Main
Bridgeport
Oxfords
Neuhoff Shoe Dept
Davenport
Broad and John Streets
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