Radio Pioneer Sends Pictures Over Apparatus
George Nothnagle of Waldemere avenue reports successful radio transmission of photographs from upstairs to downstairs in his home using a Jenkins laboratory device from Washington DC. He plans to send Mayor Behrens and Governor Trumbull images to Washington and hopes for at least Chicago receivers. He anticipates future movie radio reception and believes widespread at home movie viewing will come. Nothnagle, a state radio pioneer, served as a Navy radio operator in the War and earned a special experimenter's license last May.
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George Nothnagle
Waldemere Avenue
Jenkins Laboratory
Washington
Jenkins
Nothnagle
Manhasset Officials Indicted in Tax Conspiracy Case
Nassau County Grand Jury charged John Brown former chief clerk of North Hempstead Board of Assessors and John Hughes a former clerk with grand larceny and conspiracy to reduce taxes on Walter Chrysler estate in Great Neck. Indictment alleges three year pattern of steadily illegal assessment cuts from 272100 to 200000 in 1923 to 12200 this year.
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Mineola
N. Y
John Brown
Manhasset
Board of Assesors
North Hempstead
John Hughes
Nassau County Grand Jury
Walter P. Chrysler
Great Neck
Mother Suspected in Kidnapping of 6-Year-Old Harold Washerman
West Nassau New York Aug. A six year old Harold Washerman vacationing with his father David Washerman of New York was grabbed by a woman in an auto and taken away. Authorities say the father believes his wife, from whom he is separated, abducted the child. The car sped toward New York after pulling the boy into the vehicle.
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Nassau
N. Y
Harold Washerman
David Washman
New York
Washerman
Albany
Dawes Visits Colorado Ranch Before Lincoln Speech
Vice President Dawes and party arrive at a Wagon Wheel Gap ranch in Colorado Springs after a week with Colonel A. B. Humphreys of Denver. He plans to depart for Lincoln Nebraska tonight where he speaks tomorrow. Dawes stays with his cousin Miss Ann Douglas and Rev. James Douglas, a former regimental chaplain.
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Colorado
Springs
Colo
Dawes
Wagon Wheel Gap Ranch
A. B Humphreys
Denver
Lincoln
Neb
Ann Douglas
James Douglas
Labor union seeks probe into telephone firm monopoly
Lowell Massachusetts August 6 1929 The state branch of the American Federation of Labor requests an investigation of the telephone industry and the rate increase granted to the telephone company. Speakers criticise the rise and urge election of Public Utility Commission members by the people.
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Lowell
Mass
American Federation of Labor
Woodstock parish to build center for centenary
A parish house to serve as a community center will be built at Woodstock Vermont for 40000 dollars in connection with the centenary celebration of St James Episcopal church. The cement and field stone building will stand behind the church, whose present structure was erected in 1907 following the 1826 organization of the church society.
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Woodstock
Aug
St. James Episcopal Church
Calls Police When Workers Drop Joe
Frank Teitelman sought police protection for laborers hired to work on a storage warehouse in New Haven after Hod carrier's union officials induced several to stop. He had agreed the previous night to 75 cents an hour for a ten hour day. Fifty men began work this morning before being called off by union officials.
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New Haven
Frank Teitelman
Hod Carrier's Union
Mitchell's Son Is Safe After Missing Week
William Hamlin Mitchell twenty four year old Princeton graduate who had been missing since July 25 returned home to his father G A Mitchell a Buffalo lumber merchant. The father described him as temperamental and said he will let him follow his own destiny while offering support and noting the son played in a Greenwich Village jazz group and once held a office job in Buffalo. Mayer's pawn shop helped trace him through a pawned watch.
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New York
William Hamlin Mitchell
Princeton
G. A. Mitchell
Milionaire
Buffalo
Greenwich Village
Alwys
Mitchell Senior
Poy
Bia
Mitchell
J. Morton Mayer
Mayer
Divorce Granted to Mrs. Roderick Tower in Paris
Mrs. Roderick Tower of Philadelphia was granted a divorce from her husband on desertion grounds in Paris. The couple married in 1820 after a social wedding at St Bartholomew's, with Tower tied by family links to Charlemagne Tower of Philadelphia, former ambassador to Austria Hungary and Germany. The article notes her lineage to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and mentions prior statue displays with cousin Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt.
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Paris
Roderick Tower
Philadelphia
New York
Harry Payne Whitney
Tower
Ari
St. Bartholomew's Church
Charlemagne Tower
Atatria-Hungary
Aiuesia
Germany
Harvard
Misda Consuco Vanderbilt
Society of Independent Order
Gibbs Sees Canal As Real Commerce Artery
Albany Aug 6 Senator L W H Gibbs of Buffalo chairman of the commission inspecting the barge canal said it is far from scrap and is fast becoming a real artery of commerce. He noted prior reports of impending scrapping conflict with the commission’s view of a bright future for the canal.
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Albany
L. W. H. Gibbs
Buffalo
Legislative Commision
Gibbs
Legion Post Wins Long Legal Tilt in Clinton
The James R. Kirby Post of the American Legion in Clinton Massachusetts won a prolonged legal fight. Judge Lawton ordered a decree enjoining the State Department Executive Committee from revoking the post charter and required recognition of the Clinton post members in good standing.
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Clinton
Mass
James R. Kirby
American Legion
Executive Committee
Department of Massachusetts
Gilman L. Chase
Clinton Bed
Lawton
Superior Court
State Department
Clinton Post
Legion
Massachusetts estimates 9.5 million from vehicle fees
Boston reports an estimated 9.5 million dollars in revenue for the year from motor vehicle registration fees and infractions fines. July 1 collections totaled 7,676,635 dollars and the year’s resource economy brought in 8,022,166 dollars. About 651,563 passenger autos were registered.
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Boston
Division of Highways
State Department of Public Works
Baldwin decries postal rates as a tax on magazines
Arthur Baldwin, president of the National Publishers Association, tells a Congressional subcommittee that current second class mailing rates amount to a tax on magazines and should be restored to 1914 levels with a per piece minimum. He argues rates unfairly subsidize obscene and social magazines and urges ending special club rates, contracting R F D service, and widening access to carriage by contract.
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New York
Arthur J. Baldwin
Natonal Publishers’ Association
Conereas
Baldwin
Postal Department
Yale graduate Chase ordered committed for mental observation
Stanley Chase, Yale University class of 1908, formerly of Baltimore, was ordered committed to Bellevue Hospital for ten days of sanity observation after arraignment on disorderly conduct. He reportedly threatened to shoot George M. Shriver, senior vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in Wall Street offices. His brother-in-law Edward M. Deveraux testified he had been twice committed previously.
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New York
Horace Stanley Chase
Yale University
Baltimore
Bellevue, Hospital
Chase
Wall Street
Baltimors and Ohio Railroad
George M. Shriver
Manhattan State Hospital
Edward M. Deveraux
Orders restraining strikers halt parades in Willimantic
In Willimantic on August 6 AP reports Chief A McArthur served an order restraining American Thread Co strikers from holding parades on Miss Amy L Hoker president of the local textile council received it. Strikers protested claiming police discrimination while the chief cited parade excitement and potential trouble. Peaceful picketing at the plant will continue.
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Willimantic
American Thread Co
A. McArthur
Amy L. Hoker
Urge Bible Use in Public School Endorsed by Knights Templar
In Seattle at the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave a resolution urging daily Bible reading in public schools was adopted. Henry Hooker Van Meter of Chicago, head of the Bible league, called the action the greatest victory for the Bible in public schools in the history of the movement.
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Chicago
Knights Templar
United States
Seattle
Wash
Henry Hooker van Meter
Bible League
Templara
Three Tribes Pledge Fealty to Abd El Krim
At Ajdir a council in Abd El Krim presence reports chiefs of the Boulana Djebala and Anjera tribes pledge loyalty to Abd El Krim and resume war against France when they return to their zones.
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Tangier
Morocco
Ajdir
Abd-El-Krim
Boulana
Djebala
Anjera
Abd- El-Krim
Exeter Plans Fete for 150th Anniversary
Exeter New Hampshire plans for a 150th anniversary fete of the 1776 meeting of the first provincial congress. The Exeter chamber of commerce lays the groundwork. Exeter served as state capital during the Revolution and was a frequent legislature site before Concord became seat of government. Old state buildings still stand and house Memorial Hall managed by the Society of Cincinnati.
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Exeter
N. H
Perfection of blending praised in American service
The note extols a refined style and near perfect service. It promotes safe deferred payment and attentive care until fulfillment. The offer invites selecting from a comprehensive city selections on the second floor.
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