Phantom Stabber Strikes Twice More In City
Two girls were stabbed by the so called Phantom Stabber in rapid succession on Broad and State Warren streets. The attacker fled as Ernest Noel and Special Officer Julus Dorkin chased him through yards and into a driveway. Mary Lentito, fourteen, and Anna Borggard, twenty six, were treated at Emergency Hospital and sent home.
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Mary Sorenran
Pequonnock Street
Anna Borggard
Park Avenue
Broad Street
West Liberty Street
Gilbert Street
Mary Lentito
East Man Street
State
Warren Street
C. K. Haberlin
Abdomgn
Miss Barggard
Haberbn
Warren Streets
Ernest Noel
State Street
Noel
Julus Dorkin
Boel
Warren
State Othets
Stella Hodkoska
East Main Street
Hodkosaa
Mia Shugura
Prosnec Street
Saat
Union Drummer Boy Dies in His 76th Year
SUMERVILLE Mass August 13 AP Major Walter H Thoman veteran of Civil Spanish and World wars died at his home. He enlisted as a drummer boy at twelve and served as an orderly to General Phil Sheridan on the Winchester to Cedar Creek ride. Born in Portland Maine November 12 1860.
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Summerville
Mass
Walter H Thoman
Phil Sheridan
Winchester
Cedar Creek
New England
Portland
29Th
Maine Infantry
Balance of old read store may be rented soon
Readable items note a balance of the old store may be rented to an out of town firm soon. Page 2 mentions Hubbard girl twelve held as thirteenth firepreaka out in home. Page 1 notes a stabbing and other city incidents and various notices across sections.
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Hubbard
Tocalmin
Speers
Devon
Ateepis-Jack
Tuberculoess Relief Association
Man Admits Killing Wife in Brooklyn Home
Antonio De Palo surrendered at a Brooklyn police station after being sought since his wife was found dead with her head nearly severed by an axe. He was charged with homicide and admitted the killing stemmed from domestic differences. The couple had three children, the oldest nine.
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New York
Antonio de Palo
Brooklyn
de Palo
Government plan to blanket country with air line net
The Commerce Department plans a nationwide network of commercial airways with private ownership. President Coolidge approved two routes, a transcontinental from New York to the Pacific and a Chicago to Dallas Fort Worth line. Hoover predicted full passenger, mail, and express service within six months on the transcontinental route as other routes, especially along the Atlantic coast and in the Mississippi Valley, are announced. Cooperation with Army and Navy affirms air defense goals. Committees to be named.
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Paul Smiths
Hoover
Department of Commerce
Coolidge
Department
Coolidgs
New York
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Dallas
Fort Worth
Texas
Atlantic Coast
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Northwestern States
Far Northwest
Air Board
Commerce Department
Army
Navy Department
Stock Prices Fall as GM Dividend and Fed Rate Move Jolt Market
New York, Aug. 183 AP A sharp opening decline in stock prices followed by a brisk late rally left traders perplexed as the Fed local bank rate rose to 4 percent and General Motors declared a 50 percent stock dividend. Initial losses driven by higher borrowing costs and the GM result gave way to broad gains as investors bid up high grade rails and industrials. GM fluctuated from 196 3 4 to 208, up 4 1 2 points, with Du Pont Allied Chemical and steel issues climbing 2 to 7 1 2 points.
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New York
Federal Reserve Bank
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
DuPont Allied Chemical
Atchison
Norfolk and N
Haltimore
Ohio
Pastor to President Says He Is in Need Of Pity
Stamford August 13 Special Rev Jason Noble Pierce pastor of the church at Washington DC says a minister who has a president among his parishioners is to be pitied not congratulated Four of every five attendees are not his people Many come to church to see the president Seating increases reflect curiosity not spiritual growth He notes the president’s consistent church attendance and genuine life devotion contrasts with the eye of both friends and enemies
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Stamford
Jason Noble Pierce
Washington, D C
Coolidge
Kiwanis Club
Slayer Uses Babes as Shield in Ohio Farmhouse Standoff
In Ohio near New Richmond, Scott Workman, 42, shot his wife Nora Walker Workman and wounded two others before taking his nine children hostage. With his babies clutched to his chest, he defied a 100-strong posse and fire from sharpshooters, taunting authorities as officers hesitated to shoot. The siege lasted about two hours with the children unharmed at the moment, while the farmer threatened to kill again if forced to relinquish the infants.
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Cincinnati
New Richmond
Ohio
Scott Warkman
Fred Cronwell
Hermont County
Nora Walker Workman
Workman
Workman House
State Aims Drive To End All Evils Of Scarlet Fever
Connecticut health officials announce a new scarlet fever serum to cut the state's death rate in half and reduce complications. The antitoxin, distributed by the State Department of Health, is the first statewide supply and is intended for early use to prevent deafness, abscessed ears, and heart conditions.
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Hartford
Connecticut
State Department of Health
Stanley H. Osborn
Br. Osborn
Osborn
Hands Off Policy On Mexico To Be Continued
Washington August 13 Emissaries of the Knights of Columbus told Secretary Kellogg that the governments hands off policy toward Mexicos domestic religious turmoil will stand though protection of American property and personal rights in Mexico remains under treaty and Mexican law Kellogg met with Knights leaders after Philadelphia but gave no statement for publication and no formal policy is expected until after talks with President Coolidge Catholic readers continue to flood the State Department with inquiries about the religious question
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Washington
Knights of Columbia
Kellogg
Mexico
J. A. Flaherty
D. J. Callahan
National Organization of the Knights of Columbus
Philadelphia
Mr. Kellogg
Coolidge
White Pine Camp
State Department
Georgia bank head and Argentine flyers held for felony
Atlanta Aug 13 AP W D Manley president of the Farmers and Traders Bank of Atlanta and Bankers Trust Company faced a Fulton county grand jury indictment for felony alleging fraudulent insolvency of the Farmers and Traders bank while in charge. Receivers seek return of $699000 in alleged personal assets.
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Atlanta
W. D. Manley
Farmers and Traders Bank of Atlanta
Bankers’ Trust Company of Atlanta
Fulton County Grand Jury
Farmers and Traders Bank
Joan A. Boykin
Matley
Revelvers
Greenport Express Wreck Kills Six Injures Ten
A Greenport Special on the Long Island Railroad derailed at Calverton five miles east of Riverhead, killing six and injuring ten or more. The train, made up of two engines, several cars, and a parlor car, was carrying 400 passengers when it overturned on the west switch of the south siding. Names given include William Squires and John Montgomery, both Greenport residents, and passenger J C Fisher, with others injured including a woman identified as Mrs Angell and a maid Mrs Schusarb.
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Riverhead
GreenPort
Long Island Railroad
Calverton
Here
Wiliam Squires
John Montgomery
J. C. Fisher
H L. Wayne
Angel
Angell
Mrs. Angell
Schusarb
Jamaica
Babylon
Registrars See Busy Primary Enrollment Near Nine Hundred
Nearly 900 voters signed up at the registrars office on the final day of primary enrollment as William Lounsbury and Thomas White reported a busy week. The total enrollment for the week approached 900 with men and women roughly equal. Republicans led in most districts, especially the Eighth, while Democrats showed interest later, the Slath district leading Democratic enrollments.
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Yeeterady
William Tounsbury
Thomas IF. White
Alo
Lounsbury
White
Slath
Meteor Shower Spoiled by Haze Blurring Skies at Peak
Harvard astronomer Dr. Willard J. Fisher says the August 10 to August 20 meteor shower offered little scientific knowledge due to dense haze. Plates were scarce and advances unlikely. observers urged photographers to capture the display, but atmospheric veil limited visibility, with best conditions in southern Maine.
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Cambridge
Mass
Willard J. Fisher
Harvard Observatory
Andateurs
Fisher
New England
Maine
New York Referendum on Liquor Law Declared Legal
A New York judge denied an injunction against submitting the state prohibition amendment to voters while calling the referendum futile. Helen M. Albert led the suit for the New York Women’s Committee for Law Enforcement, arguing unconstitutionality. The ruling held the Board of Elections is a state agency and that a taxpayer cannot sue.
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Pig Unman
Mrs Bull
New York
Flayn Dulen
Akles
Harvard
Vanderhut
Ventrok
California
Mark Sullivan
Ane
New Jersey
Ilingis
Helen M. Albert
New York Women's Committee For Law Enforcement
Board of Elections
Supreme Court
Crain
Insanity ruling for Bearse in mother slaying case
Richard C. Bearse, 25, who killed his mother and allegedly inflicted mutilations, was declared insane by a panel of alienists and committed to Bridgewater state hospital for an indeterminate period by Judge Wallace R Heads. The examiner team called the case extreme and noted his mood remained reportedly jelly-like.
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Paula Edwartes
Alien
Bearxe
Tage
Georgia Bank
Frank Bullard
Springfield
Mass
Richard ¢. Bearse
Fred A. Bearse
Bridgewater State Hospital
Wallace R
Bearse
William C. Gilles
John A Houston
Northampton State Insane Hospital
William A. Bryan
Worcester State Insane Hospital
T. A. Batea
Walter H. Chapin
Famous Opera Star Paula Edwardes Kneels to Pray on Street
In New York a veteran actress known for The Princesa Beggar was found kneeling in prayer at Broadway and Twenty Third Street during a heavy rain. Paula Edwardes, about fifty, said she had a dream directing her to the spot. She was taken to Bellevue hospital for observation.
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New York
Charles Dunghbam
Paula Edwardes
Maida
Ulilag
Pokemin Belton
Broadway
Twenty-Third Street
Fini
Paula Kawirats
Bellevue Hospital
Pig Woman Brands and Suspects in Hall Murder Trial
Somerville New Jersey August 18 AP a revived pig raiser case informs indictments may follow in the murder of Rev Edward Whester Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mille. Frances Stevens Hall widow remains jailed on bail as proceedings unfold with Carpender Stevens and others under scrutiny. Witnesses recount threats poison attempts and a long tangled trail of testimonies amid courtroom drama and document seizures.
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Somerville
N. J
Edward Whester
Hall
Eleanor Mille
Henry Devruyere Carpender
New York
New Brunswick
Willie Stevens
Frances Stevens Hall
Lberty
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