Stresemann cabinet wins Reichstag vote of confidence
Berlin Aug 14 The Reichstag backed Germanys new cabinet headed by Chancellor Stresemann with 240 from 541 voting in favor. Seventy six opposed and twenty five abstained. Stresemann outlined plans for Ruhr Rhine dispute arbitration and reparations while signaling cautious moves toward economic stabilization under continued occupation conditions.
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Associated Press
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Reichstag
Bavarian Temple
Ur. Stresemann
Ruhana
Rhineland
Germany
Dr. Stresemann
Ruhr
Ruh
Cano
Elerr Cune
Stresermann
Reichstasse
Dystrose Manos
Poincare
Homes submerged along the Yalu River coast in flood loss
Severe storms and high seas flood the Yalu River area and the Norau coast, submerging homes and causing unknown loss of life as reports from Tokyo arrive, with officials estimating casualties and damage.
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Norau
Ufe
Heavy Riots in Germany Leave Dozens Injured
In Berlin east end Communists tried to block tram traffic with barricades. police clashed with rioters and four were injured. Three killed and nine wounded at Wilhelmsburg near Hamburg after police there faced a volley of shots. Aix-la-Chapelle reports 13 killed and over fifty wounded as crowds protested arrests.
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Wilhelmsbach
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Wilhelmsburg
Aix-lun-Chapelle
Rise of Calvin Coolidge Told by Frank Stearns
Boston businessman Frank Waterman Stearns recounts his 1914 meeting with Calvin Coolidge and his belief that Coolidge would become a great president. He describes urging Coolidge to run for lieutenant governor, Coolidge’s careful candor, and the long friendship that shaped Stearns’s view of Coolidge’s rise.
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Col House
Harry Dougherty
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Amherst College
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Amherst
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Slemp Named Secretary to the President in Coolidge Administration
Former Virginia representative C Bascom Slemp has accepted the post of secretary to President Coolidge. The White House announced the appointment after a closed hour long conference. Slemp will assume the role after a brief interim, with George Christian Jr remaining as presidential secretary until then. Slemp, born 1870 in Turkey Cove Lee County Virginia, a Virginia Military Institute graduate and longtime Republican leader, was once offered several federal posts by Harding but declined.
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Child Injured. Father Sues For Four Thousand Damages
Greenwich reports nine year old John Risden was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Constable George P. Jones. The boy's father sues for $4,000 in an attachment case set for Bridgeport court next month. Deputy Sheriff Lincoln Taylor attached Jones' property on Post Road Rivers.
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Superia
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Consta Hie Jones
Postie
Rivers
American Legion of Fairfield Plans Dance
In Fairfield the George Smith post of the American Legion voted to hold a dance at the Greenfield Park theater to benefit the organization. Delegates William A. Kinsella and Dr L B Polle, with alternates George Anderson and Howard A. Smith, were chosen to attend the state convention in New Britain next month.
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American Legion
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New Britain
William A Kinsella
L. B Polle
George Anderson
Howard A. Smith
Hold-up trio captured after strenuous fight on highway
Three highwaymen were apprehended after a tense confrontation with state police on the New London New York turnpike near Old Saybrook. Led by Jobin Conroy of Bridgeport, the group demanded driver John Sullivan’s license papers and money, fled westward, and were pursued to Madison before being subdued. Conroy and two Milford men, Nicholas Archantel and William J Siebbins, face bonds and possible highway robbery charges. Conroy remains held on $10,000 bond, with Archantel and Siebbins at $4,000 each. Sullivan continued to New York under contract, with plans to return for later proceedings.
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Milford
Sibbins
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York
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Meade
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Conroy
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Westbrook
New York
Coolidge to Stay in Washington for the Summer
President Coolidge will remain in Washington during the summer to handle the new office details he has inherited after President Harding's death. He will not undertake speaking trips in the coming months, with staff and information readily available in the capital.
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Washington
Aug
Pat Junetur Dent Coolidge
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Trumbull tract eyed for new municipal golf course
The Park Board plans a two month option on the Woolsey Stirling estate near Trumbull station two miles from Beardsley Park to create an 18 hole municipal golf course. The $30 000 purchase would cost less than 10000 to convert, with site praised for drainage views and easy clears.
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Gasoline Price War Grows In Midwest Markets
Gasoline price reductions by Standard Oil of Indiana trigger a slide in petroleum stocks on the New York exchanges. Gov Walker of Georgia orders an inquiry into gasoline pricing amid monopoly suspicions. Colu mbus Automobile Club seeks pricing data from Dallas as a radical cut is demanded. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange shows short-covering rallies as oil shares rise briefly, while overall volumes stay light.
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Tex
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Voice on the Telephone and The Gray Ghost tale tease readers
The fragment previews a mystery feature titled The Voice on the Telephone a thief facing The Gray Ghost the gentleman detective rivaling Raffles. It notes author Arthur Somers Roehe and hints readers can solve the conundrum once the tale is printed.
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Arthur Somers Roehe
Conan Doyle
Medford man held after two women's bodies found
Two wooden boxes with dismembered bodies of a woman and the mother in Franklin are linked to Nunie Gi Tsekos of Franklin who confesses to the killings in a quarrel over money. He pleads not guilty to murder in Malden district court and is held without bail. Police say the wife Natalie and her mother Katherine Adams were killed with a bat and knife. Tsekos ferried the boxes to Boston before inspection.
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Clarke
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Rescuers Race to Reach Miners After Wyoming Mine Blast
In Kemmerer Wyoming rescue teams battled smoke and cave-ins to reach 138 miners trapped after a blast at Frontier Mine number 1. 37 were saved alive, 100 unaccounted for as workers from the Kemmerer Coal Co and U S Bureau of Mines aided efforts.
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Wyoming
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Wyo
Frontier Mine
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States Bureau of Mines
Salt Lake City
Utah
Alexander Inama
Pete Fapero
Sis
Reckless Driving Charged Against Auto Driver
James J. Wolsely of 600 Hallett Street was reported to the Second Precinct as intoxicated at the wheel. He allegedly drove a zigzag course near Nichols Port Lawn, skidded, and struck a fence, damaging his car but not injuring himself. He was taken into custody on a $150 bond for driving while intoxicated.
Congregation Defends Pastor in Hungarian Church Row
The Magyar Reformed congregation faced claims of selfishness against Pastor Ludmian. Elders and 48 members who seceded asserted the pastor impeded parish consolidation and State Street Reformed union. They said signatories were not all full members when the statement was written.
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Magyar
Ludmian
Ananelias
Moral
State Street
Analex
Ludenin
Ludy Tan
B. Komjathy
State Strete
Notable Accidents Leave Two Slightly Injured
Two people sustained minor injuries in separate daytime incidents. Clifford Barrows, 927 Seaview Avenue, was struck by a falling wrench and suffered a slight concussion. Alice Karoska, 428 Hancock Avenue, fell from a veranda sling, sustaining contusions but no major harm.
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Seaview Avenue
Alice Karoska
Hancock Nue
Boy Asks Stranger To Hold Money, He Disappears
Stratford man John Gabor trusted 14 year old Stephen Jankura to guard $78 during a Seaside park baseball game. After the game, Jankura vanished and police investigated. The report notes confusion over what happened to the money and the boy.
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Stratford
Stephen Jankura
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