Harding era leases raise questions in Fall-Doheny trial
In the District of Columbia Supreme Court a key phase of the Fall-Doheny conspiracy case unfolds as government counsel rest near completion. Witnesses push to prove Secretary Fall's responsibility for oil lease policy while Navy and Interior department roles are scrutinized.
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Washington
Dec
Harding
Supreme Court of
District of Columbia
Flax
Waileh
Montana
Senate GA Committee
Fall
Interior Department
Navy Department
Naval
Edward L. Doheny
Doheny
Leavee
Elk Hills
Cal Reserve
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Nair
Aecreev
Pearl Harbor
Vlans
Navy
Contrera
House Roosevelt
Denbar Fall
Harreld
Oklahoma
Bawin Booth Xolletter
Tul
W Clark
Pueblo Ci
Fallon Ward
Paul Shoup
Peele Ol Company
Eth Laity
Pan-Americ Formmany
Esch
Slen
Oi Sherane
Salton
Retired Lumberman, 86, Killed by Falling Tree Near Home
In Barrf Vermont Mitchell H Gostant, a veteran lumberman for 50 years, was killed when a large tree he felled caused a falling branch to strike him. The 86 year old also served as village postmaster for four years and ran a store, leaving 18 children, 13 alive.
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Barrf, Vt
Dee
Mitchell H Goslant
Tlanesbbie
Debutante Eludes Parents to Marry Russian Nobleman
Marjorie Clendenin twenty six daughter of Joseph Clendenin senior executive with American Smelting and Refining elopes from Ardsley mansion to wed Baron Tirnan Ternow a Russian baron in New York. The couple spent hours together before a ceremony at the Little Church Around the Corner. Clendenin family had objected, citing prior elopement plans with Edward Atkinson of Boston. Baron Tirnow born in Russia, is a stockbroker with ties to Russian nobility.
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New York
Marjorie Clendenin
Joseph Clendenin
Ice
Smeling and Refiting Company
Ardsley
New York City
George Torna Misys
Clendenin
Baron Sveetheart
Deyirlat
Ike Wiliam Puips
Clendenins
Arédisley
Karen Trunow
Paris
Dimitri
Edward H Atkinson
Edward Atkinson
Boston
Vierence
East Sxty-fourth Street
Baron Tirnan
Baltimore
Baron Ternow
Tearkoe Selo
Russia
Baron Alexander Ternow
Nathalie Kirtakoff Ternow
Kirakoff
Russan Court
Births in Connecticut Decline in Early 1925
Hartford AP reports a steady drop in Connecticut births, with an estimated 4,600 fewer births in 1925 than 1924. The state Health Department bulletin notes a slight rise in deaths and a notable drop in marriages in the first nine months, detailing births, marriages, and deaths across the state for 1925.
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Hartford
Connecticut
State Department of Health
Bandits Sought by Milford Officers
Milford police seek two holdup men who attacked Wilton luncheonette proprietor at 143 Bridgeport Avenue shortly before 3 a.m. The victim reported one assailant demanded money while the other attempted to grab the cash drawer. Police described the confrontation as a nervous street incident with the attackers escaping toward nearby streets.
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Miford
Wiltin
Bridgeport Avenue
Devon
Ant
Wilton
City to Spend Over Two Million on Sewers and Plant
Fuller and MacLintock engineers urge a sedimentation plant on the East Side and extensive sewer improvements. They recommend spending 2,027,474 for treatment works, interceptors, relief and replacement sewers, and pumping stations to combat polluted harbor waters and typhoid risk. Mayor Behrens accepted the plan and said the recommendations will be followed.
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Behrens
Fuller and MacLintock
James C Harding
Arthur F. Connor
James A
Bostwick Avenue
Bridgeport
Water power loss claim at lake diversion hearing
Colonel Hugh L Cooper of Stamford, Conn, testified at a Supreme Court lake diversion hearing that Chicago sanitary district withdrawals from Lake Michigan cause national hydro electric loss estimated at 134 million dollars annually for New England and nearby states. He also argued Chicago’s flow maintains navigation and that 10,000 cubic feet per second lost would equal 309,000 horsepower at Niagara Falls, with broader impacts on New York and Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Lake Michigan
Chicago Sanitary District
New England
Hugh L Cooper
Stamford
Conn
Charles Hughes
Cooper
Hughes
Great Lakes
St Lawrence
the &T Lawrence
New York
Patta
Pennsylvania
Crhio
Chicago
Niagara
Ford Plants Close Men Laid Off
Detroit March reports Wilshlend Park and Silver Rouge plants of the Ford Motor Company shut down for the night and will remain closed until next week. A few depots in both plants stayed open for gathering essential parts and to tie up at the greater nation’s crown.
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FORD
Detroit
Wilshlend Park
Silver Rouge
Hypnosis Reveals World War I Vet Identity in Hartford
In Hartford a hypnotic session at the state Hospital for the Insane led ex soldier Theodore Flint to reveal his name and family ties. Dr RK Ti uk reported the patient identified himself as Theodore Flint of Poughkeepsie area, son of Joseph and Hilda Flint, married to Virginia, with brother Mortimer. Flint described WWI service, wounds, and time in government hospitals. Confirmation awaits.
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Hartford
RK Ti
State Hospital For the
Middletown
Jer_ ty Talbot
Joe
Theodore Flt
Thirtymine
Joseph
Hilda Kates Flint
Poughkeep
Ste, N
Virginia Miler Flint
Mortimer
Poughkeepste
State Hospital
Hartford Ibort
Teak
Flint
Poughkeepsie
Wall-Milla trial opens defense as case proceeds
Defense begins summary of the case after witnesses questioned by the defense in a murder trial. Bimpson’s summary due possibly today, with Cane potentially going to the jury by tomorrow. Simpson’s testimony includes a claim about a towel incident while Flanyon alleges pressure from the prosecutor to take the case to the Supreme Court.
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Wall-Milla
Bimpson
McCarter
Milly
Cane
Simpson
Fogues
Adhrite
Flanyon Saya
Supreme Court
Bridgeport
Somerville
N. 3
Mills Cass
Dorenst
I W. Parker
Atate
Aftiarit
Jane Gibaon
Pritniega
Metis Fat Ni
Mra
Mary Demarest
Demareat
Asia Rytetto
Marest
Brooklyn
Eldridge
Joe
Alton
Henry Stevena
Eleanor
Rey Farward Walain
Frances
Henry
Wille
Mills
Ogg
di Martini
Desa
Demarest
Kellogg Plans Tacna Arica Settlement With Bolivia
Secretary Kellogg proposes cession of Tacna Arica to Bolivia as the sole route to end Chile and Peru dispute. Plan requires perpetual demilitarization, compensation for public works, Arica free port, reestablished diplomacy, and international control of Morro promontory as a memorial to Chilean and Peruvian valor. Bolivia would be landlocked but gains the territory with guarantees.
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Washington
Dec
Bolivia
Tacna
Arica
Chile
Peru
Kellogg
South America
Ee Roversionar
Kelloge
Asica
Morro
Mont of Wea
Alee Whedon
Bingham urged for traffic committee post
Hartford December 1 AP Senator Hiram Bingham was endorsed to fill a vacancy on the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee caused by the death of Senator Bert M Fernald of Maine. The New England Traffic League met to name a state representative, with officials noting New England must compete for the post. The conference, attended by over 100 traffic experts, discussed shipping problems and truck transportation regulation amid opposition to the Upping-Pinker law.
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Engiteers
Page
Stratford
Fairfield Stines
Brady
Maine
Bor
Griffin
Fairfield County
Board of Hoenling Arta
Bingham
Interstate Commerce Commission
New England Traffic League
Hartford
Hiram Bingham
Senate
Bert M Fernald
W H Dav
Bowter
Chamber of Commerce
Boston
Hingham
New
Wo Price
Royal
Women Brains Found After Phelps Remark Says Mrs Seton
Mrs Grace Thompson Seton of Greenwich Conn president of the League of American Tin Women responds to William L Phelps of Gale noting American women are better at telling than men. She cites ancient evidence and contrasts past and present, with praise for women’s mental powers and contributions across eras.
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Mrs. Seton
Phelps
Grace Thompson Seton
Greenwich
Conn
League of American Tin Woman
Sid Toneht Ty
Wiliam L Phelps
Gale
Tr Pdelpy
Amrica
Liu
Doroth Canfial
Ontario Liberals and Ferguson Sweep Prohibition Vote
Ontario election results show conservative G Howard Ferguson and a government leaning toward liquor control with 74 of 109 elected pledging support. Weather hindered turnout in the north as maps shift from wartime prohibition to provincial liquor governance.
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Toronto
Conservatis
G. Howard Ferguson
Ontaria
Liberals
Labor
Howard Ferguson
Nobile Visits Stamford After Pole Expedition
Gen Umberto Nobile, builder and pilot of the Norge dirigible used in the Amundsen expedition, arrives in Stamford. He is greeted by local Italian groups at the railroad station, escorted to the town hall by Mayor John F. Keating, and touring the Italian Institute before a motor parade. A 7:20 pm illustrated talk, From Rome to Teller by Air, recounts his polar journey followed by a dinner at the Italian institute.
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Stamford
Umberto Nobile
Norge
Amudsen-Zusaoe
Ate Abbot
John F. Keating
Gen Nobile
Depot
Mobile Amundsen
Ellaworth
North Pole
General Nobile
Columbus
Rome
Teller
Hannauer Elected President of Boston and Maine Railroad
George Hannauer vice president of Indiana Harbor Belt railway was elected president of the Boston and Maine railroad. Born in St Louis in 1873 he began with Terminal Railway association of St Louis in 1900 and will assume office January 1 succeeding James H Hustis who resigned March 31. Hannauer also serves as vice president of the Terminal Railway system overseeing the Chicago era Bathway network and Indiana Harbor Belt Railway among others. He aided in designing the new Boston and Maine straight yards and terminal plans earlier this year.
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Boston
George Hannauer
Indiana Harbor Belt Railway
Boston and Maine Railroad
Terminal Railway Association of
St. Louis
Hia
Reese
Chicago
Hannover Wes
St Loula
Terminal Railroad Association of
St. Latua
James H. Hustisa
Hannauer
Chicago Junction Railway
Chicago River and Indiana Railway
Beeton
Maine Streight
Elka bazaar opens at state street lodge with large crowd
The Elka lodge Christmas bazaar opened on State Street for ten nights drawing a large crowd and promising proceeds to fund remodels. The opening night featured the University Male quartet and a lively orchestra. Decorated interiors and various booths attracted steady patronage as the bazaar proceeds aim to reduce lodge indebtedness.
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Ratious
Querita
Second Load of Liquor Seized In Danbury Case
Danbury police arrested Pred Divigard of 1293 Congress Avenue on liquor transportation charges after finding fifty cases of beer in his trunk on the city outskirts. He admitted the beer was made in Waterbury and intended for delivery in Danbury. Federal officers had seized 27 cases of liquor the previous night, suggesting a supply replenishment. Divigard was held on $1000 bond for a Danbury police court hearing Thursday morning.
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Danbuiy
Dtvigard
Congress Avenue
Watenbury
Divigard
Bis Trunk
Harry Tucker
Theodore Emmons
Waterbury
Danbury
Witte Pon
Ridgefield
Danbury Pailee Heatquante
Henry Carpenter May Not Be Tried Case Reported
Fragmentary report notes Henry Carpenter, member of a propertied group, not to be tried. Prosecution sought conviction on an agent defendants matter. Governor Maude declined the committee’s request and the case proceedings appear unsettled amid garbled notes and unclear names.
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Heney Capender
Farah
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California Naval Reserve
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Washington Kellogg
Nelle Rosy
Wyoming
Havana
Marie
Carol
Billorinla
America
PY Queen
Strang Oil
French
France
Dourge Bynn
Tantra
Berketlad
Achoot
Victory Pro Congress
Tigh Briatford Tegion
Tats Bicksloe
Bjarn
Princeton Ani Uaiv
Yack Dempsey
Tigit
Brown and
Pann
All Hasteta
Lang
Fernald
Han
China
M’carter
Ontario
Province
Ferguson
Ora
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Jersey City
WN. J
Alexander Stimpson
Dr. Hall
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Nobile
Hustis
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Washington Dew
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