Kansas House Bans Marriage of Unfit Citizens
Delusions of feeble mindedness and other issues become bar to marriage under a Kansas proposal. The House discusses a provision forbidding engagements for those deemed unfit, with references to officials including Rep. Darkson and Rep. Dycksen. Separate items cover travel expenses, White Way project tensions, harbor master payments, wage increases for garbagemen and bridge tenders, and City Street extension funding requests.
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Neas
Mt Dycksen County
Declan Td
Tie
Neughtor
Witi
Idtwyngston
Willie F. Hubby
Sehl Shgard
Major Buttens
State Street
Tampa
William Tem
Lamond
Johnson's Creek
Lwett
Tix Board
Fr.tson
Narthey
India
Northey
Warren Bros
Wayne Street
Bunonit Street
New Cashiers to Take Tax Payments
City board convened to review payroll and appropriation actions for the year. Officials discussed transfers from various funds, payroll figures, and anticipated expenses across departments, including street work and harbor operations, as measures to balance the budget and implement the new cashiers for tax payments.
Britain weighs diverting troops to Hong Kong and Wei Hai
Shanghai amid opposition from non British members of the settlement council to quartering a large force. Authorities consider moving troops away from Shanghai to Hong Kong and Wei Hai Wei to avoid intensifying foreign tensions. Warships may anchor in the Yangtze River area as preparations continue and warehouses near Jess Field Park halt barracks work for 3,000 soldiers.
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Shanghab International Settlement
Hrltivh
Shanghai Settlement
Hong Kong
Wei Hat
Thong Kong
Shanghai
Jess Field Park
Settionment
Sane
Keomar
Woosung
Chinese Chamber of Commerce
Mohican Company Wins Its Fight
Divorce granted to Seton L. Fosg on cruelty charges. Judge Booth awards custody to the plaintiff and orders $10 weekly support. Also details long civil battles over leases and subleases involving the Mohican company, Newfield Building, and related parties, with appeals and multiple court rulings through 1925.
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Tt. Booth
Seton L. Fosg
Booth
Anny
Archibald
Darien
Connecticut
Foss
Thomas Jefffe
San Francisco
Supreme Court
Mehican
Nuweld Building Company
Mohican Company
Mato
Golden Hum
Newfield Building Company
Mehican Company
W. WT. Cewart
Samuel H. Wheeler
Fairfeld
Wheeler Gled
Dora St. Wheeler
Paarfield
Arthur F. Os
John R. Booth
Newfelt Building Company
T Ie Mohican Company
Merchants Back Parcel Post Bill in Connecticut
A Connecticut trade and commerce committee meeting adopted a resolution urging support for a parcel post bill in Congress. The resolution notes tobacco interests in Connecticut rely on fair rates and states the Connecticut Chamber empowered its committee to issue recommendations on the measure. The U S Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the bill amid Cuba trade tensions over post rates.
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Congress
Cuba
Trade and Commerce Committee
Connecticut Chamber of Commerce
Connecticut
Trades and Commerce Committee
United States Chamber of Commerce
United States
Slavery Charges Involving Webb Bellua and Alford
An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Amite County Mississippi accuses Webb Bellua and John Alford of forcing a Black man near the Talla boundary to leave a stock pen and travel to Vicker Louisiana. The case alleges the family was kept in peonage with no wages, as five members including three children were sold to a Blaker section and forced to work without pay for weeks.
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Webb Bellua
John DD
Alford
Antu County
Msn
Batkin
Reline
Trawford Allen
Tallan
Amite County
Miss
Vlcker
Moeting Crawford
Elfe
Millionaire Son Shoots Wife Then Ends His Life
Chicago February 2 AP investigation into the death by self inflicted gunfire of Richard Dickerson son of Colonel Richard B P Dickerson a Springfield Missouri sportsman continues. The young man shot his wife Iris Peters on the order of jealousy then killed himself leaving two notes including a demand that his father relinquish his ranch. The case links to a Grand Rapids mystery and notes his estrangement from his father over personal disputes. Dickerson age twenty nine, son of Colonel KP Dickerson of Conway and Springfield Missouri.
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Chicago
Richard Dickerson
Richard BP
Dickerson
Calthy Sportman
Springfield
Tad
Iris Bride
Lucille Peterson
Tsaves
Richard
Grand Rapids
Mich
Add.nes Gray
Cray
Gray
Myre
Edith Dickerson
St. Louie
KP. Dickerson
Conway
Col. Dickerson
Stanley Ketchel
Salvation Army to Organize Mariners League Worldwide
New York reports the Salvation Army plans a Mariners League to extend religious, social, and educational outreach to seafarers. Evangeline Booth announced the program, with ships forming corps and aboard meetings supplementing ashore activities. The initiative aims to aid mariners and provide housing and welfare services as it expands.
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New York
Salvation Army
Salvation Nava
Evangeline Booth
Ioald Amuindsen
Corpa
Chief of Police in Fall River Resigns
George A. Staples, acting chief of the Somerset police force for ten years, resigns from duty in Fall River Massachusetts. The resignation follows controversy over confiscation of liquor aboard a ship. Staples denies the move was prompted by the incident and states his decision is personal.
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Fall River
Pall River
Mass
George A. Staples
Somerset
Staples
Lidgger
New Lontanoon
Sumepe
Bey Busingskis
Exploding Films Light Jersey Sky as New York Fire Rages
A massive blaze in New York and Fort Lee damaged film studios and warehouses. Flames rose over a hundred feet with thousands of feet of old film fueling the inferno. Authorities say losses may reach millions, with injuries to several workers and guests evacuated from nearby buildings.
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Exploding Films
Hindtos
Port Lee
Tod Feet
Fort Tee
Fort Ley
No J
Cello Kam Company
Universal Sindles
Fort Lee
Fiim-Reclaimine
Paul Guitek
Universal New York
Fifthvenue
Main Street
Terence Mahon
Contra Avenir
Elis
Mahon
Marie Taberelli
John Scheuer
Fort Sea Polices
Finglewood Hospital
Louis Missig
Water Company
Grantwoal
Palisades
Park
Cliffside
Edgewater
Leonia Ald Edo
Ing Materal
Weys
Urnea
Forged Mortgages Bring Million Losses
New York police seized a man on the charge of obtaining more than 3.4 million dollars by forged chattel mortgages on automobiles. The arrest followed in the district attorney’s office where Ferdinand Pecora stated the complainants are numerous. The defendant admitted the losses would total between 740,000 and 850,000 dollars, mostly to relatives, friends, and business associates.
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York
Ing
Ietrnt Distr
Perdinand Decora
Pecora
Oione
Beam Struck by Falling Timber. Man Severely Cut
A man identified as John Jajduk, thirty seven, was injured when a piece of debris fell from a rear veranda roof and struck his scalp. He received five stitches at a hospital after the accident occurred while he walked through a rear yard. a beam reportedly broke loose and caused the injury.
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Siwtek
John Jajduk
Tenemency Te Itl
Chester of
Habertin
Rabbi Levenberg to Speak Here Monday
Rabbi H. Levenberg, chief rabbi of Haven, will be the speaker at the Hebrew Educational Center next Monday evening. The event will be held at North Dad Valmah Torah on Main and Halies streets, where Levenberg has a broad following from prior talks.
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Levenberg
Haven
Hebrew Educational Center
Dad Valmah Torah
Main
Halies
Y’elch
Ctf
Pomfret School Must Pay Taxes Court Rules
The Connecticut Supreme Court today upheld the Pomfret school assessment, ruling it not a public or tax-exempt institution. Justice Hinman stated the private school serves only those with means, and its uses are not public, thus denying exemption and confirming taxation.
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Hartford
Pomfrat School of Pomfret
Supreme Court
Pomfret Board of Relief
Holawin v. Dickenson
Neesons
Amy Lo Whitney
Enfield
Hazard
Sirgilla Pette
Hartford Connecticut Trust Company
Pomfret School
Hinman
Brunewick School
Greenwich
General Assembly
Amy T. Whitney
Tnfield
Hazard Tead Works
Hazardville
Matheson's Corner
Leo Noonan
Court finding limited in employment injury case near highway
In a Hartford case Judge Wheeler held a worker injured on a public highway was not in the course of employment since travel thereon was not required by her job. The ruling affects Miss Virginia Pettes and details surrounding a probate hearing notice contest and various damages appeals, including Lentine and Morganelli cases, with new trials and compensation outcomes noted.
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Isaac Wolfe
Hell
Wheeler
Virginia Pettes
Girard Avenue
Hartford
Harriett. Nickerson
Tone Anne Finkree Sawyer
Miss Petten
Audge Leonard Lo Nickerson
Justice Haines
Miss Pettes
Miss Pettee
Miss Beties
George O. Sawyer
Salvatore Lentine
New Haven
Paceman
Arthur
Tantine
New Haven County
Lentine
Tentine
Matteo Morganelli
Derby
Curtis
Bridgeport Medical Society hears Shipley on chest surgery
Dr. Arthur M. Shipley professor of surgery at the University of Maryland made a flying trip to Bridgeport Tuesday night for the Bridgeport Medical Society meeting. He spoke on surgical renditions of the chest using lantern slides to illustrate points. Findings were complemented by Dr. Samuel Harvey Yale Medical School and Dr. D. C Patterson with other local doctors present. Refreshments followed. Beforehand the society president B. L. Sinykowski and officers hosted Shipley and Harvey at the Algonquin club.
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Arthur M. Shipley
University of Maryland
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Medical Society
Samuel Harvey
Yaln Medical Eehnal
D.C Patterson
A. J. MacOneenie
Ir. W. Les Wendon
B. L. Sinykowski
Medical Society
Shipley
Warvey Atter
Algonquin Club
Water Tank Explodes Injuring One on Coast
Pasadena reports an explosion at a high pressure water tank on the McCormick estate in Oak Knoll. Larry Hirsch, a Pur company employee, was seriously injured and his assistant slightly stunned when the tank exploded and wrecked the garage.
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Pasadena
Cal
Tlarry Hirsch
Pur
Teds
Man McCormick
Oak Knoll
Farm and Barking? Bills Reach Ballot Next Week
Washington February 2 AP Supporters of farm relief legislation and the branch banking bill aligned in a Senate conference called by Vice President Dawes. An unanimous consent request will seek immediate action on the McNary Haugen farm equalization fee and a vote by 4 p.m. Monday, followed by the McFadden branch banking bill by 4 p.m. Wednesday. Agreement was reached to vote Friday on the Harrison tax reduction and milk import regulation measures. Efforts to vote the radio control measure failed, as leaders pursued further conferences to resolve conflicts.
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Washington
Senate
Dawes
McNary- Haugen Farm
McFadden
Canada
Two Injured In Accidents Here
Two persons were injured when struck by automobiles and taken to Bridgeport hospital. Missy Mary Gulick, 21, of 443 Kissuth Street, suffered brain concussion and contusions after being hit at Kissuth and Clarence Streets by John D. Francesco. Frank Fucci, 14, of 280 Nichols Street, sustained a fractured leg when struck at Hamilton and East Main Streets by George F. Munn, owner L Bernstein and Sons.
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Bridgeport
Missy Mary Gulick
Kissuth Street
Frank Fucci
Nichols Street
Miss Gulick
Kossuth
Clarence Streets
John D. Francesco
Cedar Street
Blen
Hamilton
East Main Streets
George F. Munn
Maidenlea
L. Bernstein and Sons
Water Street
Original Cold Remedy Ad Promotes Bromo Quin ine Tablets
An antique advert promotes a patent medicine labeled as a cure for cold and grip. It touts Bromo Quinine tablets with branding claims the first and original cold remedy and features the box signed by E. W. Grove. It lists a 301 number and emphasizes proven efficacy.
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E. W. Grove
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