Grandmother at 30 Stresses Need of Good Husband
Grandmother Mrs Purpurro recounts marrying at fourteen to a handsome Italian immigrant taken by kidnapers in childhood. She notes five children and now, at thirty three, advises against very young marriages. Her daughter Jane, married to James Buriette, and two other children, Marsnette and Nethe, reflect the family’s long arc. She cites financial strain and happiness, urging older brides and careful choice of a partner. The tale blends memory and cautious counsel from a mother who lived the early tragedy and later stability.
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Cimelo Purpurre
America
Jane Buriette
Vurpurro
Courtren
James
Anil
Dames
Mrs. Purpurre
Galt
Five Held In Norwalk Holdups
Police report multiple arrests in a Norwalk robbery spree. Five suspects, including officers and store workers, were detained after a string of hold ups. Investigations identify a group tied to various incidents and ongoing inquiries into the missing goods and suspected collaborators.
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Norwalk
American Women Arrive En Route to Philippines Independence
A garbled list of American women traveling through Canada en route to Boston and Washington, tied to the Philippine independence movement. Names include Mrs init pon, Buddy MacKinnon, and Pat Gabeldon, with mentions of Cincinnati and Cincinnati manager Frondert. The fragment suggests coordination with a broader support effort for Philippine independence.
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Menaneote
Washington
Phiippines Movement
Revised Prayer Book Tops British Best Seller, Radiophone Used
The Church of England’s new Book of Common Prayer, urged by bishops, becomes a best seller abroad while some shops shelve it. Orders pour in from around the world, with the latest from Amerton noting use via a new wireless telephone as public interest grows.
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London
Church of England
Amerton
Theatre Producers Clash Over Censorship Debate
A heated exchange centers on stage decency and censorship as producers defend or denounce obscenity laws. Key figures Dr Straton and Justice Black advocate enforcement, while Brady accuses misstatements. arrests loom for raids on plays including The Cantive and The Virgin Man with 800 audience attendees watching.
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Brady
Che Celergymian
Daverys
Trak
Strons
Dr. Straton
Straton
Supreme Court
William Harmon Black
John Mord
Calvary
Justice Merci
Devere
Dr. Straten
Aumon
Ted the Widiense
Wbek
Aistrate Tursday
Virgin Man
Dr Percy Grant Dies in Hospital After Noted Controversy
The obituary outlines Dr Percy Grant's death in a hospital following a career marked by theological controversy. It notes his resignation in November amid mental strain and recalls clashes with church leadership over beliefs, including rejected views on Christ’s equality with God and church consecration. It mentions his estranged marriage history and his influence on church discussions of social and religious topics.
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Yipael
Ulsdig
W. B. Stoke
Philip Lyin
Grant
Hey Manning
Janary
Christ
Thurches
A. A
Hochester
N.Y
Aida
Baha
Othe
Geen Eahpat
Episcopal Church Dance Service Sparks Confusion and Debate
A fragmented account describes an Episcopal Church service with dances performed by several women. The text references guidance about propriety and anonymity, noting unclear messages about participation and potential implications for church decorum.
Man Inhales Gas Taken To Hospital After Incident
A man identified as Drise, aged forty two, inhaled gas at Federal Street and was taken to hospital. Family members reported the events. authorities believe the act may be related to personal reasons. Further details unclear in the fragmented report.
Dr Barton hails Blab School talk in forum
Dr William Barton, noted author and moderator, praised the “blab school” of the early 1800s in a forum discussing Lincoln and education. He argued loud speaking fostered learning, cited Lincoln’s-era methods, and noted modern schools are better though overprotective of children’s thinking. He also touched on Lincoln’s life and his mother Lucy Hanks, highlighting morality and oratory’s value.
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Willian Barton
Nation Council of Congregational
Ehurehus
Ehuveh Forum
Enim
Abraham Lincoln
Barten
Stent
Tiscusacs
Bar Sindster
Dr. Barton
Lincoln
Lucy Tfinks
dTe
Lacy Hanks
Barton
Tes
Lancoln
Propellor Breaks Force Vin Lanslame Returns To New York
Pantin Tactile line steamer Vin lanslame develops propellor shaft failure seventy miles south of New York. Officials say ship is not in danger and is returning for repairs. The Finland expected Tuesday morning. Vessel left Thursday with 600 passengers.
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New York
Pantin
Finland
Pacific Coast
Frieda Hempel Trunks Missing From Palm Beach Club
Opera star Frieda Hempel reports her trunks lost while staying at a Palm Beach club. She vows to wear nothing but one gown as travel delays loom for her planned performances with Mevelind Symphony Orchestra en route to New York. Secretaries and hotel staff scramble to locate the trunks amid a ransacked suite.
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Preidia Mempel
Liverslides Club
New York
Society of Arts
Mevelind Symphony Orchestira
Pagliagd
Elm Beard
Edgewater Mayor May Be Ruled From Cell
Edgewater mayors fate hinges on prison ruling as councilmen meet to decide if Henry Wissel should remain in office after a year and a day. Officials debate if Wissel’s authority should continue while legal questions loom and the town awaits a coastal drafters decision.
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Iwater
Pderal
Turight
Myer
Henry Wissel
Rubsenar
Wissel
Spont
Atlantit
Criminal careers of boys traced in Chicago study
A Burgess report from Chicago cites that about half of youths aged 11 to 17 in the city’s downtown living centers are on track for potential criminal careers, based on a survey of early crime conditions in urban areas. The study notes 44 of every 1,200 youths examined show patterns suggesting future delinquency.
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Chicago
Fas
PLP
Hirsge
Ernest W. Burgess
Tedas Atte
Viertong
Burgess
Daily Record of Ambulance Calls
Twenty a.m. to 77 Liberty Street for Mrs J Hines medical case taken to St Vincent's hospital. 10:40 a m to 145 Austin Street for Mrs Elizabeth Folkman thirty two fractured left patella taken to Bridgeport hospital. 0 p m to 93 Federal Street for Emil Dose forty two attempted death by own action by taking illuminating gas. 6:16 p.m. to 16 James Street for Joe Langelly forty seven pneumonia taken to Bridgeport hospital.
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Liberty Street
J. Hines
St. Vincent's Hospital
Austin Street
Elizabeth Folkman
Frartnred
Bridgeport Hospital
Federal Street
Emil Dose
James Street
Joe Langelly
Italian Aviator Begins Sea Flight From Rabat Stop
Commander De Pinedo, on a South American sea flight of over 60,000 miles, landed in Rabat Moraces at 3:23 pm after departing Majore voyage orders from Premier Mussolini. He was greeted by cheering crowds and paid respects at the residency.
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Muscollus
Speed
Mauke
Rabat
Moraces
de Pinedo
South America
Connecticut Republicans Weigh Coolidge Stand on Prohibition
Connecticut politicians react to Dr Butler wet and dry remarks as they brace for a possible Coolidge re nomination. Senators Burrows and Warren B Burrows praise Butler while skeptically noting party lines on prohibition. House Speaker Hill and others express doubt about an early clear stance, with outlines of possible nominating outcomes.
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Coolidge
Senater
Borah
Butler
Covernor Trumbull
Ullman
Chman
Hill
John IH. Hill
Shelton
Connecticut House of Representatives
Conlidge
Jill
Warren B. Burrows
Groton
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Burrows
Walter S. Batterson
Hartford
Republican Town Committee
Prohibition
Buele
Katherine Byrne
Putnam
Republican State Committee
Elbert L. Darbie
Danielson
Kier
House
J.henry Borack
Reneer
Driver flees crash. Katz arrested on evading responsibility
Henry M. Katz of 134 Waldorf Avenue, an insurance agent, was arrested at the third precinct on charges of evading responsibility after his car allegedly struck a parked vehicle owned by Edward Barry at 10 Waldorf Avenue. Investigating officer Valerolman P. Dall received a witness account and vehicle registration information leading to Katz's arrest.
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Henry M. Katz
Waldorf Avenue
Edward Barry
Manly Au
1Ix
Valerolman P. Dall
Kate
Pool Room Proprietor Held On Liquor Charge
Alex Shuraynet, 29, of 116 Austin Street, runs a pool hall on Lafayette Street. He is detained by police on liquor selling charges after investigators found four bottles hidden behind a table log behind a renovated pool room on Lafayette.
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Alex Shuraynet
Austin Street
Sil Lafayette Street
Aeling Lquor
Rosatel
Lafayette Street
Car Stolen Here Recovered By Police
An automobile owned by Mr Wheeler of 7 Herkimer Street was stolen on Congress Street Saturday night and recovered yesterday by police. The car was found abandoned on Tin Good Avenue.
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Wheeler
Herkimer Street
Congress Street
Tingood Avenue
Theft Reported by Mary GigNott at V48 Main Street
Police were alerted yesterday to a theft from Mary GigNott at V48 Main Street. Reported items include five bed sheets a signet ring and other wearing apparel.
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Mary GigNott
Main Street
Old Ironsides Pictures Mailed Nationwide Fund Drive Launched
Boston February 13 AP Nation wide distribution of the Ors Tronaides image of Gorion Crant's painting began. Admiral Philip Andrewa, commandant of the Iaton navy yard and national chair man of the reconstruction fund, directed marines and a mail crew to send prints to requesters. President Vantilge bought a Theeraph for 25 cones as Congress authorized sale to preserve the rotting frigate at the yard.
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Boston
Gorion Crant
Philip Andrewa
Iaton Navy Yard
Fund For
Vantilge
Congress
Autremont Joins Pursuing Posse in Jesse James Tale
The report notes Autremont joining a pursuit while a man named James C. Prine served as a private in the 1st Infantry. A Chicago arrest occurred in April 1924 and Ife is described as an atheist. The details reference a Chicago connection and private enlistment under an alias.
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Jesse James
de Autremont
Los Ranox
1St Infantry
James C. Prine
Chicago
Lincoln film shown to four hundred veterans at first Methodist
More than 400 veterans and about 1000 persons attended a presentation of Abraham Lincoln at the First Methodist church last night. The life story was presented on screen in ten reels, detailing Lincoln’s rise from obscurity, his courtship, presidency, and assassination after three years of work to achieve historical accuracy.
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Connecticut
Lincoln
School Board to Receive Report on Bassick Junior High Plan
Superintendent Carroll R. Reed will present a preliminary curriculum report for the proposed Bassick Junior High School to the Board of Education this afternoon. The plan aims to carefully sequence coursework before construction begins, with ongoing updates to the board as details progress. Reed will also provide a February enrollment tally and note anticipated teacher appointments.
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Bassick
Board of Education
Carroll R. Reed
Reed
Lifer Spurns Food for Over 60 Hours in Hunger Strike
Portland Maine February 13 AP Benjamin H. Purner, convicted of killing James D. Hall, has not eaten since Friday noon. By Sunday noon he entered the third day of his hunger strike with only two glasses of water. He sleeps fitfully, paces his cell, moans, mutters, and threatens to kill. He refuses food offered within reach despite temptations.
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Portland
Benjamin H. fPurner
James D. Hall
Convict Admits He Had Skulls Near Detroit Shack
Detroit area authorities investigation into four skulls and two braids of women’s hair found in a trunk at Ferndale near a shack tied to James Coyner a Black man serving a sentence in Indiana. Prosecutors said case will be dropped unless further murder evidence appears.
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Dale
Detroit
Bernie
Coyner
Oakeysand County
Michigan
Ferndale
Amiess
Norman C. Orr
Orr
James, Cayner, Ne
300 Leave Theatre As Film Explodes At Three Star
In Ho loke Musa area at 8 pm a film roll exploded causing a theatre fire. About 600 people including men women and children evacuated safely with no injuries reported as flames consumed the projection booth.
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Holoke
Musa
Three Star Theatre
Snowstorm Kills 91 in Japan Town
Ninety one people died and ten houses were destroyed in Niigata Prefecture as the region endured the worst snowstorm in fifty years. Dispatches from Shimpo report widespread damage and losses across communities northwest of the city.
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Japan
Tokyo
Niigain
Gay
Thettil Shimpo
Niteata
Former associate of Hoover dies at 62 in California
Ben therry Warren Gregory aged sixty two, former regent of the University of California and associate of Herbert Hoover on the Belgian Relief commission, died today at his home in California. He directed relief in Brussels during the World War and was honored by France with the Legion of Honor and by Belgium with The Order of the Crown. Survived by his widow and four children.
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Bmrikeley
Cal
Ben Therry Warren Gregory
University of California Nos
Herbert Hoover
Relief Commission
Brussels
Gregory
Rance
Tower
Belgium
Lnte
United States
Rene
Washington
Princeton Graduate College student commits suicide by gas
Martin A. Gerhart a 33 year old social science student at Princeton Graduate College in Princeton New Jersey killed himself by inhaling gas in his apartment on Van Deventer Avenue. A sealed letter to his wife who has been in a sanitarium for months was found on a kitchen table. He had earned a BSc from the University of Iowa in 1922 and an MA from the University of Chicago in 1926, and arrived at Princeton last fall. He led a secluded life and little was known of him.
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Princeton
N. J
Martin A. Gerhart
Princeton Graduate College
Vandevonter Avenue
Gerhart
Here
Batavia
Iowa
University of Iowa
University of Chicago
Father of Boy Kills Doctor at Brooklyn Home
In a Brooklyn apartment a distraught father, Caruso, killed Dr. Pendola after his ill child Joseph died from diphtheria. The doctor recently arrived from Scranton after a long ambulance run and his death followed a tense morning of frantic calls and a family bereavement.
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Joseph
Carngo
Union
Third Streets
P. Pendola
Pendola
Caspar
69Th Place
Maspeth
Caruso
Dr. Pendola
Mercy
Tiely Family Hospital
Abbate
Eighaek
Cara
Mary
Lena
Josephine
Anna
Salvatore
Kins
Edith
Wes
Fordham University
Scranton
Cuban Hospitality Praised By Mayor Walker in Havana
Mayor James J. Walker praised Cuban hospitality during a Havana radio address calling it unmatched for American guests. He visited the Mendipi estate and attended a luncheon with Cuban officials before plans to return to New York on February 24.
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Havana
James J. Walker
New York
Ala
Mendipi
Walker
Gander Presented to “Peaches” in Bermuda
In Wamiltox Bermuda on February 1 a live African gander was gifted to “Peaches” Heenin Browning. The bird, harnessed on a red ribbon leash, was paraded to Mrs Brusyn ing’s hotel as about 10 onlookers cheered. Peaches is the wife of Edward West Browning, a 12 year old realtor, with romance unsettled in the courts.
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Wamiltox
Bermuda
Heenin Browning
Irving ‘Terry
Southampton
Long Island
Brusyning
Peaches
Edward West Browning
Driver Arrested in Fairfield for Reckless Driving
Edward Erbeck of 100 Cromwell Street Hempstead was arrested yesterday in Fairfield by State Trooper Finnegan on a reckless driving charge. A $1 bond was posted for his Fairfield town court appearance.
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Edward Erbeck
Cromwell’ Street
Hempstead
T. T
Fairfield
Finnegan
Burglars Fail to Enter Stratford Cigar Store
Harelia on Stratford avenue reported an attempted burglary Saturday night at Laula Kline's cigar store. Carved holes were found in the rear door but intruders fled before breaking in.
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Harelia
Laula Kline
Stratford Avenue
Kipling Arrives as Guest of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro
Poet Rudyard Kipling arrives in Rio de Janeiro as a guest of the Brazilian government. He is greeted officially by representatives of the foreign office and the Brazilian Academy of Letters after arriving aboard the Andrea from Southampton.
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Kipling
Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
RPY
Rudyard Kipling
Andrea
Southampto
Ile
Foreign Office
Brazilian Academy of Letters
Woman Killed When Auto Runs Off Road Near Salinas
Mrs. Jeffry K. Armaby widow of a California fruit packer was killed and her husband was critically injured when the automobile he drove on a state highway near Salinas, California, this morning skidded and overturned. She formerly Miss Jane Russell of Wheeling West Virginia, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Russell.
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Gal
Jeffry K. Armaby
J. K K. Armaby
California
Wes
Here
Armsby
Jane Russell
Wheeling
W. Va
Jeffrey K. Armaby
Cal
Henry Russell
Wiliam (. Brice
Wheeling Register
U. S. Tennessee Sets New Naval Record
In secret gunnery drills last week the Tennessee scored consecutive hits at 14 miles, the first time such precise targeting was achieved. The ship surpassed all ordnance records with the fleet’s best demonstration of extreme elevation, while towed targets and aircraft directed shots, unseen by Tennessee, marked the training exercise.
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Los Angeles
U. S
Tennessee
Navy
Nevada
King George to grow sugar beets at royal estates
Nottingham England Feb 12 AAP King George plans to grow several hundred acres of sugar beets on royal lands to study the industry visiting the Colwick Beet Sugar factory near Nottingham. He inquired about processing details and joked about rum production from molasses comparing it with Jamaica.
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Nottingham
England
George
Colwick
Parked Cars Hit as Auto Skids Into Them
William Ziegler fifty two of 192 Catherine street lost control of his car and struck two parked vehicles at Connecticut and Central avenues. Owners are Alex Thornberg Stratford and K V Lundroth Stratford addresses noted. Ziegler not arrested. he said the car saddled out of his control.
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William Ziegler
Catherine Steet
Connecticut
Central Avenues
Alex Thornberg
Cut Springs Road
Stratford
K. V. Lundroth
Howard Avenue
Ziegler
Carr
Car Hits Two Autos Driver Is Arrested
A car operated by Steven Mayoras, 91 Britain Street South Norwalk, crashed into two parked cars on Star Street between Clinton and Coles. Mayoras was arrested on reckless driving charges with bonds set at 250 dollars by Patrolman Keane. The vehicle struck Andrew Olsen’s auto at 38 Orland Street and then damaged Thomas Lomas’s car at 316 Mountain Grove Street before stopping.
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Clinton
Coles
Steve Mayoras
Bri
Tn Street
Norwalk
Mayora
Andrew Olsen
Orland Street
Thomas Lomas
Mountain Grove Street
Keane
Charles Edward Prior Named Connecticut Vice President
Charles Edward Prior of 2060 Park Avenue has been elected vice president for Connecticut of the New England Baptist Library in Boston.
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Charles Edward Prior
Park Avenue
Connecticut
New Ingland Baptist Library
Boston
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