Congress Likely To End Without Action On Planes
Washington dispatch says Congress probably will adjourn without passing air service reform. Bills range from moves to preserve conservative air administration to calls for a separate Air Corps, with the War and Navy still divided. Senate debates and political pressure for re-election loom large, delaying any decisive action.
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Congress
George R. Holmes
Washington
Air Service
Morrow Board
Mitchell School
Theneft
Air Corps
Morin
Secretary of War and Navy
Charg
Air Administration
Mason MM Patrick
Army Air Service
National Defense
Army
General Staff of
General Board of the Navy
Mitchell
Hiram Bingham
Connecticut
Westport Woman Awarded Medal at Better Times Dinner
Lilian W. Wald of Westport founder of the Henry Street Settlement received one of three distinguished service medals at the Better Times dinner at Hotel Pennsylvania. More than 1,600 attended as funeral services for Wald were set for Monday at Ford parlors on River Street officiated by Rev. G. J. Knollmeyer. Firemen and uniform burial requests noted. Burns joined the Arc tic company on December 2 1884 and led the company for six years.
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New York
Lilian W. Wald
Westport
Henry Street
Ft. Peter's Church
Burns
Arctic Company
Sik Jears
Fire chief notes loyal lodger triggers a full company
Boston February 26 The fire department responded to a domestic mix up when a lodger Miss Florence Brown asked for a fireman and ended up getting the whole apparatus. Ralph Jouett sought furnace help and the mix up led to an engine ladder truck protective wagon and District Chief John Kelley arriving to handle the non fire complication.
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Boston
Ralph Jouett
Florence Brown
John Kelley
Miss Brown
Plenty of Shamrocks for St Patricks Day
Boston awaits abundant real shamrocks for St Patrick’s Day as Senator William I Hennessey of Dorchester receives reassurance from C F Marvin assistant secretary of agriculture that no restrictions will apply if federal cog nitions government shipments are met. Similar info has been sent to the Ministry of Agriculture in Belfast and the Irish Free State minister in Dublin.
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Boston
St. Patrick's Day
William I. Hennessey
Dorchester
C. F. Marwn
Marvin
Ministry of Agriculture
Belfast
Ireland
Minister For Agriculture
Irish Free State
Dublin
Captain Porter to Leave Secret Service at 80 in Chicago
Captain Thomas Porter, chief of the Chicago district Secret Service, plans retirement on June 1 at age eighty. A veteran with sixteen notebooks detailing counterfeiters, he holds the record for the largest single counterfeit haul of 545,000 and has a history of catching criminals through patient surveillance and daring confrontations.
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Secret Service
Merlin Moore Taylor
Chicago
Thomas Porter
United Sta
Ima
Porter
Illinois
Lfe
Pone
Captain Porter
Lincoln Par
Stree
Middle West
Nina Wilcox Putnam Opens Florida Theatre In Palm Beach
Novelist Nina Wilcox Putnam plans to produce theatre in Florida. She will direct the first Little Theatre in Stewart Bhores, staging old Broadway hits with famous stars likely to appear. She will live in a bungalow by the theatre and will provide a dormitory for her cast.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Fed
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Uttle
Florida
Stewart Bhores
Miss Putnam
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