Parachute Valor in Silk Worm Dayton Sparked by Airman Feats
An article recounts parachute saves by U S military air crews starting with 1920 tests at Dayton and McCook Field. It notes 28 lives saved thanks to parachutes, cites notable jumps from 2,000 to 19,000 feet, and recalls first life-saving leaps by Macready and later rescues including Barkdale and other officers and privates.
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Dayton
United States
Army Peracraue Ace Arms
O'Conor
McCock
Narsely
Terpliar Club
Leeutenant J T Johnson
Selfridge Eid
Mich
FE Rees
Wilmington Pike
Hfe
WE. Goguin
Bollingfield
Washington
T Hutchinson
H Stanley
McCook Field
Osborne
Ohio
MacFarland
Barkadale
Explosion Injures Greenwich Boy Likely Blind
July near Greenwich a dare explodes a gasoline tank from an abandoned car. Raymond Armstrong eleven, may lose sight in both eyes from a match dropped into the tank. His friends were nearby but unhurt. he was hospitalized in serious condition.
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Greenwich
Raymond Armstrong
Ile
Raymond, Ute
Raymond Christensen
Peard
Jeff
Ehnstenson
Rall Ren” Avenue
Armstrong
Greenwich Hospital
Tor
Radio saves men starved in Arctic
A rescue party raced from Chesterfield toward a threatened port near South Southampton Island. The party faced a long, dark voyage across a wide water stretch during a November period of very short daylight near the Arctic Circle.
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RADIO
Arctic
Sampton Island
Chesterfield
Tie -L.tic Circle
Chamber of Deputies Votes Confidence in Government
Paris dispatch reports the Chamber of Deputies voting 282 to 247 in favor of the government after Finance Minister Caillaux defended the franc stabilization plan. Earlier a Socialist resolution for a capital levy was defeated 824 to 203.
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Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Cailiaux
M. Tarfley
Caillaux
London
Washington
Manter
M. Catlaux
Briand
M. Caillaux
Tolerance, Clemenceau Sees Virtue For Civilization
Paris July 9 AP Georges Clemenceau war premier calls tolerance one of the greatest virtues for personal evolution and civilization. Extracts from his forthcoming book Au Soir de la Pensee are in LIllustration with notes that the editor will select parts for public. He says the work gathers what man can tell himself across sciences and hints at his own philosophy within. The text suggests mutual responsibility and joint interest as keys to a humane future, with Cosmos deciding future outcomes and publication expected in March 1827 for French text and later for an American translation.
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Paris
Andre | Tardieu
United Stes
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Tarinex
Mardieu
France
Georges Clemeneceau
L'Ilustration
M. Clemenceau
MM. Clemenceau
Tagay
L’illustration
Lfe
Poll
Vaudeville Theatre
Vaudevilla
Bridgeport
Johnny Hines
Brown Terry
Charlie Chase
Laka Mouse
Polis
Sherman and Rose
McCall-Keller and Company
Crawford and
Norwood
Ethel Theodore Ars
Anita Stewart
Edmund Byrne
Mahon and Scott Company
Violet Doll
Jn Bols
Callahan
Mann
Laddia
Gardner
Pali
Dorothy Thillips
Wallace MacDonald
Fither Clayton
Johnny Fox
Janet
Pathe
Green Archer
Obituary Notices From Worcester Entrenched in Family Pines
Obituary roundup for Thomas J. Lannon and several local residents. Funeral rites for Lannon were held at Gallagher and Gallagher parlors and Sacred Heart church with a solemn high mass, assisted clergy, and chimes. Burial followed at St. Michael's cemetery. Other notices include Edward Knareshorn, Catherine E. Burns, Eliza J. O’Connell, and Allen H. Peck with services at St. Gabriel’s, Sacred Heart, St. Michael’s, and Mountain Grove cemeteries respectively. survivors listed for several.
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Thomas J. Lannon
Richard Street
Worcester
Mass
Gallagher and Gallagher
Fairfield Avenue
Sacred Heart Church
Dr. Moore
James Killian
Alfred Driscoll
Theresa O Brien
Masa
Charley Ogren
William Chew
God
Charles Ogren
Alfred Tomilaor
Jack Hayes
Frederick Dobha
Frank Kennedy
John
Edward Knaresboro
Bedward Knareshorn
Bridgeport
Mis
Henry Gallbronner
Nancotuck Avenue
Walnut Beach
St. Gabriel's Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
Milford
Catherine E. Burns
Broad Street
Taeberum and
Heaphy
Leafayette Street
Church of the Sacred Heart
St., Michael's Cemetery
Mere
Eliza J. O'Connell
Eliza J
Dantel Ocronnell
Vine Street
St Augustine’s Church
St. Michael’s
Baltimore
Laxity Charged by Property Owner in Sewer Assessments
City hearing notes laxity and inefficiency in sewer assessments led by Mr. Beach who urged compromise to tax only half the levy. He spoke for newer property owners while Spruce street residents protested Wordin Avenue water sewer charges. Rollin D. Whipple may file for damages over a bulkhead washout affecting Hope, Harbor, and Seaside sewers. Numerous other sewer matters heard.
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Beach
Heach
Behielf
Spruce Street
Wordin Avenue
Rollin D. Whipple
Whipple and Choate
Hope Atrest
Harbor Avenue
Seaside
Coolidge Braves Rain for Casting in Mountain Camp
President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge, staying at White Pine camp, spent the morning reviewing mail and papers and preparing a statement on the submarine 8-51. He inspected executive offices, met Secretary Verett Sanders and Edward T. Clark, and planned regular press conferences on Tuesdays and Fridays. A thunderstorm followed, knocking out some electric light fuses at Paul Smith’s hotel.
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Verett Sanders
Edward Tt. Clark
Washington
Coolidge
White House
Sanders
Clark
Waln
White Pine Camp
Mr. Coolidge
West storm claims lives and wrecks island homes
A deadly storm on an island left five houses demolished two occupied. Mrs Bernard Powell, 35, and Mrs Mary English, 30, along with Florabell Powell, 5, and Grace English, 12, were identified among the dead. Bernard Powell and his son James were listed in critical condition. In Springfield and Southern New England, a heat wave peaked with 94 degrees in Springfield and rising humidity, while Boston saw a morning low of 76 and brief cooling by sea breezes. Meanwhile a tent at a circus venue was wrecked by heavy wind and rain, killing two men and injuring seven others.
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Joseph River
Bernard Powell
Buchanan
Mary English
Powell
Mexico
Florabell Powell
Grace English
Powella
James
Springfield
Boston
New England
Mass
Brie
101 Ranch
New York Faces Complete Tieup In Subway Strike
Interborough power men vote to join midnight strike risking a citywide shutdown of subways and elevated lines. 24 workers moved to nonworking posts. BMT lines still on duty with declines in service. A car jumped tracks at South Ferry loop with no injuries. two subway workers arrested for attacking reporters.
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Interborough
James F. Walsh
Interborough Power Department
Brooklyn-Manhattan
B. M. T Subway
Brooklyn
Tut
South Ferry Loop
Subway
Governor Trumbull film at Palace features state officials
Governor John H. Trumbull and party travel the first all mall transport from New York to Boston via Hartford. The 1,600 foot film, shot by Alexander H. Trumbull, showcases Myrtle Beach and Mil ford outings and includes a Radio Detective screen feature. Reginald Denny stars in Rolling Home at the Palace with vaudeville and serials completing the bill.
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Palace
John H. Trumbull
Alexander H. Trumbull
Stratford
Reginald Denny
Atuck
Stags
America
Clive Brook
Padlocked heads Majestic film slate with vaudeville act
The Majestic offers Rex Beach’s Padlocked tomorrow after concluding Gilda Gray’s Aroma of the South Seas and the vaudeville six Rosemont girls. Duke Kamakua’s company performs Monday through the week with three daily shows. Padlocked charts a clash between old and young amid Broadway nights and a rising heroine’s triumph.
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Gilda Gray
Acreen
South Seas
South Sea
Duke Kamakua
Majestic
Rex Beach
Rosemont
Broadway
Ajloma
Anabello
Duke Kam
Subway Derailment Probe Targets Interborough Firm
District Attorney Banton will seek a summons against Interborough Rapid Transit as a corporation after a derailment probe. The Transit Commission reported that the train foreman had not operated a subway train before last Monday, with concerns over green motormen. McGeehan of the Bronx said he will review the MOTormen employed and could order dismissals under state railroad law if incompetence is found.
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Transit Commission
Banton
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Transit Commission Wid
McGeehan
Bronx
Interborough
Sinking disaster bodies recovered from submarine 5 51
Lieutenant Frederick D Foster of Nutley New Jersey identified as the first dead aboard submarine 5 51 after bodies were removed from the wreckage near Block Island. Navy men continued recovery and identification by fingerprint expert J H Taylor as pilots and sailors testified about the tow line mishap and river traffic. Arlen Clifford Earle of Gloucester identified among the 861 dead, with family survivors noted.
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Aiutenant
Frederick D. Foster
Nutley
N. J
U. S
Navy ‘Hospital
Washington, D. C
Naval Bureau of Identification
Board of Inquiry
John W. Horton
Hast
Vestal
Gloucester, Maes
Arlen Clifford Earle
Ralph Harte
Summer Street
Eunice I. Churchill
Gloucester
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Willam D. Sullivan
Alien H. Peck
Allen H. Peck
Bridgeport Safety Emery Wheel Company
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C. W. Simpson
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Irvine Schofield
Summerfield Avenue
James M. Schofield
Navy Department
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Walter Redfern
Ot Stratford
Sheridan Terrace
Sunday Coast Artillery Band
Ritz
William Malone
Ritz Orchestra
Popularite
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John Pistey
Banjotat Kitz Orchestra
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Noble
Shore Haven Inn
Westport
Conn
Dinner and A la Carte
Jack Miller
Miramar Inn
Fred Thomson
Wonace
Community Theatre Fair
Richard Bixon
Park Ave
Bear Mountain
West Point
Westinghouse Aly
Bridgeport & Waterbury Pass
Service, Inc
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Spot In Town
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Alice Joyce
Manoric Daw
Gainsborough
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Governor Trumbull
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Arctic Revue
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