Macdonald eager to fight Britain's newest labor act
Former British labor premier Ramsay MacDonald, ill in Jefferson Hospital, frames the labor bill as the era's most iniquitous class legislation. He denounces the measure from his Philadelphia bed, predicts no peace while it stands, and expresses intent to travel to New York soon if recovered. His daughter Elizabeth remains at his side as doctors and nurses aid his recovery.
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MacDonald
Britain
Philadelcuer
Ramsay Macdonald
Jefferson Hoepital
Labor
WHL
Amost Hare
Faraway
Jook
House of Commons
Philadelphia
Minel
New York
Washington Man Jumps From Bridge to Death
Washington May 11. Josef Berman leaped from the Connecticut Avenue bridge entrance to Flo Park as passing motorists waved good bye. He fell to his death after a brief scene of farewell in a city area known for reverses and pending cases. The incident ends his personal and financial woes, drawing police and bystanders to the bridge.
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Washington
Josef Vs. Berman
Isit
Connecticut Avenue
Flo Park
Kid Gleason’s Brother Dies In Railroad Accident
Samuel D Gleason fifty four of Pallighorn NL, brother of William Kid Gleason, was struck by a moving engine and killed while employed as a yard brakeman at Camden yards on the Pennsylvania railroad. The incident occurred as Neal Philadelphia Athl letit today.
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Kid Gleason
Jamden
Samuel D. Gleason
Pallighorn
William
Kid" Gleason
Phila
Lelphia Athiett Neal
Camden Yards
Pennsylvania Radionad
Eason
Man fined five dollars for driving without license
AP report: Roseman of 87 Sylvan Avenue New Haven was fined $5 in Police Court for operating a vehicle without a valid license. He had admitted an accident six weeks earlier while driving another person's car. DMV records showed a 1928 license. Police said he should know better than to drive under instruction.
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Merto TL
Department of Motor Vehicles
Herman Roseman
Sylvan Avenue
New Haven
Roseman
Motor Vehicle Department
Women’s National Enforcement Committee Votes for Prohibition Candidate
The law enforcement league delegates at Providence May 21 unanimously backed a presidential candidate aligned with the Eighteenth Amendment. Kentucky urged against immediate prohibition of medicinal whiskey, while officers were re elected in a slate headed by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody and other regional leaders.
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Providence
CAE
Woman's National Enforcement Committee
Somreittes
Kentucky
Lt Amuirews
United
Henry W. Peabody
Beverly
Mags
York
Gordon Norrie
William Tilton
Cambridge
Mass
Tilda T. Olean
Frank Schuler
New York City
Lady Astor debunks home myth at luncheon
May 11 Lady Astor told the Electrical Association for Women at a luncheon that men who insist women belong only in the home are proving the point. She praised women with vision who inspired home help, argued that keeping women at home invites trouble, and referenced her own six men in the house.
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CAP
Lady Astor
Electrical Association For Women
Bishop Pleads For Early Evangelism
In Cleveland May 11 CAPA urged a return to early Methodist circuit riders to frontier hamlets and frontier missions. Bishop Edwin Mughes of Chicago pressed personal salvation as essential while church leaders criticized home work as superficial and questioned its soul values amid plans for China and Mexico missions.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Capa
Frontier Hamlets
Convention of the World Service Inc
Methodist Episcopal Church
China
Mexico
Edwin Mughes
Chicago
Rishon J. St Edwards
New York
Ubeecureh
Man Held After Wife Fatally Shot Then Slept Beside Body
A man confessed to shooting his wife and sleeping beside her body. He claimed it was accidental and intended to shoot another person. Police say the husband admitted the fatal act occurred in their home and led to his detention for investigation.
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Wehack
Willie
Davis
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