Bryant Electrics chief buys Black Rock mansion on new boulevard
Waldo C. Bryant, chairman of Bryant Electric, has bought the old Jonathan Thorne mansion facing the sea front at Black Rock, announced by Kenneth W. McNeil. The property, valued around 125000, will undergo interior renovations estimated at 350000.
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Waldo C. Bryant
Bryant Electric Company
Jonathan Thorne
Black Rock
Kenneth W. McNeil
Ir. McNeil Creme
Grovers Avenue
Bryant
Divorces Rise Faster Than Marriages in 1926 Census
The Commerce department reports 1926 divorces at 180,868, up 31 percent, while marriages reached 1,202,000, up 12 percent. State variances include Michigan down 14 percent due to a license law, and Nebraska up 19.6 percent after repealing a similar rule. Nevada leads with 19 per 1,000. New York is 6.41 per 1,000, District of Columbia 0.18 per 1,000.
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Washington
Associated Press
Commerce Department
Michigan
Nebraska
United States
Nevada
New York State
Union
District of Columbia
Colorado arrests all strike heads
Denver, Nov 7. Striking miners in Colorado were arrested en masse as state police cracked down on the strike. Leaders of the IWW and other agitators were taken into custody, with 30 jailed, ending Southern picketing. Governor Adams strengthened the law enforcement unit and revived a dormant statute to meet the emergency.
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Denver
Colo
Associated Press
Colorado
W. H. Adams
Roger Francezon
IWW
Kristen Svanum
TW. W
IW. W
Walnenburg
Imnerin
Columbine
Weld J County
Fielda
Hunting Companion Is Shot at Brandy Pond Camp
Cairo H. Brown of Bangor pleaded guilty in a Bangor municipal court to a charge of negligently shooting Dr. Victor S. Jones of Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Jones died Sunday after the hunting trip at Brandy Pond. Brown was held under $1,000 bonds for the April term.
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Ellsworth
Cairo H. Brown
Bengor
Victor S Jones
Bethlehem
Brandy Pond
Jones
Bonday
Bangor
Brown
Turkish President Adopts Nine Daughters Hiding Publicity
Angora Turkey. Moustapha Kemal Pasha has adopted nine girls from Anatolia and one orphaned teen, sending two to the American College for Girls in Istanbul and arranging schooling in Europe. He keeps them from public view, avoiding publicity while supporting their education and future plans.
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Anggora
Turkey
Associated Press
Moustapha Kemal Pasha
Anatolia
Ghazi
Lila
Latife Hanem
Thei
Tao
Kemal Pasha
Zehra
Sabtha
Amercan College
Dolma Begtce Palace
Kemal
Sabine
Stambou
Kamal
Switzerland
Europe
Afet
Angora
Umousines
Constantnople
Switzeland
Ghagzi
Two Million Van Heusen Collar Suit Settled in Boston
Settlement of a 2,000,000 damage suit brought by Otis W Howe against John M Van Heusen the Boston soft collar maker was entered as an agreed judgment. Details of the settlement were kept secret per agreement by counsel. The suit traced to a 1918 contract in which Howe quit his business to assist Van Heusen in manufacturing and marketing collars and was to be paid a reasonable sum.
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Boston
Associated Pross
John M van Heusen
Otis W. Howe
New York
Massachusetts Superior Court
Howe
Busness 10 Assis
van Heusen
Prohibition Graft Reaches Billions Declared by Stayton
Washington dispatch reports Captain W H Stayton, head of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, says prohibition enforcement costs run into billions yearly with estimates ranging from nine billion to lower figures. He backs a beer tax and notes dry enforcement expenses exceed 39 million annually, warning of graft and corruption across Federal, state, and municipal levels.
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Washington
W. H. Stayton
Association Against the Prohibition
U.S
Crim
Stayton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Dyer
Missouri
Coffee and Cigarettes Rule Bosnian Social Life
An Associated Press dispatch from Sarajevo notes coffee houses replace saloons where Turks serve strong coffee and cigarettes for small sums. Visitors encounter Turkish pipes and a culture of courtesy in government offices, though Bosnians are hospitable yet described as lacking business drive with a fondness for postponing tasks.
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Sarajevo
Associated Press
Bosnia
Chinese Civil War veteran Cohota living out final days in Hot Springs
Edward Day Cohota, the only Chinese recorded to have served in the Union Army during the Civil War, is aging at Datule Mountain Sanitarium in Hot Springs. Age eighty four, he came to America as a boy, enlisted with a Massachusetts regiment, re-enlisted after the war, and served 30 years in Company G Eighth U S Infantry before retiring in 1904 as the only Chinese mustered out of the U S Army.
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Hot Springs
Associated Press
Edward Day Cohota
Datule Mountain
Cohota
America
Massachusetts
U. S. Infantry
United States Army
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Millon van Heusen
U. S
Rockwell & Co
Coats
Rockwell’s
Dr. Siegerts
Fobeeeeie Lala
Asiaaiatinhi
G.w.fairchild & Sons, Inc. Jewelers and Silversmiths
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