Rhinelander Sues for Annulment of His Marriage
Leonard Kip Rhinelander of a storied New York family filed for annulment of his marriage to Alice Beatrice Jones in Westchester County. The couple had spoken of lasting love and plans for a quiet new life in the West under a different name amid a media spotlight.
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Rhinelander
White Plains
Leonard Kip Rhinelander
New York
Westchester County Clerk's Office
Alice Beatrice Jones
Young Rhinelander
Latimer ex baseball star held for murder in Xenia
Xen ia Ohio November 26 former major league catcher Latimer pleaded guilty to first degree murder in arraignment before a magistrate in the killing of Charles Mackrodt a railroad police lieutenant. Latimer held without bond for the grand jury. The shooting followed months of enmity after Mackrodt resigned from the railroad police force. Latimer said one life for another and expressed regret for his family. He surrendered when officers saw the shooting from a courthouse window outside. Mackrodt was shot four times and died instantly. Latimer began in Cincinnati and played for Minneapolis Louisville New York Giants Pittsburgh and Brooke-Hyler in a 15 year major league career noted for catching many championship games. He reportedly named Bobby Vail and Urban Saber as players he faced.
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Xenia
Ohio
Clitt
Latimer
Mackrodt
Louisville
New York Giants
Pittsburgh
Brooke Hyler
Waddell
Amos Russie
Bobby’ Vail
Urban Saber
Three Killed in Disputed Wages Controversy
In Du Bois Pennsylvania Hourry W Jackson vice president manager of the Jackson Withfield China Company and William Darden of Chicago were shot and killed at noon by John Joukup of Cleveland. Police say Souxup Milton shot himself. The dispute over wages claimed to be due from a related company involving Jackson was cited as the tragedy's cause.
Ridgefield Radio Receives Europe Signal In East Coast Test
Ridgefield residents BR. L. Gilbert George L. Benedict and David W. Worthman listened to Main Spain Edinburgh Paris Hamburg Aberdeen during a six tube radio set test. The experiment occurred Thursday night at Ernest V. Haight home in West Redding.
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Ridgefield
BR. L. Gilbert
George L. Benedict
David W. Worthman
Main
Spain
Edinburgh
Scotland
Paris
Hamburz
Aberdeen
Ernest V. Haight
West Redding
Egypt Protests British Demands Over Stack Death
The Egyptian Chamber of Deputes protests to the League of Nations against British demands tied to the assassination of Sir Lee Stack, Sirdar of the Egyptian army. The protest’s distribution was deferred after a meeting of department chiefs. George Bernard Shaw denounces Britain for dissolving the League and plans to refer the crisis to force. The exchanges highlight tensions over Stack’s murder and broader imperial policy.
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Geneva
Associated Press
Chamber of Desputes
League of Nations
Lee Stack
Secretariat
Eric Drummond
League
London
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Sirdar Stack
Sir Henry Wilson
Pussyfoot
Johnson
Slays Two Nieces in Maine Border Murder Case
Harry Williams, jailed near Fosterville after Cynthia and Neotia Williams, aged 14 and 10, were found murdered in a shack on the Maine Brunswick border. Neighbors feared angry crowd would lynch him as authorities guard Williams at York county jail. Bodies were found with hands tied, both shot in the head.
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Houston
Harry Williams
Cynthia
Neotia
Foster
Willams
Fosterville
N. B
Maine-Brunswick
York County
Bredericton
Will'ams
Ward Wester
Princeton Athletes Plan Global Sailing Expedition
Boston, Nov 26. A group of Princeton athletes will sail around the world next June in an 80 year old new building at Gloucester. Zowell Van Gerbig announced the plan with Buzz Stout captain of the Princeton eleven this fall and Sidney Lewendre and Maurice Lewendre, New Orleans brothers who have starred on Nassau gridiron teams. Van Gerbig will remain in Boston during ship construction.
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Boston
Gloucester
Princeton
Zowell van Gerbig
Thlay
van Gerbig
Tigereams
Buzz” Stout
Sidney Lewendre
Maurice Lewendre
New Orleans
Polar Adventure in the Far North Series
Donald B. McMilan recounts a perilous trek into the far North as dogs bay and a hunter clings to small ice floes. The Sunday Post presents a vivid installment in his polar travels full of danger and thrill.
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Tesbergs
Donald B. McMilan
Far North
Sunday Post
Thanksgiving in Bridgeport Highlights Holiday Observance
Bridgeport marks Thanksgiving with a full holiday shutdown of business and many offices. Turkeys and other poultry are in strong demand as stores suspend normal operations and city services run on a holiday schedule. Inmates at Fairfield jail receive a pork dinner while charity efforts by the Christian Union and local students provide meals for needy families.
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New England
Pllevims
Bridgeport
Fairfield County
Dennis EB. O'Neil
Bridgeport Christian Union
Converts Club
Christian Union
Orium
C W. Simpson
Student Congress
Carnegie's Widow Seeks To Evict Night Life Club
Mrs Louis Carnegie widow of Andrew Carnegie filed suit in New York seeking to enjoin Richmond Holding Corporation and William Bri from operating Club Richman on West Fifty Ninth Street. She asserts the five year lease limits the building to a garage offices and top floor apartments and alleges the premises were converted to a cabaret and dance hall after the Chit Corporation took over last July.
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New York
Louis Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
West Fifty Ninth Street
Carnagie
Richmond Holding Corporation
Richman
Broadway
William Bri
Carnegie
Chit Corporation
Tilson Eyed for Speaker as Friends Rally Support
New Haven Nov 24 Congressmen John Tilson left today for Washington to attend opening session. Delegates at the Republican state convention said Tilson was a possible candidate for speaker of the House. Tilson acknowledged the 183 delegate vote as a tribute and expressed appreciation for the confidence and support shown by friends.
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New Havin
John
Tilson
Washington
Congress
National Force of Representatives
Tilaon
Hartford Tong War Bloodshed Shocks Chinese Laundry
In Hartford two Tong members Lung Foo and Bung Poi were killed in a gun attack at a Park Street laundry. Young To Wing collapsed outside after a rapid volley, later confirmed dead. Suspects fled. local Tong and non Tong members offered no identifies.
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Hartford
Lung Foo
Anothe
Sam Lee
Park Street
Compummm
Lung Fei
Lung Rao
Lung Moo
Lung Foond
Young
Stamford Woman Arrest Warrant for Narcotic Charge
Mrs. Clara Gelb of Stamford faced a federal narcotic arrest warrant issued last Friday but did not appear before U S Commissioner Hugh Lavery. A New Haven deputy marshal failed to locate her. she had reportedly been discharged from a sanitarium. Gelb, widow of Dr Henry Gelb, was alleged to have forged physician names in Stamford and South Norwalk to obtain narcotic prescriptions.
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Clara, Gath
Stamford
Hugh Lavery
New Haven Wert
Warrat
South Norwalk
Lawyer Appeals 12 Laymen's Jury Over Fee Dispute
Bridgeport courtroom hears a rare case as attorney Henry S. Greenstein contests a $8,000 damages award granted to Modern Electric by the city for the Broad Street widening project. Greenstein seeks full payment beyond the $25 check accepted as total compensation, arguing the fee was unjust and unsupported by work performed.
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Bridgeport
Common’ Pleas
Inpeing Pute
Henry 5. Greenstein
Modern Electric
Greenstein
Naval Lieutenant Missing Believed Drowned at Great Lakes
Waukegan Nov 26 Lieutenant Lew W Bagby 28 attached to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station vanished from a dock he was last seen at the station two hours after noon his hat gloves and a matchbox were recovered from the water by a patrol leading to the ice He had previously commanded a submarine in Panama for two years and formerly lived in New Haven Missouri Early rumors of relation to former Secretary Daniels were denied by the commandant's office
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Waukegan
Lew. W. Bagby
Great Lakes
New Haven
Missouri
Leideutenant Bagby
Michigan
Josephus Daniels
Thg ‘Navy
Liieutenant Bagby
Panama
Waldo Evans
Be Thankful for Dry Laws Wayne Wheeler's Message
Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League proclaims a Sober Thanksgiving praising Prohibition. He argues enforcement reduces crime, poverty, insanity, and vice, citing fewer paupers, lower crime, and saved charity costs, with improved labor harmony and public safety.
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Wayne Wheeler
United States
Wayhol B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League of America
Wheeler
Yale Prize Theatre Plans Stir Debate on Baker Move
Professor George P. Baker announces plans to erect a new dramatic department at Yale with a prize play and an experimental theatre in New Haven. Yale donors pledge $1,000,000 for the department led by Baker, who leaves Harvard amid funding disputes and hints at broader facilities needs.
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New York
George P. ‘Baker
Bid
New Haven
Haled
Harvard
Yale
Onpord
Dean Ale
New’ Haven
Baker Iadddd
Tyah
Baker
Edward 5. Ress
New
News Firm Loses 60000 by Fraud in New York Plot
Discovery of a fraud plot cost the American News company 86000 and led to the arrest of Gustave Gareber and Andrew Nerritz in Temiles court. Gareber confessed to involvement of 20 agents from American News and Union News operating at Grand Central and Hudson Tubes. Bail set at 2500 for Gareber and 26000 for Nerritz. more arrests expected as investigation continues.
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New York
American News Company
Gustave Gareber
Andrew Nerritz
Gerber
Union News Company
Grand Central
Pennsylvania
Btudson
Nek- Tits
Debts of Late Senator Brandage Stated at $180,000
Washington Nov 23 The debts of the late Senator Frank Brandage of Connecticut who committed suicide here on October 14 amounted to 180000 according to ancillary administrators of administration filed today in the Probate Court by W D Lundy of New London Conn The Senator s property here was valued at 20000 including household effects and four automobiles
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Washington
Frank, Brandages
Connecticut
Suicida
W. D. Lundy
Low London
Conn
Former Governor Lake Refuses Bingham and Plans Hol Support
Former Governor Lake denounces Col. Bingham for Senate and says he will work and vote for Hamilton, with Dawes to decide if he sits with Cabinet. Stamford reports flagging trials, narcotic warrants, and local civic events amid broad state and Fairfield County coverage.
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Lake
Col. Bingham
HOL
Norway Hears WGY Broadcast Across Atlantic
In Norway and Raleigh North Carolina reports confirm an international radio test. Arthur H. Lynch of Garden City editor of Radio Broadcast says WGY a General Electric station was heard in Norway. Robert Upchurch of Raleigh reports London England station heard via five tube set with a piano concert discerned.
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Schenhotady
N. C
WGY
General Electric
Stalanger
Norway
General Electric Company
Arthur H. Lynch
Garden City
Raldbigh
N.C
London
England
Robert Upchurch
Raleigh
Local Radio Toasts International Test Week Honors
Ralph Hurd Heard of Scotch Station Fairfield reported success Tuesday evening in a TV program from station 2HD Aberdeen Scotland. He noted his sales to the Radio Broadcasting Magazine and received acceptance last night as part of International Test Week observances.
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Ralph G. Flurd
Grasmére Ravenue
Fairfield
Trom
2HD
Aberdeen
Scotland
Hurt
Radio Broadcasting Magazine
Taft School brother attacks Holt and Bingham in Waterbury
Horace Taft of Taft School Watertown accuses Hamilton Holt and the Republican machine of subservience. He denounces Governor-elect Hiram Bingham as subservient to party interests during remarks in Waterbury.
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Waterbury
Horace Taft
Taft School
Watertown
William TH. Taft
Port Hamilton Holt
United States
Hiram, Bingham
Tast
Stamford loan firm workers bound over on embezzlement charges
Three men and a woman tied to the Stamford loan society case were arraigned and ordered held for grand jury. Walter M. Keller, Roy F. Malcolm, and H. C. G. McGrath faces bail changes. Tina Stumatin and others associated with the branch are cited in the embezzlement inquiry. Police tied suspects to forged loan drawings and funds misappropriation.
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Stamford
Connectioh
Bengeficial Loan Society
Orde
Ater
Mi Tina Stumatin
Miller Springdale
Casater
Loan-Secte
Cone
High Court
Walter M. Keller
Stamford Loan Office
Roy FL Malcom _ tom
New Haven
H. CG
McGrath
Malcolm
Haven
Serso James BE. Thewls
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