McPherson Kidnaping Trial Testimony Details Witness Coaching
Lorraine Wiseman Sielatt testified at a Los Angeles preliminary hearing that evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson conspired to manufacture evidence for her kidnaping claim. She described coaching at Angelus temple, a lookalike request, and plans to reveal hidden locations while seeking money from alleged conspirators.
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Los Angeles
Lorraine Wiseman- Sielatt
Aimee Semple McPherson
Wiseman
McPherson
Asa Keyes
MrPherson
Little Lady
Ormiston
Carmel
Mes
All Mexican Arms Permits Canceled
Mexico City October 12 reports that permits for importing fire arms and ammunition into Mexico have been canceled by the treasury department. Customs officials at Nogales and other border stations indicate immediate enforcement and seizure actions underway.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Ne Treasury
Crile
Paso Nogales
Queen Marie to Write Exclusive Series for Telegram
Queen Marie of Roumania sails to New York to begin a two part article in The Telegram and allied papers. The royal visit draws unprecedented interest as Europe’s famed queen explains her purpose and plans in the coming stay. The first part appears in The Telegram tomorrow.
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America
Marie of
Usury hints in trial over two notes on page two
In Stamford County affairs Harry E. Mackenzie named county leader and chosen president of the retired Fairfield County Republican organization at a Stamford meeting. Algonquin club names James Watterson as new president. Coroner theatrics with war testimony and murder allegations. state Democrats ratify ticket at New Haven dinner amid critique of Republicans. Numerous short items cover drownings, daylight laws, foreign visitors, and assorted legal and political notes across pages two and one.
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Algonquin Club
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Ohio
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Smith and Mills
Tiuehes
Budlong
Newport
Sagie
Haitorala
Ding
Colorado
Southern Rally
Eaay
Southern Rail
Former Newtown Legislator Sanford Dies at Woodmont
William H. Sanford, longtime Newtown General Assembly representative, died after a long illness at Woodmont. A Yale graduate, he was associated with Century Magazine in New York and owned Main Street property in Newtown. He chaired the town draft bond during the war and was expected to be buried in Newtown. he had relatives in Redding.
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Wiliam H. Sanford
Newtown
General Assembly
Woodmont
Sanford
Mayne
New York
Che
Aaron Sanford
Main Street
Yale
Redding
Queen Marie of Roumania Attends Levia than Voyage to New York
The Leviathan carries Queen Marie, Princess Keana, and Prince Nicholas to New York for arrival on October 18. She views the skyline from the dock, meets Roumanian societies, and dines with the party aboard amid moving pictures and a rough sea. Mrs Vincent Astor named special envoy to assist during the visit.
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Associated Press
Hartley
Safe Haven
Norma Shearer
Marie
Keana
Prince Nicholas
Tiegna
New York
Vincent Astor
Walker
Marie of
Roumania
Legion Chooses Paris Convention for 1927
The American Legion voted to hold its 1927 convention in Paris from September 19 to 28 and to reconvene in New York on October 18 to ratify decisions. National Commander John R. McQuisty urged the historic move as a major honor and duty, despite past French tensions over war debts.
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Legionaires
New York
Fario
Legion 8
France
Areaa
John R. McQuisy
Legion
Scott, Slayer of Clerk, Fails Gallows for Fourth Time
Scott, a man linked to the 1984 Jose Maurer drug store holdup, has been sentenced to die for the clerk’s murder but has avoided execution for a fourth time. The state Supreme Court ordered a review of his last sanity trial after he was deemed sane, despite multiple reprieves and a prior insanity finding. The case has stretched over 15 months with repeated postponements as Scott’s fate remains unsettled.
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Jose Maurer Inn
Corporation
Audov Daldaip
Hin
Hie
Robert
Svoth
Wealthy Tampa Land Dealer Drowned in Liner Plunge
D P Davis, noted Tampa land developer and once one of Florida’s wealthiest men, drowned after being washed overboard from the steamship Madestic in mid ocean. A wireless message to Arthur Y Milam said the ship circled over an hour as efforts to recover the body failed. Davis built synthetic islands around Tampa Bay and St Augustine, profiting huge sums before recent reverses.
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Majestic
Tampa
Fla
Madestic
Mid-Ocean
Florida
Arthur Y. Milam
Davis Islands, Inc
Dave
Thone
Raymond
I Schindler
F. W. Montanve
Davis
Murope
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Faland
Republican platform and Stephenson case fill Rhode Island rally
In Providence Rhode Island the Republican convention endorsed resubmitting the Eighteenth Amendment for a public vote and called for strict enforcement of prohibition. The platform backs a protective tariff and supports Coolidge and Pothier administrations, with Governor Aram J. Pothier nominated for a sixth time.
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BA. L
Republican Party of
Rhode Island
Trabe
Coolidge
Pothier
Democratic Party
Senate
Finaucter
Aram J. Pothier
Two Army Flyers Drowned In Sound In New York
In Port Jefferson New York two Army Air Corps second lieutenants Verity Perry of Taunton Massachusetts and William T Preston of Belmont Massachusetts died when their De Havilland plane crashed into Long Island Sound after reporting an explosion. They were trapped in the cockpit and died after rescue attempts. observers say low clouds and fog caused a descent leading to a 150 foot fall during a landing approach. The craft was en route from Boston to Mitchell Field via Boston this morning.
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Port Jefferson
XN. Y
Army Air Corps
Long Island Sound
Verity BR. Perry
Taunton
Mass
William T. Preston
Belmont
de Hoviant
Toston
Mitchel Pleth
Boston
Society News: Sunday Post highlights in Airfield County
The Sunday Post features society news and women’s activities in Airfield County with personal notices, club reports, suburban letters, and local organization events. The illustrated section boosts community features and social happenings for readers.
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Airfield County
Steanday Post
Sunday Post
Society
Detective Slain on Wedding Night in Washington
Washington police detective sergeant Arthur B. Scrivener was shot near his home as he approached his planned wedding night to Miss Helen Barnes Parker. The killer fled in a blue roadster. jealousy is suspected. Scrivener, renowned for a 1920 Atlanta prison escape capture, had served 14 years with the force.
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Washington
Arthur B. Scrivener
Tey
Scrivener
Helen Barnes Parker
McSwan
Sergeant Scrivener
Thurman Brown
Atlanta
Sergeant Schivener
Morse charged with destroying records in Morse mall fraud trial
New York dispatch reports in the Morse mall fraud trial involving three steamship firms with $99 million capital and 17 defendants that officials including Charles W. Morse ordered books to be rewritten and destroyed. Prosecution says false stock values backed offences and the Morse family allegedly used the mail to defraud.
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Morse Mall
Seoneral Pletcher Dohyna
Charles W. Morse
Harry PF
Benjamin W. Morse
Finance Morse
Taft
Kilwin A. Morse
Hlness
Dobyns
Morse
Morses
United States Steamship Company
United States Transport Company
United States Shipp Corporation
Girls Rule Skirts Longer To Cover Knees AtGENQA High School
Nebraska school board ruled that from sixth grade up girls must wear skirts long enough to cover the knees while walking or sitting or face expulsion. Sixteen year old Hazel O Bryan refused with relatives saying they would fight it out all winter. Some girls wore four year old swagger skirts as a protest.
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Genqa
Neb
Hazel O'Bryan
Daylight saving deemed legal by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court dismissed a Massachusetts appeal on daylight saving laws, ruling they do not interfere with federal rights or affect federal jurisdiction. Chief Justice Taft announced the decision after oral arguments by challengers led by Frank W. Morrison, who argued Massachusetts law was unconstitutional.
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Massachusetts
Supreme Court
Masachusetts State Grange
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Taft
Bay State
Congress
Tower Court
Frank W. Morrison
Waterbury Legal Figure Dies at Desk
Waterbury, Oct. 1 James S. Russell a leading lawyer here dropped dead at his Bank street office from heart disease seconds after finishing a conversation. Sixty six, Fordham and Vale Law School graduate of 1888, he was a major property owner, clerk of the school board and library board member, leaving a wife and several daughters.
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Waterbury
James
Russell
Bank Street
Fordham and
Vale Law School
Law School
Designer of New York's First Skyscraper Dies at 70
Charles J. Berg, architect and designer of the city's first skyscraper completed in 1897, died in a New York hospital. His last major project was serving as consulting architect for the Presidential area in Mayana in 1918.
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Trap
Charles J. Berg
New York Hospital
Mr. Berg
Mayana
Washington Loved Much in Hughes Biography
New York October 18 reports a new biography on George Washington by Thurpert Hughes portraying him as a young man who gambled drank flirted and loved. The book details early loves from Mary Carynn Sally Fairfax Mary Philipse and a famous attachment to the wife of George William Fairfax.
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Hughes
New York
Gourge Wahington
Thupert Hughes
George Washington
Mary Carvn
Sally Fax
Mary Philipse
Mackenzie Chosen to Lead Fairfield County GOP Office Plan
Fairfield County Republicans revive a long-dormant county organization at the Hotel Daven Port in Stamford. Harry E. Mackenzie of Bethel is elected president. Alfred W. Burdick named Republican Town Chairman. A permanent headquarters is planned on Bridgeport's Liberty Building fourth floor. A rally is set in Stratford Bridgeport on October 23 with about 150 attendees.
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Fairfield County Republican Organization
Davenport
Stamford
Harry E. Mackenzie
Bethel
Arthur F. Connor
Liberty Building
Bridgeport
Republican Town Committee
Mackenzie
Alfred W. Burdick
Arthur F. Conner
Bridgeport Republican Organization
Charles E. Sshang” Wheeler
Stratford
Charles Ef, Willamson
Sander Harry Mackenzie
Wheeler
Phite T. Plat
Newtown
Govvernor
Charles G. Morris
Cooperaticp
Oreth
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