Haunted Brandegee House Now Ku Klux Klan Headquarters
The Brandegee home at 17th and E streets in Washington is identified as the Ku Klux Klan headquarters. The article recounts the building’s grim history including suicides and drownings, and notes renovations underway to convert Bridgeport Shriners’ State Street Casino into a temple with a 2500-seat auditorium by December and completed exterior by March 1926.
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Bridgeport Shriners A. R. O. N. M. S
State Street
Dwight E. Smith
New Haven
Washington, D.C
Frank Brandegee
17Th
E Streets
Ku Klux Klan
Brandegee
Connecticut
Anthony Pollock
Pollock
Nova Scotia
Old State Street
Bridgeport Shriners
Shriners
Bridgeport
Deputy Collectors Return From School Training
Deputy Chief John L. Lyons of the Internal Revenue department and nine deputy collectors completed a three day course at the Income Tax School in Hartford. The program focused on current methods for collecting income taxes.
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John L. Lyons
Internal Revenue Department
Hartford
Daring bandits rob messengers in Chicago district
In Chicago on October 24 three Federal Reserve Bank messengers were robbed of an express package and two small sacks of registered mail by three men who fled in two cars. Bank governor James McDougal said the nature of the shipments and the total loss could not yet be determined. The robbers halted the messengers as they returned to the bank on La Salle street.
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Chicago
Finan ‘Dal
Federal Reserve Bank
James B. McDougal
W. Nordell
Richard Fiaska
Julian Glomb
la Salle Street
The Associated Press Mission and Structure
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