Coast Guardsmen Save Lives and Fight Fires in Buzzards Bay
From Woods Hole Massachusetts September 24 Ensign B Jordan reports Coast Guard duty includes saving ships and rescuing crews clearing channels and battling forest fires. Notable rescues include the schooner Leader near Guy Head and the Hedge Lightship rescue. patrols aided the Uncatena and removed a drifting nets haul of 1200 pounds. Prohibition enforcement shows shift with no liquor violations found after patrolling Cape Cod waters.
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Vineyard Haven
Narragansett
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Great Point
Woods Hole Harbor
Les
Woods Holy
Fatnouh
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Convicts wounded in escape attempt at state penitentiary
Nashville report says prisoners Donald White of Memphis and Calvin Eazell of Bledsoe County were wounded during an escape attempt at the state penitentiary. White attacked a guard as dining hall exit occurred. White was shot in the side and Eazell wounded in the neck.
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Tenn
Donald White
Memphis
Calvin Eazell
Bled- Boe County
State Penitentiary
White
Ezeell
Five Sailors Die After Finland Steamer Blast
Five crew members of the American Steamer Finland died when a steampipe burst forty five miles from Cristobal. Four died instantly, the fifth died at the Corozal hospital later. The men will be buried here in Panama.
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Finland
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Snow and frost damage crops across the northwest
Snow and frosts damaged unripe seed corn in Iowa and Minnesota while heavy rains and freezes spread through Central Plains and northern states. Six inches of snow blanketed Minnesota North Dakota and Canada, with temperatures plunging below zero in Montana and the Rocky Mountain region. Farmers rushed to save seed corn as cold weather threatened harvests and rails faced disruptions from storms.
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Hocky Mountain
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British Columbia
Albert Jen
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Cedar Falls
South Dakota
Pierre
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Cross Williston
Sherwood
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
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Barns and Shacks Searched for Pair
Fitchburg Mass Sept 4 State and local police searched asylums wood choppers and other buildings in the Notowrt district for two escaped Devens soldiers believed hiding in the Monoosie woods since late Wednesday. The hunt began after a stolen car was found on Jonesy road two men were seen twice yesterday but eluded the posse. Patrols covered the vicinity by motorcycle. One searcher entered the woods this morning. Fort guards Tromamp Devens were to join the hunt this afternoon. Fugitives suspected of living on fruit stolen from or near farms.
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Maas
Notowrt
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Bangkok Prince Shuns Publicity in Chicago Visit
Prince Asin of Bangkok toured Chicago as a Harvard freshman and refused photography and commentary on American beauty. He also declined hosts showing him the cards. Dr. Francis B. Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law, accompanied the prince on the trip.
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Demurrer Sustained in Bootlegger Plea in New Haven
Judge Isaac Wolfe upheld the demurrer in the bootlegger case as Antonio Esposito sought habeas relief from the New Haven county jail during the murder probe of Albert Demolin. Counsel Celotto noted the court’s limits on extra writs while Esposito’s fate hung on the demurrer ruling and possible further action. In New York, Mackay, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin, returned from Europe and refused to discuss his daughter's marriage to Kimmett, reiterating he would not comment on the matter.
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Wallnaford
Albert “Dixie Kid’ Demolin
Brooklyn
Dominic Cellottu
Isposite
Benjamin Bb. Winner
Tten
Celjotto
New York
Clarmice H. Mackay
Irvink Berlin
Europe
Elon
Kimmett
Poatal Telegraph Company
William H. Taft Leaves Murray for Washington
Chief Justice William Howard Taft departed by special train from Murray Bay Quebec to Washington. He had spent the summer there, marking the end of his stay.
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Aly
William Howard Vat
United States
Washington
Day Law Should Get 25 Year Test, Official Asserts
Washington clerks report United States Attorney Mott Northcott of the Southern District of West Virginia argues prohibition needs a 25 year evaluation. He says six years isn’t enough, urging Americans to compare conditions before and after the 18th Amendment and consider safety, moonshine, and the rise of dry sentiment in rural counties.
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United States
Emott Northcott
West Virginia
America
Northcott Anid
Northcott
Beneila
Sears
Youth hearing fight returns fatally Kurt Bradenton casualty
Kurt Bradenton, seventeen, dies after being among seven injured when a canopy and part of a building collapsed during a crowd listening to the Dempsey Tunney fight in Bradenton Florida. The incident occurred as spectators gathered for the event.
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Bradentox
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Truman Pike
Taday
Community notices from Brookfield area detailed talks and events
Rev Ralph White will speak at the Congregational church Sunday morning as part of an Anti Saloon league visit. Girl's Friendly Society meets at St Pauls church Saturday at 6 38. Rev Oliver Munroe and Mr Munroe of Phillips Maine visit Rep John Thornhill. Exeter Academy invites Whiting Curtis to continue studies. Selectmen close town books. auditors Peck and Smith work on them. Mrs Martha Wildman Ja it at the name of her son Ray Wildman in Danbury. Delegates to senatorial convention attend from Brookfield with dinner at Hotel Green. Sheriff Fennell and Peck attend county convention. Mr and Mrs Russell Loring return to Sarasota after visiting Mrs Loring's mother. Briefs list teaching, trips, corn roast, Camp Fire hostess Lois Smith, wedding trip return, Ladies Industrial society meeting, Congregational missionary meeting social hour.
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Ralph White
Connecticut
Anti- Saloon League
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Girl's Friendly Society
St. Paul's Church
Oliver Munroe
Munroe
Phillips
Maine
John & Thornhill
Westerly
R. J
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Gerald B. Curtin
Curtis School
Brookfield Center
Exeter Academy
Andover
Mass
John A. Peck
Samuel Smith Jr
Martha Wildman
Ray
Wildman
Danbury
Alma W. Brush
John Gamber
William H. Blackman
Louis J. Covill
Republican Club
Hotel Green
Sherif Peter H. Fennell
Clark C. Peck
Siridgeport
Russell Loring
Sarasota, Fla
Gertrude Guatafson
Upper Stepney
Anna M. Carlson
Eastman Leaves East Africa After Hunting Trip
George Eastman of Rochester, New York, camera maker and philanthropist, has completed a successful interior hunting trip in East Africa and sails today on the steamer Gilford Castis for Europe. He is reported to be in good health and spoke to the correspondent about his journey.
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State industries show marked gains across Connecticut
Hartford reports improved business across sectors as the fiscal year begins. Industrial investigator Charlotte Holloway cites rising orders in the plan and silk industries in New London, Norwich, Watertown, Mystic, Manchester, and several towns, with metal trades and typewriter output also improving. Wages stay high. hours rise in metal trades from forty five to fifty five. demand grows for domestic help and tobacco workers in New Haven. tobacco planters optimistic for crops. lumber dealers note cautious but steady gains.
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Charlotte Molyneux Holloway
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Manchester
Naugatuck
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One Killed Five Hurt In Rum War At Submarine Bar
St Louis police report a downtown Submarine-bar gun battle left one bystander dead and five wounded, two critically. Victims include bar owner Anthony Datalla and twin brother Michael Dalitalla, a newspaper carrier Joseph Rubine, fruit merchants Gua Co and Herold Cressey, with suspectless fled scene.
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CAP
Uquar
Frank Christian
Anthony Datalla
Michael Daltalla
Anthon Joseph Rubine
Gua C.o
Herold Cressey
Anthony Datallo
Rubine
Budget meeting postponed over tax board attendance
The budget conference between the Fire board and a committee of the Board of Apportionment was postponed until next week due to the absence of Willis F. Hobbs and Willan E. Burnham. The Fire board says the department needs $22,300 more to run this fiscal year.
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Board of Apportionment
Willis F. Hobbs
Willan E. Burnham
Tax Board
Pennsylvania Station Valued At 120 Million In 1918 Report
The Interstate Commerce Commission tentatively valued the Pennsylvania railroad terminal in New York City at 120 million dollars as of June 30, 1918. The corporation owning the station and tunnels has outstanding capital securities of 120 million dollars, all owned by the Pennsylvania Company, with a capital investment account of 81.232 million and a book investment of 68.202 million.
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Sept
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York City
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Tunnela
Pennsylvania Company
May Have Killed Self Over Demspey Defeat
An autopsy is planned to determine poison in the death of Fred D Moffitt fifty from Evanston Ill. Found dead in his Wahdorf Autoria hotel room an empty vial lay by his side. Police believe he took his own life amid Dempsey’s defeat, a claim denied by Louis Sonn an old friend.
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New York
Fred D. Moftz
Hvanston
ML Memitt
Wahdorf Autoria
Moffitt
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Louis Sonn
Painter kills wife then dies after family quarrel
Madison Wis Sept 24 Following a family quarrel Alfred Sheslaben thirty three a painter today shot and killed his wife and then ended his life Confirming preliminary police reports the tragedy occurred in the Sheslaben home where the couple had argued Earlier neighbors reported hearing a volley of shots and a brief scream before silence The motive remains unclear as investigators interview relatives and analyze the scene
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Alfred Sheslaben
Hia Ili
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