Hoover Feted In Rio In Grand South American Welcome
Herbert Hoover received a wave of Brazilian hospitality during his South American tour. He attended a joint Congress session and a Supreme Court meeting, then a state dinner at the Presidential palace. He rode along the coast, held a reception at the American Embassy, and dismissed his Secret Service guard amid cheers.
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Associated Press
Rio Janeiro
United States
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Supreme Court
Presidential Palace
Hoover
Guanabera Palace
Secret Service
Mr. Hoover
Chamber of Deputies
Antonio Azevedo
Senate
Rigo Barros
Chamber
Azevedo
Dr. Barros
House
Barros
Santa Will Carry Toys Though Dad Deserts Three Children
In Wichita, Judge J D Dickerson ruled for Santa Claus to visit three children at home rather than a county institution. The mother Mrs Cora Allison sought support as James Allison neglects the family. The court committed the children to the Wichita Children's Home. the judge then provided money to buy gifts and clothing amid help from spectators.
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Wichita
Kan
J. D. Dickerson
Santa Claus
Cora Allison
James Allison
Dickerson
Meanest thief candidate takes Christmas tree
Atlanta reports a theft from Central Presbyterian Church where a decorated Christmas tree and gifts for children were stolen. The tree vanished after committee members briefly left it unattended, leaving only a trail of tinsel as evidence.
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Central Presbyterian Church
Clock lit atop Broadway building marks new Cincinnati era
The Building Industries Exhibit lit the new stock clock at 622 Broadway, with W. C. Culkins starting the mechanism as Fox Movietone filmed. The event signals redevelopment of upper Broadway alongside projects like the Masonic Temple Taft Auditorium Broadway Apartments and Broadway Garage, highlighting a shift from the old to a modern business district.
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Cincinnati
Building Industries
Broadway
W. C. Culkins
Chamber of Commerce
Fox Movietone
New Business Center
Upper Broadway
Fifth Street
Masonic Temple
Taft Auditorium
America
Braxton W. Campbell
The
Industries Institution
Culkins
Campbell
Bethlehem Sunrise and a 2nd Century Nativity Manuscript Revelation
A Bethlehem report profiles Rev. Father Giulio Isino, long-time guardian of the Church of the Nativity, and describes a dawn Christmas sunrise over Bethlehem. It notes a new manuscript suggesting a second century version of the Nativity and recalls historical ruins and forests that once surrounded the grotto.
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Ms EV
Giulio Isino
One of the Nativity
Bethlehem
Palestine
Commercial Tribune
New York World News Service
New Latin Nativity Manuscript Discovered at Hereford Cathedral
Dr. M. R. James of Eton announced a thirteenth century Latin Nativity manuscript found in Hereford Chapter Library. It splits into lessons about the Immaculate Conception and a continuous tale. The text mentions Simeon son of Joseph and hints Christ had a non ordinary corporeal body, suggesting a fragment of the Gospel of Peter from the second century.
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M. R. James
Eton
Hereford Cathedral
Symeon
Joseph
Christ
Dr. James
Joseph Reveals Holy Child in Bethlehem Narrative
In a fragmentary medieval scene from England a parchment relates Joseph presenting the Christ child to shepherds near Bethlehem. The text describes angels singing Glory to God, good news for shepherds, and the fulfillment of prophecy as the holy child is shown in Joseph's lodging.
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Bethlehem
Joseph
J .Bald
Christ
David
Christ the Lord
the Shepherds
Flyers to Aid British Women Evacuated from Kabul
A New Delhi dispatch says Afghan Government consented to evacuating British and Indian women by British air forces from Kabul. Rebels reportedly moved north but were repelled in renewed Kabul fighting. Ambiguity remains on when departures will begin amid ongoing revolt near Dakka and Jalalabad.
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London
New Delhi
India
Kabul
Afghanistan
Legation
Peshawar
Delhi
Amanullah
Dakka
Jalalabad
Bank Cashier Refuses Hold Up as Robbers Flee
Pittsburgh dispatch reports bank cashier Murray Coon and teller George Lille escaped unharmed after two would be robbers fired four shots at the Hays National Bank doorway in Hays Borough. Coon carried $14,000 in a bag. one robber approached as they prepared to enter. The shooter fled to a waiting car after bullets went through a window.
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Pittsburgh
Hays National Bank
Hays
Murray Coon
Coon
George Lille
New Flu Wave Threat Discussed by Health Officials
Washington officials warned a second, more severe influenza wave could follow the current outbreak. Public health planners plan laboratory and field studies in representative areas to prevent a repeat of 1918. Data suggest the week ending December 15 matched peak 1920 levels, with 200 cases per 100 000 population.
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Washington
United States
Public Health Service
Browning Christmas Party Riots In New York Crowd Riot At Realtor Office
A planned peaceful charity event by Edward W. Browning triggered a riot as hundreds of children pressed to enter his Broad way office. Glass broke, five children and one woman were hurt, and twenty four youngsters were separated from their mothers. Police fought to restore order after crowding halted traffic for hours.
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New York
Edward W. Browning
Broadway
Nathanson Automobile Exchange
Rudolph Valentino
Sixty Eighth Street
Daddy Browning
Browning
West Sixty-eighth Street
West Sixty-eighth
West Fortyseventh
West Thirtieth
West Twentieth Street
Mead
West Sixtyeighth Street
Headstone of 1890s New York to be ground under progress
A 50 story skyscraper planned for next year will erase the Waldorf Astoria era of Old New York. The piece recalls Fifth Avenue pre prohibition times with 15 cent whisky and five cent seegar, the 1893 opening, and Oscar Tschirky’s rise at Delmonico’s as New York shifts to a world metropolis.
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Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Fifth Avenue
Park Avenue
Nmodern
Father Knickerbocker
Peacock Alley
Thirty-third
Thirty-fourth Streets
Astor
Abner Bartlett
George Boldt
Bartlett
Mr. Astor
Waldorf Astor
Oscar Tschirky
Oscar
Delmonico’s
New Waldorf Hotel
Boldt
Scar
George Gould
Justics Antrome
Sapase Webb
John Punn
Bearded Santa Reaches Baltic By Tug At Sea
Passengers aboard the Baltic will have a full bearded Santa for Christmas at sea. The liner sailed for New York with no beard aboard. A tug retrieved the beard after it was tied to a line at New Brighton and pulled aboard.
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Tug
Santa’s Beard
Liverpool
Baltic
Santa Claus
New York
R. Edwards
New Brighton
Langley Granted Full Pardon by President Coolidge
President Coolidge pardoned former Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky restoring full citizenship rights lost in 1924 after his conspiracy to illegally withdraw whisky from government storage. Langley, then in his ninth term, served in Atlanta Penitentiary and was paroled after a year. The pardon followed a recommendation from Attorney General Sargent.
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Washington
Coolidge
John W. Langley
Kentucky
Katherine Langley
Congress
Covington
House
Supreme Court
Save Our Home
Langley
Atlanta
Tcan
Nae
Sam Collins
Sargent
House Public Buildings and Grounds Committee
Italian Kidnap Case Sees Jury Deliberate Death Sentences
In Chicago the fate of three Italians accused of abducting ten year old Billy Ranieri and seeking sixty thousand dollars rests with a criminal court jury. Prosecution demands death for Angelo Petitti and Andrew Cappellano while Tony Cappellano faces a lesser penalty. Defense argues lack of direct ransom ties and questions about circumstantial evidence. Threats against witnesses and lawyers cloud the case as closing arguments end.
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Chicago
Billy Ranieri
Robert E. Gentzel
Angelo Petitti
Andrew Cappellano
Bourbonnais
Ill
Tony
Cappellano
Benjamin Short
Petitti
Cappellanos
Short
Gentzel
Ole Scully
Oak
Ilinois
Hoffman
Tony Cappellano
Gant
Counse
Clifford Beach
Billy
Petrified body seller found guilty in federal court
A Los Angeles jury convicted Alice Sawyer of Long Beach on five counts of using the mails to defraud over her claim she could sell her son's petrified body. She faces up to five years per count with sentence set for December 31. The plot centered on a $32 000 payment from John L. Stuts of Meridian Mississippi. A judge heard the body’s condition resembled petrification after an El Centro cemetery grave was opened in 1923. A physician testified embalming fluid caused the appearance.
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Los Angeles
Alice Sawyer
Long Beach
Cal
E. E. Henning
Man Recovers Wrench After Gift Car Swap
A NY story tells of a man who picked up a monkey wrench dropped from a passing car and received the wrench and an automobile as a reward. Captain Kenneth Robertson, stationed at the West Toll House of the Bear Mountain Hudson River Bridge, was offered a big machine by the driver but the car moved on leaving the wrench on the bridge. The next day the mail delivered the car ownership papers to Captain Robertson.
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New York World News Service
New York
W. H. Averell
Bear Mountain
Hudson River Bridge Company
Kenneth Rober
West Toll House
Capt. Robertson
New York Woman Granted Divorce From Penney Jr.
Mare Louise Donaie Penney of New York was granted a divorce from James C. Penney Jr. son of the chain store operator of White Plains New York and Miami Beach.
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Ae — “Yon
Miame
Mare Louise Donaie Penney
New York
James C. Penney, Jr
White Piaing
N. Y
Miami Beach
Slater grills victim's husband in Canton murder case
Wilbur O. Heidman, central figure in the Fearn-Heidman murder and death by own action case, was grilled for seven hours by Cincinnati detective Ora M. Slater, Prosecuting Attorney Henry W. Harter, and Coroner T. C. McQuate. A second session was set for Monday as authorities probe discrepancies in his account. Heidman says he helped his wife reach Canton to turn her over to authorities after learning of Vernard E. Fearn's murder. He is held as a coroner's witness.
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Canton
Wilbur O. Heidman
Fearn- Heidman
Ora M. Slater
Cincinnati
Henry W. Harter
T. C. McQuate
Slater
Heldman
Vernard E. Fearn
Waco
Bullet Rain Raps Halethorpe Church. No Injuries
A shower of pistol and shotgun bullets struck Lansdowne Methodist Church and the parsonage in Halethorpe as an automobile passed the building twice. Five windows were broken, none injured. Police suspect bootleggers amid Prohibition preaching by Rev. Gordon D. Jones.
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Baltimore
Lansdowne Methodist Episcopal Church
Halethorpe
Ihe
Gordon D. Jones
Tug Georges Creek Seized Near City Island
The ocean-going tug Georges Creek was seized this afternoon off Execution Light near City Island. Fifteen men and 1200 cases of liquor valued at 72000 dollars were aboard as two Coast Guard patrol boats captured the vessel.
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New York
Georges Creek
Execution Light
City Island
Coast Guard
Fire leaves 17 families homeless at Colonial Apartments
A December 22 fire in Birmingham Alia destroys the Colonial Apartments in an exclusive residential district. Damage is estimated at 956000, and 17 families are left homeless. Local authorities investigate the blaze and assess causes.
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Birmingham
Alia
Colonial
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