Quake Puzzle Baffles Scientists Amid New York Tremors
New York scientists race to locate the quake center as seismographs at Fordham and Harvard struggle to pinpoint origin while observers note a wide area impact from Sudbury Canada to Florence South Carolina. Experts consider Logan’s Fault slipping and reject a link to the eclipse. Residents report chandeliers ringing, fish washed from bowls, and buildings rocking like ships.
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New York
Fordham
Harvard
Oxford Obvatory
Oxford
England
Saginaw River
Michigan
R. B. Hill
Museum of Natural History
Logan's Fault
David Todd
Ace Bates
Todd
Sudbury
Canada
Florence
S. C
Mississippi
Tragic shooting ends in murder suicide in Anderson
Kenneth Huntsinger fatally shoots mother-in-law Elizabeth Butler and likely wounds wife Lena Huntsinger before turning the gun on himself. Estie Butler survives by dropping to the floor. authorities note domestic strife and a pending divorce suit as context.
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Associated Press
Anderson
Ind
Elizabeth Butler
Lena Huntsinger
Kenneth Huntsinger
Estie Butler
Butler
Huntsinger
Estle
Twelve Families Escape as City Quake Tops Buildings
Schenectady New York March 1 Twelve families escaped injury when two large wooden apartment buildings tilted and fell together during a city tremor. The structures stood about six feet apart and roofs touched but no one was hurt.
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Schenectady
N._Y
Nora Bayes Marries on Leviathan Fifth Time in Atlantic
Nora Bayes the American stage star marries for the fifth time aboard the Leviathan. Captain Herbert S Hartley notes the ceremony at 8 pm Saturday with Benjamin L Friedland as her fiancé. Guests include Mrs Alfred E Smith and Miss Emily Smith. The couple plan a London Paris Riviera Rome honeymoon and a future musical venture.
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New York World News Service
New York
Nora Bayes
Atlantic Ocean
Herbert S. Hartley
Leviathan
United Pirates Lines
Bayes
Benjamin L. Friedland
Alfred EK. Smith
Emily Smith
Friedland
Miss Bayes
London
Paris
Riviera
Rome
Nora Bayés
Jack Norworth
C. A. Gressing
Chicago
Norworth
Harry Clarke
Arthur Gordon
Norman
Lea Nora
Peter
Bomb Kills Federal Official in Niagara Falls
Orville Preuster a federal customs official who fought liquor smuggling was killed when a bomb exploded in his car in Niagara Falls on March 1 Elmer Whitacre another man was badly hurt The blast shattered cars and blew debris into nearby houses Police found a metal box with a spring and copper wire near the wreckage Preuster was brother of former Ku Klux Klan leader Lucas Lee Preuster and had led liquor raids for years Local pastor Rev L E Smith linked the bombings to rackets claiming similar attacks in two years and warning of continued danger
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Orville Preuster
Elmer Whitacre
Preuster
Lucas Lee Preuster
Ku Klux Klan
Whitacre
T. M. Hennessy
Customs Inspection Service
L. E
Smith
Buffalo
Mr. Smith
Arthur B. Mercer
Holt
la Salle
King of
Emma Geisler
Jasper
Ind
Emanuel M. Polster
Lee Place
Avondale
Reading Road
Mann Place
William Hutton
Ashland Avenue
General Hospital
Miss Geisler
Roth’ Newburgh
Clinton Springs Avenue
Geisler
Ofice
Moses Salter
Miss Smith
Happemanae Tahoe
One Eighth District
Hutton
Clifford von Gries
Mulberry Street
Clifton Avenue
Riddle- Road
Carl Ibold
Whitfield Avenue
von Gries
Anna Meyer
Howell Avenue
Rosella Thiergartner
Dixmuth Avenue
Ibold
Good Samaritan Hospital
Thiergarther
Hebrew Union College
William Meyer
Fairview Avenue
John Bolan
Hudson Avenue
Clifton
McMillan Avenue
Bolan
Mobley
Jack Cook
Nashville
Tenn
Wade Allen
Upland Avenue
Strady Willis
Samuel Young
Clarence Hightower
Thomas Hightower
Booth
Robbery at Lorain Post Office Leads to Fatal Train Crash
Four men robbed Lorain Ohio Post Office of cash and stamps totaling about 12 750 with a vault torch entry. After binding guard T C Robinson a fleeing car struck by a Pennsylvania train at Helena Ohio killed John L Peer and left loot including 400 000 two cent stamps 200 000 one cent stamps and 60 000 dollars in higher denomination stamps untouched.
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Lorain
Postoffice
Pennsylvania Railroad
Helena
T. C. Robinson
Tiffin
John L. Peer
Toledo
Robinson
Peer
Native Talent in Grand Opera
New York March 1. American Operatic Allied Arts Foundation announces plans to produce grand opera in English with American talent at popular prices nationwide this fall. The move seeks to establish a national grand opera in the United States and end foreign leadership, with Otto H. Kahn as honorary chairman and Max Rabinoff as director general.
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New York
American Operatic Allied Arts Foundation
Otto H. Kahn
Max Rabinoff
Vincent Astor
Nicholas Murray Butler
Frank A. Munsey
Charles H.sabin
William Rhinelander Stewart, Jr
Henry Rogers Winthrop
David Belasco
Frederick Macmonnies
Neysa Moran McMein
Conde Nast
Adolph.s. Ochs
Stony-Point-on-the-Hudson
American Institute of Operatic Art
America
United States
Europe
Woman killed as train strikes auto at crossing
At Ft Wayne Indiana a car carrying Cora Warner 30 and four others was hit by a Wabash train at a crossing. Mrs Warner died instantly. Thelma Warner 13 Francis Warner 17 Mrs Carl Glass 23 and Carl Glass 23 were injured with two in serious condition. Coroner says crossing gates partially failed.
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FT. Wayne
Ind
Cora Warner
Scott, O
Thelma Warner
Death Ray Inventor Injured Photograph Caption
Image caption notes the inventor injured during testing of his death ray machine. The photo shows the aftermath and the device under development.
Death Ray inventor says sale completed in America
Southampton, England, March 1. H Grindell Matthews, inventor of the death ray, said on arrival from the United States that he disposed of his invention in America but would not reveal the buyer’s price. He stated England had first chance but America snapped it up and he would return to America in six weeks after collecting materials and diagrams.
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Associated Press
Southampton
England
H. Grindell Matthews
United States
America
Matthews
Aquitania
Government Not Buyer of Death Ray
Washington March 1 Officials of the War and Navy Departments said they were not purchasers of H Grindell Matthews death ray and doubted the device until practical results are shown. An English inventor had approached the army with a flying craft stopper device but no demonstration followed and no further contact occurred.
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New York World News Service
Washington
War and Navy Departments
H. Grindell Matthews
London
United States
Army
Navy
Matthews Ray
Franco-German pact proposals reported in Paris
Paris reports indicate Germany sent to Premier Herriot a general reciprocal security pact proposal with arbitration as a dispute method. The plan avoids frontier limits, covers both Rhine and eastern frontiers, and omits guaranteed peace on other borders. Allies discuss responses as secrecy remains.
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Paris
Germany
France
Premier Herriot
Stresemann
Wilhelm Cuno
Herriott
Herriot
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cuno
Rhine
Holland
Czecho-Slovakia
Austria
Senators Fight For Preference End Nears
Washington March 1 With two days left in the session Congress is stalled as lawmakers push pet measures. The McFadden branch banking bill faces heavy amendments. Fernald seeks canal purchase. many general bills are dead. The Cranton bill for a separate enforcement bureau heads to a showdown with McFadden. Opponents threaten to block the Lausanne treaty. Borah aims for a vote before March 4. Nominations Warren and Woodlock go over. Ball salary vote anticipated, with riders on a major supply bill.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Congress
McFadden Branch
Pepper
Pennsylvania
Glass
Virginia
Fernald
Cape Cod Canal
Muscle Shoals
Senate
Cramton
McFadden
Borah
Isle of Pines
Ratifica
Armenia
Charles B. Warren
Thomas H. Woodlock
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Reed
Heflin
Ala
Warren
Iit
Watson
House
Enthusiasm for Inauguration Draws Record Crowd Ahead of Coolidge
Washington braces for a large turnout at Calvin Coolidge’s inauguration next Wednesday. Despite a simple ceremony endorsed by the president, crowds surge with interest in the historical moment. Vice President-elect Dawes arrives with a police escort and family, while civilian committees prepare a court of honor along Pennsylvania Avenue.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Calvin Coolidge
Capital
R Coolidge
Justice Yatt
William Howard Taft
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Block
Army
Navy
Marines
William T. Galliher
Mitchell
Secretaries of War
Harding
Yorktown
Dawes
the Treasury
Edward Clifford
Willard Hotel
Clark's Daughter Weds In Private Society Notice
Mrs. Mary Clark Culver Kling daughter of William A Clark former Senator of Montana married Marcus Brabant of Los Angeles yesterday. It is her third marriage and the ceremony was disclosed today in New York.
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Clark
Associated Press
New York
Mary Clark Culver Kling
William A. Clark
Momana
Marcus Brabant
Los Angeles
Dying Parson Shot By Sister in Leicestershire Vicarage
In Hungerton Leicestershire the Rev William Bettison was shot after breakfast by his sister Miss Bettison who said she shot to end his pain. The incident followed a single earlier shot and Bettison was arrested.
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Leicester
England
Hungerton
Leicestershire
William Bettison
Bettison
Trans continental photo test sends pictures to three cities
AT and T conducted a seven minute transcontinental photo transmission test sending about a dozen pictures to New York Chicago and San Francisco from Washington D C with a glimpse of President and Mrs Coolidge. The system uses a film beam light and photoelectric cell to reproduce prints at the receiving end.
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Associated Press
Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Coolidge
First Congregational Church
Rockefeller at 85 Plays Better Golf for Health and Joy
John D. Rockefeller, 85, plays daily in Ormond Beach Florida and shoots under 45 for eight holes. He emphasizes golf as health and happiness, uses warm water to cool, ignores cold drinks, and concentrates intensely while remaining relaxed. General Adelbert Ames and observers note his patient teaching and improved appetite after digestive issues.
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Ormond Beach
Fla
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
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