Great Program Of Racing at County Tracks During August
Orange county announces a packed August horse racing schedule starting with the Orange County Circuit races at Monroe on Aug 2 3 4 and continuing with Historic Track races at Goshen Aug 9 10 11 Mid dletown races at the Orange County Fair Aug 16 17 18 and Grand Circuit events at W H Canes Good Time Park Goshen the week of Aug 22 There is 31000 in purses for each Orange County Circuit meet and over 52700 for the Grand Circuit meet The Endicott New York program begins July 26 with daily events including 2:09 Trot Ladies Day purse 5000 2:18 Trot 2000 2:10 Pace John R Gentry Purse 9000 and other races listed for Aug 9 10 12 with various purses.
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Orange County
Monroe
Goshen
Middletown
Orange County Fair
W. H. Cane
Walden Bride-To-Be Miss MacGowan to Wed Mr Osborne
Miss Dorothy MacGowan daughter of Mr and Mrs Lewis F MacGowan of Walden will wed N Scovil Osborne of Amityville. The ceremony takes place Saturday April 9 at the bride's home in Walden with only immediate families present. Miss MacGowan is a graduate of Albany Teachers College and New Paltz Normal School and has taught in Amityville for two years. Mr Osborne is a young Amityville businessman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy MacGowan
Lewis F. MacGowan
Walden
N. Scovil Osborne
Amityville
MacGowan
Albany Teachers’ College
New Paltz Normal School
Osborne
May Solve Pension Problem Delays Pensions in New York
President Coolidge hopes Treasury and Interior officials can legally divert funds to pay May and June pensions until next fiscal year. Pension payments for 40,600 New York recipients are delayed until July 1 due to Congress not passing the deficiency bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
Treasury
Interior Departments
Congress
New York State
Port Chester and Richmond Hill students suffer dual self harm
Two more student personal crisis reports surface on Tuesday. Anthony Zeno Jr aged 18, Port Chester high school senior, died after ingesting poison and triggering gas in his home. Frank Conklin 13 of Richmond Hill high school, son of Police Captain Frank Conklin, shot himself with his father's pistol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthony Zeno, Jr
Port Chester
N. Y
Frank Conklin
Richmond Mill High School
New York
Beacon Opposes Bill On New York City Water Supply
Beacon manufacturers urge residents to protest the Webb bill enabling NYC to acquire extra water from Dutchess and Columbia counties. They warn it would divert Fishkill Creek waters and deprive local industries along its banks of supply.
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Beacon
New York City
Dutchess
Columbia Counties
Fishkill Creek
Notable court ruling ends Peaches Browning separation suit
Justice Seeger grants separation to Edward West Browning and dismisses Peaches Browning’s alimony and wife’s suit. The decision rebukes her charges of Browning’s alleged abnormality as baseless she may not appeal.
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Peaches
Heenan Browning
Edward West Browning
New York
Justice Seeger
Browning
Rise in Alcoholic Cases Reported in State Hospitals
A notable rise in alcoholic patients admitted to state hospitals is shown since the low point in 1920, the first year of prohibition, in a report to the legislature. The former State Hospital Commission’s duties are now with the Department of Mental Hygiene. Drug patients have remained stationary since 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Hospital Commission
Department of Mental Hygiene
Praise for Baumes laws aids in Nassau crime fight
In the annual report District Attorney E. N. Edwards hails the Baumes laws for reducing gun and blackjack crime. He says the statutes have placed prompt legal weapons in the hands of the district attorney to deal with criminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nassau County
E. N. Edwards
Governor appoints Utter to Bureau of Standards and Purchase
Governor Smith names Frank R Utter of Friendship Alleghany county longtime Republican state committeeman to head the Bureau of Standards and Purchase with a 10000 dollar annual salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Frank R. Utter
Friendship
Alleghany County
Republican State Committee
Bureau of Standards and Purchase
Fertilizer Prices and Composition in New York 1926
A report from the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva describes the 1926 fertilizer situation. The document notes improvement in products offered to New York state farmers and details composition and price trends observed across the state's markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Republicans Hit Governor Smith Over Gasoline Tax Refunds
The Republican State Committee issued two statements attacking Governor Smith for extravagance in government. They claim Republican legislative leaders prevented a gasoline tax and accuse him of political capital over the water power issue. The tax would burden motorists who face a two cent rise this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican State Committee
Smith
Montreal Stricken by Typhoid Fever Epidemic
An outbreak labeled typhoid fever grips Montreal Canada with 443 reported cases since March 4. Public health officials report rapid spread across neighborhoods and urge caution, hygiene measures, and medical treatment to curb the epidemic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Canada
Chicago Boy Found on Pyre Cleared by Bodies Found Nearby
Police believe the mystery of a small boy murdered in a Chicago park was cleared by the discovery of the boy’s mother and foster father dead in their Austin suburb apartment. Officials say a personal crisis may have prompted either the mother or foster father to kill the boy and then themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Austin
Virginia liquor raid ends in fatal shooting
Chapman Osborne, 42, a deputy or agent with ties to Tazewell county Virginia, was shot and killed during a liquor search. Cliff Joyce of Jewel Ridge Virginia is jailed charged with murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapman Osborne
Tazewell County
Virginia
Cliff Joyce
Jewel Ridge
First Woman Elected to New York State Board of Regents
Mrs Herbert L Pratt of Glen Cove Long Island is named to the State Board of Regents becoming the first woman to hold the honor. She succeeds the late Dr Charles B Alexander of Tuxedo on the body governing New York state education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert L. Pratt
Glen Cove, L. I
State Board of Regents
New York State
Charles B. Alexander
Tuxedo
President Coolage Battling Wrist Trouble
The president reports a swollen right wrist and difficulty using his hand. Doctors are unsure of the cause but speculate excessive handshaking may be a factor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolage
New Drivers License Law Set To Begin May First
A Bartholomew bill authorizing three year operators licenses ends special chauffeur permits. It creates junior operator licenses with learners permits for minors. The law, approved by Governor Smith and most legislators, starts May first with a 2 dollar fee per three year license and renewals shifting to April 30.
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Assembly
Senate
Motor Vehicle Bureau
Charles A. Harnett
Aged Performer Faces Eviction in New York Tenement
Annie Jackson, 85, a Goshen native and former star equestrienne with P T Barnum’s circus, faces eviction from a two room apartment at 419 East 25th Street NYC. Once celebrated, she now struggles to pay $9 monthly rent while coping with poverty, rheumatism, deafness, and an ailing blind dog named Elsie.
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Annie Jackson
Goshen
East 25Th Street
New York City
Jackson
P. T. Barnum
Florida Road
Ed Jackson
Inspectors Continue Talks To Students In Orange County
Motor vehicle inspectors extend a school program to reduce accidents by teaching children street prudence. They closed Cornwall sessions and will visit Walden and Montgomery schools after addressing Central Valley and Highland Mills pupils with a list of safety donts. They warn most mishaps occur when children rush into roads. the year’s deaths and injuries are described as appalling.
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Orange County
Cornwall
Walden
Montgomery
Central Valley
Highland Mills
Survivors Reach New Jersey Bay After Cape Hatteras Wreck
Captain Hall and six crew members of the three masted schooner G. J. Cheery arrived at Bayonne New Jersey aboard the Gulf Point of Gulf Refining after thirteen days clinging to a deck house roof off Cape Hatteras. They endured near starvation and water scarcity as eight passing steamers failed to spot them before rescue.
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Bayonne
N. J
Gulf Refining Company
Gulf’ Point
Captain Hall
G. J. Cheery
Cape Hatteras
Gulf Point
Losses Reported in 291 Vessels by Bureau of Navigation
The Bureau of Navigation in Washington reports 291 vessels lost last year including 267 merchant ships and 24 yachts. The losses carried 2,014 passengers with 175 lives lost.
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Bureau of Navigation
Washington
Five Held Up Train Clerks For 300000 Alton Case Quashed
Postal inspectors could not verify Fred Buhl Jr and five others confessed to robbing postal clerks on a Chicago and Alton train and escaping with 300000. Buhl, 24, was arrested in Brooklyn. Authorities have no record of any mail train robbery at Alton Illinois in August 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Buhl, Jr
Chicago & Alton
Buhl
Brooklyn
Alton
Ill
Tragedy at Northampton crossing claims three lives
An auto stalled on a grade crossing of the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Northampton near Easton, Pa., killing three occupants. Hours later an unidentified man watching trains at the same crossing threw himself under a train and died instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Northampton
Easton
Teen hunter defies rules with rattlesnake bounty claim
Douglas Cain, 16, disrupts hunting rules by displaying six rattlesnakes taken over two days on Mount Wantastiquet in New Hampshire. He faces inquiries as he collects a $19 bounty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut Valley
Douglas Cain
Mount Wantastiquet
New Hampshire
Trial of Ellenville Women Called Off
The trial of Mrs Arland J Sanderson and Mrs Roy M Currey on a third degree assault charge was dismissed after attorney Leroy Lounsberry asserted all facts were already aired during the Police Chief's trial. The case is deemed a dead issue with exoneration for all involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellenville
Arland J. Sanderson
Roy M. Currey
van R. Moffitt
Leroy Lounsberry
Lounsberry
Cross Bills Passed in Albany on Municipal Tax Law
The House approved the bill of Assemblyman Cross of Sullivan county clarifying municipal taxes on railroads and the Edson D. Knapp claim bill in Albany on March 24.
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Albany
Assemblyman Cross
Sullivan County
Hig Edson D. Knapp
Prominent County Figure Frank J Nearn Dies
Frank J Nearn former Middletown police member long time Central Valley postmaster and engine company veteran died at his home in Central Valley He was born November 20 1859 in Middletown Survived by wife Elizabeth Reilly five grandchildren three sisters and two brothers Daughter Lucy Nearn Ford died in 1925 auto crash Funeral at 9 AM Tuesday at home and 10 AM at St Josephs Church Middletown burial in St Josephs Cemetery
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Frank J. Nean
Central Valley
Middletown
McQuaid Engine Company
Mr. Nearn
Elizabeth Reilly
Wurtsboro
Lucy Nearn Ford
Nearn
Monroe Council
Knights of Columbne
Jafaipe Middletown
Middletown Firemen’s Relief and Benefit Association
Victim of Lockjaw in Warwick Hospital
John Stanklerwicz a forty five year old black dirt farmer from Florida lies near death in Warwick Hospital as doctors treat tetanus from a fingernail splinter. Surgeons report convulsions and neck rigidity despite regimens of serum and antitoxin.
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John Stanklerwicz
Florida
Warwick Hospital
Stankiezwicz
Stanklerwicz
M. R. Bradner
Warwick
Middleton men win civil service exams in Albany
Residents of Middleton passed competitive civil service examinations in Albany on March 24. Raymond A. Henry of 265 North Street earned the post of Chief railroad inspector in the Conservation Commission with a salary of 1200 dollars annually. Joseph Herbert of Middletown State Hospital secured the Chief transfer agent post for the State Hospital service earning 74 to 82 dollars a month plus maintenance.
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Albany
Middleton
The
Conservation Commission
Raymond A. Henry
North Street
State Hospital Service
Joseph Herbert
Middletown State Hospital
Highway Committee Advances Middletown Pine Bush Road
The Highway Committee of the Board of Supervisors met at Cir cleville on Friday to secure rights of way for the Middletown Pine Bush highway. Most rights of way are secured and bids are expected soon.
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Board of Supervisors
Circleville
Middletown
Pine Bush
Tax receipts seen meeting record high, debt cut likely
With expected tax payments over six hundred million dollars the government may post a revenue surplus over expenditures for the year ending June 30. This could push public debt reduction for 1927 to about one billion two hundred fifty million dollars.
Spring weather mix and big fashion show in Middletown
Spring arrived with rain though a cold wave failed to materialize. More than 1,500 attended the J W Demerest dry goods fashion show in Middletown with 500 guests served at lunch on the top floor led by Wilson C. Van Duzer. Ninety outfits were shown by models from Chester and Florida schools, aiding the senior class Easter trip to Washington with a sales percentage. Ongoing bus service between Middletown and Pine Bush halted due to a poor road, while a murder case in New York involved Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray. Governor Smith signed a county law increase for Putnam supervisors pay. Bass transfer approval to Orange Lake waters aims to benefit local angling stakeholders.
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J. W. Demerest Dry Goods
Middletown
Middletown High School
Wilson C. van Duzer
Chester
Florida
Washington, D. C
Trout fishing season opens April 2 in Orange County
Anglers prepare tackle for the trout season start on April 2 but forecast says poor conditions with high and very cold water. Some streams in other parts of the state may still carry ice and all will have snow water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange County
Walton Village Elects Taylor President by 308 Vote Margin
Paul F. Taylor was elected president of the village of Walton on the Citizens' Ticket by a majority of 308 votes over A. J. Courtney, the present president who has served six terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul F. Taylor
Walton
Citizens
A. J. Courtney
Widow Ida Flagler Delusion Confined at Central Valley Sanatorium
Ida A Flagler widow of Henry M Flagler Standard Oil capitalist asserts world ownership in a delusion described by her brother Charles F Shourds a Boston businessman Her fortune is noted as 11 000 000 and she is confined in a sanitarium at Central Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida A. Flagler
Henry M. Flager
Standard Oil
Charles F. Shourds
Boston
Nervous Wreck Helps Fund Senior Washington Trip
West Point players staged The Nervous Wreck boosting the Newburgh senior class fund for their Washington trip by over $1000. The play drew community support and increased proceeds.
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Newburgh
Washington
West Point
Barn Fire Destroys Fraley Miller Structure North of Montgomery
A new barn on the Fraley Miller place, north of Montgomery, burned to the ground last week. The building was empty as the hay had been pressed and removed the day before. Loss estimated at 7000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fraley Miller Place
Montgomery
4-H clubs set to plant 495000 trees in forestry project
Boys and girls in 15 counties in the state will plant 495000 trees as their first year of a three year forestry project.
Middletown Debuts Aerial Ladder Truck In Service
Middletown introduces a new aerial ladder motor fire truck now in commission. A demonstration showed ladders extended with firefighters reaching the tops of tall buildings, signaling the end of horse drawn fire apparatus in the city.
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Middletown
West Point Graduates Toast 125th Anniversary Dinner
Five hundred graduates of the West Point Military Academy attended the New York Section Association of Graduates dinner at the Hotel Astor Saturday night celebrating the academy's 125th anniversary.
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West Point Military Academy
New York
Association of Graduates of the
Hotel Astor
Car stolen from Palatine Hotel recovered wrecked near Woodbury
The Packard sedan owned by Carl Willisen of the Palatine Hotel Newburgh was found badly wrecked near Woodbury after being stolen by two men who escaped injury as the car plunged sixty miles an hour down an embankment and the suspects were seen fleeing.
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Carl Willisen
Palatine Hotel
Newburgh
Woodbury
Ore Scooped Near Sing Sing Prison By Steam Shovel
State land outside Sing Sing prison walls has been disturbed as a steam shovel scoops up what may be gold and silver ore. Convicts work by drilling and blasting to construct new prison buildings. A former silver mine existed at the site where the prison stands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Sing Sing Prison
Death by suicide in Pilerman barn
Frank McDonald, 32, of Pilerman, acted in a deranged state and took his own life by hanging. Employees of Rocksand Light and Power found his body dangling in a barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank McDonald
Pilerman
Rocksand Light and Power Company
Missing caretaker Turkey George feared dead at Greenwood Lake
A man known as Turkey George, caretaker for several large homes at Greenwood Lake, is missing. Authorities fear he may have fallen through rotted ice while out on the lake.
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Turkey George
Greenwood Lake
Inmates Recalled From Poughkeepsie to Hudson Institution
Three young girl inmates at the Hudson Institution for delinquents were picked up by Poughkeepsie police and returned to the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson Institution For
Poughkeepsie
Ellenville Chief Roy Currey resigns amid investigation
Following the acquittal of Police Chief Roy M. Currey in the Ellenville assault case, he announced his resignation effective immediately. He had not been on duty for weeks during the inquiry and issued no statement with his departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellenville
Roy M. Currey
Arland Sanderson
Chief Currey
Albany bill girds 40 million river water project
The Delaware and Neversink rivers near New York City face near certainty of not being taken by the city as Albany tests a strong bill. The plan aims to create a 40 million dollar project along the east side of the Hudson affecting Orange and Sullivan counties and their Neversink Mamakating Valleys lake hopes.
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Delaware
Neversink
New York City
Albany
Hudson
Orange
Sullivan
Neversink-Mamakating
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Middletown Chamber Meeting Gathers Worker Input
The Middletown Chamber of Commerce held an open meeting last week where workers voiced opinions on helping the city. Workers offered suggestions to manufacturers and business men, and the session proved instructive for both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Port Jervis trio seeks bus line to Monticello
C A Porter C GU Herman and Stewart Rippon of Port Jervis apply to the Public Service Commission for permission to operate a Port Jervis to Monticello bus service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Porter
C. GU. Herman
Stewart Rippon
Port Jervis
The
Public Service Commission
Monticello
Release and Rearrest of Ishmael Brown in Ellenville
Ishmael Brown, formerly jailed for assault in Ellenville, has been released and returned to the town. He is now under arrest and held for the grand jury on a second degree assault charge filed by a young white woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ishmael Brown
Ellenville
Pioneer engine company marks 70th anniversary
Pioneer engine company of El lenville celebrated its seventieth anniversary with a banquet for its members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pioneer Engine Company
Ellenville
Distant sisters die within days of each other linked by abscess
Genevieve Kennedy aged 12 and her sister Caroline Beatrice aged 9 of Poughkeepsie died within five days of each other from brain abscesses at the base of the brain. Both deaths are reported in the local medical notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Kennedy
Caroline Beatrice
Poughkeepsie
Marcus D Williams Dies in Poughkeepsie at Age 5
Marcus D Williams died in Poughkeepsie at the age of five. He was born in Summitville and lived in Poughkeepsie since 41 years ago. He established several lunch wagons and quick lunch operations in that city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcus D. Williams
Poughkeepsie
Summitville
Missing Poughkeepsie Woman Edits 1920 Beacons Radiant Fate
Edith F. Stickles left her home in Poughkeepsie on March 6 1920 to go to Beacon to work as an operator for the Central New England Railroad company and was never heard from again. Her will filed in Poughkeepsie disposes of an estate valued at $2000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith F. Stickles
Poughkeepsie
Beacon
Central New England Railroad Company
Reform of the Poor Laws Moves at Albany Hearing
Miss Caroline Cuddeback and Peter Cantline of Orange County sponsor a radical revision of the poor laws. They urged abolition of 1,100 town overseers, end waste in administration, and prevent hardship in the homes. More than twenty counties were represented at a Senate Judiciary and Assembly Internal Affairs hearing in Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Cuddeback
Peter Cantline
Orange County
Senate Judiciary Committee
Assembly Internal Affairs Committee
Albany
Two Counties Scrutinized by Bloodhound Crime Board
A state crime commission report condemns two rural New York counties as Atlantic and Pacific for social neglect. It cites poor school administration, rising thrill seeking aided by cars and alcohol, lax enforcement, bootlegging, and widespread law violations. The text questions county identities, hinting Putnam or Orange among candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinclair Lewis
New York State Crime Commission
New York State
Atlantic
Tioga
Schuyler
Crime Commission
Pacific
Port Jervis Café Owners Given Bail After Raid
Tony Fantano John Bridgi der and Alphonse Petite cafe owners in Port Jervis were arraigned before U S Commissioner Harry T Crist of Middletown after federal raid. They were released on bail, with cases adjourned for one week and represented by a New York attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Fantano
John Bridgider
Alphonse Petite
Port Jervis
U. S
Harry T. Crist
Middletown
New York
Weston Injured in Taxicab Collision in California
Edward Payson Weston, famed trans continental pedestrian, was struck by a taxicab in Orange County while en route to church after receiving a lifetime income of 30,900 to aid his poverty. He suffered a fractured skull but is not in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Payson Weston
Orange County
Anne Nichols
Veterans warned on lapse of insurance reinstatement
World War veterans are warned that the privilege of reinstating and converting their war time insurance will lapse on June 2, 1927. Congress failed to pass the bill to extend the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Trial Date Set for Mrs Earley Murder Case in Newburgh
The trial of Mrs Lucy Earley of Newburgh for her husband Daniel Earley’s murder is set for April 18 by Justice Arthur S Tompkins. A possible delay awaits Court decision on a writ of prohibition sought by District Attorney Lemon. The writ challenges Justice Seeger’s order to reveal the prosecution’s case to the defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Earley
Newburgh
Daniel Earley
Arthur S. Tompkins
Court of
Prohibition Secur
Lemon
Seeger
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John R. Gentry
E. i Harriman
Rensselaer Weston
Endicott
Eure
William H. Cane
Walter Cox
News OF the World
Kermit Roosevelt
Earl Carroll
United States Supreme Court
Atlanta
Shanghai
China
Admiral Williams
Moscow
Hornell
General Electric Illuminating Engineering Laboratory
Sanderson
Frank J. Nearn
Committee
Weather Bureau
Ruth Snyder
Albert Snyder
McLaughlin
Henry Judd Gray
Gray
Rochester
Wher
Snydeold
Putnam County
John Rothery
Orange Lake
Crime Board
Crist
Weston
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