Russian nobility find work as refugees in Riga offices
In Riga and Reval Russian princes barons and counts, displaced by Bolshevik losses, flood job markets as stenographers and typists. A American translator job drew dozens of educated applicants including former Petrograd guards and factory managers, while wealth faded into secondhand goods and poverty hides behind lively cafes.
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Riva
Litvia
Riga
Baltic States
Revai
Baltic
Russia
New York
Reval
Lettish
Petrograd
Greece’s War Debacle Drains Economy and Trade
June reports from Athens describe a collapsed Greek economy with stagnant all trade and shipping. Government spending soars for the Asia Minor campaign while the drachma halts, prices rise, and debt mounts as recognition politics drive financial crisis fears.
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Athens
Greece
Saloniki
Asia Minor
France
Venizelos
Constantine
Alexander
America
Piraeus
Smyrna
Constantinople
Stock Exchange
Jail Life Pleases Prisoner in Ossining
Charles Ortner, jailed at Sing Sing for a Queens county assault, enjoyed routine prison life with meals and quiet, but was fired from his job. Eligible for parole November 238, his stubborn refusal to sign parole papers repeated after the warden’s multiple visits.
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Ossining
Charles Ortner
Ortner
Queens County
Cae
Isis
Judge Upholds Four-Year Stay With Cautious Repeats
The judge notes a four year term and refuses to eject the individual, while later efforts to persuade him otherwise fail. The case highlights persistent attempts to change the ruling despite extended stay.
Fight Over Death Benefit Rules At Free Sons Of Israel Convention
At Atlantic City on June 1 a debate erupted over changing rules to pay a $1,000 death benefit without a coroner’s certificate. The case involved the daughters of Albert Frank of New York, missing 35 years, whose wife is deceased and who seek the benefit. The issue was referred to a committee.
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Atlantic City
Grand Lodge
Independent Order Free Sons of Israel
Albert Frank
New York
Child Dies in Rope Stunt in Philadelphia Backyard
An 11 year old boy James Pellizzio attempted imitation of film heroes using a rope. He accidentally formed a hang noose and was strangled. His brother Antonio found him suspended from a beam outside a wood shed.
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Philadelphia
James Pellizgo
Antonio
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Johns- Manville
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