Bloomfield Leader Dies at 73 in New Jersey
The obituary notes a man died yesterday at his home in Bloomfield New Jersey at age 73. The report mentions a River Rouge Michigan notice about bootleggers offering to fund shoes and rubbers for poor children and a Santa Claus event for police widows’ children, plus a Times Square Christmas tree in New York reflecting festive season planning.
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Bloomfield, N. J
River Rouge, Mich
River Rouge
New York
Beniamino Gigli
Metropolitan Opera
Santa Claus
Higli
Broadway
Times Square
Two non stop drivers and auto thief sought
Police seek two hit and run drivers and a car thief connected to Thursday night crashes. Cecil Lewis, 29, is under arrest for the auto theft, while Andrew Montgomery remains in hospital with injuries from a non stopping motorist. Elizabeth Wicker remains in critical condition after being struck earlier that day.
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L. H. Cooperdice
N. Beville Ave
Andrew Montgomery
Madison Ave
City Hospital
Alabama
Washington St
Elizabeth Wicker
N. East St
Sixteenth St
College Ave
Wicker
Cecil Lewis
Twelfth St
Leonard Shumaker
Weghurst St
Shumaker
Cottage Ave
Barth Ave
Pleasant Run Blvd
Pennsyvania Railroad
Southeastern Ave
Thomas Turner
E. St. Clair St
Walter Reply
Wisconsin St
Jess Walch
New York St
Teapot Dome Oil Case Postponed
Washington December 17 hearing on a motion to quash the indictment against Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall for conspiracy to defraud the government in the Teapot Dome lease was postponed until Tuesday by Justice Jennings Bailey in the District of Columbia Supreme Court due to a rush of court business.
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United Press
Washington
Harry F. Sinclair
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Teapot Dome
Jennings Bailey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Court adjourns as Doheny and associate rest after victory
The arraignment of the defendants was postponed as Fall did not appear in court and rested at his hotel due to the strain of the trial with E. L. Doheny. Doheny, exhausted from the strain, attended a family party after yesterday's acquittal on a similar charge.
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E. L. Doheny
Doheny
Go after dealers who buy stolen auto parts says judge
Judge James A. Collins urged police to target dealers buying stolen parts to curb auto thefts after sentencing six youths for complicity. Sentences ranged from sixty days in jail to one year with fines up to twenty five dollars for McElfresh Judd Tolbert Haase Jacobs and Gilbert.
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James A. Collins
Charles McElfresh
Hiawatha St
Frank Judd
Dorman St
Indiana State Farm
Edward Tolbert
W. New York St
Charles Haase
New York St
Benjamin Franklin Jacobs
Virgil Gilbert
Blake St
Dry Agent Captive of Rum Runners Off Biloxi
A coast guard patrol boat caught a rum runner off Biloxi Mississippi. J B Matthews assistant U S prohibition administrator for the Gulf States stayed aboard the captive craft. The runners sailed away with Matthews during a gasoline run and guards are searching for him.
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NEA
New Orleans
Coast Guard
Biloxi
Miss
J. B. Matthews
United States Prohibition
Gulf States
Matthews
Coast Guards
Auto theft ring led by Virgil Gilbert confesses
Between August 14 and Navy 18 the group stole twenty automobiles under the leadership of Virgil Gilbert. The cars were stripped and the accessories sold to second hand dealers. Abe Superstern, a local junkman, bought batteries at 90 cents each.
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Navy
Virgil Gilbert
Abe Superstern
Gilbert
Relief funds raised in Indiana for Princeton mine disaster families
Indianapolis chapter of the Red Cross reports $6,667.44 raised statewide for relief for miners' families who died at Princeton. Indianapolis contributed $4,049.36 and the National Red Cross $1,000. administration costs are borne by the national body. The local executive committee will meet tonight to plan rapid fund-raising.
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Indianapolis
The
Red Cross
Princeton
National Red Cross
Cuts Out Cinderella Gifts In Browning’s Christmas Plan
New York report says Edward West Browning the wealthy real estate dealer curtails his Christmas giving this year. He plans gifts only for Dorothy Sunshine Browning his first ward and none for Mary Louise Spns and “Peaches” Heenan Browning amid ongoing lawsuits for half a million dollars and for separation and alimony. The legal actions and defense costs prompt him to abandon usual charitable contributions.
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United Press
NEW York
Edward West Browning
Dorothy Sunshine Browning
Mary Louise Spns
Heenan Browning
Brewster publishing assets sold as matrimonial settlement
Settlement of Eugene V. Brewster's marriage affairs coincided with the disposal of his publishing business in New York. George K. Shuler, former state treasurer, announced the purchase of Brewster’s motion picture magazine and other Brewster publications. Earlier, Eleanor V. Brewster settled a $200,000 judgment against Brewster's current wife Corliss Palmer, with no amount disclosed.
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United Press New York
Eugene V. Brewster
George K. Shuler
Classic
Brewster
Santa Claus Breaks Down On WE FM Appeal
At WOR in Newark the visiting Santa Claus told listeners about the Crippled Children's Home and paused to compose himself after describing the inmates' pitiful condition. He resumed the appeal and continued his broadcast.
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United Press
Newark
N. J
Santa Claus
WOR
North
Trudie Tries Cure for Neck Crick After Pacific Swim
Gertrude Ederle, famous swimmer, is pictured in Los Angeles with a stiff neck after a plunge into the Pacific. She massaged the neck to ease the crick and didn’t mind the attention.
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Trudie
Gertrude Ederle
Los Angeles
Pacific
Mexican capital and labor seek common ground in Mexico City
In Mexico City on December 17 capitalists led by Frank Y. McLaughlin reached near agreement with labor committees drafting Article 123 into a labor code. Four issues remain including workmen's compensation details and firing with 60 days notice. A peace body will monitor by September 1 session.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Republic
Labor Committees of
Congress
Frank Y. McLaughlin
Sun Oil Company
la Follette
Wisconsin
McLaughlin
McLaughlin Committee
Senate Committees
Peace Committee
Southern Pacific de ‘Mexico
Wells Fargo
Light Lana Power Company
British Westing,house
Mo_Laughlin
Calles
Diaz
Knapp's Trinity Church Christmas Voice Ends
John Martin Knapp, the longtime singer in Trinity Church hymns on Lower Broadway for six years, will no longer be heard. The article notes his departure and the end of his Christmas hymn service at Trinity Church.
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New York
John Martin Knapp
Trinity Church
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