Hold Up Killer Escapes Salem Jail After Sentencing
Fithian, 22, who was to die in the electric chair the week of February 8, escaped from Salem jail by filing bars and squeezing through vents after threatening prisoners with a pistol. Police suspect smuggled tools and a waiting car outside, with accomplice Peter Giordano, 25, also sentenced to die for the October 24 holdup and murder of paymaster William McCausland at Salem works. Giordano allegedly threatened Fithian to coerce participation.
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Salem County
Fithian
Peter Giordano
Gren gives away apples to friends for Christmas
Washington Representative Ruth Bryan Gren distributes 100 bushels of apples to friends as gifts for Christmas. The fruit was loaned years earlier through a Virginia couple she and her husband helped, amid their ongoing political life. A German liner Bremen marks a Christmas tree on its deck at the New York tip.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ruth Bryan Gren
Virginia
New York
Bremen
Brighton
England
S. Horace Simith
Besgine
Sir Horace Smith
Smith
Saint Nick Shrine in Smyrna Turkey article mixed tale
Smyrna Turkey December 23 AP reports Saint Nicholas the historic bishop born in Smyrna and long honored by Christians, with ruins of St Nicholas Church near Dermbre and tomb fragments. The piece recalls legends of gifts to a nobleman, patronage of spinsters, pawnbrokers, schoolchildren, and miracles linked to Myra. Nearby Houston Missouri notes a planned 750000 bond to rebuild a burned courthouse. Australia also mentions a move to export Swiss English and Dutch cheeses once tariffs faded.
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Smyrna
Turkey
Santa Claus
Santa
St. Nicholas
Symaona
St. Nick
Smyrng
Dermbre
Lye
Nicholas
Italy
Wetson
Asis Minor
Calabria
SE. Nick
Myra
Parish priest Gerhold funeral rites at St Stanis in Jefferson City
Funeral services for Father Gerhold at St Stanis in Jefferson City outline a silver priestly jubilee in 1027 and note his 16 siblings and brother in Germany. The office of the dead begins at 10 am with solemn requiem high mass. Various clergy from St Louis, Jefferson City and nearby towns attend as celebrants and deacons. A clockwork switch automates parking lights on an automobile.
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Nabon
Wather Gerhold
Nic
Jefferson City
Father Gerhold
St. Stanissinus
Bertha
Wardsville
Amity
Denver
Joseph Gerhord
Westphalia
Germany
Jos. A. Siebert
St. Louis
Gerhold
Nicolas of
Frankenstein
J. G. Schmid
St. Thomas
Joseph Winkelmann
Richfountaine
William Ebert
Tans
Jos, Weogelweid
Charles Schmalle
Meta
George Hankap
Bennets Mill
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Salem, N. J
Dee
Charles Fithian
Acevone
Iera Dintzond
Hills
Wed
Draggsts
Eveeyhoerr
Montgomery Ward & CO
Red’ Payne’s
Jared
Red” Payne
E. High St
Ity
Public Loan Corp
Jefferson
Houston
John H. Slites
Canderra
Australia
Thubinsky Bros
Reginald Benny Wallace Beery
Grace Boorse
Gerislo
Brathlern Norris
Chas. Chase
Dellac
Dizz” Sound News
Sue
Kay Francis
Kay Johnson
Chas. Bickford Lewis Stone
Zasu Pitts
Mazda
Caron
Guerlain
Champs Elysees
Tae
Eastman Kodaks
Ciro Doux Jasmin
Bourjois
Paris
R& G Jade
Corday Odors
Gs Boca
Christma
Pea
Vassar DE Luxe Chocolates
Kodak
Koidek
Phono 1805
Williams
Crown
Hugrut
Dubarry
Xmas
Milli
Ams
Ideal
Gary
Caty
Hudnut, Bourgois, Coty
Schaeffer
Peneils
SG Ee Ieee
Sian
DuPont
Canada
BBB
Charles Farrell
the Princess and the Plumber
Business
Eee Ey
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