Seizure of Liquor in Miss Farrar Car
Customs officials seized 24 bottles of assorted liquor and 12 bottles of beer from Geraldine Farrar's private car at Rouses Point as her train moved toward Rutland. The prima donna and party were allowed to continue. no prosecution had been started as of today. The liquor was hidden in various spots including the piano.
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Rutland
Geraldine Farrar
Rouses’ Point
Miss Farrar
Montreal
Revenue measures planned for January legislative session
Austin reports a special legislative session will convene next January to consider revenue raising measures including a cigarette tax and an additional gas tax. The announcement comes from Capitol briefings this morning.
Man With Royal Blood Works In American Garage
Cyrus D. Comninos, a Boston University student known as Cy, comes from Byzantine era linage. He fought in World War I, served as a Turkish army spy, and later came to America to study medicine. He worked washing dishes at the Biltmore, sold candy, tutored Harvard students, and finally toiled in a Boston garage to pay his way. He remains popular with classmates and romantic prospects.
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Boston
Europe
Asia Minor
Napoleon Bonaparte
Cyrus D. Comninos
Boston University
America
Columbia University
New York City
Biltmore
Sid Welk Must Die Tomorrow, Judge Denies New Trial
Federal Judge Edward Meek rejected a habeas corpus request for Sid Welk, convicted of murdering a Dallas jailer. Welk is slated for execution by electric chair tomorrow unless Governor Ferguson intervenes, which she said she would not.
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Edward Meek
Sid Welk
Welk
Ferguson
Chapman alibi presented in court today
Gerald Chapman took the stand in his own defense aiming to prove he was in Brooklyn, New York, hours before the New Britain police officer James J. Skelly was killed. Defense witnesses testified Chapman remained in Brooklyn until five hours before the crime, while state witnesses tied him to Springfield informants and denied the alibi.
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Conn
Gerald Chapman
Prince
Brooklyn
N. Y
James J. Skelly
New Britain
Chapman
Francis M. Grew
John A. Mertin
Lyle Christane
Skelly
Walter Sheen
Springfield
Shean
Henry Johnson
Hostler
Poison Cottage Mystery Grips London as Victims Identified
Scotland Yard probes the Poison Cottage case in King's Cross where Granville Cooke and Selwyn Foster were found dead amid poison bottles. Police hunt for Cooke's wife as inquest opens with Sir Bernard Spillsbury expected to testify.
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Greek peasant confesses to killing American student
Leonidas Varelas of Syntechno admits shooting John Logan of Gainesville Georgia four weeks ago near Orta Greece as bandits attacked the automobile carrying five Anglo Americans. Logan, a student at the American Archaeological School in Athens, died of the wound and Varelas faces summary court martial.
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Leonidas Varelas
Syntechno
John Logan
Gainesville
Logan
American Archaelogical School
Orta
Greece
Plead Insanity for Purdy in Trials for Murder
In Tulsa on April 2 defense lawyers moved to remove a juror as prejudiced delaying testimony in the Gene Purdy murder trial. Purdy pleads temporary insanity for the killing of E S Hutchinson, a wealthy lumber dealer, amid a love triangle involving Helen Purdy. Prosecution aims to prove Purdy sold his wife to Hutchinson and received about 60 000 dollars in an Oklahoma City agreement signed November 10, 1924.
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Tulsa
Okla
Gene Purdy
Eugene Purdy
Hutchinson
Helen Purdy
Purdy
E. S. Hutchinson
Helen Paul Purdy
Byron Kirkpatrick
L. I. Hutchinson
Kansas City
Hutchison
A. Flint Moss
Gven
Moss
Oklahoma City
George Reeves
Wash Hudson
Hudson
C. E. Purdy
Deny Shepherd Bond and Schedule Trial in Typhoid Case
William D. Shepherd was again denied bond today as his murder trial was set for one week from today. States attorneys presented rebuttal evidence to counter the defense testimony in the typhoid murder of Shepherd's foster son William McClintock, alleged to have been caused by typhoid germs administered by Shepherd.
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Chicago
William D. Shepherd
William Shepherd
Charles Farman
William McClintock
Shepherd
Dorothy Ellingson Trials Turn To Insanity Question
In San Francisco on April 2, Dorothy Ellingson, a youthful matricide, faced a sanity hearing as state and defense alienists reexamin ed her in cell. A violent hysterical outburst ended the day as her brother Earl testified she might be insane.
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San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Dorothy
Eas
Earl
Forbes Cannot Speak Again-Doctors
Boston April 2 Charles Forber convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government on hospital contracts may never speak again even if he recovers physicians announced today Paralysis from which he has been suffering reached his throat to dry
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International News Service
Boston
Charles Forber
Old-Time Lovers Finally Married in Seattle
Nell W. Flanders and Warren P. Cressey, former Concord sweethearts, were remarried in Seattle after a 30 year gap. Their reunion began by chance and led to a lifelong vow.
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Concord
N. H
Seattle
Washington
Nell W. Flanders
Warren P. Cressey
Ford Mother-Yes Genevieve Studies French and Algebra
Genevieve from Ohio State studies French and algebra with focus on algebraic concepts. The prompt includes a greeting to a lady and mentions parental approval for study activities.
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Ford
Genevieve
Ohio State
Wall Street Reveals Dodge Deal Itself Biggest Cash Sale
Detroit reports that Dodge Brothers will pass to Dillon Read & Co in a landmark all cash sale worth about 145 million dollars. Henry Ford denies involvement as Wall Street notes the Pan American Petroleum sale to Standard Oil Indiana and other linked moves transforming the oil and auto sectors. The period ends with a note on the Denner clarinet invention in 1699.
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United Press
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California
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Lord Unverforth
Stan ‘Dard
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Standard
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Probe Wreck of Mexican Train Claim Result of Bandits
Railroad authorities investigated a Mexican National passenger train wreck near Bachimba Chihuahua that killed a fireman and injured several others. A passenger blamed bandits for a bridge fire, while railroad officials cited a spark from an oil train as the blaze cause.
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EL Paso
Bachimba
Chihuahua
Mexia School Board Sets Saturday Election Plan
The Mexia school board scheduled a 4 p.m. Thursday meeting to discuss the upcoming non partisan election for four terms ending for Judge W. M. White W. Kendrinsk Gene Sinclair and Jack Womack. No petitions filed yet and candidates decide today on re election.
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Mexia
W. MM. White
W. B. Kendriesk
Gene Sinclair
Jack Womack
T. C. U. Student to Preach In Mexia
Rev. Raymond Morgan a TexasChristian University graduate and post graduate student will speak at the First Christian church in Mexia in two planned Sunday services. He will officiate at a baptism of several new members and deliver sermons whose topics are not announced.
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Raymond Morgan
First Christian Church
Morgan
the Christian University
Three Die From Gas at Aged Home In Brooklyn
Three inmates of the German Evangelic Home for the Aged were accidentally asphyxiated by illumanitive gas in Brooklyn. The men were found dead in bed after leaving the gas burning overnight and a breeze from an open window extinguished the flame.
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German Evangelic Home For the
Persian spouses and caveman lore draw Syracuse lecture
In Syracuse on April 2, Dr Joseph Kornfield formerly U S Minister to Persia warned audiences about Persian husbands motto “Catch 'em young, treat 'em rough, tell 'em nothing, take 'em nowhere.” He contrasted stereotypes with a light critique of traditional courting.
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Syracuse
Joseph Kornfield
United States
Persia
Texas Railroad Boom Aims at Major Line Expansions
Rio Grande Railroad seeks 273 mile extension from Brownsville to San Antonio joining the existing Point Isabel route. Burlington and Santa Fe plan two Panhandle branch lines at Plainview while Fort Worth and Denver seek track rights to Dallas. Southern Pacific buys A B & A P and pledges Dallas terminal upgrades as Col Duff advances Port Arthur to Waco route.
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Dallas
Col. Duff
Port Arthur
Beaumont
Livingston
Mexia
Waco
Santa Fe
San Antonio
Plainview Signs Officials To Get 2 New Railroads
Plainview residents and Burlington and Santa Fe railroad officials signed tentative agreements for two branch lines in the Panhandle. Construction will start after Interstate Commerce Commission approval. The Santa Fe line runs 40 miles from Plainview to Silverton with a $75,000 bonus and donated right of way. The Burlington line would run from near Childress on the Fort Worth and Denver line to Plainview and into Castro County, with Plainview as division and shop point. Both lines aim to serve rich Panhandle territory not now rail served.
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Plainview
Burlington and
Santa Fe
Panhandle
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Fort Worth & Denver
Childress
Castro County
I Shop
Silverton
Lower
Denver Asks Track Rights to Dallas
The Fort Worth and Denver railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to acquire by contract 35 miles of track from Dallas over the Chicago Rock Island and Gulf to gain entry to Dallas. The emperor and empress of Japan will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary on May 1 with gifts to elderly Japanese citizens.
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