Washington Socials and Traffic Talks at the Capital
The piece paints a scene at the White House with strict entry rules during a formal party hosted by President and Mrs. Coolidge. It also covers Congress and Washington traffic moves led by Eldridge to enforce boulevard stop rules, plus notes on the Library of Congress and salary increases for members of Congress and cabinet members.
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Washington
White House
Executive Mansion
Visi
National Capital
Eldridge
Congress
Board of Aldermen
Rep. Blanton
Texas
Buffalo Traction Representa
Mother and Tots Taken to Jail in Bail Case
In Arell Pennsylvania four children were taken to jail with their mother Anna Redich after she could not post a $1,500 bail on liquor selling charges. The report mentions the late Queen Mother Alexandra’s nursing impact in England.
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Arell
Anna Redich
Queen Mother
Alexandra
England
Girl Trades Pig For Schooling At Oneida Institute
Eva Howard, sixteen, walked forty-two miles on muleback seeking admission to Oneida Institute in Clay county Kentucky. She offered a pig as payment for schooling and was admitted as a high school freshman. Her classwork is strong and she plans to teach and later attend college. A nearby boy traded a two year old bull for schooling, the animal to be sold or kept on campus.
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Oneida
Kentucky
Eva Howard
Oneida Institute
Clay County
Eva
Leslie County
Radio contest awards Woods second prize for tuned stations
In September, Marion S. Woods, deputy internal revenue collector, won second prize in a Crosley Radio Corporation nationwide contest for the number of stations tuned in on a one tube set. Otto Glaeser of San Antonio, Texas won first prize a pedigreed dog. Woods received a handsome radio set. His stations list shows distance can be covered with a one tube radio.
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Crosley Radio Corporation
Marions. Woods
Internal Revenue Collector
Otto Glaeser
San Antonio
Texas
Woods
Wounded bank teller to spend Christmas at home
Lawrence Walthour, teller at a local bank who was held up and robbed of 78000 on November 4, is recovering from a fractured skull at West Penn hospital in Pittsburgh and is expected to spend Christmas at his home in Vandergrift, as announced by his father Harry E. Walthour. Physicians say the wound is healing rapidly.
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Library of Congress
Congress
Diamond Dick
Delver
Washington Life
Capitol
Vandergrift
Lawrence Walthour
West Penn Hospital
Pittsburgh
Harry E. Walthour
Mysterious Beast Sighted by British Officer in Bengal
A British Army officer reports a strange crocodile-bodied creature with a Rugby ball sized head seen in a Sunderbans shooting expedition. He observed several of the beasts feeding on a killed boar near a watercourse, describing ten foot lengths and uniform head shape as they fought over the carcass.
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Clnternational News Service
Allahabad
Sunderbands
Bengal
Steel Diving Suit Invented By Briton
London reports J. S. Peress a young English engineer has created a rustless steel diving suit of fifty pieces weighing 550 pounds. It claims depth capability of 650 feet aided by frictionless joints, floating joint design, and a pipe air supply with optional oxygen cylinders. Mechanical hands can swap for power tools, finishing five years of research.
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International News Service
London
J. 8 S. Peress
Peress
Pool Room Owner Foils Robbery by Tossing Bills
Sharon Pa December 22 A pool hall owner W H Garrett in West Middlesex saved 500 dollars by throwing the bills into his yard during a late night hold up. A youthful bandit took only change in the robbery.
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Sharon
W. H. Garrett
West Middlesex
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