Discover Pair At Work Stealing Telephone Wires
County Detective Jack M. Dunlap and farmer J. D. Brest surprised two men cutting telephone wires near Watson Park at midnight. They fled, leaving behind a Ford truck and car ownership details from Harrisburg are awaited to arrest the pair. One prior theft on January 5 cut ten strands of wire, suggesting the same culprits.
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Jack M. Dunlap
J. D. Brest
Pittsburgh
Watson Park
Harrisburg
Thisves
Police Remember Former Policewoman
Former city policewoman Mrs. Nac Muirhead, though long retired, remains in community memory and is visited by Officer HH. Reynolds of the local force. He delivered a bouquet from officers and conveyed best wishes for her speedy recovery at her home in New Wilmington after a recent operation.
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Nac Muirhead
HH. M. Reynolds
Pollice Force
Bandits threaten to cut off fingers in holdup
Pittsburgh police report two African American bandits held up Sam Engelberg early today and took jewelry and money totaling over 800 dollars. He reported the crime to police but authorities have no trace of the robbers.
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Piptsburgh
Sam Engelberg
Hats Return for Another Year of Wear
A fragment describes dusty hats on a shelf, worn and battered after a storm. The scene shifts to hope as cleaner weather arrives and the hats seem ready for use again in the coming season.
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Clewner
Secret Of Color Photography Found By Maude Adams
Maude Adams has reportedly discovered the secret of photographing objects and scenes in exact natural colors and shades after years in a laboratory. The Manda Adams company is formed with 3,500,000 capitalization to produce photoplays and film Kipling's Kin in India in natural colors. Adams, retired from the stage five years ago, worked with General Electric in Schenectady and entered an experimental lab under strict conditions.
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Margery “Mickard
Central Press
New York
Maude Adams
Manda Adams Company
Kipling
India
Miss Adams
Mise
Adams
Schenectady
General Electric Company
Intelnmats
Amendment To Dry Law In Prospect Following Probe
PROPER ENFORCEMENT DEEMED IMPOSSIBLE Wets Want Bone Dry Law With Hope Of Its Being Speedily Repealed After Trial. WILLIAM KK. HUTORDD SN International News Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON January 1. Reports from Washington state that calls for stronger powers for prohibition officials rise as investigations into the prohibition bureau continue. Senate committees study declarations that the Volstead Act cannot be properly enforced under existing provisions. The judiciary committee closes its hearings on the Ramton bill proposing a separate Prohibition Bureau.
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William KK. Hutordd
SN International News Service
Washington
Prohibition
Congress
Prohibition Bureau
Senate
Wayne B. Wheeler
The
Anti-Salon League
Drs
Toadera
Eny
Volstaad
Judiciary Committee
iContinuadi
Base Duras
Arrests Solve Bond Robberies in Wall Street
New York January 10 bond robberies near completion as $31,000 in securities recovered and $21,000 more tracked. Albert Gulden and Harry Lester arrested after returning to a room at the Ansonia hotel where delivery silos from a $40,000 stash were found. Gulden cited with bonds traced to Rhodes and Company. Further checks show $21,000 in bonds on deposit at United States Mortgage and Trust, part of a $200,000 shipment from Chase National to Central Union Trust in St Louis not received by the bank.
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International News Service
New York
Wall Street
Albert Gulden
Lester
Harry Lester
Ansonia
Rhodes and Company
Clearing House
Potica
United States Mortgage and Trust Company
Chase Naional Bank
Central Union Trust Company
St. Louis
Kansas Governor to Fight Charge Over Pardons
Kansas Governor Jonathan M. Davin announces he will contest charges alleging he granted pardons for cash. He cites a Kansas City Journal Post story as the source of the allegations and says his son Russell G. Davin was not involved.
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Kansas
International News Service
Pmka Kans
Jonathan M. Davin
Kansas City Journal Post Today
Russell G
Davik
Rainbow Seen Over Capitol Theatre on Friday Afternoon
A rainbow appeared in the eastern sky Friday from about 2:00 to 3:20 as painter Fret Abbicté and others on the Capitol Theatre building reported. The sighting, noted by Abbicté and witnesses, was unusual for winter and prompted remarks on its peculiarity.
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Fret Abbicté
Capitol Theatre
Pocket Billiard Champion Weds Chinese Girl
New York date reports the secret marriage of Ralph Greenleaf, pocket billiard champion, to Amelia Ruth Parker, daughter of an English father and Chinese mother. They eloped to Lexington Maryland, and will reside at 1406 Spruce Street Philadelphia. Greenleaf praised their bond as lasting beyond measure.
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New York
Ralph Greenleaf
Nai Pal Tal
Amelia Ruth Parker
L Kton
Philadelphia
Greenleaf
Gambling raid wounds two at Shed gambling den
Two men, Thomas Ryan and Joseph Rowan, were seriously wounded when four masked bandits raided a gambling game at the Shed early today. The assailants fled in an automobile as the players rushed the bandits after the command to throw up their hands.
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International News Service
Verton R
Thomas Ryan
Joseph Rowan
Death Record Moments Across Cumberland and Nearby Areas
Michael Browning of Cumberland Maryland is noted in the death record alongside Harold Hees aged 21 from Normony Pennsylvania and William Earing aged 78 from Mercer Amata, reflecting regional fatalities recorded in the public notice.
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Harold Hees
Normony
William Earing
Mercer Amata
Police Drive On Loafers Is On In Earnest
Mayor Dunlap announces a crackdown on loafers and expected nonworking residents. Police have gathered data by questioning several suspects and intend to enforce the order go to work or leave town. He warns the city will not tolerate those living without visible means of support as part of a broad drive to restore work and order in New Castle.
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Dunlap
Tn Baraat
Thava
New Castle
Final Belgian settlement to be determined by finance ministers
International news: tentative plans propose paying American war claims from Belgium's eight percent share under the Dawes plan. Churchill Clement and Stefani discussed Belgium's portion at the French finance ministry with Therile. The final Belgian settlement will be decided by the council of finance ministers.
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Council of Finance Ministers
Dinternational
Paris
Jan
Germany
United States
Belgium
Spa
Churchill
Take Care You May Be Next In New Castle Traffic Accidents
In New Castle traffic incidents, January 1 results show injuries with several accidents reported. A January 6 entry notes 9 injuries and a fatal riding accident. Further counts indicate multiple injuries since January with at least one death.
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New Castle
May Name Woman As Federal Judge
President Coolidge met with Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt assistant attorney general to discuss appointing her to the United States district court for the Southern District of California. The White House conference was arranged at the President's request and signals consideration of a woman’s appointment to the federal bench.
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Servius
Washington
Womtdtil
White House
Coolidge
Mabel Walker Willebrand
Willerbrandt
United States
California
Shenango United Presbyterian Church to Resume Services
Shenango United Presbyterian Church in New Wilmington will resume regular services Sunday January 11 under Pastor Rev McClintock after three months of renovations. Improvements costing about 85000 include basement excavation, modern heater, dining room and kitchen relocation, enlarged auditorium, new classrooms, and ordered art glass windows. Visitors welcome. pews free.
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Shenango United Presbyterian Church
New Wilmington New Castle
McClintock
Mitchell School
Bilbany
Shenango
Mother with six year old son in arms dies by own action
Mrs Marlen Fotlick 20, found dead by gas in Gloucester New Jersey with her six year old son in her arms. Husband Frank Pollick who works at night found her. he saved the other child and infant Madeline who lay in a cradle. Police say she had acted strangely since the younger child’s birth.
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Internaviennal News Service
Gloucester
N. J. Jan. LA
Marlen Fotlick
Frank P. Pollick
Pollen Day
Madeline
Wallace Dunkerly and Goorda Delay Marry
Wallace J. Dunkerly and Goorda Delay Sharon obtained a marriage license and planned nuptials. The ceremony details and venue were not disclosed in the readable text.
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Wallace J. Dunkerly
Goorda Delay
Smoked Glasses Our Only Chance for Eclipse Viewing
The News editor asks if New Castle has any device to view the solar eclipse on January 7. Will residents of Vienity have to view the phenomenon through smoked glass or dull sight? The inquiry seeks available viewing apparatus and public access.
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New Castle
Vienity
Booze Sellers Sentenced in County Court Plea Roundup
Plea agreements in liquor cases before Judge S. P. Emery highlighted the morning session. Clarence Woods given 10 months in the county workhouse for selling liquor and prior drunken driving. Sam Johnston fined 200 dollars and 5 months in jail. John Layton fined 500 dollars and 10 months. bought five gallons of whiskey for private use. Stanley Wlaczak fined 600 dollars and 10 months. Mrs Mika Rust paroled after 2 years. Elizabeth and Frank Strotinx fined 100 dollars and paroled for 10 years for home liquor production. Jon Mattola and Joe Vibata pleaded to possessing hard liquor. fined 10 dollars each and paroled for two years. Charles Markovich and Mike Piccovich each fined 100 dollars and paroled for two years. Mike Solds received 1700 dollars fine and parole.
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S. P. Emery
BR. L. Hildebrand
Clarence Woods
Allegheny County
Ile
Sam Johnston
John Layton
Quor
Allegheny
Youngstown
Stanley Wlaczak
Mika Rust
Elizabeth
Frank Strotinx
Bach
Jon Mattola
Joe Vibata
Mexico Eager To Renew Colorado River Talks
Mexico City reports eagerness to resume talks with the United States on Colorado River water division. Foreign office will forward acceptance of the U S proposal to renew discussions halted by the 1922 revolution. Mexican commissioners to be named within a few days.
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Anternatiout
Mexico City
Maqbe
United States
Colorado River
Foreign Office
End of the Dreadnought Era Signals New Navy Vision
London reports England ends the dreadnought era in battle and begins a revolutionary navy. Two new ships under the Washington treaty will serve as fortresses and airdromes with thousands of miles range. Nine sixteen inch guns in three turrets, with no guns visible on the stern, the afterpart serves as a landing space for airplanes.
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David
Church
Oipreaciones
Nees Service
Gratt Spondert
London
England
RLMS
Nodney
Thea Nelson
London Express
Arrest Prominent Washington Woman On Fraud Charges
International News Service reports in Washington that Solica in Los Angeles arrested Mrs. Mabel Jackson, tied to a Westington family, on charges of fraudulently obtaining $4000 worth of jewels from a Baltimore firm. Police advised.
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International News
Washington
Solica
Los Angeles
Mabel Jackson
Westington
Baltimore
Reece
Newark Shoe Man Slain By Robber In New Jersey
Ilsidor Litnik a Newark shoe dealer was killed by a burglar during the morning mail delivery. The body was found inside his shop with wounds to the side and neck. Postman Joan Barton gave a brief description of the fleeing suspect.
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Newark
Newark N. J
Ilsidor Litnik
Litnick
Jitnick
Joan Barton
Snapshot of scattered news items from Latrobe to Kansas City
Fragmented notices report Charles Adams of Latrobe recovering at Latrobe hospital after a self inflicted wound. Carrie Johnson, telegraph operator at Brooks, Me, burned at her post while summoning aid during a fire that damaged six buildings. Veron Bergman Dufford Goodman and George Eisentart of Altoona were arrested in Lewiston for robbing a sporting goods store. Aggie Myers, convicted of murdering her husband in 1904, was sent to Jefferson City penitentiary for a 10 year term, the longest yet for a woman in the state.
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Carrie Johnson
Brooks
Aki
Veron Bergman
Dufford Goodman
George Eisentart
Altoona
Lewiston
Sporting
Leaviston
Aggie Myers
Kansas City
Studs Penitentiary
Jefferson City
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Arthur Mometer
Maude Adama
Peter den
America
Nai Pai Tai
Michael Browning
Cumberland, Md
Mayor Dunlap
Shenango Church
New Wilmington Road
Sharon Sharon
Emery
Mexico
Jos Angeles
Charles Adams
Latrobe
Latroble Hospital
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