Writ Application Reveals Abduction Tale in Philadelphia
The writ of habeas corpus seeks Dorothy Connell's release from Kirkbride’s Hospital. The California wife traveled to visit her mother in Philadelphia and, according to the application, was abducted by her father or his agents who conspired with a doctor to commit her to the asylum. The case hinges on alleged kidnapping and forced confinement amid family dispute.
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Richard A. Thornburgh
Internatioal News Service
Phil
Delphia
Pers Court
Dorothy Connell
Ollywood
Calif
Kirkbride’s Hospital
Moving Picture Center
Calirnia
Philadelphia
Kirkbride’s
Thrilling Race to Port Won by Sinking Steamer
The Metagama fought a 24 hour battle to reach port with water flooding the hull and loss of buoyancy. Officers cut three sailors from the vessel to assess damage while fog and navigational errors hindered rescue. The Clara Campus arrived later with a crushed bow as the Rosalind aided its sister ship.
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Ter
Metagama
Clara
Red Cross
Rosalind
Students Find Old Man Astray In Mountains
STATE COLLEGE Pa June 20 William Mulbarger 60 year old Hollsburg bachelor was found unharmed by students in Stone Valley fifteen miles from home after a search of about twenty miles that had involved 206 persons who feared he had met an accident before it emerged he fled from imaginary fears
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State College
William Mulbarger
Oalsburg
Seyn Mountains
Stone Valley
Where To Go Tonight Comedy Listings and Casts
The page lists multiple theater offerings including Regent with Madge Bellamy in His Forgotten Wife and Nixon with His Last Race. It also features West Is West with Chiff Bowes and Virginia Vance, Dome with Baby Peggy in Darling of New York and Monty Banks in Hot Sands. Star Pola Negri and Jack Holt star in The Cheat along with Comedy Publicity Pays and Pathe News as part of the program.
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Nixon
West Is West
Chiff Bowes
Virginia Vance
Dome—Baby Peggy
New York
Monty Banks
Pola Negri
Jack Holt
Charley Chase
Pathe News
Lillian Gish Stars in The White Sister at Penn
The program features Ruth Drescher Rebekah Crawford Albert Genkin ger and Clinton E Ward performing musical selections as Lillian Gish appears in The White Sister at the Penn venue.
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Penn
Lillian Gish
Ruth Drescher
Rebekah Crawford
Albert Genkinger
Clinton E. Ward
Police Pursue Bombers as Community Demands Action
Authorities bolster city and county police efforts with broad rewards after a bombing at the Dunlap home. Suspects are questioned. no one held yet. A Florence avenue car sighting is a key lead while Mrs. Dunlap recovers, and County Detective Dunlap presses on with the Eighteenth Amendment enforcement.
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Florence Avenue
Dunlap
Wolf Swamp
Democratic platform factions clash over Anti Klan plank
Delegates and regional leaders debated a proposed Anti Klan plank with Norman E Mack backing eastern leaders while western voices warned of alienating states. A unanimous plank endorsed US participation in the permanent court of international justice.
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Norman E. Mack
Buffalo
World Court
Permanent Court of International Justice
United States
Homer S. Cummings
Connecticut
Democratic Committee On
Glass
Virginia
Garrett
House
Cordell Hull
Key Pittman
Nevada
Harding-Coolidge
Foes of McAdoo Unite to Prevent Nomination
Rival camps gather at the Waldorf and Vanderbilt as Anti-McAdoo leaders claim solid votes to block a McAdoo nomination. Key figures include Brennan, Smith, Carlin, Guffey, Hague, Moore, and Taggart. Davis rises as a potential compromise candidate. Ralston and Glass discussed as possible later options.
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Mcadoo
Vanderbilt
Waldorf
George E. Brennan
Illinois
al Smith
C. C. Carlin
Underwood
George White
Ed Moore
Cox
Joe Guffey
Pennsylvania
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Silver
Tom Taggart
Indiana
Ralston
Ritchie
the Waldorf
Brennan
Taggart
Guffey
Hague
Moore
Smith-Underwood
John W. Davis
West Virginia
Davis
Smith
Samuel M. Ralston
Carter Glass
Virginia
Glass
George L. Perry
Tennessee
Pressmen’s Union
A. 0. Owsley
Texas
American Legion
Berry
Owsley
Dawes
Democratic Party Plank Debates Spotlight Tariff and Tax Reforms
The report outlines Democratic platform debates with calls to denounce Republican misrule and add tariff revision and tax relief planks. Leaders fostered party harmony despite clashes over league and Klan topics, with final resolutions pending committee work.
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Committee On Resolutions
Threat Made Against Sister of Frank's Boy
Chicago June 20 A letter signed George Johnson threatened the kidnapping of Robert Franks sister Mary 14. Police hunt author amid a wave of letters following the Leopold Loeb slayings. Irvin Hartman Jr threatened for blackmail. the Franks children are under guard with relatives in Baltimore for the summer.
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International News Service
Chicago
George Johnson
Robert Franks
John R. Caverly
Criminal Court
Franks
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Jacob Franks
Samuel Ettleson
Robert
Josephine
Irvin H. Hartman, Jr
Irvin
Leopold
Loeb
Mary
Baltimore
Three Killed When Auto Hits Monroe Bridge Abutment
Monroe Michigan June 20 three men were killed and a fourth man and his wife injured when an automobile struck a creek bridge near Monroe and another car crashed into the wreckage. The dead are David Ackerman 30 Andrew A Phelps 20 and John Augusta 20. the Sadeks from Detroit were in the second car.
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International News Service
Monroe
Mich
Here
David Ackerman
Andrew A. Phelps
John Augusta
John Sadek
Detroit
England Builds World's Largest Radio Station
A new wireless station near Rugby at Hilmorton is under construction and will become the world’s largest. It features 16 aerial masts nearly as tall as the Woolworth Building and will be owned by the British government with direct communication to India and Australia possible.
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London
Hilmorton
Rugby
Woolworth
India
Australia
Miss Jessie Mockel Heads Westminster Piano Department
Miss Jessie Mockel of New Castle has been named head of the piano department at Westminster College starting the fall term. A Beaver College alumna and former student of Ernest Hutchison in Berlin, she returns to her hometown to open a studio and serves as organist at the First Methodist Church.
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Jessie Mockel
New Castle
Westminster College
Miss Mockel
Beaver College
Berlin
Ernest Hutchison
New York
Harvey B. Gaul
Pittsburgh
First Methodist Church
No Wet Plank For Democrats Prediction
Wayne B Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League predicted the Democratic national convention would not adopt a wet plank or nominate a light wine and beer candidate. He argued the party would avoid a platform opposed by 95 percent of the nation.
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New York
Wayne B&b
Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Cleveland
Asa Candler Seeks Divorce From Young Wife
Atlanta June 20 Asa Candler multi millionare soft drink magnate filed suit for divorce in Fulton Superior Court charging cruel treatment and humiliating conduct toward his wife Mrs May Littel Candler. The suit follows months of separation after Mrs Candler was arrested in an Atlanta apartment on a charge of occupancy of a dive she was later acquitted.
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International News Service
Atlanta
Asa Candler
Fulton Superior Court
May Littel Candler
Governor joins Kansas Izaak Walton Club in prank initiation
Governor Davis was told by a club organizer he became the first charter member of the Kansas Izaak Walton Club after paying the initiation fee. He joked about the club’s purpose and admitted he did not recall the organizer’s name amid talks of fishing. The governor quipped about not receiving a receipt for the fee.
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Topeka
Kan
Davis
Kansas
Izaak Walton Club
Phones On 40 Per Cent Of Farms In America
Forty percent of all farms in the United States have telephones. Iowa leads with 86 percent of its farms equipped, followed by Kansas at 78 percent.
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America
Washington
United States
Iowa
Kansas
Marriage Licenses Issued in Area Names
Marriage licenses granted include Harry Gere and Jennie McComb both of New Castle, William J. McRea of Kaylor and Lydia M. Pettigrew of Kaylor, Robert N. Edie of New Castle and Lillian E. Martin of Volant.
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Harry Gere
New Castle
Jennie McComb
William J. Mc
Kaylor
Lydia M. Pettigrew
Robert N. Edie
Lillian E. Martin
Volant
Impossible to please a critic about life and fiction
A critic argues novels fail to mimic real life yet real life cannot match the romance of books. The remark captures tension between literary truth and everyday experience as critics land on conflicting expectations.
Deaths Of The Day Miss Florence McWilliams
Miss Florence McWilliams aged 78 died Thursday June 19 at 7 p m at the home of her niece Miss Etta Armstrong East State street Sharon Pa She was the daughter of James and Emily Hull McWilliams pioneer Western Pennsylvania residents whose family served in the Revolutionary War Born in Sharon she lived near Pulaski except for five years and was well known to many friends She was a member of the Disciple church The last of her family Funeral services will be held Saturday June 21 at 2 30 from the Armstrong residence in Sharon in charge of Rev Percy E Burtz of the Presbyterian church of Sharon
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Florence McWilliams
Nice
Etta Armstrong
East State Street
Sharon
Miss McWilliams
James
Emily Hull McWilliams
Pennsylvania
Pulaski
Disciple
Armstrong
Percy E. Burtz
The
Presbyterian Church of
Two Funerals Listed In Local Area Obituaries
Mrs Irene Capoudsakis 35 wife of Minus Capoudsakis of 16 Reynolds street died Thursday evening in New Castle hospital. Funeral from Greek Orthodox church Saturday 2 pm interment Greenwood Cemetery. Also funeral of Charles A Thoman Warren Ohio held Thursday June 19 at 8 pm from Mrs Walter Sample home 716 North Cedar street. Burial in Graceland cemetery.
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Irene Capoudsakis
Minus Capoudsakis
Reynolds Street
New Castle Hospital
Old Country
Greenwood Cemetery
Charles A. Thoman
Warren, O
Walter 8. Sample
North Cedar Street
Rev. Miller
Reformed Presbyterian Church of
Warren
Daniel C. Schnebly
Mahoning
H. V. Brown
Charles Dungan
G. H. Scheidemantle
Graceland Cemetery
Obituary of Wilson McCleland Boyd in Springfield Township
Wilson McCleland Boyd aged 66 died in Springfield township Thursday evening after an 18 month illness due to complications. He was born in Wilmington township and was a well known resident. He belonged to White Chapel Methodist church I O O F and Protected Home Circle of Sharon. Survived by widow two daughters Nellie B Cole and Maude Comstock and son Harry W Boyd. One brother James Boyd and three grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at 2 pm from his daughter Maude Comstock’s home with Rev. Taylor officiating. Interment in Fair Oaks Cemetery.
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Wilson McCleland Boyd
Springfield Township
Boyd
Wilmington Township
White Chapel
Methodist Church
Sharon
Nellie B. Cole
Maude Comstock
Milburn
Harry W. Boyd
Mrs. Sarah Jane Westcott Kincaid Buried
Funeral services for the widow Mrs. Sarah Jane Westcott Kincaid were held Thursday at 2 pm from her daughter Mrs. C. E. Kelso’s Edenburg home. Rev. D P Shafer led assisted by Dv. George Owens. A quartet sang and pallbearers included Larry Wigton Norman McClelland Oliver Dickson Charles Reed William Downing and Carl Rodgers. Burial followed at Greenwood cemetery.
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Kincaid
Sarah Jane Westcott Kincaid
Edward S. Kincaid
C. E. Kelso
Edenburg
D.P. Shafer
George Owens
Bessie Hoffmaster
Louis Coates
Warren Lamb
Russell Hoffmaster
Larry Wigton
Norman McClelland
Oliver Dickson
Charles Reed
William Downing
Carl Rodgers
Greenwood Cemetery
Citizens to Meet Sunday in First M. E.
Citizens of New Castle and Lawrence County plan a Sunday gathering at the First Methodist church to condemn the bombing outrage. Churches statewide suspend evening services to allow full attendance and express a unified demand that the crime be punished and future recurrences prevented.
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New Castle
Lawrence County
D. R. Brown Waives Hearing For Court
Dr. R. Brown, charged as proprietor of a gambling house, appeared at Alderman's Office and waived a hearing for court this afternoon.
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R. Brown
Alderman
Mantz
Local Oddities Reported On North Street
Description notes a large girl with a hay rake on North street and shadows of Maud Muller. A lady enters a local restaurant with a poodle that the proprietor refuses to feed. A backward hung flag is seen in the YWCA auditorium stage. three local divines are joyously sliding.
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North Street
Maud Muller
Lady of @gnity
Reserve
Cascade Park Fun House Slide Draws Curious Children
Children flocked to the fun house at Cascade Park to try the slide drawing open mouthed attention as onlookers watched the single moment of amusement unfold.
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Cascade Park
Inherits 1779 New York Packet Found in Orange County
A 144 year old issue of the New York Packet and Advertiser, dated October 14, 1779, was found among inherited possessions by George Alexander of Campbell Hall Orange County New York. The paper, printed in Fishkill during the Revolutionary War, remains readable despite fading.
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New York
George Alexander
Campbell Hall
Orange County
N. Y
New York Packet and Advertiser
Fishkill
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