Jewelry costs advance as holiday shoppers face higher prices
Report from Atlantic City June 25 says jewelry prices will rise 2 to 50 percent this Christmas versus last year. Diamonds up sharply due to postwar scarcity and mine shutdowns. Silver and other stones also costlier. workmen shortage boosts wages. The National Wholesale Jewelers Association backs a $100000 advertising push with manufacturers and retailers.
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Atlantic City
N. J
National Wholesale Jewelers Association
J. E. Reagan
Indianapolis
D. J. Gutman
Cincinnati
R. H. Shuttles
Dallas
Texas
T. James Fernley
Philaelphia
Thomas A. Fernley
Philadelphia
M. N. Smith
Boston
Kipling Tells of E Boat Hunts in War Patrols
In wartime action Kipling recounts British E boats fending off foe while maintaining duty until torpedo supply depleted. A mine encounter near homeward passage nearly doomed the crew as the vessel collided with a mine clinging to its fin.
War at Sea Marmora E-14 and E-11 Describe Submarine Actions
Special Cable from Kipling notes E-14 and E-11 patrol the Sea of Marmora, engaging Turkish craft, sinking a gunboat and storeship, dodging patrols, and exchanging news with other subs. E-11 reports periscope damage, a demolition team raid, and a hazardous chase near Constantinople, with weathered crews, improvised tactics, and patrol hazards.
Red Cross Opens Bronx Chapter HQ at Union Branch Y M C A
At a concert for the Bronx County Chapel of the American Red Cross the Y M C A Union Branch on 161st Street and Washington Avenue donated a room to the chapter. Red Cross women begin making needed articles this afternoon. Hig Burrell spoke at the concert and new officers were elected to lead Bronx Red Cross work: Chairman Ellen L. Adee Vice Chairman Mrs E C Potter Treasurer Mrs Charles Miner Secretary Eleanor Jacob Executive Committee Catherine Deverich Mrs James Henderson Mrs Charles Hewitt and Harry Harper.
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Bronx County
the American Red Cross
Union Branch
161St Street
Washington Avenue
Bronx
Red Cross
B. Burrell
The
Ellen L. Adee
E. CC. Potter
Charles Miner
Eleanor Jacob
Catherine S. Deverich
James Henderson
Charlies Hewitt
Harry Harper
Creason Mine Sold to Chicago New York Syndicate
The Creason mine, a top Cripple Creek District producer, was sold to a Chicago and New York syndicate for 4,270,100 dollars. The transfer was announced in Denver on June 23 and was to occur within ten days.
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Denver
Colo
Creason
Cripple Creek
Chicago
New York
Four noncombatants court-martialed for orders breach
London June 23 The Daily News reports four privates in the non combatants corps were court martialed at Boulogne for disobeying orders and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to ten years imprisonment, provoking a parliamentary debate planned for Monday.
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London
The
Daily News
Boulogne
Deride Paris Conference Worldwide Reactions
German newspapers mock the Paris economic conference noting its resolutions lack importance since peace talks will decide all. The Frankfurter Zeitung argues any peace must preserve Germanys economic strength and room to expand or risk repeating the current world disaster.
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Amsterdam
London
Frankfurter Zeitung
No Bride to Save Him Arraigned Over False Fire Alarm
Charles ONeill 25 a salesman of 765 Eighth Avenue was arraigned in West Side Court for sending a false fire alarm from Eighth Avenue and Forty second Street He claimed he was to be married today and later said the marriage would be an elopement Magistrate Koenig fined him 30 with five days jail as alternative.
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Charles O'Neill
Eighth Avenue
West Side
O'Neill
Koenig
Newark Jubilant 250th Anniversary Greeting Arrives
A formal communication from Newark on Trent England arrived at Newark New Jersey City Hall congratulating Newark on its two hundred fiftieth anniversary. The message, written on heavy white paper with multicolor ink and decorative margins, bore signatures of Ww. KE. Knight Mayor Newark-on-Trent J. C. Kew former Mayor and Godfrey Tallento Town Clerk.
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Newark
Eng
N. J
Newark-on-Trent
England
KE. Knight
Newark-on- Trent
J. C. Kew
Godfrey Tallento
Batocki Named East Prussia Chief President and Rebuilder
Adolf von Batocki the so called Food Dictator won Kaiser Wilhelm's favor through early writings on social and tax reform. He took charge in East Prussia amid devastation, earning wide support from all classes as he rebuilds administration and finances compensation for refugees. The East Prussians praise his leadership and hope he stays.
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Max Johann Otto Adolf Tortilovika von Batocki
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
von Batocki
Adolf von Batocki
East Prussia
Batocki
Königsberg
von Jatocki
Adolf von Batock
ISG
Friedrichs College
Konigsberg
Bonn
Strasburg
House of Peers
Prussian Agricultural Chamber
Batock
Prussia
Kiusser
von Batock
See
von Indarburg
Reichstag
New Philharmonic
East Prussian
State Controller Proposes County Law Changes
State Controller Eugene M. Travis spoke to the Supervisors Clerks Association at the Hotel Astor urging changes to county law. He called for a budget making procedure, pay as you go policy, monthly audits, and a uniform fiscal year, with the Controller’s office offering expert help to counties.
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Eugene M. Travis
Supervisors’ Clerks’ Association of
State of New York
Hotel Astor
Travis
Tom
Board of Supervisors
Death by own action of Lieutenant Smith in Bronx
Lieutenant John T. Smith of the Traffic squad, 33, living at 264 East 235th Street in the Bronx, shot himself in the head with a service pistol yesterday morning in a vacant lot near his home. His body was found by Italian laborers who alerted Patrolman McDonald. Coroner Healy noted three letters left at home addressed to his superior, his family’s physician, and a sister. He had been in ill health and believed his ailment incurable. he had four children.
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Valhalla
E-14
Dead
Constantinople
Rodosto Harbor
Gallipoli
Silas Q. Swing
Chicago Sun
Chanak
Dontley Hughes
Silas Q
Rodosto
Rodosto Bay
Bosporus
Leander Tower
Sea of Marmora
John T. Smith
East 235Th Street
The
Bronx
Wth Street
Healy
Ormsby
Bulldog Attacks Schoolgirls At Public School 53
A brindle bulldog ran into the PS 53 courtyard at 28 East Fifty third Street during recess injuring two six year old girls, Sarah Cohen and Mary Catino. Teachers corralled students as Patrolman Crotty killed the dog with a nightstick and health officials prepared to test the carcass for rabies.
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East Fifty-third Street
Sarah Cohen
East Eightieth Street
Mary Catino
Roosevelt's Secretary Appeals Case to Appellate Division
Robert H. Elder, attorney for John McGrath, and Roosevelt aide, appealed a Brooklyn sentence from the Court of Special Sessions. McGrath and cousin William Powers were sent to the Blackwell's Island workhouse for thirty days for an alleged restaurant assault on Charles Lichte. Elder argued the court overemphasized Lichte and his wife testimony. the Appellate Division reserved decision.
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Roosevelt
Robert H. Elder
John McGrath
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Court of Special Sessions
McGrath
William Powers
Blackwell's Island
Charles Lichte
Elder
Lighte
Appellate Division
Morgan Co executives linked in Burns publication case
Martin Egan of J P Morgan and Burns are held on $100 bail each in a case accusing unlawfully publishing private Seymour papers. The raid on Seymour & Seymour by Burns and the linked testimony by Morton Sultzer tie to stolen information about munition contracts. District Attorney Swann shifts to wiretap probe with Supreme Justice Greenbaum presiding.
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William J. Burns
Martin Egan
J. P. Morgan & Co
McAdoo
Burns
Burna
Seymour & Seymour
Broadway
Morgan
Swann
Egan
Seymour
Jhe
New London
New York
Been
Francis L. Wellman
Wellman
John Doe
Morgan Interests
William Harman Black
Morton B Sultzer
Benson
Supreme Court
Appellate Division
Supreme Justice
Greenbaum
Magee
Farmhand Kills Girl in Camden County Shooting
John Candory, 20, from Waterford, Camden County, shot and killed Angelina Piccioni, 16, on a farm near Philadelphia. He claimed the gun discharged accidentally while she passed a shed. he was jailed without bail after authorities pursued him through the night and daylight capture.
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Camden
N. J
John Candory
Philadelphia
Waterford
Camden County
Angelina Piccioni
Huyett
Candory
Miss Piccioni
Lawyer Held on Larceny Charge in Grand Case
William C Mayne a 65 year old lawyer of 224 Tompkins Avenue New Brighton Illinois was held on $6,900 bail yesterday in Heights Court on a grand larceny charge involving Cuban sugar and an unsettled legal claim. Captain Charles Westcott United States Marine Corps testified that Mayne withheld funds related to settlement and legal services.
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William C Mayne
Tompkins
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