Franco-Belgian Defense Treaty Is Reached In Paris
Marshal Foch and General Maglince announced a complete Franco-Belgian defense pact. The treaty is defensive, lasts five to fifteen years, and preserves Belgium's independence. It sets up joint military planning across aviation, artillery, infantry, and engineering for frontier defense between France and Belgium.
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Marshal Foch
General Maglince
Paris
Ralph Courtney
New York
Triana
Maglince
Belgium
France
Antwerp
Grmans
Great Britain
London
Foch
Maglinee
Chile seeks $8 million U.S. railroad rolling stock
The Chilean government seeks to buy in the United States railroad rolling stock worth eight million dollars for use on its government-owned railroads. A word received at the Chilean Embassy confirmed the purchase.
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Chile
U. S
Washington
United States
Alcohol raids in New York subways and citywide liquor arrests
Revenue agents nabbed John Garbarini at DeKalb Avenue station with a paint can full of alcohol and jailed him on a $1,900 bail. Brooklyn federal court imposed fines and brief jail terms for several saloonkeepers and bartenders under the Volstead Act, with multiple arrests across Manhattan and surrounding streets as authorities pledge tougher enforcement.
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Brooklyn
John Garbarini
William Street
Manhattan
Campbell
Porthmann
DeKalb Avenue
Fourth Avenue
Garbarini
United States
Hennessy
Chatfield
Frederick Arlens
Fulton Street
Frank Cash
Arlens
Dan McMonagle
Washington Street
William Fox
Oyster Bay
Stanley
Kessier
Fox
Ehler Henke
St. Nicholas Avenue
Dinner Ends Convention of Inventors Institute at Hotel Astor
The National Institute of Inventors and the American Foundation, Inc., wrapped up their joint convention with a hotel dinner. George J. Houtain presided while Thomas Howard praised the institute’s work and its ties to major trade groups. He noted the state as an experimental shop with room for growth and hoped for full machinery by next year.
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American Foundation, Inc
Hotel Astor
National Institute of Inventors
The
George J. Houtain
Thomas Howard
Institute work keeps pace without outside shops
John S. Seymour former Commissioner of Patents Frank M. Ashley and Maurice Block spoke on conducting work within the institute avoiding trips to external shops.
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John S. Seymour
Frank M. Ashley
Maurice Block
Infant Pedestrian and Man Die in City Auto Incident
Four year old Muriel Leibrock of 79 Allen Street was killed when a truck backed up at Allen and Houston streets crushing the baby carriage carrying her and injuring her two-year-old brother. Mother Lucy Leibrock attempted to steer the children. Atty Joseph Goeman, 175 Fast Seventy-fourth Street, died after being run down at Broadway and Forty-second Street and hospitalized at Roosevelt Hospital.
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Muriel Leibrock
Allen Street
Allen
Houston
Lucy
Philip
Leibrocks
Joseph Goeman
Atty-fve
Seventy-fourth
Broadway
Roosevelt Hospital
Black Tom Suits Settled With France Receiving Award
The British King the French Republic and the Aetna Explosives Company sued Lehigh Valley Railroad over damages from the Black Tom explosion. A Jersey City Supreme Court jury settled the case awarding France 129 586 22 with Britain and the Aetna company denied. France recovered for explosives in the railroad yard while Britain and the Aetna claimed larger sums and were not reimbursed for destroyed munitions.
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Britain
Aetna Company
French Republic
Aetna Explosives Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Supreme Court of
Jersey City
France
Aetna Explosive Company
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Inventors’ Institute
E. P
Dutton & CO
Fifth Avenue
Edward Streeter
Bill
Frederick A. Stokes CO
Fourth Ave
Little, Brown & CO
Beacon ST
Boston
Sts Best
Ipsycuk
Boni & Liveright
West 40Th Street
F. Brett Young
Hugh Walpole
E. P. Dutton & CO
Billy
Mable
Frederick A. Stokes
B. M. Bower
Joseph Lewis French
Dorothy Scarborough
Devin Adair CO
Cosmo Hamilton
Quaker Hill Colony
Connecticut
Julian Osborn
Margaret Meredith
Hamilton
Rupert Hughes
Harper & Brothers
Franklin Square
Maurice Hewlett
Henry Holt and Company
Chum
Eanesy
Ued
Theseu
Harper & E
Franklin SQ
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