Britain Accepts 12 Mile Search in Liquor Case
London reports Britain has accepted in principle a twelve mile search limit to curb rum running in American waters. Washington notes plans may be submitted to the Imperial conference, with potential treaty form required for Senate ratification. New York reports renewed violations of the ship liquor ruling under DOJ scrutiny for possible vessel seizures.
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London
Lord Curson
Lord Curzon
United States
State Hughes
Great Britain
Washington
Foreign Office
Hughes
Senate
New York
Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Chamber of Commerce
Lions
George Long
Comediennes
George
Walter Decker
Opera Touse
Robbery Report Near Ashville Nabs Payroll Cash
In Johnstown Virginia October 27 two masked men held up Superintendent Pratt and his wife during a payroll delivery from Altoona to the Dexcar Coal mines near Ashville. They forced surrender of the money. car found abandoned three miles away at Amsbury. Hundreds hunt for suspects as alarms spread. Local residents suspected.
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Johnstown
Pratt
Dexcar Coal Company
Ashville
Th's
Altoona
Dexcar
Amsbry
Escaped convict Brown captured in Brooklyn patrol house
James Brown known as the Handsome Burglar, one of six Eastern Penitentiary escapees, was recaptured in a Brooklyn home after a standoff with police. He resisted but was overpowered and manacled.
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New York
James Brown
Eastern Penitentiary
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Brown
Two Men Die In Barn Duel In Texana County
In a barn near Texana two men Norwood Stuckaby and Charles A. Williams faced each other with left hands locked and fire pistols. Both men were killed with four bullets found on Huckaby and three on Williams. Motive linked to prior wound and trouble between them. Governor Parker to speak in New Orleans about the Ku Klux Klan and Louisiana politics.
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Young
Tex
Norwood Stuckaby
Charles A. Williams
Huckaby
Willams
New Orleans
Parker
Louisiana
Atheneum
New Orleans Daily States
Whch
Windmills of the Future and the Energy Shift
British scientist J B S Haldane argues coal and oil will exhaust in centuries and wind and sun must be tapped. He notes water power is limited and suggests storing intermittent energy in a durable battery could allow wind energy to replace coal.
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J. B. S. Haldane
Himalayan
British Columbia
Armenia
Raleighs ancestral home in Devon faces destruction
The Dartmoor area site Fardel, the Raleigh family seat, may be damaged by plans to convert the old chapel into cottages. Devonshire preservationists protest to safeguard the historic farmhouse and its Romano-British inscription rumored to mark buried treasure.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
West Country
Dartmoor
Fardel
Raleigh
John
Faordel
Walter
Devonshire Association
Fanon Macquisini
New Valley Savings Bank Opens In Middletown
The opening of the new bank building was a red letter night for the people of Middletown and vicinity. The bank is located in Middletown and is one of the hand somest structures of the city. The erection became a necessity due to the growth of the institution.
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Middletown
Probe Tales of Bluebeard Bones Found by Cliff
In Boone county near Joe's Creek a report cites bones of a woman and a child found at a cliff foot after neighbors spoke of a mountain Bluebeard who lured girls to a hill cabin and kept them for months before casting them adrift. A Charleston sergeant reported the details without naming the old man.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. G. Brown
Joe's Creek
Boone County
Kentucky
Slaughter Creek
Fat Women Avoid Reducing Course At Pittstown W C A
In Pittstown Pennsylvania on October 27 a local Y M C A physical director reports many fat women in town while none have enrolled in a six week reducing course. Thin women are joining athletic classes but fat women fear embarrassment and timidity may deter enrollment. A strict diet in the reducing program may also deter uptake.
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Pittstown
Bureg
We Have 'Em Reigns in Auto Ownership and Drivers
The United States and Canada hold about 88 percent of the world’s automobiles and a similar share of the globe’s reckless drivers, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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United States
Canada
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Vault Bales Dry Agents Raid Ended by Owner in Allentown
Prohibition Agent McClure and two state troopers attempted to seize liquor from John Mealy in Allentown Pennsylvania but were stopped when Mealy produced a temporary injunction and admitted four teen barrels of liquor stored in a basement vault.
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Allentown
McClure
Cuadelphia
John Mealy
Mealy
Ire
Husband shoots dancer at hall arrest after surrender
Arthur Burnett was shot dead at a Bethayres hall by George Daniels after Daniels saw his wife dancing with Burnett. Daniels drove Burnett to Jewish Hospital and surrendered to Branchtown police as Burnett died.
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Kliss
Philadelphia
Arthur Burnett
Bethayres
George Daniels
Crestmont
Burnett
Jewish Hospital
Branchtown
Daniels
Deer Stomps Gravel Pit Visit Near Hazleton
A large buck charged into a gravel pit near Stockertown, one mile east of Hazleton, upsetting workmen as it floundered around the hole then leaped over their heads into the brush.
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Hazleton
Stockton
Deaths Tied to Mine Manager Suicide Trio
In LaSalle Col October 27 Willam Bedlien age 60, manager of the White Ash Mine, is dead from self-inflicted injuries. Ebner Nowell, 50, died in Greeley after 9 in Jal. Mrs Mabel Nowell is hospitalized with serious injuries. The tragedy stems from Nowell's discovery that Bedlien was visiting Mrs Nowell.
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Eternal Triangle
LaSalle
Col
Willam Bediien
White Ash
Ebner Nowell
Jal
Greeley
Mabel Nowell
Nowell
Bedilen
Nobel Prize Awarded for Insulin Discovery
Stockholm October 27 Nobel medicine prize for 1923 goes to Dr P G Banting and Dr R MacLeod of Toronto for the discovery of insulin. They are the fourth and fifth North Americans to receive the award for scientific achievement.
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Banting
Stockholm
P G. Banting
R. MacLeoi
Toronto
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