Prohibition enforcement bill passes senate and house
Edward W. Pickard reports the Treasury to Justice prohibition enforcement measure cleared Congress with no record vote after House approval. Debates touched dual control by Treasury and Justice, with Tydings pushing denaturant safety and Glass criticizing Wickersham spending while Doran remains commissioner of industrial alcohol.
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Ansper
Treasury Department
Department of Justice
Senate
Wickersham Commission
House
Treasury
Justice Departments
Tydings
Maryland
Sheppard
Texas
Carter Glass
Virginia
Prohibition Bureau
Commission
James M. Doran
Prohibition
William D. Mitchell
S Athick
Duras
Jamaica
Lexington or Concord Shot Claim Reignites Town Rivalry
In Lin Como Massachusetts debate over the site of the 1775 shot that sparked the American Revolution heats up during the tercentenary year. Historians favor Lexington based on Ebenezer Munroe’s deposition and inscriptions on monuments. Boston Mayor Curley reinforced Lexington as the birthplace in a tercentenary message.
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Lexington
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Ebenezer Munroe
Parker
Corp
John Munroe
Ebenezer
Lexington-Concord
James M. Curley
Boston
Hangman Ellis Declines Anti Capital Punishment Group
Toronto executioner Arthur Ellis rejected joining the Anti Capital Punishment Association of Canada. He stated he would willingly hang L. P. Rees, who invited him, if a jury found the organizer guilty of murder and a judge sentenced him to death. Ellis called the invitees uplifters a source of worry to decent law abiding citizens.
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Heckler Toronto
Arthur Ellis
Canada
Anti-Capital Punishment Association of Canada
Ellis
L. P. Rees
Toronto
Association Against Capital Pinnistment
Rees
Man Ends Life Over Money For Church Wedding
Michael Fiores, 35, left a suicide note to his three week bride explaining he could not earn funds for a church wedding. He shot himself in front of the house where the bride resided after a civil ceremony. Relatives had urged waiting for a priest to officiate.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Michael Fiores
New York Lights on Women and City Life
A column of odds and ends covers campus views on women smoking and playgoers mock Journey’s End and Bulldog Drummond. It notes police scrutiny of job agencies, wage warnings for female workers, and fashioning of apartment chic with free style consultants. Invisible lighting fixtures and towering skylines are described along with street dirt and tunnel sway myths. Dog sales on Fifth Avenue end with street-level pitches from leashed puppies to passersby.
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Columbia University
Welfare Council of
New York
Brooklyn
Fifth Avenue
By the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Boundary line runs through theater in Ball Square
Somerville residents buy tickets at Loca telli's theater in Ball Square but are seated in Medford as the city line cuts through the playhouse. The mayor’s ban on a film reportedly does not stop showings because the screen sits in Medford, masking local enforcement.
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Somerville
Mass
Locatelli
Ball Square Theater
Medford
Viking Knife Found in Koenigsberg Excavation
In the newly unearthed Viking burial ground near Koenigsberg the excavation reveals a pocket clasp knife. The blade can be opened or closed like modern pocket knives.
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Koenigsberg
Lilsit
Desert Charlie Satisfied With Desert Theories On Return West
Desert Charlie, after a lecture tour to New York, explains his belief in underground fires fed by coal oil and brimstone. He traveled with four burros across the desert to share his views and now hurries back west as reporters press for interviews in Washington before continuing toward California.
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Charlie
New York City
New York
Washington
Desert
California
Truth of Bible Story Proven by Excavations
Jericho excavations in Palestine reportedly support the Bible tale of walls collapsing after trumpet sounds and a mass shout. A cut through the mound shows remains of a flat, fiery wall attributed to circa 1406 BC, with Jericho captured by Joshua around 1451 BC.
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Jericho
Palestine
Joshua
Vaccination Crimps St Louis Telephone Service
An irate caller complained of poor service in a St Louis exchange. Operators unable to raise their arms due to recent smallpox vaccination of 91 operators, after one operator contracted the disease, prompting a blanket vaccination of the staff.
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St. Louis
Death Across Parishes in Jersey House Tragedy
Gerald Heyman died with his head in St Saviour's parish and his feet in Trinity parish after a fall in a house split by a brook that marks the boundary between the two parishes.
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Jersey
Channel Islands
Gerald Heyman
St. Saviour’s
Trinity
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