Payroll Bandits Escape With $100,000 Coal payroll
State police and detectives failed to capture nine bandits after an overnight chase in southwestern Pennsylvania. Two armored cars were used to steal a $100,000 payroll from Pittsburg Terminal Coal Company workers who were knocked unconscious by explosions and telephones were cut delaying alarms. Clues pointed to Benthyville, Washington County but the trail ended and license plate numbers proved unreliable.
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Willan Uf. Tarr
Pennsylvania
Poryrell
Myerstown
Broadway Opens $10 Million Motion Picture Cathedral
New York reports the grand opening of the Roxy Theatre on Seventh Avenue and Fifty Street. Carl Rothafel known as Roxy greeted guests including Glenn Swanson and Irving Berlin. The world’s largest theatre features rear stage projection, multiple organs, a ballet, and a special focus on veterans charity messages.
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New York
Reay
Breadway
S. L. Rathazel
Seventh Avenue
Fiftieth St
Glenn. Swanson
Nunya
Otheir
Janes Walker
Harel Lng
Charlie Chaplin
Jess Lasky
Irving Berlin
Mr. Rothafel
Roxy
Coplidee
Danes
Smith
Nasy Wilbur
Walker
Nothafels
Robbery at D Auerbachs Candy Factory in New York
Six masked men staged a four hour raid at the D Auerbachs and Sons candy factory on Eleventh Avenue. They bound three workers and looted the safe, escaping with an estimated twenty five to twenty thousand dollars after neutralizing a watchman a fireman and an engineer. One bandit used the watchman keys to access clocks while others blasted the safe lock.
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New York
Klawine
D. Auerbach and Sons
Eleventh Avenue
Nine books banned in Boston court action feared
A Boston bank sellers' committee assists authorities in blocking a list of nine books from shelves including The Pastie Age and The Rebel Bird. Dealers dispute the bans, sale halted, and potential court action looms if Elmer Gantry is added. Police call the volumes obscene and corrupting to youth, though judgments on taste vary.
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Theton
Atth
Boston
Terey Mara
Thana Patrick
Jen Devanny
Edwin Granberry
Herbert Footner
Ernest Pascal
Pauline
Polic
Lewis “Elmer Gentry
Hastings and Whayland Couple Married at Hebron Parsonage
Miss Emma Hastings daughter of Mr and Mrs T N Hastings and Mark W Whayland son of Mr and Mrs T Wesley Whayland were married at the Methodist Protestant parsonage in Hebron Thursday evening A reception by the bridegroom's parents preceded the couple's departure for a honeymoon to northern cities They will rest in Salisbury
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Emma Hastings
T. N. Hastings
Mark W. Whayland
T. Wesley Whayland
Salisbury
Hebron
Slayings Rock Chicago Gang War After Peace Pact
Police report two Joe Saktes henchmen slain in a West Side car ambush amid resumed gang warfare linked to bootleg liquor. Benjamin Schoener estate dealer and associate of North Side bootleggers also killed, while a North Side slaying followed as gunfire battered a car and a killer, seen smoking a cigarette, fled.
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Chiewse
Maresh Wap
Land
South Side
Frank
Lefty” Konel
Frank Hebneck
Benjamin Schoener
Cal
North Side
Kenei
Hubasch
Supk Street
Ashland Avenue
Schneidner
Noorth
Schneider
New Curtiss Navy Plane Ordered for Washington Tests
The foolproof Curtiss fighter for the Navy was sent to Washington for further testing next Tuesday after successful Mitchel Field trials yesterday. The craft includes a rapid inflate rubber lifeboat, quick gas-tank drain, and a meter fire sprinkler system with two machine guns and bomb capacity.
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New York
NA PY
Navy
Curtiss Aeroplane Company
Washington
Mitchel Field Yeatenday
Red Cross sends relief aid after Japan quake
Washington reports March 12 50 000 dollars sent by the American Red Cross to Japan for earthquake relief in Central Japan. Other items note storms in Japan and local incidents including drownings suicides and a race track crackdown in Virginia Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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Washington
Red Cramp
Japan
English Forces Repel Attempt at Shanghai Foreign Quarter
Chinese forces failed to breach the International Settlement in Shanghai as guards at the entrance held them back. Durham Light Infantry reinforced the area amid rains and mud, with tensions rising near the Canton–Nanking railway and the Yangtze shores.
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Shanghai
Durham Light Infan'sy
Geretral Chang Taung Chang
Gece
Varbens Peents
Shanchai-Nanking
Vanzgtse
Seochew
Chahz
Chambes
Durham Licht
Invasion of Floods Hits Southwest France
Reports from Paris indicate rising floods in Southwest France as rivers burst their banks. The Bordeaux region faces critical conditions with residents evacuated from flooded streets and villages along the Garonne and other rivers.
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Paris
Fai
France
Treasury notes and debt issues under stalemate in Congress
In Washington March 32 the Treasury offered debt certificates and bonds amid stalled talks. The text notes conflicting plans, interest rates, and subscription totals, with references to repayment terms and political debate shaping the debt strategy.
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Wahington
Woman Sentenced to 30 Days in State Penitentiary
A woman identified as Marwan Meyers, formerly head of a university department, was sentenced to thirty days in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to an attempted theft involving a bank vault. The case notes a push to regain place in society.
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Seth
Dean Effence
Pirates and tides in a Scottish seaside tale
Fragmentary OCR notes describe pirate fishermen and coastal life with references to wells and figures like Gelert. The readable parts hint at a small community tale set by the sea with local names and events.
Invitations Sent for New Naval Conference at Geneva
Washington announces that Britain and Japan have accepted invitations to the Geneva naval conference. The plan calls for delegates to meet after June 1 and aims to explore talks without firm formulas. France and Italy may be invited later through ambassadors Herrick and Fletcher.
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Washington
Geneva
Japan
State Department
Great Britain
France
Italy
Herrick
Fletcher
London
Tehseo
McHamara Team Favored To Place First In Duke Race
New York March 2. Final day of six day bine rae at Madison Square Gart na found Rea ge McNafmara. The bannered event details are garbled but indicate McHamara as favorite to win or place leading in the Duke race with other teams and participants mentioned in broken form.
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McHamara
Duke
New York
Madison Square
Piaie
salLe Minage
Aevem
Six Escape Spectacular Jail Break Traced to Chicago
Six convicts three Mexican and three American escaped last May from Stateville Prison. Two Mexican fugitives were captured in Joliet after wounding two policemen and a taxi driver. Roberto Torrez was arrested near a garage after a gunfight. Bernardo Roa remained at large as investigators pursue leads.
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Chicago
Joliet
Culfdever
Greg ‘Nario Rizo
Roberto Torrez
Irio Bernardo Roa
Daliet
William Frost
Geuriw Grant
John Marcimigh
Rizo
Torrez
Jolet
Charles Duschewski
Chivage
Gyranty
Jorrez
Telay
Peter Mr. N. Klein
Model New Penitentiars
Stateville
Pevon
State Supreme Court
Bernardo Roa
Centlawsd
Rocky Mountain Area Buried Under Heavy Snow Drifts
Denver March 12 A8 The Rocky Mountain states were buried under deep snow drifts after a three day storm. Colorado towns faced blizzard conditions delaying trains on the Colorado Springs line and stranding motorists near Palmer Lake. Snow halted travel across Wyoming Nebraska and the plains with six inches in parts of New Mexico and western Kansas reports.
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Denver
Calc
Rocky Mountain
Jat Merit
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Here
Palmer Lake
Green
Colo
Crea Tren
Heneh
Deuriss
Anz
Marses
Nebrea
Ramm
Scurt
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Nebrasia
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Cleveland
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