City fire alarm debate favors modern diaphone horn
Ralph I. Coombs argues for replacing the aging City Hall bell and tower with a diaphone air alarm system to reach all city areas. He cites National Board standards and Gamewell diaphone benefits, noting cost near 700 dollars and the need for adequate volunteer firefighter notification in Hagerstown.
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TOR Daily Mail
West End
Noige
National Board
Nicipal
Western Enterprise
City Hall
Enterprise
Gamewell Co
Great Lakes
Hagerstown
Freman
Ralph
Coombs
Turkey Chase at Frostburg nets eight birds with balloon tie
In Frostburg Maryland on December 23 a turkey scramble drew a crowd along Main Street. The event released eight birds with five already grabbed before the S P C A intervened. George F List of Baltimore proposed balloons marked turkey to assign the remaining birds. Trafic was blocked and one bird taken from a tree with no injuries reported.
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Frostburg
Main Street
George F. List
Baltimore
Maryland Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Mr. List
Trafic
New York
Boston
Opera Star Carolina Segrera Marshall seeks divorce in New York
Cuban songstress and wife of Everett Marshall appears in a New York court to press an uncontested divorce suit. She states they have not lived together for several years, and the action is pressed in the presence of Central Press.
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Carolina Segrera Marshall
Everett Marshall
New York
Central Press
Taxicab Hold Up Sentences Ten Years Each
Baltimore December 23 Judge Eugene O Dunne sentenced three men to ten years apiece in the state penitentiary for a taxicab hold up that netted them 25 cents each.
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Baltimore
Eugene O'Dunne
We Penitentiary
Stork Derby Will Held Valid by Canadian Jurists
Ottawa ruling upholds Charles Millar will granting the fortune to the mother bearing the most children in Toronto over ten years after his death. Illegitimate children not counted. next of kin appeal rejected. Contenders include Mrs. Martin Kenny and Mrs. Pauline Mae Clark with registered birth tallies under dispute. Salvation Army also notes a $50 Christmas kettle find on Fifth Avenue.
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Ont
Charles Vanes Millar
Canada
Toronto
Supreme Court
Stork Derby
Millar
Judiciary Committee of the
Privy Council
London
Court of Appeal
British Empire
Martin Kenny
Pauline Mae Clark
Santa Claus parachute tragedy at Boston airport
At Boston's East Boston Airport a parachute Santa Claus, Harold Kraner of Winthrop, fell into Boston harbor during a children’s Army Air Corps party. Rescue efforts followed as Coast Guard, army, navy and police searched the harbor amid crashes injuring two officers and several crew. The incident occurred as a festive event ended with the loss of a life and several hospitalizations. Industrial disputes during the fiscal year 1936 37 caused about 24 million man days of lost work.
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Boston
Santa Claus
Army
Harold Krapver
Winthrop
Kraner
Coast Guard
Navy
Edward J. Seiboldt
Boston Police Ballistics
John Clarin
Richard Miller
Earl Jordan
Army Air Corps
East
Kris Kringle
Krauer
Richard E. Cobb
Cobb
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