Secret burial site of Lincoln killer Booth revealed
Colonel James Hamilton Davidson, former commander of the 122nd Infantry, says he is the only living person who knows Booth's long-hidden burial place. He recounts a Portsmouth warehouse basement grave, acid covering, and limestone fill, placed there after Booth’s assassination.
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Chicago
James Hamilton Davidson
122Nd Infantry
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Davidson
Edwin Harper Sampson
Booth
Moline
Portsmouth
Baker
Secret Service of
Army
Davison
Bowling Green
Boston Corbett
Secret Service
President Coolidge Inauguration Broadcast Plan
Washington reports a coast to coast radio net will carry President Coolidge's inauguration marking the first national wireless listening event. AT T and RCA outlined stations WEAP WEEI WJAR WTIC WOO WCAE WGR WEAR WLW WWJ MSAQ WDAF WCCO WSB KFI KPO KLX WMAQ WGY and more will relay from WRC and WJXZ to others nationwide.
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Washington
Coolidge
Plains
American Telephone Telegraph Company
Radio Corporation of America
Telephone Company
WEAP
New York
WEEI
Boston
WJAR
Providence
WTIC
Hartford
WOO
Philadelphia
WCAE
Pittsburgh
WGR
Buffalo
WEAR
Cleveland
WLW
Cincinnati
WWJ
Detroit
WMAQ
Chicago
WDAF
Kansas City
Des Moines
WCCO
Minneapolis-St. Paul
WSB
Atlanta
KFI
Los Angeles
KPO
San
Haugen cooperative marketing bill before the House
The Haugen co operative marketing bill to implement agricultural conference recommendations is before the House with a special rule for expedited debate. A Senate agriculture committee measure, similar in scope, is expected to advance under Norris. President Coolidge urged swift action before adjournment.
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Washington
House
Senate Agriculture Committee
Norris
Senate
Coolidge
Congress
Nice Burglar Stole a Kiss
In Los Angeles on February 21 a burglar visited the home of Miss Anna Tuckfield. He took a five dollar bill from the dresser and, after she woke, paused to steal a kiss before fleeing.
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Los Angeles
Anna Tuckfield
Bank conditions show excess reserves across banks
The weekly summary from New York reports the actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies with an excess reserve of 15,616,750 dollars, a drop of 35,029,370 dollars from the previous week.
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New York
Houdini Delights Roosevelts Grandchildren Crowd
Houdini faced eight Roosevelt grandchildren at a party in New York as he staged a seance with a slate portrait of Theodore Roosevelt and his son Quentin. Teddy Roosevelt Jr. proved the most skeptical, nearly exposing tricks during sleight of hand.
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New York
Houdini
Theodore Roosevelt
Quentin
Paulina Longworth
Teddy, Jr
Teddy
WAIT ON FRENCH FOR AN ANSWER
Washington will await an affirmative or definite French proposition before formulating the U S stance on new French loans. The government lacks legal power to block foreign loans but advises financial interests on involvement in such projects. Indications point to the French war debt issue influencing private French loan guidance.
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Washington
Clementel
United States
Nurmi Considers Pacific Coast Track Tour
Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi weighed a late April trip to outdoor meets on the Pacific coast including Los Angeles San Francisco and Pasadena Hugo Quist his manager announced upon Nurmi’s arrival for Georgetown University games Also present were Joie Ray and other Olympic stars meeting President Coolidge in the White House with a language gap fueling curiosity about their exchange.
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Washington
Paavo Nurmi
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Pasadena
Hugo Quist
Nurmi
Joie Ray
Coolidge
Capitol doorman tied to bootleg ring arrest
Washington February 21 AP Eli G Wright a capitol doorman was one of four arrested charged with illegal possession and sale of liquor as members of a bootleg ring. Prohibition agents said he was intoxicated on duty at the capitol and he was reported on the complaint of Representative Cooper of Ohio.
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Washington
Eli G. Wright
Capitol
Wright
Cooper
Ohio
Prohibition
Fire destroys Montana plant at Philipsburg mill complex
Anaconda Montana February 21 Fire of undetermined origin wiped out the old and new mills of the Philipsburg Mining Co at Philipsburg last night The loss is estimated at 250000 dollars and about 250 men employed in the mine mill and on leases will be thrown out of work.
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Anaconda, Mont
Phillipsburg Mining Co
Phillipsburg
Anaconda Standard
Labor bodies oppose third party at conference
Chicago February 21. Sixteen labor organizations at the Conference for Progressive Political Action oppose forming a third party. Chiefs of major transportation unions backed a resolution declaring strong opposition. Only nine of the leaders favored attending the convention.
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Chicago
Conference For
Big Four
Jury Service for Women Top Topic at Voters Conference
Chicago reports that jury service for women will be a major topic at the national convention of the League of Women Voters in Richmond April 16 22. The announcement notes 21 states allow women jurors and argues that women’s full civic participation benefits justice and the community. The program addresses topics from league work to world peace and women in industry.
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Chicago
Leagues of Women Voters
The
League
Richmond
United States
Arms Conference Not Impossible
President Coolidge says disarmament talks under the League of Nations could influence any future arms conference but no formal move is yet made by the United States. He awaits clearer results from informal discussions abroad and will assess British reaction upon Ambassador Kellogg’s return.
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Washington
Coolidge
League of Nations
White House
United States
Kellogg
Bank Held Up at Millsburgh Michigan
Four men held up the State bank at Millsburgh Michigan east of Benton Harbor and escaped in a car with 2900 dollars in cash and 50000 in negotiable securities. Police in northern Indiana joined Michigan authorities in searching for the suspects.
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South Bend
Ind
Millsburgh
Mich
Benton Harbor
Indiana
Michigan
Wills to Meet Gibbons in Milk Fund Show Plans
New York February 21 AP promoters plan a milk fund boxing card for summer featuring Harry Wills vs Tommy Gibbons in a 15 round main event and Berlenbach vs Jack Delaney plus Sammy Mandell vs Sid Terris. Contracts not yet signed but managers tentatively pledged. If Dempsey fights again it would be the winner of Wills Gibbons.
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New York
Harry Wills
Tommy Gibbons
St. Paul
Berlenbach
Jack Delaney
Sammy Mandell
Sid Terris
Wills
Gibbons
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Pacific Coast
London paper challenges Lord Rothermere to school exam
London reports a dispute over the cost and quality of elementary education as the Daily Mail challenges Lord Rothermere to prove his knowledge in a 14 year old junior clerk style exam. W G Cove defends teachers and wagers a 1000 pounds against a 75 percent score with 200 pounds to the paper fund if Rothermere succeeds. Final exam date and conditions awaited.
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London
Lord Rothermere
The
Daily Mail
Mail
W. G. Cove
National Union of Teachers
Labor
Lord Rothmere
France
Labor Party
Ove
Young Wood Missing From Paris Hotel
Osborne C. Wood son of Leonard Wood the former governor general of the Philippines has been missing from his Paris hotel since Monday. His valet notified police after five days and inquiry began. Witnesses recall Wood leaving the hotel with no known reason for absence.
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Paris
Osborne C. Wood
Leonard Wood
Philippines
Wood
Union Sugar reports 1924 profits and 1925 surplus
San Francisco Feb. 21 AP. Annual report of P C Drescher president of Union Sugar shows 1924 net operating profits of 1 794 607. Surplus at year start 1 335 532 after 237 820 in dividends. Surplus January 1 1925 stood at 904 283.
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San Francisco
P. C. Drescher
Union Sugar Company
Nevada Legislature Advances Inheritance Tax Repeal
Reno February 21 AP The Nevada assembly passed senate bill to repeal the states inheritance tax sending the measure to the governor for final approval.
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Reno
Nev
Nevada
Assembly
Senate
Ocean Liners Collide in Fog Off Quarantine Station
Two steamers, the Tuscania of Cunard-Anchor and the Rochambeau of the French line, collided in fog near the quarantine station. Both ships suffered damage but no serious injuries or casualties were reported.
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New York
Cunard-Anchor Line
Thirty five miners remain in the ruins
In Sullivan Indiana February 21 AP weary grieving women wait at the City Coal mine while about 35 of 51 miners entombed by yesterday's blast are recovered. Rescue work halts and ventilation is repaired as gas and damp threaten more lives. Survivors and relatives reflect on the tragedy with theories about the cause and fate of the remaining missing miners.
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Sullivan
Ind
City Coal Company
Earl
Lex Robertson
Phillip
Wayne Walters
Florenz
Emil Lecocq
Frank Hawkee
Elmer Davidson
Davidson
Cobb Lamb
Dave Smith
Harry Anderson
Anderson
Norval Harris
Sullivan County
Ancient cities uncovered near Cuzco in Peru
A Lima dispatch reports discovery of two ancient cities near Cuzco one Inca and one pre-Inca with stone buildings a temple and a fountain intact traces of a broad road descending from the city into the valley were found.
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Buenos Aires
la Nacion
Lima
Peru
Cuzco
Insurgent Republicans to Lose Ranking in Party Reorganization
Senate Republican leaders plan to read insurgent Republicans out of party councils and remove them from committee places while assigning them to separate minority status in organizing committees. Senators La Follette Ladd Brookhart and Frazier are named as targets, with action to follow the late month committee on committees meeting.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
la Follette
Ladd
Brookhart
Frazier
Republican Committee On Committees
Railroad executive Harry Evans dies in Miami
Harry T. Evans aged 51, vice president of the Monon route C I L railroad and Chicago man, died today in a Miami hotel.
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Miami, Fla
Harry T. Evans
Chicago
C. I. & L. Railroad
Fur trims dominate spring coats in Paris display
Paris reports advance spring coats with heavy fur trimming. Details show collars in patterns with shaved lamb, nutria, razelle, beaver and sealskin. Fabrics feature twills flats, English mixtures, faille crepe ottomans with bright chiffons and floral geometric prints. Stripes abandon barber pole look.
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Paris
Printer Corbitt detained over alleged $1000 extortion plot
Chicago February 21 AP Robert Corbitt a printer is held on suspicion of attempting to obtain $1000 from Mrs Helen Ellwood Stokes of Denver. He will be taken to a psychopathic hospital for a mental exam after rambling claims linking a 1911 Denver woman to a diamond theft and a suspect named Miss Stewart.
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Chicago
Robert Corbitt
Helen Ellwood Stokes
Denver
Colo
Psychopathic Hospital
Corbitt
Stokes Yesterda
W. E. D. Stokes
New York
Cora Stewart
Welton Street
Mexican Impostor Confesses Identity in Minneapolis Case
Arthur Lopez, 25, claiming San Antonio as home, admitted yesterday he is an impostor in a long running case tied to the late World War I veteran Arthur Frazier. He will be guarded in a veterans hospital while authorities decide the next action, with federal district attorney La Fayette French Jr. overseeing proceedings.
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Minneapolis
Arthur Lopez
Arthur Frazier
Lafayette French, Jr
Frazier
Michael J. Johannes
Department of Justice
Lopez
San Antonio
Texas
Veterans’ Hospital
Agnew State Hospital
Agnew
Calif
Allen Johnson
Fremont
Neb
Annie McClintock
Dexter
Hastings, Neb
Chinese pay indemnity over 1923 Shanghai Peiping bandit raid
The Chinese government paid 300000 Chinese currency in indemnity to foreign governments for bandit acts during the Shanghai Peiping Express train raid on May 26, 1923. Some 300 people, including 24 foreigners, were affected. Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was among the captives.
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Peking
Shanghai-Peking
Lucy C. Aldrich
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Paotzuku
Herbert Wing Dies at Boise
Boise February 21 AP Herbert Wing assistant attorney general of Idaho died last night after a short illness He was years old Wing had come to Idaho from Kansas years ago He widow and a brother Neil Wing Pendleton Oregon survive him
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Boise
Herbert Wing
Idaho
Wing
Kansas
Neil Wing
Pendleton
Ore
Party Division Did Not Occur In Controversy
Boise Feb 21 House bill 86 reappropriating about 140000 for a tuberculosis sanatorium passed the house 41 to 17. Moody and Taylor of Kootenai led the fight with no party lines. many administration leaders voted yes. Governor Moore has not stated a position as the bill may pass the senate. Original hospital sites are Payette and Sandpoint near Pend Oreille Lake. Governor Moore signed senate bill 161 protecting funds of political subdivisions with sureties. The sterilization bill HB 203 faced setback in senate committee. Senate killed SB 76 and 78 while passing SB 136 164 165 and HB 216. House joints 5 and 6 seek constitutional amendments on county attorney compensation and county commissioner terms.
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Tribune
Boise
Department of Publica Welfare
Moody and
Taylor
Kootenai
Moore
Senate
Tuberculosis Hospital Commission
Davis
Payette
Pend Oreille Lake
Sandpoint
T. Bailey Lee
House
Callahan
Insurance Bureau
United States
Public Utilities Commission
Explosion Kills Three at Philadelphia Oil Barge
Three men died and four were seriously injured when a Drew Levinck company oil barge exploded while pumping into tanks at the city garbage disposal plant in southwest Philadelphia. The blast was heard across the city as fire reached an oil storage tank, causing about $100,000 in losses.
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Philadelphia
Drew-Levick Company
Drowning Leads to Arrest of Chinese Officers on Chinehuen
In Peking and Hankow reports, a Chinese major and two soldiers drowned while attempting to board the American flagged steamer Chinehuen. Captain Hawley of the vessel was detained, then released after naval and local authorities intervened. The Chinehuen, owned by West China Navigation and under American management, had delays due to navigational limits near Kweichowfu.
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Peking
Chinehuen
Hawley
el Cano
Kweichowfu
Palos
Ichang
Kweichonfu
Hawcraft
Peran
West China Navigation Company
Hankow
Kweichenfu
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