Death House at Sing Sing Ends Snyder and Gray
The double execution of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray by electric chair at Sing Sing ends their crime saga. The column contends capital punishment offers a society warning against murder, framing the death penalty as a broader moral lesson about sin and accountability.
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Ruth Snyder
Judd Gray
Sing Sing
Becker
Queens Village
Snyders
New York
Albert Hickman
Paul
A Trip to Houston Nominates Al Smith for President
The Democratic party national leaders plan to nominate Al Smith of New York for president and hold the convention in Houston Texas. They aim to win the Solid South after a prior contest at Madison Square Garden, journeying below the Mason Dixon line to solidify gains in key states.
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Democratic Party
al Smith
New York
Democratic National Committee
Houston
Texas
Madison Square Garden
Mason- Dixon Line
New Jersey
North Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Georgia
Alabama
Winter Sky Diagram Of Cetus And Mira
In clear winter skies, Cetus the whale appears southwest with Mira as the second largest star whose diameter is about 250 million miles. The article notes the star’s imagined alignment forming a whale shape and mentions this as poetic justice with texts available for proof. A separate item covers Charles Newman sentenced to Ohio Penitentiary for bad checks, paroled, then robbed of $14 at a railroad station. It also recounts an Ohio lawyer who defended a forger and kept most of a $17 check as retainer before the check proved forged. Finally it notes Kansas City hotel rates rising 26 percent ahead of the Republican National Convention, constrained by an agreement.
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Charles Newman
Ohio
Newman
Kansas City
New York
South
Middle West
Park-Lexington
Fifth Avenue
Nocturne Weathers a Fading Love in Past Reflections
Dorothy Park Thie presents a lyric about a love ending as gathering clouds and snow fall give way to a golden past. The speaker accepts the farewell, noting inevitable change and a new happiness blooming elsewhere, with a mirrored farewell to past joy.
RETROSPECTIVE THREE AND FOUR YEARS AT JAN 13 1924
Pomona Grange in session today passed resolutions endorsing Governor Pinchot’s drive to enforce prohibition laws. Oscar Johnson of Warren elected Shrine representative for next imperial connect meeting. Work to remodel Second avenue office formerly Bell Telephone for Pennsylvania Gas Co. audit of prothonotary accounts begun by James Wiggins.
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Pomona Grange
Gifford Pinchot
Erie
Oscar Johnson
Warren
Imperial Connect
Second Avenue
Bell Telephone Company
Pennsylvania Gas Company
James Wiggins
Prothonotary and Register
Teordet
Prothonotary
Public school head speaks on psychology at Rotary meeting
Merle H. Deardorff, superintendent of Warren Public Schools, addressed Bradford Rotary Club yesterday at noon on the topic psychology. The county also endured varying cold, with temperatures two below at four this morning in the borough.
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The
Mercury
Merle H. Deardorff
Warren Public Schools
Rotary Club
Bradford
Skating Rink Built On Clarendon Baseball Field
On January 13 1927 Knight and Thomas built a skating rink on the east end Clarendon baseball field. Water about eighteen inches deep covers the field with ice several inches thick. Warren Kiwanians hosted a dinner for the Midnight Revue cast and contributors to the recent midnight performance.
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Clarendon
Knight and Thomas
Warren
Hatless in the Storm by Edgar A. Guest
A winter blizzard briskly blows as a 21 year old in college fashion declares hats obsolete. The speaker, feeling dated, reflects on being a relic of past style, calling himself a boob who still wears a hat while youth shuns headgear as outdated.
Good Night Stories About Dishes and Dry Faces
Bessie hates washing dishes and rushes, hearing tiny voices from the kitchen. A rusty pan and a crying Meat Plate urge careful drying, teaching her to wipe each dish dry before setting the table. From then on she dries all dishes thoroughly, preventing further tears.
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Bresse
Bessie
Luuch
Mr. Pan
Service, Inc
How Much Beauty Do You Notice in Paris Scenes
Fred C. Kelly reflects on beauty in ordinary sight within the Louvre and Paris, arguing great painters reveal what observers miss. He notes in-depth sights, including a meticulously cleaned hotel, and compares artistry in painting and writing to everyday life.
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Louvre Museum
Atree
Paris
Europe
Rturn
Dinner Tales and Prisoner Warnings in Fragmented Report
Fragmented OCR text depicts a humorous dining grievance with a damp plate and whispered soup, alongside disjointed lines about a colored maid returning from leave with a cheerful fate and a mistress asking about a good man. The jumbled language hints at a prison context and a hotly charged social setting.
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Fouyeler
London
Setsu Matsudaira and Prince Chichibu Rumored Wedding Pact
Washington report recounts Setsu Matsudaira, 17, visiting the Friends School with a Japanese diplomat chauffeur. A school committee displays a newspaper announcing Setsu's alleged engagement to Prince Chichibu, son of the emperor, fueling talk of a royal union amid mourning for the emperor.
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Friends School
Setsu
Setsu Matsudaira
Chicibu
Washington
Chichibu
Diet and Breast Feeding Advice for Mothers
Letters from readers request guidance on feeding babies. The article endorses breastfeeding through nine months and adding cereals by six months, with early introduction of orange juice and cod liver oil as outlined in the author’s diet book.
New York Night Chauffeurs Hear Opera Car Concerts
The Daybook notes Brooklyn and Manhattan drivers amuse themselves between eight and twelve after opera nights. A limousine pianist entertains with pocket radio concerts while bankers and barons in Sixth Avenue cars listen. Edna Ferber and Count Gustav Merner appear in city scenes as Tudor City and Rialto venues loom in a busy New York panorama.
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New York
Metropolitan
Sixth Avenue
Panorama
Edna Ferber
Fifth Avenue
Gustav Merner
Peggy Noyce
Westchester County
Forty-third
First Avenue
Tudor City
Long Island
Mary Elizabeth’s
Thirty-sixth Street
Avenue
Sherry
Alfman’s
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Blanche Silver
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Fred C. Kelly
Beitem
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Prince
Lulu Hunt Peter
New Yorker
Burton Kascoe
Lulu Hunt Peters
Warren Tribune
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