Post-Scripts Strange Truth and Washington Echoes
A collage of 1920s era vignettes and smart quips from a distinguished editor, touching on Forney, Dawes, Coolidge, Corelli, Duse, and D’Annunzio. The piece wades through politics, culture, and society with wry remarks on gas bills, drys, Wall Street sentiment, Madison Square conventions, and White House egg rolls. It highlights literary, legal, and religious figures, plus urban curiosities and transatlantic reflections.
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John W. Forney
Washington Union
Pierce
Thaw Acted Sane Despite Alienist Trials
Philadelphia April 21 Attorneys for Harry K Thaw argued they scored heavily on the testimony of two alienists who said Thaw showed moral insanity but had no recent evidence of insanity in six years They said the history of his case supports a sane release Thaw declared I will be free tomorrow as the trial continued with witnesses and records offered in evidence while the case moved toward a verdict in Com mon Pleas court
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Philadelphia
Harry K. Thaw
Common Pleas Court
Thaw
Charles W. Turr
Theodore H. Welsenburg
John Monaghan
Burr
Welsenburg
Stae
Arthur G Dickson
Frederick Ump
Traffe
Broad
Walnut Streets
Dickson
Evelyn Nesbit
John M. Patterson
William A. Gray
Russell William Thaw
Patterson
Stanford White
Gray
Monaghan
New York
Mer. Evers
Toombs
White
Mr. Dickson
Mr. Patterson
Dr. Burr
Student Dies In First Auto Drive at Thirteenth Street
Tutner Whittaker, 19, medical student at George Washington University, died after driving his father's machine into two other vehicles on Thirteenth Street at Shepherd and Girard streets. Passenger John O Ayres injured, Mrs Graff hurt, Greenfield uninjured. Whittaker died en route to Garfield hospital. incident occurred shortly before 9 p.m.
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Tutner Whittaker
George Washington University
First Street
Northwest
Thirteenth and
Shepherd Streets
Whittaker
Thirteenth
Girard Streets
Thirteenth Street
T. A. Graff
California Atreet Northwest
John O. Ayres
Maple Avenue
Takoma Park
Greenfield
House Passes Pension Bill for Veterans Widows
The House yesterday approved the Bursum bill to increase pensions for Civil Spanish Mexican and Indian war veterans and widows of the war of 1813. It passed without amendment and moves to the President.
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Segate
Neuton Bay mutiny leads to storm collision at sea
In a gale 65 miles off the coast the British steamer Newton Bay, 760 tons, mutinied below decks over a demanded $10 a month pay raise. The vessel, laden with alcohol, sent a wireless for air as the crew remained in irons. The ship had been in rum trade near three months ago and later stopped at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia for coal and provisions.
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Boston
Neton Bay
Newton Bay
Yarmouth
N.S
Famine Exodus Drives 90,000 Ukrainians Northward
A Helsingfors dispatch reports 90,000 people in Ukraine Crimea and the North Caucasus flee famine along rail lines to better districts. Soviets unable to aid refugees move troops against them after a mail train robbery at Batajek sparked the latest crisis.
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Copenhagen
Helsingfors
Ukraine
Crimea
North Caucasus
Batajek
Girl Dies From Old Football Injuries at School
Syracuse April 21 Miss Ellen May Carr 18 died today from heart disease and complications linked to injuries suffered in a school girls football game four years earlier. She was hurled to the ground causing a hip displacement.
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Syracuse
Ellen May Carr
Gillett Denies Involvement As Hearing Probes Justice
At a senate hearing Speaker Gillett denied any link to liquor seized by the Justice Department amid allegations of antitrust prosecutions and favors to convicted millionaires. He testified that a trunk with liquor once went to his Springfield office for a constituent, but he insisted he had no liquor and that he acted after discovering the trunk’s content.
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Gillett
Florida
Ike Walton
Associated Press
Department of Justice
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Senate
Daugherty
Mayer
Department
Houston Thompson
Federal Trade Commission
Department of Jundee
Gillett and Scaife Cinah
J. L. Scaife
Michigan
Scaife
Lcaife
Lquor
Springfield
Mass
Utne
Exclusion To Bring Counter Action By Japan Report
Cable dispatches from Honolulu and Tokyo report Japan plans to seek reconsideration of the U S exclusion bill but will not act immediately Ambassador Hanihara returns to Tokyo Matsui vows to press Congress to rethink using friendly means to preserve relations He warns a hostile bill could strain transpacific ties and affect world peace opposition papers urge reconsideration of the unjust legislation reflecting a broad press stance against the measureContinued on fifth page
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Honolulu
Nippu Jiji
Japan
United States
Hanihara
Tokyo
Washington
Matsui
American Congress
Matsui Aggerted
America
American State Department
Pacific
Lions Out at Zoo Stampede Injures Two Girls
A crowd of about 600 panic surged in the lion house as cries of the lion being out rang out during the annual egg rolling at the zoo. Dorothy McCrone 10 and Rosa Thomas may have bruises from being knocked down but are not believed seriously hurt. Park police restored order after youths shouted the alarm causing the stampede.
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Zoo
Dorothy McCrone
Malcolm McCrone
Sixth Street
Rosa Thomas
Third Street
W. S. McCarthy
Lion House
Stone Presented to Supreme Court, Harlan F. Stone
The new Attorney General Harlan F. Stone was formally presented to the Supreme Court yesterday. He had been admitted to practice before the court in 1926. The ceremonies were simple with an introduction by Solicitor General Beck and brief words of welcome by Chief Justice Taft.
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Associated Press
Harlan F. Stone
Supreme Court
Beck
Taft
President Urges Relief For Dry Land Farmers
President Coolidge transmitted the advisory commission report on Western reclamation to Congress and urged immediate relief for more than 30,000 water users unable to pay government charges. He called for a new policy tied to crop soil quality, saying the current repayment plan is unlawful and unworkable. The message was read in both houses and sent to committees on reclamation and irrigation.
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Coolidge
Congress
Special Advisory Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Pershing Boom as Possible Republican Vice Presidential Pick
The New York Tribune reports a serious push for General John J. Pershing as the Republican vice presidential candidate in November. Mentions Pershing as open to the nomination if Coolidge forces offer it, while supporters act without his direct consultation.
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John J. Pershing
United States
Coolidge
New York Tribune
Pershing
Washington
Senate Votes to Rename Mount Ranier to Mount Tacoma
A joint resolution passed the Senate to change Mount Ranier in Washington to Mount Tacoma. Supporters cited preserving Indian names, while opponents noted public opposition. Senator Borah questioned public desire, and Senator Dill said the legislature favored the rename.
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Senate
Mt. Ranier Tacoma
Mount Ranier
Wash
Mount
Tacoma
Atlantic Seaboard
Borah
Idaho
Washington
Dill
Cecil Vanderbilt License Granted for Asheville Wedding
John Francis Amherst Cecil of the British embassy and his fiancée Cornelia Vanderbilt obtained a license to marry at the register of deeds in Asheville North Carolina. The ceremony is set for April 29 with Lord Will Cecil, father of the groom, arriving from England for the event.
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Asheville
N. C
John Francis Amherst Cecil
Washington
Cornelia Vanderbilt
George W. Vanderbilt
Edith Vanderbilt
Register of Deeds
Lord Will Cecil
England
Think Son Too Young To Wed Mrs Gould Think Son Too Young
Engagement news about Mrs George J Gould Jr formerly Laura Carter of Philadelphia and Carlos Ortis Basualdo heir to an Argentine estate. No formal announcement has been made and Basualdo's family opposes marriage due to his youth, age 22.
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Aris
George J. Gould, Jr
Laura Carter
Philadelphia
Carlos Ortis Basualdo
Senor Basualda
Father Kilis Slays Son Slayer in Court War
In Chicago on April 21 a 53 year old father who believed the law faltered shot and killed a man as he stepped from the criminal courtroom in the county building. His son Frank, a taxi driver, was killed last June by Jack Tose also a taxi driver during a quarrel between taxi factions. The father Patrick Sexton had attended court three times to press for a trial and, upon another delay, fired twice at Rose as he emerged into the corridor.
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Chicago
Patrick Sexton
Jack Tose
Sexton
Frank
Rose
Editors Listen to President Today in New York Broadcast
President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge depart for New York after midnight. Edward T. Clark accompanies the president, who is confined to his room by cold. In New York editors gather for the Associated Press luncheon as Coolidge prepares to speak in a radio broadcast transmitted to eleven stations.
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Associated Press
Coolidge
New York
Wal-dorf-Astoria
Reckles
Hammerstein Weds Miss Dalton Today
Dorothy Datton film star to marry Arthur Hammerstein son of Oscar Hammerstein in a quiet noon wedding in their Drake Hotel apartment in Chicago. The ceremony will be by a rabbi, with Datton previously married to Lew Cody. After the wedding they plan a New York departure aboard the Berengaria for May 14.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Dorothy Datton
Drake Hotel
Arthur Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein
Lew Cody
New York
Nat
Right to Seize Rum Runners Cash Challenged
In New York on April 21 Assistant Solicitor Barnes urged federal prohibition agents could confiscate money found on alleged rum runners. Four men were arrested, one with 520, 948 in cash aboard a motorboat or landightship, as evidence the funds would buy liquor.
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Age of New York
Violent Quake Rocks Mexico City in Early Afternoon
An earthquake lasting 1 minute 25 seconds struck Mexico City and the plateau region just after 1 PM causing slight material damage. No deaths were confirmed, though reports of damage varied across affected areas.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Mob fatally harms Black man near Norway South Carolina
In Orangeburg county near Norway three miles from town Luke Adams a Black man accused of confronting a white woman was found fatally harmed by a mob. Deputy Sheriff Price reported seven or eight injuries to the neck and additional body injuries among those at the scene.
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Orangeburg
D. C
Luke Adams
Norway
Orangeburg County
Price
President Gary links solid Gibraltar in steel market outlook
The article reports Gary's remarks at a corporate meeting amid market tremors in steel stocks and a potential recession. It notes the board’s cautious dividend stance, anticipated industry weakness, and the stock reaction to his statements. Names like United States Steel and Gulf States Steel appear among leading movers while analysts weigh the impact on 1930s era firms.
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New Fark
Tate
Chais Gary
Ur Corporation
United States
Gary
Lusiners
Lkely
Jet
Baldwin
Americar Sa
Gulf States Steel
American Sugar Rec
American Woolen
Paette
Lesden
Houston
Hefinera
Atlantic
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Dawes
Marie Corelli
Forney
Stretford-on- Avon
Shakespeare
Eleanora Duse
Gabriel D'Annunzio
Fiume
Italia
Terry
Bernhacde
Democratic National
Wall Street
E. H. Gary
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
White House
Brooklyn
Jacksonville
Mateur
American Chemical Society
Rome
Cardinal Mundelein
Santa Maria del Popolo
Pinturicchio
Cibo
Maratta
Eaid
Chigi
Raphael
Pops
Oe Ee Membara
The
Mr. Gompers
Sam
Pat
Freedom Today
Miss Nesbit
Hugh Miler
Daugherty Inventlating Committee
L. Whittaker
House
Crimean
Justice
Burns
Federal Trade Board
Cally
U. S
Yamamoto
Mr. Woods
Stone
Cecil—Vanderbilt
Kilis
Hammerstein
Miss Dalton
South Carolina
Gibraltar
Steel Corporation
Tayok Aed
Gary Sev
Hs Polic
Stee
W&s
Pansion Earier J
Abelivon Steel Indy Corporati
Gary Sain
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Gene Preng
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