Tunney Rescued After Frosty Moosehead Lake Dive
Gene Tunney world heavyweight champion plunged into Moosehead Lake while attempting to leap an ice wrinkle near Rockwood Maine. A three man human chain pulled him from the icy water and he shivered in bed at Rockwood hotel. He later traveled by auto then walked four miles to his holiday camp.
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Rockwood
Maine
Moosehead Lake
Gene Tunney
Tunney
King’s Camp
Tom Hogan Point
Dempsey
Paris Makes Merry Cheaply as Possible This Christmas
Paris, Dec 25 AP. Christ mastide in Paris was unusually quiet as locals celebrated at home with frugality. Reveillon feasts lacked the costly brilliance of postwar mornings as Santa Claus faced a rising franc and fewer patrons in restaurants. No Full up signs appeared and no one with money was turned away from public entertainment.
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Paris
Woman leaps to death in West 55th Street apartment
Pauline Hargett, 28, of Steubenville Ohio, leaped eleven stories from a West 55th Street apartment after leaving a dining party. Police found a physician's prescription blank in the apartment with the message Good bye Connie.
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New York
West 55Th Street
Pauline Hargett
Steubenville
Ohio
Connie
Escape Of Foxes From Farm Starts Minnesota Hunt
Anoka Minnesota December 25 AP reports a day long hunt to corral fifty foxes still at large after 63 of a 72 fox pen escaped from a granary. Mounted guardsmen citizens and hunters will join the effort between Rum River and the Mississippi River aided by raw beefsteak lures with a $10 reward per fox.
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Anoka
Minn
Rum River
Mississippi River
Twin Cities
Alaska
R. H. Monahan
Minneapolis
Indictments Grow Over Canton Publisher Murder Case
In Canton Ohio, prosecutors plan new indictments against Ben Rudner and Louis Mazer after Patrick McDermott’s first degree murder conviction. Rudner likely faces February trial. evidence links bootlegging and vice ring leaders to the plot against Don R. Mellett.
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Canton, D
Don R. Mellett
Canton
Patrick E. McDermott
Ben Rudner
Massillon
Louis Mazer
Mellett
Rudner
McDermott
Henry W. Harter
McClintock
Germans Attack French Soldiers After Midnight Mass
Two French soldiers were attacked and beaten by seven Germans as they left the garrison chapel after attending a midnight mass. The incident occurred in Mayence as wartime tensions escalated during the holiday period.
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Mayence
Germany
Ex-Convicts Dine Out in Chicago Aiding Reform
Three hundred men from twenty penitentiaries shared Christmas dinner in a Chicago cafe hosted by Dr. Ben L. Reitman, Union of outcasts. Guests spoke of crimes, hardships, and hopes to go straight, recalling prison hardships and past punishments.
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Chicago
Ben L. Reitman
Ford of Ye 1325 WAG ABNORMAL INALL BUSINESS
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 25. Henry Ford told The Associated Press that 1927 opens with a surplus of everything and a large debt. He dismissed rumors of a low priced six cylinder car and discussed prosperity, production balance, and potential future interests in rubber. The interview hints at continued skepticism of immediate plans.
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Detroit
Mich
Henry Ford
Associated Press
Ford
Luckenbach Liner Crashes into Port Dock at San Pedro
The freighter J. L. Luckenbach rammed a ferry landing in San Pedro causing several dock buildings to collapse. About 150 ferry passengers aboard a nearby vessel narrowly avoided the ship and many on the dock fled to safety as the steamer tore away 50 feet of piling. An inquiry by steamboat inspectors will follow.
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San Pedro
Cal
J. L. Luckenbach
Terminal Island
Boston
Steamboat Service
Train crash kills three on Gulf and Ship Island line
Van Martin engineer Lane Langford brakeman and Ernest Scott fireman died when the engine of a Gulf and Ship Island train on the Columbia branch fell through a washed out trestle south of Silver Creek Mississippi early today.
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Hattiesberg
Miss
van Martin
Lane Langford
Ernest Scott
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
Columbia Branch
Silver Creek
Mississippi
Hunt calls special session to act on Boulder Dam bill
Governor George W. P. Hunt urges drastic action in a call for an Arizona Legislature special session in Phoenix on January 3 1927. The agenda includes conservation and development of Colorado River resources and funding for the Arizona State Highway Department amid disputes over Santa Fe compact and Boulder Canyon Dam terms.
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Hunt
Boulder Dam
J. McQuillan
Arizona
Colorado River
State
Congress of the United States
Colorado River Basin
Cache
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Nevada
California
Legislaure
Senate Committee On Irrigation and Reclamation
Committee
House of Representatives On
United States Congress
State Highway Department
George W. P. Hunt
Phoenix
Arizona State Highway Department
Christmas gifts pour in for President Coolidge and family
Washington observers note a record volume of remembrances for President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge on Christmas Day. Vice President Dawes returns to Illinois, while Coolidge works on a Tren ton address. The Coolidges attend Foundry Methodist church with son John as rain falls.
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Washington
Coolidge
Dawes
Illinois
White House
Trenton
N. J
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
Sixteenth Street
Washington Federation of Churches
G. M. Diffenderter
Weather Outlook for Arizona and New Mexico
Arizona faces unsettled Sunday with possible snow in the northeast and a warmer Monday with likely fair skies. New Mexico expects Sunday and Monday to be cloudy and unsettled with rising temperatures. Santa Fe reports a high of 26 and a low with no precipitation.
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Arizona
New Mexico
Winslow
H. J. Fouts
Santa Fe
Farmer Kills Nine in Family Tragedy at Farewell Farm
George J. Hassell, a Farewell Texas farmer, confessed from a Farwell hospital bed that he killed his wife and eight children three weeks earlier and buried them in an improvised grave behind the house. He plans to give a signed statement detailing how and why, as officials probe the case and community buries the nine victims.
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Amarillo
Tex
George J. Hassell
Farwell
Hassell
Texas
Clovis
New Mexico
Trace
Blair
Oklahoma
Latimer Orders Disarmament at Puerto Cabezas
Rear Admiral Latimer in charge of the American special squadron orders Dr Juan Bautista Sacasa and his Liberal cabinet to disarm or leave Puerto Cabezas now a neutral zone. US Marines and sailors were landed to protect lives and property, creating a neutral zone within rifle range of foreign interests. The Liberal government protest follows as Latimer also directs taxes flow to the recognized conservative government. Details on the operation remain scarce.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Latimer
Juan Bautista Sacasa
Puerto Cabezas
Admiral Latimer
Mahogany Companies
United States
Washington
State Department
Denver
Cleveland
Julian Latimer
Special Service Squadron
Nicareaguan
T. S. Vaca
Sacasa Liberals
Cacasa
Ben
Vaca
Sacasa
American Congress
Boy Scouts Award Life Saving Medals and Certificates
Five Boy Scouts from different sections were awarded life saving medals by Daniel Carter Beard, national Boy Scout commissioner. Nine others received certificates for rescuing others from drowning.
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New York
Daniel Carter Beard
New York Santas Face Postholiday Grind For Work
Christmas day finds New Yorks Santa Claus workers searching for new jobs as the holiday rush ends. For ten days they earned 3.25 dollars daily wearing red and white suits concealing poverty and cold. They switch corners for better tips, then return to the hunt Monday.
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New York
Santa Claus
Associated Press
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Ghain Pung
Champion
Minnesota
Atlanta Penitentiary
Reitman
Boy Scouts
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