EV'RY DAY IS MOVING DAY FOR 'WETS' NOW
New York Times. Jan 14, 1920
The ruling of the Internal Revenue Bureau that all liquor stored in safe deposit vaults and similar places must be moved to the private residence of the owner by Jan. 17 was received with something akin to consternation yesterday in New York City. It was predicted ...
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PRINCE'S RANCH AWAITS HIM..
New York Times. Sep 4, 1924
TORONTO, Ontario, Sept. 3. -- W.L. Carlyle of Calgary, manager of the Prince of Wales's ranch in Alberta, is here. When asked about the Prince's visit, he said.
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HUSKY LACKEY GUARDS THE BERLINS IN LONDON
New York Times. Jan 17, 1926
LONDON, Jan. 16 (AP). -- Mr. and Mrs. Irving Berlin, who are spending a part of their honeymoon in London, have remained secluded in their suite at the Carleton Hotel since their arrival, refusing to communicate even with their friends.
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MAYOR'S HOUSE IS HALLMARKED
New York Times. Mar 28, 1926
NEW YORK'S "executive mansion" is a movable place. It might have been otherwise if Mayor Fernando Wood had had his way in 1861, when, swept off his feet by the greatness of America's metropolis, he proposed to the Common Council that New York secede from the Union, taking with her Staten Island and Brooklyn, and set herself up as Tri-Insula, an independent unit, patterned after the old imperial cities of Germany.
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ADIRONDACKS LURE NOTABLES TO REST
New York Times. May 23, 1926
PAUL SMITH'S, N.Y., May 22. -- Not only is this the first time that the Adirondack region will be the location of the Summer White House, but the choice is significant because of the particular section of the mountains here President and Mrs. Coolidge will pass the Summer.
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MR. COOLIDGE IS LEARNING TO PLAY
New York Times. Aug 1, 1926
HERE, five hundred mites from Washington, and not far from the Canadian border, the White House has been transplanted. Never before has the Summer capital been set up so far from Pennsylvania Avenue, and yet, from here, the affairs of the Government are conducted without interruption and with a touch almost as intimate as that given them in Washington.
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DEMPSEY RESUMES HIS TRAINING TODAY
New York Times. Aug 25, 1926
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Aug. 24. -Jack Dempsey will begin training here tomorrow for the defense of his title against Gene Tunney on Sept. 23 in Philadelphia. The champion is ready for a resumption of the preparatory grind which was interrupted by the transfer of the title match to Philadelphia.
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TUNNEY IS TRAILED BY CROWD ALL DAY
New York Times. Sep 4, 1926
STROUDSBURG, Pa., Sept. 3. -- Fame has its disadvantages and Gene Tunney learned some of them today as he sought in vain for privacy in his mountain retreat at the Glenbrook Country Club. The challenger for the world's heavyweight championship started out with the intention of doing a little light road work and then retiring for rest and relaxation for the rest of the day, but he was forced to change his mind by the clamor of visitors.
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RAINY DAY KEEPS TUNNEY INACTIVE
New York Times. Sep 6, 1926
STROUDSBURG, Pa., Sept. 5. -- The steady pitter-patter on the canvas-covered ring in Gene Tunney's training camp today was not caused by falling opponents, but falling rain. All day long there was a steady downpour and the inhabitants of the Pocono Mountains were disappointed that the challenger had to call off his workout.
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TUNNEY BENEFITED BY A DAY OF REST
New York Times. Sep 9, 1926
STROUDSBURG, Pa., Sept. 8. -- Not by what he did but by what he failed to do was Gene Tunney benefited today. He neither boxed nor did he go through his usual exercises, but he had a little seclusion for a change and a good rest.
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GIBSON ADMONISHES TUNNEY TO GO EASY
New York Times. Sep 10, 1926
STROUDSBURG, Pa., Sept. 9. -- A dreary day brought out a dreary exhibition of boxing by Gene Tunney, challenger for the world's heavyweight championship, here this afternoon and the transient experts shook their heads in unanimous dismay.
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DEMPSEY SINCERE OVER SECRET DRILL
New York Times. Sep 15, 1926
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Sept. 14. -- There is going to be no joke about Jack Dempsey's secret training beginning Saturday. Those who expected that the secrecy would have a loophole somewhere were disillusioned today. The champion insisted that he meant what he said.
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DEMPSEY NERVOUS AS HE WEIGHS IN
New York Times. Sep 24, 1926
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23. -- Jack Dempsey arrived here this evening at 7:49, Daylight Saving Time, on a train which left Atlantic City at 6:40, Daylight Saving Time. The champion made the trip from the scene of his month's training campaign at the seashore in a special car, accompanied by six of his camp attendants.
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Queen Bars Press From Tour Train.L
New York Times. Oct 20, 1926
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (AP). -- Newspaper correspondents and photographers will not accompany Queen Marie on the special train on which she will tour the country. This decision was reached when the Queen had expressed her desire to travel in privacy after her return to New York from the Capital late tomorrow.
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QUEEN GIVES $2,000 IN TIPS AT HOTEL
New York Times. Oct 26, 1926
Queen Marie of Rumania distributed between $1,500 and $2,000 in cash gratuities to 150 members of the staff of the Hotel Ambassador, Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, before she departed from Grand Central Station yesterday morning, the hotel management estimated last night.
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ZIEGLER'S SHYNESS SWITCHED WEDDING
New York Times. Jan 7, 1927
The mystery of the sudden shift Wednesday of the wedding of William Ziegler Jr., wealthy business man and sportsman, to Miss Helen Martin Murphy of Troy, N.Y., from the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, where it had been scheduled to take place, to the apartment of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Murphy, at the Hotel Plaza, was explained yesterday when Frederick G. Pohndorff, a business associate of Mr. Ziegler's, let it be known that the bridegroom had been overcome at the last minute by a fit of bashfulness.
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PRESS EXECUTIVES CONDEMN TABLOIDS
New York Times. Feb 10, 1927
Revolt against tabloid newspapers spread yesterday to a luncheon of the Broadway Association at the Hotel Astor, where editors and business executives of other New York newspapers denounced the picture papers for exploiting indecent news in their daily issues.
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GOV. SMITH BACK, SILENT ON POLITICS
New York Times. Apr 26, 1927
Governor Smith is back from his two weeks' holiday at the Seaview Golf Club, Absecon, N.J. He spent the day at the Governor's suite at the Biltmore and will leave for Albany today.
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SAUER WEIN ADMIRES MUCH IN AMERICA
New York Times. May 18, 1927
Although for the past twenty years I have been traveling almost six months every year, it so chanced that I did not visit the United States, and by another accident it happened that when I did enter the country it was not through New York, as is generally the case, but through San Francisco.
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NEW PULLMAN LIKE PRIVATE CAR
New York Times. May 29, 1927
RECENT changes in sleeping car equipment and decoration place the luxuries of the private car at the ordinary traveler's command. Staterooms in the latest model are like hotel bedrooms. In place of the berth is a three-quarters bed, with silk coverlets.
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SEA GATE IN PERIL AS EXCLUSIVE AREA
New York Times. Jun 14, 1927
Property restrictions which have made Sea Gate an exclusive waterfront colony for thirty years and, which also have enabled its wealthy residents to bar all attempts at invasion by non-members of the Seat Gate Association, were put in peril yesterday by a decision of Supreme Court Justice James C. Cropsey, who directed the association to remove a barrier that now prevents public access at Poplar and Sea Gate Avenues.
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When Ships Come In and Ships Go Out They Are on Duty to Guard Both Passengers and Cargo
New York Times. Jul 17, 1927
WHEN a vessel is moored and the passengers have gone, the average New Yorker would probably think there is little more for pier policemen to do; in reality this is the time they must keep their eyes widest open. A vessel in port is a fair mark for thieves.
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LINDBERGH AVOIDS OTHERS' LIMELIGHT
New York Times. Jul 19, 1927
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh came out of the seclusion in which he had kept himself for the last two weeks to go down the bay yesterday to meet Commander Byrd and his shipmates of the America and Clarence D. Chamberlin. He arrived on board the Macom about 10 o'clock, just before she left the pier.
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Lindbergh Sees a Lesson.
New York Times. Jul 24, 1927
CONCORD, N.H., July 23. -- Colonel Lindbergh, established comfortably at Colonel Mason's home, a typical New Hampshire farmhouse a few miles out of this city, used his experiences of the day to illustrate the need of modern flying field equipment.
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THE PRINCE OF WALES IS A HAPPY RANCHER
New York Times. Aug 7, 1927
THE Prince of Wales is having his first real holiday in three years. To some of those whose only knowledge of the heir to the British throne is gained through the press it may appear that his life is, so to speak, one long holiday. But the word connotes freedom, and, according to the Prince, there is only one place in the world where he feels really free to do as he pleases.
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BOUT APPLICATIONS OPENED IN CHICAGO
New York Times. Aug 9, 1927
CHICAGO, Aug. 8. -- Applications for seats for the Tunney-Dempsey fight at Soldier Field on Sept. 22 were opened today at headquarters in the Congress Hotel and the amount of money involved ran into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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THE WHITE HOUSE RENEWS ITS YOUTH
New York Times. Sep 11, 1927
ONCE more a President returns to a "new" White House. Since his exile early in March, Calvin Coolidge has lived for a few months on Dupont Circle and for the uceeeding weeks in the rugged hills of South Dkota.
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DEMPSEY'S GUARDS FORM SOLID WALL
New York Times. Sep 13, 1927
CHICAGO, Sept. 12. -- Statistical experts and others with mathematical minds have estimated that Jack Dempsey will receive $450,000, roughly speaking, for his coming encounter with Gene Tunney on the night of Sept. 22. But Dempsey's intrinsic value is much more than that.
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TUNNEY AGAIN IDLE, SCOFFS AT BRIBE
New York Times. Sep 13, 1927
LAKE VILLA, Ill., Sept. 12. -- Gene Tunney enjoyed a day of complete rest at his camp here today so far as training work was concerned. The world's heavyweight champion didn't even engage in a road workout, although, despite the terrific heat, he spent the afternoon on near-by golf links with some friends.
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Princes Reach London in Deluge of Rain After 15,000-Mile Tour Through Canada
New York Times. Sep 15, 1927
LONDON, Sept. 14. -- The Prince of Wales and Prince George returned to rain-swept London tonight, after eight weeks of travel in Canada on a jaunt of some 15,000 miles. A deluge at Southampton as well as in the British capital helped the Princes to obtain their expressed desire that the end of their journey would witness the same privacy that began it, without any ceremony or public demonstration.
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HENRY FORD TESTING HIS FIRST NEW CAR
New York Times. Nov 2, 1927
DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 1. -- One new Ford model, a two-door sedan, has been run off the assembly line at the Fordson plant.
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