Vest Pocket Essays on New York City Folly
A humorous urban vignette notes New York as Gotham and describes daily routines from morning coffee to luncheon meetings. It portrays the city as a busy seaport nation’s hub, bustling with business, cocktails, and late nights, while poking fun at office habits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mr. Frizby
East 54Th Street
Gotham
Post Office Department
Bailiwick
England
Metropolis
New York City
Lemon Meringue Pie Douses Fake General at FBI Banquet
At a FBI training school banquet, a staged General Panieff faced critics and a pie assault. Ole Olsen of Olsen and Johnson revealed the prank to the surprised audience as Hoover and Clark reacted with disbelief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FBI Training School
Washington
FBI
Feodor Panieff
Ussr
Mayflower Hotel
Panieff
J. Edgar Hoover
Tom C. Clark
Vishinsky
Ole Olsen
Olsen and Johnson
Gen
Stooges
Hoover
Clark
Burglaries Strike Home and Local Businesses
Burglars entered Ruth Wilsons home at 1319 East Twelfth while she slept, stealing a bill fold and lapel watch. Police suspect entry through an unlocked front door between midnight and 1 AM. Two other burglaries followed at Texas Steam Laundry and Go forth Lumber Yard with glass and window entries, ransacked offices, missing blank checks, and a $330 check found crumpled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Wilson
East Twelfth
Texas Steam Laundry
East Eleventh
Goforth Lumber Yard
West Third
Concessions Open At Recreation Spots
Bids for operating concessions at Elephant Butte Dam and Caballo Reservoir near Hot Springs New Mexico are due November 1. The sites include a two story hotel with 22 rooms and 15 tourist cabins plus a full service concession building with store restaurant and post office and a boat shop. bid forms available from the Bureau of Reclamation Superintendent at the US Court House El Paso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elephant Butte
Caballo Reservoir
Bureau of Reclamation
Hot Springs
Bureau
el US Court House
el Aso
Abilene Sheriff To Take Custody Of Man Held Here
Sheriff H T Fleming of Abilene will arrive in Amarillo to take custody of Bruce Helms, a narcotics suspect with no permanent address, arrested by Amarillo police last Wednesday night. Helms previously served prison terms for burglary in 1935 and 1937 in Odessa.
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Abilene
H. T. Fleming
Amarillo
Fleming
Bruce Helms
Helms
Odessa
Dallas Pastor Seeks Mercy After Teen Slayer Confession
Chicago dispatch reports a 15 year old, Jimmy Hartmann, confessed to murdering Mrs Gracelyn Bush and assaulting Mrs Mary Clausen. Debate rages over punishment versus reform with Dallas pastor Vern Swartsiager urging second chances while Francis Bush calls for an example to curb juvenile delinquency. State's Attorney Tuohy indicated swift trial and formal murder charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Jimmy Hartmann
Gracelyn Bush
Dallas
Tex
Texas
Swartsfager
Pittsburgh
Hartmann
Bush
Bellhaven
Inquest Set for Oct 10 in Bush Stabbing Case
Tuohy outlined plans for a coroner's jury or October grand jury to hear the Bush stabbing investigation. He released Hartmann's confession transcript and declined to discuss the Clausen attack, calling it too atrocious for public reading. Detectives compare the Bush case to the Heirens murder linking robbery to sex crimes and murder in middle-class families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clausen
Tuohy
Bush
Hartmann
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
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Joe Smith
le Popper
Greer Mame
Swift
Fort Wayne, Ind
William Scheele and Sons Co
News-Globe
Don Miller
West
J. E. Hewett
Optometrist
East Stage
Kohler Bros
Boy Slayer's Aid
Mary Clausen
William J. Tuohy
Amarillo Printing
Miracle Market
Spryf
Ort Perea Y
RITZ
Schilling's Coffee
AJAX
F. Poultry
Wilson
Vetesk
Vetesk’s
ARKET
Gebhardt
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