New Trial Opens in Teapot Dome Oil Scandal Case
The second conspiracy trial stemming from the naval oil reserve scandals opens October 17 in Washington before Justice Sidons. Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall face charges of conspiring to lease the Teapot Dome reserve with witnesses sought in Europe.
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International News Service
Washington
Naval Oil Reserve
Harry F. Sinclair
Albert B. Fall
Frederick L. Sidons
District of Columbia Criminal Court No. 2
Europe
Fall
Edward L. Doheny, Sr
Elk Hills
California
Supreme Court
Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Wyoming
Liberty
Canada
H. M. Blackmer
James E. O'Neil
Blackmer
O’neil
Atlee Pomerene
Ohio
Owen J. Roberts
Philadlphia
Artin W. Littleton
New York
George P. Hoover
William E. Leahy
Mark B. Thompson
Thompson
Doheny
Senate
E. L. Doheny, Jr
Hoosier Invents Silk Bandit Net For Bank Bandits
Marion Indiana October 4 1919 W J Lewis seeks a patent for a silk cord fiber net trap lowered by electricity from bank lobby ceilings to ensnare robbers The device features controls under counters vaults and in rear offices and a company plans to manufacture it Also mentions Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ad copy.
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International News Service
Marion
Ind
Lewis
Identified as Dead Negro Alarms Indiana City
John Edward Due, a Black man in Indianapolis, read a newspaper report of his death and burial in Floral Park cemetery and demanded investigations. Coroner C. H. Keever looked into the mix up after a morgue misidentification linked to an amnesiac elderly woman.
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International News Service
Indianapolis
Ind
John Edward Due
Floral Park
Due
C. H. Keever
Keever
City Hospital
F. M. Harper
Negress
Midway Islands a Tiny Pacific Barrier on Route to Japan
Washington reports Midway Island as a minute cable station between Guam and Honolulu, hosting a small population and a steady undersea link to the world. The Geographic Society describes Sand and Eastern Islands, their low elevations, a few trees, and a brief history from 1850, noting a canary colony, Laysan Finch, and Little Flightless Rail present on Eastern Island.
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International News Service
Washington
Civilization
Pacific
Midway
Schlee- Brock
Japan
Hawaii
National Geographic Society
The
Geographic Society
Sand Island
Guam
Honolulu
Islands
Canaries
Judge McAdoo Reflects on Truthful Civic Life
Judge McAdoo writes about a vital subject in a propaganda free piece. The article uses life histories to present an accurate and undistorted view of events as they stand.
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McAdoo
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Hoosier
GROVE
Texas
By AP van
Midway Islands
Pacific Cable Station
Freeman Tilden
Fenimore
Dorothy Black
Guns and
Samuel Marwin
Boston
America
Lincoln
William E. Barton
Life OF
Abraham Lincoln
Ladies’ Home
Ladies’ Home Journal
Puitaperenta
Pennsylvania
William McAdoo
New York City
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