Ukes Made in Ohio Claim Shocks Beach Fantasy
A scrambled spoofed pulp item notes ukulele production in East Sparta Ohio. It pivots to a Memphis Alabama kidnap tale and ends with news of Samuel J. Montgomery a Republican from Barnettsville Oklahoma and wartime Croix de Guerre hero with Marine service and golf prowess.
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Lissen
Shrek
Ohio
East Sparta
Congress
Samuel J. Montgomery
Barnettsville
Okla
Marine Corps
Airplane crash near Plansfield Virginia forces landing
An army plane from Norfolk fielded a wrecked flight that ended with a forced landing near Brussels after an attack by a bull. The pilot escaped with only a broken nose as the craft was destroyed in the field. Abraham Lincoln was 52 at his first election.
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Noes
Plansfield
Hampton Roads
Mitchell J
Brussels
Abraham Lincoln
Prayer Restored His Sight and Odd Weather Notes
A brief item notes that prayer restored a man’s sight. It also mentions a general average temperature of the Central American region at 79 degrees and recalls orange prices of three for two cents, reflecting a mix of local color and short human-interest bits.
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Salvador
Cabaret Singer Ex- Pastor Faces Divorce Suit Fallout
Joseph Lycell once pastor of a Baptist church in Chicago now performs as a cabaret singer in a city hotel after leaving the ministry amid a divorce suit filed by a parishioner who accused him of being overly intimate with the man’s wife.
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Joseph Lycell
Chicago
Woman Kills Husband After Night Waiting In Kansas City
Mrs Alma Dobson Stewart waited all night for her husband then hunted him with a revolver finding him in a cabaret at 6 am with another woman. She killed him. The report notes 1915 rubber share and a San Francisco check case involving Barbette Hammell hiding with her children.
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Almira Dobson Stewart
Kansas City
Stewart
San Francisco
Barbette Hammell
Unclear wartime report and officials shuffle amid mixed notes
An OCR fragment cites varied items including medical treatments totals at a Syran junction near Kifane, and a political notice: Lergh C. Palmer removed as president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation with Elmer Crowley named to replace him. Supreme Court action mentioned on Druggan injunction. Prohibition enforcement remarks by Judge Sibley reference rural attitudes and urban reports.
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Washington
Lergh C. Palmer
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Elmer Crowley
Boston
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Bunkum
Hawaii
Waikiki
William Mitchell
Coolidge
Martha Emma Horton
William T. Horton
Memphis Tonn
Hortons
Birmingham, Ala
Arkansas
Memphis
Jasper Ala
Martha
Albert Pays
Terhune
Paul Pay
White House
American Legion
S. L. Mabley
America
Robert Haviland, Jr
Pittsburg
Chian
Wm. D. Davis
Nercong N. J
Davis
United States
United
Della Vanna
New York
Syran
Kifane
Department
Supreme Court
Druggan
de Granada
Sibley
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