Gifts for Easter Season Brighten Homes and Hearts
A survey of Easter gift ideas in big stores highlights artful bindings, ivory frames, porcelain egg sets, and lizard skin leather wares. Suggestions range from diaries and book bindings to enamel chests and narcissus bouquets, with price notes and decorative china also featured. The piece also covers Easter lilies as a market icon, noting Bermuda bulbs dominate U S supply and detailing their cultural significance and export volumes.
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New York
Ingenman
Buried His Money Three Wives Starved Them All
A sensational tale recounts a man who kept riches sealed away while his three wives perished, allegedly starving them as he sat on his porch and watched their funerals. His greed and cunning outlasted him, with the end coming near as he hid bonds and claimed a grim triumph in death.
Hidden treasure on Old Bill Bennett farm near Cannan Conn
A deceased farmer Old Bill Bennett, 85, buried cash and government bonds worth at least 100000 on his Ca nnan Connecticut farm. Neighbors suspect the orchard or grain field hides the hoard while a trusted acquaintance recalls Bennett's wealth and distrust of his daughter Mrs. Mary Grimes who was disinherited. His life centered on money and suspect private passages remain unfound.
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Old Bill Bennett
Canaan
Conn
Old Bill
Bill Bennett
Bill
Mary Grimes
Married a Burglar Sparks Divorce Suit in Sunbury
Annie Zeigler Hayes who wed Edward Hayes two weeks earlier in Trevorton Pennsylvania has filed for divorce in Sunbury after learning her husband is a burglar. Hayes and accomplice Clarence Ludwick were jailed in Sunbury following multiple burglary arrests in Milton where coal stolen last Saturday was traced to a police-occupied building.
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Edward Hayes
Trevorton
Sunbury
Annie Zeigler
Hayes
Milton
Clarence Ludwick
E. W. Johnson
Police Department
Ludwig
Terrible Fate of Harriet Ford Found in Ice Choked River
Harriet Ford of Columbus, aged 60, was found dead in the Scioto River after entering the ice while wandering, apparently attempting to cross the river. Her arms clung to the hole’s edge as she froze upright, the body later discovered by a fisherman.
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Harriet Ford
Columbus
Cale
Scioto River
Harry Blair
Ford
Fashionable costumes for wives and daughters in two colors
A Woman's Corner feature discusses combining two shades of the same color in gowns, noting three-tone gray ensembles with satin piping, silver buttons, and cerise velvet accents. It describes hats, lace garnitures, toques, turbans, and beaver fur trims as current evening wear details from the Chicago Chronicle.
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Dresden
Chicago Chronicle
Practical Joker Fatally Shot After Church Outing
Orlando Deweese of Marion Olio escorted a young woman from church when Virgil Eberly and two companions stepped from behind a tree. Eberly drew a revolver and shouted to surrender, but Deweese shot him through the lungs. Eberly and his accomplices were attempting only to frighten him. In a separate note, a European milk production figure from ten years earlier cites 32,000,000 pounds valued at 64,000,000 pounds.
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Orlando Deweese
Marion
Olio
Virgil Eberly
Eberly
Europe
Fest Husband of Them All
An authority on mankind ranks the best husbands among types. He praises the fishing man, the lawyer, and the all around journalist as good partners. He is cooler on doctors and musical geniuses who neglect family. The journalist emerges as most capable, practical, and broad minded despite flaws.
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ER Presents
China
Copenhagen
Ephesus
Tve
New York World
Bermuda
United States
Holland
Japan
Emmanuel Church
Lambeth
England
F. W. Simms
Lyons
Cos
C. J. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Burlington
Arizona
Arkansas
Nesnaska
Kansas
Omaha
P.S
Nebraska
Lyon & CO. Tobacco Works
Durham
Normandy
FR Igents
Iowa
Norman Lichty
Deuggist
Lows
Saleamen
Samoa
Hawaii
South Seas
Australia
Egypt
Palestine
Cannes
Alabastine CO
Grand Rapids
Mic
Chicago
Henres St
Barsam
Ensio
John Wowdorre
Buroe
Syra
Mechem Vestment CO
Denvey
Guisbers
Towr
Farm Agen
Chemical Gine Co
Walnut &T
Des Moines
Thompson
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