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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1922
Page
6
Shanghai in October reports a case from the mixed court showing a shopkeeper who, unable to pay a $300 debt, abducted and sold a neighbor’s daughter to a man with several singing girls. The girl earned $325 for her buyer, as described in Edna Lee Booker’s dispatch.
J D Cox of Detroit traveling with his family toward Rome City Indiana lost control when a bumble bee landed on his nose and stung him. The car swerved into a ditch and overturned injuring Mrs Cox a broken arm while Cox his brother and two children were uninjured.
Mrs. Jessie Harper of Lock Box 238 Lorain advertises for a gentleman between 45 and 50 who would want a good woman and be interested in getting acquainted. The notice appears in the Lorain paper dated October 18.
A six year old boy Chun Li in Peking burned his family's house during the Buddhist festival of the dead, swathing the smouldering ruins as onlookers gathered. His parents returned to find him near the blaze while prayers for the dead and offerings were being conducted elsewhere.
An authority promotes flushing kidneys with four ounces of Jad Salis dissolved in water each morning to combat sluggish kidneys and urinary irritation. It attributes kidney dullness, back pains, dizziness, sour stomach, and rheumatic twinges to excess meat and acids, claiming the remedy neutralizes urine acids and strengthens kidney function.
A boy, angered by social talk about a deceased woman, tries to help her in a ritual by burning rice and garlic he found in the kitchen. The home catches fire, and Mr. and Mrs. Chun Li face their loss as a heavenly intervention.
In Millville Florida on October 18 residents report a nocturnal prowler, described as black or tawny or spotted, suspected to be a panther. It killed geese and pigs, with goats disappearing and chickens raided despite searches and loaded guns kept ready.
A seven foot punt loaded with whiskey was spotted on the Detroit River by a U S patrol boat. The unnamed oarsman claimed the liquor was bound for Cuba and produced Canadian clearance papers to justify his voyage, and he was allowed to continue.
Landru’s small motor truck used to haul bodies was sold at auction for less than one hundred dollars. A suburban plumber bought it and plans to exhibit the vehicle at a public amusement park in Paris.
Torrington Wyoming October 18 War has no pity for Mr and Mrs Reed ranchers of the Single country Their son Corporal James N Reed was buried in Fairview Cemetery after being killed in France on July 26 1918 A wrong body was later identified and buried at the depot in Torrington The body buried in New York Graves Registration was for another soldier The New York body was returned and Corporal Reed will receive military burial The Reed family mourned him after his death in 1918 during World War I.
Tarina Prasas Sinha, an Indian newspaper man, told the Defiance Rotary Club that the opium trade poses a direct threat to the United States and called for American aid to stamp it out. He criticized England for forcing intoxicants on Indians and defended native Hindu abstinence. Sinha was among four members of Pussyfoot Johnson's prohibitionist party touring India and the Orient.
Albert Victor Pooley, a former Tank Corps officer, was sentenced in London to three months hard labor for forgery. He quipped poverty is the banana skin on honesty as he faced the sentence.
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