Wrong Man Arrested in $30 000 Fake Horse Race Swindle
New York report says Thomas W. Bailie w, a Prineton Mo merchant, hunted a band of wiretappers and “fake” poolroom men for over two years after Bailie w lost 30000 to a staged horse race. James Morton was caught in a New York raid and 13 others were indicted in Iowa federal courts for the swindle. Bailie w traced the plot from a western stranger who lent him money and promised a sure win, a plan that ended with a staged stumble and a vanished stake. Bailie w then pursued arrests across the country.
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New York
Thomas W. Baillew
Princeton
James Morton
Mr. Baillew
Morton
Baillew
Iowa
Historic land grant affirmed for Kaskaskia commons
Judge George Crow of East St. Louis upholds an 186 year old French grant to Immaculate Conception parish residents for the Kaskaskia island commons. The decision treats the land as vested in parish inhabitants, recalling Kaskaskia history and the peninsula’s erosion and flood impacts.
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Henry George
George Crow
East St. Louis
Kaskaskia, Ill
Louis XV
France
Kaskaskia
Mississippi Valley
Illinois
George Rogers Clark
Great Britain
United States
Northwest
Judge Crow
Fort Gage
Ill
James Gravier
Gabriel Marest
Mississippi
Missouri
Pierre Vaudreuil
Friends of the Trustees
Vaudreuil
Immaculate Conception
Crow
Supreme Court
Illinois River
Utica
Father Marquette
Chevalier de Rocheblave
Clark
Virginia
Mississippi River
Treasures At Chicago University Found
The University of Chicago holds the Oxyrhynchus fragment of the Gospel of Mark dating from the fifth century. It also possesses the first Greek New Testament issued by Erasmus in 1616 and the Complutensian Polyglot from the Spanish press of 1514, printed about 1521 after suppression.
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Chicago University
University of Chicago
Erasmus
Reform in Connecticut Milk Fraud Declared
Reform in Connecticut noted as twenty quarts of milk offered for sale contained ten quarts of water. The report claims the classic nutmegs were all wood and highlights the rise in cast iron sash weight output to eighty thousand tons annually.
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Connecticut
United States
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Crookes
Louisiana
Edme Gatien Salmon
Commons
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