Wave of Crime and Disasters Across States This Week
Bank robbery near Necessity Texas ends with a posse capture at Breckenridge. An explosion at Manitowoc Wisconsin hospitalizes many. Florence Housel, 50, is killed in South Pasadena. A bombing fire hits Huntington Hall School. Industrial Workers of the World members found guilty in Spokane. Civil suits against Union Pacific seek damages for ex servicemen. Executive actions cut forestry funding,影. Rear Admiral Sims inquiry starts March 9. Navy pay checks now require a four-finger imprint.
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Florence Housel
Huntington Hall School For Girls
South Pasadena
Calif
Idaho
Colorado
Washington
Arizona
Senate Agriculture Committee
American Forestry Association
Senate Committee On Forestry
Frank A. McCormick
Marysville
Charles Brown
E. P. McDaniel
Global War Aftermath Sparks Unrest and Policy Shifts
War office figures show 190000 prisoners repatriated from French camps since January 20, including 43110 officers. Paderewski to resume American tours. Brakpara sets speed record in Turin. Manitoba doctors report 500000 liquor prescriptions. Japan advances loan via Specie Bank. Britain faces 892000 daily deficit. US raid nets radicals. a New York navy office heist unfolds. Pipeline plans to Chicago from oil fields announced. Leather price drivers blamed. call for 50 million food credit to Central Europe. Chapel cars to aid ministers across railways. 19000 conversions and 8437 baptisms recorded.
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Congress
New York
John McHugh
Commerce and Marine Committee
American Bankers’ Association
Fred I. Kent
Europe
Chicago
Northern Baptists
Endowment funds and developments across New Mexico and Arizona
Rev. Hugh A. Cooper secured a $100000 endowment for the Presbyterian sanitarium in Albuquerque. In Gallup the governor’s action on the coal strike was praised in a Senate resolution. Real estate records show Roy Sorrell bought 46000 acres of Boca Float grazing land for about $250000.
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Hugh A. Cooper
Presbyterian Sanitarium
Albuquerque
N. M
Larrazolo
New Mexico Senate
Arizona
Roy Sorrell
Boca
Congo
George Logie
Cook Bible School of
Interchurch World Movement
Phoenix
Mary Dee Muir
John T. Muir
Lordsburg
City of Lordsburg
Mobile
Ala
Miss Muir
Blame on Paper Critics Target Wallpaper Designers
A London writer argues modern wallpaper drives nerves to breaking point. The piece mocks wallpaper chaos from fruit salad and flower patterns, notes designers favor bold blooms, and urges ads promising calm decor offerings.
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London
Answers
Covent Garden
N. O. Arsnik
Midwest Offices Robbed of Bonds in Inside Job
In Denver the Midwest Refining Company reports the theft of 18 350 in Liberty bonds from treasurer Henry A. Jones’s office on the eighth or ninth floor of the First National Bank building. Police call it an inside job. the strong box was pried open and the bonds dispersed between 2:30 Saturday and 8:30 Monday.
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Denver
Midwest Refining Company
First National Bank
Liberty Bonds
Henry A. Jones
New York Financial District
United States
George Sanders
Jones
Epiphany Feast Influenced Shakespeare Title Swelfth Night Name
The Epiphany, commemorating the Magi visit to the Christ Child, inspired the old English Christmas merrymaking that gave Shakespeare the title for one of his best comedies Swelfth Night.
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Bethlehem
England
Daughter Returns Home From College Visit
A daughter comes home for the weekend from college she has learned to say “Is that he?” and previously said “Is that him?” The note records her speech change and suggests steady progress in language development.
Bank Robbery Attempt Foiled at Suisun City Bank
Vallejo dispatch reports an abortive bank raid at Suisun City the bay area’s largest Solano county bank. Robbers drilled three holes in the main vault with acetylene torches but fled. The vault held close to 1,000,000 in bonds gold silver and currency.
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Vallejo
Calif
Bank of Suisun
Solano County
Supreme Court Sends Three Philadelphia Papers Staffers to Prison
The Supreme Court upheld five year sentences for Martin Darkow and Louis Werner and one year for Herman Lehkme among seven staffers of the Philadelphia Tageblatt and Sontagsblatt indicted on nine counts. Paul Vogel and Peter Schaefer had convictions set aside. The false reports praised German successes and mocked U S entry, while articles allegedly obstructed recruitment and hindered wartime prosecution.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Philadelphia Tageblatt
Sontagsblatt
Martin Darkow
Louis Werner
Herman Lehkme
Paul Vogel
Peter Schaefer
America
Famous Russian Crown for Catherine II Sparked Royal Use
The 1762 crown created for Catherine II by jeweler Buauzie ranks as the most valuable and interesting Russian crown. Since Catherine's time it has been used at the coronations of all Russian rulers.
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Catherine II
Buauzie
Catherine
Russia
Expensive Thoughts on Clothes and Wardrobe
A light quote from the Boston Transcript about married life and fashion. A wife comments on outfits while a husband notes she then buys another dress, highlighting spending and taste in a witty exchange.
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Boston Transcript
Jones Strikes Oil Ends Plungers Street Run
In a sharp turn of fortune Stocksley Jones the plunger ceases street appearances after oil discovery. The joke notes Jones struck oil ending his public run and prompts speculation on his retirement from the business.
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Stocksley — Jones
Jones
New York Post
Canada Population Grows As Census Figures Released
Canada's population is listed at 8,835,100 in figures from the census branch of the Dominion Department of Trade and Commerce. British Columbia's population is estimated at 718,660, reflecting provincial totals in the new tabulations.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Trade and Commerce
British Columbia
Metal markets report from Colorado settlement prices
Bar silver at $1.29% copper at 19 20c per pound lead $8.75 spelter $8.72 tungsten $6.50 12.00 per unit.
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Colorado
Cash grain prices and items in Chicago market
Chicago market notes list mixed oats rye and barley values with No 2 grades cited. No. 2 corn and other grains show bid ranges with small percentage variances. Seed and livestock futures appear alongside feed staples.
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V. Enver
South Park
Straw Ae Eeenseeers
Chicago
Nora R Os
Bolenti
Timothy Gona
Eastern live stock prices list for Chicago market
In Chicago Eastern live stock report hogs top at 15.00 with various weights and classes quoted. Cattle prices show beef steers and feeders ranging from 6.75 to 16.50 with cows canners veal calves and stocker categories noted.
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Jb Alee
Rea
Colo
H. H
Chicago
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Necessity
Texas
Breckenridge
Cisco
Nathaniel Thomas
Wyoming
Delaware
Chester Brown
Industrial Workers of the World
Spokane
Beatrice
Neb
Orlando Langley
Justice of the Peace
Christian H. Pfeiffer
Cortland
Aluminum Products Company
Manitowoc
Wis
Sims
United States Navy
Hale
Palmer
Senate Postoffice Committee
Dial
South Carolina
McKellar
Tennessee
San Francisco
Navy
Department
Ignace Paderewski
Poland
William Hemphill
Paderewski
Paso Robles
Brakpara
Turin
Winnipeg
J. N. MacLean
Viscount Uchida
Japan
China
Moscow
Tolatov
Guriev
Uralsk
Caspian Sea
Great Britain
National Ledger
Cleveland
C. W. Hunt
Lacrosse
Melvin M. Nutson
United States Navy Food Supply Bureau
Jonathan C. Day
Kansas
Oklahoma
St. Louis
Massachusetts Commission On
Boston
Southwest News
New Mexico
Raymond R. Ryan
District Court
Grant County
Campbell
Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman Suffrage Association
Roosevelt County
Mesa Oil Company
Mexico
Nogales
Tombstone
Bunker Hill Company
Nick Ferzin
Gus Argetakio
Larrazola
Arizona Corporation Commission
English Journal
Midwest
Pen
Ecco Rereerereses
Metal Markets
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