Resale book schemes fall as fraud case shocks New York
An industry selling deluxe editions collapses after James J. Farmer and William J. Hartley of the Anglo American Authors Association are convicted in federal court of mailing fraud. They face two years in Atlanta penitentiary. The trial exposed elaborate bait letters and millionaire collectors used to lure buyers, with a dramatic tale of losses and broken promises across the book world.
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New York
United States
James J. Farmer
William J. Hartley
Farmer
Hartley
New England
Baltimore
Chicago
Pacific Coast
London
Paris
America
Carlsbad
Elizabeth C. Moore
Greensburg
Penn
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Glen F. Farmer
Boston
Senora Rosalie Gonzales Stranded As Gangway Wedges Voyager
New York, Nov 22. Senora Rosalie Gonzales, a Guatemala plantation owner aged 60 and weighing 310 pounds, slipped on a ship gang plank aboard the United Fruit liner Sixaola at Fulton street and became wedged, delaying her voyage while crew sought to release her and potentially require wider gangways on steamers.
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New York
Rosalie Gonzales
Guatemala
United Fruit
Fulton Street
Mines in the Sea Worst in War
In a sermon at First Presbyterian Church Rev W M Tufts denounced sea mines as a disgrace to humanity declaring they multiply war’s horror beyond Sherman. He warned submarine warfare drives men toward borderland insanity and noted submarines are guided by human planners.
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First Presbyterian Church
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley Street
Surgeons Create New Eyelid for Injured Man
Sharon Penn Nov 22 Harry Hit kirk a night worker could not sleep because his right eye would not close after an explosion injury. Surgeons fashioned a new eyelid from skin taken from his right leg ending in a successful procedure.
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Sharon, Penn
Harry Hitkirk
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Dickens
Thackeray
Scott
Morgan
P. S
Lst
FUREY
Fitch
Black Fox
de LaRue
Espey
Georgia Rose
Hall
Liggett
Rex
Bon Ae
Lord Baltimore
Beastong
Paris Garters
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Col. Gate
Co Fort
Brookline
Allston
Loew’s
New Globe
Washington
Beach
Washington and
School Streets
Washington and Avon Streets
Americas
Oxford
Rexall
the Cigar Department
Arnold
Bell
Bromo Lithia
Boschee
Graham’s
Gillhooley
King’s New Discovery
Liggett’s Lithia
Moller
Phelps
Wampole
Aed
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