Retirement planned for Indiana’s oldest secret operator Captain Tom Halls
TOM HALLS, famed as the oldest active secret service operator, will retire August 21 after fifty nine years in government service. Born in 1834 in England, he came to the United States in 1858, served as Danville police chief, and later built a long career in Indianapolis. He recalls near-fatal arrests, including a Danville pursuit where a bandit placed a navy revolver to his stomach but was unseen. He was wounded multiple times in his career, including a leg injury from Iron County Missouri and a left-hand wound at Danville, yet retains use of his fingers.
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Indinapolis
United States
Thomas 1. Halls
Sreet
Tom
United States Union Army
Uncle Sam
Halls
Sherwood Forest
Eng
Robin Hood
Secret Service
John Clare
Danville
Clove
Heetaya
Halla
Halis
Indianapolia
Iron County
Missouri
Insurance firm files complaint in draft claim case
Compensations insurers appealed a jury award for Margaret Norton of Bridgeport who sued Barton Bins Narrow Public plant workers. They allege the illness, caused by cold drafts at a window, was not work related. Annie Garfield of Norwall appealed a compensation denial after knee and leg pain from using a power stitching machine. Commissioner Bueck found her condition was not connected to work.
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Edward T. Buckingham
Caum
Margaret Norton
Bridgeport
Barton Bins Narrow Public Company
Carr Mibeaicry O
Annie L.garfield
Norwall
Cuett Peabody Company
Misa Garfeld
Bueckfren
Rev Ratajczak to Sail Abroad on Three Month Trip
Rev Charles J Ratajczak leaves Sterling for an August 4 departure from New York. He will travel three months to attend the 70th anniversary of the heat of St. Francis of Assisi in Assisi Italy and visit France and Poland. He serves as pastor here and has reduced local church debt from $165000 to about $40000 while aiding a $63000 convent project.
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Charles J. Ratajexat
T. Michaela Church
Sterling Fect
Wil Sal
New York
Father Ratajczak
Franciscian Vathera
United States
St. Vraneis
Assiasi
Italy
France
Poland
Father Ratajez
Additio
Harrigans Change Names to Dana in Beverly Society
The Harrigan family, long part of Danvers and Beverly society, announces a name change to Dana Harrigans. Lord Harrigan confirms the Salem court consented to the alteration to a two syllable surname. The family stresses not an aristocratic boast but a personal linguistic preference and notes prior Danvers drugstore ties and relocation to a north shore enclave.
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Beverly
Mas Fay
Bever
Lord Harrigan
Berly
Salem
Brancen
Dana
John T. Harrigan
Danvers
Danas
Bureau of Mines studies miners dust protection devices
The United States Bureau of Mines at the Pittsburgh Experiment Station tested industrial respirators and fabrics such as cheese cloth cotton flannel muslin and filter paper. Results show efficiencies against tobacco smoke from 6 to 33 percent and up to 97 percent for a flat felt, while silica dust filtration ranged from 40 to 70 percent depending on the device.
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Washington
United States Bureau of Mines
Pittsburgh Experiment Station
Department of Commerce
Pittsburgh Staton
Teacher injured as taxi strikes principal on Washington Ave
Misa Mary Whinter a Bridgeport teacher and Wheeler School principal was knocked down by a taxi at Washington Avenue and James Street while returning from mass. Driver Martin Cullen 26 of 420 High Street was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated after the crash and the taxi owner Maude Sulelivan was named. Whinter suffered minor injuries and was taken home.
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Misa Mary Whinter
Sanford Avenue
Bridgeport
Wheeler School
Washington Ave
James St
Sireet Filnter
Washington and James
Martin Cullen
High Street
Dames Street
Cullen
Maude Sulelivan
Warren Priest
Family Deserter Found After Three Year Search
Richard Hare ris formerly of Stamford has been located in Philadelphia under arrest on a warrant charging abandonment of and failure to support his wife and two children. Authorities plan to extradite him to Connecticut for trial. The family had not heard from him or received support for three years.
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Richard Hareris
Stamford
Philadelphia
Warran
Harris
Connecticut
Tria
Lick
Mselstant Stute
Terndy Elgnesd
Seven Girls Hitchhike From Camp to Fairfield Beach
Seven girl hikers from Friendship farm near Danbury met at Ridgeport station noon yesterday. They travel by hitching rides mostly on milk wagons dressed in biking outfits with red bundles on sticks, planning to reach Fairfield Beach while aiming to return before dark. Chaperones Velma Van Arsdale and Theress Grubman accompanied entries from New York and Long Island, with other hikers from Baltimore Philadelphia and New York.
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Friendship Farm
Stony Point
Danbury
Ridgeport
Riley
Fairfield Beach
Golden HI Street
Mam
Fsachel Ry O. van Arsdale
New York
Judy Wolman
Baltimore
Margy Wolman
Helen Spense
Velma Arsdale
Key Rivelis
Philadelphia
Othar Parker
North Carolina
Theeress Grubman
Long Island
Warren Ohio Abolishes Police Force After Financial Collapse
Warren Ohio faces a total police abolition as an emergency ordinance ends the 18 member force by Saturday. The city of 40,000 will lack a police department, rely on the sheriff for law enforcement, and fund salaries and tires through fines and city funds. A public fund drive will seek support to keep the Fire Department operating with a reduced staff as financial ruin deepens.
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Warren
Ohio
Polles
John Smith
Trumbull
Couneil
Attorn
Counett
Ley
Cop
Aishharced
Po- Hce
Harry F. Tankart
Mehta
McCoy's Cod Liver Tablets Promise Quick Weight Gain
An advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Compound Tablets as a safe, natural tonic to combat thinness and illness. It claims concentrated vitamins and minerals from cod liver and vegetables, offering 15 to 20 pounds of healthy flesh in 30 days with a money back guarantee if no weight gain.
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Hindles Drug
M-Coy
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