Spiritualist Leader Says Houdini Knows Spirit World
New York spiritualist William Ho Harr it Hovhester, president of the state association, asserts Houdini now knows there is a spirit world. He criticizes Houdini’s acts as largely commercial and deceptive, leaving many with the belief that all mediums are frauds.
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Harry Houdini
William Ho Harrit Hovhester
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Houde
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Cascarets Sell As A Nighttime Stomach Cleanser
An advertisement urges readers to take Cascarets for headaches colds and costive bowels. It claims the product works while you sleep by cleansing the stomach removing sour undigested food and foul gases and freeing the bowels by morning. It touts a 10 cent box and mentions children enjoy the taste without gripe.
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Cascarets
Houdini Case Sparks Claims of Unfair Treatment
The document asserts bias in the Margery case, citing information from men of science familiar with Houdini and Margery, alleging unjust handling and prejudice in the proceedings.
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Shim
Margery
Houdini
Houdini Ill in Canadian City Montreal Show Slated
Montreal reports say Harry Houdini grew sicker upon arrival and was cared for by a nurse. Detroit family claims a student struck him causing the illness while Abbie Wench notes he pressed through the performance. McGill professor Tait confirms no encounter occurred.
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Montreal
Harry Houdini
Ais Montreal
Tolay
Detroit
Abbie Wench
Houdini Veernts
Houdini
Houdinis body starts eastward for New York burial
Houdini will be buried in New York following his death in Detroit after a six day peritonitis fight post appendicitis. His body travels in a specially built heavy brass coffin, as Houdini had planned, from Montreal where he collapsed during a performance amid a 104 degree fever.
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Detroit
Harey Houdini
Sunita
New York City
Houdini
Montreal
Conan Doyle Praises Houdini as World’s Master Trickster
London dispatch reports Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famed author and spiritualist, praising the late Harry Houdini as the world’s master trickster. He calls Houdini’s death a great shock and mystery, notes Houdini’s clean living as a teetotaler, and recalls their friendship and shared views on spiritualism and Houdini’s methods.
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London
Arthur Conan Doyle
Harry Houdini
Westport News Briefs Local Crash and Community Events
A Westport crash near Nash's corner involved Mrs Dora Parons and a child in the car’s clutch malfunction. Parons faces reckless driving charges with a $100 bond, case set for Thursday. Also notes lectures at the Westport Public Library, ministerial dinner in Norwalk, All Saints and All Souls Masses, local theater for the Ridgefield Grange, and social events at Bedford Junior High.
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Westport
Dora Perons
Sedgewick Avenue
New York
Jeff
Nash's Corner
Earier
Harvey Allen
Rowe
Parons
Loots Hit Ten Providence Dental Offices Over Weekend
Ten dental offices and a laboratory at 326 Westminster street in Providence were found looted over the weekend. Nearly 400 dollars worth of gold scrap bridgework and artificial teeth were taken according to ten dentists who discovered broken doors on returning to business today.
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Providence
R. I
Westmister Street
Red Cross Head Refutes Guest Help Claim After Hurricane
Bridgeport residents Mrs Amelia Wenderoth and the local American Red Cross chapter deny that relief workers refused transport for the Guest family from Miami to Bridgeport after the hurricane. Wenderoth says Miami said the Guests refused transport and notes many relief workers were northerners aiding Florida. She calls northern discrimination claim absurd and says aid was offered but declined.
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Miami
Ttridgeport
Amelia Wenderoth
Amelian Hed Cross
Mra. WJ
William
Ruth Guest
Arbagepoet
Ciuests
Bridgeport
Miss Wenderoth
Bidgeport
Relef
Florida
Widow, Ninety, Dies in Greenwich
Greenwich November 1 Special Mrs Elizabeth Traband ninety wife of the late Edward Traband died last night at her home on Valley road after a protracted illness She had lived in Greenwich 23 years born at Hease Germany Four sons and three daughters survive Funeral services will be held from her late home on Wednesday afternoon at 2 oclock with interment in Putnam cemetery
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Elizabeth Traband
Edward Traband
Valley Road
Hease
Germany
Putnam Cemetery
Stalin policy change forecast alters Soviet foreign stance
London reports Stalin head of the Central Executive Committee plans a policy shift slowing foreign Communist propaganda. He aims for de jure Prussian recognition, settlement of Russia debts, and foreign loans to fund development, favoring loans over higher taxes to industrialize, and reducing Communist International activity abroad.
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London
Joseph Stalin
Central Executive Committee
Communist Party
Westminster Gazette
Prussia
United States
Russia
Stalin
Communist International
Oregon Loses Auto Insurance Appeals
Washington and Hartford dispatches report Oregon failed in the Supreme Court to curb insurance companies from indemnifying motor carriers for losses tied to seizures of vehicles used in violations of laws. In Hartford, Charles Bagsett of Waterbury, eight years a garment firm buying agent, serving a life term for murder, asked the state pardon board for clemency.
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Oregon
Supreme Court
Hartford
Charles Bagsett
Waterbury
State Board of Pardons
Workman Buried and Rescued at New Haven
James La Vone, 19, was buried under sand and bricks when a wall collapsed at an excavation in New Haven. Fellow workers freed him. he was treated for shock and minor injuries. The incident occurred today and no serious physical damage reported.
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New Haven
Burles
James la Vone
Patrol Rescues Vessel In Sound
In Long Island Sound the freight steamer Gaston from Newark toward Boston was towed into New London by coast guard patrol boats 187 and 188 and the cutter Petrel after engines failed and water filled the fuel system. The Gaston, 212 by 35 feet, 846 tons, with a 15 man crew, is owned by Port Newark and New England Steamship and operates Newark Norfolk Boston freight runs.
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Long Island Sound
Gaston
Newark
N. J
Boston
Coast Guard
Petrel
Beaton
Horton's Point
Port Newark and
New England Steamship Company
Norfolk, Newark
Belgian Floods Rise Across Meuse and Sambre
Belgian floods continue as Meuse and Sambre rivers swell nine feet at Liege with rising waters threatening Dinant Huy Fremaile and Jemeppe. Homes along rivers flooded to second stories forced evacuations by police and troops. Frost offers slight relief but conditions remain dire. Snow blankets Liege streets tonight.
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T Meuse
Sambre
Curtheyall
Meuse
Liege
Ams
Bristol Adventist Pastor to Leave Bristol
Rev John Roy Fox pastor of Advent Christian church here has retrieved his resignation to accept a pastorate of a mission church of the same denomination in Columbus Ohio. His last service here will be next Sunday with a public reception for him and his wife next Friday evening. Fox came to Bristol from Hoosie Falls New York five years ago and under his guidance the church prospered.
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Bristol
John Roy Fox
Advent Christian Church
Columbus
Ohio
Fox
Trois Hoosie Falls
N. Y
Lea's Hair Tonic Promises Natural Gray Coverage
A vintage advertisement claims Lea's Hair Tonic can revive pigment in inactive scalp glands to restore natural hair color, promising gradual, undetectable changes for both men and women. It urges readers to mail a dollar and receive a prepaid bottle, with guaranteed satisfaction and nationwide distribution.
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Lea
Fearie
Lea's Tonic Company
Brentwood
Lea'e Hale Tonic
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