Tragic eviction story of Raymond Thill ends in hanging
Chicago, Sept. 23 AP. Raymond Thill 61 of 6911 Ravenswood Ave found hanging in a moving van at 7126 North Clark Street Rogers Park. Eviction from a North Side home left Thill with wife Margaret 34 and five children in state care as he sought housing and slept in a storage van while trying to keep the family together. The coroner recorded the death. friends describe a family torn by eviction and housing instability.
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Raymond Thill
Ravenswood Avenue
Devon Storage Company
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Thill
Rogers Park
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Flaine
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Miners in Scotland Press on with Wildcat Strike
Scottish coal miners extended a week long wildcat strike despite pleas from Emrys Hughes to end the stoppage. A vote kept the walkout until at least next Tuesday risking loss of holiday pay and a bonus for not returning to work. Blantype Collieries also continued striking in solidarity with higher wages demand.
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London
Scotland
Emrys Hughes
South Ayrshira
National Union of Mine Workers
Minera
Blantype Colleries
Douglas Leaves London for Washington to report on European crisis
U S Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas departed London tonight bound for Washington to report on the European dollar crisis. He travels with William L. Clayton undersecretary of State for economic affairs who played a prominent role in the Paris conference on European economic recovery.
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U. 8
Lewis W. Douglas
Washington
Douglas
William L. Clayton
Britain Grapples With Short Skirt Feud Hits Cabinet Tone
London AP reports Britain’s government and fashion leaders clash over skirts as Sir Stafford Cripps and J W Belcher defend shorter hemlines. The British Guild of Creative Designers unveils a secret spiral skirt promising calf length, aiming to outpace Parisian styles with modest hem shifts.
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Sir Staf
Light Clothing Association
British Guild of Creative Designers
Eaid Henry Scott
Guild
Britain
Paris
One Pitch Breaks Arm In Brockton Game
James Meese of the Whitman Carlyles, a relief pitcher in an Old Colony league game against Brockton, threw one ball and left the game with a broken arm.
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Brockton, Mass
James Meese
Whitman Carlyles
Old Colony League
Brockton
Work on English Channel tunnel began in 1882
A project to bore an operational tunnel beneath the English Channel was started in 1882 but later abandoned. The effort sought a fixed link between Britain and France, with engineers pursuing a cross-channel voyage of ideas and experiments before shelving it.
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English Channel
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