Ten Cent Dance Ends in Courtroom Scandal
San Francisco story of C Harold Morehouse who paid a dime to dance with Clara Hanks Nelson leading to a costly legal saga. Morehouse sought $27 552 back after alleged misused checks while Nelson faced trials. one led to acquittal and fanfare as she was carried from the courtroom.
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San Francisco
C. Harold Morehouse
Morehouse
Clara Hanks Nelson
Oakland
Mrs. Nelson
Mr. Morehouse
Nelson
Paul
Modesto
Cali
Provo
Utah
Tri
Santa Claus
Bovine in Oregon Sets Two New World Records
Independence Oregon reports Golden Chief's Lady May a pure bred Jersey cow owned by Lloyd A Uuiburt produced 19022 pounds milk and 89389 pounds butter fat in 405 days. The milk total tops the 305 day Jersey record of 18047 pounds set by Tormentor's Saucy Meg and the butter fat 805 day record of 805 pounds set by Poet's Mabel Mowat.
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Independence
Ore
Golden Chief
Lady May
Lloyd A. Uuiburt
Jersey
Tormentor
E. A M. Sherman
Charles City
Town
Mabel Mowat
Karl Hanneman
Portland
One Trip Plumbers Win Indiana Trademark Registration
The One Trip Plumbers have registered their trade mark in Indiana. The corporation based in Rock Island, Michigan, filed with official photos of its truck bearing the name. The firm can now conduct business within Indiana under the mark.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
Bock Inland
Pike Bites Off Fisherman's Hand in France
Jacques Sourben of Pontbige in the Oise river caught a 23 pound pike. The fish struck as he drew it into the boat and severed his left hand just above the wrist.
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Pontbige
France
Jacques Sourben
Oise
Hair in Maine Tree Traced to Old Legend
A Maine legend links a hair found in a Leeds tree to an old superstition. A 250 year old tale from Augusta recounts a man named William B. Waskett discovering a hollowed tree with hair and clippings from fingers and toes. The belief held that inserting hair and nails in a bored hole would cure toothache.
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Maine
Augusta
Harold Philoon
Leeds
William B. Waskett
Quaker Hill
Sidney
Haskell
Greenwood
Elace
Minors in Milk Prove Watered Supply Case in France
M Boudant a dairy owner at Conde-sur-Noireau near Caen caught a farmer selling him watered milk. A can contained two small islets in the milk and Moe Clementine Hamel owner of the supplying farm admitted that part of the brook on her property had been introduced into the milk can.
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M. Boudant
Conde-sur-Noireau
Caen
Moe
Clementine Hamel
Changsha and Hankow Scenes in Hupeh and Hunan
The narrative surveys Changsha in Hunan and Hankow in Hupeh, noting Changsha’s capture by Communist forces and its historic ties to Yale in China. It describes Hunan coal, Changsha’s historic prominence, and Hankow as a vast inland port with 1.5 million residents, crowded streets, busy markets, and a riverfront bazaar culture reflected in junks, sampans, and river traffic.
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National Geographic Soclety
Washington, D. C
China
Hunan
Yangtze
Changsha
Hankow
Hupeh
Great River
Fiity
Yale
America
Holy Hill
Tally
Halley
College and Hospital
Pinghalang
Changaha
Hunyang
Tseng Kuo Fan
Gordon
Taeng
Li Hung Chang
Changsha Lea
Ching
Hantow
Changaba
Chicago
United States
Droduce
Hanyang
Wuchang
Pnaseraby
Beogara
T¢Ugh
Éhkescter Druggists
Bund
Hare
Haakow
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Japanese Red Cross
John Barton Payne
American Red Cross
Brest
Hunan Province
Orient
Harkow
Angtze Poluta
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