Youth Slays Girl in Real Life as in Popular Novel
Robert Edwards, 22, stands trial for murdering his sweetheart Freda McKechnie in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. The case mirrors Theodore Dreiser’s novel in plot, with Edwards also involved with Margaret Crain and Freda’s pregnancy. Police say Freda threatened exposure of the romance prompting the fatal act.
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Wilkes-Barre
Theodore Dreiser
Robert Edwards
Freda McKechnie
Dreiser
Clyde Griffiths
Roberta Alden
Sondra Finchley
Roberta
Finis
Margaret Crain
East Aurora
N. Y
Freda
Edwards
Miss Crain
Bobby
Fd Wairds
Beasts of Using Grafted Foot by Springfield Superintendent
Springfield Missouri based construction superintendent claims he is among four people in history to walk on a grafted artificial foot. He says the operation occurred during World War I after his own foot was shot away. A second man’s foot was attached via Major Wheeler in Nice, France. The graft needed resetting after returning to the United States, and the wearer reports only a slight limp with foot pain after long workdays.
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Springfield
W. UL. Tracer
St. Louis
Wheeler
Nice
France
America
Tracer
Squirrel litter tragedy after Patchogue kitchen fire
In Patchogue a 15 year old boy Jack Hare started a kitchen fire. A mother squirrel fled the chimney with three newborns. One cub was badly burned, two later vanished. The mother carried them away and one survived.
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New York
Jack Hare
Patchogue
Silver anniversaries and the decades of married life
Pathfinder Magazine notes the custom of giving a wife a silver wreath after 25 years, giving rise to the term silver anniversary. It lists the successive anniversary materials from thirst and third through to the seventy-fifth, including crystal, china, silver, pearl, coral, ruby, sapphire, emerald and beyond.
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China
Pathfinder Magazine
Christmas Visits Mark Burlington Remarks of Local Families
Burlington residents shared holiday travel and family reunions with relatives from Tulsa Glenwood Cameron Houston Rosebud and Westphalia. Several members observed birthdays and Illness while many returned home after Christmas visits with kin in the area.
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R. S. Laird
Bobby
Dorothy O'Neill
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Mary Ellen Tackett
Glenwood
Arkansas
George Logan
Burlington
Logan
J. R. Wright
Houston
William Hardy
Otis Little
Wright
Avon
Guy Johnson
Cameron
Ions
Geraldine
Mildred Herm
Lott
Jack Little
L. W. Sample
Elo Werland
Jake Dodson
Dodson
A. Weems
Belmena
Marshall Weems
Allen Dodson
League Commission Reporter on Japan Mandates
Geneva notes the mandates commission found Japan’s explanation of policy in the mandated islands unsatisfactory. The committee will not recommend further League action, and the minutes of the examination stand as the record of the inquiry.
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Geneva
Japan
League of Nations’ Mandates Commission
League
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