Air mail lines expand coast to coast passenger service
Chicago June 92 Five combined air rail passenger lines will operate within weeks linking Atlantic Pacific routes. One Los Angeles to Kansas City flight with two stops. Kansas City connects to railways to the end. New westbound connections join New York trains at Cleveland and Kansas City to Garden City. Chicago serves Detroit and New York connections. By July a coast to coast option from New York to Columbus with train plane transfer starts, reaching Waynoka and Clovis then Los Angeles. St Louis to coast flight expected via Tulsa Dallas El Paso San Diego. Aug start for Chicago to San Francisco route with night service. Overall 10,000 more miles daily across five transcontinental services. Tri motor equipment may be added on New York to Cleveland route.
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Bone Dry Congressman Defines Prohibition Killings as Murder
In a Washington debate Congressman Charles Hillyer Brand argues that killing bootleggers is murder rather than lawful self defense. He cites Blackstone and Voorhees on arrest while pressing that officers may not kill unless in self defense, warning against conflating prohibition abuses with malum in se.
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Misapplied force and the prosecutor as fact finder
A historical sentence states that a police officer may not shoot at a felon merely because a felony occurred. It emphasizes that an officer must know essential facts to justify firing and warns against officers acting as judge and jury in enforcing laws. The passage condemns such overreach as monstrous.
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Explodes Myths Of Revolutionary War
New York June 22 UPF novelist Robert W. Chambers says much of Revolutionary era history is superstition and ignorance. He argues Washington myths fade when research reveals the real man and that Congress was not the noble body often portrayed. He also questions Ethan Allen and Molly Pitcher feats and colonial uniforms.
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Really Scotch and the rise of bootlegging
An article by Peter Witt discusses Prohibition era tax and prohibition impacts, noting high duties raise bootlegging, bottle pricing in England, and the public’s view of drinking. It cites a Glasgow case where Joseph Douglas, 32, fined 600 pounds and jailed for illegal distilling and unlicensed wash making amid multiple prior convictions.
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Scotland Yard to curb motor bandits and illegal stills
A fragmented report notes a man found with a small still and wash in Scotland, claimed to cure his sick child, while Sheriff Robertson dismisses the excuse. The piece then shifts to London headlines about increasing car bandit raids as Scotland Yard prepares a crackdown, comparing Chicago’s crime pace.
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