Mail fraud schemes and the rise of deceptive ads
A century of mail fraud shows clever con artists using mail drops to push fake products and get rich quick. Victims include everyday shoppers and ambitious households. enforcement grows but losses reached about $395 million last year.
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Morton C. Paulson
Mall
P.T. Barnum
Barnum
C. Nell Benson
Aobounds
Thomas A. Ziebarth
Postal Service
Yesteryear
George Washington
Windsor
Ohio
U.S
Congressional
Halsan
Ben L. Steele
Carl Albert
Martin Luther King
Ralph Abernathy
Robert Kennedy
Steele
Corry Child Abuse Seen as Low but Not Ignored
In Corry the incidence of child abuse is viewed as small but all agree it warrants attention. Hospital and school sources report few confirmed cases, yet neglect and poor care appear in proofs such as dirty conditions and malnutrition. Agencies note most neglect stems from family situations and untreated problems.
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Gwan Harned
Corry
Corry Memorial Hospital
Audrey Young
Jean Goal
Joyce McKnight
Carry
Erie County
Children Services
John Kelsey
Domestc
Children Services-Child Welfare Department
Goal
Kelsey
McKnight
Samuel Antrim
Antrim
Department of Public Warfare of
Pennsylvania
Statehouse debates on symbols and laws across states
The text catalogs varied state actions and proposals. It notes Virginia weighing citizen bounty pay, Wisconsin recognizing monarch butterfly as state insect, Kentucky naming the coffee tree as state tree, and Missouri, Delaware, Maryland debating or enacting measures affecting pledges, meetings, fees, and licensing related to gypsies and other groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Quinlan Case Sets Right to Die Precedent in New Jersey
The New Jersey Supreme Court, in a 7 to 0 decision, upheld a privacy based right to discontinue life support for Karen Ann Quinlan, a 22 year old in a persistent vegetative state since April 1975. The ruling allows her father Joseph Quinlan to seek medical opinions and potentially remove the respirator if doctors and the hospital ethics committee agree there is no reasonable chance of recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Mather
New Jersey
Richard J. Hughes
Karen
State Supreme Court
Karen Ann Quinlan
Joseph Quinlan
Hughes
Superior Court
Robert Muir Jr
Julius Korein
Quinlans
Clare’s Hospital
Paul Armstrong
David S.baimes
Quinlan
The
Observer
Julia Quinlan
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Jasmine
C. Neil Benson
Better Business Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Direct Mail- Marketing Association
East 43Rd Street
New York City
National Home Study Council
Lath St. NW
Washington D.C
Lydia Feldman
Merapeutic Board
M.D. Armstrong Society of
Benjamin 5. Frank
Oakland
Calif
Unique Ideas, Inc
Erne Tucker
Annie Shaw
New Life Clinic
Fort Myers
Robert A. ‘Son Jr
Ronnie
Parents Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous
Parents
Pennsylvania General Assembly
House
Senate
By William Ecenbarger
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsy
Mountain
Laurel State
Sylvania
Missouri House
Delaware General Assembly
Maryland General Assembly
Indianapolis
Indiana
Virginia House of Delegates
United States Senate
Richard Schweiker
Milton Shapp
Capitol
Harrisburg
Washington, D.C
Hugh Scall
R-Pa
United States Representative Assembly
Joseph P. Vigorita
Cannon House
R. Bude Dwyer
Honorable Forest Hopkins
Territory
Alaskas
Sovereig
Reagan
Panama
California
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