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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1923
Page
3
Commissioner William Eadie head of the Salvation Army in Japan and his wife perished in the Tokyo earthquake that wrecked the city and caused widespread devastation.
The theater program lists Lucile Mendez as the performer for Little Jessie James. In fact Lucile Castro, daughter of Venezuela's late president, is using the nom de theatre.
A circuit rider admires Gap Johnson of Beutyue Ridge and asks for his name Get answer that the preacher is not called when in hearing distance, reflecting local speech and humor.
In Birmingham, Monroe Hill receives a life sentence for killing Deputy Sheriff Earl Truitt after the officer disclosed his moonshine still. Hill confessed after gold seekers with divining rods stirred fear a grave would be robbed for the dead man's gold teeth.
James Bly ten, motherless, explained firing Public School 5 on July 19 as revenge for being kept out of class. Brooklyn Children's Court ordered examination by physicians. officials noted he appeared abnormal. Guardian Daisy Bly and Deputy Fire Marshal Gaynor questioned him. crowd compared him to Tom Sawyer.
Three young automobile bandits in a stolen car were pursued by police. The driver Carl Marx was shot through the heart and killed as the car crashed into a tree. One accomplice was injured. another escaped.
Mrs Pearl Hunter testified in Peoria that her husband expelled her after she had her hair bobbed. The court ordered Hunter to forgive his wife and return her to the home, restoring the marriage.
Sunbury Pennsylvania report says Joseph Dankes attempted to cut his wife's hair when police chief responded to her distress call. An angry husband fired a bullet at his cap but missed. Dankes is jailed and the wife remains unharmed with her long hair intact.
In Hastings on Hudson New York two men tried to steal a cash register from Jacob Hoffman’s barber shop. He confronted them shouting to come back and talk, causing the burglars to pause and depart without the register which held more than $100.
In North Bergen New Jersey nine year old Joseph Genatt and two friends ten were walking from Floral park picnic grounds when two Great Dane dogs attacked. Joseph was killed by a dog that sank its teeth in his throat while onlookers tried to intervene. the other dog drove away the two boys. Nearly 100 witnesses watched as chaos unfolded and women sheltered the injured boys. Joseph died from a ruptured jugular vein.
Charles Schmidt known as Old Man Smith and longtime watchman at the Hippodrome warehouse ends his life after the death of his cat Rusty. He had faced financial and physical setbacks and, grieving the cat, opened an elevator shaft to trap himself beneath the descending car.
Marylin Jean Anderson three and a half months old fell from a Chippewa Falls railroad bridge into the Chippewa river twenty five feet below. She floated on her back and kicked like a bath tub swimmer until Leonard Girard, 15, waded in and carried her to shore. She swallowed a little water but was uninjured.
Charles W. Riley was shot and killed by a burglar who found him sleeping behind the counter in his Pittsburgh store. The thief fled after the fatal shooting.
Eighty eight year old Greenwood resident M. B. Betts is seriously ill at home with whooping cough, contracted while telling bedtime stories to his seven year old grandchild.
Willis Preston of South Bend Indiana gave a hobo twenty dollars to get change. The hobo took the money and jumped aboard a freight train. Preston pursued but fell from the moving train losing a leg. The hobo vanished continuing on his journey.
Architects question the need for locks on closet and bedroom doors. A bolt or thumb turn may replace full locks and avoid managing keys. Mortised latches cost more than standard locks, and some homes use a single cylinder lock on one closet for security or to hide a family skeleton.
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