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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1925
Page
6
Exhumation of a woman's body may be ordered by Sheriff W A Johnson of Fremont Neb after parts were found along the Missouri river bank near Council Bluffs and Omaha. Johnson believes the remains may belong to a Frantonit woman who vanished weeks ago.
Sheriff Johnson said a Fremont woman is missing and authorities suspect foul play after a severed leg and torso were found on opposite riverbank sites. The case, investigated by Council Bluffs and Omaha officials, has been active for a week.
The Associated Press reports that a long standing theatrical superstition about a hoodoo affecting any attempt to stage a play about Edgar Allan Poe was strengthened in New York on October 13 as preparations or discussions continued.
J W Mayer longtime Liberty theater manager and part owner died at 1 30 this morning in his hotel apartment from pneumonia. A play titled Edgar Allan Poe closed at the Liberty after a disastrous one week run. The Liberty presented Poe’s career on stage with James Kimmswood and Lila Lee.
Editor Fullerton Brown of the South Side Review of Chicago argues in a signed column that the paper and its readers are not bound by a single leader or faction. He asserts there are many creditors and paths to independence from any one clique.
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