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Elgin Echo in Elgin, Iowa

17 Jun 1920

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Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1920

Page

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Crooked Trails and a Tin Cup Train Robbery

A jailbreak and banked deceit unfold as Soapy Stone and allies plot to rob a Texas Pacific flyer at Tin Cup. Curly Cullison swaps identities, leads a bold express car takeover, and a tense night ends with a staged standoff and captures amid moonlit corral violence. Dutch is captured, Curly survives, and a planned raid collapses into a violent showdown at the Flatiron ranch.

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Scanlon Blackwell Beaminn Scanlan Soapy Stone Horse Ranch Texas, Arizona & Pacific Flyer Soapy Stone Sam Saguache Stone Tin Cup Maloney Luck Callison Curly Finndrau Slats Davis Bucky O'Connor Douglas Luck Curly Dick Maloney Circle C Sweeney Jake Buck Ma Joney Soapy Davis Flandran Cullison Pawer Soupy Carly Casa Grande Bill Finel Curly Jim Luck Cullison Qgarly Fplandran Tornilla Mexico Dutch Yolea Culli Son Calligan Valley of Peace Bad Bill Cranston Bey
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Murder Confession in Weird Handkerchief Strangling Case

In Pontiac Michigan Vera Schneider twenty year old telephone operator was strangled. Anson Best twenty one of Tlint confessed after police grilling. He said she forced him to choke her with a handkerchief during a street encounter near Saginaw Auburn and a house porch. Officials doubt his account and believe he overpowered her.

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Pontiac Mich Vera Schneider Anson Best Tlint Gillespie Best Miss Schneider Vern Schneider Saginaw Street Auburn Street Kiases
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Three youths sample mule feed liquor in Cynthiana

In Cynthiana Kentucky three young men drank a crude liquor made by boiling a horse and mule feed brand with a little water. They suffered four days of unconsciousness and confusion after ingesting the improvised drink.

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Cynthiana
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Not Guilty in West Virginia Land Clearing Case

William Brown of Aluntington West Virginia was found not guilty of violating the state's blue law by clearing land on a Sunday. Brown testified he was cutting trees for firewood, arguing it was a necessary act and he was acquitted.

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Uiue Law le Beaton Aluntington Willam Brown Brown
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Letter From Women Reveals Lydia Pinkham Help

Mrs HVA E Shay of Garnett Kansas describes recovery from nervous breakdown after childbirth using Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She details weakness, pain, and curb stairs, notes relief after two doses and five bottles, and credits continued good health and future use to the remedy.

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Hva E, Shay, Garnett, Kansaa
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That Guy’s Money Mystery Stirs Silk Shirt Slick

Silk Shirt Slick of Twelfth Street questions a man seen with him as Nimble the Nick notes the stranger looks classy. The suspect asserts he earned his money, prompting Silk Shirt Slick to call the claim into doubt.

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Nimble Kan Gas City Star
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