Four Arrests After Denver Man Killed in Roadside Fight
William Swint of Denver died after R A Blackburn struck him on the jaw during a passing collision near Fort Lupton. Four men with two women fled northward. deputies later arrested them north of Evans. Swint and H Farrington had been en route to explore homesteads and fishing. Blackburn is named as the striking party in this fatal incident.
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Greeley
Cole
Wiliam Swint
Denver
Swint
Wyoming
R. A. Blackburn
Wichita
Kan
Blackburn
Harrington
Barrington
Evans
Man Seeks Sunday Wife Over Ill Child
Chicago man D. Batfield appeals to authorities to locate his wife whom he sees only on Sundays. He says separation stems from her desire to work and find a job and furnished room. He had no address for her and fears for their baby as illness worsens.
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Chicago
Batfield
Hatfield
Incorporation aims to rear eighteen foster children in Wisconsin
The W. B. Birchcock family in Racine objects to rear ing eighteen foster youths aged six to twenty one. Mr and Mrs Hitchcock of Ogema claim to have formed an incorporated family offering care and education in exchange for stock dividends from a farm.
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Racine
Wis
W. B. Birchcock
Storegirl’s Fatal Shooting Sparks Jealousy Motive
Goldie Sturgill shot Mrs. Alice Hammock five times after a disputed looting of store clothes tied to a jealousy triggered journey across the Pine mountain trail. Hammock survived the attack, with Creech reporting the wounded bride’s fatal injuries near Whitesburg.
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Lexington
Goldie
Pine Mountains
Whitesburg
Alice Hammock
Sturgill
Hammock
Wise County
West Virginia
Sturgills
Miss Sturgill
Goldie Sturgill
Wilson Creech
Man Believed Dead Returns Alive After Years Gone
Lafayette Indiana residents learned John Wyrner, missing from Oxford for over four years amid a nationwide search, reemerged alive. In 1916 he vanished after family hardship, with rumors of a river skeleton briefly linked to him. He explained fleeing domestic trouble, spent two years in Cuba, then traveled east to find his wife and children.
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Lafayette
Ind
John Wyrner
Oxford
Wyrnor
Wabash River
Wyrwoz
Lockport
N. Y
Cuba
Wyrwess
Farmer's suicide using dynamite cap shocks Dupont Wis
Herman Bressler a sixty five year old farmer of Dupont Wisconsin placed a dynamite cap in his mouth and blew his head off in a self inflicted explosion. Police described the act as a tragic suicide amid debts and worry.
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Dupont
Wia
Debta
Herman Bressler
Wis
Wanted A Husband Heate In The Pen 1920
Janice, a lonely mill worker, creates a fantasy husband named John Carpenter of Hay Ranch Oklahoma to cope with loneliness. A scaffold collapse leads to hospital care where the imagined suitor appears in person, revealing he is real and from Hay Ranch. He found her letters, returns to claim his wife and proposes a cottage life away from the city.
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McClure
Janice
John Carpenter
Rooming House
United States
Hay Ranch
Oklahoma
John
Trong
Lfe
Shenert
Mr. Man
Coke as Future Fuel Boosted by U S Mines Board
The article argues gasoline will rise in price and coal by product coke ovens will supply substitutes. It cites the United States Bureau of Mines predicting coal by product processing for fuel and gas, noting Germany’s wartime shift to coal and the role of coke in smokeless furnace fuel and light gas for cooking.
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United States
Government Bureau of Mines
Germany
Art Collectors Fooled by Egypts Fake Mummies
Wealthy collectors pursue Egyptian treasures only to be duped by crafty Arabs who manufacture mummies from the bodies of their dead. The con includes swathing in windings and placing them in stolen cases. A mysterious Arab leads the buyer to an abandoned pyramid where the fake mummy is found. The Arab helps smuggle it out of Egypt to avoid Egyptian authorities who examine relics.
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Egypt
Jet Mining and Jewelry Fame Across Whitby and Europe
Jet, a bituminous mineral from Whitby England and mines in Spain and France, is valued for its light weight and high polish. Queen Victoria favored jet jewelry in the late era, while imitations from Italy and glassier substitutes flood the market.
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England
Whitby
Spain
France
Victoria
Italy
Grandmother’s Claim and Houseplants Spark Family Feud
A grandmother threatens to leave nothing to her husband after death over a dispute about flowers. Her grandson James quietly avoids taking sides, joking he would prefer to die after the funeral to attend school. A humorous ad copy about a worm medicine and a fundraiser meeting closes the piece with an amusing speech and roaring applause.
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James
Fully Foreseen. Proposals and nominations stir reactions
A light dialogue has a man asking if Gladya was surprised by a marriage proposal and a woman reply likening surprise to a nominee learning of formal nomination. The text notes Japan’s female factory workers outnumbering men by over a million and comments on how a nurse girl’s success rests on attention to little things.
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Gladya
Misa Cayenne
Suing Over Stolen Kisses Value Cited at Twenty Each
In a case noted by the Bost on Evening Transcript Madge sues two young men claiming a dozen kisses were stolen and valued at twenty dollars each by her lawyer. The dialogue reveals questions about how the valuation was determined and the legal action underway.
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Madge
Jack
Bostos Evening Transcript
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Uni
Wiseconsin Man and Wife Farm Corporation
Kentucky
Sto
Birchwood
Fred Youngston
Youngston
Indiana
By Kate Edmonds
Cateye Siu
Iil
Lydia E. Pinkham
Buffalo
Mrs. A. Roggns
Fargo Avenue
Sacramento
Calif
Peery
Japan
THE
Holland
Wilhelmtine
Pia
F. Young
King Pin Plug Tobacco
Iowa
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