Spain Swindle Tales Of Imprisoned Princesses Revisited
The Spanish princess fraud is described as a long standing ploy where impostors seek investors by claiming imprisoned beauties in Granada towers. Names borrowed from historic queens are used, with travel to coastal castles and coded letters to keep the scores of the scammer intact.
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Spain
Gran
United States
Germany
Granada
Washington Irving
Alhambra
Zayda
Zorayda
Zorahayda
Moraymah
Alshah
Bird dies with her young beside burning pine
In Asbury Park a giant pine in Brielle burned and toppled as a fire swept the woods. A hawk hovered over its nest with a fish for three young, then the parent sheltered them one last time before the tree crashed and the hawk and nest perished.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Brielle
Beaumont to open first dog paradise in the South
Beaumont Texas reports T D Brooks of Brooks Supply plans a dog paradise after purchasing over 200 canines from the city pound. He aims to build the largest kennel in the South to save homeless dogs slated for euthanasia.
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Beaumont
Tex
T. D. Brooks
Brooks Supply Company
Alrealy
Brooks
Caterpillars Ravage Kipling District Forests
Caterpillars have eaten up about 50 square miles of Kipling district forests near Regina Sask. Scarce green leaves remain and the desolated woods resemble a winter scene, forestry officials say.
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Regina
Sask
Kipling
Traffic color standard urged for public safety
A Chicago report covers recommendations from the American Railway Association signal section urging standardized traffic colors. Red for stop everywhere, with limited exceptions at railroad crossings. Yellow for caution in automobile taillights and for calling police or other uses.
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Chicago
American Railway Association
Illuminating Engineering Society
International Traffic Officers’ Association
American Engineering Standards Committee
Eeu Igeee
Tenia Aeier
TNE & Eee
Pouibay
A. H. Rudd
Esi Egeaaytrasta
Ieee
Gopher Turtle Brought From Florida At Brooklyn Museum
Theodora Olsen is pictured with a gopher turtle from dry Florida pine woods brought by Curator Englehardt of the Brooklyn Museum. The creature, a rare vegetarian species, feeds on grass and farm products and remains unusually tame and harmless during the feast of battle as it retracts its head and limbs into its shell.
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Miss ‘Theodora Olsen
Pine
Florida
Englehardt
Brooklyn Museum
Paris Beauty Sues Manager Over Broken Stage Dream
France's top beauty Mlle Germaine Buchet sues a theatrical manager for breach of contract claiming he blocked her chance to star in the operetta Helen Returns after she quit marriage proposals to pursue acting. She seeks enforcement of the promise or damages.
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Paris
France
Suinga
Mlle
Germaine Buchet
Helen
New Mille
Buchet
Skunks Lure Bees From Hives and Eat Them
Washington A report from Ohio to the Agriculture Department outlines how skunks raid beehives at night. They scratch the hive, trigger the bees to swarm, then eat them. The survey advises fencing hives with chicken wire at least three feet high.
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Washington
Ohio
Dialogical Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Biological Survey
Katmai eruption hailed as mankind’s unlikely ally
Dr. Robert Griggs told a National Education Association geography conference that Mount Katmai’s 1912 eruption, though distant from civilization, aided science and climate. The ash cloud cooled the 1912 summer, delaying sunlight and creating a vast ash-covered area larger than Delaware, with two cubic miles ejected from the summit and the peak’s current whereabouts unsolved.
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Washington
National Education Association
Boston
Mount
Katmal
Alaska
Robert B. Griggs
National Geographic Society
Society
Sahara
Delaware
Montenegro offers rewards to mothers of male babies
The government of Montenegro advertises bounties to mothers who bear male children amid a collapsing birth rate after wartime losses. Women seek help from Red Cross nurses to obtain a medicine to produce boys, reflecting deep cultural preference for male offspring and the legacy of Ottoman rule and ongoing defense concerns.
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Cotinje
Montenegro
Black Mountain
Red Cross
Turkey
Balkans
Bride and ex-suitor drown in North River plunge
Mrs Margaret Gallagher aged nineteen and former suitor Thomas Cassidy died after leaping from a ferry boat into the North River at dawn in Union Hill Hoboken. Cassidy tried to rescue her but both drowned. Gallagher had married Andrew Gallagher two months earlier following a night of Hoboken and Union Hill cabarets.
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Union Hill
N. J
Margaret Gallagher
Hoboken
Thomas * Cassidy
Andrew Gallagher
North River
Cassidy
Old Time Sing at Pleasant Grove Church
West End notices invite all to an old time singing at Pleasant Grove Church Sunday October 8 in the afternoon at two o'clock. Attendees urged to bring Christian hymn books. Local society reports include birthday celebration for Mrs. E. M. Lawing and family visits across nearby towns.
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Pleasant Grove
J.T. Grose
C. H. Grose
Z. McDonald
Ruthd College
Chalmus Grose
Cora Lee Dalton
Ada Long
E. C. Weir
B. Z. McDonald
Edith Williamson
Mr. Williamson
L. C. Williamson
E. M. Lawing
C. L. Williamson
J. P. Williamson
Renn Williamson
Administrator's Notice for Mrs Emily Logan Estate
W G Jackson administrator announces claims against the estate of Mrs Emily C Logan, late of Rutherford County North Carolina. Creditors must present claims by August 28 1923 at Charlotte NC P O Box 1080 or risk loss. debtors should pay promptly. Notice dated August 17 1922.
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Emily Logan
Rutherford County
North Carolina
Charlotte
N. C
W. G. Jackson
Emily C. Logan
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Texas
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Railway Association
Beauty Sues
West End
BAIN
Miles
Ted Qrmdicn
Squisliot
Buick
Smith’s
Coats
The
Aug. W. Smith Co
Spartanburg, S.C
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