Barnard's Criminal Cipher Code to Aid Police
The article explains a new secret cipher by Floyd Shock that speeds telegrams and aids arrests. It details use by police chiefs from Maine to California, sample messages, and how the system conceals content while guiding investigators to suspects.
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St. Louis Republic
Floyd Shock
George D. Barnard & Co
Mr. Shock
Graham
Young County
Texas
Shock
Laurence Harrigan
Chiefs of Police
Maine
California
Washington, D. C
Peace Officers
United States
Iowa
Scotland Yard
Narrow tires may vanish from legislation by century’s end
Burlington Free Press reports that wagoner era tires could be disposed of as a legal issue within about five years, suggesting that narrow tires might become obsolete or regulated out of existence by the close of the century.
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Burlington Free Press
Price’s Cream Baking Powder Wins World’s Highest Award
The adroit text notes Price’s Cream Baking Powder securing a world’s highest award signaling superior quality amid a line about trusted mills and big brands.
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de. Price
Chicago Beef Trust Probe Advances to Federal Action
Secretary of Agriculture submits a report on the Chicago Beef Trust to the Attorney General who plans to forward it to the United States district attorney in Chicago. Harmon expects vigorous, decisive action to enforce the anti monoply law against a restraint of trade and price gouging. A separate note reports a rare spinal surgery at the French Hospital in San Francisco where Dr Oscar J Mayer and six surgeons removed part of a spine to relieve a spinal cord compression from an elevator injury. the operation succeeded.
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Chicago Beef Trust
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Chicago
Harmon
New York World
French Hospital
San Francisco
Oscar J. Mayer
Prairie caravan reaches Shamokin by 2000 mile trek
George Heitzman and family arrived in Shamokin Pennsylvania in a prairie schooner styled wagon caravan. They traveled about 2000 miles from Western Nebraska after selling out last spring due to poor crops and began the journey on June 20.
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Shamokin
George Heitzman
Nebraska
Heitzman
Pennsylvania
The Star and the Busy Life of a Humble Woman
A Russian folk tale tells of an old woman who meets wise men hoping to follow the guiding star to the Christ Child. She delays, promises to follow soon, but the star disappears and she never finds Him. The tale warns that busyness and earthly concerns can cause people to miss spiritual calls and Christ.
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Christ
Duke of
Alva
Kindness Harder Toward Closer, Constant Bonds
The passage argues it is easier to show kindness to distant people than to persist in steady self sacrificing love for those who frequently test our patience. A man may be seen as a generous benefactor yet be a poor guardian at home in Watchwsn.
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Henry Williams
F. B. Simmons
John Smith
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Foley
Rochester
N. Y
Jas
Wheatland
Philip C. Dickinson
Dickinson
James
Mrs. Foley
Vermont
New Jersey
Alfred Avery
Messmore, Gannett & Co
Harrigan
New York
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Farst
Mr. Foley
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Roni and Crockery
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