Tommy Norreys Arrested in Berlin Passport Deception
Rev Thomas A Norreys M A TD journeys to Berlin to help a suspect but is detained after German police challenge his passport and identity. In a tense interview with officials including Prince von Steinveldt, authorities refuse his stay, threaten expulsion, and threaten frontier ban, leaving him stranded as the case unfolds.
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Janet Church
Janet
Tommy
Berlin
Foreign Office
T. A. Norreys
Beotch
Casimir
Mascotte
Nein
Prince von Steinveldt
von Steinveldt
Englsh
Norreys
Thomas A. Norreys
Ig Norreys
Marquis
Lystria
Balkan
Ber
Germany
Strasburg
Alsace
Lorraine
von Steinweldt
Ike the
Cheshire Cat
Made Lonely Journey by Ida Francis Woman Farmer in South Africa
Ida Francis, a South African woman farmer, drove her cattle 400 miles across the Kuluhori desert to her son's farm after a cyclone and floods wrecked her homestead. She faced drying water holes and occasional rifle-range confrontations but persisted to save her animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Ida Francis
Kuluhori
Hans
Woman Sells Herself for Five Thousand To Save Sister
In Arizona a young woman Amelia sells herself in marriage to a wealthy Indianapolis man to fund her sister Martha Bailey who suffers tuberculosis. Amelia, a stenographer, asked for a $5,000 husband and found Eugene Ellsworth who paid and married her. Martha moves to Arizona for treatment and health.
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Indianapolis
Arizona
Martha Bailey
Amelia
Eugene Ellswoth
Indiana
Martha
Eugene Ellsworth
Arigona
Blinded by Wife Pleads for Husband in Jamaica Court
Louise Keyes a colored Jamaica woman charged with blinding her husband John Keyes was released from custody after he pleaded for mercy. In court he urged Magistrate Doyle to free her saying the quarrel was his fault and she would care for him. The judge instructed her to take him home and the couple kissed before leaving court.
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New York
Louise Keyes
Jamaica
John
Devle
Mrs. Keyes
Unusual Names Surface in State Vital Statistics Records
Col Munmmer head of the state bureau of vital statistics notes odd names in birth records. Fourth Liberty Loan appears as a name, along with Minnie B. Swift, Prank Deliy, Jane Carr, Ian Ford, Jina Rose Bush, and Liberty Rel. Triplets carry Margaret Prog ress, Mirjorie ATA, and Martha Porky.
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Columbus One
L Cl Munmmer
State Bureau of Vityl Snatistics
Liberty Loan
Minnie B. Swift
Prank Deliy
Jane Carr
Ian Ford
Jina Rose Bush
Liberty Rel
Margaret Progress
Mirjorie Ata
Martha Porky
Ima
Earnose
Frosty
Plager
Bureau of the Statistics
Bureau of
Vitthe Storherbeksa
Teapot Dome ruling upholds lease to Mammoth Oil
Federal Judge T Blake Kennedy upheld the Teapot Dome lease to Mammoth Oil owned by Sinclair. The court ruled no fraud allegations were sustained and the secretary of the navy acted within authority under the 1920 act to develop conserve and operate naval oil reserves. The government’s complaint was dismissed with no quarrel over congressional power to regulate government property.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Teapot Dome
Harry F. Sinclair
Mammoth 1 Company
T. Blake Kennedy
Kennedy
Mammoth Oil Company
Sinclair
Harding
Continental Trading Company
Fall
Humphries
Texas Oil
Sinclair Interests
Midwest Oil Company
Secretary of the Navy
Pearl Harbor
Portsmouth
Sinclair and Doheny
Congress
United States
Executive Branch
Charges Filed Against Charles W. Bryan by Nebraska Official
Secretary of the Nebraska Department of Public Works George E. Johnson asked the state attorney general to file charges under the corrupt practices act against former governor and 1924 Democratic vice presidential candidate Charles W. Bryan. He also asked charges for violating the state budget law creating a deficit misusing federal funds and misusing the state revolving fund. Bryan is on a speaking tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Lincoln
Rail Wreck in New Jersey Kills Dozens
A Delaware Lackawanna & Western special train derailed at Rockport New Jersey after an earth slide. Twenty nine dead and sixty nine injured rushed to hospitals with several more expected to die as officials investigate the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hackettstown
N. J
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway
Rockport
Woman in Witness Garb Sees First Cook County Hanging
An 80 year old actress donned a man's disguise and entered the county staff receiving cell to witness the hanging of Willie Sams, convicted of two murders. The observer was Miss Kathryn DuNoule, described as wearing a long coat and gray fedora to cover her hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cook County
Willie Sams
Kathryn du Noule
Ovation for Babe Ruth's Brother Reported in Calcutta
Philadelphia Inquirer cites Calcutta Statesman account of an American naval baseball game in which players shouted Here's Babe Ruth's brother. The tale includes odd notes on a Cleutia zoo and a granite shaft at a site called Black Ebole.
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Cleutia Zoo
Calcutta
Jy Ty Sallora
Sam
Girard
Philadelphia
William Lancaster Jenkins
Calcutta Statesman
America
Babe Ruth
Jack Hobbs
Navy
Babe Thuth
Sunday School Record Honors James Frankenfield
James Frankenfield of Grace Lutheran Sunday School Betlouen Mh completed one year with perfect attendance, braving illnesses to remain in his seat each Sunday. Rush Selmable, also of the same church, earned a minor stint for 17 years without an absence.
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James Frankenfield
Grace Lutheran Sunday School
Betlouen
Jt.ness
Rush Selmable
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U.S
United States Rubber Company
Florida
Alameda Ave
Lakewood
Ohio
D. Deseret Book Co
East Sc. Temple
Salt Lake City
Utah
S L. D. S. Business College School OF Efficiency
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