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Newspaper
Hamilton Evening Journal
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
29
In a Halsted Street cellar Harry Sasinsky discovered a skull a hand part of a foot and a set of ribs from a medical student’s kit. Police lifted the items to Maxwell Street station noting they likely came from storage misplacement or failed sale of a storage lot.
In Muneié Indiana an army recruiting sergeant examined Joseph A. Benson who wished to enlist and found tattooed images on his chest. The Lord's Prayer, a globe surrounded by sixteen US battleships, a chicken, a log, and wild animals were inked with maps matching Mercator projection. The officer remarked the art was striking though odd.
Mack McGee of Kear Valley City traveled to Fargo and was arrested on concealed weapon charges. He received a 30 day jail sentence after telling the judge he bought the gun for $10 to protest his $12 harvest earnings. The item’s origin and intent are noted in court records.
In Yorkville police court Reginald Mulhanes faced an attempted burglary charge after being found climbing a rope at the rear of Jasper Bates’s premises on 74th Street. A tearful Rose Finnegan claimed he was her devoted sweetheart, forcing the magistrate to release him. The city papers also note a spaghetti eating champion from Ithaca and a discussion on rising art prices.
In Wellsville Missouri Bessie Stewart daughter of a farmer enters cataleptic trance describing distant death beds and future accidents with eerie accuracy. She recalls nothing upon waking yet later reads pages blindfolded and dances for hours. A letter from Albanpig Africa recounts captivity by monkeys in the Congo region.
South Orange report of Mr and Mrs Daniel Adams Jr and their white pony Dandy who had been fed chewing gum for over a year by their daughter Eleanor aged sixteen. A veterinarian advised stopping the gum and a rescue followed after the pony mounted a rope and leaped from a ramped embankment. Local merchants and neighbors described the curious scene as the pony sought shade and freedom.
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