Murder in the Rhodes House Aboard Belton
In a Belton boarding house crime unravels as Mrs Hogarth is found strangled. Detective Bonnie Dundee pursues Dan Griffin with leads from Sevier and Cora Barker, while officer Strawn coordinates the case and inquests. The mystery deepens with a rooftop crime and vanished bank clues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Hogarth
Walter Styles
Dundee
Sevier
Cora
Strawn
Bonnie Dundee
Cora Barker
Rhodes House
Callahan and
Lunt
Bonnie
Rhodes
Price
Turner
New York
Belton
Griffin
Harknesses
Dan Griffin
Dun- Gee
Some Real Puzzlers
Horizontal and vertical clues list word meanings and cross references. Answers include terms for molding styles and puzzle components, with themes like geography and measurements. The page features a standard crossword-style grid and numbered hints across both directions.
Funeral Pyre Murders Tie Arkansas Figures
Dundee pleads to keep a cabinet photo of Emma Hogarth and her daughter Sally Harkness as the Hogarth and Barker cases linger. He seals old bank notes and handwriting samples, hoping Sevier will confess by Monday to resolve the linked killings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strawn
Cora Barker
Cora
Dundee
John Henry
Not asking much confession from Sevier any minute
A clipped taunt references awaiting a confession from Sevier and a planned police wire to suppress information. The speaker orders silence, instructs going home to sleep, and schedules a three o'clock morgue inquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sevier
New York
The Woman's Day and Education on Credit in Society
Analyzes divorce and domestic issues with Mrs. Bartsch and Horace Bush cases, noting a judge's ruling on dual homes for the smoker wife. Then discusses Bryn Mawr College views on education by installments, credit culture, and the shift from working through college to debt financing for tuition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Bartsch
Hackensack
Horace Bush
Bush
Margaret Gilman
Bryn Mawr College
Miss Gilman
Chairs Purchased For Davidson Auditorium
Lexington reports the Davidson County board of education spent in a special session to buy about 1,100 auditorium chairs for two new school auditoriums at Wallburg and Tyrol. Desks for Tyro and Pilot schools were bought and local committees at Reeds Tyro Pilot Wallburg and Midway were authorized to standardize elementary schools using district funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Davidson County
Board of Education
Wallburg
Tyrol
Tyro
Pilot
Reeds
Pilot Wallburg
Midway
Little Snider Girl Suffers Broken Limbs
Lucile Snider nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs R D Snider of Lexington is in Davidson hospital with both legs fractured above the knees after being struck by Gaither Everhart of Cotton Grove township who drove the car that hit her. Everhart furnished bond pending further developments and said the child ran into the street. accident occurred on the Cotton Grove road near Wood's store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Lucile Snider
R. D. Snider
Davidson Hospital
Cotton Grove
Wood
Gaither Everhart
Cotton Grove Township
Reichsbank to Build Berlin Structure
More than twenty dwellings in old Berlin will be torn down to clear space for a new Reichsbank building. The old 1876 structure, enlarged in 1894, has long been inadequate for the bank’s expanding business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reichsbank
Berlin
Tall Jacksonville jailer stands 6 feet 6 inches
A Jacksonville jailer is reported to be 6 feet 6 inches tall, a distinctive physical detail highlighted in local coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Train Wrecker Tom Vernon Faces Extradition
Tom Vernon a 44 year old ex convict at Pawnee Oklahoma admits wrecking a Southern Pacific train near Saucus California on November 10 and robbing passengers but denies guilt in a similar Cheyenne Wyoming case. He fights extradition to Wyoming where he faces death yet says he is willing to return to California to face prison term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Vernon
Pawnee
Okla
Southern Pacific
Saucus
Cal
Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
California
North Carolina Rural Carriers Start Pig Census
Raleigh announces the semi annual pig census by 1,300 NC rural mail carriers in cooperation with the agriculture department. Carriers leave a card for farmers to fill on farms, with cards collected and sent to Washington as quickly as possible. The census compares farm pig averages across the region and nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Walter F. Brown
William B. Duncan
Post Office Department
Department of Agriculture
Virginia
South Carolina
Georgia
South Atlantic
United States
Washington
Duncan
Notice of Sale of Land in Guilford County North Carolina
Trustee B B Vinson will sell at the East door of the Greensboro courthouse land described as Lots 13 14 16 16 and 17 in the Commerce Street subdivision High Point NC. Sale is for cash to the highest bidder on December 27 1929 at 12 00 noon. The deed of trust dates to December 165 1927 and was recorded in Book 586 page 516.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Money
Lena W. Money
W. F. Ross
Ruth Phipps Ross
B. B. Vinson
Register of Deeds
Guilford County
North Carolina
Greensboro
Commerce Street
High Point
Frank T. Miller
North Carolina pig farming averages drop slightly
Mrs. Duncan noted that North Carolina farms averaged 5.8 pigs per farm last fall, versus a nationwide 5.67 per farm this spring. The state average fell by four tenths of a pig from spring to fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Mre
Duncan
United States
War On Barberry Brushes East Lansing Campaign
Michigan reports progress in the 11 year campaign against black stem rust destroying 5,614,617 barberry bushes. This summer 50,509 bushes and 370,000 seedlings were removed to protect wheat crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Administrator's Notice for Cora Murdock Estate
W S Murdock administrator of the estate of Cora Murdock announces a claims deadline of October 5 1930 and directs all claimants to file with attorney Garland B Daniel in High Point North Carolina. Creditors are asked to settle debts promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Murdock
Guilford
North Carolina
High Point
N. C
Garland B. Daniel
W. S. Murdock
Garland
Daniel
Admi
Notice of Land Sale in Guilford County High Point
Public sale of property at 809 East Lexington Avenue High Point Guilford County is scheduled for December 16 1929 at 2 30 P M by trustee T Holt to satisfy a $5500 principal debt secured by a deed of trust held by Commercial National Bank High Point trustee for Prudential Insurance Co of America. The sale is subject to first lien and local assessments. Garland B Daniel is attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Sanderson
Register of Deeds
Guilford County
Guilford County Court House
Greensboro
N. C
High Point
Guilford
North Carolina
Lexington Avenue
Tabor Avenue
East
Jane
A. Johnson
CC. E
Office of the Register of Deeds
C. C. Tabor
Register
Commercial National Bank of
Prudential Insurance Company of America
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NEA Service
Ina
Austithor of the
Repeetin
Ario
Daisy Shepherd
Orpheum
Merry
Rialto News
Detective
Rialto
Nancy Carroll
Helen Kane
Jack Oakie
U.S
Frost
Ieeg
Voignant
Eager
Dewanead
France
Thames River
San Francis
Constellation
Arkansas
Emma Harkness
Sally Harkness
Ozard Hills
Tiller Rumier
Connie Franklin
Alecki ¥ Fulks
Robbie Johnson
Sam Johnson
Mountain View
Ark
Davidson Auditorium
Little Snider Girl
Brown
Powell and Shaw
Co. T
Moore’s Book Store
Ieee Curu
Mysterious Smith
Madame Olga
Dorothy Mackaill
Anna Q. Nilsson
Vitaphone
Ralph Forbes Lowell Sherman
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