Detroit Holds Hartin Insull Extradition Deferred
Martin J. Insull, extradited from Canada to face embezzlement and grand larceny charges in Chicago, was taken off a train in Detroit for immigration checks. Officials said as a British subject he cannot enter without passport and visa, and Chicago officers planned to continue repatriation proceedings.
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Detroit
Mar
Martin J. Insull
United States
Canada
Chicago
William Mulock
Toronto
Insull
Michigan Central
Laurence Ryan
Cook County
Iinois
Ryan
Immigration Office
State Department
United States Immigration Service
Martin J. Ineull
Ilinois
Ineull Utilities
Walter R. Brooks
Chi Police
Samuel Insull
Frank K. Johnson
Roosevelt
Thieves Steal Cannon Balls From Pittsburgh Monument
In Pittsburgh two 10 inch Civil War cannon balls disappeared from the Soldiers and Sailors monument. The balls were taken from the top of a seven ball pyramid in front of the monument.
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Pittsburgh
Washington
Facts About Animals And Bodies From Historical Notes
The gardener bird is found only in New Guinea. The giraffe reaches 18 to 20 feet tall when full grown. It took 216 gallons to make a tun of ale in common use. Damascus is believed to be the world's oldest city. The femur is the longest and largest bone in the human body.
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New Guinea
Damascus
Julia Boyd
Park Avenue
New York
N. Y
Seawater Magnesium Prospects Discussed by Chemists
Seaplanes may use ribs from seawater but the process is not profitable. Magnesium, the lightest commercial structural metal, is usually made from brine from Michigan wells, with Dow Chemical’s method cited. Oceanic sources would cost about $30 per ton versus a dollar per ton from land. Even if Michigan brine runs dry, dolomite deposits remain a rich magnesium source.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
American Chemical Society
Michigan
Dow Chemical Company of
Midland
Mich
North Carolina
Settle-Fordney
Bird Life in Seattle Feathers Market Cabbage Plundered
A vividly described Chinese pheasant swooped into Seattle’s public market stalls and began gobbling cabbages onions and lettuce before being captured. The bird will be turned over to authorities.
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Seattle
Burglary at Cashmere Tire Shop Delayed Alarm
In Cashmere Washington a tire shop burglary occurred early at 6:00 a m. A bank watchman and a baker heard the alarm but mistook it for an alarm clock. No further details on suspects or damages are provided.
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Cashmere, Wash
Cashmere
Brothers perform emergency snakebite rescue with pocket knife
In Los Angeles a 12 year old, George Chalfant, was saved from a rattlesnake bite by his 14 year old brother Wilton. He performed a daring selfless action using a pocket knife to slash the arm near the fang marks and later sucked out the poison before medical help arrived.
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Los Angeles
George Chalfant
Wilton
The Chicken and the Road Turns Easter Trip Sour
A chicken attempt to cross the road in Lancaster, Pennsylvania shattered a car windshield and badly cut four year old Billy Schlotzhauer. His mother’s Easter outfit was ruined and the family trip to New York was spoiled. No one asked the chicken why.
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Lancaster
Billy Scholotzhauer
Schlotzhauers
New York
All Strategy No Tactics Fight Ends in Escape
In Pictou Nova Scotia a bandit planned a robbery on butcher Joe Mahar by cutting the telephone line and waiting in a lane to ambush him as he returned home with that day’s receipts. He carried a rope to delay police. When Mahar halted, he got down on the opposite side of the wagon, rattled a coffee grinder to mimic a revolver, and the bandit fled.
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Pictou
Joe Mahar
Mahar
Dalton Man Seeks to Donate 820 Tax to Government
A Dalton Georgia resident wrote to the income tax bureau offering to pay 820 in taxes he did not owe. He said he wanted to support the government and enclosed a check for 820. The government returned the check and made clear donations cannot be accepted.
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Atlanta
Dalton
Income Tax Bureau
Magnesium in trailers boosts lightness for highway rules
Magnesium is used to produce milk of magnesia and to make lightweight trailers carrying six autos from factories to dealers. Some trailers use magnesium dolomite brine alloy to save weight to comply with highway load limits. A magnesium metal truck operates between Springfield Massachusetts and Boston.
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Sea
Magnesia
Springfield
Mass
Boston
Rabbinic Title Honors Jewish Scholars and Clergy
The title of rabbi is accorded to Jewish scholars of eminence and to those serving in the ministry. This reflects the respected role of rabbis within religious leadership and scholarly achievement.
First Nine in America and Twain’s Silent Tom Sawyer
The article notes Mark Twain did not boast about his typewritten novel Tom Sawyer to avoid testimonials. It mentions the Denver and Rio Grande purchasing the world’s first narrow gauge locomotive Montesuma. It also describes Aurora’s display in New England described as “like the light arising from a house on fire.”
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Gamuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Denver and
Rio Grande
New England
Unnamed Agent Promises Deal As Nervous Writer Finds Income
A fleeing businessman seeks a fast deal from a glib agent who offers a card and flexible hours. A nameless female author, spared public mention, reveals how psychoanalysis sparked fiction material yielding high profits from two short stories.
New York Musicians Endure Odd Noise With Pets
A young musician in a midtown Broadway hotel endures nightly tinkles from a neighbor's dog piano while two fluffy dogs roam the room. The piece notes the quirky world of theater folk, from actors' agents to struggling vaudeville performers and their rental woes.
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Paul Harrison
New York
Midtown
Broadway
Strand Theater
Harry Glotz
Man killed by lightning near Aberdeen
Hugh Adcox about 40 was killed by lightning while untieing a strand of wire from the rear of his truck. Three Negro men nearby were stunned.
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Aberdeen
Mar
Hugh Adcox
Duke Endowment Funds Aid Carolinas Hospitals and Orphanages
Duke Endowment trustees allocated 750,602 to 98 hospitals in the Carolinas and 1 would assist 56 orphan homes this year, with total endowment funding for hospitals and orphanages since 1924 at 6,961,681.95. The program uses a one dollar per day patient model, and about 57,000 people received free treatment last year, with free patients rising to 60 percent of those aided.
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Charlotte
Mar
Carolinas
Ft Duke Endowment
Endowme
St James Buchanan Duke
Power
Emat
Mary Harvey to be buried after Baltimore police service funeral
Mary Steel Harvey, who became America’s first policewoman in Baltimore in 1912, will be buried tomorrow afternoon. Mrs Harvey died here Monday night after a brief illness.
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Harvey
Tryon
Mar
Mary Steel Harvey
America
Baltimore
Indicted mill worker case delayed in Shelby court
A case against Louis Sentell, a Shelb y mill worker accused in the order of Mrs William Drake and Florence Jones, is postponed until the next term due to illness in the defense attorney's family.
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Shelby
Mar
Louis Sentell
William Drake
Florence Jones
Mail theft hearing in Monroe on March 28
Houston Pressley, a Monroe post office clerk, faces a hearing before a United States commissioner on a charge of appropriating registered mail. The article also mentions the world sheep population at 600 million.
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Monroe
Mar
Houston Pressley
Uni States
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