Girl recounts father torturing and killing mother
An 11 year old girl told police her father Frank J. Furch bound and beat her mother with towels and adhesive and pistol butt, killed her after she filed for divorce. Furch also shot at and wounded his third wife, then died by suicide after fleeing Pamela Slipgerland described the night of terror.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
Furch
Pamela
Shen Sh
Frank Cannova
Chicago
Sae Akergentine
Norma Schmidt
Schmidt
Mental Patient Killed In Battle With Police
In Virginia a 36 year old dementia patient Herbert Johnson, an inmate since 1937, died after police stormed a farmhouse where he had barricaded himself. State troopers wounded several others, including Special Investigator W M Simpson who was killed by a blast. The siege drew 5000 spectators as tear gas and riot guns were used and an armored car attacked the house.
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Petersburg
Berkiller
Virginia
Herbert Johnson
Wae ‘Solland
T. L. Childress
Mental
W. M. Simpson
State Police
Johnson
Simpson
S. R. Gemmill
Butterworth
Tillman Jones
Simon Hhos
James Frank Barksdale
Jack O’brien
Jones
Young Tar Heel Ed McCurry Heads Capitol Page School
Edward W. McCurry of North Carolina was elected president of Capitol Page School for the current session. The 17 year old Senate page plans to study law next year at UNC or Duke and aims to expand social events and Page School activities while pushing for a dormitory to accommodate pages from across the country. He serves as editor in chief of the Congressional Yearbook and leads efforts to boost the Page Honor Society and Page team.
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Washington
Edward W. McCurry
N. C
Capitol Page
Senate
North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Duke University
Sen. Hoey
Pnes
Congressional
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Tennessee
Bennett
Lydia Pinkham's Compound Promises Relief for Menstrual Pain
Claims from doctors' tests show Lydia Pinkham's Herbal Compound relieving monthly pains in three of four cases. The ad touts added iron in the product and its soothing effect on uterine contractions during periods.
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Lydia
Lydia Pinkham
Pate Eal
Becan Sre
Pinkham
City Council Bans Fire Truck Use at Parties
Mountain Brook Alabama residents report the city council voted to outlaw using the city fire truck for private parties. The move aims to curb risky and improper use of emergency equipment.
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Mountain Brook
Ala
Historical Quiz and Notable Careers in Opera and Writing
Today’s grab bag poses questions on cud chewing for rabbits air weight for gases a wild animal that washes its food turnpike roads and B A abbreviation. It also asks to identify a Prague born opera and concert singer born Sept 23 1911 and notes a Findlay Ohio born writer born Feb 20 1893 with a career in Cincinnati Kansas City and New York.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Milan
Italy
Violetta
San Carlo Opera Company
Naples
Florence
Vienna
Salzburg
Austria
Berlin
San Francisco Opera Company
M Tan Opera Company
New York
Troy
Search
Findlay, O
Cincinnati, C
Kansas City
Quote by Alexander Pope on shared misfortune
The speaker quotes Alexander Pope saying no man bears another’s misfortunes as Christians would. It reflects moral duty and empathy in facing others’ troubles through a Christian lens.
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Christian
Alexander Pope
Notable milestones in early copper, telegraph, and WWII siege
The record notes 1801 Paul Revere's copper sheets rolled for U S industry, 1861 the transcontinental telegraph completed, and 1942 Montgomery attacks Rommel at El Alamein. It also records 1948 death of Hungarian opera composer Franz Lehar.
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Paul Revere
United States
Bernard Montgomery
Great Britain
Erwin Rommell
Afrika Korps
el Alamein
Africa
Frans Lehar
Sophisticate defined and used in English
The term sophisticate describes a refined person and a verb meaning to deprive of genuineness or simplicity. It traces to Medieval Latin sophisticatus from the past participle of sophisticare, indicating to sophisticate.
Show Biz chronicles and Broadway life in 50 years
A brisk gallery of film and theatre history reviews and notes from Abel Green and Joe Laurie Jr. praising a sweeping volume on American show business. It surveys the heart of entertainment over half a century, with lively, streetwise narration and many named figures and places.
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Abel Green
Joe Laurie, Jr
George Washington Bridge
Belmont
Tiffany's
Manhattan
Empire State
Marine chiefs confer as Cates visits Tokyo hub
Gen. Clifton B. Cates, commandant of the Marine Corps, arrived in Tokyo from Washington today and immediately conferred with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Allied Far East commander, on postwar planning and operations.
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Tokyo
Clifton B. Cates
Marine Corps
Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Far Eastern
Noses Prove It Providence Woodchuck Bounty Board
The Providence town council required proof that town clerk Lawrence Kenyon paid 31 bounties of 15 cents for woodchucks. He presented a board with 31 woodchuck sores nailed to it, and the council approved the display.
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Providence
R I
Lawrence Kenyon
Hitler’s Eagles Nest Site May Become Tourist Resort
The German tourist office says Hitler’s Eagles Eyrie near Berchtesgaden could be redeveloped as a tourist resort. Plans include reforesting the mountains and converting the garden into a restaurant or scientific facility.
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Adolph Hitler
Playwright Lilian Campbell's Navy Enlistment Noted
The column notes writer and playwright’s WWI enlistment in the U S Navy interrupting his work. It lists his novels including Mr Currier and Mr Ives It Seems Like Yesterday Murder Won Out and The American. It also names librettos and collaborations for The Gang's All Here Hold Your Horses Anything Goes Red Hot and Blue and others.
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Mr. Currier
Mr. Ives
Howard Lindsay
Arsenic and Old Lace
Artista
Models Abroad
Victor Herbert
Moss Hart and Chet Adams Celebrated Birthdays Today
Playwright Moss Hart and former pro football player Chet Adams are marked with contemporary birthday observances. Hart’s historic Broadway work and Adams’ gridiron career are noted in today’s society notes.
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Moss Hart
Chet Adams
Fortunes Favor The Child In Market Notions
A reflective note urges readers to craft new ideas with market potential likely to yield good fortune in the near months. It suggests that a child who is fortunate in many things tends to have steady money and success.
More Convicts Escape From Prison Camps
Currituck County road gang escapes reported yesterday. Two long term convicts sought while prison officials list Tyrrell, Hort Bragg, Forsyth inmates serving sentences for burglary robbery and related offenses.
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Raleigh
Prisons Department
Currituck
Eae Eeeures
Tyrrell
Daniel Henson
Hort Bragg
Bimgardner
High Point
Forsyth
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