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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1919
Page
6
Oregon National Farm Loan Association promotes 534 percent interest and 34 percent terms for four year loans. A C Bohmstead is secretary treasurer at 401 Masonic Temple Salem Oregon.
Stockholm reports Dagmar de Gysser seventeen daughter of a Russian general and Col Mohammed Bech Hadjedache ex chief of a Cossack regiment in custody over a alleged murder plot. Police say Hadjedache led two rival murder leagues and used Dagmar as a lure in a network mixing bolshevist and royalist aims. Dagmar reportedly taunts officials with cigarettes as investigations unfold.
In New York state police courts using saving as punishment becomes common. Syracuse invested £5000 in war savings stamps for offenders, with funds returned to families. At Niagara Falls David Broderick on six months probation for war stamps saw $230.50 in stamps and chose indefinite probation, vowing to continue $10 weekly savings.
A skinny man, kept in a circus as a living skeleton, shoplifted from a tiller shop and transformed into a burly figure. Patrolmen McMahon and Walsh pursued him to a cellar, where a stash of navy cloth and coal worth about 1000 dollars was found. The fugitive, Joseph Iches, hid in a dumb-waiter and was seized on burglary charges.
Eleven Koreans attempted suicide by tying themselves with rope and leaping from a ferry between Chemulpo and a nearby island near Seoul. The vessel stopped, three died and nine were rescued. Authorities fear the act was inspired by Buddhist superstition.
Reading resident Talow of Philadelphia is named with B J Halow and the Walters estate executors in a civil action filed by Iteo Davis of Reading to recover four rugs valued at 2000 dollars. The rug was posted as loan security and is held by a bank vault pending a court ruling on ownership.
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