Pin Money: Boarders Poison Mystery At Windsor Ave
Dora Maxwell hosts two Angora cats named Tom and Jerry as boarders. They die from poison, prompting fear and a legal threat. Dora reveals a dollar fifty weekly board for the victims, while Ted Maxwell contemplates staying home to save funds. Lawyer Robert Dutton questions the case and the possibility of arrest. The couple discuss the scandal and pin money on Windsor Avenue.
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Dora
Dutton
Ted
Windsor Avenue
Bob Dutton
Robert Dutton
Great Caesar
Mr. Dutton
Gertainly
Cate
Theodore Maxwell
Mr. Maxwell
Tom and Jerry
Fin
Tale of a Traveler
A courtroom quip questions a traveler's reputation for truth as a judge probes a claim of a cross continental trip in a flivver with no breakdown or puncture. The Louisville Age-Herald recollects the tale and the witness's change of view.
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Louisville Age-Herald
Bull falls into nitro magazine in Osage oil field
A black bull wandered onto a magazine of nitro glycerin in an Osage Wyoming oil field and fell through the roof, becoming trapped. With 850 quarts of high explosive nearby, workers avoided risk and the rescued bull died after about fifteen days of starvation.
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Osage
Wyoming
Elyria youth Clarence Myers famed for bold exploits
Clarence Myers of Elyria Ohio at eighteen has endured a remarkable series of incidents. Placed in the state reformatory as a boy, he shot a companion with a rifle two years ago. Three months back a motorcycle collision sent auto drivers to a hospital, and two months ago his latest misadventure began.
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Ohio
Clarence Myers
Elyria
State Reformatory
Clarence
Reckless driving charge after fatal crash injures cyclist
The government mail plane wrecked on landing in fog and exploded its gasoline tank. Myers faces reckless driving charge after his motorcycle collided with a bicycle ridden by John Schoenfeldt. Schoenfeldt sustained a fractured skull and is in dying condition at Memorial hospital. Police detain the young Mr. Myers.
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Searchea
Fie
Myers
John Schoenfeldt
Memorial Hospital
Dollar found after twenty seven years returns to owner
In Montesano Washington a dollar spent twenty seven years ago in Lancaster Missouri came back as change to Mrs Terrence Hagerman. She recalls her father gave both sisters dollars bearing their initials and an 1887 date. The two initials I B appeared on the recovered coin confirming its origin.
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Lancaster
Montesano
Wash
Terrence Hagerman
Robins Hatch on Car Nest in Moving Doodlebug Train
A robin builds and nests under the brake rigging of a shuttle train called the Doodlebug operating from Elk Run to Rikers Pa on the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh line. The robin mother cares for three hatchlings while the coach travels with the train, ever returning to the nest after trips. A separate note reports a splinter in a toddler's foot leading to fatal lockjaw, Betty Piper of Wikhart Ind.
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Young Men's Christian, Association
Elk Run
Rikers
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
Mother Robin
Baby
Betty
Mrs.l. IH
Piper
Wikhart
Ind
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McClurs Newspaper Syndicate
Knox
Dick” Thompson
Ic Festival
Shntenifee
Indiana
Pioneer Music House, Inc
S To
S. Ren Pollock, Inc
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Penna
Chickering and
Bratmbach
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