Federal women’s reformatory opens at Alderson
Washington July 1. Twenty years after the justice department promised a federal reformatory for women, Alderson West Virginia houses fifteen inmates now working and sleeping behind mosquito bars. Dr. Mary B. Harris, superintendent, leads a program in sewing, laundering, cooking, farming, and education with a goal to reform and educate prisoners, many of whom have violated narcotic laws or mail and pension-related offenses.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Alderson
Virginia
Mosquito Bar
Mary B. Harris
Harris
Baltimore
New York City
Veteran Drummer Sells 600 Million Cigars Across Nation
H. L. Judell known as Pop Judell, 83, a famed traveling salesman or drummer, has spent over a million miles by horse and buggy and sold 600 million cigars to dealers nationwide. He is national chaplain of the United Commercial Travelers and has moved 12 million boxes.
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United Press
San Francisco
H. L
Judell
United Commercial Travelers
Goldfish Sound Like Horses to Radio Fans
Report from York July 1 describes two goldfish in front of a microphone amplified ten million times sounding to listeners like horses trotting. A man's heart beat resembled a ship engine and a watch tick resembled a drilling tool in a high amplification test.
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Goldfish
United P. Bull
York
Shock Death in Saw Accident at Williamsport
Times Special reports Amos Lower died in Williamsport Indiana after an April saw accident left him physically uninjured but mentally and nervously shocked. Doctors linked his death to the shock from losing an arm, noting his initial bravado gave way to mental distress.
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Williamsport
Ind
Amos Lower
Lower
Tree Grows in Brick on Lafayette Building Roof
A tree has grown in brick at the top of a Lafayette business building. Noted first last summer, it has reached nearly two feet in height and continues to grow with no soil for its roots.
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Oxford
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ernest Tanguay
Adams
BH. Pinkham
Times Special
Lafayette
Ind
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