Open Any Safe With Wire Named Rome Expert in Safe Openings
A Rome based safe specialist, Mr X, opens jammed safes with a wire without damage. Renowned as Europe’s most dangerous man by King Victor Emmanuel, he serves diplomats, lawyers, and doctors and has been called to Berlin and the ex-kaiser’s vaults. He claims skill lies in touch, likening it to diagnosing inside a person without surgery.
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Victor Emmanuel Halls
Europe
Tle
Piazza di Spragna
Victor Emmanuel
Mr. X
Villa
Savoia
Berlin
Francis Joseph
Fiette
New York Tribune
Mastodon Skeleton Found Near Arlington Exhibit Planned
A nearly complete mastodon skeleton with tusks nine feet long was discovered in Butcher Knife canyon four miles east of town. Authorities expect more bones remain buried and Arlington residents plan to exhume the flag and mount the specimen for display to automobile tourists.
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Arlington
Butcher Knife Canyon
Crookie Temperamental Vienna Tragedy
Rudolph Twink hanged himself after failing to force his employer and taking only about 20 crowns. He left a note stating the disappointment after a hard job was more than he could bear.
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Crookie
Vienna
Rudolph Twink
Haunted Years Victim Alive After Train Fight
Reuben E Hall of Paris Missouri confronted a man he believed he had killed 14 years earlier in Denver. The case links a disputed dice game to a fatal memory that haunted Hall since the supposed death. A Denver letter to L4H Shatzer, Tool Specialty manager, revealed the reunion.
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Kansas City
Reuben E. Hall
Parla
Denver
Cole
Shatzer
Tool Specialty Company
Reubén EB. Hall
Hall
Paris
Kansas Harvest Fields
Harry BE. Thomas
Harry E Thoms
Thomas
Wall
Ball
John Williamson
Williamson
Longest of Suspension Bridges letter reveals Denver murder ruse
A letter with a bizarre tale centers on Hall who vanished fourteen years earlier and lived as Harry E Thoms, later Thomas, in Denver. He meets the supposed murder victim on a Denver street, the two reconcile, and the killer explains the chain of events, including changing names, marriage, and a daughter, ending with reunion plans.
Flemish Tenacity Winning Out in Rebuilding Flanders
Belgians press on to rebuild homes and salvage land with government aid and motor loaned tractors. Fields revive with chalk and chemicals as famine fears fade, population rises from 43,000 in 1914 to 237,000. Americ an soldiers rest among sacred spots as 30,000 Americans reside in Mexico.
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Brussels
No Man's Land
Flanders Fields
Belgium
Ysaer
Ministry of Agriculture
Baron Ruzette
M. Boerenboom
Flanders
Monument at New Orleans commemorates war sacrifice
A new interpretive memorial in New Orleans honors World War I service. Designed by Charles L. Lawhorn and sculpted by H. Dodd, it was presented by local American Legion posts and stands amid red poppies in the city park with the inscription In memory of our comrades who made the supreme sacrifice.
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New Orleans
Charles L. Lawhorn
H. Dodd
Amperican Legion
Monument honors fallen in New Orleans with four memorial figures
Ornamentation relieves the severity of the shaft. On each side of the monument are four insignias denoting the departments of service in which Americans served: the army, navy, marine, and aviation. The four figures by the sculptor symbolize four phases of military experience. T. Semmes Walmaley, chairman of the Legion's national memorials committee, supported the tribute to fallen comrades in New Orleans, where he resides.
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Army
Navy
Marine
Aviation
T. Semmes Walmaley
Legion
National Committee On Memorials
New Orleans
Legion Aid Delivers Home For Ill Navy Veteran Pinnell
Paul P Pinnell a former Navy cook first class has suffered tuberculosis and waited over a year for war risk insurance compensation while hospitalized in Seton Hospital New York. Bronx American Legion officials raised 450 dollars to transport him home to California with an attendant nurse after his pleas for help.
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Paul P. Pinnel
United States Navy
Seton Hospital
New York City
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Pinnell
Bureau
American Legion
Walter T. Hamilton
Bronx
Legionnaires
Pingell
Legion News Mixed: New Fraternity and Welfare Moves
The article reports formation of a paternal order allied with the American Legion, led by Dad Shellon Foote of Ft. Myers, Florida, to promote clean patriotic living. It notes welfare efforts by the East Side post in St Paul and Connecticut activities funding ex-service relief. It mentions Brumbaugh in Oregon, Laffin’s death, Gresham’s memorial, and police collaboration in St Louis. Also covers citizen papers aid in Okmulgee, CT welfare totals, and Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial site dedication in October ahead of the 1022 national convention with candidates from New Orleans, Baltimore, and Houston among others.
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Dada
Shellon Foote
Ft. Myers
Fis
Carder
Tte
Oither
East Side
St Paul
Minn
American Legion Welfare Bureau of
St. Paul
Paul
National Convention of the American Legion
New Orleans
Baltimors
Mouston Aff
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American’ Legion
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Connecticut
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Harry C. Brumbaugh
General
Clifford A. Laffin
St John's Hospital
Mino
Laffin
Seventeenth Field Artillery
Minory
Gresham
France
Emery
Victor J. Miller
St. Louis (Mo
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Miller
P. M. Wood
Okmulgee
Ohio
Wood
Amertetdam
Connecticut Department of the American Legion
National Convention of the American Logie
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